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We're all animals...although some of us have more primal instincts than others. Ex-policeman Joe Cassidy has a keen interest in animal behaviour and how it can have a bearing on some of the most heinous of human crimes - a talent that has heavily informed his detective work over the years. Although until now, he thought that he had left detective work behind....

In this final installment of the widely popular “Animal” series, we find our anti-hero on a hunt for the woman who forced him to pick his guns back up when she burned his entire world down. The traitorous Red Sonja. She alone holds the key to saving his children and avenging his murdered wife, Gucci, but first he has to find her.

For Janet MacPhail, photographing retrievers in training is the perfect way to spend an evening. But a photo session at Twisted Lake takes a peculiar turn as Drake, her friend Tom's Labrador, fetches a blood-soaked bag holding an exotic feather and a torn $100 bill. When one of her photography students turns up dead at the lake, Janet investigates a secretive retreat center with help from Australian Shepherd Jay and her quirky neighbor Goldie.

When a talented dog handler falls flat on her face during the obedience trials, Australian Shepherd lover Janet MacPhail can hardly believe someone would actually resort to murder. As she takes care of her mother and falls for a hunky black Lab owner, the last thing Janet needs is to find out she's become a "person of interest." Nosing around for clues that might clear her good name, Janet and her friends - Australian Shepherd Jay, tabby cat Leo, and eccentric neighbor Goldie Sunshine - discover the hard way that killers don't like snoops.

After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the game to face his greatest opponent yet. When Animal's former lover, Red Sonja, shows up on his doorstep with a little girl, claiming Animal is the father, he and Gucci immediately fear it's a ploy for money. But Red Sonja has come to collect a debt of a different kind, one that can only be paid in blood. A powerful man is hunting Red Sonja and her daughter, and she calls on Animal to stop him.

Animal photographer Janet MacPhail is training for her cat Leo's first feline agility trial when she gets a frantic call about a "kidnapping". When Janet and her Australian Shepherd Jay set out to track down the missing party, they quickly find themselves drawn into the volatile politics of feral cat colonies and endangered wetlands.

Una novela negra bestialmente adictiva. Hay un animal salvaje dormido en nuestro interior. ¿Qué ocurre cuando despierta? El hallazgo de un cadáver conmociona a los habitantes de una tranquila región rural en Asturias. Se trata de un hombre asesinado con una crueldad extrema, encontrado a pocos metros del prostíbulo local. Aunque era un vecino conocido y respetado, todo parece apuntar a una venganza. Olivia Marassa es una joven y ambiciosa reportera que trabaja para el periódico de la región y ve en este caso la oportunidad de conseguir una gran exclusiva.

Two grisly murders are committed at a meatpacking plant by a person wearing a cow mask. Not long after, the CEO of a water park is brutally killed by someone wearing an orca mask. Interpol Agent An Chang believes these are the latest acts of a ruthless serial killer he has been chasing for more than 20 years...a killer who targets those who harm innocent animals.

El espectacular y esperado cierre de la serie de Bruna Husky. En el Madrid de 2111, la detective Bruna Husky es contratada para investigar un atentado terrorista en las instalaciones de Eternal, una gran empresa tecnológica. Las primeras pistas la llevan hasta un periodista que sigue los pasos de uno de los asaltantes, pero cuando los implicados empiezan a desaparecer o a morir el rastro se pierde. La detective y su colega, el inspector Lizard, se verán atrapados en un enigma cada vez más sombrío, en una trampa mortífera diseñada por una mente criminal aterradora.

When a man hires Emery Hazard to track down a teenager who, he claims, robbed him, Hazard isn’t convinced. The story has holes in it, and the client seems eager—too eager—to keep the authorities from getting involved. But Hazard is willing to play along; he suspects something much darker is going on, and he wants to know what it is. Then his husband, John-Henry Somerset, connects the boy in question to an ongoing suspicious death investigation, and both men realize they’ve stumbled upon something much more complicated.

Toby dog suddenly has plenty to say for himself. The only witness to the brutal murder of his owner, Toby is hexed by a woman with evil intentions. “Speak to none but me”, she tells him. Wretched and misunderstood, he’s incarcerated in the local pound. With a death sentence hanging over his head, Toby has almost given up hope. But then he meets Clarissa. Not only is she a witch, she’s a local investigative journalist, and - amazingly - she can understand what he says too. Finally, he’s found somebody who believes his story.

Oliver Holmes is called in to consult on a case in which the only reliable source is a crazy bird lady and her pet pigeon. The threads of information he begins to unravel lead to another unsolved crime that has left the police guessing for years. When Iris vanishes, leaving a trail of blood to follow, Oliver realizes someone else has taken an interest in the case. Can he find Iris before the threads weave together into a deadly noose?

An elderly spinster murdered. Thirty dogs in the house. Shelter overwhelmed. Help! When Maggie Ryan, a retired schoolteacher, is murdered, and over thirty dogs are discovered living in her home, the Cedar Bay Animal Shelter is stretched beyond its meager resources. Join Kelly, the owner of Kelly's Koffee Shop, and her husband Sheriff Mike, along with a bulldog puppy named Max, and Sanyu, an Akita guard dog, as they literally have to sniff out the murderer before they become the next victims.

"Fred Berman returns to narrate the second in Rosenfelt's K Team series. Berman's regular-guy voice makes former detective, now private investigator, Corey Douglas a sympathetic character...Listeners will hang on every word as Douglas and the K team unravel the case through their instincts...

Toby the dog can smell death. When someone assaults his elderly neighbor and leaves her for dead, Spellbound Hound Toby is devastated. For one thing, he’s worried who’ll keep him in cheesy dog treats now, but more than that, all indications are that Miranda Dervish - also known as The Pointy Woman - is behind this latest atrocity. The woman who murdered Old Joe and hexed Toby is back!

Oliver Holmes is summoned to help the police solve a case in which an old security dog is the only witness to murders in a museum. When nothing appears to have been taken, clues unite this crime to the previous one, creating dangerous conditions in which no one is safe.

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . . Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,”...

Welcome back to Honey Springs, Kentucky—where the Bean Hive Coffeehouse serves up coffee, community, and more than its fair share of crime. When a nationally known author arrives in town to headline a prestigious writer’s retreat, Roxanne Bloom is more focused on crafting perfect lattes than getting caught in his plot twists. But when the author turns up dead—in a scene straight from one of his books—Roxy’s peaceful coffee-slinging days are once again interrupted.

The weather is beautiful, work is slow, and her canine colleague could use a walk. What better day for Megan to take Brigit to the Fort Worth Zoo, where they can let loose and witness the law and order of nature unfold? But what begins as a fun field trip turns serious when a pair of rare hyacinth macaws named Fabiana and Fernando goes missing. Is the new custodian, a gentle soul who happens to be an ex-convict, to blame? Or is something far more sinister afoot? The birds are worth thousands of dollars, and the list of people on the premises who might have stolen them is long.

Guia e Lucia non si capacitano che Betti sia sparita così, senza farsi sentire o rispondere al cellulare da ben due giorni. Perciò, anche se sono assorbite dall’agenzia di catering appena avviata, e in più con Guia che deve badare alla famiglia e Lucia alle prese con la traduzione dell’ennesimo poliziesco, non possono fare a meno di preoccuparsi, soprattutto da quando Betti ha perso la testa per il misterioso Raul, da loro soprannominato il Fecalomo.