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Eighteen years ago, Ken Allen played the famous fictional superspy in Near Death, a movie so bad it was never meant to be seen. Since then, Ken has faded into cult obscurity, but when his celebrated successor is killed in the same ghastly fashion as the villain in Near Death, Ken is cast as the prime suspect.

Drei Menschen, drei Welten: Lisa Kunz ist die neue Leiterin des Dezernats Leib und Leben der Kantonspolizei Bern, jener Abteilung, die sich mit den schlimmsten aller Verbrechen befasst: mit Totschlag und Vergewaltigung, mit vorsätzlicher Tötung und kaltblütigem Mord. Schon als Kind hat sie lieber Detektivin als mit Puppen gespielt und wähnt sich am Ziel ihrer Träume. Renate Berger hat geglaubt, dass sie es vielleicht doch noch schaffen kann, dass mit der Geburt ihrer Tochter ein neues Leben beginnt, ein Leben ohne Drogen. Aber die Sucht ist stärker.

As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsford, a group of guests plays cards - but Grace Morland knows the strong emotions that lurk beneath the placid social surface. She's painfully in love with Stephen Pendock, the squire of Pigeonsford, but Pendock's smitten with young beauty Francesca Hart. One afternoon, Fran debuts a new hat, and Grace's jealousy gets the better of her. She exclaims, "I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch in a thing like that!" She will soon be proven wrong. Grace is found dead with the hat on her head.

Cal Lovett's sister, Margot, has been missing since he was a child. When Marc Dubois, The Woodland Killer, learns of Cal's true-crime podcast, Finding Justice, he invites Cal into his cell to talk. Dubois has famously refused to speak about his crimes, so why has he asked Cal to meet with him? And why does Dubois know so much about him?