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Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And this is no ordinary student lecture at Quantico. FBI agent Aloisius Dupree is already well acquainted with Amaia’s skills, her intuition, and her ability to understand evil. He now needs her help in hunting an elusive serial killer dubbed “the Composer,” and in solving another case that’s been following him his whole life.

He was clinically dead after the accident - but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life. But something terrible has come back with Hatch from the other side.

Saturday morning, a rare day off for Detective Maddie Ives. She's about to have a relaxing shower with her boyfriend Vince when she gets the call: There's been another one... Ron and Sandy Blackman's brutalised bodies are found in the hallway of their isolated rural home. They've been stabbed multiple times; Ron's hands are tied tightly behind his back; Sandy has several fingernails ripped out. The safe has been forced open. This is the second house of horrors that Maddie and her team have been called out to in a matter of days.

En kaiken? Hvad er det? Det er den dolk, samuraikvinder brugte til at begå selvmord. De skar halsen over på sig selv. Oliver Passan, Kriminalpolitiet i Paris, elsker alt der er japansk, ikke mindst sin smukke kone, som han har to sønner med. Nu har hustruen Nanoko imidlertid bedt om skilsmisse.

Podziemna Warszawa szykuje sie do powstania, a za Wisla gromadza sie radzieckie wojska. Tymczasem w miescie dochodzi do dziwnych zabójstw, które zdaja sie nie miec nic wspólnego z ruchem oporu. Ofiarami sa zarówno gestapowcy, jak i zolnierze podziemnej Armii Krajowej. Okolicznosci zbrodni wskazuja na dzialanie seryjnego mordercy. Duet policjantów - wypuszczony z Oswiecimia Polak i pracujacy w Kripo Niemiec - próbuje jak najszybciej znalezc sprawce. Choc morderca zostawia na miejscu zbrodni kartke z nazwiskami swoich kolejnych ofiar, wytropienie go graniczy z cudem.

Der Kieler Musikproduzent Peter Bruhns wird zusammen mit seiner jungen Geliebten tot in einem Penthouse aufgefunden. Eine Beziehungstat? Oder das Werk eines persönlichen Feindes, von denen es nicht wenige gibt? Bei den Untersuchungen wird ein Gift nachgewiesen, das den Kommissaren Sören Henning und Lisa Santos Rätsel aufgibt. Der Fall nimmt eine ungeahnte Wendung, als am Tatort auch noch DNA sichergestellt wird, die in Deutschland bereits mit verschiedenen Morden in Verbindung gebracht wird. Handelt es sich hier nicht um eine Einzeltat, sondern um das Werk eines Massenmörders?