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In the pitch dark, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand.

Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the Japanese Army killed up to 300,000 civilians. But she finds herself increasingly desperate and alone in a nightclub catering to Japanese businessmen. One gangster dominates - an old man rumoured to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued wealth and well-being. It is an elixir that others want for themselves - at any price.

In an unassuming house, on a quiet residential street in south London, a husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they’ve been bound and beaten. Worse still, their young son is missing. When DI Jack Caffery of the Met’s AMIT squad is called in to investigate, the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with the necessary detachment.

Greenwich, south-east London. Five bodies have been found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on wasteland near the Millennium Dome. When a post-mortem examination reveals a singular, horrific signature linking the victims, officers realise that they are on the trail of the most dangerous offender known to the force: a sexual serial killer.

Als Zelda Lornton in der psychiatrischen Klinik von Bristol tot aufgefunden wird, glauben alle zu wissen, wer daran schuld ist - der Geist von Beechway, von dem erzählt wird, dass er nachts die Patienten heimsucht und dazu treibt, sich selbst zu verletzen, manchmal sogar tödlich. AJ, der verantwortliche Pfleger, will an diese Gerüchte nicht glauben. Als dann der psychisch schwer kranke Isaac Handel unerwartet entlassen wird, hat AJ einen Verdacht.

Investigative journalist Joe Oaks is on the trail of a strange creature caught on some amateur film footage: a figure so deformed it can hardly be human. Recently arrived on the remote Scottish island where it was sighted, he is determined to expose the creature as the religious hoax it so obviously must be. But his confrontation, and its violent and bloody aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces him to question the nature of evil and whether he might not be responsible for the terrible crimes about to unfold.

'I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is silent.' Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The prime suspect confessed to the crimes and was imprisoned. Now, one family is still trying to put the memory of the killings behind them. But at their isolated hilltop house... the nightmare is about to return.

When the decomposed body of a woman is found by railway tracks outside Bristol, all indications are that she's committed suicide. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.

The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Amberly Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges.

November, and evening is closing in as DI Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a stolen car. The man who's stolen the car has also taken an eleven year-old girl. And she's still missing. Sergeant Flea Marley has heard about the car-jacker. He's done it before, she tells Caffery. Twice.

What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? These are questions Cal has never really thought about before. She’s always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. Her sister Zoe is her polar opposite. A detective inspector working out of Bath Central, no one would guess that she hides a crippling secret that dates back 20 years. Then Cal's daughter gets into difficulties, and Cal finds she needs cash fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs. Two sisters intent on survival.

Student Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the notorious Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the Imperial Japanese Army killed up to 300,000 civilians. Only one man can help her, a survivor of the Massacre, and now a visiting professor at the prestigious university of Todai in Tokyo; a man who is rumoured to possess documentary evidence of Nanking.

Patienterne på den lukkede afdeling på Beechway Sikringsanstalt i Bristol er letpåvirkelige. En hallucination kan sprede sig som et virus. Da uforklarlige strømafbrydelser fører til en række skrækindjagende hændelser, breder frygten sig fra patienterne til personalet. Midt i det stigende hysteri prøver oversygeplejersken AJ desperat at beskytte sine patienter. Mod det usynlige. Mod det, der kommer lige efter, strømmen er gået. Politikommissær Jack Caffery leder efter liget af en forsvunden ung kvinde.

Dans le port de Bristol, le sergent "Flea" Marley, plongeuse de la police, récupère une main humaine, tranchée net. L'autopsie de cette découverte macabre entraîne un constat terrifiant: l'amputation a eu lieu alors que la victime était encore en vie. Flea en fait part à Jack Caffery, commissaire de la brigade criminelle récemment muté de Londres. Tous deux se lancent à corps perdu dans l'enquête, au risque de réveiller leurs propres démons.

Un rituel chasse l'autre... Alors que le trafic humain à tendance vaudoue est encore dans toutes les mémoires, on déplore des victimes d'un nouveau genre. Écorchées. Seul contre tous, le commissaire Jack Caffery croit encore y voir l'empreinte du Tokoloshe, ce minuscule démon africain, mi-animal mi-humain... De faux suicides viennent bientôt ajouter à sa confusion. Quant au sergent "Flea" Marley, plongeuse de la Brigade subaquatique, elle a d'autres soucis en tête.

Novembre dans le Somerset. Alors qu'elle déposait ses courses dans le coffre de sa voiture, une femme est jetée au sol par un individu affublé d'un masque de père Noël qui prend la fuite à bord du véhicule. Selon la police, pour qui il ne s'agit que d'un banal fait divers, l'agresseur ne s'est sans doute pas rendu compte de la présence d'une fillette sur la banquette arrière. Mais, tandis que l'enfant reste introuvable et qu'une deuxième petite fille disparaît dans les mêmes circonstances, le scénario s'assombrit.

Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious cult on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. While investigating a strange apparition caught briefly on film wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pigs' skulls to infiltrate the territory of the group's isolated founder, Malachi Dove.

In der Nähe eines stillgelegten Steinbruchs wird die Leiche einer Frau gefunden. Alles deutet auf Selbstmord hin. Nur Inspector Caffery ist misstrauisch, denn einige Details passen nicht zueinander. Hat jemand den Suizid nur inszeniert? Tatsächlich bleibt es nicht bei einer Toten mit aufgeschnittenen Pulsadern.

Ein kühler Novemberabend in der Nähe von Bristol: Ein Auto wird gestohlen - in ihm sitzt die elfjährige Martha Bradley. Nur wenig später wird auch die kleine Emily entführt. Gibt es eine Verbindung zwischen den beiden Fällen? Jack Caffery ist der Verzweiflung nahe, denn mit jeder Stunde, die vergeht, wird es unwahrscheinlicher, dass die Mädchen noch lebend gefunden werden.

Sally Benedict ist sich sicher: Alles fing mit dem Mord an Lorne Wood an, dem 16-jährigen Mädchen, das in dieselbe Schule ging wie ihre Tochter Millie...