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DI Sally Parker has a serial killer on her patch. One thing that sets this killer apart from the others she's hunted before: his willingness to leave DNA at each of the crime scenes. It's up to Sally and her partner, DS Jack Blackman, to find out why before the body count rises to double figures. While Sally is engrossed in the investigation, her ex-husband, Darryl, pays a surprise visit to her new home.

The statistics for missing children are staggering and emotionally hard to deal with, even for the hardest of detectives. DI Sally Parker and her cold case team need to have their wits about them when two very different cases land on her desk. Can she solve the mystery of where the bodies are buried? Past experience tells her that cold cases have a tendency to unearth surprising secrets.

DI Sally Parker and her cold case team are tasked with solving a 19-year-old murder case unlike any other. The victim - a six-year-old child. Who killed little Millie Pickrel? And why? What motivates a person to murder an innocent child? Will Sally be able to give the family closure after years of tormented existence?

The discovery of Gemma Whiting's bludgeoned body within spitting distance of her family home, opens a new case for DI Sally Parker, one that quickly embroils her in Gemma's feud with male family members. The more Sally digs, the longer her suspect list grows. Frustrated after months of investigation, yet another young woman is attacked close to where Gemma's body was found. Sally begins to wonder if she's been looking in the wrong direction for the killer.

Maggie Dahl returns in Open Secrets. It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then, one morning, a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

Investigative journalist Emma Hunter never thought she’d be a best-selling author. Especially not for a blistering exposé of the brutal horrors committed at a children’s home. All she wants is to return home to the anchoring salt air and solitude of Weymouth where questions still fester unanswered and a 20-year-old secret binds her to the beach.

Cuatro amigas con un tatuaje en común desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Una mujer es asesinada a golpes por su pareja. Una prostituta se suicida en extrañas circunstancias. En la primera serie negra de la aclamada Susana Martín Gijón, ambientada en una Extremadura desconocida y alejada de las postales, Annika Kaunda, una policía que no pasa desapercibida por su aspecto y su carácter indómito, tiene que desafiar a sus superiores e investigar las pocas pistas disponibles para relacionar unos misteriosos crímenes ocurridos en Mérida que parecen ocultar un terrible secreto.

Thirty years ago, Jess's mother, Nora, disappeared while on a charity hike in the US. The devastating loss has afflicted Jess well into her adult life and even inspired her decision to become an investigative journalist. So when Jess receives an anonymous tip telling her that remains have been recovered in the spot her mother disappeared, she wastes no time in jumping on a plane. They say the Appalachian Mountains have secrets, but as she begins to ask around, she learns that the locals do too.

In The Bleak Midwintertells the whole story of ten-year-old Merrie Frances Callahan's 1975 abduction, and the present day murders that are somehow intricately linked to that event. SA Constance Mandalay is assigned what appears to be a 7-year-old cold case that echos the events of the 35-year-old child abduction. Unfortunately for all involved, the case heats up for a short time each year with a brutal murder that appears eerily staged, and occurs under impossible circumstances.

Get ready to embark on a whimsical and mysterious journey with Sally, a woman who has always been pet-free, as she grapples with the unexpected appearance of a black and white billy goat in her dooryard. This goat has no intention of leaving and becomes a constant and quirky presence in Sally's life, pushing her beyond her comfort zone and into world of goat-related antics and misadventures.

El robo de varias antigüedades obliga al director del New College de la Universidad de Oxford a pedir ayuda a Scotland Yard. La detective Georgina Taylor será la encargada de investigar el caso y, para que nadie sospeche de ella, Stephen Allen, un brillante aunque algo desastrado catedrático de Historia Antigua, se ve forzado a acogerla en su casa y a fingir que están emparentados.

When an old friend comes calling, Caroline finds herself embroiled in a case involving clandestine meetings, bank robberies, a shady import-export business, and the murder of an FBI agent. And where this fearless female sleuth goes, Tupper Jones is sure to follow—only this time, following her could mean a long walk off a short pier into Lake Michigan.

Retired FBI agent Tupper Jones has made a name for himself as a private investigator, but nothing could prepare him for this. His partner and right-hand woman, Caroline Collins, woke up next to the body of the FBI's star mob witness with no memory of what happened. It's a race against time to solve the case before the Chicago DA puts Caroline away for murder.

En Asesinato Más Malicioso en Malcesine, los Carabinieri le piden a Kim que ayude a resolver un crimen intratablemente difícil. Ella debe infiltrarse en un gran grupo de sospechosos, tratando de recopilar información incriminatoria mientras evita que el culpable descubra su propósito. Ella se divierte mucho y encuentra un bocado de romance en el camino. ¿Ella tiene éxito? Juzga por ti mismo.

The start of a big, commercial, crackling, suspense filled series featuring a sexy, tough-gal DEA agent, Kay Hamilton - perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter, Patricia Cornwell, and Sara Paretsky.

In The Secrets of the Tainted Trough, imagine waking up from a nap to see a donkey and a horse peering through the screen door, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what? Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core - their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?

That Sally the Loner would be at an ice cream social is surreal. But when she turns her van around to go to an ice cream social, it becomes a phantasmagoric moment for the record books.

Det är midsommarafton 1999. En man stiger av pendeln i Bålsta med en sportbag fylld med pengar efter ett postrån. Han möts av sin syster och tillsammans firar de helgen i barndomshuset. Mannen slår sig ner i ett torp i trakten. Några mil därifrån bor den f.d. lantarbetaren Edvard Risberg. Tidigare var han aktiv facklig kämpe. Nu iakttar han med saknad sitt gamla förbunds nedgång och fall. Det som i stället lyser upp hans tillvaro är kärleken till kriminalinspektören Ann Lindell.

What if your 12-year-old grandson’s fingerprints turned up in a missing person’s database? What would you do? Would you investigate? Or blow it off as a blip in cyberspace?

Bobby is confident his surprise installation of artificial intelligence into Alliwicious will please Gram Sally. But he didn’t have time to educate her about AI. Or about her new and improved man-doll named Alliwicious.