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The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads "I'm sorry - S" sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate - and to a woman, Estelle, who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before. To get answers, Adam must confront some difficult truths.

At the age of 12, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man - the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family’s killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim’s not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man.

Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College - and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just 19, Will is locked away in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital.

Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for what happened the last time she was on a film set? Adele doesn’t think twice before signing the dotted line. But when life on set starts to mirror the sinister events portrayed in the script, Adele fears the real horror lies off the page. Isolated and unsure who in the crew she can trust, is there anywhere or any time left to run?

Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who - and what - he really is.

One year ago, Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy’s life into a waking nightmare. So, she’s going to take matters into her own hands. Angela works as a paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully fledged member of An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. With the investigation into the missing women stalled, she begins pulling on a thread that could break the case wide open.

PLAY. Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself? PAUSE. Natalie wishes she'd stayed at home as soon as she arrives in the wintry isolation of Shanamore. There's something creepy about the manager. She wants to leave, but she can't - not until she's found what she's looking for.... REWIND.

I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him.... You've just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true-crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too, and with each turn of the page his rage grows. Because Jim was - is - the Nothing Man. The more Jim reads, the more he realises how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth.

A year ago, former professional cyclist Jack Smyth lost his wife in a fire at their home. But the nation’s sympathy turned to anger when it emerged that she had died before the fire started, in a violent attack. Although Jack has never been charged in connection to her death, a suffocating cloud of suspicion hangs over him and he’s become convinced that the only way out is to tell his side of the story.

Ein Thriller nicht nur für True Crime-Fans: Der neue beklemmende und extrem spannende Roman der irischen Bestsellerautorin. Ein Opfer jagt den Serienkiller: Wer hat die Macht, den anderen zu zerstören? "Ich war das Mädchen, das den Nothing Man überlebte. Jetzt bin ich die Frau, die ihn fassen wird." So beginnt das True Crime-Memoir "The Nothing Man", das Eve Black über die verzweifelte Suche nach dem Mann geschrieben hat, der vor nahezu zwanzig Jahren ihre gesamte Familie tötete. Dem Mann, der nie Spuren hinterließ.

Gav hon sig av ... eller blev hon bortförd? Dagen då Adam Dunnes flickvän, Sarah, inte kommer tillbaka efter en jobbresa till Barcelona börjar hans perfekta liv att falla i spillror. Några dagar senare dyker hennes pass och en lapp med texten "Jag är ledsen - S" upp och larmklockorna börjar ringa på allvar. Han svär på att göra allt som krävs för att hitta henne.

Will Hurley var en tilldragande, charmig och högpresterande student vid elituniversitetet St John's i Dublin - och Irlands mest fruktade seriemördare. Efter att ha stalkat sina fem unga offer dränkte han dem i den stora kanalens leriga vatten. Will dömdes till livstid vid bara nitton års ålder och sitter inspärrad i Dublins centrala mentalsjukhus. Den nybakade studentskan Alison Smith flyttade till Dublin för att plugga vid St John's och föll snart handlöst för Will Hurtley. Hela hennes värld blommade upp.

Ihre erste Liebe hat fünf Morde gestanden. Aber die Wahrheit ist noch viel brutaler. Zehn Jahre sitzt Will Hurley, der berüchtigte Kanal-Killer von Dublin, bereits im Gefängnis, da wird erneut die Leiche einer jungen Frau aus dem Kanal gefischt. Hurley will nur mit einem Menschen sprechen: seiner ersten Liebe Alison. Alison Smith hat sich nach Wills Verurteilung ein neues Leben aufgebaut. Als die Dubliner Polizei um ihre Hilfe bittet, lehnt sie ab. Wie soll sie diesem Serienkiller entgegentreten, der ihr Freund war?

Hun tror, at hun kender sandheden. Hun kan tro om... Det er ti år siden, Alison Smith forlod Dublin. Ti år siden hendes bedste veninde Liz blev offer for den berygtede Kanalmorder. Ti år siden Alisons verden brød sammen, da det viste sig, at det var hendes kæreste Will Hurley, der havde myrdet Liz og fire andre unge kvinder. Nu er endnu en ung kvindes lig blevet fisket op af Dublins kanaler. Drabsmetoden er den samme som dengang, men Will Hurley sidder indespærret på en retspsykiatrisk afdeling.

Op haar twaalfde overleeft­ Eve Black als enige van haar gezin een aanval van een beruchte seriemoordenaar wiens identiteit nog altijd onbekend is. Nu, jaren later, is ze nog steeds geobsedeerd door de man die haar leven verwoestte. Ze is vastbesloten hem eindelijk te ontmaskeren. Bewaker Jim Doyle krijgt de true crime-bestseller Je liet mij leven in handen, het boek waarin Eve Black vertelt over haar pogingen om de moordenaar van haar familie op te sporen. Met elke pagina die hij omslaat groeit Jims woede, én zijn angst.