Eight Bone-Chilling Mysteries & Thrillers About Stalkers
Stalkers abound in mystery suspense novels and crime fiction. There’s nothing creepier than a shadowy figure following an innocent person, or a killer carefully stalking his victims, waiting for the right moment to strike. If you’re looking for that spine-tingling sensation you get from reading about someone who doesn’t know they’re being watched, you’ll want to check out these eight books. From domestic thrillers to romantic suspense, these stories explore the disturbing world of stalkers—and the people who devote their lives to hunting them.
Bestselling author Michael Robotham turns the creep factor up as high as it'll go in this propulsive thriller. Marnie has always had the eerie sensation of being watched, and it only gets worse after her husband disappears. Desperate and depressed, she turns to psychologist Joe O'Loughlin for help. As they work through Marnie's past, a shocking truth reveals itself: someone has been killing off the people in Marnie's life, and Joe may be next.
The Night Stalker takes place during a sweltering London heat wave. Detective Erika Foster arrives at a murder scene to find the victim bound and suffocated. One such victim is bad enough, but soon Erika and her team find another body killed in the exact same manner. As Erika delves deeper into the case, she discovers a disturbing pattern: someone has been stalking their victims—all private, single men—before choosing the perfect moment to kill. Erika is determined to find the killer—but she may have to put her own life in danger in order to do so.
Veteran Camaro Espinoza lives a quiet life in Miami, running a charter fishing boat. She's a loner, and she likes it that way. But then Faith, a woman who's being stalked, asks Camaro to teach her self-defense. Camaro agrees, and soon she's got up in something much more dangerous than she anticipated: this isn't just any stalker, but someone who's been sent specifically to kill. It's up to Camaro to unravel a complex web of criminal activity before it's too late, and Faith's stalker achieves his goal.
Cat Delaney is starting over. Not only does she have a new heart, thanks to a medical miracle, but she's trading in her Hollywood persona for a life as a serious newscaster. She even meets a man, a cop turned crime writer, who sees her for the woman she is, and not just as a heart transplant patient. But then a series of strange accidents begin killing other heart patients. And a mysterious stalker walks into Cat's life. Suddenly her world becomes a web of secrets and betrayal, and she has no idea who she can trust. If you like this book, you'll also like Sandra Brown's small-town thriller Low Pressure.
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