serial murders

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The silence of the lambs

1998
A serial murderer known by a grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women. A young F.B.I. trainee is assigned to interview a mental patient--a brilliant psychiatrist and killer, for insights into the crime.

Shoot to thrill

2010
The cyber-investigators at Monkeywrench Software in Minnesota join with straight-laced FBI agent John Smith in an effort to track down a killer who is posting his murders on the Web.

"Where are you going, where have you been?"

1994
Presents Joyce Carol Oates's 1966 short story inspired by a magazine article about a teenage killer in Arizona, followed by critical essays and reviews written in response to the story and its film adaptation.

Bury the lead

2004
New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter reluctantly accepts a case involving journalist Daniel Cummings, who is being used as a mouthpiece for a serial killer, but things get worse when Daniel is found near the latest corpse and Andy begins to get death threats.

Firestorm

2004
Silver, a psychic firefighter, enlists Kerry Murphy, an arson investigator haunted by her mother's death in a fire, to help him track down pyromaniac James Trask, a one-time Defense Department scientist who has gone on a fiery killing spree in retaliation for his project being scrapped.

Pursuit

a novel
2001
When thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time, criminology professor Daniel Millikan is called in to make a profile of the killer, but soon Daniel finds himself more involved in the case than he wants to be.

Black lightning

1995
Journalist Anne Jeffers begins to doubt her convictions and fear for her life when, shortly after the execution of a serial killer, the murders begin again.

Red dragon

2000
An FBI agent trails a mass murderer, who by an accident of nature has been shaped into a monster.

Dearly devoted Dexter

a novel
2006
Dexter, a serial killer who limits his victims to other killers, bides his time between murders by working as a blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, and dating Rita, the single mother of two children, but he is faced with a challenge when a psychopath arrives in town and his sister, a newly-minted Miami detective, becomes involved in the case.

Hour game

a novel
2004

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