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Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? The fourth in the Sunday Times best-selling Jane Tennison thrillers, Murder Mile is set in 1979 at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent' when economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: two bodies in as many days. There are no suspects, and the manner of death is different in each case.

After the body of a brutally murdered young woman is recovered from the Gulf of Mexico far from shore, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett is called in to assist with the profiling of the murderer. Although only one body has been found, every detail about the gruesome crime points to the work of a serial killer. Have there been others left to die far at sea, where no one will ever find them? Is there a connection to be found, or is Tess searching for evidence that doesn’t exist?

The Riddle of the Third Mile is the sixth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the...

Faced with life behind bars, Sam Pope has made peace with his fight being over. After discovering the harrowing truth behind Project Hailstorm and bringing down the corrupt General Wallace, Sam is abruptly sent to Ashcroft prison. A secret, maximum security prison known as "The Grid", housing the most dangerous criminals and a sadistic team of guards to keep them in line.

FBI Agent Logan Reed specializes in explosives. He can track and defuse almost any incendiary device. Except for the one buried deep inside his soul. Home from Afghanistan now for two years, Logan has secured the perfect assignment on the FBI-K9 Bomb Squad in Denver. His new partner, a Belgian Malinois named Gunner, is an expertly trained bomb-sniffing dog. He’s everything a handler could hope for, except he’s not Lobo.

When FBI forensic toxicologist Miles Sterling makes a harrowing discovery—that a dozen unsolved deaths over the past decade each correspond to an element on the periodic table—he must race to follow the trail and find the mastermind behind these murders—and stop him before he strikes again… When a sinister killer turns to fluorine gas to cleanse the " unclean," Miles Sterling is thrust into a deadly game of chemical cat and mouse. As the body count rises, Sterling's personal life is shattered, forcing him to confront a fanatical mind before his own life dissolves in a toxic mist.

When turbulence turns lethal, eight members of an aviation crew find themselves targeted by a shadowy killer at 30,000 feet. As the bodies stack up and panic threatens to snuff out their last moments, it falls to Lisa Portwood—a sharp-witted flight attendant and former FBI agent—to uncover the truth behind the chilling chaos. With her instincts and resourcefulness, Lisa must peel back layers of deception, revealing a meticulous murderer who has ingeniously disguised each death as an accident.

When struggling hardware store owner Bill Ferguson witnesses a kidnapping in progress, he reacts instinctively, breaking up the crime and saving a young girl. But the kidnapper, a sociopath known as the "I-90 Killer," escapes and vows revenge, targeting Ferguson's own daughter as his next victim. Now one terrified father must unravel a plot that may go much deeper than he realizes, racing against time to save his only child from an unthinkable fate.

Gage Rutter is alone, and that’s the way he wants it—traveling the empty trails, always moving, keeping the memories at bay. Sometimes, he’s even able to forget that terrible night--the raging wildfire that killed his wife and week-old son. Irrevocably damaged by the pain of loss and the guilt of survival, encounters with humanity are agonizing now. All he needs to sustain him is scouring wind, open sky, and the freedom of the road.

When a brutal double-murder takes place on Virginia’s 23-mile-long Colonial Parkway it puts the FBI’s magnifying glass squarely on Shay Eliot, an ex-police officer. Her alibi comes from an unlikely source—a young woman who has been stalking her. Talia Lisher and her family have a history of lying about anything and everything. Her father is dead, her mother has gone on a quest to start a new life, and her brother is in prison.

Think Die Hard with a Dadbod—a writer on an isolated farm sees his retreat interrupted by rekindled romance and a gang of thrill-killers.

Glover, Texas has three restaurants, two gas stations, and its very own underground crime syndicate. Other than that, the town’s about as lively as roadkill. That’s been Cake Donaldson’s experience, anyway....

The Highwayman delivers death and destruction. Road rage is his ritual—his obsession. Always at mile marker 33. Always brutal. This might be Special Agent Meredeth Connelly's toughest case yet. His crimes span the nation's highways. His gruesome deliveries are accelerating. She's spread too thin. She needs help—but at what cost? He's got full tanks. She's riding on empty. How do you track a killer who's miles away before anyone knows he's killed again?

In Twenty Mile Bottom, Mississippi, a grandmother mysteriously disappears. Her 18-year-old grandson, Roy Gene, smells a rat and launches his own investigation. Unbeknownst to him is a domestic terrorist plot masked by a renegade religious cult run by a gypsy fortuneteller and his alcoholic evangelist grandfather. The grandfather's infamous Halloween service, The Devil Walks at Midnight is the emotional lynch pin to a corrupt theology of fear that keeps everyone in line... except Roy Gene's grandmother... and Roy Gene.

A tropical getaway. A body in the ocean. Will his single-minded pursuit of the truth reel in a murderer? Jamaica. NYPD detective Miles Jordan’s sharp sense of justice doesn’t take time off. So during a glass-bottom boat tour crowded with passengers, it’s his eagle-eyes that spot a naked corpse submerged in the clear blue waters. And after the female victim is identified as an American, he shrugs off his vacation and agrees to help the locals solve the brutal homicide.