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Private Investigator Rosa Reed has finally accepted that her girlhood romance with Detective Miguel Belmonte has no hope of being rekindled, but when his actress girlfriend gets embroiled in a murder on her movie set, it's more than a movie schedule that's upsetting. Can Rosa put aside matters of the heart long enough to help Miguel solve the case?

"Beim Klabautermann, der Bengel wird sein Leben auf dem Meer verbringen", hatte sein Vater bei seiner Geburt prophezeit. Johannes Wilhelm Kröger, geboren im April 1849, wurde Seemann und ist es geblieben, bis er am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkriegs endgültig abmustert. Jetzt soll sein wohlverdienter Ruhestand beginnen, aber von Ruhe kann keine Rede sein. Ganz in der Nähe seines Kapitänshäuschens hat sich eine rätselhafte Frau niedergelassen, die ihn ebenso fasziniert wie das lebensgefährliche Geheimnis, das sie umgibt.

Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences.

1938. A pochi giorni dall'attesa visita del Führer, il commissario Alberto Sorrentino viene richiamato con urgenza a Napoli per indagare sulla morte di tre ragazze vittime di un tagliagole, che ha lasciato sui loro corpi incisioni incomprensibili e sulla scena del crimine un messaggio altrettanto misterioso. Sei anni prima, Sorrentino aveva risolto dei casi simili e il questore Massari spera che possa dare una svolta anche a questa indagine che sta mettendo a dura prova la questura.

Head of an elite anti-terrorist unit, Major Noah Blakeley is hunting for the clandestine organization he believes to be at the center of a spate of seemingly random acts of terror. When his ex-wife is killed while on an archaeological expedition to Mongolia, closely followed by an attempt on his life, Noah finds himself hurled into a world where the lines between historical research and present-day terrorism are blurred. To discover the answers, Noah must trace his wife's final footsteps and beyond.

December 1940. With the Blitz devastating Britain’s cities, Lizzie Hayes and the women pilots of the Air Transport Authority are more crucial to the war effort than ever before. But when the relative peace of the village of Scotney is shattered by the disappearance of the Chief Inspector’s niece, it’s Lizzie’s training as a psychologist that draws her into another disturbing police case alongside DI Jonathan Kember.