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Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before. When she sees a man lying in the backyard, stabbed to death, she has only one terrified thought: What have I done? Agreeing to take the case as a favor to her PI friend Lincoln Sharp, Morgan must scale a mountain of damning circumstantial and forensic evidence to prove her client innocent.

Als frisch gebackener Vater eines kleinen Wunderbabys namens Lilly-Ann fasst Dexter den Entschluss, ab jetzt ein anständiges Leben zu führen und seine blutrünstigeren Hobbies an den Nagel zu hängen. Als dann jedoch ein junges Mädchen verschwindet und die verdächtigte Gruppe äußerst merkwürdige Praktiken an den Tag legt, hilft der Rechtsmediziner doch wieder seiner Schwester Deborah bei der Aufklärung. Zumal bald der Verdacht des Kannibalismus im Raum steht.

Dexter Morgans Ruf ist makellos: als forensischer Spezialist hilft er der Polizei bei der Aufklärung rätselhafter Fälle und ist mit seiner charmanten Art und seinem attraktiven Äußeren allseits beliebt. Wäre da nicht sein kleines Geheimnis: als weltweit einziger Serienmörder mit dem Herz am richtigen Fleck, bringt Dexter nachts die Verbrecher zur Strecke, die tagsüber vom Gesetz nicht gefasst werden konnten. Dieses befriedigende Doppelleben wird durch eine Mordserie urplötzlich erschüttert, denn die Taten des Serienmörders sehen Dexters eigenen Taten zum Verwechseln ähnlich.

When a bank executive returns to her hometown of Savannah with her son, she hopes her family and friends and the charm of the low country will heal their grief and bring them peace. Instead, she's thrust into chaos—a crumbling family business on the brink of bankruptcy, mysterious bodies surfacing with ties to her family's name, and whispers of long-buried secrets threatening to come to light.

With tensions at an all time high, the team is divided, pulled in different directions as they hunt different prey. Jamie doesn't know which way to turn, but when the killings begin, things become blindingly apparent. They're not just dealing with a killer doing this out of necessity, but one doing it out of pleasure. He's skilled, experienced, and he knows who is chasing him, and seemingly, how to avoid them at every step.

Ein gestrandeter Wal, eine tote Frau und das kalte Schweigen des Nordpolarmeers - dieser Thriller, der in der rauen Natur Spitzbergens und der Lofoten spielt, entfaltet einen unentrinnbaren Sog. Longyearbyen auf Spitzbergen, die nördlichste Siedlung der Welt: In einer entlegenen Bucht wird neben einem gestrandeten Pottwal die Leiche einer Studentin der Meeresbiologie gefunden. Ist die junge Frau einem Eisbären zum Opfer gefallen? Die ermittelnde Polizistin Lottie hat immer stärkere Zweifel.

Un cadavre atrocement mutilé suspendu à la façade d'un bâtiment. Une ancienne ville soviétique envoûtante et terrifiante. Deux enquêteurs, aux motivations divergentes, face à un tueur fou qui signe ses crimes d'une hirondelle empaillée. Et l'ombre d'un double meurtre perpétré en 1986, la nuit où la centrale de Tchernobyl a explosé.

When bodies are discovered in the open, the killings seeking to reenact Jamie's previous investigations, the team picks up the trail. A single killer is working from the shadows with ruthless efficiency, claiming victims before Jamie can even take a breath. But what's his endgame and what message is he trying to send? As Jamie starts to close in on the culprit, she begins to buckle under the weight of her own career. The monsters she's worked so hard to lock away are clawing their way out, and as the bodies start piling up, the team is pushed to their breaking point.

The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history. Or else they’ll be history.

Five murders across Europe, each victim found dead with an exotic lop-eared Sumxu cat, animals considered extinct for 300 years. Only Henri Fox knows why—and that knowledge could kill her. To survive she must pursue a madman across China with partner, Cass Farraday, but the hunters soon become the prey. Desperate and on the run in Shanghai, pursued by the Tong and the police, they must break into the Chinese Gold Exchange for the proof they need to prevent a megalomaniac billionaire’s Armageddon assault on Britain’s Air Traffic Control.

When tabloid camera girl Henri Fox pictures a Hollywood megastar making love on the back seat of a stretch limo, the star’s father, a ruthless Bogota emerald mine owner, must bury his daughter’s scandalous snapshot—and Henri Fox with it. He enlists the aid of left-wing FARC guerrillas, forcing the US President to join the hunt. Henri Fox is in mortal danger and will have to survive them both in a chase from London via Madrid to the notorious Boyaca Emerald Valley in Colombia.

Tre månader har gått sedan Arthur Blidsjöös begravning och händelserna som föranledde hans död har tagit hårt på både Morgan och Cortina. Men livet måste fortsätta och Cortina föreslår att Morgan ska ta över som kyrkoherde. Själv är han inte säker på att han lämpar sig som präst längre. När Morgan väl bestämt sig för att ta tag i sitt liv gör han en fruktansvärd upptäckt. Under en bro springer han på två mördade tonåringar. För att kunna gå vidare tvingar han sig själv att skjuta undan den hemska synen.

A journey to a faraway world… With mankind on the brink of economic collapse, a population growing at an unmanageable rate and a limited supply of natural resources, there is only one place we can look to for our future… the stars. A deep space mining tug is sent to HD 85512 B, an Earth-like planet codenamed New Dawn, to begin a mission that will eventually see the relocation of humanity. …but will they survive?

Could you ever be friends with the woman who stole your husband? That is the question facing Jenny when Helena appears at her door. Five years ago, Craig abandoned Jenny and moved in with Helena. Now it seems Craig has moved onto a younger woman. Helena pleads with Jenny to help find out who the mystery woman is.

Kaum ist Dexter von seiner überraschend idyllischen Hochzeitsreise in Paris zurück, wird Miami erneut Schauplatz einer schauerlichen Mordserie: kunstvoll in Szene gesetzte Opfer scheinen auf einen Serienmörder mit ästhetischem Empfinden zu deuten. Eigentlich wollte Dexter sich ja in seiner häuslichen Zweisamkeit einrichten, doch die blutigen Taten geben ihm eine Reihe neuer Rätsel auf und erwecken seinen unbändigen Instinkt für Rache aufs Neue... Auch der Vierte Teil der Serie überzeugt mit abgründigem Witz und einer Kriminalgeschichte voller Fallstricke.

Dexter Morgen hat alles unter Kontrolle: Rechtsmediziner für die Polizei und guter Verlobter und Stiefvater bei Tag, genialer Serienmörder von davongekommenen Verbrechern bei Nacht. Bis auf einmal eine schreckliche neue Mordserie Miami erschüttert: Dexter wird zum Fundort der zerstückelten Leichen zweier Frauen gerufen - allerdings sind ihre Köpfe verschwunden.

‘Ask him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath’ St. Joseph, patron of departing souls – pray for me.’ Liverpool, 1979: new CID recruit Leigh Borrowdale is seconded to a disturbing murder inquiry: a mysterious death in a decaying building, where the remains of a young man have...

The Petrosyan trafficking operation is in tatters and Interpol and the NCA are working furiously to build their case. They want put the people responsible behind bars once and for all, but before the dust can even settle following their latest bust, key witnesses begin to die. Three suspicious deaths in a week has everyone scrambling. But the NCA are closing the cases faster than Detective Jamie Johansson can even look into them. Someone is killing those who can name the people pulling the strings, and the few witnesses who are still alive are running scared.

On the idyllic Swedish island of Gotland, another teenager is found dead. This makes 22 suicides in 17 months. Some knew each other, others didn't. There are no notes. No explanations. No reasons. Each new death rocks the island to its core, and everyone holds their breath for the next to be found ...

After cutting Aram Petrosyan's trafficking operation off at the knees, Detective Jamie Johansson and her new ward Alina are square in the crosshairs. Retribution must be had, and to carry out the task, Petrosyan unleashes upon them a man like no other. The Nhang moves without being seen and kills without mercy. And he's coming for them both. Can Jamie stay one step ahead of this deadly new adversary? She'll have to use all of the skills at her disposal if she hopes to survive and finally close in on the elusive Aram Petrosyan.