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Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner - Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company - lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

Cary Mackin is a TV journalist who has covered crime for nearly 20 years. After losing her job, she moves to a small town in Connecticut - only to get caught up in the web of a deranged serial killer. Cary has a dark secret that drives everything she does: a deep-seated, lifelong fear that one day she will be murdered. As the madman Cary stumbled upon continues to terrorize the beautiful countryside where she now resides, will her premonition come true?

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Girl in the Creek is a pulse-pounding story about the horrors growing all around us, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and T. Kingfisher. Buried secrets only spread. Erin's brother Bryan has been missing for five years. It was as if he simply walked into the forests of the Pacific Northwest...

Where Have You Been? is a gripping domestic thriller that takes the form of a classic impostor story, with a 21st-century twist. Susan and Ed Middleton are perfectly content with their lives. Two kids, two cars, a solid brick bungalow in the suburbs. There’s barely a ripple in the surface of their happy existence. But when Susan’s older sister, who vanished as a teenager, reappears to claim an inheritance, everything is set to change. Karen - now known as Carly - has had a tough time during the past 20 years: drugs, prostitution, prison.

When Maggie MacGowen was a girl, her sister, Emily, lived the life of a leftist radical on the run from the FBI. Twenty-two years after the FBI finally caught her, Emily lives in Los Angeles, a doctor at a free clinic that tends to the city’s down and out. When one of her old radical buddies comes out of hiding and surrenders to the police, their long-ago crimes become front-page news. Emily calls Maggie, now a documentary filmmaker, and asks her to come visit. By the time Maggie arrives in Los Angeles, Emily is nearly dead.

In Los Angeles making a documentary about upscale daycares, Maggie MacGowen visits MacArthur Park to get complementary footage of the pubescent prostitutes that populate its dark corners. There she meets Pisces, a fourteen year-old hooker with manners that don't match her profession. As they bond over a plate of pastrami, Maggie talks her into spending the night in a shelter. But Pisces comes with baggage: A nine year-old hoodlum named Sly.

Fairview, eine beschauliche Kleinstadt in Connecticut: Die 16-jährige Jenny Kramer wird Opfer einer brutalen Vergewaltigung und kommt schwer traumatisiert ins Krankenhaus. Dort wird ihr ein Medikament verabreicht, das jegliche Erinnerung an den schrecklichen Vorfall auslöscht. Aber ihr Körper hat nicht vergessen.

In 1974, Roy Frady was a perfect cop. Now he's perfect fodder for one of Maggie MacGowen's documentaries. Frady worked narcotics in the 77th Street Precinct as part of a unit nicknamed the Four Whoresmen, a bunch of hard-drinking, womanizing cops that included Maggie's current lover, homicide Detective Mike Flint. They were successful at shutting down the drug trade in their district until a series of brutality charges brought about their downfall.

After decades making progressive documentary films, Maggie MacGowen did not expect to fall in love with a Los Angeles cop. But Mike Trent, whom she met while investigating her sister’s shooting, is no LAPD stereotype. Tall, with salt-and-pepper hair and a craggy Bogart face, he inspires her to uproot herself and her daughter from San Francisco and move down to L.A. It takes only a week for their new life to collapse.

Former police officer Dean Matheson has been playing it safe since the case that cost him almost everything. But working as a PI doesn’t quite cut it - that is until a British woman walks into his office with a job that Dean can’t resist. The woman’s daughter, Hannah Walker, and her friend Jodie have gone missing whilst working at a ski resort in Colorado. It’s clear there’s something sinister about the girls’ disappearance, but then why are the local police department being so unhelpful?

Rosies Schwester Laura hat kein Glück in der Liebe. Als ihre Beziehung zerbricht, kündigt sie ihren Job in New York und sucht Zuflucht bei Rosie und ihrem Mann Joe. Trotz des letzten Liebes-Desasters meldet sie sich bei einem Datingportal an und ist fest entschlossen, dem Glück eine neue Chance zu geben. Doch als Laura nach einem Blind Date spurlos verschwindet, befürchtet Rosie das Schlimmste. Gleichzeitig erwachen alte Zweifel an ihrer Schwester, der vor Jahren ein schreckliches Verbrechen zur Last gelegt wurde.

Rosies Schwester Laura hat kein Glück in der Liebe. Als ihre Beziehung zerbricht, kündigt sie ihren Job in New York und sucht Zuflucht bei Rosie und ihrem Mann Joe. Trotz des letzten Liebes-Desasters meldet sie sich bei einem Datingportal an und ist fest entschlossen, dem Glück eine neue Chance zu geben. Doch als Laura nach einem Blind Date spurlos verschwindet, befürchtet Rosie das Schlimmste. Gleichzeitig erwachen alte Zweifel an ihrer Schwester, der vor Jahren ein schreckliches Verbrechen zur Last gelegt wurde.

Everyone in Savannah, Georgia knows the Remington estate. The rambling old house bears blatant testimony not just to the esteemed family's vast wealth, but to unbearable tragedy and whispered secrets. Soon, the Remington's will all come home to this secluded plantation nestled deep in the shadow of moss-covered trees. Then they will have to die...one by one... For Charlotte Remington Maitland, the past five years have been a haze of pain and loss.

After the shattering conclusion of Cary’s quest for justice for the victims of a suspected serial killer in Premonition, Retribution picks up with her cohorts continuing their own investigation to hunt down the person responsible for the heinous murders. The man the media has dubbed the “Deer Killer” continues to haunt bucolic Connecticut—but now, his true agenda has been revealed. As more innocents fall victim to his prey, Detective Hank Nowak’s father enters the picture, only to become entangled in the murderer’s diabolical plot.

It's summer on the Jersey Shore. Children play on the beach. Husbands are off working in the city. And the surf echoes in the night. Here, in this perfect place, a serial killer has no worries in the world - except choosing the next victim. Cam Hastings has come to Long Beach Island with her teenage daughter and the hope that maybe she can save her failed marriage. Cam has never stopped loving her husband, Mike, nor has she been able to outrun her flaws and demons - a vanished mother, a lost sister, and the ugly visions she has of missing children.

When Detective Madison Harper arrives at a remote summer camp in Shadow Falls, Northern California, her heart breaks for Jenny, the sweet little girl last seen splashing in the lake with her friends before she vanished. Peering into the silent cabins filled with rows of neatly made beds, Madison knows this idyllic place is hiding a terrible secret.

Sam Ross is a psychotherapist - she spends her days helping people, but she can barely help herself. She’s still grieving over the recent death of her sister, her mother Barbara offers little support and she’s professionally challenged. One of her clients is Keith, a man whose life story changes with every session. And Keith has a secret - one that will rock Sam’s world to the core and place her in the most terrible danger.

Jung, weiblich, actionreich: "Kill Club" ist ein temporeicher Thriller um eine toughe Protagonistin, die sich auf einen mörderischen Deal einlässt. Wie ein roter Faden führt die persönliche Beziehung zwischen Mörder und Opfer die Polizei auf die richtige Spur. Aber was, wenn es keine solche Beziehung gibt? Der "Kill Club" verspricht: Ein Unbekannter tötet deine Feinde - wenn du dafür einen völlig Fremden tötest. Die letzte Chance für Schlagzeugerin Jazz, ihren kleinen Bruder Joaquin aus den Fängen seiner verbrecherischen Adoptivmutter Carol zu befreien.