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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.

Janet Wild has always loved dogs. But she never expected one to fall out of the sky. Or the murder that followed. While hiding in a canyon overlook after a particularly bad day, an injured Scottie dog lands on Janet's car. When Dr. Klieger, the veterinarian treating McTavish, is murdered, Janet turns to Simon Blake, an aging investigative reporter, and Jennifer Wooley, her BFF from days gone by, for help in avenging both.

Killer on the Waves, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

A haunted castle. A deadly secret. And a duchess who can speak to the dead. When Lenora Fletcher arrives at Blackmoore Castle, she's tasked with uncovering the truth behind a scandal no one wants exposed: The former Duchess's death. Officially, it was ruled a suicide. But the spirits of Blackmoore tell a very different story.

When an obnoxious prankster is murdered, a determined girl investigates his mysterious death...

She found a century-old diary hidden in the walls of a grand lakeside estate. Days later, a young man was dead. Real estate agent Lily Morgan has a gift for old houses—the kind that hold their secrets in the plaster and whisper them through the floorboards. When she discovers a hidden diary inside historic Winslow House, she expects local color. What she finds instead is a forbidden romance, a missing heirloom, and the long-buried truth behind the vanishing of Jonathan Winslow, heir to one of Cedar Bluff's most powerful families, more than a hundred years ago.

Für Inka kommt diese Frage zu spät, denn erst nach zehn Jahren des Tätowierens stellt sich heraus, dass sie genau diese Gabe besitzt. Ihre Tattoos verleihen dem Träger magische Kräfte. Nach einer unschönen Offenbarung ihrer Gabe fasst sie den Entschluss, sich um diesen Schlamassel zu kümmern. Zusammen mit ihrer Katze Schnursula und ihren Freunden begibt sie sich auf die Jagd nach ihren Motiven und den vermeintlich bösen Trägern.

May Morrigan is in her bookshop one morning when she—and everyone else in the shop—receives an anonymous text. It contains a reference to a Shakespeare quotation—and seems to be aimed at the vicar and his partner, Juan. The next morning, one of them is dead. As disturbing texts continue to arrive, the Blackheath residents are threatened with further revelations and titillations. Then Fletcher becomes the focus of the tormenting texter, and barely escapes an attempt on his life.

Everyone in Lark’s End thinks Vera Calloway is a sweet old woman with a knitting bag, a fondness for tea, and an overfed cat named Watson. Everyone is wrong. When Major Barnaby collapses face-first into his prize petunias at the village fête, the police see a tragic heart attack. Vera sees a professional hit. And after forty years in the Service, she knows the difference. Now someone is buying up village land, blackmailing locals, and eliminating obstacles. Vera should leave it to the authorities. Unfortunately, the authorities are useless.

Murder, Mayhem, and a Library Reading Gone Terribly Wrong! When Marge Poole pulls off the impossible —convincing the world’s bestselling author to do a reading at the Hampton Cove library —she expects a night of literary excitement. What she doesn’t expect? Becoming the prime suspect when the author turns up dead. Now, it’s up to her daughter, Odelia Poole, to track down the real killer before Marge’s reputation is shredded and she becomes a small-town outcast. But with Odelia’s grandmother barging in on the investigation, things get… complicated.

Move over Stephanie Plum, Betty Crocker, and the residents of Lake Wobegon. Retired farmer Doris Day Anderson Connor and her quirky friends and relatives are solving crime in the Scandinavian-Lutheran farming community of Hallock, in the northwest corner of Minnesota. This audiobook, the second installment in the It' s Murder series, has Doris and her sister, Grace Kelly Anderson, the owner of the local café , taking ninety-year-old Rose O' Brien ice fishing.

Jaka tajemnica skrywa się między stronami książki? Cisza panująca w bostońskiej bibliotece zostaje brutalnie przerwana przez krzyk przerażonej kobiety. Ochroniarze od razu wkraczają do akcji, instruując czytelników, by pozostali na swoich miejscach, dopóki niebezpieczeństwo nie zostanie zidentyfikowane i zażegnane. W oczekiwaniu, aż będzie można opuścić budynek, czworo nieznajomych siedzących przy jednym stoliku nawiązuje rozmowę.

A contemporary cozy literary mystery set in a suburban Charlotte neighborhood named Wyndham Woods, where the controlled order of HOA life begins to fracture after the sudden death of a longtime resident. The story follows Ada Carmichael as she settles into the community and slowly uncovers hidden tensions, financial irregularities, and long-buried personal histories connected to both residents and local development projects.

A surprise wedding invitation. A cliffside villa on the glittering Amalfi Coast. And a murdered guest before the celebrations even begin. Posie Parker has just landed in her most glamorous case yet. Amalfi Coast, Italy, Spring 1926. Posie Parker—London’s premier female sleuth—is abroad and moments from boarding her train home when an urgent telegram stops her in her tracks. An old friend is getting married in Italy, and Posie heads to the sun-soaked, secretive Villa Amalfi, a clifftop paradise with a dark past and a dazzling roster of American guests.

It’s autumn and with crisp frosty weather and the leaves as colourful as they've ever been, Olivia and Jago are nestling into their life in Penbartha. Until local resentment about incomers and second home ownership is ignited by what seems to be an increasingly militant action group. A violent death makes the situation even more sinister. Maybe Penbartha isn't the happy place Olivia thought it was? Is the discontent really about second homes or is someone exploiting a well-supported cause in order to pursue a much more personal agenda?

Le vacanze in Abruzzo, quest'estate, si preannunciano più impegnative del solito per Enrico, cinquantottenne milanese dirigente di banca. Una commemorazione organizzata dal gruppo scout locale lo costringe infatti a riaprire la ferita più dolorosa della sua vita. Quarant'anni prima, nell'estate del 1982, Paola, la sua ragazza, è stata brutalmente uccisa e il suo cadavere abusato durante un campeggio itinerante sulla Maiella.

When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales also come swirling to the surface. For centuries Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there he told his...

In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother. Less than three years later he is dead, driven to suicide by isolation and despair. Thirty years on, Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist...

It is May 1911 when Daniel Pitt is summoned to a murder scene in the slums of London's East End. He fears the victim is his friend Toby Kitteridge, but relief is quickly followed by dismay when Daniel identifies the dead man as Jonah Drake, a distinguished senior barrister who has been killed with a double-edged sword. But what was Drake doing in Mile End? And does their head of chambers, Marcus Fford Croft, know more than he is willing to admit? With the police holding out little hope of finding Drake's killer, Daniel and Kitteridge rise to the challenge.

September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe’s country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may have a more sinister explanation...