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Il tempo è giunto a termine nella Città Vecchia. Mentre a Portland il ritmo della gentrificazione raggiunge il suo limite massimo, in Oregon, lo squallido negozio di tatuaggi di Darby Holland, Lucky Supreme, viene distrutto da una bomba che ha sventrato un intero isolato. Solo una chiamata di avvertimento dalla sua prostituta preferita gli ha salvato la vita. Ora Darby non ha più niente da perdere e decide di scoprire chi c'è dietro la misteriosa esplosione che ha devastato il quartiere.

In una Portland plumbea e in balìa di una selvaggia gentrificazione, Lucky Supreme, lo squallido negozio di tatuaggi, resta un'istituzione. Il locale vanta decenni di storia ed è ormai un'enorme croce nera sulla mappa mentale della brulicante vita notturna della Città Vecchia. Ma per quanto tempo ancora riuscirà a sopravvivere? Al suo interno, Darby Holland, quarantenne tormentato da demoni del passato pronti a condurlo sull'orlo della pazzia, nasconde preziosi bozzetti e segreti inconfessabili.

A storm batters the seaside town of Lagunes Bay, unleashing a king tide across the wintry beach. As the water recedes, it reveals a long-buried secret: a body, framed and exposed in the sand.

Five young graduates, eager to start their careers, pool their resources to buy a house, hoping to get ahead of the surging property market. But what begins as a hopeful venture quickly turns into the house share from hell. After a wild New Year's Eve party, they discover a body—and it's clear they're the prime suspects. Each of them harbors a past that makes trusting the police unthinkable. To protect themselves, they devise a plan—one that entangles them in a web of secrets and lies.

When Trevor Hawkins hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van with his incorrigible dog, Milly, his quest for adventure soon spirals dangerously out of control. The simple act of flushing a hotel toilet transforms his life from redundant sales assistant to fugitive from a gang of psychopathic villains, the police, and MI5. Then there's private detective Sandra Gray, who could cheerfully throttle him for turning a well-paid, piece-of-cake job into a total nightmare. Or could she?

Time is up in Old Town. As the pace of gentrification reaches frenzy in Portland, Oregon, Darby Holland’s beloved tattoo parlor, Lucky Supreme, is destroyed by a bomb that ripped through an entire city block. Only a warning call from his favorite prostitute saved his life. Developers have been like wolves at the door of Dmitri (the drunken landlord) for the past few years, but this is different.

Midnight Rider Productions is a dark-web nightmare machine, headed by the one man who years ago drove Darby to hide in the seamy environs of Old Town and make his life there. But Darby left his own mark back in the day, and the shadowy head of production has a grudge to settle. Rider has found him at long last and plans to make an example of him.

Robert Finlay seems to have finally left his SAS past behind him and is settled into his new career as a detective. But when the author of a book about secret operations goes missing, along with his agent and an explosive new manuscript, it’s clear that Finlay’s troubles are far from over. With his friend and former colleague, Kevin Jones, in trouble, and police complaints branch gunning for them both, Robert teams up with MI5 agent Toni Fellowes to find out who’s behind the growing conspiracy.

The night world of Old Town, Portland, Oregon, has gone mad in the grip of gentrification, and at the center of it all is Lucky Supreme, a seedy tattoo parlor, whose proprietor is a street-bred artist with a unique approach to problem solving. Darby Holland has enough on his radar, but when some flash (tattoo artwork) stolen from him resurfaces in California, he can't help himself. His efforts to reclaim it set him on a dangerous path, dragging along his delightfully eccentric colleagues.

Reeling from the attempts on his life and the lives of his family, Police Inspector Robert Finlay returns to work. His first job - to investigate the Eastern European sex-slave industry, just as a key witness is murdered. Finlay, along with his new partner, Nina Brasov, finds himself facing a ruthless criminal gang determined to keep control at all costs. Finlay's efforts to protect his wife and child may have been in vain, though, as an MI5 protection officer uncovers a covert secret service operation that threatens them all....

Eustacia Rose ist Professorin der Botanik. Ihr Spezialgebiet: Pflanzentoxikologie. Sie lebt allein in London—nur ihre umfangreiche Giftpflanzensammlung leistet ihr Gesellschaft. Diese hegt und pflegt sie mit akribischer Sorgfalt. Ihr Leben ist ruhig, ihr Tagesablauf ändert sich nie. Bis sie eines Tages einen Schrei hört und die Versuchung, dem nachzugehen, unwiderstehlich ist. Durch ihr Fernrohr wird Eustacia in das Leben ihrer außergewöhnlich schönen Nachbarin Simone hineingezogen.

San Francisco pastry chef Mary Ryan is back teaching at her old alma mater, trying to straddle the worlds of both her original mentors and her contemporaries. To make matters worse, Homicide Detective O'Connor has enrolled as a student, claiming to be on disability from the San Francisco Police Department.

Trouble finds Abraham Snow, even when he’s not looking for it. When the granddaughter of a Baltic state's president needs a heart transplant, they travel to the United States under tight security. When the child becomes the plot of a terrorist’s revenge, Snow must race against time and an old enemy to save her life. Later, at a secluded mountain resort, cut off from civilization, someone is targeting one of Snow Security’s high-value clients. During a clandestine summit consisting of some of the most powerful businessmen and women in the world, can Snow stop the assassin in time?

Paterson, New Jersey, 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer, three years out of the academy and frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in January, when a double homicide at a local bar leaves the owner and a young woman dead.

In Street Tales, you'll listen about stories of survival and redemption, as well as tales of greed, lies, betrayal, and street justice. You will come face-to-face with life-altering choices and circumstances beyond your control. What would you do in the same situation? These are Street Tales. Around the clock, life and death stare you in the face. There are no second chances - the streets play for keeps. Many learn the hard way that the streets are undefeated.

Voinjama Johnson is a woman on the brink of a dark, downward spiral. Suffering from misfortunes past and present, all Vee has is her work as an investigative journalist to hang on to. Now her career, like her sanity, is under fire. A revenant haunts Vee's steps - during her blackouts, the ghost of a strange teenage girl in a red woollen hat keeps reaching out to her. Desperate for answers, she and her new assistant Chlöe Bishop plunge into the disappearance of 17-year-old Jacqueline Paulsen.

TV reporter Booker Johnson doesn't know when to back down. Fresh off his fourth Emmy win and back in the classroom, he teaches the primacy of truth in journalism. But there is danger in pursuing the truth at all costs. And despite being told by his superiors to move on from the scene of a suspicious accident, Booker just can't leave well enough alone. Booker's investigation soon plunges him into the gritty world of crime boss Parson Manor, where corruption reigns supreme and where Gibby Manor is being trained to follow in his father's criminal footsteps.

Stay-at-home mom Eloise Williams is PTO president and a respected local philanthropist who sits on the boards of many distinguished charities. In addition to being a doting wife and mother, she is also a serial killer.

In this fabulous follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The Lazarus Effect, newspaper reporter Vee Johnson reprieves her role as Cape Town's most feisty female investigator. Vee and her ever-faithful sidekick, Chloe Bishop, have been banished from City Chronicle's newsroom to review a tourist lodge in sleepy Oudtshoorn. But Vee and Chloe are barely checked in to their rooms when the first body is discovered. hanging from a tree, with Vee's purple silk scarf used as a noose. But is it suicide or strangulation?

Eighteen years ago, FBI profiler Evelyn Baine's best friend Cassie Byers disappeared, the third in a series of unsolved abductions. Only a macabre nursery rhyme was left at the scene, a nursery rhyme that claimed Evelyn was also an intended victim. Now, after all these years of silence, another girl has gone missing in South Carolina, and the Nursery Rhyme Killer is taking credit. But is Cassie's abductor really back, or is there a copycat at work?