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Beth is a new mother struggling to find her place in the world. She is exhausted, mentally and physically, but her anxieties are not simply the fears of a first-time mum. A terror burns in her, fuelled by a secret past she is lucky to have escaped. When a letter arrives, bearing only the infinity symbol, Beth knows immediately it is from them. And that her past is finally catching up with her… Ten years earlier, on the heels of a messy breakup, Beth meets the effervescent Marissa who introduces her to Elixir, a health and wellness organization that she promises will change Beth's life forever.

Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright used to say, but he forgot to add they can be dangerous too, especially if they've fallen on hard times - as Diana Taverner learns when the past lands on her desk. An operation carried out during the height of the Troubles laid bare the ugly side of state security, and those involved are threatening to expose details. But every threat hides an opportunity, and the would-be blackmailer is soon being used as Taverner's solution to a much newer problem.

Ein Haus in einem alten Geisterdorf in Italien, ein Traum, der zum Albtraum wird ... Ein Haus in Italien für einen Euro: Für die deutsche Architektin Tilda ist die verfallene Villa auf Sardinien ein Glücksgriff. Sie will alle Brücken hinter sich abbrechen und stürzt sich in die Renovierung. Doch die vermeintliche Idylle des verwinkelten Ortes trügt. Ist das Geisterdorf wirklich so verlassen, wie es den Anschein hat? Sonntags läuten die Glocken, und Unbekannte behaupten, ein Fluch liege auf Tildas Haus.

The women of Harrington Estates don't just sell homes, they sell dreams. And founder Amanda Harrington isn't just a woman - she's a brand. A star of the real estate and mumfluencer world, she expects only the best from her team. But behind the perfect façade, cracks are beginning to show. New arrival Bella is causing tension with her constant success, including securing the listing of a coveted £50 million mansion from dishy developer Simon - and she's been stepping on some toes in her Louboutins to get there.

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice. When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior.

All Jay wants is to start again, to set himself up in a small, quiet town where no one knows him. Because here, no one will let him forget what they think he did the day his neighbour died in Flat 401. He just needs to keep doing what he's always done: treat people with kindness and respect, and try to stay out of trouble. But when a threatening note makes its way into the hostel he's forced to call home - Everyone is going to know what you really did - his hope for a fresh start begins to crumble.

Edna Worthley Underwood was born in Maine in 1873. Her first published work was a collaborative translation of materials by Nikolai Gogol. Her talents included both translating (she was an expert linguist), poetry and noted author of short stories. By the 1940’s her literary efforts ceased and, after being admitted to a sanitorium for dementia in 1953, died several years later.

Bei zwei Tötungsdelikten und einem Vermisstenfall während der EXPO 2000 wird die Cold Case Unit in Hannover vom OFA-Team des LKA Niedersachsen bei ihren Ermittlungen unterstützt. Die Fallanalyse kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Qualität der Tatausführung auf einen Serienmörder schließen lässt.

Chicago, 1987. Home of mediocre baseball teams, gangs that rule the streets, and a Mexican drug cartel that supplies the city with heroin. Chicago Police Detective Marcelle DeSantis and her partner, Bernie Bernardelli, are working a series of heroin-related murders, and their job just got more complicated. The man who sabotaged the Vietnam operation, Robert Thornton, is now the chief enforcer for a Southeast Asian heroin cartel, and after fifteen years overseas he's arrived in Chicago to eliminate the reigning cartel and seize control of the city's heroin trade.

Nach einem grausamen Fund ermittelt das Duo Eichborn und Wagner wieder ‒ und macht Jagd auf die Russenmafia. Eine Baugrube wird ausgehoben. Sterbliche Überreste, die zu sieben Kindern gehören, werden entdeckt. Ein Peilsender am Fundort der Leichen führt zu einem ehemaligen Beamten des BKA: Nicolas Eichborn. Er erkennt eine der Toten aus der Baugrube wieder – ein junges Mädchen, das ihm vor sechs Jahren bei seinen Ermittlungen gegen die Russenmafia geholfen hat.

Daniel hatte das perfekte Leben: eine schöne Freundin, einen tollen Job, eine bezahlbare Wohnung. Doch vor zwanzig Jahren wurde er Zeuge von etwas, das er niemals hätte sehen dürfen. Und jetzt wird er von der Erinnerung an diesen Moment heimgesucht. Der fürchterliche Schrei. Das Platschen von etwas Schwerem, das ins Wasser fällt. Sein Freund, der von seinem Vater ermordet wird. Die Erinnerung kehrt immer wieder zurück und macht ihn langsam, aber sicher verrückt. Und jetzt hat er deswegen auch noch Freundin, Job und Wohnung verloren.

"Männer kommen mir nur noch in die Tüte, wenn diese ein Leichensack ist!" Auf Romantik und Liebe reagiert Helen höchstens mit Ausschlag, sicher nicht mit Herzchen in den Augen. Einen Mann nackt aus der Oper werfen zu lassen, ist hingegen amüsant – jedenfalls solange er sich davon in die Flucht schlagen lässt. Leider gibt es da einen Kerl, den schon Außerirdische entführen müssten, um ihn von Helens Spur abzubringen. Endlich bearbeitet Robert einen Ermittlungsfall, der nichts mit fliegenden Pfannen, keifenden Frauen und doppelripptragenden Sexgöttern zu tun hat.

Ein grausiges Verbrechen und nur ein Kind als Zeuge. Neben der Leiche von Marissa Fordham wird ihre kleine Tochter gefunden - schwer verletzt, aber wenigstens noch am Leben. Detective Tony Mendez und die Kinderanwältin Anne Leone tauchen in das Verbrechen ein. Detail um Detail aus Marissas Leben kommt ans Licht, bis sie auf ein Geheimnis stoßen, das sie unmittelbar ins Visier des Killers manövriert. Denn was er zu verbergen sucht, ist die Tatsache, dass es in Wirklichkeit nie eine Marissa Fordham gab ...

De gruwelijke, maar waargebeurde moord op Elizabeth Short drijft de agenten Bleichert en Blanchard van afschuw tot complete waanzin. Een absolute misdaadklassieker. In 1947 wordt Los Angeles opgeschrikt door de vondst van het zwaar verminkte lijk van een jonge actrice. 'De Zwarte Dahlia’ beheerst wekenlang de krantenkoppen, net als de levens van rechercheurs Bucky Bleichert en Lee Blanchard – collega’s, vrienden, rivalen. De zoektocht naar Elizabeth Short's moordenaar voert ze langs de schaduwkanten van het naoorlogse Hollywood, en de zwarte randen van hun eigen duistere verlangens.

Patrick Spain e i suoi due bambini vengono ritrovati morti in un complesso residenziale mezzo abbandonato per colpa della crisi. Jenny, la madre, è in fin di vita. All'inizio Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, incaricato delle indagini, pensa alla soluzione piú scontata: un padre sommerso dai debiti, travolto dalla recessione, ha tentato di uccidere i propri cari e si è tolto la vita. Ma ci sono troppi elementi che non quadrano: le telecamere nascoste nell'appartamento, i file cancellati su uno dei computer e il fatto che Jenny temesse che qualcuno fosse entrato in casa loro per spiarli.

Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard.

The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed, best-selling author in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability.

Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he needs you to listen. You'll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder. He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family. And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair.

His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes… Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She’s got an elderly victim who’d just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he’d left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition.