Book Playlist

Dangerous Impulses Playlist

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 26, 2026

Tense electronic pulses, shadowy instrumentals, and wintry textures evoke the interconnected crime scenes and the UNSUB’s snowbound presence, while warmer songs reflect the team’s Christmas-season closeness and matchmaking. The vocal half turns toward longing and guarded affection, especially Veronica’s struggle between what she wants and what her past allows her to risk.

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Track List

20 songs

1

God Moving Over the Face of the Waters

Moby · Everything Is Wrong

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2

Emerald Rush

Jon Hopkins · Singularity

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3

First Breath After Coma

Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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4

An Ending (Ascent) - Remastered 2019

Brian Eno · Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks (Extended Edition)

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5

Winter Song

Sara Bareilles · The Hotel Café presents... Winter Songs

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6

Christmas Lights

Coldplay · Christmas Lights

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7

Love Will Tear Us Apart - 2020 Remaster

Joy Division · Love Will Tear Us Apart

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8

The Scientist

Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head

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9

Wicked Game

Chris Isaak · Heart Shaped World

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10

I Know It's Over - 2011 Remaster

The Smiths · The Queen Is Dead

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11

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Kate Bush · Hounds Of Love

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12

Lover, You Should've Come Over

Jeff Buckley · Grace

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13

Poison & Wine

The Civil Wars · Barton Hollow

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14

Somebody Else

The 1975 · I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

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15

Persona

Rival Consoles · Persona

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16

Looped

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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17

In the Fog III

Tim Hecker · Ravedeath, 1972

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18

Olson

Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children

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19

Sphere of No-Form

Biosphere · Substrata 2

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20

Raven

GoGo Penguin · A Humdrum Star

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