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Martyrs’ Crossing tells a stunning story of love, fear, divided loyalties, ruined friendships, and personal sacrifice — against a backdrop of raging war in the Holy Land. One rainy night at a Jerusalem checkpoint, Israeli Lieutenant Ari Doron is ordered to refuse passage to a young Palestinian mother and her sick boy.
Oct 9, 2024 · Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a perennial favorite of readers young and old, Herman Wouk's masterful World War II drama set aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific is "a novel of brilliant virtuosity" (Times Literary Supplement). ...
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- 24 'Fool Me Once'
- 23 'The Watcher'
- 22 'Sugar'
- 21 'The Fall of The House of Usher'
- 20 'The Following'
- 19 'The Sinner'
- 18 'Behind Her Eyes'
- 17 'The Woman in The Wall'
- 16 'Mare of Easttown'
Created by Mike Flanagan
Victoria Pedretti stars as Danielle Clayton in the gothic horror thriller The Haunting of Bly Manor. Danielle is hired as a live-in nanny by a family living in the English countryside, but as she settles into her new home and job caring for two young children, she begins to experience strange occurrences throughout the house. She slowly uncovers a series of dark secrets surrounding the manor as well as its residents. Mike Flanagan's hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, is based on t...
Created by Danny Brocklehurst
Fool Me Once is one of Netflix's latest psychological thriller series that centers around a young mother, Maya Stern (Michelle Keegan), who is struggling to cope with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe (Richard Armitage). While Stern tries to pick up the pieces of her life, she hires a nanny to help out with her daughter and, for peace of mind, she decides to install a nanny cam. When Stern goes to check the footage one day, she is stricken with fear when she sees Joe, alive and well, play...
Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan
Inspired by true events, The Watcher stars Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Wattsas Dean and Nora Brannock, a married couple who recently move into a new home with their son and daughter in Westfield, New Jersey. Initially, they're happy in their new home and picturesque neighborhood, but when they start receiving harassing letters from an anonymous writer known as The Watcher, the family starts to become paranoid, believing everyone is a potential suspect. Ryan Murphy's mystery thriller The Watcher...
Created by Mark Protosevich
Colin Farrell stars in the psychological neo-noir series Sugar as private investigator John Sugar, who is hired by a famed Hollywood producer (James Cromwell) to find his granddaughter who has been missing for several weeks. Sugar takes on the high-profile case, but as he begins his investigation, he uncovers family-kept secrets and past incidents that make him start to realize that this is more than just a missing persons case. Sugar is a unique drama mystery series that meticulously intertw...
Created by Mike Flanagan
Brother and sister, Roderick (name) and Madeline (name) Usher have built a pharmaceutical empire and are one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. While they have lived an extensive life basking in the riches and privileges of elite high society, the siblings' demons and sins from their past eventually catch up to them as someone begins mysteriously killing off members of the Usher family one by one. The Fall of the House of Usher is the latest series created by Mike Fl...
Created by Kevin Williamson
When a sadistic serial killer, Joe Caroll (James Purefoy), escapes the death penalty, he enlists the help of his large following of fans to continue his work and commit a series of brutal murders. The FBI calls in the former agent who originally apprehended Caroll, Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), and asks for his help to track down the madman's extensive list of followers and stop them before they can claim more victims. The Following is a twisted tale about a murderer who is determined to continue...
Created by Derek Simonds
Bill Pullman stars in Netflix's series,The Sinner, as a homicide detective, Detective Harry Ambrose, who, unlike most detectives, has a sense of empathy and an unusual set of skills that sometimes leads him into dangerous territory. His checkered past drives his determination to solve each homicide and as he gets to know every major player in each case, he sometimes develops powerful bonds with them that force him to toe the line between professionalism and his personal feelings. Each season...
Created by Steve Lightfoot
Louise Barnsley (Simona Brown) is a single mother who, shortly after meeting her new boss, Dr. David Ferguson (Tom Bateman), the two begin having a secret affair. As Barnsley tries to keep her scandalous affair separate from her everyday life, her world is thrown completely off when she develops a friendship with Ferguson's wife, Adele (Eve Hewson). Initially, Barnsley takes the scenario as an unexpected love triangle, but she soon discovers that she's caught in a web of secrets, lies, and un...
Created by Joe Murtagh
When an Irish woman, Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson), wakes up one morning, she's horrified to discover a dead woman but even more frightened as she doesn't know who or how the person ended up in her home. Since Brady suffers from sleepwalking, she is confused if she is responsible for the dead body or not, and, after meeting Detective Colman Akande, (Daryl McCormack), she becomes the investigator's prime suspect in a completely different case. The six-part dramatic thriller series The Woman in the...
Created by Brad Ingelsby
In a small rural town in Pennsylvania, a local police officer, Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet), investigates the brutal murder of a young girl while she is trying to keep the pieces of her life together. Since murder rarely happens in the tight-knit community, residents are put on edge and as Sheehan relentlessly works the case, she discovers damning secrets about those closest to her, leading her to an unexpected suspect right in her backyard. HBO's miniseries Mare of Easttown is hands down one...
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- Sherlock. If you have not seen this 21st century reincarnation of the famous detective, you have missed the boat! This is a must watch series which you will love.
- Breaking Bad. This series has also become a classic! Mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher Walter White thinks his life can’t get much worse. His salary barely makes ends meet, a situation not likely to improve once his pregnant wife gives birth, and their teenage son is battling cerebral palsy.
- Demon’s Path. This is a Hong Kong-set horror-comedy series that follows a forensic pathologist who has the ability to see the last 10-seconds of life of the dead.
Jan 1, 2001 · Martyrs' Crossing begins at an Israeli checkpoint in Jerusalem. A Palestinian mother seeking medical care for her toddler son is refused entry because her husband has been jailed by the Israelis. The baby dies, and all parties try to use the death for their own purposes.
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Martyr’s Crossing matches Damascus Gate in the quality of research and the mass of intriguing characters–and yet it remains a lean thriller.” –The New York Observer
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