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When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery novel by debut author Yosha Gunasekera. Siriwathi Perera doesn’t quite know where she’s going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab...

Robbie is just weeks away from giving birth. While her husband Abe scrambles to get the house ready for their baby's arrival, Robbie makes last minute arrangements to keep her shop and restaurant, Pans 'N Pancakes, up and running when she's on maternity leave. And it seems Robbie and Abe aren't the only ones grappling with anxiety—a stranger is causing a stir in town and Robbie's Aunt Adele appears unusually preoccupied at the baby shower . . .

Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colorful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch’s Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween. But things take a macabre turn when the first night’s screening ends with a mysterious murder, and the second night with another. One by one the actors turn up dead in ways that eerily echo their film.

Attaccarsi alla bottiglia è il miglior modo con cui Gary Thorn riesce a ottenere qualunque risultato, che sia passare una serata o risolvere casi impossibili. Ma andiamo con ordine: Gary, il nostro protagonista, non è proprio un tipo anonimo, ma è anche vero che raramente qualcuno si sofferma più di tanto a guardarlo. Una sera, va a bere una birra con il suo (unico) amico Brendan. Il quale, però, lo molla a metà pinta; a quel punto una brunetta si avvicina a Gary (strano!), comincia a flirtare (ancor più strano!), finché, appena lui si volta dall'altra parte... anche lei sparisce.

Step into a world of danger, intrigue, and espionage with The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie’s thrilling introduction to the adventurous duo Tommy and Tuppence. After World War I, these two spirited friends find themselves broke and in search of excitement. They soon stumble upon a shadowy conspiracy tied to a missing woman and a mysterious document that could change the course of history.

When Rebecca is accused of murder - all over Amish sour cream spice cupcakes - it’s the start of another thrilling mystery for Jane Delight. Jane is eager to clear Rebecca's name, but with brooding Detective Damon McCloud wanting to whisk her away from the suspects, she’s in for the adventure of a lifetime. Can Jane, Mr. Crumbles the cat, and Jane's meddlesome octogenarian roommates, Matilda and Eleanor, cook up a plan save the day? Or is this mystery going to end in heart-bake?

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business - and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's career.

Start a BRILLIANT cozy mystery series from Debbie Young A picturesque village. A quaint highstreet... And a murder to solve. Alice's new life is off to a deadly start. When Alice Carroll steps into Curiosity Cottage, a picture-perfect former bric-a-brac shop in the Cotswold Village of Little...

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

Frühling, Sonne, Campingglück! Am idyllischen Hirschgrund-See scheint die Welt in bester Ordnung: Sofia genießt den Besuch von Jonas‘ Familie und Evelyn flirtet vergnügt mit dem charmanten Campinggast Nils. Nur ein riesiger Wels, der plötzlich im See auftaucht und angeblich auch Badegäste angreift, stört die entspannte Urlaubsstimmung.

Nils lässt sich von so einem Fisch nicht abschrecken, geht schwimmen ... und kommt nicht mehr zurück. Während die Polizei auf Ertrinken tippt, wittern Sofia und ihre Hirschgrundis ein Verbrechen.

"Elvis ist verschwunden!" Mit diesen Worten erhält Freddy Spieker, Blues-Musiker und Detektiv aus dem Ruhrgebiet den Auftrag, den vermissten allseits bekannten Straßensänger wiederzufinden. Bei seinen Recherchen glaubt er auf ein großes Geheimnis zu stoßen. Aber die eigentliche Frage ist: Warum entführt man einen Obdachlosen? Freddy fährt mit seiner Band nach Bad Nauheim, wo Elvis Presley während seiner Armeezeit in Deutschland gewohnt hat und ermittelt.

Join Frank and Joe Hardy as they solve their very first case! Frank and Joe stumble upon a mystery, when a red-haired stranger steals their friend's car and attempts to rob a ticket office. The two would-be detectives manage to locate the car, but the thief is nowhere to be found! The mystery deepens, when the culprit robs Tower Mansion, home to the wealthy and eccentric Applegates. The kindly Mr. Robinson is falsely accused of the crime, and the only way to prove his innocence is by finding the missing treasure.

A lost puppy —a lonely lady —and murder among the flowerbeds! Step into the cozy charm of small-town Ireland in 1990. When a treasured trinket goes missing and a grumpy villager meets an unexpected end among the flowerbeds, sleuth Rosie O’Reilly and her cheeky pup, Ziggy, sniff out the clues. With help from Sister Mary Jo, a spirited nun with a mischievous streak, Rosie finds herself tangled in a web of garden secrets, local gossip, and nonstop twists. Packed with humour, 90s nostalgia, and a touch of Irish whimsy, this mystery will leave you smiling from start to finish.

Rylie Cooper has been coping with life in a brand-new way… by reading. Her best friend is an ocean away. Her love life is in pieces. And she's been living inside mystery novels. Then four bodies turn up at the Colorado reservoir. Four very different deaths. Four very specific crime scenes. Rylie recognizes every single one of them. Because she just read them. Someone is working through a cozy mystery series—book by book, murder by murder—and the author is somewhere between prime suspect and only expert. Rylie has to figure out which one.

Broken hearts, a deadly curse, and a search for Kid Curry’s buried treasure… Daphne Sullivan is flat broke and brokenhearted. Her business is in shambles, half the town hates her, and the man she was falling for left without explanation. All she wants is to lie low, rebuild her business, and find her place again in Rosemary Mountain.

Traveling to the ancestral Matlock estate with her husband, Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, is finally able to confront her greatest foe: the pinery. Forced to endure an endless parade of pineapple-inflected dishes early in her marriage, she has devised a scheme to sabotage the despised fruit, which she can now carry out at long last. Good gracious, no. Bea does not really mean the plants any harm, and approaching the building on a summer morning, she is struck by how lovely it is, with its elegant portico and high arching windows.

When our psychic sleuth receives a plea from her past, can she decipher the mystical messages in time? Mitzy Moon is stretching her private investigator wings. Her old life, as a broke barista in Sedona, seems a distant memory. So, she's shocked when her former supervisor reaches out and begs for help finding his missing, hopefully not dead, girlfriend.

Abandoned by a selfish mother and with no father to speak of, Free has become increasingly reclusive and driven by the hope of escaping nowhere, Texas, and reinventing herself. Her plans are shattered when she is discovered to be the only witness to the unsolved murder of her classmate. Dragged into the spotlight against her will, years of secrets, lies, and regrets begin to surface. When her estranged mother breezes back into town like the conquering hero, Free is faced with years of repressed rage and the truth of who she is.

Um sich in Edinburgh einen neuen Freundeskreis auch außerhalb der Detektei aufzubauen, hat sich Ùna einem Chor angeschlossen. Als Vorbereitung auf das neue Konzert findet ein Probenwochenende in einem alten Herrenhaus im Tweed Valley statt. Doch wird die Harmonie der Sängerinnen und Sängern empfindlich gestört, als eine von ihnen nach einem Sturz stirbt. Schon bald kommt das Gerücht auf, dass dies kein Unfall gewesen sei. Zwischen Chorproben und nicht immer ganz gemütlichem Beisammensein entdeckt Ùna Hinweise, die darauf hindeuten, dass jemand die Mitsängerin aktiv ins Jenseits befördert ...

With her Salem bed-and-breakfast open for the Halloween season, Clara Kelly is finally embarking on her new life as an entrepreneur—while also trying to clear the sullied name of her ghostly roommate, a kind and handsome Union soldier named William Kensington. But when Clara takes a boat tour to scope out local attractions, she gets more than sea breezes and sightseeing. A prominent member of the Salem Historical Society falls overboard, and minutes later, her spirit appears, claiming she was pushed.