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Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies” - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead.

The abduction of two teenagers from their Vegas wedding isn’t a case Detective Lazarus Holloway wants to take—it’s one he has to take. His only clue is a bracelet, etched with a Mayan symbol of death and vengeance—two things the detective is familiar with. With no other leads, Lazarus enlists the help of guardian ad litem Piper Danes. They’ve got a complicated history, but Piper shares his compulsion to save children in need, no matter the personal cost. Unfortunately, that cost gets higher with every new revelation.

A couple and their young son burn to death in a house fire. A girl dies from a nut allergy. A woman falls under a train during the rush hour. An accountant falls down the steps to his basement. Their deaths appear to be accidents, but Gloria knows they were murdered, because she murdered them. And every time Gloria kills, she buys a doll. But how many dolls will she need to keep her satisfied? When Gloria takes a room as a lodger, her behaviour starts to spin out of control. Gloria wants love and happiness and friendship, and she will do anything she can to get what she wants....

Jack Winchester was a notorious hit-man for a ruthless New Jersey crime family, until a job went wrong, and he wound up serving time. Four years later, Jack is free, and he wants out of the game, but his boss won't let him go. Forced to take on one last job to make amends for what landed him in prison, he travels to the small town of Rockland Cove, Maine. There, he not only discovers that the target and money have disappeared; he finds himself falling for a damaged woman and befriending an unruly son left behind.

Fauna Young owns a small computer repair shop. She lives in a townhouse downtown. She loves to dance with her two best friends in city clubs. From the outside, Fauna’s life looks like any other young professional’s in bustling Houston. On the inside, Fauna hides a secret. She can read people’s emotions as well as intense memories impressed on everyday objects.

Jack Winchester must rely on his old skills to save a brother and sister smuggled into Los Angeles from Hong Kong. When Jack travels to Skid Row in order to put the past behind him, he is forced to contend with the Triads.

Jack Winchester is a drifter - a ghost to those who pursue him and a danger to those who confront him. Once a notorious hitman for a New Jersey crime family, Jack is now a fugitive trying to right his wrongs. Wanted by the FBI and hunted by one of the Sicilian Mafia's top assassins, he travels to New Orleans to reconnect with an old flame. But things aren't what they seem. Not only must he cross paths with a ruthless drug lord just as Hurricane Danielle makes landfall, but he's about to discover that he may be the only one that can save his ex and daughter.

A desperate mother seeks the help of Jack Winchester to find the men who kidnapped her 12-year-old boy. After local police and FBI class him as a runaway, Jack takes the job. When another boy goes missing, he soon realizes the two disappearances might be connected to something far bigger and more sinister than he could have ever imagined.

A wealthy businessman hires Jack Winchester to rescue his daughter from a dangerous cult in Peru, but with Special Agent Baker breathing down his neck, the fanatical leader and his followers may be the least of his troubles. From Florida to Chicago, Lima to the Amazon rain forest, Angel of Death is a fast-paced thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the very last moment.

Jack Winchester thought he had put his past behind him. When he returns to New York City and finds his friend murdered and his sister kidnapped, Jack goes to war against the Sicilian Mafia.

Ted Bundy. One of America's most notorious serial killers. For two women, he is the ultimate obsession. One is a cop whose sister may have been one of Bundy's victims. The other is a deranged groupie who corresponded with Bundy in prison - and raised her son to finish what Bundy started. To charm and seduce innocent girls. To kidnap and brutalize more women than any serial killer in history. And to lure one obsessed cop into a trap as sick and demented as Bundy himself....

La calma de una pequeña localidad patagónica se rompe cuando uno de sus vecinos aparece muerto con signos de tortura en su sofá. Para la criminóloga Laura Badía, este es el caso de su vida: además de la brutalidad del asesinato, de la casa de la víctima han desaparecido trece puntas de flecha talladas hace miles de años por el pueblo tehuelche y cuyo valor es incalculable.

Finding murderers is just a day on the job for police captain Nadia Barka. But when a mutilated corpse is discovered in an old baptistery, she's faced with some difficult questions: Who left a young woman's body in a high-security museum in the middle of the night? And where is the victim's heart?

A ruthless white supremacist group intent on terrorizing a town. A fearful community that sleep with guns beside their beds. A rebellious girl who cried wolf too many times. And a hit man with nothing to lose. Following a lead through Arkansas on the disappearance of Dana Grant, Jack Winchester stops in the small town of Dresden. But when an act of kindness gains more attention than he wanted, he soon finds himself in the crosshairs of the law and on a collision course with trouble.

Following tragedy, ex-hitman Jack Winchester retires to a quiet town in Colorado with Dana Grant, hoping to give her a better life. However, their peaceful existence is short-lived. Upon returning from a trip, Winchester is thrown into a devastating mystery and forced to return to the violence he vowed to leave behind. Driven south to uncover clues, Jack finds himself at the center of the underground fighting world.

Blood Angel is a nordic noir crime series not for the fainthearted. Sofie Engell is a talented police investigator, with a background as a psychologist, and part of a task force hunting serial killers. A series of new bestial murders are committed, always staged in the same horrible way. Soon a...

Er will eine Familie–ganz für sich allein! Als die Leiche einer jungen Mutter mit aufgeschnittener Kehle gefunden wird, übernehmen die Ermittler Emma Bajetzky und Alex Kuper den Fall.

Dramatizado Luchar contra los problemas que son habituales en cualquier ciudad después de haber sufrido una guerra ya es bastante, pero en Madrid mientras la gente intenta sobrevivir en situaciones casi extremas, aparece un asesino en serie al que la policía llama "El coleccionista", que empieza a sembrar de cadáveres la ciudad con el propósito de conseguir como sea.

Friends Failing Forever is a story of how Gina, the never-ending party-seeker, constantly needs a caretaker - or babysitter - for herself and her young daughter. Also how her BFF, Cassie, decides she can't be that person anymore, and leaves Gina out to dry - dry up, hopefully. Periodically, Gina tries to better herself - like getting a job from which she later gets fired, as she gets angry at a child. Cassie, in contrast to Gina's hooker-look, is attractive, stylish, well-educated, and employed, and prefers to keep it that way rather than party with Gina.