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As Hannah prepares to run a bakery and move out of her mother's house, it'll be a true miracle if she can prevent another yuletide disaster by solving a mystery as dense as a Christmas fruitcake....

Hadrian Becket, the Earl of Ravenhurst, has always scorned the supernatural—until a head injury left him with the unnerving ability to see visions through touch. Though he loathes the curse, it's proven invaluable in solving murder investigations alongside Miss Matilda Wren. When Hadrian's mother hires Tilda to investigate a medium who claims she can contact her late son, Tilda and Hadrian are drawn into a deadly game. Mediums across London are falling victim to the "Levitation Killer," and the murderer's chilling focus soon shifts to them both.

June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, these brand new dramas are based on three of her best short stories.

*********************** The third book in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander - the global publishing phenomenon Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going...

Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does). Her independence is threatened, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder. Rei is the first to find the beautiful wife of a high-powered businessman, dead in the snow. Taking charge, as usual, Rei looks for clues by crashing a funeral, posing as a bar-girl, and somehow ends up pursued by police and paparazzi alike.

Moving four times in five years has honed air force wife Ellie Avery's packing and unpacking skills. But moving with a newborn daughter and husband Mitch in tow, during a heat wave, is enough to make her turn to chocolate for comfort. And when Ellie finds a local environmentalist dead on the side of the road, her instincts tell her this was no accident.

In the untamed dunes of the North Sea island of Sylt, sled dog Athos cherishes his wild escapades—particularly as winter's chill approaches and the ebbing tourist influx grants him the freedom to explore undisturbed. However, one fateful night the sands reveal a chilling secret: a freshly dug grave. Beneath the disturbed earth lies a man who has met a brutal end. As the police delve into the mystery, they discover he was a private investigator commissioned by a renowned film star.

Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this “utterly original” (Jane Harper), “not to be missed” (Karin Slaughter), fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. “A witty twist on classic whodunits… Stevenson not only 'plays fair,' he...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The Christie sisters and their bookshop cat, Agatha, flirt with coldhearted crime when bookish matchmaking turns into a date with death. Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie share a love of books, reading, and their new roles as co-caretakers of the Book Chalet, their...

Tabitha has enjoyed an entertaining afternoon in Julia's kitchen, but her return home is a bit jarring. As she arrives at her grandfather’s rue de l’Université mansion, a woman bursts out the door babbling about messages from spirits and a warning Grand-père must heed. Oncle Rafe angrily...

Kate Isaksson a tough, single, retired private eye from the Midwest is called into action again when she visits her nephew and his wife in Tennessee. After traveling to Nashville, she inadvertently gets drawn into a world of deceit, corruption, and murder when she agrees to help a local man find his missing brother. Ultimately, a decapitated, mutilated body is discovered, turning dysfunctional family members and co-workers into challenging, potential suspects.

Lane Winslow is known in her idyllic British Columbia laketown of King's Cove for a bad habit of finding dead bodies. This time, all she’s found is a suspiciously well-made hat abandoned in the brush, but she’s certain there’s a mystery afoot. While Lane is overtaken by the urge to snoop around for clues, her husband, Inspector Darling, and his team at the Nelson Police Station find their straightforward case of a stolen boat suddenly complicated when a fourteen-year-old boy is reported missing from the local school.

Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the Chullachaqui. Soon, they're having...

BREAKING NEWS - URSHALL UNITED FC OWNER DIES AT DREW CASTLE! Details are sketchy at this stage, but it is believed businessman Ben Rhodes (38) was found dead in his bathroom at the king’s Scottish home by his twin brother Max, where the pair were guests at a shooting party hosted by Lord...

Something old, something red, something stolen, something dead. Sunset Hall, a house-share for the old and unusual, is gearing up as energetically as it's aged inhabitants can for Bernadette's big wedding day. However, with the RSVPs comes an anonymous note that threatens to cast a pall over the...

Emma ist hochschwanger und wenig begeistert, als ihr neuester Klient Mr Geary nicht zu seinem Termin erscheint. Doch als sie sich zu seinem Haus schleppt, findet sie nur eine Statue im Garten. Emma glaubt fest an Altheas Unschuld. Sie macht sich auf die Suche nach dem wahren Täter und nach einem Heilmittel für den versteinerten Elf. Gar nicht so einfach, wenn ihr Vampir-Geist-Mitbewohner seine Mutterinstinkte entdeckt, ihr himmlischer Ehemann einen romantischen Ausflug plant und Emma selbst in mehr als einer Hinsicht kurz vor dem Platzen steht.

Florence conosce bene il fallimento. Dopo la fine disastrosa della sua carriera in una girl band degli anni 2000, si trascina per West London, single, al verde e insoddisfatta. Le uniche cose di cui è orgogliosa sono le sue scelte sempre più elaborate di nail art e suo figlio di dieci anni, il sensibile e intelligentissimo Dylan. Ma quando Alfie Risby, il bullo della classe e giovane erede di un impero alimentare di surgelati, scompare misteriosamente durante una gita scolastica, Dylan diventa il principale sospettato.

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Nobody Deserves This by Andy Callahan is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books...

When a giant inflatable Halloween witch goes missing in the Pineapple Port retirement community, amateur sleuth Charlotte Morgan's eager to nab the culprit. But before she can lift a fingerprint, someone threatens to kill a new neighbor who looks like an adorable Pomeranian but possesses a disturbing talent for revenge. Moments later, a stranger demands the return of a mysterious wooden box… or else.

The Black Cats Bookshop by Piergiorgio Pulixi is a forthcoming title from Pine & Cedar Books...

A debut mystery about an unlikely group who discover the body of a crossword setter—and the cryptic clues that could lead to his killer. Nina is a young journalist in the UK. She is also an alcoholic and attends a weekly recovery group, along with bossy former teacher Sandra, crossword-loving...

Penny Kingston schreibt Liebesromane und liebt Krimis. Darum ist sie auch nach Willow Grove gezogen, schließlich spielt hier ihre Lieblingskrimiserie. Als erste gute Tat rettet Penny das örtliche Café vor dem Ruin und ist nun stolze Teilhaberin des Büchercafés Sweet Crime. Doch dann stolpert sie im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes über Kartons voller geheimnisvoller Bücher – und über eine Leiche! Und anders als die Polizei ist Penny fest davon überzeugt, dass es sich um einen Mord handelt. Kurzerhand stellt sie selbst Nachforschungen an.

Auf Borkum laufen die Partyvorbereitungen auf Hochtouren, denn Caro Falk will es zu ihrem vierzigsten Geburtstag richtig krachen lassen. Doch als sie die Partylocation am Strand besichtigt, durchbricht ein Schrei die Urlaubsidylle. Auf der Seehundbank liegt eine Leiche – nackt und ganz offensichtlich ermordet. Der Tote ist Uwe Petersen, einstiger Milchbuden-König und inselweit berüchtigt. Obwohl die ersten Gäste bereits eintreffen und Caro bis zum Hals im Partystress steckt, lässt der Fall sie nicht mehr los.

Murder Among SupervillainsAs a professor of popular culture in his day job, amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe knows a bit about superheroes, supervillains, and the various graphic novel universes. But that's not much help when murder strikes at the Tri-State Comic Book Expo. Potential suspects number in the thousands, including some A-list Hollywood actors as well as comic book professionals and a collector. It all begins with Erin, Ohio-based artist-writer Parker Williams, creator of the superhero Red Falcon, being accused of plagiarizing the character of his newest supervillain, Queen Bee.

Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions...

When retired police detective, Albert Smith, and his dog wander into a small town in the French mountains, no one expects the trouble they will uncover. A body has been unearthed at a nearby archaeological dig and it's clear no one was ever supposed to find it. The locals deny all knowledge; they have no idea who it could be, but there is something disturbing about how they all give the exact same answer. And what of the archaeologists? What were they really looking for? It wasn't the Stone Age settlement they claim to be after. Does everyone in this town have a secret they don't want exposed?

Meg's husband has decided to escalate his one-man show of Dickens's A Christmas Carol into a full-scale production with a large cast including their sons Jamie and Josh as Tiny Tim and young Scrooge and Meg helping as stage manager. When a famous, although slightly over-the-hill, actor comes to town to play the starring role of Scrooge, no one expects that he's bringing a lot of baggage and enemies with him.

It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia, into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new 'Creatures of the Night' exhibit in the zoo. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween.

It's been 10 long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers.