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Detective Nikki Galena's friend and neighbor meets a tragic end, but there's more to his death than meets the eye. And someone terrible from DS Joseph Easter's past is back.

Photography student Toby Unsworth has found the location for the perfect night-time shoot. A cobbled street in the old part of Fenfleet. Later, when he looks at the images on his laptop, he thinks he sees a woman's face in the window of an old, disused building. He asks his housemate Alex to come and take a look . . . Two days later, Toby and Alex are dead. Carbon monoxide poisoning. An unfortunate accident. But Alex's mother doesn't believe it. She hires Matt and Liz to find out the truth.

The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong. Detective Marie Evans meanwhile is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there’s no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river’s edge. He’s been strangled, his skin massaged in expensive oil. Two days later, another handsome young man is discovered in a shallow lake.

Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets. The following day, a body is discovered in a marshy lagoon. It's Old Molly. Suffocated with an expensive men's handkerchief. Molly clearly knew something that got her killed. Liz believes she was trying to tell them something important. She calls on her nephew David to help decipher the carpet bag notes.

Deep in the muddy fields of the Lincolnshire Fens, a teenage girl is found wandering, delirious, claiming to have been drugged at a party. Metres away, the drowned body of another girl is found on an isolated beach. And all this on a small stretch of land where, nearly 10 years ago, the shocking disappearance of a young girl remains an open case.

Detective Joseph Easter's daughter discovers a cottage hidden in some trees on a large fenland farm. Someone has been living there. The farm owner's wife has been receiving sinister pagan artifacts, including a witch's knife. Are they some sort of warning or message? Joseph and his daughter search the cottage and find an old satchel. Inside are photos of a beautiful girl, Jennifer Cowley. She went missing 15 years ago. She'd been stalked by a young man, who was convicted of her murder, even though her body was never found.

As the mists roll over the fens and enigmatic lights twinkle in the distance, only the locals know their way along the hidden paths through the mysterious watery terrain of one of England's most beautiful and sometimes dangerous places. Detective Matt Ballard may have retired but there's still plenty going on in the fens to keep him busy. Someone trashes an old lady's garden and daubs her isolated cottage with hateful graffiti. Emilia Swain seems to be totally harmless, so why is she being targeted?

It arrives in the morning. An old-fashioned airmail envelope addressed to Detective Nikki Galena. Inside, on a single sheet of blue airmail paper, are three words: You failed me. The second airmail envelope arrives at Nikki's home address. The same message. Only this time, it's followed by four names: Alexandra Cornfield, Ruth Baker, Bethany Lyons, Leanne Delaney. Four missing women. Four local women whose bodies were never found.

When DI Rowan Jackman and DS Evans are told that the IT boss has disappeared, they soon suspect foul play. Orla Cracken, known as Orac, is no ordinary techie; she was once a field agent traveling abroad undercover, working for the government. Meanwhile DC Robbie Melton discovers that two people, both urban explorers, have mysteriously disappeared whilst out exploring abandoned buildings. One went missing at a disused airfield, but was it a military base, or was it civilian?

One moonlit night, the bodies of two young people are discovered lying entwined on a blanket in the woods. The young man is clutching a red rose. It appears to be a lovers' suicide pact.... Until Detective Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter look more closely. Romeo and Juliet, as they decide to call them, were murdered somewhere else and brought to the woods. But why? Then another young couple are found dead, again beautifully posed as lovers.

An old friend's sister disappears without a trace. There's no sign of foul play, but she'd been acting very peculiarly. Meanwhile, Liz's cousin, Christie, comes to stay. She takes an immediate - and uncharacteristic - dislike to the local bookshop owner, Gina. Why does everyone put up with her awful behavior? Christie is convinced that Gina is manipulating everyone around her. Is she onto something dangerous or just pushing her new friends away? No one believes her suspicions until another friend goes missing late at night on the misty Fen marshes.

Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl. Twenty years ago: a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial killer. Now: a woman is viciously stabbed to death in the upmarket kitchen of her beautiful house on the edge of the marshes. Then a man called Daniel Kinder walks into Saltern police station and confesses to the murder. But DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans of the Fenland Constabulary soon discover that there is a lot more to Daniel than meets the eye.

It’s the night shift worker who finds them. Huddled in a hospital store cupboard is elderly Edith Higgins. Knifed to death. Sitting behind her is Staff Nurse Lily Frampton, a scalpel clasped in her blood-soaked hand. No one can understand why this kind-hearted, dedicated nurse would brutally murder a frail patient she’s spent months caring for. That same day, mild-mannered schoolteacher Rod Black is found surrounded by the battered bodies of his pupils. Why would a well-respected teacher beat five schoolboys to death?

Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to avoid him — and slams head-on into the crash barrier. Days later, Ellie wakes up in hospital — and notices there’s something different. Everyone she looks at — the doctor, the nurse, her friend Carole — is surrounded by a coloured aura. Her near-death experience seems to have given her a new ability. And now Ellie must use her new-found gift to catch a killer.

Joy and Liz have created space for real conversations, a place where we can all be seen, heard, and inspired and you're going to get this Sister Energy. So whether you need a big sis or little sis, sis they got you.

Tief in den schlammigen Feldern der Lincolnshire Fens wird eine orientierungslose Jugendliche aufgegriffen. Sie sucht ihre Freundin Emily. Doch niemand hat je von dieser Emily gehört, niemand vermisst sie. Nicht weit entfernt wurde stattdessen die Leiche einer weiteren jungen Frau angespült. Die Fälle ereignen sich auf demselben Stück Land, wo bereits viele Jahre zuvor ein kleines Mädchen spurlos verschwand.

Als DI Jackmans Schwägerin Selbstmord begeht, muss er feststellen, dass er fast nichts über ihre Vergangenheit wusste. Die Detectives tauchen tief in das Privatleben der Verstorbenen ein. Was hat die scheinbar glückliche Frau zu einem so drastischen Schritt getrieben? Dann kommt eine weitere Frau unter ähnlichen Umständen zu Tode. Des Rätsels Lösung scheint in ihrer gemeinsamen Vergangenheit zu liegen, und in einer Schuld, die die Frauen auf sich geladen haben.

Der Polizist Carter McLean ist der einzige Überlebende eines Flugzeugabsturzes, bei dem seine vier besten Freunde starben. Geplagt von Schuldgefühlen, beschließt er, für jeden der Toten eine offene Rechnung zu begleichen: So verschwand eineinhalb Jahre vor dem tragischen Unfall die Frau eines der Vier spurlos. Alles, was von ihr blieb, war ein Zimmer voller Blut. Schon bald ist Carter besessen von dem Fall, und DI Jackman und DS Evans werden eingeschaltet. Doch bei den Ermittlungen finden die beiden immer mehr Hinweise, dass mehr als ein Beteiligter keine ganz reine Weste hat.

Eine Frau wird am Rande der Lincolnshire Fens brutal erstochen. Kurze Zeit später gesteht ein Mann namens Daniel Kinder den Mord. Ihm liege das Töten im Blut, genau wie seiner leiblichen Mutter, einer skrupellosen Serienmörderin. Doch die ermittelnden Detectives Rowan Jackman und Marie Evans plagen bald Zweifel an seiner Schuld, denn Daniel hat immer wieder Erinnerungslücken. Aus Mangel an Beweisen sind Jackman und Evans gezwungen, ihn gehen zu lassen. Innerhalb weniger Tage verschwindet Daniel - und das einsame Moor wird zum Schauplatz weiterer Morde.

Nikki Galena è una detective in gamba, ma non gioca secondo le regole. Di certo non quando ha a che fare con i malviventi responsabili di aver ridotto in fin di vita sua figlia. È anche una donna solitaria, per niente brava nel gioco di squadra. E invece è costretta a lavorare in coppia con Joseph Easter, l'ultimo arrivato alla Centrale, preceduto da una pessima reputazione. Insieme dovranno affrontare due casi apparentemente semplici, destinati però a mettere a dura prova le loro abilità di investigatori.