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Touristenmagnet Büsum von seiner schaurigen Seite. Der pensionierte Oberstaatsanwalt Thies Jansen wird verdächtigt, seine Frau und deren Liebhaber, einen bekannten Krabbenfischer, ermordet zu haben. Seine Freunde Carsten Matthiessen und Hinnerk Petersen wollen das nicht glauben und setzen alles daran, die Unschuld ihres Freundes zu beweisen. Vor allem Carsten, der vor kurzem pensionierte Leiter der Büsumer Polizeistation, ist froh, wieder eine Aufgabe zu haben. Doch die Ermittlungen gestalten sich kompliziert, denn Thies hat sich in seinem Beruf über die Jahre einige Feinde gemacht.

Detective Fraser Brodie is at a grisly crime scene on the Isle of Harris. Local aristocrat Lord Edward Devlin has been brutally murdered, his skull bashed in. The violent and bloody scene is all the more shocking for the fact that the victim was eighty. As forensics comb for evidence they uncover a second body - but this crime is not recent. Why are these remains on the Devlin Estate, and are the two deaths somehow connected?

For Helen and George, the remote fixer-upper in Cornwall was supposed to be a dream home, and a way to leave behind the problems they’re both running from. But something about the place feels wrong from day one. And why does Helen have a creeping feeling she’s seen this house before?

Eigentlich wollte Kriminalhauptkommissar Mikkel Tvorsen den ruhigen Winter in Büsum genießen, doch ein Mord ändert alles. Als frühmorgens die Leiche von Roxie Kessler im Watt entdeckt wird, deuten alle Hinweise auf ihn als Täter hin. Er kann sich an nichts erinnern, doch seine eigene Pistole scheint die Tatwaffe zu sein, und belastende Indizien tauchen an Orten auf, an denen sie nicht sein sollten.

When Claire Lucas is woken by her husband asking where their baby son is, she is dazed and confused. When she follows Darren into their child’s bedroom, she hears nothing but silence. No baby cries, no cute gurgles. The only thing left in Finlay’s cot is his beloved teddy bear. Finlay has gone. Detective Jessie Blake rushes to the family’s modern home in the rugged Scottish Highlands.

Jean Angus pours the last of the lukewarm tea into her chipped cup, shivering as she looks outside into the dark night. Her eyes are drawn to a slow movement not far from her cosy farmhouse. She’s not expecting visitors. And as the back door opens with a bang, she doesn’t even have time to shout for help. On a dark winter night, the bodies of Malcolm and Jean Angus lie cold and still in a pool of blood in their kitchen. Detective Jessie Blake is called in to find out what happened to the reclusive pair.

When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered the chance to spend the summer housesitting in New York, they can’t say no. Young, in love and on the cusp of professional success, they feel as if luck is finally on their side. So the moment that Eden turns up on the doorstep, drenched from a summer storm, it seems only right to share a bit of that good fortune. Beautiful and charismatic, Eden claims to be a friend of the homeowners, who told her she could stay whenever she was in New York. They know you’re not supposed to talk to strangers....

Fay Roper is a divorced single mom and a globally famous actress. She’s also unlucky in love. Maybe because the last thing Fay wants in a man is yet another superfan. But somehow, every time she has a boyfriend who isn’t a stalker, he abruptly disappears from her life. With the help of her best friend and right-hand woman, Poppy, Fay decides to change the game and join an exclusive new dating app under a false identity. A subscriber named Oliver takes the bait. But Oliver likes to play games too. And only one of them can win.