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Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.

During Prohibition, while Al Capone was rising to worldwide prominence as Public Enemy Number One, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa - population just 418 - were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own. Led by Joe Irlbeck, the whip-smart and gregarious son of a Bavarian immigrant, the outfit of farmers, small merchants, and even the church Monsignor worked together to create a whiskey so excellent, it was ordered by name: Templeton Rye.

Newly elected President Jack Spiers's presidency is rocked from the very beginning, and he's working furiously to keep the world from falling apart. Special Agent Ethan Reichenbach is running the presidential detail, which puts him side by side with Jack daily. He's expecting another stuffed suit, but Jack shocks him with his humor and humanity. There are rules against a Secret Service agent and one of their protectees developing a friendship - big rules. Besides, Jack is straight as a ruler, and a widower, and Ethan has always avoided falling for straight men.

A devastating terrorist attack in the heart of Washington, DC, and the arrest of the terrorist leads to a trial that threatens to expose the dark underbelly of America's national security. The Russian president is gravely injured and fixated on revenge, while a gay Russian dissident is arrested and put on trial in Judge Tom Brewer's courtroom. With the world's attention fixed on Tom and this case, secrets from his past explode during the course of the trial, which place him at the very center of the case and make him the only man who can try to stop the world's slide into war.

Harry Bauer is a professional assassin. He is employed by Cobra, a shadow agency that provides certain, select Western governments with total deniability, while taking out the trash. Bauer is very good at what he does. In fact, he’s the best. So when the brigadier, his overall boss, tells Bauer to go to Canada, pick up a woman and escort her to DC, he is understandably pissed: He eliminates bad guys, he’s not a nursemaid.

While trying to save her marriage and stay sober, Vicky Bauer witnesses a murder, and when no one, not even her husband, believes her, Vicky must figure out what is going on before she too is killed.

"Eigentlich wollte der achtjährige Heiko nur Süßigkeiten kaufen. Nun blickt er schockiert auf Maria Bauer, die in einer Blutlache hinter dem Kassentisch der Tankstelle liegt. Wenn er Hilfe ruft, muss Heiko seiner Mutter beichten, woher er das Geld für Süßigkeiten hat. Also schnappt er sich Fruchtgummischlangen und flüchtet mit schlechtem Gewissen. Tags darauf verschwindet die fünfjährige Leni Bauer. Und Heiko identifiziert Klaus Pollack, den vorbestraften Freund ihrer Mutter, als den Mann, der aus dem Kassenraum stürmte, als er gerade reinwollte.

Rocks in the Belly is about a precocious eight-year-old boy and the volatile adult he becomes. During childhood his mother fosters boys, despite the jealous turmoil it arouses in her son. Jealousy that reaches unmanageable proportions when she fosters Robert, an amiable child she can’t help bonding with. Until the bond triggers an event that profoundly changes everyone.

President Jack Spiers fled Washington DC on the heels of a devastating attack on CIA headquarters, masterminded by one of America's own, former General Porter Madigan. While the world believes Jack was killed in the bombing, he embarks on a wild infiltration mission, smuggling himself into occupied Russia to rescue the love of his life: former Secret Service Agent and First Gentleman Ethan Reichenbach. Reunited, Jack, Ethan, and deposed Russian president Sergey Puchkov, along with President Elizabeth Wall - the only person left in Washington DC who Jack trusts - must work together.

President Jack Spiers and former Secret Service agent Ethan Reichenbach throw caution to the wind, committing themselves publicly as the first out male lovers and partners to occupy the White House. Jack moves Ethan into the Residence, but as Ethan settles into his new role as first gentleman of the United States, not everyone is thrilled with their choices. When it seems like the world turns against them, Jack and Ethan must turn to each other, finding the strength together to press on.

19. Oktober, Nordseeküste, Schillig/Ostfriesland. Ein herrenloser Border Collie irrt durch die nächtliche Wattlandschaft und kratzt entkräftet an der Tür von Melissas Ferienhaus. Handelt es sich um einen Hilferuf? Nur der sympathische Kommissar Adam Janssen scheint ihre Befürchtungen ernst zu nehmen, doch die Suche nach den Vermissten nimmt die Ressourcen der Polizei in Anspruch. Auf ihrer erschütternden Suche nach Antworten folgt Melissa einer Spur, stets begleitet von ihrem neuen tierischen Gefährten.

Jessica Nagoshi, the beautiful heiress to her father's billion-dollar empire, is being groomed, along with her brother Peter, to take control of Nagoshi Inc. That is, until she is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father's extensive Wellesley estate. Jessica was in her third year pre-law at the prestigious Deane University and the police enter the hallowed halls of the most expensive college in America to begin their investigation.

U.S. Vice President Tom Bradshaw is the perfect candidate, a presidential "sure thing". This, despite the unfortunate mistake made in his youth, a transgression he turned into triumph. But when the future president is found dead in the penthouse of Boston's finest hotel, the American people want answers, and his administration need a scapegoat.

It's been a long time since criminal defence attorney David Cavanaugh has heard his childhood friend Chris Kincaid speak of Marilyn Maloney; for hers is a name from the past, from a time when David, Chris, and the third in the gang of three, Mike, vowed never to let a girl get in the way of their friendship. But now Chris is the "successful, happily married US Senator for New Jersey", and when he pleads with David to return home to help him locate the girl he "used" to love, David reluctantly agrees..

Doctor Jeffrey Logan, daytime TV's most loved psychologist, has a top-rating talk show seen around the world – and his picture-perfect life is completed by his talented lawyer wife, Stephanie Tyler, their 16-year-old daughter Chelsea, and 13-year-old J. T. But this image of domestic bliss is shattered when Stephanie is killed instantly by a bullet from a big-game rifle in the family's pristine Beacon Hill kitchen.

On September 11th, 2001, Kris Caldera was a junior member of the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to finding and stopping Osama Bin Laden. They failed. Ten days later, he was on the ground in Afghanistan with a Special Forces team. On the battlefield, he meets Special Forces Sergeant David Haddad. David - Arab American, Muslim, and gay - becomes the man Kris loves, the man he lives for, and the man he kills for, through the long years of the raging wars. When a botched mission rips David from Kris' life, Kris' world falls into ruin and ash.

Following an alleged conversation between respected attorney Rayna Martin and teenager Christina Hayes, one of them is dead, the other arrested for their murder. Boston lawyer David Cavanaugh faces his toughest case to date when what appears to be a tragic accident turns into something else entirely. David soon finds that his most dangerous battle is taking place outside the courtroom.

Eve Singer har brug for mord. Hendes tv-karriere som kriminalreporter er for nedadgående, indtil hun begynder at dække en række bizarre mord – der alle er begået i det offentlige rum og annonceret som kunstudstillinger. Da morderen tager kontakt til Eve om hendes dækning af mordene, er hun pludselig langt mere indblandet, end hun har lyst til at være. Især da det hurtigt viser sig, at morderen har to besættelser.

Eve Singer har brug for mord. Hendes tv-karriere som kriminalreporter er for nedadgående, indtil hun begynder at dække en række bizarre mord – der alle er begået i det offentlige rum og annonceret som kunstudstillinger. Da morderen tager kontakt til Eve om hendes dækning af mordene, er hun pludselig langt mere indblandet, end hun har lyst til at være. Især da det hurtigt viser sig, at morderen har to besættelser

Den ene er mord begået i det offentlige rum.

Den anden er hende …

Før var de en familie ligesom alle andre: Anna og James og deres fireårige søn, Daniel. Men i et flygtigt øjeblik forandrer alt sig. Fem fodspor i cementen er nu det eneste tegn på, at Daniel har eksisteret. Det eneste, hans mor har tilbage. Hver dag vogter hun de små fodspor. Holder dem rene. Pudser dem blanke. Anna er fuldstændig desperat af længsel og fortvivlelse, så da hun hører om en mand med ægte klarsyn, griber hun straks muligheden.