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The peace of Kielder Water is shattered when tourists open a barrel they found floating in the reservoir at dawn. Detectives Stone and Oliver are called to examine the skeletal remains inside. The tourists are eliminated from the investigation, but that same day a second body is discovered - this one with skin. Have the police let the killer leave the scene? While Stone investigates the remains, Oliver travels to Iceland to gather evidence and track down the tourists who have fled. Someone will do anything to protect the secrets of the past.

Susan Grey’s fiftieth birthday party promised to be a talked-about event—an over-the-top extravagant gathering of a hundred guests at her sprawling Georgian home. But it would be talked about for all the wrong reasons… From an escalated argument to the disappearance of an expensive piece of jewelry, the party was quickly spiraling out of control. But the worst was yet to come—Susan suffered a horrific fall down the grand staircase. Was it an accident, or was she pushed? For DI Grace Roth, relegated to desk duty, this could be a high-profile case and a chance to redeem herself.

Will the real Jill Maxwell please stand up. Someone is impersonating Jill, and doing damage which may never be undone.

Twenty years earlier, a set of female eighteen-year-old twins went missing in the Bay Area. There were no news reports or national coverage. The original investigators had barely touched the case, and like so many other cases of missing teens, were quickly labeled runaways, and the file sat on the shelf. Baffled by the lack of attention for the sisters, Martina insists it will be Hirsch and the Cold Case Squad’s next case.

Catriona needs help. Her 17-year-old daughter, Elena, was found dead at the bottom of a cliff near her boarding school. The death has been ruled a suicide, but Catriona isn’t convinced. When her old friend journalist Alex Devlin arrives in Hallow’s Edge to investigate, she quickly finds that life at private boarding school The Drift isn’t as idyllic as the bucolic setting might suggest. Amidst a culture of drug-taking, bullying and tension between school and village, no one is quite who they seem to be, and there are several people who might have wanted Elena to fall.

A mysterious murder in a lift has everyone baffled, including P.I. (and witch extraordinaire), Jill Gooder. Meanwhile, her love life might be falling apart, but at least Winky, her one-eyed cat, has a date.

The colonel is dead, and Jill's brother-in-law, Peter, is the prime suspect. But that's the least of Jill's problems when Winky reveals devastating news.

Mysteröse Ereignisse. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes zieht Merrily Watkins mit ihrer Tochter in den kleinen Ort Ledwardine im Westen Englands, um die dortige Pfarrstelle zu übernehmen. Die ländliche Idylle wird jedoch bald gestört: Bei einer nächtlichen Feier ereignet sich ein skurriler Todesfall und ein Skandalautor will in der Kirche ein Stück über den Tod eines Geistlichen aufführen, der vor Urzeiten als Hexer verfolgt wurde. Kurz darauf werden Merrily und ihre Tochter im Pfarrhaus von düsteren Visionen heimgesucht. Und dann verschwindet plötzlich ein Mädchen.