Gregg Olsen
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English
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"A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail--to a dangerous psychopath whose powers of persuasion seem to have no end. Only by teaming up with sheriff's detective Kendall Stark can Birdy hope to even the odds in a deadly game." --
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"Notorious serial killer Brenda Nevins has cajoled, seduced, blackmailed, and left a trail of bodies all across Washington State. Now, after a daring prison escape, she is free to carry out her ultimate act of revenge. The targets: forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman and sheriff's detective Kendall Stark. The pawn: a television psychic hungry for fame, ratings, and blood." --
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"Olsen will scare you—and you'll love it."
—Lee Child
Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up—one of them her mother's. The killer was never found....
Twenty years later Hannah is a talented CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back. A killer with...
—Lee Child
Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up—one of them her mother's. The killer was never found....
Twenty years later Hannah is a talented CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back. A killer with...
4) Victim six
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English
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The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common. But a depraved killer has carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture. A killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust.
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[2019]
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English
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"After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond...
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2016.
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English
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"At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite 'bonnet' stories -- romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries -- without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones,...
7) Heart of ice
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English
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There's a big killer on campus. The #1 New York Times bestselling author "deftly juggles multiple plot lines" in this chilling crime thriller (Publishers Weekly).
Three bodies, three different towns. Each victim was a sorority girl—pretty, privileged, and brutally murdered. There are no fingerprints, no clues. He is scrupulously careful, craving those exquisite seconds when the light fades from his victim's...
Three bodies, three different towns. Each victim was a sorority girl—pretty, privileged, and brutally murdered. There are no fingerprints, no clues. He is scrupulously careful, craving those exquisite seconds when the light fades from his victim's...
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"Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted--and feared--criminals in the world. Now the notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and is plotting her revenge. Using innocent young women as bait, she will lure her unsuspecting victims into her trap. This time, sheriff detective Kendall Stark and forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman won be able to stop her. The killing will be filmed....
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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"The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer's hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death--is as close as the face in the mirror"--P. [4] of cover.
10) The Bone Box
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Pinnacle Books
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2012
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English
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Birdy Waterman stars in a riveting short story that will chill you to the bone—from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of If You Tell.
They call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman. None is more disturbing than the first. After two decades, Birdy still remembers the screaming. The blood on the boy's hands. The body of a girl,...
They call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman. None is more disturbing than the first. After two decades, Birdy still remembers the screaming. The blood on the boy's hands. The body of a girl,...
11) Envy
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Empty Coffin ; 1
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Splinter
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English
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Fifteen-year-old twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan of Port Gamble, WA, known as "Empty Coffin" because of a local legend, investigate a former friend's Christmas suicide and, along the way, discover a secret from their own past.
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Vengeance ; 2
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Polis Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"While investigating a serial killer who is targeting students at Portland State University, Rylee faces a betrayal that tests her resiliency and survival skills." --
13) Betrayal
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Splinter
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English
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Twins Hayley and Taylor explore new facts about their past while investigating the bizarre murder of a foreign exchange student whose best friend has been accused of the crime.
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Polis Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A twisted murder, a tangle of lies . . . Now Rylee must run for her life. What if you discovered that everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie? Rylee has spent her life being shuttled from city to city by her parents. She assumes the reasons are normal. But the truth couldn't be more shocking. One day Rylee comes home from school to find the most horrifying thing imaginable her father dead, with a knife through his heart, and a key...
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Crown
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed...
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed...
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St. Martin's Press
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2014.
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English
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"In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two children by their father. Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes of the American public. The tragic story of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden, is the only case that rivals the Jon Benet Ramsey saga...
17) Fear collector
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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"For two women, Ted Bundy, America's most notorious serial killer is the ultimate obsession. One is a cop whose sister may have been one of Bundy's victims. The other is a deranged groupie who corresponded with Bundy in prison- and raised her son to finish what he started. To charm and seduce innocent girls. To kidnap and brutalize more women than any serial killer in history. And to lure one obsessed cop into a trap as sick and demented as Bundy...
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English
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"Oregon's Deschutes River. For years Liz and Owen have admired their neighbors, Carole and David, who seem to have it all: security, happiness, and a beautiful son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace. In a heartrending accident, Liz has changed the lives of everyone she loves-- and is concealing it. As two marriages buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into guilt and paranoia... and another neighbor has his own secrets, his own pain,...
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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After a Pacific Northwest family is slaughtered and their teenage son disappears, Emily Kenyon spearheads the hunt for the murderer of a series of families. But Emily's teenage daughter Jenna knows the suspect and wants to help him, perhaps too much. As Emily fits the puzzle pieces together, she must match wits with a killer who's just placed her and her daughter at the top of his list.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent...