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A ghost train, lost in Time, hurtles through the night with two members of Team 236 trapped on board while the third struggles to track their progress through the Time Map and effect a rescue. With Lt Grint and Team 235 in hot pursuit, what is the future for Team 236? And do they even have one?

His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk’s efforts doubly difficult, since he’s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.

A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders are keeping his mind occupied, but when Ian learns that their old professor, Nicholas Wolford, has been charged with plagiarism, he takes the time to personally ask Daniel to defend their beloved teacher.

Am Sockel des Idstedt-Löwen in Flensburg wird die Leiche des 73-jährigen Karl Bentien gefunden. Brutal zu Tode getreten und ausgeraubt. Ein zufälliges Opfer oder gezielter Mord? Der pensionierte Studienrat gehörte der dänischen Minderheit an, Medien und Behörden sehen nach dem Mordfall bereits das friedliche Zusammenleben im Grenzland in Gefahr. Hauptkommissarin Vibeke Boisen und ihr Kollege Rasmus Nyborg von der dänischen Polizei stehen unter Druck und müssen rasche Ergebnisse liefern. Dann stoßen sie im Keller des Toten auf eine versteckte Kammer mit brisantem Inhalt.

The cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunned when one of its most revered and respected citizens - Ian Druitt, the local deacon - is accused of a serious crime. Then, while in police custody, Ian is found dead. Did he kill himself? Or was he murdered? When Barbara Havers is sent to Ludlow to investigate the chain of events that led to Ian's death, all the evidence points to suicide. But Barbara can't shake the feeling that she's missing something.

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.

Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee”, she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister”. As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.

In his forties, the Reverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian minister in Toronto’s east end, Howard was popular with the congregation that elected him, especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respected in the community, Howard, as Visitor for the House of Industry, sat in judgment on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now Howard is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten by someone he invited into his office.

In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families?

Ulf Speicher ist tot. Der Gründer von „Regenbogen", einem Verein, der sich um behinderte Menschen kümmert, liegt nackt und erschossen in seiner Küche. Die Auricher Kommissarin Ann-Kathrin Klaasen steht vor einem Rätsel. Erst recht, als wenig später ein Zivildienstleistender des Vereins grausam mit einem Schwert erschlagen wird. Klaasen stellt fest: Unter den Mitarbeitern von "Regenbogen" herrscht Streit, und auch von außen bekommt der Laden Stress.