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As the new owners of the local village pub, Alex and Maggie Silva and their two children, are the picture of respectability…but looks can be deceptive. Because the Silva family is keeping deadly secrets. Alex Silva is a man with a dark past and a bounty on his head – one he knows will only be paid with his life. He’ll do anything to protect Maggie and the kids, but one wrong move could cost them everything…

Lynch arrives in London, looking over his shoulder for a past he cannot escape. His phone is dead, he has no money, no contacts. He is alone. Until he runs into a wealthy young woman, Bobbie Pierce, who mistakes him for her brother, Heydon, who disappeared 5 years ago without a trace. The resemblance is striking. Or so she says. Like its award-winning predecessor, True Crime Story, Imposter Syndrome takes the listener on a dizzying journey into a landscape where the difference between fact and fiction is almost impossible to distinguish.

People think being a mortuary technician is a seriously weird job. They can't understand why I choose to cut up dead bodies for a living. But they don't know what I know: The dead want to tell us what happened to them. I've eviscerated thousands of bodies, but never someone I know before-someone who meant a lot to me; someone I loved.

Ein Serientäter vergeht sich auf grausame Weise an Frauen. Zuerst dringt er in ihre Wohnungen ein und vergewaltigt sie. Ein paar Wochen später verschafft er sich erneut Zugriff auf seine Opfer und tötet sie - egal, wie gut sie von der Polizei bewacht werden. Als die Journalistin Eva Haller in ihrem erfolgreichen Blog der Kölner Polizei vorwirft, nicht genug zum Schutz der Frauen unternommen zu haben, gerät sie selbst ins Visier des Täters. Statt an die Polizei wendet sie sich jedoch an einen Mann, den sie im Zuge ihrer Recherchen kennengelernt hat: den Leibwächter Stefan Trapp.

Brooklyn, mid-2000s. After leaving behind the comforts of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney attempts to make ends meet by picking up odd jobs from a colourful assortment of clients. When the mysterious Anna Reddick turns up at his apartment with ten thousand dollars in cash and asks him to track down her missing husband, he trusts it will be an easy case.

Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, knows his real job: moving around people on the run from powerful enemies. Except for the occasional fumble, the family business—co-managed with his father, a retired spy—is smooth sailing, filling up Onset's holiday homes during the town's long, drowsy off-season. But when Elena, Jack's enigmatic former flame—and former client-fugitive—makes an unexpected return to town, wealthy fiancé in tow, her arrival upends Jack's routine existence.

Cambodia, a country with so many shadows in its past. Now, there are new shadows. A killer is on the loose, and he's leaving no clues. It’s enough to draw journalist Dave Bell back to Cambodia after a plea from an old friend. Bell puts together an unlikely team of allies. Together they begin to unravel the terrifying mystery. But can they find the truth lurking in the shadows, and stop the monster from killing again?

Helgoland im Jahre 2027. Nach dem Zusammenschluss der Europäischen Union hat die einzige deutsche Hochseeinsel ihre Bedeutung als Zollparadies verloren. 70 Kilometer vom Festland entfernt, ist das rote Felseneiland zum modernen Entsorgungszentrum für atomaren Müll geworden. Während einer kleinen Feierstunde zur Einlagerung des zehntausendsten Entsorgungscontainers kommt es zu einem Störfall. Dabei wird der Emissär der EURATOM mit einer jungen Journalistin in einer Sicherheitsschleuse eingeschlossen. Plötzlich hebt ein leises Dröhnen an, das immer näherkommt.

Addison McKellar isn’t clueless—she knows she and her husband Dean don’t have the perfect marriage—but she’s still shocked when he completely vanishes from her life. At first Addison is annoyed, but as days stretch into a week and she’s repeatedly stonewalled by Dean’s friends and associates, her frustration turns into genuine alarm. When even the police seem dismissive of her concerns, Addison turns to her father’s old friend, legendary Memphis PI Porter Hayes.

Il commissario Mariani è salito al Centro di rieducazione cardiovascolare per fare visita alla madre Emma. Come altre volte, fa due passi nella zona. Non sentendo abbaiare una cagna che di solito gli faceva festa, occhieggia attraverso la siepe e la vede insanguinata. Spinge il cancello ed entra. A terra c’è anche un uomo, Patrizio Debenedetti: è stato ucciso con un colpo di arma da fuoco. Le indagini sull’omicidio sono affidate al commissario Arnaldi, mentre Mariani viene inviato a Roma per un convegno.

Chi muore si rivede. Lazzaro Santandrea, antieroe metropolitano, risorge come il suo più illustre omonimo. E il caos si scatena a Savona, a Milano, nella lontana Sicilia e in una vicinissima Cina. A Savona scorrazzano un cadavere vestito da infermiere, un’infermiera in veste di cadavere, un paramedico in abito da suora e i diabolici fratelli Tanferna travestiti da donna. Una Milano non più in festa è infestata da un invisibile killer cinese, da un marmoreo e gessato sicario siculo e dalla consueta, inarrestabile corte dei miracoli di Lazzaro, mobilitata per mantenere in vita il proprio portabandiera.

Nell'incendio di un palazzo fatiscente di Venezia muore Susanna Balbi, ragazza bellissima vittima di un sequestro anomalo. Forse a convincere i rapitori che i genitori affidatari siano in grado di pagare un ingente riscatto è stata la splendida festa organizzata per il suo diciottesimo compleanno, in cui indossava un costume settecentesco da favola. Dieci anni dopo a vestire quello stesso abito è la scrittrice Margot Amati, ospite di uno sfarzoso ballo in maschera, a cui è stata personalmente invitata dalla consorte del marchese Pietro Gradenigo di Soranzo dei Cavalieri.

Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma finds herself confronted with a complex case, when a man is found murdered in a holiday cottage in the depths of the Icelandic countryside - the victim of a frenzied knife attack, with a shocking message scrawled on the wall above him.

When Kalu drops Aima at Lagos Airport, it marks the end of their four-year relationship. Shattered and broken open, he thinks that's the last he will see of his girlfriend. But Aima is drawn back into the city - to the scandalous, decadent nightlife of her best friend. As Kalu grieves, his friend offers him an exclusive invitation to one of his sordid, global parties - a way for Kalu to escape, if only for a night. Kalu knows it will offer every possible indulgence and something even more precious: time with the man he loves, but whose actions will plunge them all into a whirling descent.

Lungariva, Liguria, un nuvoloso pomeriggio di novembre. A bordo di una barca a vela viene trovato il cadavere di Sebastian Scettro, detto il Marinero: tre proiettili gli hanno spaccato il cuore. Appartenente a una facoltosa famiglia, il Marinero se n’era andato per mare nove anni prima su un piccolo sloop nordico, facendo perdere le sue tracce. Chi, o che cosa, l’ha riportato a casa, concedendogli solo poche ore prima dell’incontro con la morte?

Someone is committing random murders across Chicago—and making sure detectives Billy Harney (Aaron Paul) and Patti Harney (Krysten Ritter) are first on the crime scene. What connects the victims, and why is the killer leaving clues behind with each body? Billy and Patti are scrambling to stop the next killing when their father, Chief of Detectives Dan Harney (Beau Bridges), is kidnapped. But in their race to track him down, they uncover pieces of his past that simply can’t be true. Could their own flesh and blood be covering up a dark secret?

Mirror, mirror on the wall … Jealousy doesn’t exist in Darby Forester’s vocabulary. Until Caroline, an equally stunning woman, crashes Darby’s perfect fortieth birthday party and reduces her seemingly perfect husband into a horny adolescent in front of the well-wishers. THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET WORSE. Shortly after the last guest leaves, Caroline calls Wyatt. Someone is trying to break into her house—where she’s alone and terrified. Wyatt rides off to the rescue. Darby feels the first brush of fear. Her father was a serial adulterer, abusing her and her sickly mother. Infidelity ...

Als die zwei verirrten Wandersleute Hermine und Wilhelm endlich in einer Sturmnacht ein Obdach in einer abgelegenen Hütte im Hexenmoos finden, bekommen sie dort vom alten Wolfs-Martin einen unglaublichen Bericht über längst vergangene Geschehnisse zu hören, die ihre Schatten bis in die Gegenwart zu werfen scheinen... Welche Bewandtnis hat es mit dem Auftauchen des tiefschwarzen Hirschs im Moos? Und was geschah tatsächlich bei dem verfallenen Gedenkkreuz am Wegesrand, an dem die Wanderer noch kurz zuvor vorübergekommen waren?

Join Detective Molly Malone in her first queer noir adventure! 1943, San Francisco. And Molly Malone has secrets. Between pretending to be the secretary of her own detective agency and late-night visits to her favorite gay club Whiskers (where a secret knock grants entry), Molly's life is lived in the shadows. But when distraught housewife Sylvia seeks help from a detective, Molly's professional and personal life begin to merge.

Che cosa può avere in comune la morte di una studentessa del liceo classico di Savona con quella della quarta prostituta assassinata a Genova? Tocca a una Maria Viani liceale scoprirlo. Siamo alla fine degli anni Sessanta, un attimo prima che scoppi la contestazione studentesca e l’autunno caldo degli scioperi operai, nella quiete solo apparente di una provincia addormentata. Il commissario Marongiu, alle soglie della pensione, aiutato dal giovane ispettore Cantini, si trova a dover districare una matassa di enigmi.