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""I want to ruin her so that she's mine, my beautiful disaster. My wild creature. My goddess of chaos." The viral TikTok friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and sizzling chemistry-unlike anything you've read before-now available in all bookstores When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive-the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just...

''Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse… A terrible accident. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. A shocking revelation. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it...

"From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes Murderabilia, a history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders, which were made famous by Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood-these are more than simple artifacts that...

Forced to come back home and reunite with her remaining siblings, July Weaver, whose testimony nine years earlier put her father--the Pacific Lake Killer--away for the murder of her sister and other girls, uncovers new evidence that makes her question everything, including if she blamed the wrong person. "In the vein of Kathleen Barber and Julia Heaberlin comes an electrifying debut suspense that pits the inhabitants of a small town against each...

"Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host guests for a week-long stay, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Thena storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. But it isn't until one of the guests dies under strange circumstances that Remy is forced to consider...

Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING ANDREW SCOTT, JOHNNY FLYNN, AND DAKOTA FANNING. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even murder--to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a...

"Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school’s Queer Club. Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable. From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They’re beautiful,...

Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems. "In this pulse pounding thriller, Izzy and her family welcome an exchange student into their home. But after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect the young man is not who...

"Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when [serial murderer] Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this ... account of Zodiac's eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hundreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killer's letters"--Amazon.com. "A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took...

"I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him... At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man -- the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down...