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A New Kind of Scary
Blood, gore, fangs…we’ve all been scared by these things before. But this year, writers are serving up a whole new kind of scary. Check one out – and read it with the lights on…
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The werewolves in Los Angeles don’t need to wait for the full moon to change, and they are bent on domination. Kind-hearted dogcatcher must choose between saving the girl (werewolf!) he loves and solving a gruesome murder.
Art history and murder converge in the sixth thriller featuring Roman detective Nic Costa. After his wife is killed at a crime scene, Costa is taken off the case – but manages to stay involved to help art expert Sister Agata Graziano shed light on an alleged Caravaggio and an unpredictable killer.
With no trace of a killer car or a bloody prom, King still brings the chills in the story of Edgar Freemantle, recovering from an injury off Florida’s Gulf Coast. He befriends a neighbor and learns the chilling history of wealthy old Elizabeth Eastlake and of Duma Key.
The third in a series set in contemporary China (after The Firemaker and The Fourth Sacrifice) begins on a construction site, when the mutilated bodies of eighteen young women are uncovered. Complicating the mystery is the relationship between Deputy Section Chief Li Yan and pathologist Margaret Campbell.
Meyer takes a break from teen vampires to bring us a love triangle between a man, a woman, and the parasitic alien host inhabiting the woman’s mind.
A twist on the tortured werewolf tale. Marlowe Higgins, werewolf, detective, and burger-flipper, goes after a sadistic serial killer who leaves flowers in the victims’ eye sockets. Higgins may remind you of Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter; this werewolf is no puppy.
Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is reeling from her surprise divorce and caring for her acerbic elderly mother, and she can barely gather the staff to investigate a grisly murder. As the killings continue, Micallef puts herself increasingly in danger to stop the demented plot.
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KCPL's staff are devoted to helping you find the right book, video, or music to suit your tastes and regularly create thematic lists that you can find in our Reading, Viewing, Listening pages.
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