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Psycho-Killer Thrillers (i.e. Thomas Harris)

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Authors & Titles

• Abercrombie, Lynn: Cold Case series
  
  1. The Body Box
     
• Ablow, Keith: Frank Clevenger series
  
  1. Denial
     
  2. Projection
     
  3. Compulsion
     
  4. Psychopath
     
  5. Murder Suicide
     
  6. The Architect
     
• Airth, Rennie: River of Darkness
  
• Anscombe, Roderick: Shank
  
• Atkins, Charles: Risk Factor
  
• Baldacci, David: Michelle Maxwell series
  
  1. Split Second
     
  2. Hour Game
     
  3. Simple Genius
     
• Belsky, R.G.: Playing Dead
  
• Bernhardt, William: Susan Pulaski series
  
  1. Dark Eye
     
  2. Strip Search
     
• Billingham, Mark: Tom Thorne series
  
  1. Sleepyhead
     
  2. Scaredy Cat
     
  3. Lazybones
     
  4. The Burning Girl
     
  5. Lifeless
     
  6. Buried
     
  7. Death Message
     
  8. Bloodline
     
• Black, Ethan: Conrad Voort series
  
  1. The Broken Hearts Club
     
  2. Irresistible
     
  3. All the Dead Were Strangers
     
  4. Dead for Life
     
  5. At Hell's Gate
     
• Black, Ingrid: The Dead
  
• Blaine, Michael: The Desperate Season
  
• Blanchard, Alice: The Breathtaker
  
• Blanchard, Alice: Life Sentences
  
• Bloch, Robert: Psycho series
  
  1. Psycho
     
  2. Psycho II
     
  3. Psycho House
     
• Blunt, Giles: John Cardinal series
  
  1. Forty Words for Sorrow
     
  2. The Delicate Storm
     
• Bonansinga, Jay: Ulysses Grove series
  
  1. Frozen
     
  2. Twisted
     
  3. Shattered
     
• Bonansinga, Jay: The Sleep Police
  
• Briant, Shane: Worst Nightmares
  
• Burke, Jan: Nine
  
• Burton, Tony: The Department of Correction
  
• Cain, Chelsea: Archie Sheridan series
  
  1. Heartsick
     
  2. Sweetheart
     
  3. Evil at Heart
     
• Campbell, Ramsey: The Count of Eleven
  
• Campbell, Ramsey: The Last Voice They Hear
  
• Cannell, Stephen J.: Final Victim
  
• Caputo, Philip: Equation for Evil
  
• Carlo, Philip: Predators and Prayers
  
• Castillo, Linda: Sworn to Silence
  
• Chapman, Herb: The Book of Cain
  
• Child, Lee: Killing Floor
  
• Cioffari, Philip: Catholic Boys
  
• Connelly, Michael: Blood Work
  
• Connelly, Michael: Rachel Walling series
  
  1. The Poet
     
  2. The Narrows
     (NOTE: The Narrows is also part of Connelly's Harry Bosch series, listed under Hardboiled Detectives)
     
  3. The Scarecrow
     
• Connolly, John: Every Dead Thing
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Charlie Parker series, listed under Paranormal Thrillers)
  
• Craig, Kit: Gone
  
• Cutler, Ron: Holly Alexander series
  
  1. Ice-Man
     
  2. Angel of Vengeance
     
• Deaver, Jeffery: Lincoln Rhyme series
  
  1. The Bone Collector
     
  2. The Coffin Dancer
     
  3. The Empty Chair
     
  4. The Stone Monkey
     
  5. The Vanished Man
     
  6. The Twelfth Card
     
  7. The Cold Moon
     (NOTE: This title is part of the Kathryn Dance series, listed under Spunky Women Sleuths)
     
  8. The Broken Window
     
  9. The Burning Wire
     
• Dekker, Ted: BoneMan's Daughters
  
• Dekker, Ted: The Bride Collector
  
• Delaney, Matthew B,: Jinn
  
• Depoy, Phillip: Dancing Made Easy
  
• Devlin, Frank: Love in All the Wrong Places
  
• Eddings, David & Leigh: Regina's Song
  
• Elliot, Bruce: Still Life
  
• Elliott, James: Cold Cold Heart
  
• Evans, Jon: Dark Places
  
• Flowers, R. Barri: Justice Served
  
• Floyd, Bill: The Killer's Wife
  
• Frasier, Anne: Before I Wake
  
• Frasier, Anne: Play Dead
  
• Fredrickson, Michael: A Defense for the Dead
  (NOTE: This title is part of Fredrickson's Jimmy Morrissey series, listed under Legal Thrillers)
  
• Freemantle, Brian: The Button Man
  
• Freemantle, Brian: Mind/Reader
  
• French, Nicci: Beneath the Skin
  
• French, Nicci: Land of the Living
  
• Frost, Scott: Alex Delillo series
  
  1. Run the Risk
     
  2. Never Fear
     
• Gaitano, Nick: Special Victims
  
• Gardner, Lisa: Rainie Conner series
  
  (prequel) The Perfect Husband
  
  1. The Third Victim
     
  2. The Next Accident
     
  3. The Killing Hour
     
  4. Gone
     
  5. Say Goodbye
     
• Gardner, Lisa: The Survivors Club
  
• Garwood, Julie: Heartbreaker
  
• Geller, Shari P.: Fatal Convictions
  
• Gerritsen, Tess: Maura Isles & Jane Rizzoli series (aka Warren Hoyt series)
  
  1. The Surgeon
     
  2. The Apprentice
     
  3. The Sinner
     
  4. Body Double
     
  5. Vanish
     
  6. The Mephisto Club
     
  7. The Keepsake
     
  8. Ice Cold
     
  9. The Silent Girl
     
• Girard, Danielle: Savage Art
  
• Goddard, Ken: Cheater
  
• Grabenstein, Chris: Slay Ride
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Christopher Miller series, listed under Mean Streets)
  
• Grange, Jean-Christophe: Blood Red Rivers
  
• Gray, Ginna: Fatal Flaw
  
• Greenburg, Dan: Exes
  
• Greenlief, K.C.: Lak Swenson & Lacey Smith series
  
  1. Cold Hunter's Moon
     
• Griffiths, W.G.: Driven
  
• Grippando, James: The Informant
  
• Grippando, James: Under Cover of Darkness
  
• Guild, Nicholas: Angel
  
• Gutman, Amy: The Anniversary
  
• Hall, James: Body Language
  
• Harris, Thomas: Hannibal Lecter series
  
  1. Red Dragon
     
  2. Silence of the Lambs
     
  3. Hannibal
     
• Harvey, James Neal: Ben Tolliver series
  
  1. By Reason of Insanity
     
  2. Flesh and Blood
     
  3. Mental Case
     
• Haus, Ilona: Kay Delaney series
  
  1. Blue Mercy
     
  2. Blue Valor
     
• Hayder, Mo: Birdman
  
• Hayes, Jonathan: Precious Blood
  
• Heller, Jean: Handyman
  
• Hightower, Lynn: The Debt Collector
  
• Hightower, Lynn: Lena Padgett series
  
  1. Satan's Lambs
     
  2. Fortunes of the Dead
     
• Hirshberg, Glen: The Snowman's Children
  
• Hoag, Tami: Ashes to Ashes
  
• Hoag, Tami: Deeper Than the Dead
  
• Hoag, Tami: Prior Bad Acts
  
• Holt, Anne: What Never Happens
  
• Hooper, Kay: Evil Trilogy
  
  1. Touching Evil
     
  2. Whisper of Evil
     
  3. Sense of Evil
     
• Hunt, David: The Magician's Tale
  
• Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew: The Tower
  
• Iles, Greg: 24 Hours
  
• Iles, Greg: Blood Memory
  
• Iles, Greg: Mortal Fear
  
• Jack the Ripper (edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, & Frank D. McSherry, Jr.)
  
• Jackson, Lisa: The Morning After
  
• Jaffe, Michele: Loverboy
  
• James, Donald: Monstrum
  
• James, Steven: Patrick Bowers series
  
  1. The Pawn
     
  2. The Rook
     
  3. The Knight
     
  4. The Bishop
     
• Jance, J.A.: Brandon Walker series
  
  1. Kiss of the Bees
     
  2. Day of the Dead
     
• Jellison, Jerry: Measure of Vengeance
  
• Jillette, Penn: Sock
  
• Johansen, Iris: Firestorm
  
• Johansen, Iris: The Killing Game
  
• Johansen, Iris: The Search
  
• Johnstone, William W.: Blood Oath
  
• Jones, Stephen Graham: All the Beautiful Sinners
  
• Jordan, Oakley: Death's Parallel
  
• Katzenbach, John: The Analyst
  
• Katzenbach, John: The Shadow Man
  
• Katzenbach, John: State of Mind
  
• Kava, Alex: Maggie O'Dell series
  
  1. A Perfect Evil
     
  2. Split Second
     
  3. The Soul Catcher
     
  4. At the Stroke of Madness
     
  5. A Necessary Evil
     
  6. Exposed
     
  7. Black Friday
     
  8. Damaged
     
• Kerley, Jack: Carson Ryder & Harry Nautilus series
  
  1. The Hundredth Man
     
  2. The Death Collectors
     
• Kinder, R.M.: An Absolute Gentleman
  
• King, Jonathon: Eye of Vengeance
  
• King, Jonathon: Max Freeman series
  
  1. The Blue Edge of Midnight
     
  2. A Visible Darkness
     
  3. Shadow Men
     
  4. A Killing Night
     
  5. Acts of Nature
     
• Kirino, Natsuo: Grotesque
  
• Koehler, C.J.: Ray Koepp series
  
  1. Mind Games
     
  2. Profile
     
• Konrath, J.A.: Jack Daniels series
  
  1. Whiskey Sour
     
  2. Bloody Mary
     
  3. Rusty Nail
     
  4. Dirty Martini
     
  5. Fuzzy Navel
     
  6. Cherry Bomb
     (short stories) Four Pack of Jack
     (short story) A Jack Daniels short story appears in Chicago Blues (edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann)
     
• Kramer, Julie: Riley Spartz series
  
  1. Stalking Susan
     
  2. Missing Mark
     
  3. Silencing Sam
     
• Laird, Thomas: Jimmy Parisi series
  
  1. Cutter
     
  2. Season of the Assassin
     
  3. Black Dog
     
• LeCarre, John: Absolute Friends
  
• La Plante, Richard: Josef Tanaka series
  
  1. Mantis
     
  2. Leopard
     
• Laird, Thomas: Jimmy Parisi series
  
  1. Cutter
     
  2. Season of the Assassin
     
  3. Black Dog
     
• Lakeman, Thomas: The Shadow Catchers
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Mike Yeager series, listed under Psychological Suspense)
  
• Lamanda, Al: Dunston Falls
  
• Lansdale, Joe R.: Leather Maiden
  
• Lindsay, Jeff: Dexter series
  
  1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter
     
  2. Dearly Devoted Dexter
     
  3. Dexter in the Dark
     
  4. Dexter by Design
     
  5. Dexter is Delicious
     
• Lindsay, Paul: Code Name: Gentkill
  
• Lofts, Norah: The Claw
  
• Lovett, Sarah: Sylvia Strange series
  
  1. Dangerous Attachments
     
  2. Acquired Motives
     
  3. Dark Alchemy
     
• Lustbader, Eric: Black Blade
  
• Lyle, D.P.: Dub Walker series
  
  1. Stress Fracture
     
• MacBride, Stuart: Logan MacRae series
  
  1. Cold Granite
     
  2. Dying Light
     
  3. Bloodshot
     
  4. Flesh House
     
  5. Blind Eye
     
• Mahoney, Dan: Black and White
  
• Martin, David: Bring Me Children
  
• Martin, David: Tap, Tap
  
• Martin, Julia Wallis: The Bird Yard
  
• Martin, Julia Wallis: A Likeness in Stone
  
• McCammon, Robert R.: Mine
  
• McClister, Michael: Victim's Choice
  
• McCoy, Max: The Moon Pool
  
• McCullough, Colleen: Carmine Delmonico series
  
  1. On, Off
     
  2. Too Many Murders
     
• McDermid, Val: Killing the Shadows
  
• McDermid, Val: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan series
  
  1. The Mermaids Singing
     
  2. The Wire in the Blood
     
  3. The Last Temptation
     
  4. The Torment of Others
     
  5. Beneath the Bleeding
     
• McFadyen, Cody: Smoky Barrett series
  
  1. Shadow Man
     
  2. Face of Death
     
  3. The Darker Side
     
  4. Abandoned
     
• McGuire, Christine: Until Proven Guilty
  
• McMahon, Neil: Twice Dying
  (NOTE: This title is part of McMahon's Carroll Monks series, listed under Medical Thrillers.)
  
• Meyer, Deon: Dead Before Dying
  
• Meyer, Deon: Devil's Peak
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Benny Griessel series, listed under Regional Mysteries: South Africa)
  
• Mitchell, Mary Ann: Siren's Call
  
• Monsour, Theresa: Paris Murphy series
  
  1. Clean Cut
     
  2. Cold Blood
     
  3. Dark House
     
• Montanari, Richard: Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano series
  
  1. The Rosary Girls
     
  2. The Skin Gods
     
  3. Merciless
     
  4. Badlands
     
• Montanari, Richard: Kiss of Evil
  
• Montanari, Richard: The Violet Hour
  
• Mooney, Chris: Deviant Ways
  
• Moorcraft, Paul L.: Anchoress of Shere
  
• Moore, Harker: James Sakura series
  
  1. A Cruel Season for Dying
     
  2. A Mourning in Autumn
     
• Morgenroth, Kate: Kill Me First
  
• Mosby, Steve: Cry for Help
  
• Murakami, Ryu: In the Miso Soup
  
• Nasaw, Jonathan: E.L. Pender series
  
  1. The Girls He Adored
     
  2. Fear Itself
     
  3. Twenty-Seven Bones
     
  4. When She Was Bad
     
  5. The Boys From Santa Cruz
     
• Nykanen, Mark: The Bone Parade
  
• O'Callaghan, Thomas: Bone Thief
  
• Pairo, Preston A. III: The Angel's Crime
  
• Palmer, Michael: The Society
  
• Parrish, P.J.: Louis Kincaid series
  
  1. Dark of the Moon
     
  2. Dead of Winter
     
  3. Paint it Black
     
  4. Thicker Than Water
     
  5. Island of Bones
     
  6. A Killing Rain
     
  7. An Unquiet Grave
     
• Passman, Don: The Visionary
  
• Patterson, James: Women's Murder Club series
  
  1. 1st to Die
     
  2. 2nd Chance
     
  3. 3rd Degree
     
  4. 4th of July
     
  5. The 5th Horseman
     
  6. The 6th Target
     
  7. 7th Heaven
     
  8. The 8th Confession
     
• Peace, David: Tokyo series
  
  1. Tokyo Year Zero
     
  2. Occupied City
     
• Pearson, Ridley: Middle of Nowhere
  
• Pearson, Ryne: Top Ten
  
• Pepper, Kate: Five Days in Summer
  
• Petit, Chris: The Psalm Killer
  
• Phillips, Clyde: Fall From Grace
  
• Pickard, Nancy: The Whole Truth
  
• Pike, Christopher: Falling
  
• Povey, Jeff: The Serial Killers Club
  
• Powers, Martha: Bleeding Heart
  
• Prospero, Ann: Almost Night
  
• Pyper, Andrew: The Killing Circle
  
• Racina, Thom: Snow Angel
  
• Ramsay, Caro: Absolution
  
• Randisi, Robert J.: The Sixth Phase
  
• Rickards, John: Winter's End
  
• Robb, J.D.: Conspiracy in Death
  
• Robinson, Peter: Aftermath
  
• Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor: The Cheater
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Lily Forrester series, listed under Legal Thrillers)
  
• Rosenfelt, David: Down to the Wire
  
• Rusch, Sheldon: Liz Hewitt series
  
  1. For Edgar
     
  2. The Boy With Perfect Hands
     
  3. Separated at Death
     
• Santlofer, Jonathan: Kate McKinnon series
  
  1. The Death Artist
     
  2. Color Blind
     
• Satterthwait, Walter: Perfection
  
• Saul, John: Perfect Nightmare
  
• Savage, Tom: Valentine
  
• Schmidt, Dan: The Demon Circle
  
• Scoppettone, Sandra: Beautiful Rage
  
• Scott, Manda: No Good Deed
  
• Shuman, George D.: Sherry Moore series
  
  1. 18 Seconds
     
  2. Last Breath
     
  3. Lost Girls
     
  4. Second Sight
     
• Silver, Jim: Assumption of Risk
  
• Silver, Jim: Kill Zone
  
• Slade, Michael: Special X series
  
  1. Headhunter
     
  2. Ghoul
     
  3. Cutthroat
     
  4. Ripper
     
  5. Evil Eye
     
  6. Primal Scream
     
  7. Burnt Bones
     
  8. Hangman
     
  9. Death's Door
     
  10. Bed of Nails
      
  11. Swastika
      
• Slaughter, Karin: Grant County series
  
  1. Kisscut
     
  2. Blindsighted
     
  3. A Faint Cold Fear
     
  4. Indelible
     
  5. Faithless
     
  6. Beyond Reach
     
  7. Undone
     
• Slaughter, Karin: TripTych
  
• Smith, Mitchell: Sacrifice
  
• Smith, Rosamond: Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon
  
• Solomita, Stephen: No Control
  
• Spindler, Erica: Last Known Victim
  
• Starling, Boris: Messiah
  
• Stiefel, Vicki: Body Parts
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Tally Whyte series, listed under Spunky Women Sleuths)
  
• Stone, Jonathan: Parting Shot
  
• Straub, Peter: Blue Rose series
  
  1. Koko
     
  2. Mystery
     
  3. The Throat
     (short stories) The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories
     
• Sullivan, Mark T.: Ghost Dance
  
• Telushkin, Joseph & Estrin, Allen: Heaven's Witness
  
• Thayer, Steve: Pliny Pennington series
  
  1. The Wheat Field
     
  2. Wolf Pass
     
• Title, Elise: Romeo
  
• Vachss, Andrew: Burke series
  
  1. Flood
     
  2. Strega
     
  3. Blue Belle
     
  4. Hard Candy
     
  5. Blossom
     
  6. Sacrifice
     
  7. Down in the Zero
     
  8. Footsteps of the Hawk
     
  9. False Allegations
     
  10. Safe House
      
  11. Choice of Evil
      
  12. Dead and Gone
      
  13. Pain Management
      
  14. Only Child
      
  15. Down Here
      
  16. Mask Market
      
  17. Terminal
      
  18. Another Life
      
• Vance, Steve: Identity
  
• Waddell, Dan: Nigel Barnes series
  
  1. The Blood Detective
     
  2. Blood Atonement
     
• Walsh, Marcie & Malone, Michael: The Killing Club
  
• Walter, Jess: Over Tumbled Graves
  
• Warner, Jack: Shikar
  
• Wells, Dan: John Wayne Cleaver series
  
  1. I Am Not a Serial Killer
     
• White, Thomas: Clemson Yao series
  
  1. The Book of Matthew
     
• Wiltse, David: John Becker series
  
  1. Close to the Bone
     
  2. Prayer for the Dead
     
  3. The Edge of Sleep
     
  4. Into the Fire
     
  5. Bone Deep
     
  6. Blown Away
     
• Wright, Richard: A Father's Law