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史上初めて７冠を制覇した『カササギ殺人事件』に並ぶ傑作登場！謎解きの魅力全開の犯人当てミステリ 自らの葬儀の手配をしたまさにその日、資産家の老婦人は絞殺された。

3作品で累計15冠、58万部突破！『カササギ殺人事件』『メインテーマは殺人』の著者が贈る、驚嘆確実の犯人当てミステリ！著者ホロヴィッツと元刑事の探偵が、弁護士の殺人事件に挑む

England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' finds themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might be octogenarians, but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for a London publisher, she's given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. Worse still, she knows the new writer. Eliot Crace is the troubled grandson of legendary children’s author Miriam Crace who died twenty years ago. Eliot is convinced she was murdered—by poison.

It's an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbors from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her, and enlists the help of Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm. But Sarah's and Zoë's search reveals more secrets than answers.

Ally, an aspiring actress, is about to give up on getting her big break. But then, after another disappointing audition, a charismatic scene partner says he has a fun gig for her. Soon, Ally is making easy money working for a guerrilla-marketing outfit called The Set Up. Now she's getting lots of practice pretending to be someone she's not-but each job seems more suspicious than the last. Marshall is a washed-up journalist, teaching a summer class at the university and struggling to keep his students (and himself) focused on his planned lessons.

Sawyers Bend has a way of hiding its secrets. But this one won’t stay buried forever. Avery Sawyer runs a successful brewery in Sawyers Bend, but the shadow of her father’s unsolved murder looms over everything. Prentice Sawyer made enemies easily, and a year after his death, no one has been brought to justice. The killer has made it clear—he’s not finished with the Sawyer family. Avery is tired of looking over her shoulder. She’s determined to find the killer and set her family free from their father’s past.

Mentre il freddo dicembre avvolge Fonterone, la tranquilla routine di Agata Cornero viene interrotta da un invito speciale: la contessa Caterina Brandolini da Mosto organizza un’elegante asta di beneficenza. La serata, ospitata nel più raffinato ristorante della città, promette di essere memorabile, con opere di artisti locali e un esperto banditore a condurre l’asta. Ma dietro la facciata scintillante si nasconde un pericolo letale.

Derbyshire, dicembre 1924. È un freddo Natale ad Alconbury Hall, la residenza di campagna della nobile famiglia Lennox. Così freddo che nemmeno generose dosi di sherry riescono a riscaldare la mente e il cuore di Lady Millicent Carmichael, mentre detta le sue scandalose memorie alla nuova segretaria. Beatrice però ancora non riesce a cogliere il sottobosco di ten­sioni che attraversa quella conturbante atmosfera natalizia.

A hugely enjoyable, must-listen murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most satisfying conclusions you'll ever hear. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time.

After her parents’ death in a car crash two years ago, Eve is back in the tumbledown family house on Magnetic Island, surrounded by nosy neighbours, an over-friendly possum and a cast of eccentric locals. All Eve has left is her sister Tilly – not that she’s seen much of her lately, between Tilly’s history of disastrous relationships and her tendency to drink too much. And when Eve is introduced to her new boyfriend Matt, a skydiving instructor and dead ringer for a young Richard Gere, she senses trouble.

Mrs B, landlady of the Marigold Cottages, only rents to tenants she cares about: anxious playwright Sophie, agoraphobic over-sharer Hamilton, single mum and sculptor Ocean, perfectionist Lily-Ann, and secretive Nicholas. Their peaceful lives are upended when quiet, hulking, fresh-out-of-prison Anthony moves in, and weeks later, a dead body is found. Anthony is arrested, but Mrs B, convinced of his innocence, confesses to the crime. The tenants form 'The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective' to clear her name, uncovering secrets and growing closer — until a second body turns up.

Paralegal Harper Williams excels at managing the myriad details of her cases, and she thrives on the legal drama that often comes with Discovery. But when an armed intruder invades her posh, uptown office, the gruesome outcome fuels Harper’s determination to command justice in a whole new way. Heady fears, dark secrets, and volatile relationships compound the mystery of her friend’s murder, leaving Harper with unanswerable questions and deep doubts. Elusive suspects… a disturbed mind…

Land Where My Fathers Died is the story of a young man's search for identity, love, and his place in the world. While incarcerated six years for a murder he never committed, Jo Shelby Ferguson lost his only family in a highway accident. Upon his release from the Mississippi state penal farm, a trunk, the only earthly possession left to him, yields several bundles of old letters. Upon reading the first letter, he discovers they are written by his great-great-great grandmother.

When Sheriff Zachariah Fitch hears about a corpse found inside the wall of Maltby le Marsh Abbey, he wants nothing to do with the investigation since that is where his estranged sister resides as a nun. But with the local constable asking for his help, and Lady Vivienne accepting the case for them, he quickly finds himself not only working on a murder, but having to face his ghosts of the past involving his sister.

"Dark" Arrowsmith and Spiral Wood are grifters—in love and living on the edge—until Spiral vanishes near the village of Aftonhouse in the Scottish Highlands. Posing as a reporter, Dark discovers a remote community with a criminal underbelly and finds herself falling for an enigmatic, reformed smuggler named Lachlan Robertson. But Aftonhouse is a place of tragic secrets, all revolving around Lachlan and Spiral. Ironically, Dark must use her skills as a con artist to find Spiral and uncover the truth. Then she must choose between the men she loves…

When Sophia Vance, a disgraced journalist, arrives in the isolated coastal town of Blackwater Cove, she is drawn to the ominous lighthouse that towers over the town—a silent keeper of long-buried secrets. What starts as a routine story quickly turns into a dangerous obsession when she learns about the mysterious disappearances tied to the lighthouse and a journalist who vanished before her.

The only ambition Miss Emily Mifford holds for her first season in London is to endure it without completely humiliating herself; a difficult task when one has an unfortunate habit of saying precisely the wrong thing at the wrong time... After clashing publicly with the odious Lady Hardthistle, Emily soon learns that there are worse things than being embarrassed—like being accused of murder! When the belligerent baroness is found strangled to death at a ball, the finger of blame points at Emily.

Sonny Marshall never forgot how he failed his sister. Haunted by her trauma during a home invasion, the thirty-two-year-old martial artist swears he’ll never let another innocent suffer. So when the valiant saxophonist hears from a friend about a fresh clue in a missing kid’s cold case, he refuses to heed the warnings of his GF and family and pursues justice.

Her family’s deadliest secret is about to become her most dangerous truth. When family historian Lyra Kincaid uncovers her ancestor Elara’s cryptic 19th-century journal, it connects her lineage to Oakhaven's infamous Whispering Bluffs train robbery—a bloody, unsolved crime. Elara’s words hint at a terrifying secret, a "debt" still casting a lethal shadow. Lyra’s quest for truth immediately provokes powerful forces; a break-in and chilling threats prove some secrets are meant to stay buried.

Mr. und Ms. Brown wenden sich hilfesuchend an die Detektei - sie haben Angst um ihre Tochter Demi. Seit einer persönlichen Krise beschäftigt sie sich obsessiv mit dem Thema Mindset und positives Denken. Sie besucht Online-Kurse bei dem charismatischen Mentalcoach Hrørek und fährt immer wieder zu seinen Seminaren. Als sie schließlich bei einem Camp in den Highlands weder auf Nachrichten reagiert noch ans Telefon geht, sehen die Browns sie in ernster Gefahr. Úna übernimmt und schleicht sich unter falschem Namen in das Camp ein.

Ein rätselhafter Mord und ein Haus voller Verdächtiger Marchfield Square . Wie eine Oase im Herzen der Großstadt verströmt die elegante Londoner Wohnanlage das Gefühl von Behaglichkeit und Sicherheit. Bis zu jenem Tag, als Richard Glead, einer der Bewohner, erschossen in seiner Küche aufgefunden wird. Der gewaltsame Todesfall veranlasst die energische Vermieterin Celeste van Duren zu sofortigem Handeln. Ein Mord in ihrem Haus stört den Ordnungssinn der vornehmen alten Dame empfindlich.

In the shadowed depths of the Vatican’s Secret Archives, archaeologist Marcus Russo, Father Michael Dominic, and investigative journalist Hana Sinclair uncover a chilling artifact—a centuries-old music box intricately crafted and bound with symbols of forgotten rites of alchemy. What begins as an academic curiosity quickly turns into a dire warning, as whispers of its sinister origins surface. The box, linked to an enigmatic 18th-century composer, Vincenzo Malvagio, holds within it a melody unlike any other—a composition rumored to have the power to summon forces beyond human comprehension.

After a couple of close calls, local news reporter Josie Posey and her meddling Mahjong Mavens have vowed to mind their own business and leave all crime-solving to the authorities. But when her friend Nellie's Aunt Pearl, a respected doll collector, needs help, Josie springs into action.

Step into a world of danger, intrigue, and espionage with The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie’s thrilling introduction to the adventurous duo Tommy and Tuppence. After World War I, these two spirited friends find themselves broke and in search of excitement. They soon stumble upon a shadowy conspiracy tied to a missing woman and a mysterious document that could change the course of history.

The New York Times best-selling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues.

For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and no corpse.

Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag - cars, houses, women. That's why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children's medicine. While the official story is that a psycho tampered with bottles, the boy's mother believes something much more sinister is at work...and the trail leads right back to the pharmaceutical company.