Kirjahaku

Convinced the beast that resided in Pennington's brain has been eradicated, the State of Georgia Appeals Board overturns Pennington Wentworth II's conviction for the murders of 12 people, and he returns to his life of leisure in his Atlanta Buckhead district penthouse condominium. Drinking fine wine, dining at Atlanta's best restaurants and dating beautiful young women, Pennington enjoys the return to the life he loved and would do anything to keep from going back to the hell that was prison.But a string of murders catches the attention of law enforcement, including the detectives that originally arrested Pennington, and the heinous killings have his murderous alter ego's signature all over them.Has The Bad Penny returned, is it a copycat killer, or are the killings even related?

Professor George Albert Fredrick Drummond has been living a double life full of contradictions for over forty years. Erudite student, professor, respected Edinburgh University department head, serial killer. Loyal son of God, supplicant of Satan.Drummond is a collector of serial killer memorabilia, sequestered in a secret room under the stairs. He scares his housekeeper from going into the room to clean and his secret is safe, at least until his best friend and former student, suspecting something is amiss, makes his way into the small room where standing in a decorative Japanese umbrella stand, he comes across a collection of walking sticks containing swords the professor has been using to murder, disembowel and decapitate victims for most of a lifetime.With a detective from England's (and one of the world's) greatest law enforcement departments, The National Crime Agency, hot on his trail, a thrilling chase through England, Japan, America's Big Apple and Napa Valley, ensues, while the international body count continues to rise, before the inevitable, yet surprising, end.

A virus is wreaking havoc on the planet and seems intent on killing almost everybody and everything. Experts predict that more than ninety-nine percent of the people on Earth will die. The virus shows no favorites. Only those who have an innate antibody will live.A small group of four survivors in New York City believe if they can get to Georgia, a thousand miles away, and pray in front of the Georgia Guidestones, they may be able to stop the virus and save the rest of the world's survivors....if there are any.At the same time a group of three determined people in Scotland think if they can prostrate themselves before Stonehenge in southern in England, not far from the English Channel, they too can save the themselves and the prospects of civilization.

A serial killer reminiscent of Brett Easton Ellis's Patrick Bateman of American Psycho is terrorizing the streets of New York City and provides inspiration to a world-renowned author who writes novels about serial killers. Unknown to each, though, they have a connection closer than that between brothers that falls on an NYPD informant, who with his friend and associate-in-training to discover. A darkly entertaining story set on New York's mean streets that provide the backdrop for the story that climbs at a high rate of speed to a surprisingly unpredictable conclusion.

Bookworm and Reefer are informants who assist the New York City Police Department in its search for and apprehension of violent criminals and murderers. Their ability to fit in on the street and walk unnoticed among people with criminal intent has served Detective Salvator Rossi repeatedly in his quest to rid the city of the worst of the criminal element. When a serial murderer who calls himself The Swordsman has the city living in fear Detective Rossi reaches out to the extensions of himself to fit into places he can't to identify The Swordsman and aid in bringing him to justice.