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When washed-up ‘80s rock star Rex “The Rocket” Rockwell collapses mid-power ballad on the Elysium Dream, the crowd thinks it’s part of the act. But cruise director Barty Butterfield knows the difference between a dramatic finale and a dead body.

A femme fatale with an axe to grind. Marla Dotson is used to getting what she wants, and what she wants is Dwayne Morrow—both on and off the case. Convincing an old acquaintance to grant him an apprenticeship had been hard enough, yet the initial assignments were proving to be anything but rewarding for Dwayne Morrow. Crawling through garbage to snap photos of awful people doing awful things was not the exciting career choice he had envisioned.

Love…or money. What would you do to get it? Molly and Ben are busy embracing domestic life, hanging out with their pals at Chez Papa, eating duck confit and potatoes Anna. The usual, that is to say, with no local murders for some time. Then they hear of a death in a château near Périgueux, just a stone’s throw from Castillac. People die every day, as everyone knows. But the death of a very, very rich person? It suggests, as Molly says, certain possibilities…

With her husband busy on an archaeological dig, Agatha invites her friend, Mary Westmacott to accompany her on a luxury cruise. But, upon boarding the Ocean Princess, Agatha and Mary find certain behaviours slightly odd. Why is Captain Harkness so unusually attentive? And why are they invited to the Captain’s Table, along with three bright young things, who seem to be involved in a rather scandalous love triangle?

Nur wenige Meilen von Mydworth entfernt liegt das abgelegene Chilton House - ein Rückzugsort für Londons exzentrische Künstler, die dort den Sommer mit Malerei, Diskussionen und rauschenden Festen verbringen. Doch als nach einer Wohltätigkeitsauktion einer von ihnen tot im Fluss gefunden wird, ist es vorbei mit der Bohème-Romantik. Die Polizei tippt auf einen Unfall im Rausch. Doch Kat und Harry haben ihre Zweifel - und stoßen bald auf ein kunstvoll gewebtes Netz aus Lügen.

Sofia genießt ihren Urlaub: drei Wochen Sonne, Strand und Meer - und endlich mal kein Mord! Doch kaum ist sie zurück am Hirschgrundsee, wartet schon der nächste Fall: Der Wohnwagen der Hetzeneggers ist verschwunden! Sofort begeben sich die Hirschgrundis auf die Suche. Als sie das gute Stück endlich wiederfinden, ist die Freude schnell vorbei - denn direkt neben dem Wohnwagen liegt ein toter Rocker! Sofort fällt der Verdacht auf die Hetzeneggers, und ausgerechnet die schöne Kommissarin Kiesewetter übernimmt den Fall.

Als Nathalie und Louise am allerwenigsten damit rechnen, wird Louise von ihrer Vergangenheit als Agentin eingeholt. Nie hätte sie es für möglich gehalten, dass ihre Entführung vor vielen Jahren noch einmal Folgen haben würde, doch jetzt meldet sich ein Unbekannter bei ihr - und was er verlangt, ist nicht nur schockierend, sondern auch tödlich! Natürlich fällt auch ihren Freunden auf, dass mit Louise etwas nicht stimmt. Fieberhaft versuchen sie herauszufinden, was gerade passiert. Dabei ahnen sie nicht, in welcher Gefahr sie sich befinden.

Vibrierende Strandpartys und der Geschmack von Gefahr: Laura Mars reist auf die Kanarischen Inseln - aber anstatt sich in den Bikini zu werfen und zwischen Palmen und wildromantischen Schluchten zu entspannen, legt sie sich mit der lokalen Drogenmafia an. Sie ist dem Hilferuf ihres Vaters gefolgt: Seit Jahren schon schreibt Mischa Mars über den florierenden Drogenschmuggel auf den Kanaren. Nun ist Lauras Stiefmutter Ramona verschwunden. Ist sie entführt worden, um sein Schweigen zu erpressen? Auf der Insel La Gomera lässt sich Laura zu einer regenbogenbunten Alt-Hippie-Strandparty hinreißen.

After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte's customers turns up dead, there's much ado about murder.

When Holly White's fiancé cancels their Christmas Eve wedding with less than two weeks to go, Holly heads home with a broken heart. Lucky for her, home in historic Mistletoe, Maine is magical during Christmastime - exactly what the doctor prescribed. Except her plan to drown her troubles in peppermints and snickerdoodles is upended when local grouch and president of the Mistletoe Historical Society, Margaret Fenwick, is bludgeoned and left in the sleigh display at Reindeer Games, Holly's family tree farm.

Duffy is back! After almost a decade our social working, pro boxing, Schlitz drinking, basset hound loving, bleeding heart tough guy has no idea what he’s in for. His world literally blows up with a new gig, a career shift, another hound and, though he’s still spending most of the time in AJ’s, now it is from the other side of the bar.

Mercy and Lizzie McCarthy are settling in to the charming seaside village of Shamrock Cove on the west coast of Ireland. Lizzie throws herself into organizing a book festival and mystery writer Mercy even agrees to come out of her bookish hidey-hole to do get involved. But then the star author for the event is found dead. James Brandt was killed by a falling bookshelf in his own cottage… The local detective is not convinced by Mercy’s suspicion of murder but when someone else turns up dead, the police cannot ignore it.

Jin Bakery has been asked to cater the Lum-Wu outdoor wedding at Pixie Park. The day of the ceremony, Felicity is finishing the “cake” of tiered egg tarts as the wedding party arrives for the ceremony. When one of the groomsmen, Miles Wu, doesn’t arrive, Felicity’s best friend and local florist Kelvin generously steps in for him and the wedding goes smoothly—until cake-cutting time. That’s when Felicity finds Miles’ dead body beneath the table with her egg tarts display, stabbed by Kelvin’s gardening shears.

Grounds for Murder is the first in a new mystery series featuring protagonist Jeannie Wolfert-Lang. When Jeannie won’t sell her farm, someone tries to kill her. Who wants her land enough that they’d attempt to kill a 60-year-old widow? Jeannie must now grapple with ghosts from her past and solve the mystery.

Fünf Jahre nach einer tragischen Katastrophe, bei der Christians großer Bruder und seine gesamte Klasse bei einer Schulübernachtung ums Leben kamen, soll die Tradition wieder aufleben. Die Schüler sind begeistert, doch Christian ist alles andere als erfreut. Für ihn ist die Veranstaltung ein respektloser Akt gegenüber den Verstorbenen, und er setzt alles daran, sie zu verhindern. Trotz seiner Warnungen findet die Übernachtung statt, doch die anfängliche Freude schlägt schnell in Angst um. Ein Zettel mit der Botschaft „Ihr werdet sterben“ wird gefunden, und plötzlich beginnt ein Albtraum.

Before Mia Malone can sip tea at Time for a Cuppa, the charming new shop in Magic Springs, Idaho, her life changes course in downright supernatural ways. First her blossoming catering business and cooking school get a boost with the addition of an enchanting cake decorator. Then she catches the attention of the tea shop owner herself, local coven member Mahogany Medford, who's set on immersing Mia in a twisted mystery that appears all but unsolvable without a special kind of help . . .

Deandra Hendricks works her fingers to the bone at two jobs to keep her Los Angeles apartment. With a rapidly dwindling savings account, the prospects for her future are bleak. So when her cousin invites her to visit Axia—the hidden, magical hub their grandparents retired to—she agrees. Deandra doesn’t possess a stitch of magic herself, but a long weekend vacation in a strange, new town might be just what she needs. Her first day in Axia is so bizarre, though. Just when she thinks her day can’t get any stranger, she finds a baby dragon trapped in a dumpster.

Brought to you by Penguin. Six thriller authors. One writing retreat. You’d die to be on the guest list . . . The Host Legendary mystery author J. R. Alastor’s books are sold all over the world, but no one knows his real name. After years hiding in the shadows, he has sent out six...

It’s nearly Christmas in the small English town of Little Wittering, and retired teacher Sally Smith is enjoying an afternoon in the hair salon. Until she sniffs out a corpse. With a body in the broom cupboard and a police-imposed lock-in until the culprit is caught, it doesn’t take long to deduce someone in the salon is a cold-blooded killer.

It's been 12 years since ER nurse Frankie Stapleton fled the quiet banks of Stillwater, but with her sister's pregnancy taking a dangerous turn and a string of failed relationships in Chicago hanging over her, Frankie is back and hoping to put the past behind her. Within minutes of arriving at Stillwater General Hospital, however, she ends up saving a man's life, only to have him turn up dead hours later - and the hospital blames Frankie.