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Iris Grey, portraitiste en pleine ascension, fuit Londres et son couple en pleine tourmente pour s'installer dans la pittoresque campagne du Hampshire. Le cottage qu'elle loue appartient à Dom Wetherby, un auteur de romans policiers à succès, et à son épouse Ariadne, qui commande à la jeune artiste le portrait de son mari. Si tout s'annonce d'abord idyllique, Iris réalise peu à peu que les Wetherby sont loin de l'image parfaite qu'ils veulent donner. Tensions, non-dits, rivalités : le lot de toutes les familles ?

Art and artifact investigator Axel Webb is asked to investigate a lawyer, A. Barton Bailey. The lawyer claims he represents a client willing to sell a portfolio of paintings by 20th-century bad-boy, Welsh portrait painter, Augustus John. Bailey approaches the Art Gallery of Ontario, owner of what is arguably John’s best work, a portrait of the flamboyant Marchesa Luisa Casati. The bohemian excesses of Augustus John and Luisa Casati, his occasional sexual partner, friend, and muse for over forty years, are legendary.

In the heat and heart of New Orleans, secrets fester like wounds. Dr. Benjamin “Doc” Brash, a brilliant forensic pathologist haunted by personal tragedy, uncovers a chilling truth at a Tulane Medical School reunion: his former classmates are dying in suspicious, calculated ways. Thrust into a heart-pounding hunt for a killer, Doc must confront his past to save his future.

After a busy summer carnival season, Robin Wildwood is trying to take it easy. Her job as Head Witch tends to make that challenging, but she's keen to focus on her budding relationship with Harvey and her hopes of getting her dad and brother back in touch with one another. When a sinister new enemy shows up in Wildwood Heath and attacks a group of camping badger shifters, the peace is shattered. Faced with an invisible adversary, Robin is forced to turn to outside help in the form of the mysterious Reaper who just showed up in town.

Jane Roland and her painter friends are looking forward to a busy, fun-filled holiday season at the town's art center—watercolor exhibits, concerts, and a festive gala. But, when the screams of a child pierce the gaiety at the Halloween reception, Jane discovers a skeleton in the art closet. There's a dark history lurking below the center's charming exterior, and the deeper Jane digs into the secrets of the past, the more she realizes that art can be a deadly obsession.

When a string of idiotic decisions lands Bobbie in a boatload of trouble, she’s got to keep a lid on her temper before she winds up on the next episode of Snapped! With her cousin Earl’s hand in one pocket and partner Grayson picking the other, Bobbie’s cash is disappearing faster than banana pudding at a Baptist pot luck. Oddly, so are the folks in the tiny fishing village of Astor, Florida. Then again, it’s the middle of gator-hunting season. And with horrendous tales of a murderous beast trolling the riverbanks, just who’s the angler and who’s the bait is as blurry as swamp gas at midnight.

Maggie Andrews is swamped—literally—as she tries to balance running her family's gator trapping business, "defining the relationship" with tattooed professor Jack Bianchi, and helping her twin sister Vera with her bookstore. When she's invited to speak at a conference about the dangers hunting for cryptids in gator-infested waters, she assumes it's a joke she doesn't have time for. But it's all too real....

Fuelled by anger and decision-impaired by gin, Patricia boards the world’s finest luxury cruise ship for a three-month tour of the world … and awakes to find herself embroiled in a thirty-year-old priceless jewel theft. Less than twenty-four hours after setting sail, she’s accused of murder and confined to her cabin. Thankfully, she is staying in the royal suite and that means she has a butler to help her. When he recruits his gym instructor BFF, Barbie, the trio turn detective to find the real killer.

S. E. Biglow's Cozy Mystery Starter Pack contains the first book in each of her cozy mystery series. From sleuthing shopkeepers and inquisitive reverends to magical mysteries, this collection has something for every cozy mystery lover.

A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime. Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis’s brother, is back with an agenda of his own.

EMS Captain turned sleuth Brighid Doran suspects that all is not what it appears on the surface at The Branston Club—a swanky ski lodge being built in her rural Vermont town. While dodging danger and digging up dirt, Brighid faces the ire of small town politics, crooked cops, and an ever deepening hole of deceptions, all the while struggling to cope with the constant deployment of her wife Major Sarah (Sam) Ann Musgrave.

After a few ghostly encounters, Hannah becomes obsessed with learning the truth about what happened in her recently purchased home. Thrust into the mystery, what Hannah finds in the house's crumbling halls, she'll never be able to unsee again. A paranormal phenomenon, a mysterious curse, and an unsolved murder forty years in the making. Can Sasha solve the mystery in time? Or will she face the same doomed fate as the tenants who came before them?

When a doctor is found dead in the woods, shot through the heart with a crossbow, his wife is the prime suspect, despite an ironclad alibi. Desperate to clear her name, she appeals to radio presenter Edward Temmis for help. But Edward has troubles of his own. With his beloved radio station in crisis and a mysterious motorbike crash on the seafront, the doctor's death isn't the only problem he has to face. Edward, Kim and Stevie must reunite on a treacherous path to uncover the truth.

Frances Evesham is BACK with her gripping mystery series set in an idyllic village nestled beneath Ham Hill in Somerset, full of quirky characters, and cracking clues. If you love Agatha Christie-style mysteries, cosy crime, clever dogs and cake, then you'll love these intriguing whodunnits.

Тысячи лет потомки древнего народа вельсов хранят священную реликвию жителей Атлантиды. В центре странных событий, произошедших в северной столице, оказывается Надежда Лебедева – питерская домохозяйка и по совместительству большая любительница детективных историй. Ей предстоит разобраться, как загадочная смерть ее соседа связана с артефактом, о котором слагают легенды.

Когда-то дом в тихом поселке Мухино принадлежал известному ученому-химику Сикорскому, но после его смерти комнаты стали сдавать всем желающим. Под подозрением оказались все жильцы дома. Вскоре выяснилось, что квартиранты связаны между собой сложными и не самыми доброжелательными отношениями. Одна из обитательниц дома, Александра, решила покончить со всей этой чертовщиной и самостоятельно найти преступника.

If you love The Thursday Murder Club, Agatha Christie and Richard Coles then you'll love The Morwenna Mutton mysteries!

По легенде, сотни лет назад из храма индейского племени чима был похищен уникальный алмаз, украшавший статую безжалостного, требующего кровавых жертв божества. В наши дни питерская домохозяйка Надежда Лебедева становится свидетельницей ряда странных событий, которые заставляют ее поверить в легенду об уникальном артефакте и включиться в его поиски.

Der ehemalige Metzger Max Saxinger ist zum konsequenten Tierschützer und "Kuhflüsterer" mutiert und will nun alle Unterfilzbacher zum Vegetarismus bekehren. Nachdem Metzger Saxinger plötzlich tot im Stall des Huberbauern gefunden wird, ist die Liste der Verdächtigen dementsprechend lang. Und der erprobte Bauhof-Detektiv Hansi Scharnagl hat sofort das ungute Gefühl, dass der zuständige Kommissar Bernhard Dietl bei seinen Ermittlungen auf dem Holzweg ist.

KAMASUTRA IN UNTERFILZBACH So etwas gab es noch nie im niederbayerischen Dorf Unterfilzbach: Innerhalb weniger Tage ereignen sich zwei Todesfälle, bei denen nicht alles mit rechten Dingen zugegangen sein kann. Doch während die Polizei sowohl beim Dorfapotheker als auch bei der Metzgereiverkäuferin von Unfällen ausgeht, stellt der naive und bodenständige Familienvater und Bauhofangestellte Hansi Scharnagl, der die beiden Leichen entdeckt hat, eigene Ermittlungen an.