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Justine Triet's masterful Palme d'Or winner, a riveting courtroom thriller starring Sandra H�uller as a writer who is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, is a mystery that is less about a death than about the hidden lives we lead.

Detective Alex Cross arrested renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail and he's made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he's...

A CIA researcher finds himself on the run from unknown killers when he is the only survivor of the mass murder of his office staff.

"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan—she works with the dead, but she works for the living.
"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious...

Two brothers wake up one morning and find their dogs barking wildly, and one's children wandering in the corn fields. A mysterious pattern of crop circles have appeared overnight, and the men now must deal with unexplained events.

Acclaimed mystery writer Neil McMahon, coauthor of the James Patterson thriller Toys, delivers a fast-paced psychological thriller from the heart of a city gone insane: America's myth-making capital, Los Angeles, has become a bedlam of murder, drugs, conspiracy, and obsession, and only one man has the power to put things right.

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming haven stifled by Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the new parish priest. The residents have other things on their mind: Literature. Everyone's a writer - the nights are alive with reworked manuscripts. So when the devil turns up in a black car claiming to be a hotshot publisher,...

When a passenger train derails in North Philadelphia with fatal results, idealistic criminal defense attorney Vaughn Coburn takes on the most personal case of his young career. The surviving engineer is his cousin Eddy, and when Eddy asks Vaughn to defend him, he cant help but accept. Vaughn has a debt to repay, for he and his cousin share an old secretone that changed both their lives forever. As blame for the wreck zeros in on Eddy, Vaughn realizes...

Blackmail: Alice White is having dinner in a fancy restaurant with her fianc� when an artist sitting at the next table invites her to come see his paintings upstairs. Alice's trip to the studio becomes a memorable one to say the least. The lady vanishes: Poor Iris Henderson and kindly old Miss Froy are traveling together on a train to England. When Iris awakes from a nap, she discovers that Miss Froy has disappeared, and has been replaced by another...

Russ has never been your typical teen. After being expelled, Russ has started to get his life back on track. He's a pop culture junkie, and living in a town where the popular teen soap "Cape Twilight" is filmed, how could he not be? So when Russ decides to make his own short film, he recruits the (emotionally unhinged) star of "Cape Twilight" and his own motley crew to help out. Seems like a great idea...until the plan blows up in Russ's face. Just...