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This novel offers a unique point of view on the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2014, through four intertwining narratives: a guilt-ridden doctor trying to exorcise his demons by exposing himself to war; a young woman tending to her ailing father as the bombs fall around them in Russian-occupied Slovyansk; a mysterious sociopath playing a cat-and-mouse game; and a forensic expert solving a murder case while trying to save her marriage with a discharged soldier. 

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Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her teenage son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. In the aftermath, Jack, a charismatic but troubled ex-con from Kate's past, shows up. When Luke takes off on his own for their rural cabin, Kate and Jack follow, but they're not the only ones hot on his heels. Two-time losers Teddy and Celeste, along with hitman DeJuan, are all looking to cash in on the money left to Kate.

After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County, Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens is offered two choices. He can either retire or finish his career on the fugitive task force in the crime-ridden precincts of Detroit. Acting on a tip, Raylan and his new partner Deputy Marshal Bobby Torres arrest Jose Rindo, a destructive and violent criminal. Rindo is also being pursued by the FBI who arrive shortly after he is in custody. Raylan bumps heads with a beautiful FBI agent named Nora Sanchez, who wants Rindo for the murder of a one of their own. 

Kate McGraw, the lone female on the US Marshals fugitive task force, is on the trail of homicidal bank robber when she is shot by a drugged-up ex-con. While she is in the hospital recuperating, a mysterious stranger leaves a bouquet of flowers in her room. Days later Kate is discharged. Still recuperating, she sees a man in a car parked on the street watching her apartment. This is the third time she has seen him. Kate gets the license number, follows and confronts him and discovers he's her estranged father, Frank Galvin who disappeared when she was six. 

Bahamas, 1971. Ernst Hess - missing, presumed dead - regains consciousness to find himself in a hospital bed on a strange ward in a foreign country. Back from the Dead pitches the gang - Harry, Cordell, Colette, and Joyce - into a fight to the death, which moves from the Bahamas to Florida, to Germany and the South of France, as their worst fear comes back to haunt them.

Detroit, 1971. Holocaust survivor Harry Levin learns that his daughter has been killed in a car accident. The driver, a drunk German diplomat, has been released and afforded immunity; he will never face charges. So Harry is left with only one option - to discover the identity of this man, follow him back to Munich, and hunt him down. Told with swagger, brutal humour, and not a little violence, Voices of the Dead follows a good man who is forced to return to the horrors of his past.

Rome: McCabe and Chip, two American exchange students, are about to become embroiled with a violent street gang. Detroit: Sharon Vanelli's affair with Joey Palermo, a Mafia enforcer, is about to be discovered by her husband, Ray. Brilliantly plotted and shot through with wry humour, All He Saw Was the Girl takes place as these two narratives converge in the backstreets of Italy’s oldest city.

Luke Dantry lost his parents when he was a teenager. Brought up by his stepfather, Luke now works with him on his research; monitoring extremist groups on the Internet. But within the electronic world of the Internet lie untold dangers, and when Luke suddenly feels the full force of them, he must trust no one to overcome an enemy more powerful than he could possibly realise.

Episode 1 – The Legal Community Speaks: Gratitude, Responsibility, and Imagination with Prof. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballel“We see democracies in question. We see abuse of power. We see the war prevailing over dialogue — and yet, our responsibility as jurists is dissatisfaction, never frustration. Because frustration risks inactivity.”That’s how Prof. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballel, President of the European Law Institute (ELI), defines the challenge for Europe’s legal community today.In this opening episode of The Legal Community Speaks, presented by Dublin-based ...