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I den lille bjergby Crooked Creek findes en kvinde myrdet. Hun arbejdede på et børnehjem, der lukkede og blev forladt 30 år tidligere. Kriminalassistent Ellie Reeves finder ud af, at næsten alle, der havde forbindelse til det forladte børnehjem, nu er forsvundet. Børnehjemmets gamle arkiver er væk, og da Ellie undersøger stedet, finder hun knogler, der måske har tilhørt forældreløse børn.

Zufällig stolpert Detective Kit McKittrick eines Abends regelrecht über eine verstümmelte Leiche – ausgerechnet während ihres zweiten Dates mit dem Polizeipsychologen Sam Reeves. Nach und nach kommen Kit und Sam hinter die finsteren Machenschaften des Ermordeten. Dabei dringen sie immer tiefer in die ebenso abgeschottete wie gefährliche Welt der reichsten und mächtigsten Bürger San Diegos ein. Gleichzeitig läuft Kit und Sam die Zeit davon, denn jeder ihrer Informanten wird grausam ermordet.

Andet bind i krimiserien om kriminalassistent Ellie Reeves fra Georgia i Appalacherbjergene. Da kriminalassistent Ellie Reeves er ude at vandre i Appalacher-bjergene, som hun ofte er, efter at hendes forældres mørke hemmelighed er blevet afsløret, finder hun pludselig liget af en ung kvinde ligge i skoven på et leje af blomster med en tornet brombærranke om halsen og hænderne foldet i bøn. Snart findes endnu en ung kvinde dræbt i vildmarken. Ellie og hendes team er oppe imod en uhyggelig seriemorder, der myrder unge kvinder. Og pludselig kommer Ellie selv i fare.

On the hottest day of the year, as a heatwave takes hold of the Appalachian Mountains, a five-year-old girl goes missing. Just as the sun is setting, a family vacation becomes a worst nightmare—Betsy, with her green eyes, ponytail, and rainbow T-shirt—disappears in the woods by Widow Lake. Detective Ellie Reeves is straight on the scene, promising Betsy’s heartbroken parents that she will stop at nothing to find their precious daughter.

As a snowstorm wreaks havoc in the mountain town of Crooked Creek, a woman is found buried in ice. Detective Ellie Reeves is first on the scene. Examining the body, she finds frozen blonde hair, pink nail polish, and a silver heart necklace engraved with Mine Forever. Ellie has firsthand experience of the monsters that lurk in the mountains - her childhood is testament to that. She vows to catch this one, but she’s up against the brutal weather, with snow covering footprints and making forensics impossible.

When Penny Matthews, a seven-year-old girl with blonde curls and a gap-toothed smile, goes missing in the Appalachian mountains, Detective Ellie Reeves is called straight to the scene. According to Penny’s parents, their daughter vanished after a picnic by the creek. All that’s left behind is a pink friendship bracelet etched with “Penny”.

Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live forever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe devises a way of downloading the human brain into a supercomputer called ARCHIVE. But Joe's wife, Karen, is worried by his preoccupation with ARCHIVE, which seems to be developing signs of a distinct and sinister personality of its own.

Things are going well for Matt Buchanan. After some hard times, life is peaceful as sole-charge constable for the small, isolated settlement of Haast on New Zealand's wild West Coast. He's made friends among the locals, won their trust. He keeps their little world safe. And he's working in spectacular surroundings—the fierce Tasman Sea, the dense beech forest, the dark, cold swamps, the snowy Southern Alps.

La verdad es fácil de perder, incluso cuando está justo delante de nosotros. Como reconstrucionista forense, Rory Moore arroja luz sobre los homicidios en casos fríos al unir detalles de la escena del crimen que otros no ven. Limpiando el despacho de abogados de su difunto padre una semana después de su entierro, recibe una llamada que la sumerge en un caso de décadas de antigüedad que cobra vida una vez más.

Une soirée entre amies vire au cauchemar alors que Chloé tue Claire par inadvertance. Est-ce qu'elle appelle la police ? Non. Durant les heures qui suivront, elle apprendra qu'il est plutôt compliqué de maquiller un crime en bête accident de la route. Elle n'aurait jamais pensé qu'il y ait tant de détails à couvrir. Ajoutons au cocktail sa personnalité désorganisée...Rien ne sera facile pour elle!