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Brother and sister Peter and Adele Robinson never stood a chance. Dragged up by an alcoholic, violent father, and a weak, beaten mother, their childhood in Manchester only prepared them for a life of crime and struggle. Getting more and more immersed in the murky world of crime and gangs, his close bonds with Adele gradually loosen until they look set to break altogether. But old habits die hard, and one devastating night, Adele is forced to confront her violent past.

Fanget i en rigmands soveværelse overværer indbrudstyven Luther Whitney et brutalt overfald og mord på millionærens unge kone. Overfaldsmanden er USA's præsident. Whitney flygter med en blodig papirkniv, der kan forbinde præsidenten til mordet, og snart er han jaget vildt. Jack Graham er en succesrig advokat for finansverdenens top. Alligevel bliver han blandet ind i den lyssky affære, da Whitney kontakter ham. Med kontakten følger et møde med Whitneys datter, en idealistisk kvinde og Jacks tidligere forlovede. Jack kastes ud i et kapløb mod tiden for at afsløre magtens korruption.

DS George Cross's father, Raymond, always takes an annual holiday in a local care home. He enjoys the company it brings him. He busies himself repairing the residents' wheelchairs and has become their self-appointed tech guru. But this time it's different. A new arrival causes a stir – he's convinced one of the older residents, suffering with dementia, is the man who killed his father decades before. The staff say it has to be a mistake, but after Cross investigates, he discovers that a similar murder really did take place.

David North was convicted of murdering his fiancée. To the rest of the courtroom, it was an open-and-shut case. But as DS George Cross sees the man smile as he's led away from sentencing, he becomes certain something crucial had been missed. After all, two partners dead within six years of each other couldn't be a coincidence. What really happened to North's ex-wife? As Cross takes on this new cold case, he encounters an insurmountable obstacle: the body he's looking into has been cremated.

Es gibt ungewöhnliche Fälle – und dann gibt es Fälle, die man nie wieder vergisst … Die Geschichte, die Privatdetektivin und Ex-Polizistin Kinsey Millhone von ihrem neuesten Klienten aufgetischt wird, klingt so abenteuerlich wie abwegig: Ein mörderischer Angriff auf einer einsamen Landstraße, ein Aufprall am Fuß einer 100 Meter tiefen Schlucht, zwei Wochen Koma und das Gedächtnis voller Lücken; der angehende Arzt Bobby Callahan ist überzeugt, dass er nur mit knapper Not einen Mordanschlag überlebt hat.

Aloysius Archer er en ærlig mand, han er krigsveteran fra Anden Verdenskrig, og så er han netop blevet prøveløsladt efter at have været fængslet for en forbrydelse, han ikke havde begået. Udstyret med en lang liste med regler for prøveløsladte begynder han sit nye liv i Poca City. Han får et job som gældsinddriver for byens største forretningsmand. Men jobbet viser sig ikke at være så ligetil, som det ser ud.

Rookie private detective, Jack Hammer (no relation to Mike) is hired by an attractive, Eastern European refugee to track down her missing uncle. Slow to engage, Jack assumes the uncle is simply off on a bender at the local pool hall...until he discovers that somebody has broken into her house, beaten her to a pulp, and left her body floating fully clothed in her own bathtub.

Jackie wacht in einer Irrenanstalt auf. Gefangen in einem tödlichen Albtraum, der ihre schlimmsten Befürchtungen Realität werden lässt, kämpft sie verzweifelt um ihr Leben. Kommissar Karl Breuer und Psychologe Dr. Johannes Hornoff sind auf der Jagd nach einem Serienkiller. Mit jedem Schritt, den sie ihm näher kommen, geraten sie selbst in seine Fänge.

Bernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the mind of his fellow inmates. Lennart Oscarsson has a situation. The worst scenario imaginable for the head of Aspsås prison's department for sexual crimes. These two men's actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm's history.

Piet Hoffmann is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. When a drug deal he is involved in goes badly wrong, he must face the hardest mission of his life – infiltrating Sweden’s most infamous maximum-security prison.Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffman’s real identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath.

When a string of grisly murders begins painting the city in terror, DI Henley soon realise a vigilante killer is scalping their victims before leaving them for dead. Henley is thrust into a web of secrets, unravelling connections between the victims while battling demons from her own past. As the killer raises the stakes, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. With time slipping away and her own life in jeopardy, Henley must outwit a psychopath who views murder as an art form.

When Clio – a former actress and current struggling private detective – manages to score a key role in the town’s Christmas pantomime, she’s secretly delighted. At last, perhaps, her talents will be recognized? It’s all going dramatically well, until their esteemed director is found murdered on the opening night. And Clio knows it’s up to her to find out who the mistletoe murderer is. She knows her best chance of capturing the culprit is to bring her best friends Amber and Jeanie into the cast. Even if the best way to sneak them in is to carefully conceal them both in a pantomime cow costume.

After being summoned to a crime scene late one Friday afternoon, Detective Mark Turpin arrives to find the body of a man, his face obscured by a plastic sheet wrapped around his head. When the victim’s final moments are traced to a rented property in the Oxfordshire countryside, Mark discovers another body, one that has been brutally cut to pieces and left to rot.

Eleven years ago, Los Angeles was terrorized by The Sandman, a serial killer who claimed at least twelve women's lives. Young FBI Agent Constantine 'Con' Striker stopped him, but not before enduring a devastating personal loss—his twin sister, Valerie, vanished. He believes that his sister was one of The Sandman's victims. Even after a decade on death row and confessing to twelve murders, The Sandman denies knowing Valerie Striker. Desperate for closure, Con demands the killer reveal where his sister's remains are buried. But The Sandman refuses to talk.

Schnell findet das Team um die Hauptkommissare Lukas Sommer und Robert Drosten heraus, dass der Maler Blut benutzt, um seine Kunstwerke zu vollenden. Unter Zeitdruck versuchen die Polizisten, eine Spur zum Blutmaler zu finden, denn er hat bereits das nächste Opfer entführt. Ohne sich gegen ihn wehren zu können, liegt eine junge Frau von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten in einem dunklen Zimmer und wartet auf ihren Peiniger.

Oklahoma, 1965. Emmett Hardy is focused on drinking his failures away. And despite his general enthusiasm for the social reforms sweeping the country, the disillusioned police chief isn't surprised by his community's ongoing casual racism. But he's still shocked when he discovers the body of a Black woman with a slashed throat dumped by the railroad tracks.

Op haar zestiende weet Nina Guerrera uit de klauwen van een seriemoordenaar te ontkomen. Jaren later gaat een filmpje van het incident viral en daar kan maar een iemand achter zitten. Het levert niet alleen talloze nieuwe bewonderaars op voor haar gevechtskunsten, maar het bewijst ook dat de man die haar elf jaar geleden probeerde te ontvoeren niet van opgeven weet.

Seventeen years ago, two boys committed an unthinkable crime and vanished into new identities under witness protection. Now, a series of brutal attacks on women is shaking the city, and Ravn's client fears his old friend is the perpetrator. As Ravn digs deeper, he's drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide.

Born to the secretive, prepper enclave on the other side of Red Sky Hill, Adah Lee has no birth certificate, no social security number, and no school records. To the outside world, she simply doesn't exist. So when she's kidnapped on her seventeenth birthday, it might just be the perfect crime. Only this girl means something to someone dangerous.

Angela Wood, una auténtica maestra del carterismo, acaba de terminar su jornada: 687 dólares. Mientras celebra con un cóctel lo rentable que ha sido su día, es testigo de cómo uno de los clientes del bar está siendo borde con un hombre mayor, y decide darle una lección robándole su elegante bolso de cuero. En su interior no hay portátil… ni dinero… ni nada que tenga valor. Al menos para Angela. Solo hay un libro negro, encuadernado en piel y sorprendentemente pesado.