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The girls walk arm-in-arm, laughing through the quiet late-night streets of Manchester Bay, celebrating their homecoming weekend. But arriving home, the laughter dies. Their best friend Cami lies still on the floor, hair splayed on the carpet, and rope marks all around her throat… When university student Cami Margot is found murdered, Agent Tori Hunter and Detective Will Braddock are among the first on the scene. For Tori, the image of this smart young woman with her whole life ahead of her being hunted down is instantly seared in her mind.

She’s writing your story. She knows your secrets. She’ll kill to keep them. Alani Fairchild just landed her dream job. Isabelle Croft wants Alani to write her memoir, revealing all about her star-studded life as an actress and spiling the secrets that bind her picture-perfect family. And she will pay Alani whatever it takes to make her say yes. Gravel crunching beneath her sneakers, Alani pretends not to see Isabelle watching her from an upstairs window of her beachfront home. Something tells her she’s made a terrible mistake.

She married my ex-husband. They're living in my house. One of us won't make it out alive... I share a house with my ex-husband, Ben. A floor each, a schedule for taking turns to use the kitchen. It may sound odd but it’s all perfectly amicable. Then his new wife moves in… Yasmin breezes in on a cloud of expensive perfume, and it’s clear Ben is besotted. But her perfect veneer soon starts to crack. I know she's been in my room. And I realise I have more to fear than I’d ever imagined… Then Ben disappears, and I’m alone in the house with her. I hear a noise in our basement.

Julia Bird is as keen as anyone in Berrywick to see inside the famous Greystone Manor. But when she does, the last thing she expects to find is a body! When Julia Bird is asked to clear out the gatehouse at Greystone Manor after the sudden death of Colonel Loxton’s sister, she is intrigued to finally see inside the impressive house. But when she discovers the body of the Colonel, who greeted her only hours before, dead behind the sofa with a bruise on his forehead, Julia believes his death is no accident.

He came home to escape his past. Now it’s back to haunt him. Crouched over the body of a young woman in the mud, her glassy eyes reflecting the glowing Manchester skyline, DI Vincent Swann feels a familiar chill creep his spine. Home after his last case almost cost him his life, he knows he can’t trouble the waters with his new team. But the pram tracks leading away from the scene mean a killer didn’t just take a life. He took a child…

Was ist mit der Familie passiert, die vor uns hier gewohnt hat? Und sind wir als Nächstes dran? Der Einzug in dieses wunderschöne Haus sollte ein Neuanfang für meine Familie sein. Doch jetzt halte ich die hastig geschriebene Warnung, die ich im oberen Stockwerk gefunden habe, in meinen zitternden Händen: Etwas Schreckliches ist den Leuten zugestoßen, die vorher hier gewohnt haben. Laut meinem Mann Christian sind wir aber die ersten Bewohner dieses Hauses. Nur woher kommt dann dieser Zettel? Christian rät mir, die komische Notiz zu vergessen.

Ich werde dich immer beschützen. Das waren die Worte, die meine Mutter jede Nacht vor dem Einschlafen zu mir sagte. Und jedes Mal, wenn wir unser kleines, abgelegenes Dorf verließen. Ich habe nie richtig verstanden, wovor sie solche Angst hatte. Doch jetzt weiß ich es. Als ich klein war, hat meine Mutter alles versucht, um mich vor der Wahrheit zu schützen. Aber sie hat versagt. Ich weiß genau, was vor achtzehn Jahren passiert ist. Wessen Tochter ich bin.

From the dark shadows of the water, a hand appears, pale and cold. Katie locks eyes with the woman she’s been searching for, her once-beautiful face now crusted with salt and etched with pain. "Please…" she whispers, "I'm going to die…” Working late one evening, Detective Katie Scott crosses the dimly lit parking lot alone to find a small white box left on the passenger seat of her car, a manicured and perfectly preserved finger within. Choked by fear, Katie can’t tell if it’s a dark message, or a deadly threat. But if this twisted individual wanted her attention, they’ve got it.

Mein Mann hat mich betrogen. Ich brauche diese Auszeit mit meinen Freundinnen, die in den letzten Monaten mein Fels in der Brandung waren. Doch auf dem Weg nach Schottland ruft mich mein Mann an und macht mir ein schockierendes Geständnis: Seine Geliebte ist mit auf der Reise. Er will mir nicht sagen, wer es ist, sondern fleht mich nur an, nach Hause zu kommen.

On the outside, Nadia Jacobs is a cool, confident architect at the top of her game. But for the past decade, she’s been quietly building walls to keep the people she loves most at arm’s length. All because of him. Thomas Donato sacrificed everything when he forced Nadia to keep a dangerous secret from everyone they knew. He did it to protect his family. But it cost him the woman he’s secretly loved since they were kids. Now he wants back into Nadia’s life. Nadia’s heart does a familiar skip-and-stumble when met with his hesitant smile, but she sees through his bravado: Thomas is alone.

After my sister was killed, my parents vowed never to return to this place. But I made a promise to uncover the truth. And now that I’m back, her killer has nowhere to hide. Standing in the impressive hallway of this luxury holiday home, it’s hard to imagine our little house once stood here. Someone wanted to bury the ghosts of the past when they built the glass house and tourists come for miles to stay here. I’ve planned every detail of this trip and made certain the locals won’t recognise me. It’s the only way I might get them to talk.

Vor zehn Jahren hat er meinen Sohn getötet. Heute habe ich ihn geheiratet. Vor zehn Jahren wurde mein geliebter Sohn Jesse ermordet und unsere perfekte Familie zerstört. Mein starker, hübscher Junge, so voller Leben, wurde zu einer Erinnerung, einem Foto, das ich immer bei mir trug. Doch heute bin ich meinem Glück endlich wieder ganz nahe. Mein aschblondes Haar ist zu Locken gedreht. Sorgfältig angebrachte weiße Blumen umrahmen meine zarten Gesichtszüge.

She has everything I’ve ever wanted. First, I’ll take her name. Then, I’ll steal her life… I turn my head and stare at the woman lying in the hospital bed next to mine. She has long brown hair, high cheekbones and dark eyes. She looks so much like me, we could easily be mistaken for one another. And that’s how we ended up here. I planned it. Freya has the kind of life that most people would kill for–more money than she knows what to do with and the freedom to spend her days as she chooses. But I don’t think she deserves any of it.

Jodie dotes on her husband and two teenagers. Racing home from a shift at the hospital to cook dinner, or tracking their phones to make sure they’re safe, she’s always putting her family first. But she doesn’t always tell the truth… She’s worked too hard to build this cookie-cutter life and will do anything to protect it.

When Special Agent Nikki Hunt walks into the local bakery, she can’t believe the terrifying scene inside. Owner, Claire, is in floods of tears and trembling, the bloodied blond hair of her two young shop assistants peeking out from beneath the white sheets covering them. Nikki immediately panics as she hears Stillwater police whispering that her brother-in-law, Mark, might be the killer…

The mother-in-law: Carol has planned a weekend of home-cooked dinners and cocktails on the deck getting to know her new son-in-law. But then she sees the way handsome Owen grips her daughter Gina’s arm too tightly. She knew Gina got married too fast. And Carol will make sure Owen wants for nothing while she uncovers all his lies.

Twelve years ago, Detective Alexandra Marshall crawled out of her own grave—beaten and broken, with no memory of how she got there and a symbol carved into her skin that she doesn’t understand. The only survivor, she will never forget the piercing screams of the four girls who lost their lives that day. But when two women are murdered and another is abducted from the mist-shrouded pine forests around the little mountain town of Newport, symbols left on the bodies, Alex knows the killer that has haunted her for years has returned…

Als Louise Sullivan ihren kleinen Sohn zum Haus seines neuen Freundes bringt, weiß sie noch nicht, dass sich ihr Leben–und das ihrer Familie–bald radikal verändern wird. Denn nachdem sie durch die beeindruckend großen Eingangstore fährt und die luxuriöse Villa betritt, trifft sie zum ersten Mal Darcy Lane.

Pulling my husband’s favorite lasagna from the oven, I see he’s glued to his phone again. He shifts his chair, hiding his screen from my view. Without looking up, he asks about work and I quickly come up with a story about my day. Of course, I’m lying. I never went to work. And when I hear the ping of my email, fear and guilt make my face flush pink.

Es ist der Tag, auf den ich mein ganzes Leben gewartet habe. Als ich in meinem perlenbesetzten Kleid den blumenübersäten Gang hinunterschreite, erblicke ich endlich meinen Verlobten Nik. Wir wirken wie das perfekte Paar. Auf den Bänken erkenne ich nicht ein einziges bekanntes Gesicht. Ich bin von Fremden umgeben. Ich habe mich so darauf gefreut, endlich die Familie meines Verlobten kennenzulernen. Warum wenden sie dann ihre Köpfe ab, während ich mich dem Altar nähere?