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Eine mysteriöse Einbruchserie, ein eigenwilliges Rentnerquartett, ein spektakulärer Fall. Sylt wird von einer mysteriösen Einbruchserie erschüttert: Nicht die millionen-schweren Luxusvillen werden überfallen, sondern die Häuser älterer, alleinstehender Frauen. Die Polizei ist ratlos. Ex-Hauptkommissar Karl Sönnigsen will den ehemaligen Kollegen unter die Arme greifen – und zwar auf seine ganz eigene Art: Mit Freund Onno, Strohwitwe Charlotte und seiner langjährigen Bekannten Inge stellt Karl ein mit allen Wassern gewaschenes Ermittlerteam auf die Beine.

Zwei zerstrittene Cousinen werden auf eine romantische Nordseeinsel gelockt, um dort das Erbe ihrer Tante anzutreten. Die Erwartungen sind groß, gibt es doch auf der Insel eine kleine Pension am Markt und die kleine Bäckerei am Anleger, die Milch kommt vom kleinen Hofladen hinter den Dünen, spazieren kann man zur kleinen Vogelschutzstation am Hügel, und die Kinder gehen in die kleine Schule am Leuchtturm. Doch was bekommen Liliane und Vicky? Die kleine Frittenbude am Strand! Und die ist auch noch echt runtergekommen.

Jago Trevithick KC has been busy in London with the complicated and lengthy trial of an underworld criminal. After a disastrous result, he returns to Penbartha to be with Olivia, seeking refuge and peace and to reassess his life choices. The morning after the long-awaited and eventful launch party Jago and Olivia discover a dead body and he immediately fears that his troubles in London have followed him home. As their professional lives collide, will Olivia and Jago be able to work together again to uncover the dark forces that are threatening the success of her latest venture...

Julio, un policía con varios casos sin cerrar y Margarita, una cocinera de caterings a domicilio, atraviesan una crisis matrimonial, tras casi 20 años juntos. Martina, su hija adolescente, tampoco es de gran ayuda en esta etapa de sus vidas. Con ánimos de salvar su relación, acuden a una psicóloga matrimonial quien les aconseja que se involucren más en la vida del otro. Antes de que Julio se dé cuenta, su mujer se habrá convertido en su mejor aliada para no dejar ni un caso sin cerrar.

'Down Under's funniest detectives shoot from the lip with a wit as dry as their martinis' Kathy Lette A brand new mystery featuring Nick and La Contessa, the beloved characters from Matthew Benns' smash hit nationwide newspaper serial. 'Time for a martini, darling?' Wise-cracking...

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...

Fair Warning:Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a...

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady’s maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame?

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping thriller novella about a college football player's investigation into the unsolved disappearance of a local legend who seemingly vanished into thin air. Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, the most legendary player on the Mighty Johns...

When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy where she has recently been grieving for her dead father, her husband discovers that her life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no record of her and, what's more, she appears to be connected to the murder of an old man gunned down on the first day of the hunting season in the depths of the Swedish forests....

Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a...

Ob Geburtstagfeier mit der Oma, Rafting in Österreich oder Silvester im Ruhrpott: Im Eberhofer-Universum ist immer was los. Während der Franz an seinem runden Geburtstag endlich auf den Hund kommt und der treue Ludwig in sein Leben tritt, ist das Silvesterfest in Gelsenkirchen weniger idyllisch. Eigentlich wollte der Eberhofer mit dem Birkenberger Rudi nur gemütlich seine Currywurst mit Pommes rot-weiß verputzen, als jemand angeschossen wird - und das ausgerechnet mit Rudis Waffe. Ja, ja, das Verbrechen ruht nie - und der Franz eben auch nicht.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

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.

The North Sea, October 1904 - When Russian warships bombard the Hull trawler fleet, killing innocent fishermen, public outrage pushes Britain and Russia to the brink of war, the sparks from which could inflame the entire continent. Doctor Ingo Finch, once of the Royal Army medical corps, is long done with military adventuring. But when a stranger seeks him out, citing a murderous conspiracy behind the infamous 'Dogger Bank Incident', Finch is drawn back into the dark world of espionage.

Her life didn't turn out the way she expected―so she made herself a new one When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn't there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Finalist for 2024 | A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist | A GMA Buzz Pick | A USA Today Bestseller One of Jimmy Fallon's favorite books for Spring 2024, The Top LibraryReads pick for March 2024, A Publishers Marketplace 2024 BuzzBook, One...

Toda quinta, em um retiro para aposentados no sudeste da Inglaterra, quatro idosos se reúnem para—segundo consta na agenda da sala de reunião—discutir ópera japonesa. Mas não é bem isso que acontece ali dentro. Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce e Ron usam o horário para debater casos policiais antigos sem solução, confiantes de que podem trazer justiça às vítimas e encontrar os responsáveis por algumas daquelas atrocidades do passado.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Flavia de Luce—“part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” (The New York Times Book Review)—takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in...

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" - "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. "When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets." Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor.

Wes Cooper was dead. Then he wasn't-though he's not exactly alive, either. As an immortal not-ghost, he can transition between this world and the otherplane, which makes him the perfect thief for hire. For 70 years he's made a "living" returning items to their rightful owners, seeing his fair share of the bizarre in the process. But he's never witnessed murder. Until now.

Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and foul play results in the murder of one of the household's members. Among the many transgressions Ellery will uncover are adultery, blackmail, and deceit.

Trapped on a burning mountain, the Queens take refuge with a killer. Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father are driving over the pothole-scarred Arrow Mountain Road when they come face to face with a wall of flame. They tear back in the other direction, fire at their fenders, and finally find safety in a clearing, at the home of Dr. Xavier, a renowned surgeon. He is a genial man, but his distracted, mysterious smile conceals dark secrets.

In the comfortable English Dorsetshire village of Anneypenny in the 1930s, fruit farmer Douglas Sewell–narrator of the story–sees his friend John die in agony. The death certificate states gastric ulcers but the post mortem’s revealing of poison punctures Anneypenny’s idyllic backdrop. Soon every friend and neighbour seems to harbour something suspicious. Douglas challenges his readers, or listeners, to answer the key questions before throwing out several scenarios and turning them upside-down in a tantalising path to the truth.

A mother's worst fear, a killer on the loose, a darkness visible... A gripping page-turner for readers of Candice Fox and Karen Slaughter from an award-winning author Sergeant 'Hex' Rexford is the detective who caught the infamous serial killer Dr. Witcherton. Now, with a series of gruesome...

Die Atherton Academy ist die beste Privatschule in Manhattan und zieht nur die Reichen und Mächtigen an. Doch als am ersten Schultag die geheimnisvolle Sofia aus Miami auftaucht, gerät die perfekte Welt der drei ungekrönten Königinnen ins Wanken. Sofia integriert sich schnell in die Clique, was nicht jedem gefällt. Plötzlich häufen sich merkwürdige und unschöne Vorfälle. Bald müssen sich die Freundinnen fragen: Hat es jemand auf sie abgesehen?

Young Dr Oldfield is puzzled by the strangely intractable illness of his recently acquired patient, the Modernist potter Peter Gannet, and he calls upon his old teacher, Dr Thorndyke, to consult. Thorndyke quickly identifies the true cause of the illness as arsenic poisoning, and there seems little doubt that the poison has been administered by someone in Gannet's household. After his discharge from the hospital, what will be the result when Gannet returns to his home?

The year is almost over and the citizens of Gasper's Cove, Nova Scotia are looking forward to the holiday concert. Krista Willett, Harry Sutherland, Kenny MacQuarrie, and the tea party ladies of Seaview Manor all have their own reasons to celebrate. But before they can do this a dark force none of them understands arrives to break hearts, ruin reputations, and put lives at risk. Suddenly the season has only one question. Are ordinary people from a small coastal community any match for a criminal network even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police can't handle? Not all of them think so.

In Book 1, "Blood Red Mars", while Dalton and the gang are filming at the Mars Research Base in the Arizona desert, a visiting student is found dead under highly mysterious circumstances. Dalton and his crew must investigate if they want to get their movie back on schedule!

Willow Morgan thought she was only in the city to cheer on her best friend Julia, a contestant on a nationally televised baking competition. But when a powerful producer drops dead mid-filming—face-first into his morning pastry—Willow finds herself in the middle of a recipe for murder. With the competition in limbo, the police investigating, and her friends busy with other things, it’s up to Willow to sniff out the killer before the entire season—and Julia’s big break—gets canceled. Unfortunately, almost everyone on set has a grudge and a spatula to grind.