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Matthew Hanson is a forensic phonetician and the best audio profiler in America. He is able to create a psychological and visual profile of people using only tones, noises, dialects and voice colours. Thanks to him, some of the most dangerous criminals are in jail. Blackmailers, hostage-takers, assassins, the critical evidence that brought them to justice - short audio recordings. Hanson is fascinating, charismatic, difficult to see through. And: he is in solitary confinement.

I may be the bride - but this isn’t my wedding. You see, I’m pretending to be someone else and marrying the stranger that she was promised to. My future husband is a ruthless man, and if he discovers my secret, I’m dead. I have no choice but to succeed in my task. Earn his love, his trust, and when he least expects it…kill him. It was supposed to be easy. I’d spent a year planning for every scenario. Every possible issue. But then I made the biggest mistake of them all....

Veteran scriptwriter Vincent McInerney draws on his lifelong knowledge of Liverpool and his background in the Merchant Marine in these engaging thrillers, in which the gruff, indomitable John Crust and his sidekick Minty probe the circumstances surrounding a missing husband, a stolen sculpture and a hidden treasure.

Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene on his first night with Detroit PD. A terrified young woman has bludgeoned her attacker with shocking skill. She is also a brilliant escape artist. Her flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve—and, for Walter, impossible to forget. His fascination with the missing, grey-eyed woman approaches obsession. And when Walter discovers that he's not alone in his search, only one thing is certain. The string of murders didn't begin in his home city—but he's going to make sure it ends there.

Alex Cross chases a cold-blooded killer...with a conscience. Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, DC. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps into the leadership vacuum to investigate the case. But before Cross can make any headway, a brutal crime wave sweeps across the region.

The Lawyer Lifeguard with Doug Allyn: Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a lifeguard job at the beach. But there’s one wave he’ll never see coming.... The Doctor’s Plot with Connor Hyde: Abi Brenner is the new medical examiner in the Napa Valley, a dream job in a dream location. But her fairy tale will take a terrifying turn when she uncovers a series of murders - with one sinister thing in common.

Dr. Grace Kendal never stands a chance. The injured woman comes out of nowhere, bleeding heavily and holding a gun. Compelled to help her, Grace is dragged into Elin Breckenridge’s nightmare. Their fight to survive will take them across the country and to the limits of their endurance. But who is Elin running from? As Grace struggles for answers, one thing becomes clear - Elin is somehow connected to a dead man, and Grace could be next.

Julius Kern steht vor einer neuen Herausforderung. Siebzehn Frauen hat der so genannte Schläfenmörder in verschiedenen Bundesländern bereits getötet...

"Kill them all." The dying wish of a man who has lost everything he held dear. The words are spoken to Dominic de Leon, a border patrol agent who is no stranger to death. Dom’s life has been ugly. From his father’s belt to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, he has been a victim and the instrument of violence. Now, he will visit it upon the people who have taken his brother from him.

Ein Serienmörder treibt in Berlin sein Unwesen. Sein drittes Opfer, eine ältere Dame, wird in einem weißen Leinenhemd aufgebahrt auf ihrem Esstisch gefunden. Spuren gibt es keine, denn die Wohnung ist klinisch rein geputzt - ein Alptraum für jeden Ermittler. Das LKA Berlin steht vor einem Rätsel und die letzte Hoffnung, den "Putzteufel-Mörder" zu finden, ruhen auf Julius Kern. Schon einmal konnte er einen grausamen Massenmörder fassen. Doch Kern ist damals daran fast zerbrochen und beim aktuellen Fall führen alle Spuren scheinbar ins Leere. Während er nur langsam zu seiner alten Form zurückfindet, hat sein Gegner bereits das nächste Opfer im Visier und Kern muss erkennen, dass er den Mörder nur mit Hilfe des Mannes fassen kann, den er in seinem Leben nie mehr wiedersehen wollte...

With Fat Elvis the perfect candidate for a starring role in their new film, Moonlight is hired by the police to go undercover and expose the snuff film operation which, it turns out, is also partly financed by Mexican drug cartel gang members. The stakes and the body count in this hard-boiled thriller are higher than a box office smash hit, and far more deadly.

Drew Duncan swore he’d never go back to Ember Falls again. After he was wrongfully charged with his high school girlfriend’s murder, he waited for a trial that never came. When he was released from jail a year later, he left everything behind. But when his sister is murdered, Drew is forced to return to the hometown where he and his sisters were brutalized by their alcoholic father. Once back, not even his training as a Marine and point man for McAlister Security prepares Drew for what he must face.

When two cons doing several respective back-to-back life sentences for murder make a daring - if not Hollywood-style - escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in upstate New York, PI Jack Marconi receives a personal invitation from the governor of New York State to track the murderers down and deliver them personally to the front door of the governor's mansion.

It's been thirty years since the terrifying abduction of twin sisters Rebecca and Molly Underhill by a deranged man. Fearful of retribution against their family, the girls kept the incident secret. Rebecca, alone since Molly died of cancer, suddenly begins getting strange and anonymous text messages—the first with just her name. Is Molly trying to communicate with her? And it couldn't be their attacker from so many years ago. Surely, he'd still be in jail or dead by now—wouldn't he?

AT FIRST, THE PANDEMICS DECIMATED THE OLD. Written in 2015, before the coronavirus outbreak, Gray Silence is a dystopian novel in which seniors' end-of-life care is now in the hands of the State. An ideal lifestyle in an idyllic setting... But the reality is quite different as the State discreetly gets rid of the most vulnerable. Alexandre Geoffroy is a gifted and charismatic lawyer who has everything going for him: he's great with women, drives a Jaguar, and frequents the high circles of power. He is also the mastermind behind the Healthy Villages for Seniors, facilities that offer to take care of elderly relatives with dignity.

In a play filled with murders, only Archy McNally - South Florida's premiere sleuth-about-town created by Lawrence Sanders - can separate the actors from the genuine article, and bring down the curtain on the latest and most enjoyable of McNally's follies.

Matthias Hegel è un fonetico forense e il miglior audio-profiler in Germania. È in grado di creare un profilo psicologico e ottico di una persona attraverso suoni, rumori, dialetti e colore della voce. Grazie a lui alcuni dei criminali più pericolosi sono ora dietro le sbarre. Ricattatori, sequestratori di ostaggi, assassini, dei quali gli investigatori avevano solo brevi estratti audio. Hegel è affascinante, carismatico, difficile da decifrare. Ed è in isolamento. Un anno fa ha brutalmente ucciso una senzatetto. Le prove sono state schiaccianti.

"Aiuto, il mio bambino è sparito! Qui c'è solo sangue..." Una telefonata sorprende la polizia di Berlino, perché la conversazione termina bruscamente prima che il chiamante possa essere identificato. Solo una persona può venire a capo della misteriosa richiesta di aiuto: Matthias Hegel. Dotato di un braccialetto elettronico alla caviglia, l'ingegnoso audio-profiler è autorizzato a lasciare la custodia. Appena uscito, Hegel contatta di nuovo la blogger Jula, che dovrebbe aiutarlo a trovare il bambino prima che sia troppo tardi.

La Rochelle, mois de juillet. Une femme est retrouvée égorgée chez elle face à son fils de dix ans ligoté, qu'un bandeau et un casque audio ont préservé de l'intolérable spectacle. C'est la deuxième en l'espace de quelques semaines et les flics n'ont pas la moindre piste. Le commissaire Baccaro va alors faire appel à Victor Caranne, psychologue carcéral et oreille préférée des criminels multirécidivistes de la prison de l'île de Ré. Mais le tueur est une ombre insaisissable qui va bientôt faire basculer la ville dans la psychose.

Vertraue niemandem, denn auch der Schatten einer weißen Rose ist schwarz. Jana und Felix’ Ehe ist am Ende. Nach dem Unfalltod ihres gemeinsamen Sohnes verhält Felix sich distanziert und kühl und lässt Jana mit ihrer Trauer allein. Nur ihre beste Freundin Marlene und Janas Schwager Fabian, der Gefühle für sie hegt, stehen ihr zur Seite und helfen ihr, nach dem Verlust wieder auf die Beine zu kommen.