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Detective Ralph Anderson arrests Terry Maitland, a well-liked Little League coach, in front of a ballpark crowd for the savage murder of a boy, with eyewitnesses and DNA to prove it, but Maitland has an alibi that is just as hard to break.
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Salem's Lot
A writer moves to a quiet Maine town and discovers that the respectable residents are being turned into vampires, one invitation at a time.
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Seven children in a small Maine town confront a shape-shifting evil that feeds on fear, then return as adults to finish what they started.
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.
Relic
Days before a blockbuster exhibition opens at New York's Museum of Natural History, visitors and guards are found savagely killed in its halls, and a graduate student, a city detective and an unusual FBI agent from New Orleans come to suspect something is living in the basement.
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.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
Rivers of London
Probationary constable Peter Grant is guarding a murder scene in Covent Garden when he takes a statement from a witness who turns out to be a ghost, and is recruited into the Metropolitan Police's one-man unit for magic as a strange spree of violence breaks out.
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.
Phantoms
Jenny Paige, a doctor, brings her teenage sister Lisa home to Snowfield, a ski town in the California mountains, and finds its five hundred residents dead or vanished.
Faceless Killers
In the first Wallander novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the brutal killing of an elderly farming couple in rural Sweden, and a dying word sets off a wave of anti-immigrant violence.
Kill Creek
Four famous horror writers are invited to spend Halloween night in the Finch House, a notorious haunted house in Kansas, for a live web stream.
The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night
Thirty-year-old twin siblings in pandemic New York learn their Chinese-immigrant parents are not quite what their cooking-show manners suggest.