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Streaming on SBS On Demand are two series of Hierro, an award-winning Spanish/French mystery set on El Hierro, a volcanic island in the Canary Islands. It is a bleak land of black soil surrounded by stunning coast dramatically captured by the cinematographer.
Police are baffled by several deaths, each unique and bizarre in their own way – and shockingly brutal. Scotland Yard sends in its crack DCI, the enigmatic Jack Hawksworth, who wastes no time in setting up Operation Mirror. His chief wants him to dismiss any plausibility of a serial killer before the media gets on the trail.
From the stark backroads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, Mim is forced to shuck off who she was – mother, daughter, wife, sister – and become the woman she needs to be to save her family and herself.
Conscientious reconstructive surgeon Dr Richard Bombberg has come to a spectacular end. In the middle of a cocktail party, Indigo set him and a mysterious redhead on fire.
Carla is reeling from the brutal murder of her nephew. She trusts no one: good people are capable of terrible deeds. But how far will she go to find peace?
Innocent or guilty, everyone is damaged. Some are damaged enough to kill.
But in the night, I couldn’t bear it.
My chest beat like wings.
As Emily gets to know the family, their masks begin to slip, and what at first appears to be a dream come true turns out to be a prison …
Trouble has a way of finding Alex, not least because her curiosity is the size of a giant goudawheel. What begins as a country jaunt in search of a juicy story will end in death, disaster and the destruction of multiple pairs of shoes.
When scratch marks are found on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane Tennison believes she has unearthed a mystery far darker than any she’s investigated before.
The Less Dead is an absorbing read and takes us into the lives of the sex workers and meditates via several conversations between characters about what brings women to consider sex work as an option.