Showing results for "Prey" in Crime Thrillers

In the middle of a rock festival, a charity worker is sliced across the stomach. He dies minutes later. In a crowd of thousands, no one saw his attacker. The following week, the body of a primary school teacher is found in a dumpster in an Edinburgh alley, strangled with her own woollen scarf. D.I. Ava Turner and D.I. Luc Callanach have no leads and no motive – until around the city, graffitied on buildings, words appear describing each victim.

When the body of a church warden is discovered, DI Tom Janssen and his team must investigate the circumstances that led to his death. Whilst navigating the fallout from the conclusion of their previous case, the Norfolk CID team is under intense scrutiny with another police force investigating their recent conduct. Some people would like nothing more than to see the team fail. With no clear motive for murder or a reason to take his own life, the team have little to go on.

On her first day back from maternity leave, Detective Sam Shephard is thrown straight into a cold-case investigation - the unsolved murder of a highly respected Anglican priest in Dunedin. The case has been a thorn in the side of the police hierarchy, and for her boss it's personal. With all the witness testimony painting a picture of a dedicated church and family man, what possible motive could there have been for his murder?

A group of vigilantes known only as ‘The Five' are targeting the worst of society – rapists, murderers and thieves – and they use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they've killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the Dark Web. Soon, they are the most popular figures on social media . . . but their motives may not be entirely pure.

Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed "cop for criminals", and the person the underworld calls when they can't call the police. For months now, she's built up a series of favors, all so she can set them off like dominos—proving that Nicky Simpson, YouTube sensation and wannabe gangster, was the man who destroyed her life—and killed the man she loved. And in return, Nicky has watched her carefully, waiting to see whether she's too much of a threat to keep alive. But when Nicky's life is threatened, he's forced to turn to Ellie and her team for help.

When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. She certainly didn't expect to be the homicide detective on two separate cases or to begin a romantic relationship with her boss. But the very last thing she expected was for the council to drop a dangerous criminal into their midst without a plan to keep him imprisoned, and to keep others safe.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, are running a 24-7 sting in a guard-gated enclave of palatial homes in Calabasas. Their luxury McMansion is a honey trap, set to lure in the violent home invaders terrorizing the community. The trap works, leaving three intruders dead, a body count that nearly includes Eve and Duncan. Eve’s bosses are eager to declare the case closed, but there are too many unanswered questions for her to let go.

Lucas Davenport must track down a ruthless Russian hit team, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Leonard Summers—not his real name—is on the run. A former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical...

When victims turn up in Los Angeles wearing mysterious masks, Jessie quickly realizes a deranged killer is at work, taunting her to follow his clues through a hedonistic couples underground—and into the abyss of a madman’s psyche….

It seemed to be a cold case like any other. So much so that Stone and Dehan hadn’t even considered reviewing it—until private investigator Karl Baxter requested a copy of the police file. Then Stone got curious. Why did a second-rate PI in the Bronx want to look into the case of a low-life petty criminal found tied to a chair in his apartment, beaten and shot through the heart? And that question led to other questions, like, whose was second pool of blood on the floor? If there was a second victim, where was the body?

Olivia Wolfe is a journalist who travels the world exposing heinous crimes. She has more enemies than most. When an anonymous source is murdered, she must unravel the terrible secret that connects a series of gruesome murders. But powerful people want her stopped. Betrayed and isolated, she is hunted by a faceless killer. Can she stay alive long enough to expose the shocking truth? This completely gripping, explosive, globetrotting thriller will keep listeners on the edge of their seat.

A desperate mother seeks the help of Jack Winchester to find the men who kidnapped her 12-year-old boy. After local police and FBI class him as a runaway, Jack takes the job. When another boy goes missing, he soon realizes the two disappearances might be connected to something far bigger and more sinister than he could have ever imagined.

Jefferson Winter ist Sohn eines berüchtigten amerikanischen Serienmörders. Und vielleicht ist es genau das, was ihn zu einem der besten Profiler weltweit macht. Wenn die Polizei vor Ort nicht mehr weiter weiß, holt man ihn. Sein erster Fall "Broken Dolls" führt ihn nach London: Bereits vier junge Frauen sind Opfer eines perfiden Täters geworden, der ihnen einen Teil des Gehirns entfernt und sie damit zu empfindungslosen Puppen gemacht hat. Jetzt ist eine fünfte Frau verschwunden. Jefferson setzt alles daran, den Täter zu finden, bevor auch ihre Seele zerstört wird.

Some killers are made through years of systematic abuse. Some killers are the product of the societal misfortune of not being able to escape the worst portions of the lowest economic areas. Then there are the killers like Mercy. The rare ones. The ones who are born evil and are drawn to violence and the suffering of others with the same natural inborn instinct that allows any predator to hunt.

Der Profiler Jefferson Winter hat gerade einen Auftrag zu Ende gebracht: Mit seinem besonderen Gespür für Psychopathen konnte er einen Mörder, der ganz New York in Angst und Schrecken versetzt hatte, fassen. Bevor Winter für seinen neuen Fall am Morgen nach Paris abreist, will er in einem Diner noch etwas essen. Es ist zwei Uhr nachts, der einzige andere Gast ist eine platinblonde Frau mit Lederjacke. Als Winters Essen serviert wird, ersticht sie vor seinen Augen den Koch. Danach geht sie seelenruhig davon.

J. D. Storm is an ex-Army sniper, discharged after losing an eye in battle. Finally finding work at the illusive Desire Card - an unsavory organization that promises "any wish fulfilled for the right price" - he heaves a sigh of relief. But when those wishes become too immoral, J. D. quickly finds out that no one reneges on the boss, a powerful and eccentric madman known only as Clark Gable because of the realistic mask he wears, without paying a hefty price.

Orphaned twin boys are raised by a woodsman they call "Uncle," away from the society he bitterly left years ago. Trained in the arts of the woodsman, they became the ultimate hunting, fishing, surviving and killing forces that Uncle had designed them to be. However, Uncle knew he was leaving this world and that the twins would be okay with the world. What Uncle could have never known was if the world would be okay with the twins.

The focus of teenage twin brothers Tomek and Drake's lives has been survival. In their short lives, hunting, fishing, fighting, and killing have always played a major role. Forced to take residence on a desolate island, the twins have returned to a woodland way of life. Living off the land has always been the twin's desire and for the first time they will be given the opportunity to do so on their own.

She has been planning this for 10 years. She's thought of everything and trained for this one single night. Nothing could possibly go wrong. He's a serial killer who has eluded the police for the last 10 years. When his latest victim turns out to not be who she appears, the hunter will discover what it's like to be the prey.

For twin brothers Tomek and Drake, life and death struggles were the norm when they lived off the grid, deep in the forests of Northern Michigan. Trying to adjust to their new way of life in the small town of Pine Run, it becomes increasingly apparent that even sleepy towns can have nightmares.