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A woman is found dead on the island of Gozo. The cops say she fell from the Azure Window tourist spot, but her father thinks otherwise. CIA Section Chief Foster needs help to prove it was murder, so he turns to the only person he knows can get the job done: John Steel. The Hive, securely seated under the US Embassy on the island of Malta, is an operation that monitors all passage from North Africa and the Middle East into Europe and the US. A platform that requires the latest in technology and facial recognition.

It started with a hostage and an odd ransom demand. After the members of the rescue team are killed trying to overcome the abductor, the real action begins. Bombs start going off in the yard, and when armored tanks fail, Niki is called on to free the hostage. As the hostage crisis becomes a circus of errors and miscalculations, is Niki's skill and expertise enough to keep her alive?

After a police officer's family is taken hostage, he faces a deadly choice: One of his family members will live, and the other will die. He must make the decision, and time is running out. Homicide Investigators Vincent Falcone and Farrah Richards take the case, and a team is assembled. Every effort is made to catch the psychopath before the next murder. The killer makes mistakes; it's almost as if getting caught doesn’t matter. But can they reach him in time?

A continually bullied runt of a youngster, Chas Larkin discovers his chutzpah and decides to take on the London gangs. In the sleazy and violent East End, he is unwittingly assisted by Scotland Yard and MI5, who use the boy to delay an IRA campaign in the city. Together with the mysterious DCI Casey, an enigma amongst the bomb-damaged slums, they stir the pot of fermenting disquiet.

Among a family picnic in Presley Park strides a man with the worst intentions. In the center of a leafy suburb, everyone is having fun until the unthinkable happens. The man walks into the middle of the picnic ground seemingly unnoticed, and, without warning, opens fire into the startled crowd. People collapse, wounded and dying. Those who can, flee for their lives.

Brand-new treasury agent Kristi Blocker is tasked to find two missing coworkers in the vast Atchafalaya Basin: A swamp larger than Rhode Island. But after Kristi herself gets kidnapped, things get complicated. Fighting for her life, she escapes to the depths of the swamp. Meanwhile, the Sheriff of St. Mary Parish asks Hawk Theriot - the swamp ranger - to find Kristi. The only federal warden in the Atchafalaya, he knows the area like the back of his hand.

Thorndike is just like any other quaint Cornish village. Everyone knows everyone, and families have lived there for generations. The village inn boasts the finest food and warmest welcome, and visitors and locals alike agree that old Thad Beanie makes the most delicious meat pies they have ever tasted.

When a self-driving car goes crazy and kills two people, the designer turns to Niki for help. He thinks something else than technology is responsible; his design was beyond fault. Weaving through the falsehoods and misdirections, Niki soon finds herself in danger. On this perilous road, there is a dangerous curve at the end. But is the killer closer than she had thought?

A scar from cheek to chin is all Marc Jordan remembers of the man kneeling over his dead mother. Now, 15 years later, Marc searches his memory for clues; he hopes to be the first to find the killer. Murder, blackmail, corruption, and betrayal leave a trail from the storied vineyards of Spain to the wineries of Southern California, where no one is who or what they claim to be.

Tristram Jones is given an opal by his dying grandfather. Little does he know its connection to an old aboriginal witch doctor with bright orange eyes. He is Dinewan - meaning Emu - taken from the Great Spirit of the Dreamtime. But is he just a wicked and bitter misfit, or something far more marvelous, and dangerous? The stories that swirl around Tristram and the opal stretch across generations and are connected by both Dinewan and the fabled monster of the billabong: the Bunyip.

Photojournalist Steve Lurgan returns from the war in Kosovo and falls in love with a Serbian national in modern-day NYC. Meanwhile, Jana Dragana’s career is being compromised by her drug addiction, but her exploiters end up as victims of a mysterious attack. NYPD detective Darko Lucic suspects the murders are part of a larger conspiracy. But is it an underground network of criminals that is behind the killings, or something even more sinister?

When the sheriff of West Feliciana Parish is found murdered in his own jail, Niki Dupre is called in to investigate. Soon, Niki learns that a local chapter of the infamous MS-13 gang is responsible. But they are hired thugs; gangs do not kill sheriffs without getting paid. The more Niki delves into the murder, the more entangled she gets with the local gang and their leader Juan Valdez. And he doesn't play by the rules.

Dirty Noir is10 stories of the riptide in human affairs, for those of us who are magnetically drawn to the passionate, strange, and dreadful. Get ready to meet the honeymoon couple who encounter grief in Mexico; Zack, the schoolboy assassin in love with a circus beauty; Miguel, who proves to be unexpectedly dangerous; the Giant Rat of Sumatra, cruellest contract-killer in the business, and Phoebe, perhaps the strangest, and surely the sharpest, woman in fiction.

Five years after surviving a cruel winter, delivering a daughter, and experiencing whirlwind celebrity after telling her story, Georgia Charles’ ex-husband passes of a sudden heart attack. While attempting to settle into a quiet life with her child and boyfriend Sean, her ex-husband’s widow Julie visits - and turns Georgia’s world upside down.

Una fría mañana de febrero en Escocia comienza con el descubrimiento de un cuerpo, cuando Héctor Mathewson es encontrado muerto en la sala de barriles de su propia destilería. Mientras dirige la búsqueda del asesino, el D.C.I. Alex Warren necesita equilibrar su turbulenta vida personal. Sus abundantes sospechosos tienen motivos que van desde la codicia y el nacionalismo hasta el adulterio y la venganza.

The Reaper Virus has raged across the globe, leaving over one billion people dead. After an EMP brought Earth’s technological age to its knees, the superpowers have entered a race to rearm, leading to new tensions between the East and West. Tensions that those responsible for the virus hope to exploit to deadly effect. Unwillingly thrown into the fight once again, Adam and Sam find themselves in a deadly fight against evil. Against the one responsible for The Reaper. The fate of the human race on Earth is about to be decided once and for all.

With a lengthy list of suspects and a host of duplicitous motives, the shocking double homicide of two lovers brings seasoned state detective Al Bruce to the town of Hunter’s Creek. Determined to find the perpetrators, Al sifts through shaky alibis, secret agendas, and the dubious intentions of a sheriff compromised by greed. With pressure mounting to catch the culprit, will players in the murderous game expose their hidden hands - and can Al piece together the truth?

In the UK, Detective John Steel is investigating the organization who killed his family. When he comes across information that something big is going to happen on the cruise ship Neptune, Steel goes undercover. He has 14 days to figure out what is going to happen - and to stop it. In New York, Steel’s NYPD partner, Detective Samantha McCall, is investigating a series of deaths. All seems run of the mill for the homicide detective, until they find out that the deaths are somehow connected to the cruise ship John Steel is on.

Cuando un enigmático escritor llega a la inexperta bruja Fiona DuBois con una petición inesperada, su vida como dueña de una librería cambia para siempre. Mientras los preparativos para la firma de un libro toman un giro siniestro, Fiona se enfrenta a perseguidores maliciosos, conexiones familiares misteriosas y un misterio sobrenatural con raíces más profundas de lo que ella podría haber imaginado. En las profundidades de Black Bayou, ¿puede Fiona descubrir las conexiones a tiempo para encontrar su verdadero poder - y sobrevivir ilesa?

Entangled between the gods of the old world and an extremist group in the new, retrocognitive Jake Conley seeks a way to stop the zealots - while struggling to survive. When a conversion attempt leads Jake’s partner Liffi to erect a heathen temple to the old goddess Freya, the fanatics of Woden’s Brethren are furious.