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The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families let alone raise them. But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality tv show.

Ein Forschungsinstitut, ein Mord und ein Strudel aus Intrigen und Verdächtigungen... Der fesselnde Kriminalthriller zum Mitfiebern! Melanie Lewin, Doktorandin am Wilhelm-Wundt-Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie in Berlin, findet sich nach einem gescheiterten Experiment in einer schwierigen Situation wieder. Als ihr Kollege Kevin tot aufgefunden wird, gerät sie ins Visier der Ermittlungen der Polizisten Gerd Matussek und Alexander Schleicher. Melanies Position wird noch komplizierter, als ihr angeboten wird, den Platz des Toten im Forschungsprojekt des Instituts zu übernehmen.

Jake Mercer’s life is spiraling out of control. As a criminal profiler and one of the senior homicide investigators in the Oakland Police Department, he’s spent the last twenty-five years getting inside the heads of killers and trying to understand the way they think. He’s the best at what he does, but constantly playing in the minds of madmen carries a heavy price, leaving Jake an out of shape, alcoholic loner suspended from active duty.

A plane en route from London to New York City has disappeared out of the sky. This breaking news dominates every TV channel, every social media platform, and every waking hour of the Metropolitan Police and US Homeland Security. The love of DCI Kate Daniels' life was on that aircraft, but she has no authority to investigate. This major disaster is outside of her jurisdiction, and she's ordered to walk away. But Kate can't let it lie....

1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Present day. Retired Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is in Switzerland doing a favor for a friend. But what was supposed to be a simple operation turns violen.

When bodies with unusual traits start showing up in the morgue, intern Taylor Lopez is alarmed enough to dig into the dead people's profiles. After discovering they were born at the same clinic two decades earlier, she investigates further and uncovers a shocking list. With the realization that more gender-fluid people are targeted for elimination, Taylor kicks her investigation into high gear. But Major Blackburn, the researcher who conducted the experiment, isn't about to let anything interfere with his plans.

Auf einer Konferenz in London wird der geniale Ryan Greene ermordet. Der Attentäter hat es auf die Forschungsergebnisse des jungen Wissenschaftlers abgesehen, doch im allgemeinen Tumult verliert er seine Beute wieder. Ragnar, ein Freund des ehemaligen Soldaten Simon Stark, gelangt in den Besitz der Arbeit. Eine lebensgefährliche Verfolgungsjagd beginnt. Denn die brisanten Forschungsergebnisse könnten die Welt verändern.

How powerful of an effect does colorism have on twin brothers Malcolm and Luther King? They’re from Compton, California, where beating the odds is hard to do. Colorism is at the center of personal dysfunction and unbelievable self-hatred on a level you’ve not seen in a while! These people are real as can be, but express their stories in extraordinary ways.