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Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place, is still on the Murder Squad, but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going well - but the rest of her working life isn't. Antoinette doesn't play well with others, and there's a vicious running campaign in the squad to get rid of her.

In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself.

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What's more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison - the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective.

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. They’re coming to get rich, but what they bring is trouble. Waiting for them is Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective who moved to rural Ireland looking for some peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with tearaway teenager Trey Reddy. As the two men circle the townland with talk of a scheme to find gold in the mountainside, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey.

The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was 19. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found....

The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago.The caption says, "I know who killed him". Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's 16 and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets.

Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone missing and no one, least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any kind of investigation, but somehow he can't make himself walk away.

One night changes everything for Toby. A brutal attack leaves him traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his uncle's rambling home, the Ivy House, filled with cherished memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins. But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made. A skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.

When he was 12 years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past.

Wer bringt ein kleines Mädchen um und bahrt es auf dem Opferaltar einer Ausgrabungsstätte auf...

Zwei Männer kommen nach Ardnakelty. Einer kommt nach Hause. Einer kommt, um zu sterben. Und ein junges Mädchen steht zwischen allen Fronten. Ein ungewöhnlich heißer Sommer hat Irland im Griff. Die Farmer sind nervös, die Ernten bedroht. Die 15-jährige Trey hat an das kleine Dorf schon ihren Bruder verloren. Etwas Sicherheit bietet der Außenseiterin nur der ehemalige Polizist Cal, der sie liebt wie eine Tochter. Da kommt nach Jahren der Abwesenheit unerwartet Treys Vater zurück. Mit offenen Armen empfängt ihn niemand, doch er bringt einen verheißungsvollen, gefährlichen Plan mit.

Detective Mike Kennedy weiß, was er tut. Seine Aufklärungsrate ist hoch, seine Methoden sind effektiv. Als in einer Bauruinen-Geisterstadt...

Ein Fremder, ein Dorf, ein Kind. Und eine Suche, die niemanden verschont. Cal Hooper, ehemaliger Cop aus Chicago, hat sich in den Westen Irlands geflüchtet. Die Natur scheint friedlich, im Dorf nimmt man ihn freundlich auf. Da springt sein innerer Alarm an: Er wird beobachtet. Immer wieder sucht ein Kind seine Nähe. Auf den umliegenden Farmen kommen auf seltsame Weise Tiere zu Tode. Stück für Stück gerät Cal in eine Suche, die ihn tief in die Dunkelheit führt.

Cal Hooper, ehemaliger Cop aus Chicago, hat sich in den Westen Irlands geflüchtet. Die Natur scheint friedlich, im Dorf nimmt man ihn freundlich auf. Da springt sein innerer Alarm an: Er wird beobachtet. Immer wieder sucht ein Kind seine Nähe. Auf den umliegenden Farmen kommen auf seltsame Weise Tiere zu Tode. Stück für Stück gerät Cal in eine Suche, die ihn tief in die Dunkelheit führt.

Un thriller dai meccanismi perfetti che lascia con il fiato sospeso e indaga la fragile costruzione delle nostre identità. La detective Cassie Maddox è stata trasferita dalla squadra omicidi di Dublino, ma nel cuore della notte riceve una telefonata dal suo vecchio capo Frank Mackey: una giovane donna è stata trovata uccisa, pugnalata al petto, in un cottage diroccato della campagna irlandese. Un caso come tanti, non fosse che la vittima assomiglia in modo sorprendente a Cassie, quasi una sosia, e si chiama, stando ai documenti che le trovano addosso, Lexie Madison.

Il detective Stephen Moran lavora ai Casi Freddi con un unico obiettivo, entrare a far parte della Omicidi della polizia di Dublino. Quello che gli serve è soltanto un'occasione e quando Holly Mackey si presenta nel suo ufficio, sembra che quel momento sia arrivato. Holly ha nuove informazioni sul caso di un ragazzo trovato ucciso l'anno prima nel collegio più prestigioso d'Irlanda. L'indagine, subito riaperta, viene affidata a Moran e Conway, una collega tutt'altro che facile da gestire. Gli indizi portano alla scuola di Holly, alla vita segreta delle ragazze.

Toby Hennessy, 28, hat immer gedacht, dass das Schicksal es gut mit ihm meint. Er führt ein unbeschwertes, erfolgreiches Leben in Dublin. Bis er eines Nachts von Einbrechern in seiner Wohnung brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Toby überlebt nur knapp; er ist körperlich und seelisch versehrt, kann sich nicht mehr auf seine Erinnerungen verlassen. Es erscheint ihm wie eine Zuflucht, in das alte, von Efeu umrankte Haus seiner Familie zu ziehen, um sich dort um seinen sterbenden Onkel Hugo zu kümmern. Doch dann wird im hohlen Stamm der mächtigen Ulme im Garten ein Totenschädel gefunden.

Aislinn Murray ist jung, hübsch und liegt tot in ihrem Haus, der Tisch ist für ein romantisches Abendessen gedeckt. Eindeutig wieder so eine Beziehungstat, denkt die Polizei. Doch bald stoßen die Detectives Antoinette Conway und Stephen Moran auf Ungereimtheiten. Und es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass jemand in der Mordkommission ihre Arbeit behindert. Weil sich Antoinette mit ihrer toughen Art Feinde gemacht hat?

Wer bringt ein kleines Mädchen um und bahrt es auf dem Opferaltar einer Ausgrabungsstätte auf...

Als die junge Polizistin Cassie Maddox in ein verfallenes Cottage außerhalb von Dublin gerufen wird, schaut sie ins Gesicht des Todes wie in einen Spiegel...