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After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh's most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle - and solve - the hardest of cases. When a child's bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife - the same house where his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth Calder, grew up as a foster daughter - Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy.

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Newlyweds Brett and Emily Larson move into their dream home, an idyllic farmhouse deep in the Adirondacks. Their whole lives are ahead of them... and Emily has just found out she's pregnant. Brett is digging up the old cow pasture to create the perfect garden. His shovel hits a rock. But as he scrapes the soil away, he realizes it's something else. A bone. And there's another one. Emily comes out from the kitchen with iced tea. She crouches over the bones. "They look human," she says. "That one's a leg bone. A femur."

I have three names: I was born Leigh-Ann. I became Cherrie. When I was a child, they called me Little Bones.... My father was Mr Bones - the notorious serial killer of 25 years ago. As a child I witnessed his crimes. Everything is different now. I have a new identity. I’m a mother. I am finally free. Until that podcast. I should never have listened. They’re linking a recent disappearance to the crimes of the past. They know who I am. They’re calling me Little Bones again. They say I’m a villain, but I’m not. I’m a victim. You believe me, don’t you?

Vom Schein, Sein und Wegsehen: Der verschlafene Ort Cwmcysgod in Wales birgt viele Geheimnisse. Da wären zwei Jungen, die aus Langeweile Feuer legen, ein alter Herr, der an Demenz leidet oder die Frau vom Dorfladen, die heimlich Drogen verkauft. Und dann gibt es noch Rosalind Bone, von allen im Dorf immer nur auf ihre Schönheit reduziert. Dass jedoch Rosalinds Schönheit ihr schon früh zum Verhängnis wurde und sie eine tragische Geschichte in sich trägt, ahnt niemand. Rosalind ist schon lange aus Cwmcysgod verschwunden - angeblich, um ein neues Leben in der Stadt zu führen.