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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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Pablo es un pequeño delincuente, un traficante con ciertas inquietudes científicas y poéticas. Una mañana de septiembre recibe un e-mail enviado por su compinche y amigo Ángel Bru - con quien había planeado un atraco, finalmente abortado, a un prostíbulo de carretera - , citándolo en una nave abandonada de un polígono industrial. Al llegar allí descubre el cadáver de Ángel con un disparo en la frente.