Frank Carlson Library

Serial killer Dexter Morgan, who typically adheres to a code of only killing bad people, experiences life changes when his daughter is born, and as he looks into the disappearance of a teenage girl who is associated with a group of goths who are actually cannibals, he puts himself in danger of being their next meal.

Traces the story of a once-promising football athlete and imprisoned drug dealer who was offered his freedom in exchange for coaxing a confession out of a serial killer.

If looks can kill, a smile can be deadly. Special Agent Stella Knox became an FBI agent to find the dirty cops responsible for her father's murder and make them pay. But fresh out of Quantico, her first case has her seeking justice for a different victim--three of them, in fact. The bodies of three teenage boys have turned up in a sleepy town outside of Nashville, TN. There're no fingerprints, no DNA, and very little to connect the murders,...

Which is more dangerous...Mother or Human Nature? Twelve hours earlier, Interim Sheriff Rebecca West was enjoying a casual lunchtime burger. Now she's preparing for a hurricane headed straight for Shadow Island. While hauling sandbags and calming town officials, the last thing she needs is a stunned man stumbling into the sheriff's department. Covered in blood. Clearly in shock, the man doesn't know who he is and only mutters about needing...

Sometimes you win, and sometimes you die. On the verge of finding the person who ordered their fathers' deaths, Special Agents Stella Knox and Hagen Yates are diverted by another murder. A kickboxer whose body is discovered with two bullet holes in his head. Stranger still is a pattern of dead boxers around the state. Are the murders linked to organized crime? A serial killer? A grudge? Or something more disturbing? Getting information about...

Detective Mike Fletcher, a rugged and obsessive police officer, and his partner Kelsey Walker, are on the trail of a serial killer who prowls the streets targeting young streetwalkers. When his teenage daughter disappears, Fletcher discovers that the killer has kidnapped her after mistaking her for a prostitute. Fletcher's obsession goes into overdrive when he drops all professional restraint to get the killer and save his daughter.

Doreen is overwhelmed with joy when so many volunteers show up to help build her deck. But before the deck improvement can be finished, duty calls, and the cops are called away on a case. Another gray-haired lady has dropped dead. Another heart attack victim is added to the long line of previous ones. None of the recently deceased had a heart condition that would explain their sudden demise. With her animals at her side, Doreen is determined to figure...

In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. Recent college graduate Richard Chizmar returns to his hometown just as a curfew is enacted and a neighborhood watch is formed....

"FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profiler Scarlett Bell knows her job will require her to enter the minds of murderers. But when she joins forces with fugitive Logan Wolf to track a deranged serial killer in Georgia, she learns the true meaning of fear. In the dead of night, a couple out for a moonlight walk discovers a woman's severed head on a well-traveled bridge. She isn't the first victim, and she won't be the last. While Scarlett follows the evidence...

The "Moors murders" were committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley from 1963 to 1965 and remain England's most notorious case of serial murder. Three children and two teenagers were adbucted, sexually assaulted and brutally murdered, their bodies buried in shallow graves on Manchester's desolate Saddleworth Moor. The crimes were so horrific that they will haunt England forever. It was the "trial of the century."