When Girls Next Door Kill

When Girls Next Door Kill
Author: Iris Owen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539149040

In 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was tortured and killed by four teenage girls led by Melinda Loveless. Caught in a lesbian love triangle, the four girls would torture the young Shanda and burn her alive. The case would shock the picturesque town in southern Indiana and make national headlines, making an entire nation ask "why?"

Death and the Girl Next Door

Death and the Girl Next Door
Author: Darynda Jones
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312625200

Lorelei struggles to avoid the unhealthy attentions of stalker Cameron Lusk, who clashes with alluring newcomer Jared and who Darynda suspects may know the truth about her parents' disappearance.

The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door
Author: Jack Ketchum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Horror tales
ISBN: 9780843955439

A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.

Cruel Sacrifice

Cruel Sacrifice
Author: Aphrodite Jones
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780786010639

On a freezing January in 1992, five teenage girls crowded into a car. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. The fifth had been tortured and mutilated nearly beyond recognition. Her name was Shanda Sharer; her age-twelve. When the people of Madison, Indiana heard that a brutal murder had been committed in their midst, they were stunned. Then the story became even more bizarre. The four accused murderers were all girls under the age of eighteen: Melinda Loveless, Laurle Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Tonl Lawrence. Here, for the first time, veteran true crime journalist Aphrodite Jones reveals the shocking truth behind the most savage crime in Indiana history-a tragic story of twisted love and insane jealousy, lesbianism, brutal child abuse, and sadistic ritual killing in small-town America...and of the young innocent who paid the ultimate price.

The Couple Next Door

The Couple Next Door
Author: Shari Lapena
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0735221111

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Not a Happy Family “The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages.” —People “I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!” —Sue Grafton It all started at a dinner party. . . A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors—a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years. What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family—a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.

The Boy Next Door

The Boy Next Door
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 163
Release: 1996-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0671894323

Lauren and Crystal would do anything to get to go out with Scott. But neither of them realize that Scott's last girlfriend is dead.

Bind, Torture, Kill

Bind, Torture, Kill
Author: Roy Wenzl
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0061739111

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"—for "bind them, torture them, kill them"—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media. The nation was shocked when the fiend who was finally apprehended turned out to be Dennis Rader—a friendly neighbor . . . a devoted husband . . . a helpful Boy Scout dad . . . the respected president of his church. Written by four award-winning crime reporters who covered the story for more than twenty years, Bind, Torture, Kill is the most intimate and complete account of the BTK nightmare told by the people who were there from the beginning. With newly released documents, evidence, and information—and with the full cooperation, for the very first time, of the Wichita Police Department’s BTK Task Force—the authors have put all the pieces of the grisly puzzle into place, thanks to their unparalleled access to the families of the killer and his victims.

Deacon of Death

Deacon of Death
Author: Fred Rosen
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1504022653

Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author of Lobster Boy. By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, a respected neighbor to many, and a devoted husband and father. But after the sun set, he became something else: a violent attacker—and killer—of prostitutes. Smithers’s twisted double life came to light when a local woman who had hired him to take care of her property found him in her garage, cleaning an ax—and then discovered a puddle of blood. Through exclusive interviews with Smithers’s wife, who described her spouse as nothing but a doting husband and father, author Fred Rosen learned why this man of God, raised in an intensely religious Tennessee home, was the last person anyone would suspect of committing these savage crimes. Rosen reveals the details behind the deaths of Christy Cowan and Denise Roach after Smithers picked them up in Tampa—and the fate of a man who seemed holier than thou, but was actually guilty as sin.

The Killer Next Door

The Killer Next Door
Author: Alex Marwood
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698177827

“The Killer Next Door is even better [than The Wicked Girls]. Scary as hell. Great characters.” —Stephen King Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Everyone who lives at 23 Beulah Grove has a secret. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be renting rooms in a sketchy South London building for cash—no credit check, no lease. It’s the kind of place you end up when you you’ve run out of other options. The six residents mostly keep to themselves, but one unbearably hot summer night, a terrible accident pushes them into an uneasy alliance. What they don’t know is that one of them is a killer. He’s already chosen his next victim, and he’ll do anything to protect his secret. Alex Marwood’s debut novel The Wicked Girls earned her lavish praise from the likes of Elizabeth Haynes, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly and received the Edgar Award. Now, Marwood’s back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how well do you know your neighbors? “Taut, assured and reminiscent of Ruth Rendell's psychological novels, Marwood's second book more than lives up to the promise shown in her splendid debut, The Wicked Girls.” —The Guardian

Women who Kill

Women who Kill
Author: Ann Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1996
Genre: Murder
ISBN: 9780807067758

A study of women murderers in America from precolonial times to the present reveals a social history of the United States in terms of the women who murdered and their crimes.