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When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation. As the murdered men are identified, it becomes clear that they all had a history of abuse towards women, leading Riley to wonder if it would actually be in society's best interests to catch the killers. But when her best friend Carla is attacked, and the police show little interest in tracking down the offender, Chastity takes matters into her own hands.

Die Feuerwehrleute von "Engine 99" gelten als die Besten in New York – mutig, unerschrocken, verehrt. Doch was niemand ahnt: Sie selbst legen Brände, um im Chaos Banken und Juweliere auszurauben. Das FBI setzt die freiberufliche Ermittlerin Andy Nearland auf die Truppe an. Undercover muss sie sich in einer gefährlichen Männerwelt behaupten – stets zwischen Vertrauen und Verrat, Loyalität und Lüge. Doch als der größte Coup der Truppe bevorsteht, läuft Andy die Zeit davon.

Interior designer Deva Dunne just may have hit the jackpot. Sure, her new client Francesco Grandese talks tough and has shady friends, but he has the eye of a connoisseur, and a huge, empty mansion he wants her to decorate. Deva's boyfriend, police lieutenant Victor Rossi, has misgivings about her promising job - especially when he accompanies her to one of Francesco's dinner parties. After Francesco returns a dish to the kitchen untasted, the chauffeur promptly scarfs it down and drops dead from cyanide poisoning. Has the killer made a terrible mistake and murdered the wrong person? Or was the dead man the intended victim?

After 20 years of loyal service, Detective Jane Bauer is just two months and one case away from leaving the NYPD for a cushy desk job. Her last assignment: working for a special unit that tackles unsolved crimes. At a crossroads in her personal life, Jane relishes the chance to lose herself in a challenging investigation. Four years ago, Arlen Quill was found dead in the entryway to his apartment building - leaving no clues, no witnesses, and no leads.

Violent, ruthless, and obsessed, Killian Byrne is a man who rose from the ashes of chaos to make a new life for himself. One in which he does what’s needed to protect the city he’s come to love, even if that means a life of loneliness. He’s damaged and scarred after years as a mob enforcer. Broken. And that means he’s better off alone.

Der Bauunternehmer Schiermeier aus Rosenheim macht dem Auer Max ein Angebot, das er nicht ablehnen kann. Auch deswegen nicht, weil die Tante Friedl mal was mit dem hatte. Also macht sich der Auer auf die Suche nach Schiermeiers entlaufenem Bruder. Doch der will nicht zurück, weil er dann ein toter Mann sein könnte. In Rosenheim brennen Wohnungen, in denen ermordete Frauen liegen, und alle Fäden laufen bei dem mysteriösen Bauunternehmer zusammen. Zu allem Überfluss meldet sich die Silikon-Wally. Auch ihr Leben ist in Gefahr. Und für den Max Auer ist jetzt Schluss mit lustig!

I wasn’t looking to fall for an angel. But the first time I laid eyes on Whitney Vanek, that’s what happened. Then I found out she’s my boss’s girl’s best friend. Someone I won’t be able to avoid, even though I know I should.

Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily. Set against the backdrop of the 3000 year old city of Catania, Blood Rain reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven.

Neopolitan businessmen, politicians, and eminent mafiosi are assassinated as someone takes literally the job of cleaning up the city's tarnished image. In this mystery, Aurelio Zen discovers that in '90s 'New Italy', things are still the same.

When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell 150 feet to his death in the chapel at St. Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously silenced - by violent death. To crack the secret of the Vatican, Zen must penetrate the most secret place of all: the Cabal.

A powerful industrialist, Ruggiero Miletti, is kidnapped. Inspector Zen is transferred to Perugia to take over the case - but finds that there are many obstacles in his way. The local authorities see him as an interloper, and the victim’s family, one of the most powerful in Italy, seem content to let Miletti languish in the hands of his abductors. Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. Can he succeed this time?

On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he separates from his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous, only to hear her tell him on the telephone that she will not, after all, be coming. Then she vanishes from his life as mysteriously as she entered it. Who and where is the woman he met and fell in love with in Vienna?