Domestic Crime

Years after escaping her abusive childhood, Harper Mallen has only ever known sleepless nights—or terrifying nightmares. She’s struggling to survive as an artist in a trendy Chicago neighborhood, getting by on freelance gigs, when she’s suddenly confronted with the worst fears from her past. A young woman is killed outside Harper’s apartment—a woman who chillingly resembles her. As Harper searches for information about the victim, she discovers unsettling links to two other murders.

"Sara! Erinnere dich! Victoria und Albert. Mehr kann ich nicht sagen. Sie sind hier. Sie sind..." Dies sind die letzten Worte, die Sara Prior jemals von ihrem Mann hören wird. Während DS Nathan Cody versucht, die rätselhafte Nachricht zu entschlüsseln und den brutalen Mord aufzuklären, wird bald klar, dass Sara keine gewöhnliche trauernde Ehefrau ist. Als sie versucht, die Ermittlungen selbst in die Hand zu nehmen, wird Sara in eine für sie völlig fremde und überaus gefährliche Welt hineingezogen. Und für Cody wird dieser düstere Fall überraschend persönlich.

Amy's life is picture perfect. Mess with that picture and you're going to pay. She has two lovely daughters, a wonderful husband, and she's queen bee in her circle of soccer moms. She feels content, like she's finally put some distance between herself and the terrible events of long ago. The only fly in the ointment is Charlotte, a recent arrival to this affluent suburban community.

Jody Asher had a plan. Her charismatic husband, Martin, would be a political icon. She, the charming wife, would fuel his success. For fifteen congressional terms, they were the golden couple on the Hill. Life was good. Until he wasn’t. Martin’s secret affair with a young staffer doesn’t bother Jody personally. But professionally? It’s a legacy killer. Soon a reporter gets word of this scandal in the making, and Martin’s indiscretions threaten to ruin everything Jody has accomplished.

Callie Devereux has it all - a successful career, a beautiful home and an attentive, loving partner. Until one day, she wakes up to discover that the man she thought she loved has taken everything from her, leaving her penniless. Desperate to get answers, Callie goes after the man she once trusted and discovers a world built on secrets and lies. Jack Carlisle has never heard of the man Callie Devereaux claims to have once loved, but he has a good idea who it is - his business partner and old friend, Logan Armitage.

If you want to keep a secret, put it on Facebook! What would you do if you found out that the man you married had a secret life that culminated in the ultimate betrayal? Yve Gibney tells the real-life story from their love-at-first-sight chance encounter while working as expats in Nigeria to the gradual realization that her husband of 19 years, Maurice Gibney, was actually full of deceit, manipulation, and coercive control and that their marriage had been a lie from the moment they had met.

Paula worries that her marriage to Tommy is hanging by a thread. She loves how safe her husband makes her feel, but lately, it seems like he's pulling away from her, and he keeps avoiding a much-needed conversation about finally having children.

A brutally murdered federal agent. Distrust among his close colleagues.

As Norway’s newly appointed minister of justice, child-rights advocate Clara Lofthus has a chance to accomplish something meaningful on behalf of the most vulnerable members of society. It couldn’t be more personal. After her husband’s death, she is the sole caretaker of her twin sons, Andreas and Nikolai. She’s also still haunted by her own traumatic childhood—and the lengths to which she was willing to go to pursue her own brand of vigilante justice. How far? No one ever needs to know. And this is just one of Clara’s secrets.

With a mother unfit for purpose and a brother who despises her, working girl Amber can rely on no one but herself - until the meanest pimp in Manchester, Kev Pike, offers her his protection. Unfortunately, this attracts the fury of Cora, a prostitute no one wants to get on the wrong side of. When Cora is found strangled to death, the late-night city streets feel increasingly exposed with a killer on the loose. As Amber grows closer to Kev, she realises his security comes at a price she might not be willing to pay. Amber is frozen in fear, knowing one wrong move will risk her life.

Ruby has always been strong. Growing up with a feeble mother and an absent father, she is forced to fight the battles of her younger siblings. And when a childhood experience leaves her traumatised, her distrust of men turns to hatred. With no safe place to call home, Ruby is desperate to fit in with the tough crowd. She spends her teenage years sleeping around and drinking in the park and by the time she is 16, prostitution has become a way of life. But Ruby has ambitions, and she soon moves up the ladder to become the madam of her own brothel.

Wealth and privilege that suddenly becomes a very dangerous game when their past catches up with them. Suspenseful and fun! They would do anything to protect their secrets...even murder! Even more! If you're looking for a strong female character, here she is. In this suspenseful psychological crime thriller, three friends spend their lives hiding an improbable act of deception from their youth and how they became fabulously wealthy. Decades pass and the burden of guarding their secret and who they are takes a toll, derailing their lives.

When Alexis ‘Lexi’ James falls out with her best mate Nicole over ‘bad boy’ Ryan King, it’s just the beginning of a chain of events that go from bad to worse to deadly. Returning home one night to her high-rise flat, she is faced by a terrifying scene that changes her life forever, and matters are made worse when she is put into care in another town. Years later, Lexi has left school and is back in Manchester. A chance meeting with Nicole and her so-called ‘other half’ Ryan ends in disaster, and she vows never to see them again.

When respected journalist Maddy goes to interview prostitutes in a rundown Manchester pub, she doesn't reckon on attracting the attention of their ruthless pimp, Gilly. He quickly decides to use Maddy for his own gains; he just needs to work out how. In the weeks that follow, Maddy is oblivious to Gilly's growing obsession with her, particularly when she begins a romance with successful businessman Aaron. Their passionate love affair starts to dominate her life, and she finds herself losing control and alienating the people around her. As Maddy's safe and successful life starts to crumble around her.

Sidst i marts 2021 dræber en 61-årig mand sin 62-årige ekskone i Horsens. Den dræbte er forfatteren Niels Franks søster, Elin. Knap tre måneder tidligere har Elin forladt sin mand gennem 30 år og faren til deres to voksne sønner. De næste uger flytter hun rundt mellem hemmelige adresser i Horsens, inden hun til sidst flytter ind på et krisecenter – hele tiden i frygt for, hvad hendes eksmand, der har brugt de sidste mange år på at ydmyge og skælde hende ud, kan finde på.

Den dag bodelingen skal foregå, ringer Niels Franks telefon klokken 8.32, og så ved han, at det er gået galt.

Beth has the perfect life. She's the one who escaped her bleak hometown, and now she's got a successful business, a devoted boyfriend, and her dream home. Then one phone call changes everything. Her father is dead, and Beth must go home to Maine to take care of the fourteen-year-old little sister she hasn't seen in eight years. Her little sister is dating a dangerous man. He's too old for her, obsessive, controlling. And he'll do anything to keep Beth's little sister to himself.

Meet Maddy Blake: devoted wife and mom who always stands by her husband, who's just trying to get her life back together. But now all her hard work is about to be destroyed. A teenage babysitter and the baby boy she's looking after are abducted. Her naked body is discovered in the woods. The little boy is still missing. Witnesses put Maddy's husband, Doug, at the scene of the crime. She stood by him when he was accused of the ultimate betrayal, but can she trust him now?

Shelby wants to give her daughter Chloe a gift she’ll never forget: a luxury cruise around the Caribbean. It will be the honeymoon Chloe and her husband Rob never got to take. Shelby will look after their little boy. Then the unthinkable happens: Shelby gets a call from a distraught Rob—Chloe is missing, fallen overboard. Everyone says she was drunk and alone, that it must have been a tragic accident. But all Shelby’s maternal instincts tell her that can’t be true.

Charity Fellner thought she had found the man of her dreams. After getting away from a would-be assailant her freshman year of college, she thought no one would be able to break down the mile-high walls she had built around herself. Charity put all of her insecurities behind her and fully focused on her new life, her new husband. Without even realizing it, years flew by, and Charity had become some sort of recluse.

When Tina Evans gets a call from her brother in the middle of the night, she doesn’t think much of it; she’s been fielding distress calls from Bill for the last twenty years, ever since the day their father killed their mother. At first, this call seems just like all the others: Bill’s holed up in a Brooklyn drug den and needs her to come rescue him. But when Tina gets there, her brother’s nowhere to be found. Instead, she discovers the body of a private detective hidden in the junk heap out back. He’s been shot to death, and his gun is missing from its holster.