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Votre fille de 17 ans part de bon matin pour son petit boulot d'été. Elle vous promet d'être de retour pour le dîner. Mais elle ne rentrera pas. Ni ce soir-là, ni les suivants. Votre pire cauchemar a commencé... Pour Tim Blake, le père de Sydney, une seule mission : la retrouver à tout prix. Un coup de fil mystérieux, des individus menaçants, des meurtres... et la vie sans histoire de Tim bascule dans un engrenage incompréhensible et totalement terrifiant. Pourtant, galvanisé par son amour paternel, il ira jusqu'au bout, au risque de tout perdre...

Te levantas. La casa está vacía. Tu familia ha desaparecido. Es una mañana que no olvidará jamás. Cynthia Archer, de quince años, despierta con una fuerte resaca y temiendo la inevitable confrontación con sus padres. Pero cuando sale del dormitorio no encuentra a nadie. No ve a sus padres, tampoco a su hermano, Todd. De repente. Sin dejar rastro. No están. Veinticinco años después, Cynthia sigue con varias preguntas y ninguna respuesta. ¿Asesinaron a su familia? Si fue así, ¿por qué a ella no? Y si están vivos, ¿por qué la abandonaron de un modo tan cruel?

It’s always the husband, isn’t it? When his wife Brie vanishes from their home one night, never to be seen again, people assume Andy got away with murder. The police can’t build a case against him, but still his friends and neighbours abandon him. Six years later, Andy’s life is back on track, and he’s settled with a new girlfriend. And when he hears his old house has been bulldozed and rebuilt, he’s not bothered. Things are good. But then one day, a woman who looks like Brie shows up at their old address.

Universitetsprofessoren Paul Davis er en almindelig fyr med et almindeligt liv. Indtil han overrasker en morder, der er i færd med at skaffe sig af med to lig på en øde landevej en sen aften. I det øjeblik bliver Pauls tilværelse vendt på hovedet. Han undgår med nød og næppe selv at blive slået ihjel, men i tiden efter kæmper han med PTSD og depression. I et desperat forsøg på at muntre ham op kommer hans kone, Charlotte, hjem med en gammel skrivemaskine - komplet med farvebånd og fine, runde taster - som inspiration til et skriveprojekt, han har i tankerne.

Paul, professeur d'université, n'est plus que l'ombre de lui-même après avoir été témoin d'une scène macabre, huit mois plus tôt. Atteint de stress post-traumatique, il ne parvient pas à renouer avec une vie normale. Pour l'y aider, sa femme l'encourage à coucher sur le papier les pensées qui le rongent et lui offre une machine à écrire. Mais bientôt, ce sont d'étranges bruits qui hantent les nuits de Paul, et qu'il semble seul à entendre : le clac-clac répétitif de la machine qui tape seule et lui livre, au matin, des messages inquiétants...

Een huiveringwekkend verhaal; even de lift pakken zal nooit meer hetzelfde zijn! Maandag. Vier mensen stappen in een lift in Manhattan. Ze drukken op de knop voor hun verdieping, maar de lift klimt door naar de top, waar hij een paar seconden pauzeert - voordat hij valt. Recht naar beneden, tot hij te pletter slaat. Het lijkt een gruwelijk ongeluk. Maar op dinsdag vindt er opnieuw een incident plaats, in een andere wolkenkrabber. En op woensdag weer. In New York - een van de meest verticale steden ter wereld - breekt chaos uit. Dit kan geen toeval zijn.

Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend and everything he could dream of - except time. Now facing a terminal illness, Miles knows he must seize every minute to put his life in order. Somewhere out there, Miles has children. And they might be about to inherit both the good and bad from him - possibly his fortune, or possibly something more deadly. So Miles decides to track down his missing children. But a vicious killer is one step ahead of him. One by one, people are vanishing.

Quand des citoyens justiciers sèment la terreur dans une petite bourgade américaine... Meurtres, complots et coups tordus : à Promise Falls, on ne badine pas avec le crime ! D'habitude si paisible, la petite ville de Promise Falls est en ébullition. C'est d'abord un type ahuri qui débarque dans le bureau de l'inspecteur Duckworth en prétendant avoir été kidnappé et passé à tabac. Sur son dos, un tatouage l'accuse d'être un meurtrier. Et puis il y a l'affaire Jeremy Pilford.

Da Glen Garbers entreprenørvirksomhed vakler efter boligkrisen, føler hans kone, Sheila, sig nødsaget til at uddanne sig på et aftenkursus, men da hun en aften ikke kommer hjem, frygter Glen, at der kan være sket hende noget. Med deres otteårige datter sovende i hjemmet får Glen bekræftet sin værste frygt: Sheila og to andre er omkommet i en forfærdelig trafikulykke. Sheila er ikke alene død, men det ser også ud til, at hun er skyld i ulykken. Tynget af sorg og benægtelse undersøger Glen ulykkens omstændig­heder selv.

Sonne, Softeis, Kinderlachen: Ein Ausflug nach Five Mountains würde Davids Sohn Ethan gefallen...

Journaliste pour une dépêche locale, David Harwood pensait avoir eu une bonne idée pour le week-end : quoi de mieux, en effet, qu'une journée dans un parc d'attractions avec leur fils de quatre ans, Ethan, pour changer les idées dépressives de son épouse Jan ? Or, à peine sont-ils arrivés que Jan se volatilise. David fait bientôt figure de suspect numéro 1 aux yeux de la police car rien ne semble confirmer l'état dépressif de Jan, que lui seul semble connaître, ni même que la jeune femme était bien avec lui au parc d'attractions.

Als Cynthia am Morgen nach einem Zechgelage mit dröhnendem Schädel erwacht, gilt ihre größte Sorge zunächst dem Papierkorb, in den sie sich offenbar während der Nacht erbrochen hat. Bevor die Eltern den Alkoholexzess des Teenagers bemerken, muss das Ding schleunigst gereinigt werden. Doch schon während sie sich im Bad zu schaffen macht, ist ihr, als sei es irgendwie viel zu still im Haus. Ihre Eltern und auch ihr Bruder haben ganz offensichtlich das Haus heute schon weit vor der Zeit verlassen ...

A dark cloud of suspicion and fear continues to hang over the town of Promise Falls. A series of bizarre, ominously threatening incidents suggests someone is plotting to take revenge on the town. But who is the perpetrator, and revenge for what? Now the time for threats is over. And the inhabitants are about to discover the truth, with devastating consequences.

Paul Davis forgets things - he gets confused, he has sudden panic attacks. But he wasn't always like this. Eight months ago, Paul found two dead bodies in the back of a coworker's car. He was attacked, left for dead, and has been slowly recovering ever since. His wife tries her best but fears the worst.... Therapy helps during the days, but at night he hears things - impossible things - that no one else can. That nobody else believes. Either he's losing his mind - or someone wants him to think he is. Just because he's paranoid doesn't mean it's not happening....

After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father's house. Cal discovers a hidden basement room where it's clear that salacious activities have taken place - as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But his investigation soon becomes more complicated when he realises the DVDs may contain something even more shocking.

When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours, the Langleys, are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong house.

A schizophrenic man spends his days and nights on a website called Whirl360, believing he's employed by the CIA to store the details of every town and city in the world in his head. Then one day, he sees something that shouldn't be there: a woman being murdered behind a window on a New York street. Suddenly Thomas has more to deal with than just his delusions, as he gets drawn into a deadly conspiracy. Read by Rick Holmes and Ken Marks.

Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals.

Paranoia-fuelled Zack Walker has trouble convincing his loved ones to obey his rules for keeping them out of harm's way. He's even uprooted his family and headed for the tranquillity of the suburbs. But then Zack stumbles upon a body, and a trail of deceit and murder leads right back to his own front door. Suddenly the 'burbs is not looking nearly so safe.... With a killer roaming around their neighbourhood and Zack's overactive imagination in overdrive, he's sure things can't get any worse.

When Cal Weaver stops at a red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled-looking teenaged girl trying to hitch a lift. Even when she starts tapping on his window. But when she says, 'hey, aren't you Scott's dad?' and he realizes she's one of his son's classmates, he can't really ignore her. OK, so giving a ride to a teenage girl might not be the smartest move, but how much harm could it do? Over the next 24 hours Cal is about to find out.