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February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January—a surgeon turned piano player, with a talent for attracting trouble—is playing at an opulent masked ball when, little to his surprise, a quarrel breaks out between two guests, and his services are requested at a duel. Young planter Bastien Damoreau has accused a recent arrival to town of passing himself off as white—an insult not to be borne.

England, 1351. The Pestilence has ravaged the land. Villages lie abandoned but for crows and corpses. Highways are patrolled by marauders and murderers. In these dark and dangerous times, the wise keep to themselves. But Gerard Fox cannot afford to be wise. The young knight has been robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished. To regain his lands and reputation, he sets forth to petition the one man who can restore them. Fate places Fox on the wrong road at the wrong time as he hurtles towards a chance encounter.

New Year's Day - and through the misty streets of Victorian Edinburgh, an elegant female figure walks the cobblestones with a certain vengeful purpose. Jean Brash, the mistress of the Just Land, brings her cool intelligence to solving a murder, a murder that took place in her own bawdy house (the best in Edinburgh and her pride and joy). A prominent judge, strangled and left dangling, could bring her whole life to ruin, and she didn't haul herself off the streets, up through low, dirty houses of pleasure and violent vicious men, to let that come to pass.

A bestselling book, an exhibit featuring the Hill-Billies of Heaven Holler, and a brutal murder turn the excitement of 1904 World's Fair into a nightmare for the people of Daybreak. Country and city collide when Charlotte Turner's son Adam turns their sleepy Ozarks village of Daybreak into a tourist attraction with his bestselling novel The Hill-Billies of Heaven Holler.

Februar 1982: In der Äußeren Neustadt von Dresden wird ein Mann erschossen aufgefunden. Bei seinen Ermittlungen stößt Volkspolizist Uwe Friedrich auf die Verbindung des Ermordeten mit der Devisenbeschaffungsgesellschaft KoKo. Daraufhin entzieht die Staatssicherheit der Kriminalpolizei den Fall. Uwe kann das nicht akzeptieren und setzt die Nachforschungen auf eigene Faust fort.

Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep, a young peasant boy studying to be a scribe, wants to live a simple life in a Nile hut with his lover Kheperren and their dog Wolf. But Amenhotep IV appoints him as Great Royal Scribe. Surrounded by bitterly envious rivals and enemies, how long will Ptah-hotep survive?

When King Edward II is informed that his wife, Queen Isabella, has defied him and remained in France with their son, he flies into a rage. It is Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock who have broken the news to him and are now no longer in the king’s favour. They return to their homes in Devon, but they find that outlaws hold sway in the land. Sir Robert, a knight from the King’s household, has turned outlaw from his castle near Crediton. When a pair of clerics are found murdered, Baldwin and Simon are asked to investigate.

In March 1279, Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the journey at Woodstock Manor. There, one life begins as the queen gives birth to a daughter, and one draws to an end as apoplexy fells Baron Adam Wynethorpe. Hastening to the baron's deathbed is his eldest son, Hugh, a veteran of Edward's Crusades who can't shake off the battle horrors he has witnessed.

In the summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find a serial killer responsible for the deaths of Union veterans. Based on true events, That Bright Land is the story of a violent and fragile nation in the wake of the Civil War and a man who must exorcise his own savage demons while tracking down another.

AD 377: when Optio Numerius Vitellius Pavo and a select group of the XI Claudia are summoned to the Persian front, they leave Thracia behind, knowing little of what awaits them. They know only that they are to march into a burning land of strange gods. They whisper tales of the mighty Persian Savaran cavalry and pray to Mithras they will see their homes and families again. All too soon it becomes clear to them that this is no ordinary mission - indeed, the very fate of the empire might rest upon their efforts.

Im Jahre 1902 legen Strandpiraten zwischen Sagres und dem Cap São Vicente immer wieder falsche Leuchtfeuer, überwältigen die Überlebenden, nehmen diese als Geiseln und erbeuten, was an Bord ist. Bis eines Nachts die "Europa" gegen die Klippen schlägt und die Piraten es mit einem Gegner zu tun bekommen, der ihnen weit überlegen ist ... die Tochter Draculas.

Ein toter Säugling, eine falsche Ehefrau – Anna und Fritz ermitteln im Schwabinger Künstlermilieu. 1914: Anna Zech ist die einzige Frau in der Münchner Gerichtsmedizin. Mit dem adeligen Skandalreporter Fritz von Weynand verbindet sie eine tiefe Freundschaft, und mehr sollte es für den verheirateten Fritz und die aus einfachen Verhältnissen stammende Anna eigentlich auch nicht werden. Als in einem Hinterhof im Schwabinger Künstlerviertel ein toter Säugling gefunden wird, beginnt Fritz für seine Zeitung zu recherchieren. Anna macht diese Leichenschau sehr traurig und gleichzeitig wütend.