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Als ein brutaler Doppelmord die Stadt Sawmill, Oregon, erschüttert, benötigt das FBI Autumns Spezialkenntnisse. Die Tochter des getöteten Ehepaars, die gerade ihr eigenes Leben beginnen wollte, verschwand in der Tatnacht. Wird Autumn bald klar, welchen Plan der gesuchte Täter verfolgt: Er will Paare bestrafen, die ihr Ehegelübde brechen. Die Zahl der Opfer steigt, und der Killer geht immer größere Risiken ein. Was als Suche nach einem neunzehnjährigen Mädchen begann, wird zu einem Katz-und-Maus-Spiel.

Seventeen stories from the gritty crime series created by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Hugo Speer as Manchester detective John Stone. This collection brings together Series 1 to 4 of this intelligent detective drama, tackling morally ambiguous, complex and challenging subjects. DCI Stone and his...

Drew Maclane was a star agent - until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew, and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses...someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played.

Manchester detective DCI Stone and his team are faced with 10 complex, morally challenging cases in this collection of hard-hitting radio dramas. As series 5 opens, Stone is still reeling from the mishandled shooting of Callum Gartside, a gunman who had murdered his own family. With his personal life in tatters, he must find the strength to hold it together and do his job.

Your house should be the safest place in the world. But imagine you rent out a room, and the unthinkable happens…someone is murdered in it. This is the nightmare Alfie Watson is plunged into. He can’t go to the police, because he knows he’ll be in danger too. But he can’t just do nothing. Then Alfie receives a blackmail note – the killer is after him. And unless Alfie plays his cards right, he may not live to tell the tale…

A reporter on the rebound. An ex-cop with nothing to lose. A truth worth killing for. Crime reporter Will Finch doesn't believe Gianna Whitelaw jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge—no matter what the suicide note says. But when her powerful father, U.S. Senator Franklin Whitelaw, shuts down the investigation, Finch is forced to walk away. Until private investigator Eve Noon sends him a cryptic message. She knew Gianna. She knows what happened that night. And she knows Finch is tangled in it more than he realizes.

Recovering from the recent tragedy of his wife's death in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband at their new home - Otherways - a strange circular, moated house. Disturbed by memories of his wife and a growing attraction to Lucy, Sheridan is also troubled by weird and vivid dreams. And as he and Lucy embark on a secret and passionate affair, Sheridan begins uncovering the truth about Otherways.

A lorry crashes on a dark, wet road. In the wake of the tragedy, a dying man receives another chance at life - but does he really deserve it? And if he lives, will those around him wish he hadn't? When critically ill Jacob Wilson has a heart transplant, his behaviour becomes very strange. His worried parents and girlfriend try their best to understand his sudden mood swings, but as things worsen, they begin to live in terror of what they might find in their son's bedroom next - and as Jacob's personality morphs, so, too, do the lives of those around him....

Als die Überlebenden des Massakers in der Riverside Mall viele Monate später einer nach dem anderen ermordet werden, vermutet die Polizei einen Serienmörder und übergibt den Fall an das FBI. Winter Black ermittelt und setzt sich auf die Spur des unsichtbaren dritten Täters des Blutbades, das sich in derselben Nacht ereignet hatte, in der sie den Preacher – den Mörder ihrer Eltern – zur Strecke brachte. Die Liste der Opfer ist lang, die der Verdächtigen kurz, und als der vermeintliche Täter stirbt, schrumpft sie zu nichts zusammen.

Twelve-year-old Tammy Franklin has learned too much about death, too quickly. Two years ago she lost her mother to a long, lingering illness and now the body of the woman her father married in an attempt to replace his wife has been found on a railway embankment close to the Franklin farm. This time the death is murder.

杰克·斯通是一名刚毕业的大学毕业生，他决定搬到纽约市从事金融事业。杰克是一个距离普通人只有一步之遥的人，除了他发现自己陷入困境的不可思议的本领。当命运将他抛在黑帮和联邦调查局的激烈议程之间时，杰克的生活发生了不寻常的转变。 黑帮和联邦调查局都对杰克作为盟友真正感兴趣。他们相互竞争的议程并不完全是杰克对他生活的设想。他们的影响力如此超乎寻常，以至于在纽约市熙熙攘攘的背景下，英雄和恶棍之间的界限被扭曲了。

Jack Kane is a man on a mission; a secret agency wants him dead... and his family is in the firing line. The Valknut Group, a state-funded private military group, has taken an interest in a UK Lithium mine. MI6 is concerned about that interest and Valknut's wider ambitions to undermine Western powers. Jack Kane and Frank Craven are tasked with travelling to Cornwall on Britain's south-west coast to investigate. A violent encounter ensues, and Kane is forced into battle against skilled and well-armed enemies.

When Diana returns home one fateful evening, her life is shattered when she finds her husband, Patrick, dead. But the circumstances of his mysterious death only raise more questions than answers. Miles away, Angie's world is also falling apart. Her husband, Ray, has vanished without a trace, leaving her to grapple with his strange disappearance and the turmoil of raising their troubled teenage son alone. As both women dig into the secrets their husbands have left behind, they uncover a chilling web of lies and long-buried truths.

Jake Stone era un recién graduado universitario que decidió mudarse a la ciudad de Nueva York para seguir una carrera en Finanzas. Jake es un hombre que está a sólo un paso de ser un tipo normal, excepto por su extraña habilidad para encontrarse en el centro de los problemas. Cuando el destino lo arroja entre las feroces agendas de la mafia y el FBI, la vida de Jake da un giro que es todo menos ordinario. Tanto la mafia como el FBI tienen un interés genuino en tener a Jake como aliado. Sus agendas en competencia no son exactamente lo que Jake imagina para su vida.

Police Chief Jesse Stone has a problem—actually, several problems: dead bodies keep turning up. Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult, and with the added pressures from the town selectmen and media, the heat is turning up on Jesse. The harder these outside forces push against him, the more Jesse retreats into himself. Despite all the odds, he's convinced it is up to him alone to stop the killings.

In remote Northern California, private investigator Sharon McCone goes undercover to investigate the murders of two indigenous women in this gripping, atmospheric mystery in the New York Times bestselling series. When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern...

On his way back to Duluth, Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in a small Wisconsin town. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one else alive should know.

Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone. The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse's has his doubts...

Well past retirement age and feeling his years - but still staying sober one day at a time - Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get help of a different sort. The sort only Scudder can deliver.

In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists. But when the investigating officer disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate. Caplan knows she is being punished for a minor misdemeanour when she is seconded to the Highlands, but she's confident she can quickly solve the murders and return home to her fractious family. But as she closes in on the truth, it is suddenly her life that is in danger.