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Fans of gripping thrillers with a high creep factor should try these:

*Malice by Lisa Jackson Find this book in our catalog
"Former LAPD detective Rick Bentz has rebuilt his life with a happy marriage and new career with the New Orleans police 12 years after divorcing his unfaithful first wife, Jennifer, who subsequently died in a car crash. After "a freak accident in a lightning storm" that left his temporarily paralyzed, Rick starts seeing Jennifer's ghost. When Rick receives an anonymous package mailed from Culver City, Calif., containing recent photos of a woman resembling Jennifer, he goes to California to investigate. In L.A., the Twenty-one killer, who strangles identical twins on their 21st birthday, resurfaces. Rick's last unsolved L.A. case involved victims of this serial killer. Jackson heightens the creep factor by including the viewpoint of a character whose hatred for Rick for past wrongs inspires another extreme killing spree." (catalog notes)
*All the Pretty Dead Girls by John Manning Find this book in our catalog
"A college campus is the setting for a series of depraved, ritualistic murders. If you like Dean Koontz, you'll love John Manning.--Wendy Corsi Staub." (catalog notes)
*Whisper in the Dark by Robert Gregory Browne Find this book in our catalog
"Detective Frank Blackburn finds a beautiful Jane Doe naked, incoherent, covered with blood--and brandishing a pair of scissors near the scene of a brutal murder. Is she the perpetrator? Or is she the only eyewitness to the handiwork of a twisted serial killer?" (catalog notes)
*The Next Killing by Rebecca Drake Find this book in our catalog
"For one hundred years, the best girls have come to St. Ursula's Preparatory Academy to learn. To achieve. To make both memories and friends. But now, it's where they also come to die... When the first body is found, the police call it an accidentan initiation ritual gone terribly wrong. But the students know something isn't right at St. Ursula's. There are sounds in the darkened corridors, a figure glimpsed between the trees, locked doors somehow opened. Someone iswatching them, judging them, hating them...killing them... A twisted psychopath is turning the quiet campus into a school of fear. No sins will go unpunished. No girl will escape justice. And everyone will have a chance to join a serial killer's exclusive club...." (catalog notes)