Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge.
One by one, the 31 members of a Manhattan tontine are dying in a bizarre series of "suicides" and violent accidents. Private eye Matt Scudder is hired to identify the murderer before the terrible scheme reaches its bloody and seemingly inevitable conclusion.
James True was not there when he died. He returned from an out-of-body experience to find that he’d been murdered and mutilated. He had no body to go back to. But who murdered him? The serial killer terrorizing the city—or someone closer? True had no enemies, at least none that he knew of. To discover the truth, James True must track down his killer. The initial horror of True’s experience is followed by an even greater terror. . .his family are the murderer’s next targets.
A mystery novel featuring wise-cracking female private investigator, Kinsey Millhone. Kinsey has been hired to stop a killing, but the murderer of Bobby Callahan didn't care and the least Kinsey could do was to find his killer.
Someone is targeting the city's magic practitioners, the members of the supernatural underclass who don't possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Many have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But the murderer has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes--a message for Harry Dresden, referencing the book of Exodus and the killing of witches.
