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In Philadelphia hat es ein eiskalter Mörder auf junge katholische Mädchen abgesehen. Er lehnt sich bei seinen Tötungsritualen an die Passion Christi an, und jedes der Opfer hält einen Rosenkranz in Händen. Kryptische Zeichen weisen zudem auf den Ort des nächsten Verbrechens hin...

Als die erste erwürgte Tote verstümmelt am Flussufer gefunden wird, glauben die Detectives Byrne und Balzano noch an einen Fall von sinnloser Gewalt. Bis es wieder geschieht. Und wieder: Zwei Irre inszenieren blutige Morde und schlachten systematisch die Verdächtigen ab. Eine verzweifelte Jagd beginnt ...

Sie war nur eine Ausreißerin, doch nun ist sie ein Fall für die Mordkommission. In einer heruntergekommenen Wohnung in den Badlands wird die Leiche eines Mädchens entdeckt...

Sommer in Philadelphia. Doch die Ruhe trügt. Kevin Byrne, Detective der Mordkommission, und seine Partnerin Jessica Balzano werden zu einem bizarren Fall hinzugerufen. Eine Frau ist ermordet worden, und ihr Todeskampf wurde von dem Mörder auf Video aufgenommen, hineingeschnitten in die berühmte Badezimmer-Szene aus Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho. Doch diesmal ist das Blut rot und das Messer real ...

Am Weihnachtsabend 1988 wird der junge Detective Kevin Byrne in die eisige Nacht gerufen. Zusammen mit Frankie Sheehan, dem Dienstältesten der Truppe, soll er den brutalen Angriff auf eine junge Frau untersuchen. Während der Rest der Stadt das Fest der Liebe begeht, stellen Byrne und sein Partner eines der düstersten und gefährlichsten Viertel der Stadt auf den Kopf, um den Täter schnellstens zu finden - Detective Kevin Byrne in einem seiner ersten Fälle.

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.

A devious serial killer lays siege to the city of Philadelphia, brutally sacrificing pretty young Catholic girls on the altar of insanity. As the body count rises, an exceptional investigating partnership struggles to stop him. Detective Jessica Balzano, Philly's Homicide Unit's newest rookie, is teamed up with veteran cop Kevin Byrne, respected for his solve rate and known for his unorthodox methods.

Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt, the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city, killing his prey. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head and left sitting on a bench in a local park.

It is the steaming heart of summer in the City of Brotherly Love. Back on the force after taking a bullet during the arrest of a sadistic murderer, Detective Kevin Byrne warily returns to police headquarters. He cannot shake the memory of the Rosary Killer's innocent victims or his growing sense that the evil has not been vanquished. And when he and his partner, Detective Jessica Balzano, are called in on a bizarre case, Byrne's gravest suspicions are confirmed.

On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River, dressed in a flowing gown, like a visitor from the distant past. A beautiful and shining young woman, she gazes up at a bone-white winter moon like a fairytale princess. At first glance, one might not even notice that she is dead, coated in a patina of ice. Homicide cops Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take the lead on the case, uncovering a plethora of eerie clues, each more warped and spine-chilling than the last.

When New York psychologist Will Hardy's wife is killed, he and his teenage daughter Bernadette move into Godwin Hall, a dusty, shut-up mansion in the small town of Abbeville, Ohio. Meanwhile, Abbeville Chief of Police Ivy Holgrave is investigating the death of a local girl, convinced this may only be the latest in a long line of murders dating back decades - including her own long-missing sister. But what place does Will's new home have in the story of the missing girls? And what links the killings to the diary of a young woman written over a century earlier?

Pour Kevin Byrne, inspecteur des homicides à Philadelphie, le traumatisme originel a eu lieu en 1976. Encore adolescent dans le quartier défavorisé de Devil's Pocket, il a été impliqué de près dans un meurtre jamais résolu. La fin de l'innocence pour Byrne. Quarante ans plus tard, une affaire de meurtres en série le ramène à Devil's Pocket, à ses amis d'alors, à ce passé qu'il a essayé, en vain, d'oublier. Bientôt, le voile va se lever sur des secrets, des mensonges et une vérité qu'il aurait peut-être mieux valu ne jamais connaître.

Fall in Philadelphia. A man's corpse is found in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. It's unmistakably the work of a killer. But to homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano, it feels familiar. Eight years ago another body was found in the same place, in the same position...killed in the same manner. Even the crime-scene photos are identical. That case was never closed. And now more copycat murders are happening. Someone is recreating the city's most infamous unsolved killings, victim by victim - with more clues for Byrne and Balzano to unravel.

Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are working a new beat: the Special Investigations Unit, aka the cold case squad. Ironic, given that it's the height of a blazing hot August. But even these hardened homicide veterans are chilled to the bone as a dormant murder case stirs to life - leading Byrne and Balzano into the dark heart of their city, their souls, and a psyche of pure evil.

In the heart of Philadelphia's badlands, homicide detectives Byrne and Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighborhood, an abandoned church has become a killing room. At first it looks like a random act of violence. But then a second body is found, and a third. Each crime scene more disturbing than the last, each murder more brutal. And it soon becomes horrifyingly clear that a cold, calculating, and terrifyingly precise mind is at work.

Sprawling beneath the statue of William Penn, Philadelphia is a city of downtrodden crack houses and upscale brownstones. Somewhere in this concrete crazy quilt, one teenage Catholic girl is writing in her diary, another is pouring her heart out to a friend, and yet another is praying. And somewhere in this city is a man who wants these young women to make his macabre fantasy become reality. In a passion play of his own, he will take the girls–and a whole city–over the edge.

New York psychologist Will Hardy had it all - a loving family, a flourishing career, a best-selling book. Until the night it all ended in a tempest of fire and ash, leaving only Will and his 15-year-old daughter Bernadette to stand in the ruins. Haunted and grief-stricken, Will accepts an enigmatic invitation from his family’s past to begin their lives anew in the small town of Abbeville, Ohio. Meanwhile, Abbeville Chief of Police Ivy Holgrave is investigating the death of a local girl, convinced this may only be the latest in a long line of murders dating back decades.