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Life in modern Tokyo is a blast for Rei Shimura, a young Japanese-American woman who enjoys busy days as an antiques dealer and steamy nights with a devoted new boyfriend. But things come to a standstill when Rei overpays for a rare old chest of drawers for a wealthy client, the owner of a famous Zen temple in Kamakura. The exquisite tansu turns out to be a fake: the worst deal Rei has ever made. When the temple family turns on Rei - and the con man who sold the tansu is murdered - she realizes she's opened a Pandora's box of deception and death.

Swiss equestrian William "Zen" Griegg skyrockets to the top of the European show jumping circuit. As he sets his sights on the 2000 Olympic Games, his beloved horse Tiger is abducted en route to a competition in the United States. Zen's father, Sigmund Griegg, again teams with American Alana Eastwood to solve an international mystery that leads them from a secret tunnel in the Owl Mountains of Poland, through the art galleries of Zürich, to the Hamilton Farm Equestrian Center in Gladstone, New Jersey.

The True Crime Channel: That's So ZenWhat we'll do: Immerse yourself in the dark and thrilling world of That's So Zen. Each episode, we meticulously reconstruct a single true crime case, from the initial investigation to the final verdict. We combine compelling narration with exclusive soundbites, expert analysis, and a commitment to honoring the victims. Our goal is to not only tell the story of the crime but also to shed light on the investigation process and the psychological profiles of those involved.What we'll teach: You will learn the intricacies of forensic science, criminal psychology...

When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental - until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione d'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related?

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk.

Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily. Set against the backdrop of the 3000 year old city of Catania, Blood Rain reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven.

Death deals no mercy to one man who rises in a SoHo alleyway to find his lover dead and his own body ghastly transformed. Straining to overcome his murderous instincts through Zen meditation and blood deprivation, he is reclaimed by The Ministry, an underground society waging war against the undead. Time and time again his will to resist is tested by the killers who demand his allegiance and the Zen masters who will burn him down at his first missed step. He strives to walk a tightrope between the living and the dead...to master himself, his hunger, and the way of the wooden stake.

Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems. As Zen is drawn deeper into the complex and ambiguous mysteries surrounding the discovery of a skeletal corpse on an ossuary island in the north lagoon, he is also forced to confront a series of disturbing revelations about his own life.

When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be a routine and relatively undemanding assignment.

Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions: to sit back and enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday - relaxing in the sun, eating seafood and engaging in a little mild flirtation with the attractive woman sitting under the next umbrella.

Former RDD scientist Antosha Zereoue has returned to Beimeni from the Lower Level, while Captain Broden Barão is challenged by the Liberation Front. As the commonwealth prepares to honor 200 years of Chancellor Atticus Massimovian's rule, disparate sides will reconcile differences and form an accord with consequences that shake the underground.

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A powerful industrialist, Ruggiero Miletti, is kidnapped. Inspector Zen is transferred to Perugia to take over the case - but finds that there are many obstacles in his way. The local authorities see him as an interloper, and the victim’s family, one of the most powerful in Italy, seem content to let Miletti languish in the hands of his abductors. Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. Can he succeed this time?

Piet Verboom, oprichter van de "Hindistische Stichting", handelt in Oosterse wijsheid, gezond eten en innerlijke rust. Of tenminste: dat deed hij. Piet Verboom heeft zich opgehangen. Maar was het echt zelfmoord? Heeft zijn ex-vrouw er iets mee te maken? Of de leden van de Stichting, die hij vrolijk uitbuitte?

Klein lavora per l'Ente, gigantesca multinazionale del petrolio. È un geologo, per anni ha scovato giacimenti da cui far spillare soldi, ma oggi si è persuaso che il futuro è nelle rinnovabili. I vertici dell'Ente sono invece convinti che la conversione alle energie pulite farebbe crollare i profitti della compagnia. Per questo motivo inviano Klein nel Delta del fiume Niger. In apparenza appoggiano il suo progetto, ma in realtà tramano per eliminarlo facendo ricadere la colpa sui ribelli locali.

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This is the true story of how I discovered, after thirty years of marriage, that my husband was a sex trafficker. How could this happen to a seemingly normal, happy American family? From the records I've kept over the past ten years, I'll tell you the details of my own investigation into his secret life and alias identities along with what I've learned about how the underground world of the sex trafficking industry really operates and how most of it remains beyond the reach of law enforcement.It's important that we understand this frightening reality because the people involved in sex ...