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Les fantômes n'existent pas... Un terrible accident... Niché au cœur des Cotswolds, Eastonbirt a tout du village anglais idyllique. Mais ses habitants restent hantés par une tragédie. Une tragédie à laquelle Alex Mullins a survécu. La silhouette d'une femme... Cette nuit-là, une femme au visage décharné s'est penchée sur Alex. Une femme qui ressemble à Crâne d'os, une prostituée assassinée un siècle plus tôt. Une vérité pire que la légende... Alex ne croit pas aux légendes urbaines. Avec Arran, son ami d'enfance, elle décide de remonter le fil de la nuit du drame.

1970s Atlanta: A time of great change and yet for many the fierce desire to keep things exactly the same is still strong. For women like Maggie Lawson and Kate Murphy every day is a battle. From different sides of the tracks they are united in their determination to be good cops. But they have to fight the prejudice of people like Maggie's uncle Terry who are convinced a woman's place is in the home. And all this in a city where 10 cops are killed a year and most of the city is a no-go area - even for their male colleagues.

Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide. Something he doesn’t want Dr Sara Linton – the woman he loves – to find out. He’s gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at risk. And he knows Sara will never forgive him if she discovers the truth. But when a young Macon patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced to confront the past and a woman she hoped never to see again. And without even knowing it, she becomes involved in the same case Will is working on. Soon both of their lives are in danger.

John Shelley se réveille après une soirée d'étudiants mouvementée à côté de sa petite amie - morte, la langue tranchée... Il va vivre l'enfer de la prison pour un crime dont il n'a aucun souvenir. Le détective Michael Ormewood, en patrouille dans les bas-fonds d'Atlanta, découvre le cadavre d'une jeune prostituée sauvagement assassinée, la langue arrachée d'un coup de dents. On lui impose de travailler avec... Will Trent, agent qui cache comme il le peut sa dyslexie. Les trajectoires de Shelley et Ormewood vont se croiser, au paroxysme de la violence.

Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn se prepara para su baile graduación. Para una atleta, que es lista, bonita y muy querida, esta noche debería ser lo más memorable de su tiempo en la preparatoria. Pero Emily tiene un secreto. Y hacia el final de la noche, ese secreto será silenciado para siempre.

When medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a trip away from the small town of Heartsdale, it should be a straightforward weekend at the beach. But they decide to take a detour via Jeffrey's hometown and things go violently wrong when Jeffrey's best friend Robert shoots dead an intruder who breaks into his home. Jeffrey and Sara are first on the scene and Jeffrey's keen to clear his friend's name, but for Sara things aren't so simple.

A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl.

On an ordinary spring day, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding Faith’s new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked in the shed, her mother’s safe open, her gun missing and a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house to a scene of carnage. It has been torn apart and a man lies dead in a pool of blood.

When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever. Now, in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer, Special Agent Will Trent must find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest, most privileged communities - before it's too late...

El inspector Will Trent recibe una información inquietante mientras indaga sobre la muerte de un preso: uno de los reclusos asegura ser inocente de la despiadada agresión de la que fue acusado hace años. Afirma que unos policías corruptos, encabezados por Jeffrey Tolliver, le tendieron una trampa para inculparlo y que el verdadero responsable, un asesino que lleva años sistemáticamente atacando a mujeres en el estado de Georgia, sigue libre.

Hermanas. Extrañas. Sobrevivientes. Hace más de veinte años, la hermana adolescente de Claire y Lydia, Julia, se desvaneció sin dejar rastro. Las dos hermanas no han hablado desde entonces, y ahora sus vidas no podrían ser más diferentes. Claire es la glamurosa esposa trofeo de un millonario de Atlanta. Lydia, madre soltera, sale con un exconvicto y batalla por pagar todos los gastos mensuales. Pero ninguna de las dos se ha recuperado del horror y el sufrimiento de la pérdida que las une; una desgarradora herida que se abre cruelmente cuando matan al esposo de Claire.

En alvorligt såret kvinde bringes til skadestuen. Kvinden er blevet ramt af en bil, men eftersom hun er nøgen og har været udsat for brutal vold, står det hurtigt klart, at hun har været offer for en person med et yderst forskruet sind. Tre år tidligere flyttede restmediciner Sara Linton til Atlanta i håb om at lade sine tragiske fortid bag sig. Nu arbejder hun som læge og forsøger samtidig at få sit liv tilbage på rette spor. Men da den brutalt sårede kvinde bringes ind på skadestuen, bliver Sara ufrivilligt trukket tilbage til den verden af vold og mord, som hun havde forladt.

Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to escape her past. She has only unhappy memories of Reece, the small town that nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away. But nothing could prepare her for the violence that explodes when she is forced to return. A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. And Lena is the only suspect.

Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues - and the college authorities are keen to avoid a scandal - but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara, the violence strikes far too close to home.

Leigh doesn’t like to talk about her sister. About the night that tore them apart. About what they did. But someone else is about to....

Une famille toxique. Huit invités suspects. Tout le monde est coupable. Mais qui est le tueur ? Pour Will Trent, agent spécial du GBI, et Sara Linton, médecin légiste, McAlpine Lodge, une magnifique propriété au sommet d'une montagne, semblait être l'endroit idéal pour célébrer leur lune de miel. Jusqu'à ce qu'un cri glaçant perce la nuit. Mercy McAlpine, la directrice du Lodge, est morte. Alors qu'une violente tempête fait rage et que la seule route d'accès à la propriété a été emportée par les eaux, il devient évident que le meurtrier se trouve parmi eux.

Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever.

"Lauf!", fleht ihre große Schwester Samantha. Mit vorgehaltener Waffe treiben zwei maskierte Männer Charlotte und sie an den Waldrand. "Lauf weg!" Und Charlie läuft. An diesem Tag. Und danach ihr ganzes Leben. Sie ist getrieben von den Erinnerungen an jene grauenvolle Attacke in ihrer Kindheit. Die blutigen Knochen ihrer erschossenen Mutter. Die Todesangst ihrer Schwester. Das Keuchen ihres Verfolgers.

Du bist nicht so allein, wie du denkst ... Ridgeview Lodge, am Anfang des Appalachian Trail, ist ein luxuriöses Anwesen, perfekt für Eskapismus. Pro Woche können maximal 12 Gäste die 6 abgelegenen, privaten Hütten buchen, um in der Einsamkeit zu entspannen. Als Will Trent und Sara Linton hier für ihre Flitterwochen einchecken, hoffen sie auf größtmögliche Ablenkung von ihrem hektischen Alltag als Ermittler und Medical Examiner für das Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Doch gleich in der ersten Nacht hören die beiden einen schrecklichen Schrei - und eine Frau wird brutal ermordet aufgefunden.

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