Books like Mr. Mercedes
Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Gone
DI Jack Caffery investigates a carjacking in Bristol in which an eleven-year-old girl was in the back seat, and the thief has done it before.
Mr. Perfect
Over drinks, Jaine Bright and three friends draw up a list of what they would want in Mr. Perfect, and when it is published and becomes a sensation, one of them is murdered, leaving Jaine leaning on the infuriating cop next door.
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.
The Bat
Harry Hole, a brilliant, self-destructive Oslo detective, hunts killers while fighting his own demons.
In the Woods
A detective investigating a child's murder in the Dublin suburbs realises the case connects to his own forgotten childhood trauma in the same woods.
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.