The Mounties always get their man, or so it seems. Canada's police forces work tirelessly to solve major cases. Read about the efforts of the RCMP, OPP and Sûreté du Québec to investigate some of Canada's most notorious cases: The...
Serial murder investigation
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Author:Boer, PeterSummary: - Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
The corpses of two long-missing girls are discovered buried under the concrete floor of a residential home. Convinced that he made disastrous mistakes while handling the missing persons case years earlier, Davenport is determined to set...
- Author:Preston, Douglas J., Child, LincolnSummary:
Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. He is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside, his body temperature is grotesquely high, the smell of brimstone is everywhere, and the unmistakable...
- Author:Knoll, JessicaSummary:
Don't miss this "breakneck thriller" examining "our culture's obsession with serial killers and true crime" (Harper's Bazaar) following two women on the pursuit of justice against all odds. "A...
- Author:Box, Dan.Summary:
A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of the victims were Aboriginal. All three were killed within five months, between 1990 and 1991. The same white man was linked to each, but...
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Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:An artfully told police procedural set in an explosive era in recent history
Montreal 1970. The “Vampire Killer” has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University,...
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Author:Brady, LizSummary:In Bad Date, crime journalist Jane Yeats is on the scene again full of her trademark smart-ass attitude and fondness for Irish ale. Jane is thrust headlong into an unsolicited investigation of a string of unsolved sex-trade mysteries....
- Author:Dahl, ArneSummary:
In Arne Dahl's riveting follow up to Misterioso, the Intercrime team is tapped to track down an American serial killer--on the loose in Sweden. A Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a janitor's closet at Newark Liberty...
- Author:Blake, KendareSummary:
Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood. Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist, never imagined that the Bloodless Murders would come to his backyard. Not until...
- Author:Henderson, AliceSummary:
Targeted by aggressive locals attempting to sabotage her research on a Montana endangered wildlife sanctuary, biologist Alex Carter reports evidence of an injured person to indifferent authorities before uncovering the activities of a...
- Author:Ellory, Roger Jon.Summary:
"Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, didn't want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspaper reported a 4th murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few...
- Author:Redmond, Lissa MarieSummary:
When cold case detective Lauren Riley returns to work months after being stabbed by a fellow police officer, it's clear that her troubles are far from over. The body of a young woman has been found in the same woods as a murder...
- Author:McGinnis, MindySummary:
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable...
- Author:Constantine, Steven Matthew, Burgess, Ann WolbertSummary:
Here is a look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers.
- Author:Pintoff, StefanieSummary:
The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner Captain Declan Mulvaney went in remarkably different directions after the tragic death of Ziele's fiancee in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster. Although both...
- Author:Van Rooy, MichaelSummary:
Monty Haaviko, Winnipeg's favourite househusband, babysitter, and ex-con, is running for chief of Winnipeg's new police commision. It's almost honest work, except that he's been bribed to throw the election to his opponent, an ex-cop...
- Author:Patterson, James, Paetro, MaxineSummary:
As SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer prepares to celebrate her daughter's birthday, she learns of a theory that connects the dots on a constellation of killings. Soon, there won't be a woman in California who's safe.
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