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Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life in the New Forest. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he likes his familiar habits and routines. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul: she doesn’t stay still long enough for a habit or routine. She’s currently on a private island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job. Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy mean an end to Steve’s quiet life.

Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Movie nights with her husband Daniel and their daughter Maddie are a welcome respite from the scrutiny of the world’s press. As much as it hurts, it’s good to be able to see her father more too. He’s suffering from Alzheimer’s and needs special care. Sarah has started to show tell-tale signs of the disease too. She’s been experiencing blackouts and memory loss. It’s early days but she must face the possibility that she won’t be there to see her daughter grow up.

Daphne du Maurier was one of the 20th century’s most popular writers. Extraordinarily prolific, she produced a string of bestsellers, many of which were adapted as award-winning films. From romance and adventure yarns to psychological thrillers and supernatural tales, the breadth and imaginative variety of her storytelling continues to thrill us today. This bumper collection features her most famous works and some lesser-known gems, beginning with full-cast adaptations of seven of her much-loved novels.

What do you do when you can't run and you can't hide? Lauren's daughter, Zara, witnessed a terrible crime. But speaking up comes with a price, and when Zara's identity is revealed online, it puts a target on her back. The only choice is to disappear. To keep Zara safe, Lauren will give up everything and everyone she loves, even her husband. There will be no goodbyes. Their pasts will be rewritten. New names, new home, new lives. The rules are strict for a reason. They are being hunted. One mistake - a text, an Instagram like - could bring their old lives crashing into the new.

London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?

It’s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she’s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelsey’s line of work. Then a glimmer: local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington State. But something is not right with Ellie. She won’t say where she’s been, or who she’s protecting, and it’s up to Chelsey to find the answers.

In the not-too-distant future, a 21-member crew launches from Earth. Their mission: to establish a temporary colony on Mars. Little do they know that colony will become permanent–and the last stand of the human race. Because, without warning, every single person left on Earth simply...vanishes. Now, a thousand years later, the resources needed to sustain life are running out, and the very existence of the Mars colony is threatened. Humankind has only one option–to return to its home planet.

Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: November Dead List. In this series, a young priest opens one such envelope and discovers not a list of the dead but a list of people he knows to be alive and members of his congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a joke. Then the people named start turning up dead.

When Kenny (Stephen Tompkinson) gives up his life in the geography classroom to join a struggling a capella group with a beautician, a dentist and a boxer, he doesn't realise he'll soon be in the best band on the wedding circuit—and fronting the potential future of rock 'n' roll. Between trying to manage the band's failing love lives and their battling ambitions, Kenny finds that chaos greets them wherever they go. Arguments about who gets to sing the lead? Check. Rowing about recording contracts? Check. Selling out for a TV talent show? Check.

1952. Soviet troops control British streets. After the disastrous failure of D-Day, Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany and rescued only by Russian soldiers arriving from the east and Americans from the west. The two superpowers divide the nation between them, a wall running through London like a scar. When Jane Cawson calls in to her husband's medical practice and detects the perfume worn by his former wife, Lorelei, she fears what is between them. But when Jane rushes to confront them, she finds herself instead caught up in the glamorous actress' death.

It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun lost her sister, and she's been searching ever since: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. Happy endings are rare in Chelsey's line of work. Until one day, local teenager Ellie Black is found in Washington State woods. Two years after her disappearance, she's an echo of herself, but alive. But something's not right about this girl. Where has she been, and who is she protecting? Chelsey has to find out. For herself, for her sister, and before the next girl is taken.

A super spy, a mysterious death and a world of yachts, private planes and underground bases - but only one question – who really is Aldrich Kemp? Enjoy this fast-paced, action-packed series, available for the first time as a complete download. Featuring a stellar cast including Phoebe Fox, Tim McInnery and Nicola Walker.

"Das Spukschloss-Rennen": Team Tiki muss in einem alten Herrenhaus antreten, in dem es spuken soll. Ihre Gegner sind Adam und Hannah von Team Mirages, die nicht gerade für ihr Fairplay bekannt sind. Immer wieder versuchen diese, ihre Gegner durch Illusionen zu verunsichern. Doch dann hat Enki eine unheimliche Begegnung mit einem Wesen, das tatsächlich in dem Haus lebt. "Das Rennen ohne Regeln": Manta hält sich für den besten Piloten und glaubt, dass er der Nachfolger von Wyatt Whale sein wird.

"Die Spinnennetz-Piste": Die Pirates werden vom Rennen ausgeschlossen, weil ihnen unterstellt wird, die Regeln gebrochen zu haben. Angeblich haben sie ein Netz angebracht, das die Tikis in der Proberunde aufgehalten hat. Corto versucht herauszufinden, was es mit dem Betrug auf sich hat und entdeckt eine "Hologramm-Drohne". Jetzt muss sie nur noch beweisen, wer wirklich der Betrüger war, der den Parcours manipuliert hat.

"Das Achterbahnrennen": Während des Probelaufs geht der Aqua-Booster in der Drohne der Tikis kaputt. Corto beschafft einen Piloten-Handschuh, der unsagbare Kräfte besitzt. Damit ist sie sich sicher, auch gegen das Favoriten-Team der Tao-Twins zu siegen. Aber Enki findet heraus, dass dieser Handschuh gefährlich für Oro werden kann. Corto geht das Risiko ein. Und plötzlich steht der Parcours in Flammen. "Der Piranikus-Parcours": Enki ist nervös: Zum allerersten Mal wird er auf eine Party eingeladen!

"Das Monsterpflanzen-Rennen": Auf der Rennstrecke werden die Drohnen von fleischfressenden, haushohen Löwenlilien bedroht. Enki muss dringend etwas einfallen, wie man dieser Gefahr entkommen kann. Manta, der Gegner der Tikis hat bereits eine Strategie, die sich allerdings zerstörerisch auf die Natur auswirkt: Blitzeis! Damit legt er die Löwenlilien lahm. Wird Enki einen Weg finden, die Gefahr der Blumen zu bannen, ohne der Natur zu schaden? "Das Titanen-Rennen": Weil es Corto mit dem Tempo mal wieder übertreibt, riskiert sie eine Bruchlandung.

So unverzichtbar für Weihnachten wie "Dinner for One" für Silvester. Alle Jahre wieder müssen wir uns an Weihnachten mit der buckligen Verwandtschaft rumschlagen: die nervige Tante, der geizige Onkel, der streitlustige Schwager, die Cousinen unklarer Herkunft, die Youtube-süchtigen Nichten und Neffen. Opa, der sein Handy nicht versteht. Und Oma, die schon alles überlebt hat und darauf jetzt mal trinken will. Was soll man diesen Menschen schenken? Na, am besten dieses Hörbuch!

A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations - yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore. Here are the stories of The Hotel: stories of children, mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.

Interpol have tried and failed to find her. Now the combined forces of Scotland Yard and MI5 must try the impossible to prevent a major international incident. For Dominic Elder, Witch is his passion, his obsession. And being retired is no bar to his willingness to restart the hunt. MI5 know that the man who wrote the Witch file is the key to catching their quarry. But the truth isn't easy to spot.