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This trial should be a slam-dunk. A faceless powerbroker has other ideas.... Small-town prosecutor Mara Brent must be tough as nails to succeed in her male-dominated profession. But she harbors a soft spot for the victims who rely on her courtroom skill, especially the wheelchair-bound rape survivor she’s known since her first day on the job. So when her friend’s unsolved case reopens with a DNA match and an arrest, she’s determined to finally bring a monster to justice.

Smack in the middle of a capital murder trial, small-town prosecutor Mara Brent gets a cryptic note from the defendant. He wants to cut a deal. His freedom in exchange for information about the kidnapping and murder of a young girl that made national news a decade ago. Is he telling the truth? Or is this just the desperate ploy of a marked man?

Someone didn’t just want Megan Lewis dead. They wanted her obliterated. Even the most seasoned crime scene analysts were haunted by what they found. When Megan’s married ex-boyfriend admits to the murder, her family may at least get the mercy of swift justice. Defense attorney Cass Leary has every reason to steer clear of this case. Her client, Reed Karl might just be the most hated man in town. But one look at the police report and Cass knows something doesn't add up. And when Reed’s wife and young daughter beg her to help him, she can’t find the heart to say no.

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

Crime reporter Eleanor Wooley is reporting on the annual Mother's Day Rodeo when wildfire breaks out in Gold Strike County high country and a dead woman is pulled from the nearby Little Bear River. The community turns inward in fear. Wooley, following her own instincts and a series of dead-end trails, worries that this year's Rodeo Queen may be the next victim. During a high-country excursion to Me-Wuk sacred grounds to foil a scheme to dam the Little Bear River, wildfire breaks out again. Anishinaabe wilderness guide Leonard Parker appears again and continues to surprise.

On the outskirts of Singing River, Wyoming, a couple dies in a fire that ravages their remote mountain home. Everyone believes it’s a tragic accident - except FBI profiler Riley Lambert. She isn’t convinced, and neither is her fiancé, ex-Navy SEAL turned sheriff, Thayne Blackwood. When they discover that the couple’s daughter is missing, Riley’s dark memories of her own sister’s kidnapping ratchet up the urgency to find the girl - before it’s too late.

A young snowboarder turns up dead on the Blackcomb Glacier. The local police are calling it suicide, but the victim’s mother, a U.S. senator, is not convinced. At the senator’s request, the FBI sends in undercover agent Clare Vengel to infiltrate the world of ski bums and snow bunnies and find out what happened to Sacha. Clare soon discovers that not only was the victim involved in an LSD-smuggling ring, but also the uncooperative top cop in town is in cahoots with the smugglers. With her cover dangerously close to being blown Clare must solve the case before she finds herself in the deep freeze permanently.

When the mayor keels overdead in the middle of a speech, a clandestine student society immediately takes credit for his demise. Their mission is to create a perfect political system by any means at their disposal. Clare Vengel, a rookie officer fresh from the police academy and beyond bored with her routine as a beat cop, volunteers to go undercover as a student to infiltrate the secretive organization.

At age ten, Riley Lambert watched helplessly as her sister was abducted from her bedroom. Fifteen years later, she's channeled the pain of her past into a career as an FBI profiler. Riley devotes her life to bringing violent criminals to justice...and secretly uses government resources to search for her sister, who was never found. When Riley gets a call from the only man who's ever swept her off her feet with a killer two-step and dangerous smile - ex-Navy SEAL Thayne Blackwood of Singing River, Wyoming - it stirs up dark memories.

After she captured the interest of detective Sir Charles Sheridan during their first case together, Kathryn Ardleigh and Sir Charles are brought together once more by the demise of a local constable and the disappearance of a child. The sleuthing couple catches a trail of deadly greed and criminal mischief once again and, with the help of a shy woman who calls herself Beatrix Potter, Kate intends to uncover the sinister secrets of Gallows Green.

When Eleanor Wooley's best friend Rette suddenly disappears, Eleanor abandons her job as a crime reporter for the Gold Strike Tribune in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and sets off in desperate pursuit. What begins as a search and rescue operation quickly becomes an obsession and a personal quest for truth. Spurred by gut instinct, Eleanor scours Northeastern Nevada during the worst heat wave in recorded history. Obscure signs appear-an intruder's dire warning, a casino's mysterious graffiti, a random sighting of a killer on the run.

No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride. One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like "Keep Yer Kneecaps" with any poor bastard who crosses him. Can Davey escape from the gang's clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. That's if she doesn't get herself killed first.

It's Derby day at Epsom Downs, and Lord Charles Sheridan is on hand to photograph the race with his new camera—while his wife, Kate, watches from the stands. It's a thrilling day for both Sheridans—until the race ends with a jockey's death. With her husband busy investigating, Kate retreats to the countryside to interview world-renowned actress Lillie Langtry for a magazine article. Plunging into her subject's less-than-illustrious past, Kate puzzles over the long-ago theft of the actress's jewels—and is not surprised when Charles's investigation heads in Langtry's direction.

Eiskalt erwischt: Der spontane Gefriertod einer Influencerin über Live-Cam macht der erhofften positiven Publicity für Niederteerbach einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Je tiefer Maike Pech in die unheilvollen Hintergründe des Falls eindringt, umso "hässlicher" werden die Geheimnisse. Comedy-Star Mirja Boes sorgt als Sprecherin wieder für Hochspannung und gute Laune bei diesem ereignisreichen sechsten Mordfall.

Männlich, athletisch und mausetot: Im Pool eines Fitnessstudios schwimmt eine Leiche im Tanga. Dieser feucht-grausige Fund wirft nicht nur viele Fragen auf, sondern gewährt Kriminalhauptkommissarin Maike Pech auch ungewollt tiefe Einblicke in das horizontale Filmgewerbe. Ganz schön schmuddelig geht es in diesem fünften Fall von Pech & Schwäfel zu - brillant gesprochen von Comedy-Star Mirja Boes.

Maike Pech und Zoe Iyeke Schwäfel sind seit ihrer Kindheit mordsmäßig gut befreundet. Nun gehen sie gemeinsam auf Verbrecherjagd: In ihrem ersten Fall hat eine Mauer ganz schön was in sich - und zwar eine Leiche. Ein mit staubtrockenem Humor erzählter, Suspense-geladener Dorfkrimi von Robin Fuchs und gesprochen von Mirja Boes. Maike Pech ist taff, sehr direkt und weiß sich durchzusetzen. Die Kommissarin ist einem ungelösten Geheimnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit auf der Spur und lässt sich nach Niederteerbach versetzen.

American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who’s the subject of Lucy’s dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters.

Kopflos im Wald verscharrte Leichenteile? Ein Gewaltverbrechen der aller-übelsten Sorte deutet sich an. Maike Pech und Zoe Schwäfel müssen ihren gemeinsamen Abend abrupt abbrechen, um dieses unappetitliche Puzzle zusammenzusetzen. Comedy-Star Mirja Boes sorgt als Sprecherin auch in diesem vierten Mordfall der spannenden Provinzkrimi-Reihe wieder für schrecklich amüsante Unterhaltung.

Spurensuche im Sandhaufen: Nach einer gemütsintensiven Woche mit ihrer pubertierenden Nichte, darf sich Kommissarin Maike Pech endlich wieder menschlichen Abgründen zuwenden. Eine Leiche wurde mit einem Sandkipper auf die letzte Reise geschickt. Nun heißt es: graben, graben, graben, um diesen wendungsreichen Fall zu lösen. Mit nonchalantem Humor und packend gesprochen von Comedy-Star Mirja Boes geht die Krimiserie Pech & Schwäfel in die dritte Runde. Entspannte Weihnachten gehen anders! Kriminalhauptkommissarin Maike Pech macht drei Kreuze als die sieben Tage als Babysitterin ihrer jugendlichen Nichte gezählt sind.

Schlimmer kann dieser Tag für Maike Pech eigentlich nicht werden. Nicht nur, dass in ganz Niederteerbach alle närrisch geworden sind und die Kommissarin erfolglos versucht, dem Karnevalsirrsinn zu entkommen. Nun wird in einer örtlichen Pension auch noch die Leiche eines Berliners gefunden. Alles deutet auf ein Gewaltverbrechen mit einer Büste hin, doch Gerichtsmedizinerin Zoe Iyeke Schwäfel kann eine viel abscheulichere Todesursache feststellen.