serial murders

When his brief romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is emotionally devastated and vows to find the man who killed her and bring him to justice.

Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware investigate the brutal murders of an up-and-coming young painter and a blues guitarist, murders connected by a psychotic fanzine writer.

Veteran Israeli police inspector Daniel Sharavi searches for a brutal killer who has been draining his victims of blood and shrouding them in white at sacred sites throughout Jerusalem.

A graphic novel account of Detective Tom Jensen's work on the Green River Killer case, a twenty-year search for the killer of more than forty-eight women and girls in the Seattle, Washington, area. The case culminated in Jensen's interviewing and working with the killer, Gary Leon Ridgeway, for more than six months in 2003, to locate the remains of some of the victims and bring closure to their families.

Reporters Sari Horwitz and Michael Ruane retrace the movements of John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, charged with the random sniper attacks that left ten people dead and several others wounded in October 2002, and discuss the cooperation between local, state, and federal authorities that led to their arrest.

The lives of Faith Kemper, who lost her husband and her sight at the hands of a serial killer, and FBI special agent Mick Kline intertwine as Mick sets out to hunt down the person who killed his brother.

A serial killer stalks the women of Boston, killing with surgical precision and the same methods that a previous killer had used. The only hope for catching him seems to lie in Dr. Catherine Cordell, a trauma surgeon who two years earlier killed her attacker and now finds herself being hunted by the copy-cat murderer.

The city of Boston is shocked by a series of crimes in which wealthy men are forced to watch as their wives are brutalized, and Detective Jane Rizzoli believes the culprit is a man who is being influenced by a serial killer that has recently been arrested, but when the killer escapes from prison, Jane finds herself a target.

After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination in the sea of red mud where the body has been left also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer. The cases all connect and yet seem to conflict. Gail Shipman was murdered for financial gain--or was she? It will require the usual ensemble of characters to find out the truth, including Scarpetta's sidekick Pete Marino, who has undergone a drastic change in his life that places him center stage in a Cambridge investigation that puts everyone at risk" --.

FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler tells what he has learned throughout his career about serial killers, and explains how he and other law enforcement officers go about catching these criminals.