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"A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PD Most of us have never heard of Israel Keyes. But he is one of the most ambitious, meticulous serial killers of modern time. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor...
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Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Seventeen year old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. Between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into...
3) Bluebeard
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007, ©1972
Language
English
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The latest wife of an Austrian baron discovers the six frozen bodies of his previous wives. Her concern now is to find a way to avoid becoming the next victim.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is found brutally murdered, and the DCI in charge is unable to take up the case, the role is passed on to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, the first female DCI to handle such a responsibility. Between a slippery suspect and resistence from her team of detectives, Tennison has her hands full.
6) Beast
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A disturbed woman living in a secluded community finds herself pulled between the control of her overbearing family and the appeal of a secretive stranger suspected of a series of vicious murders.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Tensions mount at a support group for killers, as the members of the group try to solve the mystery behind which one of them is responsible for the assassination attempt on a U.S. senator that has the police in the city on high alert. But things are not what they seem, and when new facts are discovered, secret partnerships and betrayals appear as the session blasts into violence and pandemonium, forcing the killers to kill or be killed!
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Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A detective hunts an international murderer committing ritualistic killings in a small Mississippi town. He seeks help from an anthropology professor, who is an expert on the ancient rituals being performed.
9) Halloween
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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While Daniel H. Burnham builds the glittering 1893 Chicago World's Fair, a serial killer lures young women to a torture chamber.
11) The North water
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.
12) Outfox
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Weston Graham is a master con man, bilking women of their fortunes and then "disappearing" them. His first victim was the mother of FBI Special Agent Drex Easton, and he is as determined to bring him to justice as Graham is to outfox him.
Convinced recently married Jasper Ford is a conman, whom he believes murdered eight women for their fortunes, FBI agent Drex Easton insinuates himself into the couple's life, but his own attraction to Jasper's wife...
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Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures...
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Series
Clown in a cornfield volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught in...
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