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Twenty years ago, student Daisy Harrington went out for the evening and never came home. Her body was found a week later. The killer was caught. Case closed. Now, on what would have been her fortieth birthday, her five university housemates are invited to a weekend gathering. None of them want to go. But none of them can refuse—the invitation makes it clear that if they don’t attend, the past they’ve spent two decades hiding will finally come to light.

Step into the world of Daisy Kane, where mystery lurks around every corner and danger is just a step behind. As a best-selling crime novelist and amateur sleuth, Daisy relies on her sharp intuition and eye for detail to solve perplexing cases that leave even the local authorities baffled. But she's not alone in her endeavors.

Famous killers have fan clubs. Hamish Wolfe is no different. Locked up for the rest of his life for the abduction and murder of three young women, he gets countless adoring letters every day. He's handsome, charismatic and very persuasive. His admirers are convinced he's innocent and that he's the man of their dreams. Who would join such a club?

Allotment wars! Lord Bellington, Carsely's biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing. On another fine summer's day Agatha visits...

Every small town has one unsolved case that haunts its memory, festering for generations below the surface. Over sixty years ago, Daisy Doe was murdered and discarded outside Pineville, Alabama, buried without a name or anyone to mourn her loss. When Star Cavanaugh's father tried to solve the case, he too was killed. Now a cold-case detective with resources of her own, Star is determined to get to the bottom of both crimes. But to do so, she’ll have to face an entire town locked in corruption, racism, silence, and fear—and the same dangerous killer who took two other lives. 

Daisy Lane returns to her hometown of Gosport after a spell abroad. She's been getting over the bad times, having lost both her husband, Kenny, and her lover, Eddie, to violent deaths. In her months away from home, Daisy has been busy. She's given birth to a baby boy and has been plotting her revenge on Roy Kemp: the London gangster who viciously murdered Eddie. Now she's ready to carry out those plans. But is it possible for a vulnerable woman to take on a man like Roy Kemp and not be badly hurt?

Daisy Lane's fortunes take a spectacular fall when Roy decides to run his criminal empire from London. Without him, the punters disappear and so, too, does the cash. Still, Daisy can take comfort in the fact that her son Eddie is growing up to be as courageous as his late father was. But Eddie’s younger brother, Jamie, is a deeply disturbed young man. Meanwhile, there’s a killer at work in Gosport. It’s Daisy who spots this nasty Casanova at work. She takes it upon herself to have him apprehended - with devastating consequences.

It is 1962. Daisy Lane's man, Kenny, is in jail for robbery, leaving Daisy to run the couple's café down in Gosport, Hampshire. Daisy lives above the café and shares the house with Kenny's older brother, Eddie: a handsome, resourceful villain with a streak of viciousness that leads him to commit acts of terrifying violence to get his way. But Eddie has a weakness and it's called "Daisy". He loves his brother's wife; Kenny's not around, and Eddie always gets what he wants.

Things have not been going too well for Daisy Lane. Her murdered lover, Eddie Lane, has left her comfortably off and his son little Eddie is an adorable and constant reminder of his father. The new man in her life, South London gangster Roy Kemp, looks out for her and is kind to little Eddie. But someone is watching Daisy's every move, like a predator choosing the perfect moment to pounce.

Daisy Lane is trying to build a future for herself and her sons. Roy Kemp, Daisy's former lover, is banged up in prison. Daisy must watch over Roy's criminal empire, while attempting to continue her relationship with copper Vinnie Endersby. But it isn't long before another gangster decides to challenge Roy's dominance.

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass die Studentin Daisy Harrington an einem kalten Novemberabend ihre WG in Exeter verließ. Nun bekommen ihre fünf ehemaligen Mitbewohner eine makabere Einladung: Die Betreiber des True-Crime-Podcasts »The Killer Question« wollen, dass sie Daisys vierzigsten Geburtstag feiern. Denn der Mann, der für Daisys Mord verurteilt wurde, war unschuldig. Und so beginnt ein Wochenende zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge, zwischen Liebe und Hass, zwischen Leben und Tod.

I'm trapped in a deadly game with a ruthless drug lord, and my partner Annalise won’t stay on the sidelines.

He’s a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite Hamish Wolfe’s conviction, he’s always stuck to his story—he’s innocent and he’s been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story...

Luca scheint recht unauffällig, aber nur auf den ersten Blick. Sie ist 34, chronischer Single und geschätzte Anwältin in einer Berliner Kanzlei. Tagsüber gute Freundin und hart arbeitende Juristin, sorgt sie des Nachts jedoch auf ganz andere Art für Gerechtigkeit. Doch eines Tages wird sie bei einem ihrer nächtlichen Einsätze fast erwischt. Und plötzlich hängen in der ganzen Stadt rätselhafte Plakate, die sich wie Drohungen für sie lesen. Luca ist sich sicher: Sie wird verfolgt. Ein gefährliches Katz- und Maus-Spiel beginnt.

When six-year-old Charlotte Mercer disappears from her front yard in Silver Spring, Maryland, rookie FBI Agent Daisy Adams is thrust into a case that feels more like a haunting. There are no witnesses. No clues. Daisy has seen horror before—but nothing like this. As the investigation deepens, so does her fear. Because every missing child reminds her of her own daughter, Lila. And the more she digs into Charlotte's disappearance, the more she's forced to confront the question she's spent years avoiding: What if one day, it's Lila who vanishes?

Berømte mordere har fanklubber. Hamish Wolfe er ikke nogen undtagelse – til trods for at han skal sidde spærret inde resten af sit liv for mord på tre unge kvinder, får han utallige fanbreve hver eneste dag. Hans beundrere er sikre på, at han er uskyldig, og at han er manden i deres liv.

A new string of murders—each echoing a familiar, haunting pattern—forces Agent Adams to confront the chilling possibility: the case isn't over. As she fights to untangle the truth, she realizes they're all connected. But how far will she go for justice—and what will it cost her? The focus now shifts to the mystery that has haunted the investigation from the beginning: What happened to Charlotte Mercer? The girl who vanished without a trace many years ago. The girl who may hold the final piece of the puzzle.

La pequeña Daisy, de ocho años, ha desaparecido durante una celebración familiar. Ninguno de los vecinos de la tranquila calle de las afueras de la ciudad ha visto nada. ¿O sí? El inspector Adam Fawley trata de no llegar a conclusiones precipitadas, pero sabe que nueve de cada diez veces, el culpable es alguien a quien la víctima conocía. Lo que significa que alguien miente. Y que la carrera contrarreloj para encontrar a Daisy ha comenzado.