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41) Sunburn: a novel
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A "novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals, and cold-blooded murder. One is playing a long game. But which one?"--Dust jacket.
When they meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware, Polly is set on heading...
42) Every last fear
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"In one of the year's most anticipated debut psychological thrillers, a family made infamous by a true crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. "They found the bodies on a Tuesday." So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU...
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From the war in Iraq to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this nonfiction account presents a stirring condemnation of America' s failure to adequately address PTSD among its soldiers.
After years of military service- including a harrowing stint in Iraq- Zackery Bowen returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. Their improvised,...
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The nearest police car arrived at White House Farm at about 3:45am on 7 August 1985 with the call sign, Charlie Alpha 7. On the way, they had overtaken a Citroen saloon driving at 25 mph. When the officers arrived, there was no one waiting for them despite their expectations. Three or four minutes later, the Citroen pulled up and out of it came Jeremy Bamber.Earlier that evening, Bamber has called the police explaining that his father had called him...
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*Please note: This eBook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*
Neighbors knew him as the quiet, unemployed landscaper who tended his mother's beautiful garden. None of them ever suspected that the foul odors coming from his garage was the stench of death hanging over a blood-soaked wheelbarrow, or that the truck he used to carry fresh soil and flower bulbs in became a hearse once night fell...
By night, he reaped a bloody...
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Bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee returns with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the evil world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes. In Talking with Psychopaths: Beyond Evil, criminologist Berry-Dee combines sections on killers whom he has known, interviewed, or corresponded with, with studies of psychopathic serial killers from the past, including Peter Kurten, the Dusseldorf Monster; John Christie, a murderer and necrophile;...
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For over twenty-five years, leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific crimes in detail. In Talking with Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking, he presents six unforgettable prisoners and allows them to tell their stories, providing the details and background of their terrifying cases. Beyond...
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Bestselling true-crime author Christopher Berry-Dee's latest book tackles the heavy crime of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers) and those who set out to do so in specific places or situations (mass killers). As such killings become more frequent, the ready availability and ease of obtaining firearms and weak backgrounds checks in the United States inevitably lends to many of these cases, but there have been other recent...
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The Orlando Shootings left behind them a trail of mental and emotional devastation for a nation already so divided. On the 16th of June of 2016, Omar Mateen, a young American man walked into a gay nightclub named Pulse in Orlando, where he opened fire on the crowd. Forty-nine people lost their lives and fifty-three more were injured. In the aftermath, Mateen was shot by law enforcement as he refused to give himself in or hand over his weapon over...
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The Man Who Talks to Serial Killers World-renowned investigative criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of infamous serial killers throughout the world, entering their prison cells to discuss their horrific crimes and alarming lack of remorse. With over twenty-five years and hundreds of hours of audio and video interviews, he collects ten chilling true crime stories from the murderers themselves, describing some of the worst crimes...
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Three true-crime books in one volume, featuring cases ranging from Texas to Georgia to Alaska, from New York Times authors.
Included in this three-in-one volume are:
Bogeyman by author Steve Jackson
For years he stalked elementary schools and playgrounds looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. They were "throwaway kids" to him, hardly missed, soon forgotten, except by those who loved them. He was every...
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What is it like to write letters to a serial killer? What tactics does an investigator use to get an interview with a monster? What do these killers, locked behind bars, have to say? See for yourself? Talking with Psychopaths: Letters from Serial Killers is the unique study of criminals in their own words based on bestselling true crime author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee's extensive interviews with convicted serial murderers. Step inside...
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After over twenty-five years interviewing the most dangerous contemporary serial killers, bestselling true crime author Christopher Berry-Dee explores the darkest corners of these thrill-killers' minds in Talking with Serial Killers: The Sinister Study of Stalkers. As law-enforcement authorities, including the FBI's elite Behavioral Science Unit, will confirm, the majority of sexual psychopaths gain most of their perverse thrills from the stalking...
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Serial killers rarely travel internationally. So in the early 1990s, when detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department began to find bodies of women strangled with their own bras, it didn't occur to them at first to make a connection with the bodies being uncovered in the woods outside of Vienna, Austria.
The LAPD waited for the killer to strike again. Meanwhile, in Austria, the police followed what few clues they had. The case intrigued many...
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Reverend Norman Sirnic and his wife Karen were found in their bloodstained bed with their heads smashed in, while her husband and daughters were away, pediatric neurologist Claudia Benton received 19 fatal blows to the head. Joseph Konvicka, a grandmother of six, who loved to garden, was found dead in her home from a blow to the head.
Angel Maturino Resendez is described by most who know him as a quiet, polite, soft-spoken man, a loving husband and...
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He Made Them Feel Beautiful, Special and Adored...
Tall, blond and strikingly handsome with penetrating icy green eyes, Glen Rogers could use his knee-weakening charm to entice lonely women out of romantically lit bars and into the night. Each one thought she had found the perfect man-until Roger got her alone and turned on her in a bloody rage that would end in her own violent death...
Then He Led Them Like Lambs to the Slaughter...
In all, four...
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The twisted copycat who looked to the stars...
He slipped like a sinister shadow in the night, stalking, then savagely attacking. Most of his unsuspecting targets were shot at close range and one woman was stabbed over one hundred times. After dispatching his victims, police allege he left their bloodstained bodies and crept back to the neatly kept room in his mother's apartment.
Sleep my little dead...
The taunting, bizarre letters alleged killer...
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"Behind the Mask: The Devil's Architect H. H. Holmes" delves into the dark and twisted mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers. This chilling book explores the life, crimes, and the construction of the infamous "Murder Castle" by H. H. Holmes. Through meticulous research, historical accounts, and in-depth analysis, it unveils the horrifying details and the mask of evil behind Holmes' facade.
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In Talking with Serial Killers: World's Most Evil, bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee delves deeper into the gloomy underworld of killers and their crimes. He examines, with shocking detail and clarity, the lives and lies of people who have killed and shines a light on the motives behind their horrific crimes. Through interviews with the killers, the police, and key members of the prosecution, alongside careful analysis...
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Bestselling true crime writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his attention to a new kind of victim: the wives and partners of serial murderers who remained unaware of exactly who they had fallen for until after their other half's arrest or, in some cases, conviction. Only upon Peter's arrest did Sonia Sutcliffe first discover that her husband was leading a secret existence as the Yorkshire Ripper. The wife of the Hillside Strangler...
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