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Location scout and Jane Austen enthusiast, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when the company she works for lands the job of finding locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but then her boss fails to return from a scouting trip to England. Kate travels to England to salvage the company’s reputation.

Thirty years ago, a child was found in the New Jersey backwoods. He had been living a feral existence, with no memory of how he got there or even who he is. Everyone just calls him Wilde. Now a former soldier and security expert, he lives off the grid, shunned by the community - until they need him. A child has gone missing. With her family suspecting she’s just playing a disappearing game, nobody seems concerned except for criminal attorney Hester Crimstein. She contacts Wilde, asking him to use his unique skills to find the girl.

Meg is in the backyard of the house her brother Rob, Delaney, and their new baby have moved into, supervising some workmen who are using a bulldozer to start digging out a duck pond. She wants to get away from her own house, which has become the staging site for Caerphilly's first Mutt March, which will be held the next day. Meg thinks it will be more peaceful at Rob's house--and it is until the bulldozers uncover a skeleton whose skull has a hole and a bullet rattling around inside.

Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious con men. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Mma Ramotswe, Botswana's only female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple's, but she's got warmth, wit, and canny intuition on her side - not to mention Mr J.L.B. Maketoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors.

The complete BBC Radio adaptations of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency featuring Botswana's only female private detective agency, run by the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe. Based on the hugely popular novels and brought to life with music and full casts, these evocative productions return us to Botswana, where Precious has more mysteries to solve.

Kendal Carter is out in the cold and she wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s been four years since her daughter Rosie was born and Kendal has kept her miles away from The Game. But when their hiding place is discovered and danger comes too close, Ken is forced to turn to old contacts. Her longtime friend and ex-handler Rico doesn’t miss his chance to pull his best player back in. Whisking them to London, Rico offers them a luxury safe house in an area with good schools. How can she resist?

Eleanor Dash can never catch a break. Not only has she had to solve two real-life murder plots in the past year, but both times it was when she was meant to be on vacation. Now she’s finally got a ticket to a relaxing weekend—an all-inclusive resort in the Bahamas where she’s speaking at a conference for murder mystery writers—but she arrives to find a body on the floor of her hotel room. Because of course she does.

Heather by Caitlin Mullen is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books.

With a cast of unforgettable characters—including a charming scoundrel, a lovesick farmer, a ghoulish butler, and a ruthless heiress determined to hide her skeletons at any cost— this brilliantly reimagined mystery featuring the characters from Jane Austen’s Emma is as deliciously dark as it is delightfully clever.

Detective Lindsay Boxer heeft haar handen vol als kersverse moeder, maar dan krijgt ze een verontrustend bericht van de FBI. Een foto, met daarop een prachtige, onschuldig ogende vrouw. Lindsay herkent haar echter als Mackie Morales, een van de gevaarlijkste mensen uit haar verleden. En Mackie is uit op wraak, en lijkt het gemunt te hebben op Lindsays baby. Ook Yuki Castellano's romantische huwelijksreis verandert in een nachtmerrie wanneer het cruiseschip wordt gekaapt. Ze is afgesloten van de buitenwereld, terwijl de passagiers van het schip één voor één worden geëlimineerd.

Wat begint met een vriendendienst voor haar huisbaas, loopt al gauw uit tot een van de gevaarlijkste avonturen in de carrière van speurder Kinsey Millhone. Door een reeks aan verdachte toevalligheden rondom veteraan Lee raakt Kinsey op het spoor van een oude vriend, Ray Rawsom. Hoewel hij plotseling slachtoffer wordt van geweld, vertrouwt Kinsey hem niet. Maar wanneer ze tijdens haar zoektocht het hele land doorkruist, stuit ze op een nieuwe verdachte, namelijk een angstaanjagende psychopaat.

Terwijl brigadier Lindsay Boxer bevalt van haar dochter, vindt er een moord plaats. De hoofdverdachte; een aanstormend football-talent. Nauwelijks een week later roept deze moord Lindsay terug naar de werkvloer en wordt ze benaderd door een professor. Hij zegt afschuwelijk realistische nachtmerries te hebben. Lindsay hecht er geen waarde aan, totdat er een schietpartij plaatsvindt die tot in detail overeenkomt met wat de professor haar heeft verteld... Als de zaken zich ontwikkelen zoals de professor die voorspeld heeft, zouden de gevolgen niet te overzien zijn.

Een alcoholverslaving gooit het leven van journaliste Tara Linders flink overhoop. Ze verwaarloost zichzelf en wordt door haar baas op non-actief gesteld. Om weer terug te mogen keren bij dagblad De Dageraad moet ze zich laten opnemen in een verslavingskliniek in Wales, de beste in Europa. Tijdens de opname ontdekt Tara dat er duistere zaken spelen in een nabijgelegen kindertehuis. Jonge kinderen verdwijnen er spoorloos. Samen met haar collega Diego Martinez gaat ze naar ze op zoek, maar dat stelt niet iedereen op prijs.

So hat Evi Pflaum sich ihren ersten Arbeitstag in der alten Heimat nicht vorgestellt: Ihr Vorgesetzter ist im Dauerkrankenstand und der erste Mordfall landet direkt auf dem Schreibtisch der jungen Staatsanwältin. Rätselhafte Malzspuren an der Leiche führen in die Brauereien und Mälzereien der fränkischen Bierstadt. Hochmotiviert legt sich die chronisch unterzuckerte Evi nicht nur mit ihrem neuen Chef an und betrinkt sich mit ihrer besten Freundin auf der Kerwa – sie verliert sich auch in den grünen Augen von Gerichtsmediziner Dr. Niklas Rosenbeet.

Mags Murray is still recovering from the shock of meeting her biological father. When he and his family invest in renovating a Scottish castle hotel, Mags offers to oversee the property's cemetery restoration, hoping to find some common ground with her newfound relations. But if the castle's business isn't booming soon, the family will be out of funds and the medieval landmark might crumble to the ground.

Fern’s dream of becoming a published author is finally coming true. After years of rejection, her debut novel has sold, and she’s ready to join the supportive online community of fellow debuts. But when she discovers her high school bully, Haven, has landed a major book deal and will be debuting alongside her, old wounds reopen.

New York City, 1920. Grace Michelle has clawed her way from the streets to a dream role as costume designer for the glamorous Ziegfeld Follies. But when her sister—the show's dazzling star—is found dead, Grace's world crumbles. To find the killer, Grace must step into her sister's spotlight, trading sketches for sequins in a role she never wanted. With every curtain rise, the danger grows—onstage and off—as she's drawn into a tangled plot of fame, ambition, and betrayal.

What happens when you're pulled into an alternate version of your life? Cassidy Marchand is abandoned, on the run, and out of money. She’s just gotten arrested for stealing, but that’s the least of her worries. When she wakes up, everything seems normal—at first. She soon discovers she has entered an alternate reality where she encounters devoted and loyal friends she’s never met, meets the golden-boy doctor she’s engaged to, and finds out the father who deserted her in her own world actually stuck around to raise her alternate self. The biggest hitch?

Genealogist Mags Murray is off to a Scottish castle for her first Murray Clan reunion. Even though Mags recently discovered her dad is not her biological father and she doesn't have Murray DNA in her blood, it's in her soul. She and her dad share a special bond, and their trip to Scotland is sure to be a fun adventure. That is, until the castle's treasured Robin Hood arrow is stolen. Mags's best friend Biddy McCarthy is eager to investigate, but Mags prefers a vacation from solving mysteries.

At a reunion of old school pupils and friends, recently retired Belle Harrington overhears a story about a gang of seven bullies, who blighted her life decades earlier. Over the course of twenty-five years, six of the seven have died or disappeared. One every five years, three months after each reunion. All seemingly accidental. Co-incidence . . . or something else? Working reluctantly with the only remaining member of the gang, and with the next anniversary imminent, Belle sets out to discover if there has been something sinister at work.