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Dexter Morgan, a Miami police blood-spatter analyst trained by his foster father to turn his need to kill on other killers, takes a professional interest in a new serial killer whose work seems meant for him.
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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.
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.
All the Sinners Bleed
A year after Titus Crown becomes the first Black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia, a former student shoots a popular teacher at the high school and is killed by deputies, and what the shooter said before he died sends Titus after something far worse.
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.
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.
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 Mermaids Singing
A killer is torturing and murdering men in Bradfield, a northern English city, and Dr Tony Hill, a psychologist brought in to profile him, works with Detective Inspector Carol Jordan as the killer starts to write about his work.
The Killer Inside Me
A small-town Texas deputy with soft manners and an old dead-eyed hate narrates, cheerfully, his way through the murders that everyone around him assumes someone else must have done.
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.
The Cold Cold Ground
In 1981, with Belfast rioting over the hunger strikes, Sergeant Sean Duffy, a Catholic in the mostly Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, is sent to a killing that looks paramilitary but may be the work of a serial killer.
My Lovely Wife
A suburban couple with two children keep their marriage exciting with a secret game of choosing women to kill, until a body turns up that changes the rules.
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.