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Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange. This message was deleted. Leona answers the door, and insists everything's fine. She doesn't know anything about the message. Six hours later, Saffy gets a knock on the door. It's the police. They’ve found a body. And Saffy was the last one to see them alive.

I'm finally accepting that my psychic talents serve a purpose, that I can use them to help people. But two mysteries plague me. What happened to my good friend Lucas' sister after she disappeared then years ago? And if my father was murdered when I was young, why do I keep seeing him? When I find the long-buried remains of Lucas' sister, her murdered body only opens more questions.

I find the murdered woman crumpled under a tree. Blood stains her back and her hands are bound. If I touch her, my psychic abilities will show me what happened to her. But I've lived through murders before, and the visions leave scars. Fighting my fear, I touch her—and only see four names—Addlynn Jeanette Claire Margaret.

Amid the shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, shady vendors sell junk, precious antiques, and stolen goods side by side. Somewhere in the mix, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust - and attracting a group of fanatical killers. When private investigator Sharon McCone helps one flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into the netherworld of deal-making and thievery, a dangerous milieu seldom seen by outsiders.

January, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack knows he's not going to have a good day when he wakes with a sore head next to a dead body in a tavern's yard. But when he discovers what's in the dead man's purse, his day is set to get much worse. The purse explains why the mysterious man with the broad-brimmed hat wants to catch him. But so does the Lord Chancellor, as does the enigmatic Henry. In fact almost everyone seems to be after Jack Blackjack.

A routine missing person enquiry takes a grisly turn when a young couple drag a box containing human remains out of a Somerset river. The victim was a surveillance expert investigating an exaggerated injury claim—a murder with an obvious motive, until a police officer is implicated and suspended. Still brooding after his recent brush with police Professional Standards, Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon is on extended leave, helping his pregnant fiancée, Detective Sergeant Jane Winter, fight for her place on the major investigation team.

A middle-of-the night phone call summons NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli and her partner, Detective P. J. Parker, to a politically sensitive murder scene. The victims - a US Senator, the pastor of a mega church, and a self-made music industry billionaire - appear to have been killed during a sex orgy.

Octubre de 1987: la mañana después de la Gran Tormenta de Londres. Tania Mills, de quince años, sale por la puerta de su casa y desaparece. Más de veinte años después, su madre todavía reza por su regreso. La detective Sarah Collins del Comando de Homicidios de la policía de Londres está decidida a averiguar qué sucedió, pero la interrumpe otro caso terrible que la obliga a volver a trabajar con una joven y problemática oficial de policía de su pasado, Lizzie Griffiths.

Just nachdem sich der Capitano der sizilianischen Carabinieri auf unbestimmte Zeit beurlauben lassen hat, sorgt ein mysteriöser Mord im Rotlichtmilieu für Aufruhr in Villabosco. Wieder mal steht Maresciallo Saverio Bonanno mit den Ermittlungen allein da. Trotzdem gelingt es Bonanno, die Nerven zu bewahren und einer skrupellosen Organisation auf die Spur zu kommen, die ihre dunklen Botschaften übers Internet verbreitet. Aber als Bonanno herausfindet, wer hinter der Organisation steckt und dass ihre Opfer noch Kinder sind, ringt er nicht nur einmal um Fassung ...