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Le plus bel héritage de la reine du suspense : la suite de son roman culte, La Maison du guet. Melissa, avocate et podcasteuse à succès, vient d'épouser l'homme qu'elle aime. Il est veuf et père d'une petite Riley. Quelques mois plus tard, alors que Melissa et son frère Mike aident leur mère à s'installer dans les Hamptons, Riley disparaît. Tous deux se lancent à corps perdu dans une course contre la montre pour retrouver la fillette et la sauver du traumatisme qu'ils n'ont jamais surmonté : leur enlèvement, quarante ans plus tôt.

Chelsea Hart, a fresh-faced Indiana college student, spends the final night of her spring break in the VIP room of an elite New York City nightclub with her girlfriends and a fake ID. The next morning, joggers find her in East River Park, her celebrated blonde hair hacked off. NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case and quickly homes in on a group of privileged men who were last seen partying with Chelsea.

Did he, or didn't he? Olivia Randall is one of New York City's best criminal defence lawyers. When she gets a phone call informing her that her former fiancé has been arrested for a triple homicide, there is no doubt in her mind as to his innocence. The only question is who would go to such great lengths to frame him - and why? For Olivia, representing Jack is a way to make up for past regrets and the hurt she caused him, but as the evidence against him mounts, she is forced to confront her doubts.

When Angela met Jason Powell, while catering a function in the Hamptons, she assumed their romance would be a fling. But, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. The marriage meant a fresh start, a chance for Angela and her young son to move to Manhattan where no one knew of her tragic past. Six years later, her husband has become a successful and celebrated liberal figurehead, but when a college intern and then another woman come forward with allegations against him, their perfect life begins to unravel.

Two identical brothers, both handsome, intelligent and popular recent college graduates, seemingly perfect in every way. That is, until the shocking summer night when one of them killed their parents in cold blood. The other has an iron-clad alibi, but which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the case is still unsolved, and the brothers are long estranged. Each of them claims that the other is responsible for the deaths of their parents, and they turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate.

When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her - but thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet, the police tell her there's nothing they can do. Her friends are sure it's someone's idea of a joke, but when Megan is murdered in a vicious attack, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced that the online threats are more than just empty words.

Quando Anthony Amaro fu dichiarato colpevole e condannato all'ergastolo, nessuno pareva avere dubbi: era lui il serial killer responsabile della morte di sei donne in soli sette anni, lui la mente disturbata che lasciava la propria firma rompendo gli arti alle vittime dopo averle uccise. Ma ora, dopo quasi vent'anni, il passato sembra tornare per reclamare un'altra verità: il corpo della psicoterapeuta Helen Brunswick, un tipo di donna molto diverso dalle ragazze perdute solitamente scelte dal killer, viene ritrovato nel suo ufficio a New York, una bambola di pezza con le ossa rotte.

Si fa chiamare Hope Miller, ma non ha idea di chi sia in realtà. È successo tutto quindici anni fa. Un incidente d'auto. Il trauma cranico che le ha fatto perdere la memoria. Anni di vita cancellati. Trovata senza documenti, e soprattutto senza ricordi, Hope ha dovuto iniziare da capo: nuovo nome, nuova città, nuova vita. Senza mai smettere di chiedersi che cosa si stesse lasciando alle spalle... o da cosa stesse scappando. Non ce l'avrebbe fatta, però, a ricominciare senza Lindsay.

"Croiser au petit matin une belle femme en robe de soirée, qui boit du champagne un livre à la main... Que faut-il de plus pour attirer l'attention de l'écrivain que je suis ?" Olivia Randall est avocate pénaliste à New York. Lorsqu'elle apprend que son ex, Jack Harris, est accusé d'avoir abattu trois personnes sur le front de mer de Manhattan, elle ne doute pas un instant de son innocence. Celui avec qui elle est sortie vingt ans plus tôt est un homme au-dessus de tout soupçon, père aimant d'une adolescente. Tout ceci ne peut être qu'une grossière erreur.

Es sollte der schönste Tag ihres Lebens werden... Laurie Moran traut sich endlich wieder vor den Altar, nachdem ihr geliebter erster Mann vor Jahren kaltblütig erschossen wurde. Alles scheint perfekt. Doch dann verschwindet Lauries zehnjähriger Neffe Johnny spurlos. Schnell erhärtet sich der Verdacht, dass er entführt wurde. Johnny ist adoptiert - könnten seine leiblichen Eltern etwas damit zu tun haben? Lauries Vater dagegen verdächtigt einen verurteilten Mörder, den er vor 18 Jahren ins Gefängnis gebracht hat und der nun auf Rache schwört.

Quando il tuo sguardo è offuscato dall'amore, la verità è la cosa più difficile da vedere. Ellie Hatcher si è trasferita a New York da poco, e da poco lavora come detective al NYPD. Non ha ancora molta esperienza sul campo, ma il passato le ha già insegnato molto: a Wichita, nel Kansas, è cresciuta con un padre poliziotto che ha dedicato tutta la vita alla caccia di un serial killer, fino a morire in circostanze mai chiarite. Forse assassinato. O, forse, suicida.

Le donne pensano che gli uomini siano creature fin troppo prevedibili. E se non fosse poi così vero? Quando incontra Jason Powell, Angela non immagina che il loro flirt possa diventare qualcosa di serio: gli uomini li conosce, e non si aspetta molto da questo professore di Economia della New York University, corteggiatissimo e con una brillante carriera davanti a sé. Eppure, pochi anni dopo, eccoli sposati, con un figlio da crescere.

Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-August wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex’s seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny’s skim board washes up to shore, and everyone realizes that he could be anywhere, even under water.

Vor 15 Jahren wurde Casey Carters Verlobter ermordet - der steinreiche, berühmte Philantrop Hunter Raleigh III. Die Beweislast gegen Casey war erdrückend, auch wenn sie stets ihre Unschuld beteuerte und behauptete, während der Tatzeit tief geschlafen zu haben. Als Dornröschen-Mörderin verspottet, wurde sie zu langjähriger Haft verurteilt. Nun ist sie wieder frei und wendet sich hilfesuchend an Laurie Moran, eine Fernsehjournalistin, die alte Verbrechen aufklärt. Denn auch nach der Gefängniszeit ist Caseys Martyrium nicht vorüber: Keiner glaubt an ihre Unschuld.

Fünf Jahre ist es her, seit Amanda Pierce unmittelbar vor ihrer Hochzeit verschwand - und nie mehr auftauchte. Hatte sie plötzlich Angst vor der Ehe bekommen oder wurde sie Opfer eines Verbrechens? Amandas Mutter ist überzeugt davon, dass der Bräutigam sie auf dem Gewissen hat. Auf ihr Drängen hin nimmt sich Laurie Moran, die sich als TV-Journalistin auf Cold Cases spezialisiert hat, des Falls an.

‘Should come with a warning…highly addictive.’ Karin Slaughter. When prep school junior Julia Whitmire is found dead in the bathtub of her family’s Upper East Side apartment, her left wrist slashed and suicide note resting on her dresser, Ellie Hatcher and her partner, J.J. Rogan initially write the case off as a suicide.

Chloe è la più giovane delle sorelle Taylor, ma è sempre stata la più amata, forse perché nella sua vita tutto è sempre apparso sotto controllo. Invece Nicky... La scapestrata Nicky. Quella che ha sempre combinato tanti casini. Che ha sempre bevuto un po' troppo. Che ha sposato d'impulso il giovane avvocato Adam Macintosh e ha avuto un bambino, ma non sa essere né moglie né madre. Oggi, Chloe e Nicky sono due perfette estranee. Nicky è rimasta a Cleveland, sola. Chloe lavora a New York in un importante giornale di moda. Ce l'ha fatta.

Vor fünf Jahren wurde der hochangesehene Dr. Martin Bell in seiner Auffahrt erschossen. Der Täter blieb unbekannt. Nun flehen Bells verzweifelte Eltern Laurie Moran an: Sie soll die mental instabile Witwe, die sie für die Schuldige halten, ihrer gerechten Strafe zuführen. Laurie gräbt sich immer tiefer in die erschütternden Zusammenhänge und bemerkt dabei gar nicht, dass sie selbst ins Visier eines Stalkers geraten ist. Eines Stalkers, dessen Hass auf sie keine Grenzen zu kennen scheint.

Die Met-Gala ist der gesellschaftliche Höhepunkt des Jahres in Manhattan, doch diesmal stürzt Virginia Wakeling, eine steinreiche Witwe, vom Dach des Kunstmuseums. Die Polizei verdächtigt den über zwanzig Jahre jüngeren Geliebten des Mordes, doch findet keine Beweise gegen ihn. Drei Jahre später soll Laurie Moran den Fall mithilfe ihrer TV-Sendung "Unter Verdacht" aufklären. Sie entdeckt eine Vielzahl weiterer Verdächtiger, und eine Person hat gar kein Interesse daran, dass Laurie der Wahrheit näher kommt.

For a while, it seemed like both Taylor sisters had found happiness. Chloe landed a coveted publishing job in New York City. Nicky got married to a promising young attorney named Adam McIntosh and became a mother to a baby boy named Ethan. But now, 14 years later, it is Chloe who is married to Adam. When he is murdered at the couple's beach house, she has no choice but to welcome her estranged sister - her teenage stepson's biological mother - back into her life.