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Ek sal elke dag ’n poliesman skiet, tot julle die moordenaar van Hanneke Sloet aankla, lees die dreigbrief aan die SAPS. En dan begin hy hulle afmaai. Bennie Griessel is die een wat die dossier moet heropen. Die saak is 40 dae oud, die spoor is koud. Sewe dae van hel.

Lily Black was presumed dead for years. Now she’s returned to the unquestioning arms of her loving husband, Kane. Where she’s been is a mystery, but the deadly danger she’s brought with her is manifest to all. Aliyah, Kane’s mother, has worked hard to position herself in power. No one escapes her bitter ambition, not her children and certainly not a woman who may not be who she claims.

A costumed killer. A dog trainer with a knack for catching bad guys. Can she unmask the truth before her loved ones pay the price? September Day has hit her limit. Recovering from the shock of learning her birth parents’ identity, the self-doubting PTSD survivor strives to focus on her fiancé, his children, and upcoming Halloween festivities. But when her best friend’s cat runs off into a pumpkin patch, the thirty-year-old animal behaviorist and her four-pawed companion give chase… only to discover a dead body.

When his boyhood friend vanishes, a man who has coasted through life on the fading memory of high school heroics, risks everything to save him. Just as Darwin is getting back in the game, Billy vanishes, the FBI wants Darwin's help to find him, and Darwin learns his wife's secret past has put her life in jeopardy. Darwin know's Billy's guilty, but he can't betray his friend, and he's falling in love with Fariba, but can't abandon his wife. He has no good choice, no winning shot , and in this world heroes don't get parades.

Jacintha (Jack) Cross und ihr Ehemann Gabe werden von großen Unternehmen engagiert, um deren Sicherheitssysteme zu unterlaufen und so deren Schwachstellen zu finden. Und die beiden sind verdammt gut in ihrem Job! Doch eines abends geht etwas schief und Jack wird verhaftet. Als sie Stunden später entlassen wird, findet sie ihren Mann Gabe mit durchschnittener Kehle am Schreibtisch. Verzweifelt und fassungslos bricht sie zusammen.

A mysterious sniper is killing random New York City citizens at the same time every day. Detective Joe Bannon and his partner Hannah Trimble follow the breadcrumb trail of clues down repeated blind alleys. With citizens fearing to venture outside, the streets of Manhattan have become nearly deserted. When the sniper begins escalating the profile of his targets, higher level government agencies are pulled in.

When the world breaks down due to a court case, the FBI agents in Indianapolis try to survive in a country without law and order.

Meine kleine Prinzessin. So allein. Du zitterst ja, du armes Ding. Komm mit mir, hab' keine Angst. Bei mir bist du sicher. Ich bringe dich an einen geheimen Ort, mein Herz, aber vorher müssen wir hier im Wald noch ein paar rote Schleifen verteilen, schau.

Lenny Henry plays double murderer Frank Watt, who is getting ready to face life on the outside after 30 years in prison. He's looking forward to getting out, but things have changed a lot since the '80s and he's institutionalised. He quite likes his bookish, monklike life inside and the anger he was boiling over with when he went to prison is down to a manageable simmer.

There are just four days to Mother's Day and crime reporter Colin Crampton is under pressure to find a front-page story to fit the theme. Then Colin and his feisty girlfriend Shirley Goldsmith stumble across a body late at night on a lonely country road. Colin scents a story when the cops dismiss the idea of murder. Colin and Shirley flirt with danger as they investigate the killing. And that's before they tangle with the mothers...Join Colin and Shirley for a madcap Mother's Day mystery in Swinging Sixties England, where the laughs are never far from the action.

Texas Ranger Sam Cable flies to California to extradite Jade Stone, a prisoner accused of the murder of her police detective boyfriend. On the way back, their small plane crashes in a remote area of the Gila National Forest. Sam, Jade, and the injured pilot soon discover that the crash was no accident. The charges against Jade aren’t as simple as they seem.

Nell Cosgrove is the new wife who got it all. She married her handsome, wealthy boss within six months of meeting him. They live in a beautiful riverside home. She has a flourishing career. The only problem is her two stepdaughters, Ruby and Poppy, who are fiercely loyal to their mother and reject all of Nell's overtures.

John «Slim» Hardy asume tras su liberación lo que cree que será un caso sencillo en el tranquilo pueblo de Launceston, en Devonshire. La desaparición en misteriosas circunstancias de la colegiala Emily Martín desorientó a la policía. Ocho días después, su reaparición le dejó igualmente perpleja. Aparentemente ilesa, Emily afirmó no recordar nada de su período de secuestro y, con el tiempo, la investigación se abandonó. Dos años después, al irse destruyendo su relación con su hija, la desesperada madre de Emily, Georgia, recurre a Slim en busca de respuestas.