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Vor zwanzig Jahren verschwand Sarah, die jüngere Schwester von Tracy Crosswhite, spurlos. Tracy fragt sich seitdem, was damals wirklich geschah, denn sie glaubt nicht, dass Edmund House, der wegen des Mordes an ihrer Schwester angeklagt und verurteilt wurde, Sarah tatsächlich umgebracht hat. Tracy will die Wahrheit wissen und für Gerechtigkeit sorgen. Sie wird Polizistin und widmet ihr Leben als Detective im Morddezernat der Stadt Seattle der Jagd nach Schwerverbrechern.

In einem stillgelegten Brunnen wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt: Tracy Crosswhite von der Mordkommission Seattle ermittelt und findet heraus: Die Ermordete war zwischen den traditionellen Werten ihrer indischen Familie und dem Wunsch, Medizin zu studieren, gefangen. Vermisst, ermordet: Das erinnert Tracy schmerzlich an ihre eigene Schwester. Um jeden Preis will sie den Täter überführen. Was riskant ist: Sie ist schwanger, eine neue Kollegin scheint entschlossen, ihren Job zu übernehmen.

Detective Tracy Crosswhite von der Mordkommission in Seattle steckt mitten in den Ermittlungen zu einem äußerst seltsamen Mordfall, als eine Kollegin sie bei einem Cold Case um Hilfe bittet. Vierzig Jahre zuvor wurde die junge Kimi Kanasket tot aufgefunden. War es wirklich Selbstmord, wie damals behauptet wurde? Tracy, deren eigene Schwester einem Mord zum Opfer gefallen ist, ist schnell bereit, sich um den alten Fall zu kümmern.

Als die Leiche einer Frau in einer Krebsfalle aus dem kalten Meer gefischt wird, sieht sich Detective Tracy Crosswhite mit einem äußerst schwierigen Fall konfrontiert. Bei der Autopsie stellt sich heraus, dass die Frau zu Lebzeiten alles darangesetzt hat, ihre Identität zu verschleiern. Vor wem war sie auf der Flucht? Als Hinweise auftauchen, es könnte sich bei der Unbekannten um eine Frau handeln, die vor ein paar Monaten unter dubiosen Umständen verschwand, wird Tracy einmal mehr von Erinnerungen an den lange unaufgeklärten Mord an ihrer Schwester verfolgt.

Detective Tracy Crosswhite von der Mordkommission Seattle hat einen neuen Fall: Ein Serienkiller, bekannt als "der Cowboy", bringt mit einer perfiden Fesseltechnik junge Tänzerinnen um und hinterlässt dabei kaum verwertbare Spuren. Tracy und ihr Team ermitteln mit Hochdruck. Während die Lösung des Falls mit einer hochbrisanten Ermittlung zu tun haben könnte, die zehn Jahre zurückliegt, ist Tracy anscheinend selbst ins Visier eines Stalkers geraten. Oder ist es am Ende der Killer selbst, der die attraktive Ermittlerin in Blick hat?

Eine packende und rührende Geschichte über Mut und die Suche nach sich selbst von Bestsellerautor Robert Dugoni. "Wir glauben, dass wir unseren Lebensweg selbst wählen. Aber da täuschen wir uns." Aufgrund eines Gendefekts hat Sam rote Pupillen. Für seine Mutter ist das Gottes Wille, die anderen verhöhnen ihn als "Teufelsjungen". Erst als Sam die rebellische Mickie und den afroamerikanischen Ernie kennenlernt, ist er nicht länger einsam, und die drei Außenseiter werden Freunde.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter sucht die junge Sarah Zuflucht im Strandhaus ihrer Großmutter Constance. Während diese alles unternimmt, um das Sorgerecht für die Enkelin zu bekommen, verbringt Sarah viel Zeit allein am Strand. Eines Tages lernt sie dort die sensible, sehr kluge Faith kennen, die vor ihrem übergriffigen Ehemann geflohen ist und sich gut einfühlen kann in die Ängste des jungen Mädchens. Als die Vergangenheit sie beide einholt, müssen sie den kleinen Küstenort verlassen - auch wenn sie nicht wissen, wo es eigentlich hingehen soll.

Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House - a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder - is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.

Betrayed by his own country, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. The retired family man is through with spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison. If it’s Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can’t leave her behind. But there’s no guarantee it’s her. Or proof Paulina is still alive. To find out, Jenkins must return to Russia and blackmail Viktor Federov, a former Russian officer with his own ax to grind, into helping him infiltrate Lefortovo.

The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister's killer put behind bars. Now she's returned for a respite and the chance to put her life back in order for herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and their new daughter. But tragic memories soon prove impossible to escape. Dan is drawn into representing a local merchant whose business is jeopardized by the town's revitalization. 

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design.

While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base. After a key piece of case evidence goes missing, he is cleared of charges in a military court. But Tracy knows she can't turn her back on this kind of injustice.

Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters. Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital. 

Beverly Ford lost more than just her husband when he died in Iraq from a fatal wound and faulty body armor - she also lost her faith in the government and its military. After no response to her unlawful death claim, she's taking them both to court. Successful attorney David Sloane, a former Marine, knows Beverly's case is a no-win situation, but his conscience won't let him abandon her.

A year after the devastating murder of his wife, attorney David Sloane has returned to Seattle after three months in Mexico. At a black-tie dinner where he’s been persuaded to give the keynote address, Sloane reconnects with Barclay Reid, opposing counsel in his most prominent case. Barclay is suffering from her own personal tragedy - the death of her teenage daughter from a drug overdose. In the aftermath, Barclay has begun an intense crusade against the Russian drug traffickers she holds responsible for her daughter’s death, pursuing them with zeal for justice.

Bodily Harm opens with a big win for Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a medical malpractice case centered on the death of a child. But on the heels of this seeming victory, an unlikely character – toy designer Kyle Horgan – comes forward to tell Sloane that he’s gotten it all wrong. Horgan’s the one who’s truly responsible for the little boy’s death and others – not the pediatrician Sloane has just proven guilty.

As David Sloane continues to piece his life back together in the wake of his wife's vicious murder, he also struggles to handle his difficult teenage son, Jake. Reeling from the loss of his mother, Jake's bad behavior escalates and his relationship with Sloane is pushed to the brink. When Sloane's old friend, Detective Tom Molia, recruits Sloane and Jake to join him and his son on a camping trip, Sloane sees the trip as an opportunity to repair their broken father/son bond.

Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracy’s suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school. But someone cut her dreams short. Solving the mystery behind the murder isn’t Tracy’s only challenge. The detective is keeping a secret of her own: she’s pregnant.

In San Francisco's seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite damning evidence that he's a killer - and worse - Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him.

When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from?