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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.

Grace has returned to London after twenty years abroad to manage her dying mother's affairs. When she receives a blank Mother's Day card in the post, she is confused and unsettled. Another Mother's Day card arrives. Then come the silent phone calls. Haunted by disturbing flashbacks, Grace starts to unravel. Someone is out to get her. Someone who knows what she has done. Someone who will make her face the past she has run from for so long.

Siggi Pizolka, die pfiffige Kosmetikerin aus Dortmund, hat sich auf Sylt längst eingelebt – doch von Ruhe keine Spur. Als Katharina, eine Bekannte aus der Teestube, plötzlich unter Mordverdacht gerät, ist für Siggi klar: Sie muss helfen! Nach einem Streit mit ihrem Ex-Mann wird dieser tot aufgefunden – vergiftet mit Katharinas selbstgemachten Pralinen. Mit Herz, Witz und einer ordentlichen Portion Ruhrpott-Charme stürzt sich Siggi in die Ermittlungen.

In einem Steinbruch in der Nähe von Newton wird die junge Kellnerin Marylin Cox erschossen aufgefunden. Pater Brown begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem Täter, dabei erfährt er, dass die junge Frau in wenigen Tagen eine neue Stelle in einem Hotel in Brighton antreten sollte. Liegt darin das Motiv für den Mord? Immerhin hatte Marylin Cox aus diesem Grund ihre Verlobung mit Nicholas Ryan gelöst.

🛎'A clever and satisfying thriller in a wonderfully decadent setting. Sterling Lockwood is an unforgettable heroine' Elly Griffiths, author of The Frozen People 🛎'Sultry, sinister and smart. Sterling Lockwood is going to steal your heart - just don't trust her with it' Stuart Turton...

Peppa Danyelle didn't buy a bookstore to solve murders. She bought it for the quiet. After a decade of corporate actuarial work that aged her a solid eight years, Peppa cashed in everything she had for Shelf Life, a used bookstore in Salem's historic district. Low foot traffic. Thriving online sales. Ten customers a day, max. The math worked. The dream worked. For exactly one week. Then a retired antiques dealer was found dead in his locked study two blocks away. Police ruled it suicide.

Miriam Voss runs a quiet antiquarian bookshop in Harwick, where the work is usually simple: assess the books, catalogue them, and send them on to their next reader. Then the Haar estate arrives. Three hundred and eighty-seven volumes from the private library of the late neurologist Clement Haar. Most are ordinary enough—serious books, carefully read, densely annotated. But twenty-two of them contain something else. A second hand in the margins. For thirty years, someone answered Haar’s arguments. Corrected his readings. Challenged his conclusions.

They’re making a major feature film of the first Hawthorne/Horowitz mystery novel. Except—they’re behind schedule, they’ve run out of money and . . . oh! The star has just been murdered. Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne is dead. Or, rather, the actor playing him in the film...

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...

*Preorder Now* 'Captivating' R. L. Killmore, author of A Cinnamon Falls Mystery 'Smart, original and lively . . . I loved it' Gilly MacMillan, author of The Nanny 'A slice of pure murder mystery joy' Kelly Mullen, author of This Is Not A Game 'A mystery with razor-sharp stakes. I was enthralled...

La noche en que deberían celebrar la fiesta de inauguración de su casa, Silvia desaparece. A la mañana siguiente, su marido, Pablo, recibirá desolado la noticia de que el mar ha devuelto su cuerpo ahogado. ¿Qué ha podido suceder? Nada tiene explicación para él, que no comprende por qué Silvia pudo acudir a aquella playa e ignora con quién debía verse allí.

From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series Some secrets are deadlier than others 1968...

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...

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.

When a wine-country wedding becomes a murder investigation, can Daphne clear an innocent woman's name before the killer strikes again? Wedding celebrant Daphne Jones arrives at Crystal Springs Winery expecting a simple ceremony. Instead, she gets a shock: the bride is Belle, the beloved foster...

A Florida vacation. A glittering fashion show. A chilling discovery that turns paradise upside down. Kiki Lowenstein arrives on the Treasure Coast expecting sunshine and family fun—but when a young model is found floating in the resort pool after a dazzling Mermaidcore fashion show, her spring...

Sara Summers is the standout teacher at West Lebanon Middle School—admired, envied, and quietly resented. The attention she receives is constant—often flattering, but sometimes unsettling. So when anonymous emails from a "secret admirer" land in her inbox, she barely reacts. But everything changes when a package arrives on her doorstep containing an explicit object and a threatening note. Terrified, Sara contacts the police, but they offer little help.

This fun new story from a rising star of culinary cozies is just what your sweet mystery tooth is craving. The Chocolate Moose Bakeshop and its irresistible pastries are as delicious and delightful as the fourth installment in the Death By Chocolate series by Sarah Graves. As co–owners of...

Blending crime fiction and dark academia, The Violently Departed is a fast paced fantasy novel perfect for fans of An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson. A missing nun found murdered, a school built on secrets, a haunted town. A new case for Hero Viridian: half-demon, disgraced...

It's Christmas in the afterlife and all through the house, nothing is stirring except for a . . . murderer. It's Bridget Sway's first dead Christmas. And she's dreading it. Almost more than she dreaded Christmas when she was alive. In an attempt to get her in the holiday mood, her parole officer...