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Lagos, Nigeria. A city with a population pushing twenty million, but government black ops agent James Xu is only interested in one man. In a rundown seaside bar damp with humidity he confronts Jimmy Neak, a lowly deckhand set to make a voyage on an international freighter across the Gulf of Guinea in a few short hours. Time is of the essence; U.S. military intelligence fears the Cambodian American has been radicalised in the aftermath of his brother’s violent death. They task Xu with finding out why.

Halloween nat får Maja et uhyggeligt opkald på børnetelefonens nattelinje, hvor hun arbejder som frivillig ved siden af sit job som skolelærer. Samme nat henter Rolando Benito sit barnebarn Marianna fra en halloweenfest i Hornslet. Da hun senere hører om en tragedie i Skødstrup, hvor direktøren for en restaurationskæde er blevet brutalt myrdet halloween nat sammen med sin hustru og lille datter, og hans ældste datter på ti år og sønnen på seks år er forsvundet, får hun mistanke om, at opkaldet har noget med sagen at gøre.

La carrera delictiva de Sonny Lofthus empezó al morir su padre, un policía corrupto. Aparcó entonces su brillante porvenir para abrazar el crimen organizado. El precio que cobra ahora por cumplir condena en silencio es el acceso a mercancías que entran en la prisión de alta seguridad de Staten. Lleva media vida en la cárcel y los reclusos también ven en él a una figura sanadora, es su más íntimo confesor. Hay montada una formidable espiral de mentiras y corrupción en torno a Sonny que lo mantiene narcotizado.

Lucys erster Liebestrank geht fürchterlich schief - Liebesaffären werden verheddert - Aber schlimmer noch: Jemand stirbt! Lucy versucht gerade, als Hexe sachkundiger zu werden und als ihre Cousine Violet sie zum Brauen eines Liebestranks überredet, um Alice und Charlie zusammenzubringen, sieht das nach einer harmlosen Möglichkeit aus, ihre Künste aufzubessern. Ist Lucys Liebestrank tödlicher als Amors Pfeil? Oder läuft da ein Mörder frei herum?

Gustav Klimts verloren geglaubtes Bild "Malcesine am Gardasee" taucht in einem Auktionshaus in Malcesine auf. Die Anwältin Monika Bacher will eine Versteigerung verhindern, denn die jüdische Familie, der das Bild von den Nazis entzogen worden ist, erhebt Ansprüche. Als die Anwältin Opfer eines Giftanschlags wird, bricht nicht nur bei den international tätigen Kunstagenten hektische Betriebsamkeit aus.

Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town. Alban refuses to knock the playhouse down, even keeping a picture of it on his wall.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has launched an explosive investigation into the sex-trafficking industry in Sweden and its international links. When two journalists are found dead in a Stockholm apartment, police are baffled by what appears to be a professional killing. Ex-security analyst and former child delinquent Lisbeth Salander is wanted for murder, but the trail has gone cold.

As the world shakes from seemingly disparate outbursts of terrorism, Jack Ryan prepares for a crucial negotiation with President Zhou's increasingly hostile China. But when a routine traffic stop on an isolated road in rural Texas leads to the discovery of a stolen USB stick, it becomes clear there is a dark connection between the attacks. With tensions rising, a US spy ship in the South China Sea gets caught up in a violent storm - a storm which threatens to push it into the path of the Chinese navy, with potentially disastrous consequences.

The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117 - the 2117th refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous - and deeply personal - case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future.

The roads around Dingle are whisper-quiet in the small hours of a rainy night, empty of the tourists who throng the town by day. As she and her assistant, Patrick, drive home after an already traumatic day, Dimpna Wilde isn’t expecting to see anyone, let alone her employee, Niamh, standing in the road, dressed in a nightgown and soaked to the skin. Dazed and distraught, Niamh passes out after muttering incoherently, and at her apartment, Dimpna and Patrick make a grisly discovery.

His life at a crossroads, Ric Peters is torn between his perilous job and dreams of a future with Elaina. But their trip to New Zealand throws them into chaos as they are swept up in a whirlwind of danger and dark family secrets. As Ric grapples with accusations of murder back in Indonesia, the discovery of a mysterious skull at a toxic waste site near his family’s home deepens the mystery.

A group of college students is sent on a trip to Ireland for their International Relations and Affairs class. When they find themselves trapped with a psychopathic killer in a remote castle refurbished into a bed and breakfast. Their exploration throughout the castle is more than they bargained for, with puzzles and riddles to solve. Who will survive, and how is Ashley connected?

Agatha Christie’s trusted housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, has become an amateur sleuth in her own right. When a party game leads to murder, she decides to crash the investigation. While her famous employer is happily back home at Mallowan Hall, wrestling with her Belgian detective’s dilemma on board the Orient Express, Phyllida is finding her local renown as a sleuth has put her in high demand. A distraught Vera Rollingbroke suspects her husband of infidelity and has invited Phyllida to a dinner party to observe his behavior, particularly in regard to one Geneva Blastwick.

Oxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several leads—but no one she can trust. When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions.

There are two sides to every story, the truth and the lies… Twenty years ago, two women from the village of Parton, vanished, sending shock waves through the tranquil seaside Cumbria community. Now, with the horrors of the past a distant memory, a body washes up on the beach and sends a haunting shock wave through the tight-lipped village. Long-buried secrets. A devastating past. A terrifying lie that must never be told. As Fenella and her team delve deeper into a twisted world of deceit and treachery, the investigation takes a sinister turn, and one thing becomes clear.

In this action-packed thriller, Special Agent Alex Martel's fight becomes personal when her father is abducted by rebel forces.
In the heart of Africa, CIA Special Agent Alexandra Martel’s safari with her father spirals into a deadly game of betrayal when he is kidnapped by rebels. Suddenly, her peaceful Serengeti vacation transforms into a desperate race against time. As the general is held by local rebels, Russian mercenaries and Chinese MSS operatives descend on East Africa, all hunting the military secrets locked in her father’s mind.

Massive murders occur in Baghdad from MEASS (Middle East Alliance of Sunnis and Shiites), a group formed after the fall of ISIS. Iraq is determined to thwart the terrorists. Arif Yildiz, the deputy national intelligence minister, presents a scheme to Iraq’s International Intelligence Service to acquire a new US military weapon. They can obliterate MEASS with this weapon, but they need it NOW.

DI Zoe Finch has been in Cumbria long enough to know who’s pulling the strings in organised crime, and who’s helping them from within the police. But just as she’s closing in on the evidence to prove it, she finds herself scrambling in the fallout from the murder of a key witness, and struggling to keep the case out of the hands of the very man she suspects of orchestrating it.

Constable Jenny Williams spent the last decade obsessed with finding her missing cousin. She became a cop, moved to a remote outback mining town and put her career on the line to track Melanie down. Now she’s been found, Jenny should be overjoyed… But her cousin’s past is full of unanswered questions and dark secrets. Jenny is willing to ignore it all, until a woman’s body is uncovered at William Creek Station—the very same place Melanie disappeared from all those years ago.