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Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later the best-selling account of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity.

Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience’s attention. Her latest story - a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal - is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: The victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence.

As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime-scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father's law office a week after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case come to life once more.

When Dr. Sloan Hastings submits her DNA to an online genealogy site for a research assignment, her goal is to better understand the treasure-trove of genetic information contained on ancestry websites. Brilliant and driven, Sloan is embarking on a fellowship in forensic pathology, training under the renowned Dr. Livia Cutty. Sloan has one reservation about involving herself in the experiment: she’s adopted. Grateful for a loving home, she’s never considered tracking down her biological parents.

Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She’s no longer the terrified teenager a rapt audience saw on television, emerging in handcuffs from the quiet suburban home the night her family was massacred. That girl, Alexandra Quinlan, nicknamed Empty Eyes, was accused of the killings, fought to clear her name, and later took the stand during her highly publicized defamation lawsuit that captured the attention of the nation. It’s been ten years since, and Alex hasn’t stopped searching for answers about the night her family was killed.

Ten years after a teenage girl's disappearance, a bizarre confession breaks open the cold case in dangerous ways…and threatens to tear apart her small Wisconsin town all over again in the masterfully twisty new psychological suspense novel from the internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later.

The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history - a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over 12 weeks and centres on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a spring break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work?

Inside the walls of Indiana’s elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus and playing fields sits an abandoned boarding house that is infamous among Westmont’s students as a late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: don’t let your candle go out - unless you want the Man in the Mirror to find you....

Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She's no longer the terrified teenager a rapt audience saw on television, emerging in handcuffs from the quiet suburban home the night her family was massacred. That girl, Alexandra Quinlan, nicknamed Empty Eyes by the media, was accused of the killings, fought to clear her name, and later took the stand during her highly publicized defamation lawsuit that captured the attention of the nation.

When DNA results reveal a disturbing connection to the mysterious disappearance of a famous baby nearly three decades ago, a woman’s search for answers draws her to an ominous small town in Nevada and a dangerous web of corruption, power, and lies in this engrossing, propulsive new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later.

Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience's attention. Her latest story—a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal—is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner's office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: the victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence.

Algunos lugares parecen demasiado hermosos para ser tocados por el horror. Summit Lake, ubicado en las montañas de Carolina del Norte, es ese tipo de lugar con atractivas casas a lo largo de la costa al borde de un lago de agua prístina. Pero hace dos semanas, Becca Eckersley, una joven estudiante de derecho fue brutalmente asesinada en una de esas casas. Hija de un poderoso abogado, Becca era una chica brillante y ambiciosa. Ahora, mientras la ciudad se tambalea por el dolor y los conmocionados residentes especulan e intercambian sus teorías, la policía se encuentra perdida.

La verdad es fácil de perder, incluso cuando está justo delante de nosotros. Como reconstrucionista forense, Rory Moore arroja luz sobre los homicidios en casos fríos al unir detalles de la escena del crimen que otros no ven. Limpiando el despacho de abogados de su difunto padre una semana después de su entierro, recibe una llamada que la sumerge en un caso de décadas de antigüedad que cobra vida una vez más.

Ella no recuerda nada. Mejor así. Su verdad era solo la mitad de la historia. Megan McDonald está terminando el bachillerato, es popular, carismática, y tiene un futuro increíble por delante. Una de sus últimas noches en Emerson Bay la secuestran. Megan está dos semanas en cautiverio hasta que escapa, y pasa a ser conocida como “la chica que se llevaron”.

To årtiers løgne, én knusende sandhed …

To årtier efter en begivenhed, der rystede verden, skaber en uhyggelig henlagt mordsag igen overskrifter.

DNA fra et lille benfragment har ført til, at embedslægen i New York har gennemført sin første vellykkede identifikation af et 9/11-offer i årevis. Victoria Ford var under anklage for det brutale mord på sin gifte elsker, da hun døde. I et sidste telefonopkald fra nordtårnet tryglede Victoria sin søster om at bevise hendes uskyld.

En oskyldig flicka som spärrats in av misstag … eller en beräknande mördare utan något att förlora? Flickan på Sugar Beach är tevehistoriens mest publikdragande dokumentär – en outhärdligt spännande utredning av ett autentiskt brottsfall. Varje sommarfredag kommer ett nytt avsnitt av en pågående utredning där producenten Sidney Ryan försöker avgöra om den blivande läkaren Grace Sebold verkligen mördade sin pojkvän Julian under en resa till Karibien – eller om Grace blev ett offer för omständigheterna och för en illa genomförd polisutredning.

Två bestialiska mord på en exklusiv internatskola står i centrum förthrillermästaren Charlie Donleas nya roman om den forensiskarekonstruktören Rory Moore och hennes sambo, profileraren Lane Phillips. På andra sidan muren ligger skogen, och genom skogen går en glömd stig som leder till det ökända lärarhuset. I den vildvuxna utkanten av campusområdet runt Westmont Preparatory School i Indiana ligger en övergiven lärarbostad, ett hus som eleverna olovandes använt som nattlig festlokal och som blivit platsen för en livsfarlig lek.

På den anden side af muren ligger skoven, og i skoven findes en glemt sti, der fører til den berygtede lærerbolig. Et skræmmende mord på et prestigefyldt gymnasium er omdrejningspunktet i denne medrivende nye roman fra den anmelderroste og bedstsælgende forfattter Charlie Donlea. Bogens hovedpersoner er den retsmedicinske rekonstruktør Rory Moore og hendes kæreste Lane Philips, som er psykolog. Et stykke fra det velpolerede campus på Indianas elitære Westmont Preparatory School ligger en forladt lærerbolig, som er et populært sted for de unge at samles om aftenen.

Sandheden er let at overse, selv når den er lige for øjnene af os. Retsmedicinsk rekonstruktør Rory Moore kaster lys over uopklarede drabssager ved at sætte detaljer sammen, som andre overser. Da hun rydder op i sin afdøde fars advokatkontor en uge efter begravelsen, får hun et opkald, der kaster hende ud i en årtier gammel sag, der er vågnet til live.I sommeren 1979 forsvandt fem kvinder fra Chicago. Forbryderen med tilnavnet Tyven efterlod sig hverken lig eller spor – før politiet modtog en pakke fra en mystisk kvinde ved navn Angela Mitchell.

En uskyldig ung kvinde, der får frarøvet sin frihed... eller en beregnende morder uden noget at tabe? Pigen fra Sugar Beach er den mest sete dokumentarserie i TV-historien - et medrivende, true life-mysterium, der udfolder sig over ti afsnit og indkredser et fascinerende spørgsmål: Slog Grace Sebold sin kæreste, Julian, ihjel, mens de var på ferie, eller er hun et offer for omstændighederne og dårligt politiarbejde? Grace har tilbragt de sidste ti år i et fængsel i St. Lucia og tager kontakt til filmskaber Sidney Ryan i et sidste, desperat forsøg på at bevise sin uskyld.