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San Francisco homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, hiding a frightening diagnosis, joins forces with a medical examiner, a crime reporter and an assistant district attorney to catch a killer who is murdering couples on their wedding nights.
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Along Came a Spider
Washington detective and psychologist Alex Cross is pulled off the murders he is working in his own Southeast DC neighbourhood to hunt Gary Soneji, a mild-mannered maths teacher who has kidnapped two children from an elite private school and wants the whole country watching.
Darker Than Night
Frank Quinn, a New York homicide detective whose career was ended by a frame-up, is offered a way back when a killer the papers call the Night Prowler starts slipping into couples' homes.
Rules of Prey
A killer the Minneapolis papers call the maddog leaves a note of his rules with each victim, and Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a rich, restless detective who designs war games on the side, decides to beat him at his own game.
The Puppet Show
A killer is burning men alive in the stone circles of Cumbria, and Detective Sergeant Washington Poe, suspended and sulking, is called back when his own name turns up carved into one of the bodies.
Red Dragon
A former FBI profiler is drawn out of retirement to catch a serial killer who murders entire families by moonlight, and the investigation requires him to think like a monster.
Postmortem
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner, works the case of a killer strangling women in their bedrooms in Richmond, while a leak to the press and colleagues who resent her put her own job on the line.
The Surgeon
A killer is breaking into Boston apartments and operating on women in their beds, and detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli see that his methods mirror an attack in Savannah two years earlier, whose survivor, Dr. Catherine Cordell, now works as a trauma surgeon in their city.
Naked in Death
In New York in 2058, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a licensed companion who was a senator's granddaughter, and the trail leads to Roarke, a billionaire with a shadowy past whom she cannot stop thinking about.
The Couple Next Door
Anne and Marco leave their baby asleep at home while they attend a dinner party next door, checking on her every half hour, and when they walk home after one in the morning the crib is empty.
The Housemaid
Millie, fresh out of prison and desperate for work, takes a live-in job cleaning for the wealthy Winchesters on Long Island, whose lady of the house is impossible to please, and is told that her room in the attic locks from the outside.
Memory Man
A brutal hit on his first NFL play left Amos Decker unable to forget anything; sixteen months after finding his wife and daughter murdered, broke and adrift in his Ohio hometown, he learns that a man has walked into the police station and confessed.
Knots and Crosses
Detective Sergeant John Rebus, a former soldier, is drawn into the hunt for a killer of young girls in Edinburgh who has been sending him anonymous letters with knotted string and crosses.