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One cruel summer day. Mark and Jill Pearson were taken from their home. After that tragic day, their sister Penny dedicated her life to finding them. FBI agent Emma Griffin has solved many grim cases. When she’s called to investigate skeletal remains of an adult man, Forensics soon link the remains to a missing-person case from over a decade ago: Mark Pearson. Where is Jill Pearson?

A year after Emma Henson, a young, genius biotech scientist, dies in a covert AI brain-chip experiment, her father, Josh, has nothing left to live for and vows to get revenge on the Silicon Valley CEO responsible. Josh has thirty days to make his homemade bombs and to say goodbye to life. To give himself courage in the countdown, he records daily video messages to his lost "Em." Memories flood him as he searches for the moments in Emma’s short life where he could have been a better father and saved her.

One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it's her dream to help it flourish. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend: an undine, a dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

Everyone is talking about the disappearance of Emma Harte. A high-achieving university graduate and young entrepreneur, she was last seen in the early hours of the morning on grainy CCTV footage in Dublin's city centre before vanishing into thin air. While a national debate about women's safety rages, eyes turn to Emma's boyfriend, Tom. Meanwhile, archivist James Lyster is following the story with undue interest. When a comment he makes about Emma goes viral on social media, he finds himself drawn into the world of a group of idealistic university students involved in the search.

Less than one year into her marriage to respected magistrate George Knightley, Emma has grown unusually content in her newfound partnership and refreshed sense of independence. The height of summer sees the former Miss Woodhouse gracefully balancing the meticulous management of her elegant family estate and a flurry of social engagements, with few worries apart from her beloved father's health . . . But cheery circumstances change in an instant when Emma and Harriet Martin, now the wife of one of Mr. Knightley's tenant farmers, discover a hideous shock at the local church.

Scarlet Drew isn’t to be messed with. As the daughter of a notorious London gangster, she’s got enough street smarts to take on the world. But when the most important person in Scarlet’s life is murdered in cold blood on the East End streets where she grew up, she can only think of one thing - revenge. Scarlet’s aunt, Lily, is fierce, straight-talking and a force to be reckoned with. As head of the family firm and queen of the London underworld, she welcomes her niece into the business and swears to help her get revenge - after all, family comes first.

Mark and Jill Pearson were often home alone. One hot summer day, they were taken. Penny Pearson lived her life dedicated to her siblings. Her mother worked late and was hardly home, leaving Penny as the primary caretaker most days. But every summer, Penny left to work at the nearby camp. That summer would change her life forever. FBI agent Emma Griffin has had to solve many grim cases. When she is called to investigate the skeletal remains of an adult man, forensics soon connected them to a missing-person case from over a decade ago: Mark Pearson.

Famed FBI agent Emma Griffin has faced off against countless evils in the world. After being a pawn in twisted games and destroying webs of death and destruction, Emma and Xavier finally believe they're free from the Gamemaster grasps. When Emma is called to investigate the case of Brianna Wright's disappearance, a teen who vanished from a concert without a trace. She could have never predicted the complex web of strange cases tangled up with Brianna's.

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A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A 12-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice cream sodas, and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, 40 years before. Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present.

Maria, Alex, and Antonio Capello were raised by their gangster father with just one rule: family is everything. Now he’s dead, Maria works as a lawyer by day and a mob boss by night, risking everything if her secret life is ever revealed.

Traumatized by the deaths of her parents three years ago, Natalie Hewitt lives an introverted life, taking college classes during the day and working as a barista in a coffee shop at night. Julian Kovac is a millionaire and a recluse. He lives a life of self-imposed seclusion in order to protect a secret and honor his dying mother's last wish. He walks into Natalie's cafe one summer evening, and both of their lives are forever altered by the intense, slow-burn love that blooms between them.

London, 1888. While Jack the Ripper's reign of terror grips the city, Emma Langley's world shatters when her husband is found murdered in Whitechapel. But grief is quickly overshadowed by a startling discovery: William Langley was not the man she thought she knew. As panic fills London's streets, Emma delves into her husband's secret life, uncovering a web of lies that stretches from glittering society drawing rooms to the seedy gambling dens of the East End. Aided by Penny Green, a former reporter with a nose for trouble, Emma follows a trail of blackmail and corruption.

Emma's spirits are elevated after she and husband George Knightley host a joyful holiday celebration at the Hartfield estate. But it's instantly a bitter January when her father makes an unexpected announcement—he and Miss Hetty Bates have decided to marry. Not only must Emma relinquish her role as mistress of the household, but also accept the reality that the excitable Miss Bates will become her stepmother . . .

The plan was simple. I would take her and hold her ransom to get the money I was owed, but my sweet Bree has her own agenda. She wants to dominate in a world ruled by men, but she needs my help. Her family’s rules state only men can run the business, so she proposes we get married. In turn, she would get the power she craves, and I would get my money and show the world I'm not to be messed with.

When Emma Langley discovers a mysterious symbol in her late husband's diary, she uncovers a connection to a secretive treasure-hunting group with powerful members. Her investigation takes an unexpected turn when Lord Charles Harpole, a society member, is found dying in his hotel room. The authorities rule it suicide, but Emma and her friend Penny Green aren't convinced. As they follow a trail of cryptic clues leading from St. Paul's Cathedral to Hampton Court, they find themselves caught in a deadly game.

Eine Frau mit einem Geheimnis und eine gefährliche Mission. Emma führt ein ruhiges Leben an der bretonischen Küste. Nach einem tragischen Ereignis in ihrer Vergangenheit widmet sie all ihre Kraft ihrer Arbeit in einem namhaften Zentrum für Meerestherapie. Bis sie die Chance erhält, im Oman das Team eines neuen Wellness-Resorts zu schulen. An der Spitze der luxuriösen Einrichtung steht Tariq, der Sohn eines mächtigen Ministers. Die beiden fühlen sich zueinander hingezogen, als ein heikler Auftrag Emma zu einer folgenschweren Entscheidung zwingt.

Nyinspelad ljudbok med förbättrat ljud och populär inläsare! En stöld av en van Gogh-målning i Skövdes konsthall går oväntat snett när tjuvarna stöter på ett mordoffer i hissen – den nya chefredaktören på lokaltidningen, känd för sin radikala penna och kontroversiella åsikter. Emma och Filip ställs inför sitt svåraste fall hittills, där konstkupp, mord och ett mystiskt sällskap vävs samman i en spännande historia om hämnd och dolda hemligheter. "De blå damerna" är en fascinerande avslutning på Emma Lundgren-serien, där småstadens hemligheter får komma upp i ljuset.

Scarlet Drew has one rule: never back down. But when an anonymous letter turns up at her house telling her they know what really happened the night her cousin Ruby died, Scarlet's heart races. If they know what happened to Ruby, then they know that Scarlet was there–a secret she has kept guarded from the rest of her notorious family, and for good reason.

When Emma Lawson, the youngest lead government-ethics investigator in California's capital, takes a day off to help her best friend, Kate, prepare for the opening of her new preschool, the morning takes a shocking turn. The school's most high-profile enrollee - Vivian Lange, the governor's granddaughter - is kidnapped at the same time Kate's teenage son, Luke, goes missing.