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During the pandemic, private investigator Holly Gibney reluctantly takes the case of a young woman who vanished in a Midwestern city, and finds a pattern of disappearances near the tidy home of two elderly, respected retired professors.
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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.
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 Throat
The writer Tim Underhill goes home to Millhaven when the wife of an old friend is attacked in a way that echoes the Blue Rose murders that haunted the city in his childhood.
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.
The ABC Murders
Poirot receives letters signed ABC announcing murders in alphabetical order, starting with Alice Ascher in Andover, and races to understand the killer's pattern before the next letter arrives.
Indemnity Only
V. I. Warshawski, a private investigator in Chicago, is hired by a man calling himself John Thayer to find his son's missing girlfriend, and finds the son shot dead in his apartment instead.
The Poet
Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter in Denver, sets out to write about the apparent suicide of his twin brother, a homicide detective, and finds other police deaths across the country that look the same.
The Devotion of Suspect X
When a single mother kills her abusive ex-husband, her neighbour, a brilliant, lonely mathematics teacher, devises a cover-up, and a physicist friend of the investigating detective begins to suspect what his old classmate has done.
Blacklands
Steven Lamb, twelve, spends his afternoons digging on Exmoor for the body of his uncle Billy, murdered nineteen years ago by Arnold Avery, and to find it he writes to Avery in prison.
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.
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.