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Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure: absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer. When the body of a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky’s secrets begin to unravel. A secret whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due.

Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with double murder and desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened.

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emma has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her nightly recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emma's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison 'Books' Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected.

Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family's closet. He's also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs. When a ruthless drug dealer is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says. But he might be the FBI’s only shot at taking down the dealer’s brutal syndicate.

Jason Kolarich has spent the past year struggling to recover from the horrific deaths of his wife and baby daughter. On the night of their deaths, Kolarich was at the office, awaiting a call from a confidential informant named Ernesto Ramirez — a call that never came. Kolarich blames himself not only for the deaths of his wife and child, but for the informant’s murder as well. He can’t bring back his family, but he can find out who killed Ramirez and bring the killer to justice.

No. 7 Ocean Drive is a multimillion-dollar beachfront house in the Hamptons, but its beautiful exterior hides a horrific past. This house was the setting for a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty and rumoured to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy has moved to the area to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks.

On a hot summer night in 1980, two-year-old Audrey Culter was snatched from her bedroom and never seen again. Twenty-six years later, her brother, Sammy, fatefully crosses paths with the man the police failed to convict for her abduction and murder. A few weeks later, that man is dead, murdered. Private attorney Jason Kolarich is engaged to defend Audrey's brother. But can he trust the people who hired him?

Attorney Paul Riley has built a lucrative career on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, a serial killer who emulated the lyrics of a violent song to gruesomely murder six girls, including the daughter of billionaires Harland and Natalia Bentley. Now, fifteen years later, the police are confronted with a new series of murders - and the grisly second verse to the song. Riley is the first to realize that the two cases are connected and that the line between copycat and cover-up has been blurred.

Jenna Murphy är en hård polis från New York, men när hon dras in i ett brutalt mordfall i hennes hemstad måste hon konfrontera ett förflutet som hon helst hade velat lämna bakom sig. Nya sanningar har dragits fram ur mörkret, och Murphy måste plötsligt omvärdera flera relationer i sin närhet. Och när flera ouppklarade fall visar sig ha samband med det brutala mordet, måste Murphy ta till alla sina förmågor för att själv inte bli ett offer för den brutala, knivskarpa mördaren ... James Petterson är världens bäst säljande författare just nu.

Jenna Murphy är en hård polis från New York, men när hon blir indragen i ett brutalt mord i Hamptons måste hon plötsligt konfrontera sitt förflutna. En process som visar sig vara mycket svårare än vad hon från början trott. Fallet håller på att ta knäcken på Murphy, och för att slappna av åker hon på en dejt. Men snart kommer saker fram som gör henne både förtvivlad och arg. En skolskjutning från hennes ungdom visar sig ha orsakats av en närstående, och hennes demoner visar sig snart ha tydlig orsaker i ett övergrepp. Och allt finner slutligen sitt svar, i det gamla spöklika Murder House ...

Jenna Murphy är en tuff polis från New York, men när hon i samband med ett uppmärksammat dubbelmord på en affärsman från Hollywood och hans älskarinna återvänder till Hamptons kan hon inte värja sig mot sitt trassliga förflutna. Inte nog med det så skedde mordet i huset där hennes farbror en gång miste livet. Jenna kommer närmare och närmare lösningen på fallet. Hon känner det på sig, för någonstans därute i skuggorna har en osynlig men ack så närvarande kraft börjat röra på sig.

The Hamptons utanför New York är en av världens vackrast belägna platser, men mitt i idyllen ligger ett gammalt hus som kallas för Mordhuset. Det är en plats som har ett fruktansvärt förgånget. Flera ouppklarade mord har inträffat där, och nu när ytterligare ett dubbelmord begås där dras New York-polisen Jenna Murphy in i fallet. Jenna är tillbaka i The Hamptons, och stadens förflutna börjar långsamt nystas upp. Mordet på hennes farbror som aldrig blev uppklarat har på något sätt med det nya dubbelmordet att göra, men Jenna lyckas inte förstå hur allt hänger ihop.

A group of intergenerational secret society sadistic pedophiles targets and brutalizes poor young boys in a rigidly conservative southern rural, small-town community. Five victims endure horrific childhoods and become close friends, and all but Eddie grow into men. Two things are in common with the survivors: they want revenge against their abusers and to avenge the death of Eddie.

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A dawn swim turns deadly in a brand-new short story starring DCI Vera Stanhope.... Two bored cell-mates play a game with chilling results.... A hen night in an isolated cottage brings new meaning to 'I will survive'.... Why not treat yourself to a slice of murderously moreish fiction, and join us in wishing the squad many deadly returns. With stories by Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Margaret Murphy, Chris Simms and Cath Staincliffe, as well as John Baker, Chaz Brenchley and Stuart Pawson.