A woman accused of murdering her husband claimed she was possessed by his first wife in A Mind to Kill by Andrea Hart, while in Richard La Plante’s Mind Kill, a serial killer stalked his victims in their dreams. A psychic female criminal profiler tracked down a serial killer who took his victim’s eyes in Joseph Glass’ aptly-titled Eyes, and a psychic journalist investigated the death of a colleague in Second Sight by Beth Amos.

The spirit of a dead serial killer returned in Kimberly Rangel’s The Homecoming, a woman’s paintings were connected to a serial killer in Retribution by Elizabeth Forrest (Rhondi Salsitz), and the victim of a recently-released serial killer was apparently reincarnated in a musician in Roxanne Conrad’s Copper Moon.

A serial killer menaced a near-future Glasgow in Paul Johnston’s The Bone Yard, and The Coffin Maker by Jeffery Deaver featured quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhymes matching wits with a killer who planned to eliminate three important witnesses in a grand jury trial. Will Kingdom’s The Cold Calling was a police procedural involving yet another serial killer, as was Shaun Hutson’s Purity.

In The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther by Australian writer Andrew Masterton, a priest was suspected of being a brutal serial killer, while an isolated boarding house for children and a religious cult based on sex and the authority of a messianic figure featured in Carmel Bird’s Red Shoes, another down-under novel, this one narrated by a guardian angel.

A woman about to commit suicide found an unconscious angel on the roof of her Manhattan apartment in Nancy A. Collins’ romantic dark fantasy Angels on Fire. The eponymous prince of Hell inhabited a dead body in James Byron Huggins’ Cain, and demon detectives set out to recover stolen crystal orbs in Camille Bacon-Smith’s Eyes of the Empress.