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Questa non sarà un’autopsia di routine. L’anatomopatologa Maura Isles ne è certa. Ad attenderla, all’ospedale, c’è lei: Madame X, coperta interamente da bende di lino impregnate di resina, che risalgono a duemila anni prima. I suoi organi interni sono stati asportati, solo il cuore è rimasto al suo posto, perché è lì che gli antichi egizi credevano risiedesse l’intelligenza. Madame X infatti è una mummia, ritrovata per caso negli scantinati di un museo. Quando la TAC arriva alle gambe, Maura scorge qualcosa di impossibile.

1199: è la vigilia della festa di san Nicola e Kaspar Trevi, cavaliere templare, viene convocato dal reggente del Regno di Sicilia, in visita a Bari per assistere ai festeggiamenti. All'alba un uomo è stato trovato ai merli della fortezza, con il ventre squarciato e le viscere esposte: si tratta di Giuseppe Filangieri, un tempo consigliere della defunta regina Costanza di Altavilla. Dell'omicidio è ritenuta responsabile Filomena Monforte, la bellissima dama della regina, su cui ricade la terribile accusa di stregoneria.

Jack beobachtet beim Ausliefern von Paketen an die Fairfield Klinik, wie eine Patientin am Verlassen des Gebäudes gehindert wird. Unbemerkt kann sie ihm einen Ring zustecken. Der Ring zeigt ein prächtiges Familienwappen. Jack und Cliff forschen nach. Wer ist die Unbekannte und welches dunkle Geheimnis umgibt das abgelegene Sanatorium?

Ein geheimnisvoller Siegelring führt Jack und Cliff auf eine heiße Spur nach Richmond. Die Schachspielerin Liz Kaplan wurde bedroht. Jemand scheint unbedingt zu verhindern wollen, dass sie die Virginia Open spielt. Ihre Spur führt in die Fairfield Klinik am Stadtrand von Seaport. Wird Liz dort gegen ihren Willen festgehalten? Cliff geht ein riskantes Spiel ein: Er gibt sich als Patient aus und lässt sich in das geheimnisvolle Sanatorium einweisen.

When the dismembered body of a headmaster is found on the derelict site of a former school in Sheffield, DI Diana Walker finds herself chasing shadows. Faced with missing teachers, unreported crimes and silent witnesses, Diana is running out of leads. Her colleagues insist this is just another instance of gang violence, but Diana knows there’s something more. Something everyone’s too scared to talk about. With her reputation on the line, Diana is determined to find the truth.

Dr Maja Holm seeks solace in a desolate Norwegian coastal town, fleeing a turbulent past. But as her gruelling work hours and self-medication take their toll, she teeters on the edge. When a patient's mysterious death raises suspicions, Maja's intuition sparks a daring alliance with local TV journalist Stig Norland. Together, they plunge into the town's secrets, racing against the impending polar storm. But as Maja peels back the layers of the town's dark façade, one question looms: will exposing the truth cost her everything—including her life?

Meet Tommy Bruce—he's washed-up already, marooned in a ramshackle hotel inherited from dead parents in the armpit of Perthshire, that's just too far off the main tourist trail to be viable. He's too young to be middle-aged, but too old to be what you could call young (and too lazy to care about it, really). Saddled with debt, grotty premises that are falling down around him and a crippling loneliness, Tommy is slowly but determinedly drinking himself and his business out of existence. Until one day into the lounge-bar, and out of the blue, walks Fiona McLean.

È la torrida estate del 2022. Dalla finestra che affaccia sul giardino di Villa De Fabbris appare una scena raccapricciante: una figura avvolta nell’ombra sta trascinando sull’erba il corpo senza vita di Valentina, come fosse una bambola rotta. L’opinione pubblica si scaglia immediatamente contro il marito, Mauro, personaggio inquieto e incapace di tessere relazioni sociali durature. A cercare di far luce sul mistero della morte violenta di Valentina è un gruppo di donne agguerrite e pronte a tutto perché la verità venga a galla.

Ein verschwundenes Testament, vergraben unter einem Nussbaum. Jacks und Cliffs Interesse ist geweckt und sie wollen Mr. O’Sullivan helfen, an sein rechtmäßiges Erbe zu kommen. Doch es gibt jemanden, der mit allen Mitteln verhindern will, dass das Testament gefunden wird. Jack und Cliff beobachten durch ein Fenster, wie O’Sullivan mit einer Vase niedergeschlagen wird. Danach ist er spurlos verschwunden. Ein Hinweis führt zum alten Leuchtturm am Peril Point. Jack und Cliff machen sich mit ihrem Boot, der Ghost, auf den Weg.

Jack und Cliff verfolgen die Spur des verschwundenen Mr. O‘Sullivan zum Peril Point. Sie durchsuchen den alten Leuchtturm, als sie auf einmal durch Geräusche aufgeschreckt werden. Wer befindet sich noch auf dem Leuchtturm? Zu ihrem Entsetzen müssen sie feststellen, dass die Tür fest verschlossen ist, sie sitzen fest. Ihr Gegenspieler will mit allen Mitteln verhindern, dass Jack und Cliff das verschollene Testament vor ihm finden und hat sich so einen Vorteil verschafft.

Kate and her husband are expecting their first child. Even though it was a surprise, Kate is thrilled and so is her mother, Helen. Kate just needs Helen’s anxieties to ease and for Dan to be on board. Dan is struggling – he loves Kate, but he is not ready to be a father. With relations between them feeling hostile, the attractive lead singer in Dan’s band offers him a tantalizing escape.

After narrowly escaping with his life at the hands of a murderous Hollywood pimp, detective Happy Doll, bullet-ridden but healing, has landed on a remote Mexican beach. In a humble shack and with his dog for company, Doll settles into a peaceful idyll of Buddhist study. But then trouble, as it always does, comes to paradise. Doll is the witness to a murder for which he is framed, and now, with an expired passport and the Mexican authorities on his tail, he must sneak across the border back to L.A. by any means necessary, with the goal of bringing the true murderer to justice.

È la metà di marzo quando durante una mareggiata il commissario Antonio Mariani assiste al recupero del corpo nudo di una giovane donna. Non è necessario essere un anatomopatologo per capire che la causa del decesso non è l’annegamento ma la profonda ferita dalla base del collo all’inguine. Nei giorni precedenti erano stati trovati i corpi di altre due donne, decedute a causa di ferite analoghe.

Frankie Machine (Sinatra), a recovering heroin addict and illegal card dealer, returns home to his squalid neighborhood in Chicago after six months in prison. He is hoping to go straight and find a job as a drummer, but when both his ex-drug pusher, Louie, and his ruthless former employer, Schwiefka, show up, Frankie is in trouble.

This dark and gripping noir adaptation takes listeners on a journey through the underworld like never before. In this bold reimagining of Dante Alighieri's classic Inferno, the realms of Hell are recast in the shadowy style of 1940s film noir.

When retired Navy Commander George Praddle vanishes without a trace, his wife turns to private investigator Cole Harper for help. With a sharp wit and a knack for uncovering hidden truths, Harper dives into a labyrinth of lies, betrayal, and dangerous motives. Set in 1947, against the gritty backdrop of post-war Philadelphia, this gripping noir mystery thrusts Harper into a shadowy world where trust is scarce, and peril waits at every turn.

Bubbles Marlowe is used to charging into problems head first, consequences be damned. As a cyborg detective, her lone-wolf attitude worked just fine. But with her enemy dead and a group of rebel soldiers crying for her to lead them into battle, she has to change her strategy. And fast. Because Nathanial Price left them a gift before he died, and it’s a killer…

She tries hard to be the perfect mother, the perfect partner, the perfect daughter - but Ellie never seems to get it right. When an old friend from university re-enters her life, dark memories from Ellie's past begin to resurface. As Ellie starts to unravel some shocking and sinister realities, she realises that she must choose between keeping the family she loves - and facing the truth.

Retired LAPD detective Mike Travis has put thousands of miles between himself and his former life by sailing to Kona, Hawaii, where he runs a private yacht charter business and co-owns a coffee farm. But once a cop, always a cop—especially when someone he cares about needs his help. When a local girl goes missing, her fundamentalist parents don't even file a report. She is eighteen, after all, and seems to be rebelling against her strict upbringing. But Travis knows the dangers that lurk for young women.

Dive into the gritty world of crime and corruption with Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," masterfully narrated by Mike Vendetti. Set in the lawless town of Personville, also known as Poisonville, this classic detective story follows a relentless detective as he navigates a web of deceit, murder, and betrayal. Hammett, the undisputed master of detective fiction in late 1920s America, delivers a hard-hitting tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.