Ruby has killed three people, but somehow the murder she is being accused of is the one she didn’t commit. When her husband Jason dies, the police start looking at Ruby, and suddenly everything she has managed to keep buried becomes a problem.

What makes this one interesting is that Ruby isn’t written as some emotionless monster. She’s a therapist, she loves animals, she has friends and she loved her husband. The story moves between the investigation into Jason’s death and Ruby’s memories of the people she actually did kill.

Seattle was once terrorized by a serial killer known as the Beacon Hill Butcher. Police chief Edward Shank supposedly killed him in 1985, and that should have been the end of it.

Decades later, Shank gives his house to his grandson Matt. While working on the property, Matt finds something that makes him question what really happened all those years ago. At the same time, Matt’s girlfriend Sam has her own reason for doubting the official story. Her mother was murdered two years after the Butcher was supposedly dead.

I’ve read this one and gave it 4 stars.

Scarlett Clark is an English professor at Gorman University who has been getting away with murder for years. She chooses men she believes deserve it, plans their deaths carefully and then goes right back to her normal life.

But the university has started noticing the growing body count, which makes Scarlett’s latest plan a lot riskier. The book also follows freshman Carly Schiller and her roommate Allison. After something terrible happens to Allison, Carly begins thinking about revenge in a way that starts bringing the two sides of the story closer together.

This one is less about figuring out who the killer is because you already know. The tension comes from watching Scarlett try to keep getting away with it.

A 60-year-old handyman is caught after abducting, torturing and killing multiple people. Once he is in custody, everyone wants to know the same thing: why did he do it?

He refuses to tell his story to the police or the media. The only person he is willing to talk to is his estranged son, which means his son is about to learn a lot more about his father than he ever wanted to know.

Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner on a flight from London to Boston. After a few drinks, Ted tells her that his wife is cheating on him and jokes that he could kill her.

Lily doesn’t laugh it off. She tells him she’d like to help.

What Ted doesn’t know is that Lily has a history with murder, so what starts as a drunken conversation quickly turns into something very real. From there, secrets start piling up and it becomes harder to tell who is actually in control.

Lou Ford is a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town, and almost everyone thinks he’s a nice, boring guy. That’s exactly the image he wants people to see.

Underneath it, Lou is violent, manipulative and already responsible for multiple deaths. Because the story stays close to Lou’s point of view, you get an uncomfortable look at how easily someone dangerous can hide behind a completely ordinary reputation.