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Search and Rescue dog owner and amateur sleuth, Eve, has been tasked with helping to plan and prepare for the Michigan Mutts Search and Aid Spring Meeting. To say that she’s busy would be more than an understatement, but when her day-job boss asks her to help out an elderly friend who’s convince that something scary and dangerous is afoot, Eve makes time for it. In her mind, it won’t take long to meet up with the elderly woman and take Atlas, her cadaver dog, through the woman’s house, just to do a good deed and ease the woman’s worries.

Die Sheltons geben zur Einweihung ihres neu gestalteten Gartens ein großes Grillf­est. Auch Mimi Rutherfurt und Dr. Christopher Hays gehören zu den geladenen Gästen, die allesamt die Einweihungsparty in vollen Zügen genießen. Doch die gute Stimmung endet abrupt, als man Winston Glover erstochen in der Nähe der Küche auffindet. Schnell stellt Mimi Rutherfurt fest, dass einige der Gäste ein Motiv gehabt hätten, Mr. Glover zu ermorden.

Liz Cardiff, die als Arzthelferin in der Praxis von Dr. Hays arbeitet, kehrt nach ihrer Arbeit nicht nach Hause zurück. Die Polizei von Gutt's Hill findet die junge Frau am nächsten Nachmittag tot in einem See. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass Mrs. Cardiff erschlagen wurde. Doch wer hätte ein Motiv, die schüchterne Frau zu töten?

Mimi Rutherfurt und Darlene D'Arcy entdecken bei einem Abendspaziergang die Leiche des Hellsehers Samson Fortune. Mr. Fortune ist zweifelsfrei ermordet worden. Verdächtige gibt es so einige: einen verzweifelten Witwer, den Fortune schändlich betrogen hat, eine wohlhabende Uhrmacherin, die von dem Ermordeten um viel Geld gebracht wurde, sowie einen Ehebrecher, den Fortune erpresste. Dennoch lässt eine scheinbare Nebensächlichkeit Mimi keine Ruhe – und plötzlich erscheint der Fall in einem ganz neuen Licht.

There’s a wedding in Hoochville! All Sadie Sexton is worried about is getting her bestie to the altar on time. But when two bodies show up at the wedding venue on the day of the ceremony and the groom’s whereabouts the night before are in question, suddenly he becomes the prime suspect.

After surviving a fierce storm on Moon Lake, Nancy Drew meets a frightened girl named Laura Pendleton, who begs for her help. Laura’s new guardian, Jacob Aborn, is a cruel, greedy man with a secret agenda. He keeps her locked up inside a remote bungalow, where nobody can interfere with his plans. As Nancy investigates, she discovers the shocking truth behind the criminal’s scheme. Before she can get the police, the villain catches her and leaves her trapped! Can Nancy escape from the bungalow and catch up to the criminal before he escapes with Laura’s inheritance?

When human remains are found on the family farm, Shiloh Bellamy begins investigating and becomes determined to clear her grandma's name and protect her family's legacy.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from bestselling author Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy...

Chloe leaps from the frying pan into the fire when she arrives for a meeting with Digger, one of Josh's friends and a rival chef, and discovers a dead body instead. Digger died of smoke inhalation from a blaze that started in his kitchen. Unable to believe that an executive chef would allow a grease fire to get so out of control, Chloe starts an unofficial search for the murderer.

Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front. Then someone breaks into her house and tries to dig up her basement. Next her almost-ex-husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but only if she'll give him her small, old house and take his big, new house instead. Suddenly everybody wants Lindsay's house. Is there oil under the basement, plans to bring the railroad through, pirate treasure buried in the basement?

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse – discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Richard Cadogan, poet and would-be bon vivant, arrives for what he thinks will be a relaxing holiday in the city of dreaming...

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, recorded by the director and star of the blockbuster film adaptation, Kenneth Branagh. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.

Trixie’s daughter Martha has taken up residence in the kitchen she shares with her friend Evangeline. Martha is frantically testing last-minute recipes to meet the deadline for her cookbook, helped by Jocasta, her overworked editor. When a strange man bursts into their lives, it’s revealed that Martha was not the first choice for the cookbook, and that the woman originally working on it died after eating something at a cooking demonstration. Unwanted guests descend on the already crowded and tense apartment, one of whom ends up dead.

It's cozy. It's culinary. It's Mardi Gras madness! It's the fifth book in this fabulous mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today-bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Ellen Byron. Step 1: join a killer krewe It's carnival season in New Orleans, and Ricki James-Diaz and her...

This audio program includes an exclusive Q&A between the author and narrator. Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chillingly beautiful mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a desperate town from the savagery within. Ava Bonney is a...

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi...

***SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER*** ***USA TODAY BESTSELLER*** THE BIGGEST DEBUT LAUNCH OF 2024 Yorkshire, 1979 Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South. Because of the murders. Leaving Yorkshire and her...

From the No.1 bestselling author, comes an exciting novel new to Hodder in eBook and audio. On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues...

For Julia Snowden, the Founder's Day summer celebration in Busman's Harbor, Maine, means helping her family's clambake company to prepare an authentic taste of New England seafood. Any Mainer will tell you that a real clambake needs wood for the fire...so why is there a foot sticking out of the oven?

A shocking hit-and-run in front of her Village Blend coffeehouse spurs Clare Cosi into action. A divorced single mom, Clare is also a dedicated sleuth, and she's determined to track down this ruthless driver who ran down an innocent friend and customer. In the meantime, her ex-husband, Matt, the shop's globetrotting coffee buyer, sources some amazing new beans from Brazil. But he soon discovers that he's importing more than coffee, and Clare may have been the real target of that deadly driver.