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Prowl, the second book in USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble's Sanctuary series (following Ambush), delivers exactly what her fans want: the ideal blend of suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat with just the right amount of romance. Perfect for fans of Laura Dave, Allison...

Brought to you by Penguin. *A perfect cozy mystery to curl up with this Christmas* A luxury party sets sail on New Year's Day. But festivities will take a deadly turn… New Year’s Day 1939. The luxurious ocean liner The Midnight Star is partway through its voyage from London to New York. On...

Brought to you by Penguin. The irresistible sequel to The Murder at World's End, where beloved detective duo, Stockingham & Pike, must catch a killer in a city teetering on chaos. London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension. When a policeman is found...

Since the fall of 1993, when three sisters were accused of witchcraft and vanished without a trace, the town of Westridge Cove has built its identity around their disappearance. Every October, tourists flood the northern Michigan town, eager for spooky vibes, witchy legends, and one of the country's most notorious unsolved mysteries. Were the sisters murdered? Driven out by an angry mob? Or did they truly practice something darker—and escape by supernatural means?

The Henley Royal Regatta – where dark secrets rise to the surface. Attending the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta seems the perfect addition to Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe’s summer plans – a week of rowing races, Pimm’s and garden parties. But when her friend Frederick’s old university chum is found drowned near Henley Bridge – in the exact spot where his cousin died twenty years ago – their riverside idyll turns deadly. As hidden memories surface within the exclusive members’ enclosure, Marjorie discovers both deaths may be linked to a historic accident.

Another exciting and fun Hilda Mystery. Hilda's peaceful English getaway takes a deadly turn when a murder occurs in the nearby town of Plympton-on-Sea. With her best friends, Pearl and Ruby, by her side, Hilda must solve the impossible crime and clear the name of the wrongly accused vicar. But with a killer on the loose, will Hilda be able to crack the case in time?Join Hilda on her latest thrilling adventure in this charming and captivating mystery.Fans of Agatha Christie and Miss Marple will love this book.Grab yourself a brilliant read.

Um Santa Caterina bekannter zu machen, lässt der neue Bürgermeister Giorgio Baggio einen Wettkampf austragen: Die Weinbauern des Ortes sollen gegeneinander antreten und schwere Weinfässer um die Wette durch das Dorf rollen. Auch die Nonnen, die ebenfalls einen kleinen Weinberg betreiben, sind mit von der Partie und wollen Pietro, den Betreiber des Kloster-Cafés, ins Rennen schicken. Am Tag des Wettkampfes sind die Straßen und Gassen des kleinen Dorfes überfüllt von Schaulustigen und Besuchern.

Auf Mallorca will sich Marie endlich ihren großen Traum von einer eigenen Bar erfüllen. Bis es soweit ist, arbeitet sie als Rezeptionistin in einem kleinen, exklusiven Wellnesshotel. Doch schon bald muss Marie feststellen, dass hinter der sonnigen Urlaubsidylle der Baleareninsel auch menschliche Abgründe lauern können. Und sie entdeckt eine neue Leidenschaft: das Lösen von Kriminalfällen! Als die Leiche des Schülers Mateo an den Klippen von Caví gefunden wird, ist die Dorfgemeinschaft erschüttert.

Polizistin Sandrine Saidi nimmt sich eine Auszeit: Sie freut sich auf ein Chorwochenende in der ehemaligen Abtei Saint-Cécile. Doch daraus wird nichts – denn der wohlhabende Mäzen und Förderer des Chors Antoine Mercier liegt tot im Kreuzgang. Schon bald zeigt sich, dass Mercier keineswegs der unantastbare Wohltäter war, für den er sich ausgab. Mehrere Teilnehmer hatten Gründe, ihn zu hassen.

What begins as a blissful ladies’ spa day meant for rest and renewal turns deadly when a striking young model is found murdered in the parking lot. Amateur sleuth Stacie Maroni is the one who discovers the body, notifies the police, and studies the woman and her jewelry. A bit obsessive about things matching, Stacie wonders at the silver earring mixed with everything else gold. Little does she know someone nearby is filming her.

From the internationally bestselling author of the “unique and unforgettable” (The Wall Street Journal) The Trouble with Goats and Sheep comes a funny and poignant story of a woman who encounters the ghosts of her past as she untangles the mystery of her daughter’s disappearance—a...

* THE HUGELY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE SMASH-HIT BESTSELLER, THE APPEAL * A New Play. Another Murder. Who Will Speak the Truth? It's a new theatrical season in Lower Lockwood, and the amateur thespians of the Fairway Players are starting rehearsals for their production of Agatha Christie's The...

'A wonderfully clever historical novelist' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Leonora Nattrass is a master storyteller' - JANICE HALLETT Leicestershire, 1774. Following a minor royal scandal, Susan Bell's father has lost his post as Dean of Westminster, and the two find themselves exiled to the family's country...

Un uomo crolla a terra nella chiesa affollata la sera della Vigilia di Natale e muore sul colpo. La vittima è un noto mobiliere locale che conduceva anche un'attività segreta di usura, e molti avevano un motivo per odiarlo. Guidata dalla sua instancabile curiosità e supportata dalla sua fidata combriccola di amici, Agata inizia a indagare e si trova immersa in un mondo che conosceva solo in superficie. Dietro l'apparenza di agiatezza e successo, l'imprenditoria locale nasconde storie di fallimenti, compromessi e facciate costruite con cura.

Crime writer Francis Meadowes has landed an enviable job lecturing aboard the luxurious Golden Adventurer as it cruises down the West African coast. His fellow passengers, including opinionated retired surgeon Klaus, mischievous elderly widow Eve, flamboyant designer Sebastian, beautiful American aid worker Sadie, and her tedious but extremely wealthy aunt Marion, are an eclectic group. But when one guest is found dead in bed and another disappears overboard, Francis must employ all his professional expertise to find out which of the colorful characters on the ship is capable of murder.

Baking. It can get a guy killed. A shadowy master criminal has been kidnapping experts from the food industry and stealing both food and equipment. The crimes are so unrelated no one in the world had noticed the connections. No one except Albert Smith, that is.

Mabel plans to bring the joys of volunteering to the masses… if she doesn’t fall victim to an ancient curse first. A university archeology team has come to excavate an old privy on the grounds of the Thompson estate, home of Medicine Spring’s first white settler. They hope to retrieve items of historic interest, but rumors of lost treasure and dark curses swirl around the project.

Balthamos is a bureaucrat in Immigration, a part of the governmental Hegemony. He's a werewolf utterly unremarkable other than his choice of life partner, Monarch. Monarch, a colorful vampire who takes center stage wherever he goes, lives with Balthamos in the suburbs of Santsz. And then... rumors begin to spread of an illness come to be known as Wolfsbane. Lunids are reported to be Changing into werewolf form without any relationship to their two moons' influences. It doesn't take long for society to begin to unravel and conspiracy theories to point the finger at--vampires.

A Fonterone, la cultura è in fermento. La Biblioteca civica ospita una conferenza molto attesa in cui discutere della chiusura dell'unica libreria in città. Ma l'evento si interrompe bruscamente quando una donna viene trovata senza vita dietro uno scaffale. La vittima è una stimata professionista, braccio destro di uno degli imprenditori più noti della zona, capace di leggere non solo i bilanci, ma anche le verità nascoste delle persone per cui lavorava.

The first mystery in the bestselling Kate Shackleton crime series! A Golden Age murder mystery set in 1920s Yorkshire, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Jacqueline Winspear. Take one quiet Yorkshire Village, add a measure of mystery, a sprinkling of scandal and Kate Shackleton - amateur...

A pawn-shop robbery- It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second professional sleuthing case. But exposing the culprit of a pawn-shop robbery turns sinister when her investigation takes her to Harrogate - and murder is only one step behind . . . A fatal stabbing- A night...

Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan's blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan's bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead in his office, everyone suspects activist Nan. But she is innocent.

London's social season is in full swing, and Victorian aristocracy can't stop whispering about a certain gentleman who claims to be the direct descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. But he's not the only topic of wagging tongues. Drawing rooms, boudoirs, and ballrooms are abuzz with the latest news of an audacious cat burglar who has been systematically stealing valuable items that once belonged to the ill-fated queen. Light gossip turns serious when the owner of one of the pilfered treasures is found murdered, and the mysterious thief develops a twisted obsession with Lady Emily Ashton.

Robert Langdon, un éminent spécialiste de symbologie de Harvard, est convoqué au Louvre pour examiner une série de pictogrammes en rapport avec l'œuvre de Léonard de Vinci. En déchiffrant le code, il met à jour l'un des plus grands mystères de notre temps... et devient un homme traqué.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor, read by Andrew Scott and Asa Butterfield. None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when...

Jazz Ramsey is just getting used to the idea that her on-again-off-again beau, Nick, might actually be a permanent fixture, when she gets an alarming call in the middle of the night from his mother, Kim: There's a dead man in her backyard. Kim has a long history of drinking and a vivid imagination, so when Jazz's human remains detection dog, Wally, finds no evidence of a body, Jazz thinks she can breathe easy. But when the body of a middle-aged man is discovered in a nearby park, and a photo of Nick and his mom is found in his pocket, Jazz has to admit that something isn't adding up.

Everything is shipshape at Jake and Ellie’s new waterfront bakery The Chocolate Moose, especially now that the annual Pirate Festival is dropping anchor in their quaint island village of Eastport, Maine. Jake and Ellie are ready for the bounty of tourists sure to flood their shop. But their plans quickly sink when the body of celebrity foodie Henry Hadlyme is discovered in the Moose’s basement.

For her husband’s 40th birthday, Lily Leonard books a table at the exclusive restaurant of Hector Bolson-Woods renowned celebrity chef. It should be the perfect evening for Lily and Stig, but not even a perfect menu can heal the cracks in the marriage. So when Hector invites them to dine with him privately, Lily is thrilled. Surely this will please Stig? Hector is charming and attentive – everything Stig is not – and she finds herself drawn more and more drawn to the enigmatic Hector.

Brought to you by Penguin. Florence, New Year’s Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici...

Deandra Hendricks works her fingers to the bone at two jobs to keep her Los Angeles apartment. With a rapidly dwindling savings account, the prospects for her future are bleak. So when her cousin invites her to visit Axia—the hidden, magical hub their grandparents retired to—she agrees. Deandra doesn’t possess a stitch of magic herself, but a long weekend vacation in a strange, new town might be just what she needs. Her first day in Axia is so bizarre, though. Just when she thinks her day can’t get any stranger, she finds a baby dragon trapped in a dumpster.