 | Dialogues of the Dead (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel) by Reginald Hill
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Hill's best book - clever, absolutely ingenious; like reading a blood-soaked 3D crossword
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 | The Treatment by Mo Hayder
Buy used from: £0.01 Simply an incredible book - Hayder is the brightest young British talent
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 | Mortal Fear by Greg Iles
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.03 One of the very few books I've read which really shocked and surprised me
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 | Postmortem (Dr Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: £0.93 / Used from: £0.01 A brilliant debut, and an truly excellent forensic thriller
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 | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Little needs be said here
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 | Messiah by Boris Starling
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Again, what needs saying?
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 | The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
Buy used from: £0.01 One of McDermid's greatest books
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 | Ashes To Ashes by Tami Hoag
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A searing thriller
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 | The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.01 This only just gets onto the list, as the serial killer aspects are really on the periphery - but it's still a brilliant book
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 | Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Since Fatal Voyage, which was brilliant, Reichs has been going downhill...This, though, it's first-class
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 | The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 I had a hard time picking the greatest Deaver - it was either this wonderful novel or The Bone Collector
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 | The Butcher's Theatre by Jonathan Kellerman
Buy used from: £0.01 Kellerman's greatest novel by a long way - Jerusalem is an inspired setting for a serial killer book
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 | Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid
Buy used from: £0.01 Another marvellous book from Val - a serial killer targets bestselling writers!
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 | The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 Bosch is marvellous here, in what is also probably Connelly's finest novel ever
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 | The Decoy by Tony Strong
Buy used from: £0.37 Strange, disturbing, original and very very dark
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 | Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus) by Ian Rankin
Buy used from: £0.01 This isn't quite Rankin's finest novel, but it's a great urban serial killer mystery
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 | The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw
Buy used from: £1.68 |
 | Point of Origin (Dr Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Although I've ranked this after Postmortem, this is actually my favourite book by Cornwell
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