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Eine SMS, reflektiert in der Scheibe im ICE. Als Charles Mischke im Zug von Köln nach Frankfurt die Kurznachricht einer geheimnisvollen Frau mitliest, wird er selbst zur Zielscheibe eines skrupellosen Auftragskillers. Was zu Beginn noch wie ein schlechter Scherz wirkt, wird schnell brutale Realität. Selbst Charles' Freundin Annika gerät ins Visier der Killer - und er handelt gegen jegliche Vernunft. Mit Charles' Entscheidung, das Rätsel der SMS zu lösen, eskaliert die Situation vollends...

Er liebt junge Frauen. Er holt sie sich. Niemand kann ihn stoppen. Als die Fernsehmoderatorin Sarah Wagner spurlos verschwindet, nimmt eine Journalistin die Jagd nach dem unbekannten Entführer auf: Christine Lenève. Eine Frau, die unbeirrbar ihrem Instinkt folgt. Die Spur führt sie zurück in die Vergangenheit - zu Ikarus, dem gefährlichsten Serienmörder der DDR. Stets hinterließ er eine Feder am Tatort und schickte die Asche seiner Opfer an die Eltern.

Contemplating suicide after nearly a decade at war, Levi sits down to write a note to his best friend Nick, explaining why things have to come to this inevitable end. Years earlier, Levi - a sergeant in the army - made a tragic choice that led his team into ambush, leaving three soldiers dead and two badly injured. During the attack, Levi risked death to save a badly burned and disfigured Nick. His actions won him the Silver Star for gallantry, but nothing could alleviate the guilt he carried after that fateful day.

A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave - her body identically arranged. The hunt for the killer is on. The police call in criminal psychologist Kate Pearson to get inside the mind of the murderer before he strikes again. But the more Kate discovers about the killings, the more it all feels terrifyingly familiar.

München, das Ende eines heißen Sommers. Drei Mädchen sterben innerhalb weniger Wochen - wie es scheint, aus eigenem Entschluss. Doch das ist nur die halbe Wahrheit. Denn alle drei wollten mit ihrer großen Liebe, dem unnahbaren Tristan, gemeinsam in den Tod gehen. Und sie ahnten nicht, dass ausgerechnet er sich als ihr schlimmster Feind entpuppen würde.

Nothing is what it seems. Karl and Marte Vollan live in an isolated farmhouse in rural Norway. It seems like paradise, until suddenly it becomes a living nightmare. During the dead of winter, Karl tries to drive heavily pregnant Marte to hospital. But before he can get his car out of the thick snow and off their land, they are attacked by a hooded figure. The stranger is holding a hatchet, and it is covered in dark blood. Karl desperately tries to get them both away, but their attacker overpowers them. He escorts them back to their home, locks the doors, and cuts the phone lines.

Hamilton Speke is a successful playwright and composer - an extraordinary creative force. He lives and works on an estate south of San Francisco, secure in a woodland sanctuary where, to his surprise, he receives a visitor from his past, an old friend and former partner. Then everything changes. Speke's life of celebrity and vision is ruptured by bloodshed and insanity in a world where it's revealed that no one, and no career, is far from danger.

At a remote farm, a group of old friends gather to catch up, sit by the fire, and forget about their overworked lives. But a long weekend in the country is not Joseph's idea of a good time - not when he's promised his ex-wife he'll use the occasion to talk to their troubled 14-year-old daughter, and not when the farm belongs to his former lover and her husband, Alex. Once best friends, Joseph and Alex are now estranged, with much left unspoken between them.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? When Caren Williams finds herself back on the estate she fought so hard to get away from, little does she realise she'll be living opposite her archenemy, Gina Bradley. Gina thinks she and her family rule Stanley Avenue, so when Caren starts to become popular, she decides to hit her where it will hurt the most: she wants her husband.

Working on the notorious Mitchell Estate, housing officer Josie Mellor faces challenges every day, but not nearly as many as those of her tenants. Kelly Winterton is scared and alone after her partner has been jailed. A victim of domestic abuse, Charlotte Hatfield has fled from her violent partner four times already. He'll probably kill her if he finds her this time. Disowned by her family, someone is taking advantage of Amy Cartwright's vulnerability. Who can she turn to for support?

Vor der Post in Oregon wird die nackte Leiche des Postboten gefunden. Um seinen Hals trägt er ein Schild mit den Worten "Ich muss für das bezahlen, was ich getan habe". Wenig später taucht ein weiterer nackter Mann auf, gefesselt, vor einer Grundschule. "Ich will, was ich nicht haben kann" steht auf dem Schild um seinen Hals. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Stiefbruder von Detective September Rafferty.

New York 2059. Eve Dallas erkennt die elegant gekleidete Besucherin in ihrem Büro erst auf den zweiten Blick: Es ist ihre Pflegemutter Trudy Lombard. Einst hat sie nichts unversucht gelassen, die kleine Eve zu quälen, und auch jetzt hat sie nichts Gutes im Sinn. Sie droht, Eves dunkelstes Geheimnis öffentlich zu machen - wenn sie ihr nicht zwei Millionen Dollar gibt. Als Eves geliebter Roarke davon erfährt, lässt er nichts unversucht, diesen Schrecken aus der Vergangenheit zu bannen. Doch dann geschieht ein Mord.

On a hotter and more volatile Earth in the 23rd century, humans like Clare and Jon live in utopia, hunting and gathering in small tribal bands, engaged in daily art and ritual, reunited with old friends like the shaggy mammoth and giant ground sloth. Even better, they still have solar-powered laptops and can communicate with each other around the world. The understanding of physics has also advanced.

San Francisco architect Stratton Fields has just discovered that a contest was rigged against him and that the man who engineered the cheat, Ty DeVere, is determined to keep Stratton from success. But when Stratton's enemies, including Ty, start dying mysteriously - and Stratton encounters several apparitions - he wonders if he unknowingly made a deal with a supernatural force. Or maybe he murdered these people himself and has no memory of his deeds.

Paul Wright's family sends him to find his cousin, a photographer whose subjects have become increasingly macabre. Paul investigates Len's last known address, a cabin in California's Napa Valley, only to discover the frightening and sinister truth behind his cousin's obsession with the past.

Red Patterson is a TV psychiatrist, a video force, and a famous healer. His newest patient, Curtis Newns, is an artist with a damaged soul. Red is so intrigued by Curtis that he seeks to separate the artist and his wife and claim Curtis' creative talent as his own. He decides to hold troubled, talented Curtis in his desert estate, where the macabre secrets of Red's life are waiting to be unearthed.

Kaum ihrer Ehehölle entkommen, entdeckt Mia in der Zeitung ihre eigene Todesanzeige. Ein genialer Schachzug ihres brutalen Ehemannes - oder steckt etwas ganz anderes dahinter? Je näher sie der Wahrheit kommt, desto grausamer wird sie von der Vergangenheit eingeholt.

"Was sie zuvor mit mir getan, das tu ich jetzt den andern an" ritzt er ihnen in die nackte Haut, nachdem er sie vergewaltigt und stranguliert hat. Seine Opfer sind alle jung, hübsch, brünett - genau wie die eine, auf die er es abgesehen hat: Detective September Rafferty vom Laurelton Police Department, Oregon. Ihr schickt er eine ihrer Kinderzeichnungen, auf die er in blutroten Buchstaben seine tödliche Nachricht kritzelt. September versteht sofort, dass sie den Serienmörder offenbar aus Kindertagen kennt und er hinter ihr her ist - doch warum?

Flight 816 has been hijacked and the terrorists have decided to auction off the passengers online. The passengers who receive the highest bids will be released. The passengers who receive the lowest bids will be executed. Life can't be better for veteran pilot Larry Walder. He has a great job, a terrific kid, a gorgeous wife - and no inkling that tonight will be the end of the world as he knows it. In the early hours before the Fourth of July, three men break into Larry's home.

Weil sie verspätet aus der Mittagspause zurückkehrt, entgeht Liv um Haaresbreite einem Massaker an ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Doch galt der Anschlag wirklich der Firma, die Gerüchten zufolge für das US-Militär arbeitet? Liv befürchtet, dass sie das eigentliche Opfer hätte sein sollen. Sie vermutet einen Zusammenhang mit dem mysteriösen Päckchen, das sie vor wenigen Tagen aus dem Nachlass ihrer Adoptivmutter erhalten hat. In Panik kidnappt Liv den nächstbesten Wagen samt Fahrer. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Undercover-Detective August Rafferty.