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When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president. Convinced that Tronko was working as a disinformation agent, the CIA furiously did everything they could to break him. But Tronko had one more surprise for them: he refused to break.

Holmes and Watson are handed the challenge of solving the London Tarot Murders, a dark episode which, to quote Dr. Watson's in his memoirs, "occupies a lofty place in the annals of all black deeds ever committed in the long memory of the ancient, regal city, higher even than the infamous affair with the Ripper."

When the body of Jacob Kieler Junior is discovered in a stately old house in Reykjavik on a cold January morning in 1973, Jóhann Pálsson, an expert in the emerging field of forensics, is called to the scene. He soon discovers something even more unsettling than the killing itself: The victim’s father, Jacob Senior, was shot to death in the same living room nearly 30 years earlier. Through diaries Jacob Senior kept throughout his lifetime Pálsson and his colleagues try to link Jacob Junior’s shooting and the death of Jacob Senior, an ambitious man dedicated to bringing the railroad to Iceland at any cost.

Ketilsey Island, 1960. Near this deserted island off the western coast of Iceland, the dawning of spring brings with it new life for the local wildlife. But for the decaying body discovered by three seal hunters, winter is a matter of permanence. After it is found to be a Danish cryptographer missing for months, the ensuing investigation uncovers a mysterious link between him and a medieval manuscript known as the Book of Flatey. Before long another body is found on Flatey, another tiny island off the western coast.

Varios cadáveres de homosexuales aparecen brutalmente asesinados en el Berlín Este de finales de la Guerra Fría. Las autoridades no le prestan la atención que merece hasta que un alto cargo de la Stasi que maneja información muy sensible para el Estado aparece muerto en las mismas circunstancias.

Viktor Lavrov es un joven talento perteneciente al KGB destinado en Berlín durante el periodo más crudo de la Guerra Fría. Pronto recibirá un delicado encargo que pondrá a prueba sus conocimientos en psicología criminalista y sus virtudes como agente de inteligencia. El caprichoso destino hará que su camino se cruce con el del inspector jefe de la Kriminalpolizei, Otto Bauer, empecinado en resolver las terribles muertes de cinco menores que parecen estar relacionadas entre sí, unos asesinatos que se niegan a reconocer desde las más altas instancias de la RDA.

Rom in den Sechzigerjahren - eine Stadt voller Exzesse, Korruption und schwelendem Widerstand gegen das Establishment. Während die Londoner Studentin Anna in die ewige Stadt kommt, um den Mörder ihrer Mutter zu finden, wird der Privatdetektiv Gennaro Palladino von einer undurchsichtigen Contessa beauftragt, den Tod eines verarmten Künstlers aufzuklären. Was die beiden nicht wissen: Ihre Fälle hängen zusammen - und sind Teil einer weit größeren Bedrohung.

Der Tod seines Vaters konfrontiert den Schriftsteller Alexandre Watkins mit seiner als abgeschlossen betrachteten Vergangenheit. In der Abgeschiedenheit des kanadischen Ortes Fort Good Hope soll er sein Erbe antreten. Doch was er dort vorfindet, ist ein dunkles Geheimnis, das ihn und die Bewohner der Siedlung miteinander verbindet. Ein namenloser Schrecken, der durch die Kälte streift. Auf der Suche nach Opfern.