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1) Nearly gone
Author
Series
Nearly gone volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A math-whiz from a trailer park discovers she's the only student capable of unravelling complex clues left by a serial killer who's systematically getting rid of her classmates"--
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?"--
Author
Series
Jasper Dent trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
4) Game
Author
Series
Jasper Dent trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Alternating between 1980s Cuba and present-day Miami, this stunning story of a Cuban American family of brujas follows twin sisters Ofelia and Delfi as they secretly embrace their magical inheritance to stop a serial killer from taking even more innocent lives.
6) Dear killer
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--
8) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
10) The Clackity
Author
Series
Blight Harbor volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell have landed in America, a bold, brash land unlike the genteel streets of London. But like London, the city of Chicago hides its dark secrets well. When the two attend the spectacular World's Fair, they find the once-in-a-lifetime event tainted with reports of missing people and unsolved murders. Determined to help, Audrey Rose and Thomas begin their investigations, only to find themselves facing a serial...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
Thrills and Chills (Halloween) - YA
LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
Thrills and Chills (Halloween) - YA
Description
Publisher Annotation: The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones. Lucy was almost the serial killer’s final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide. All of them are looking for answers, for a new identity, for a place to bury their secrets. But there are more than bones hiding in the shadows…sometimes the darkness...
14) Ruthless
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Carver has always competed like her life depends on it. Ambitious. Tough. Maybe even mean. It's no wonder people call her Ruthless. When she wakes up with a concussion in the bed of a moving pickup trick, she realizes she has been entered into a contest she can't afford to lose. At a remote, rotting cabin deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ruth's blindfold comes off and she comes face-to-face with her captor. A man who believes his mission is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory with nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in London Hospital. Evelyn wanted to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut away from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred, who...
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Historical Fiction - YA
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
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Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
18) The invocations
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"To get what they want most, Zara and Jude search for Emer, an orphaned witch with dark and deadly powers, but when a serial killer targets Emer’s clients, the three girls form an uneasy alliance to hunt the killer before they meet the same fate"--
19) Four letter word
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
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.
20) The lost girl
Author
Series
Fear Street. Relaunch volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Everyone at Shadyshide High is talking about Lizzy Palmer. There's something weird about Lizzy. When Michael invites her to a snowmobile race, tragedy strikes. Then someone starts killing all of Michael's friends. His girlfriend, Pepper, thinks Lizzy is to blame, but the truth lies buried in a fateful betrayal over 60 years old.
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