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Death is a topic Bradford Douglas is intimately familiar with. The young attorney is on a crusade against capital punishment. He’s saved a number of death row inmates, but none of his cases has been as tough as the one he now faces: Henry Combs, a vicious serial killer, has only hours to live when Douglas is summoned for a Hail Mary attempt to have the man’s sentence commuted to life imprisonment. As Douglas races to pursue whatever strategies he can think of, he finds his passion for justice giving way to something altogether different. An obsession.

In San Pedro, Los Angeles, one of the world's busiest harbours, an unlikely pair of lovers is caught up in terror. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbour to a Hollywood nightclub, his life is forever changed as an unexpectedly tender and moving love story develops. Comedy and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor.

It's Alys Pugh's birthday and her mates are organizing a little surprise for her. When she doesn't show up, they realize something's wrong. Later, her body is found in the cold waters of Llyn y Fan. On searching Alys' house, detectives discover an array of seaside objects and suspect they are some sort of message left by the killer. With everyone seemingly harboring a secret, tempers fray and suspicion grows. And when similar trinkets are found in another of their houses, those underlying tensions bubble to the surface. Then someone else in the group is killed.

Myra Swinley is convinced that her police constable husband’s death was no accident and that he would never have lost his footing on a dark, foggy November night on the quayside of Newhaven Harbour while on his beat. Determined to get to the truth she visits Scotland Yard to ask his former friend Detective Superintendent Street to investigate. But when Myra fails to return home from her visit to the Yard, Inspector Ryga is sent down to the Sussex coast to investigate.

It’s the swinging '60s, Sydney. Post-war Australia is booming and the excitement of the city lures two young women, Rose and Margot, eager for adventure in these rapidly changing times. They meet through work at David Jones, the iconic department store, and country-girl Rose is in awe of beautiful, worldly Margot, who makes it clear she’s determined to catch herself a wealthy husband. At a coffee bar in cosmopolitan Kings Cross, they encounter two debonair Europeans, Stefan and Josef, former Polish army officers seeking to rebuild their lives.

Las noticias sobre varios suicidios en una multinacional se mezclan a las protestas de los indignados en Madrid. Un hombre es hallado muerto en el Retiro. A primera vista el cadáver parece encajar con los otros casos, pero según la comisaria Ruiz algo no encaja. Con la ayuda del veterano...

Madrid, verano de 2010. Un joven ha aparecido asesinado. Sin identidad visible. Sin pistas aparentes. Sin móvil. La comisaria María Ruiz, concienzuda y tenaz, se encargará de la investigación. Contará con la ayuda de Luna, experto periodista ahora sin trabajo por la crisis y de Tomás, un...

So hat sich Comisaria María Ruiz ihre Rückkehr nach Madrid nicht vorgestellt  : eine Reihe von seltsamen Tiermorden bringt die Gerüchteküche in der Hauptstadt zum Brodeln. Die Annahme, dass es sich um einen okkulten Ritus handelt, wird schnell verworfen, als kurz darauf an einem Wehr die Leiche der Kunststudentin Sara gefunden wird. Kann es ­Zufall sein, dass die Szene stark an eine Zeichnung des ­Künstlers Goya erinnert? Comisaria María Ruiz, die sich aufgrund ihrer Suspen­dierung zurückhalten müsste, ist dennoch fest ­entschlossen, den Fall aufzuklären.

«El camionero apareció en mitad de la carretera, joven y fuerte como ese ciervo que lideraba la escapada, pero con peor suerte. También la muerte puede llegar así, sin avisar». Carmen, una economista en paro, sabe que en ocasiones para avanzar se debe primero retroceder. Y para enfrentarse...

A disturbing, darkly funny fictionalization of the life of Fred A. Leuchter, the garage tinkerer turned execution authority who became a darling of the neo-Nazi movement, and subject of the Errol Morris documentary, Mr. Death. He comes to fix your photocopier, but really, Fred’s an inventor...

The cult known as the Black Phoenix is hot on my tail, attempting to thwart me as I liberate monster women across the multiverse and bring them back to my castle. Worse yet, a half-sister I never knew I had is their champion. The only thing that can stop a Van Helsing is a Van Helsing, so I can’t afford to take her lightly. What’s more, I have to stay focused on my mission. But when there’s downtime.