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Some call him friend or boss. Some call him husband or dad. Some call him son, even a favorite son. But the only title that matters to him is the one the media has given him: the Poet. A name he earned from the written words he leaves behind after he kills that are as dark and mysterious as the reason he chooses his victims. One word, two, three, a story in a poem, a secret that only Detective Samantha Jazz can solve. Because, he’s writing this story for her.

Jeff Davis Swaine digs up evidence for a Raleigh, North Carolina, trial law firm. When a client comes home to find his McMansion burglarized - and his new wife's dog dead in the kitchen - the man suspects his ex-wife. But this is someone far more dangerous. From a stolen minivan, washed-up jazz bassist Leonard Noblac is performing his "perfect jazz album of felonies" to punish the zeros in the soulless suburb of Rocky Falls.

New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the city.

Im Raum Stuttgart werden zwei kleine Mädchen vermisst. Als bei einem vorbestraften Sexualverbrecher eine entsprechende DVD auftaucht, wird klar: Hier handelt es sich um eine neue Dimension der organisierten Bandenkriminalität-Snuff! Sowohl Eleonora als auch Pia wurden missbraucht und getötet, um das Tatgeschehen minutiös mit der Kamera zu dokumentieren und die Snuff-Filme in einschlägigen Kreisen zu verbreiten. An die Täter ist schwer heranzukommen. Die mit fünfzig Beamten bestückte Soko Eleonora/ Pia tritt auf der Stelle. Die Abteilung Operative Fallanalyse des baden-württembergischen Landeskriminalamts wird hinzugezogen. Die Profiler sollen schnell reagieren, denn die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass es einen weiteren Fall geben wird, ist hoch. Tatsächlich verschwindet kurz darauf die achtjährige Lea. Und dann taucht die nächste DVD auf. Sie zeigt Lea in einem Kellerstudio. Lebend.

In 1924 Manhattan, women’s suffrage is old news. For sophisticated booklover Julia Kydd, life’s too short for politics. With her cropped hair and penchant for independent living, Julia wants only to publish books under her own imprint. But as a woman, Julia must fight for what’s hers - including the inheritance her estranged half brother, Philip, has challenged, putting her aspirations in jeopardy.