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Josephine Ying longs to overthrow Big Uncle as the best host, and after his roast duck incident, she’s finally getting her chance this Chinese New Year. Even better, her son is bringing a surprise. Unfortunately, the surprise turns out to be a gold-digging fiancée—who dies at the dinner table. Her problems just got a lot bigger than hosting the perfect meal. Certain there’s a killer at the table, Josephine sharpens her questions to find them out.

She is freelancing for Causton Books, where she is asked to work on a ‘continuation’ novel , Pund’s Last Case, by a young author, Eliot Crace. Susan is surprised: Eliot Crace is the grandson of one of the most well known children’s authors ever, Marian Crace. Rather doubtfully, Susan starts to read the opening chapters, finding to her relief that Pund’s Last Case is actually pretty good. Set in the South of France, it revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont who, though mortally ill, is poisoned – perhaps by a member of her own family. But why? And who did it?

After life threw Maggie Walker a few curveballs, she’s happy to be back in the small, Berkshires town where she spent so much time as a child. Marlowe holds many memories for her, and now it also offers a fresh start. Maggie has always loved gardening, so it’s only natural to sign on to help Violet Bloom set up a community garden. When opening day arrives, Violet is nowhere to be found, and the gardeners are restless. Things go from bad to worse when Maggie finds a boot buried in one of the plots… and there’s a body attached to it.

When Mrs. Blossom finds a winning ticket in a parking lot, everything changes...including Mrs. Blossom. She is determined to see the world that sometimes feels as if it’s passing her by. But when Mrs. Blossom booked her cruise through France on the MS Solitaire, she did not expect to meet Allan on her transatlantic flight. He is the first man who’s sparked something inside her since her beloved husband passed. She also didn’t expect Allan to be found, dead, twenty-four hours later in Paris, a city he wasn’t supposed to be in.

Kristen Perrin is back with the second novel in her Castle Knoll series. Annie Adams is caught in a new web of murder that spans decades, returning us to the idyllic English village that holds layers of secrets.

Liegt ein Goldschatz im Kleingartenverein Hortensia vergraben? So behauptet es Udo Blaumilch, der seine Gefängnisstrafe für einen Bankraub abgesessen hat und nun seine vergrabene Beute wieder ausbuddeln will. Während die Hortensianer zu Schatzsuchern werden, hegen Nele und Erik Zweifel an der Story des verwirrten Fremden. Doch dann wird Herr Blaumilch tot aufgefunden - mit einer Schusswunde in der Brust ...

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly murderer, however, it is up to Cecily Sinclair to restore order before Scotland Yard steps in and shuts down her infamous seaside hotel.

Krissy Hancock is a little nervous leaving her bookstore-café in Pine Hills, Ohio, in someone else's hands while she visits family in California. But when a killer strikes during her week out west, it's a good thing she packed her sleuthing skills . . . When she arrives in her hometown, the owner of Death by Coffee is startled to see a store called Death by Java. She soon realizes the name belongs to a copycat business run by her mean-girl high school rival, Valerie.

Cassie Woods yearns to be a real journalist. But in 1880s New York City, her only assignments are women's interest stories. Until, that is, a cookbook author she's meant to interview goes missing and Cassie finds herself in the midst of a police investigation involving one of the city's major crime families. Surly but handsome Detective O'Neill threatens repercussions to her career if she continues to interfere. Will Cassie get in over her head or will she save the day and solve the mystery?

Impossible crime stories have delighted people since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. Featuring more great stories by John Dickson Carr, Julian Symons and Margery Allingham alongside newly rediscovered writers, this selection of stories will bring you more insight into one of the most celebrated and dazzling sub-genres of detective fiction.

Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and due to her dislike of them was the only one to not fall foul of the arsenic-spiked treats. But, Miss Hargreaves is not the first recipient of such a gift; three other large country houses have received arsenic-laced chocolates. But Miss Hargreaves is holding something back, and it will take Tommy and Tuppence to take up residence at the old house to discover the true culprit, but will they find out the truth in time?

It isn't every day you find fingers poking up from the ground. Especially while supervising a bunch of tweenagers. But that was just Rylie's luck. Ever since she'd become a park ranger, bodies seemed to show up all over the place-on a trail, in a catfish trap, on a frozen beach. Now, they came from below. Like zombies. And it wasn't even Halloween. A new clue in a cold case should have gotten the police interested, if not downright excited. But when the police take over, they seem to want to keep the case cold. As does one of the murder suspects. It's up to Rylie to find the truth . . .

Jason Thompson is a man living on borrowed time. His entire family has been murdered for unknown reasons, and unless he acts quickly, he could become the final victim. Finding the murderer won’t be easy, and it will take time…something he doesn’t have a lot of. The only things he has going for him are the help of a sexy psychic medium and the spirits of his deceased family members. Will their help be enough? And will he have enough time to solve the case of a family departed?

After unexpected adventures while helping DPREM determine the fate of a research submersible lost off the coast of a Hawaiian island, Logan returns home. With two demons and a homicidal elf still at large, Logan certainly has enough to worry about. After a day of exploring other worlds with his friends, he heads west with his leprechaun mentor to pursue an emergent clue that might lead to one of the demons. While the evidence is slight, it can't be ignored. Luckily for Logan, he finds groups of magic users eager to help him at every turn in his journey.

After a hectic year sniffing out killers and chasing down leads, Louise and the rest of the Pack are relieved to finally have nothing more stressful on their plates than scent-training their dogs. Or at least, trying to. Then another body is found – a young homeless man murdered in the playground at their local park. With scant evidence leaving the police stumped, the Pack leap into action, determined to get justice even if they have to bark up every tree in the neighbourhood.

Finola has just moved to Edinburgh and she's more than a little excited. After turning her whole life upside down, she's now a detective and her first case is not long in coming. What began as a harmless search for a missing gardener soon becomes a matter of life and death - for Finola too!

Agatha har äntligen fått napp hos investerare som vill vidareutveckla AI-verktyget Sherlotta. Till hennes förfäran tvingar de henne att sitta och jobba i ett trendigt öppet kontorslandskap. Hennes mamma Märta vänder också in och ut på sig själv när hon får uppdraget som bröllopskoordinator på ex-mannen Anders kommande vigsel med Christos. Hon gör sitt bästa för att styra upp festen, men det är inte lätt när prästen hittas död – och Anders blir en av de misstänkta. Strax efter dödsfallet får Märta en blöt bibel och ett hotbrev skickade till sig.

Agatha blir tvungen att ta ett jobb på Lunds bibliotek för att hjälpa pensionärer med digital teknik. Däremot anade Agatha inte att hennes två sysslor skulle sammanflätas förrän en pensionär dör knall och fall mitt under kursen. De tre kvinnorna samlas kring en hemmasnickrad mordutredning med hjälp av Sherlotta.

Londra, 1925. Per impedirle di combinare ulteriori guai, Leonida Bernabò individua finalmente la sistemazione ideale per la vivace e scapestrata secondogenita Beatrice: un solido impiego presso l'ambasciata italiana. Miss Bee si trova dunque a barcamenarsi fra impegni segretariali ed eventi prestigiosi, come il ricevimento in onore di una delegazione proveniente proprio da Firenze, la città natia dei Bernabò. Due membri del comitato scientifico degli Uffizi vengono accolti insieme a Edoardo, figlio dell'ambasciatore italiano, e la sua fidanzata, Elisa.

1934. Opal Laplume’s star is on the rise when she gets a job making costumes for Hollywood’s biggest talkie star, Jane Margeaux. But when Jane is fatally shot on set by a prop gun, and security guard Augusto finds a bullet missing from his pistol, it falls to Opal to save her favorite new friend from a wrongful murder accusation.