As part of the search for a serial killer nicknamed "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him. That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. Clarice must steel herself to endure Dr. Lecter's manipulation and demands in order to access...

Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller, 'Sleeping beauty, ' a true-crime account of the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss the startling developments that occurred after his book was published, which involve Ashley Spencer, the only other person who survived an attack by this merciless killer. Six years earlier, life was much simpler...

In the dead of night he performs his profane ceremony. He arranges the body. He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead. Then he lights the match. 'Ashes to Ashes'. The newspapers have dubbed him the Cremator. The city is in uproar. But as he strikes the match over his third victim, he has a witness, a teenage runaway who sees the cremator's face in the flickering light of the pyre. Advocate Kate Conlan struggles to unlock the motivation of her chief...

A killer seduces women on ocean cruises and the heroine, psychologist Susan Chandler, decides to get him. She uses her radio program to contact women who escaped his clutches, unaware he has heard the program and is coming after her.

Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates a series of three murders while dodging gang members infuriated with her most recent courtroom victory. The investigation leads to someone who has a twisted obsession with the military, and things grow even more dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.

Special Agent Daniel Vartanian vows to find the serial killer whose crimes mimic a thirteen-year-old case. His only leads are some photographs that belonged to the ruthless murderer who was his brother. But Daniel will delve into a mind even more sinister...

Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.

It's a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits. Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is more than just child's play, and this...

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women -- a mother, a sister, a homicide detective -- we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring...

Lacey Sherlock's life is forever changed when her older sister's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse. She is the fourth victim of the String Killer, the name given by the media to a murderer who leads his victims into a maze with a ball of twine. Seven years after Belinda's death, Lacey, now an FBI agent, is paired up with computer whiz Dillon Savitch, who has developed a predictive program to aid in the apprehension of serial killers.