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After an unsuccessful season in London, Miss Mary Mifford has returned to the village of Plumpton, determined to be the most upstanding spinster the Cotswolds have ever seen. Not even the arrival of the elusive Duke of Northcott can distract Mary from her plan; until the local rector is found bludgeoned to death and Mary is named as the prime suspect.

As the weather turns crisp, Jayne O'Shea and the other villagers prepare for the last big tourist draw of the season: the autumn equinox festival. It's a time to enjoy a bounty of food, the company of others, and the ever-popular cooking competition. Events in the baking division, however, turn from friendly to fatal when one of the contestants, a beloved nationally known chef, is found dead in the woods.

With only a smattering of tourists visiting the village for the Samhain feast, Jayne is excited…no. She's looking forward to…no. Jayne is guardedly optimistic about spending a few days with her demanding sister. Then a boy goes missing during trick-or-treating and everything changes.

LE TOME 0 DE LA SÉRIE D’ENQUÊTES PLUS COSY QUE MYSTERY, BEST-SELLER DEPUIS 30 ANS AUX ÉTATS-UNIS !Quittée par son amant, Emma Porter décide de revenir à sa première passion : le jardinage. Rien de tel qu’une tournée des plus beaux jardins d’Angleterre en été ! Au manoir de Penford Hall, Emma rencontre un duc fantasque qui lui demande de redonner au jardin de la chapelle sa splendeur d’antan. Mais lorsque la cousine de ce dernier est retrouvée inanimée dans la propriété, l’affaire semble liée à la mort mystérieuse, cinq ans plus tôt, d’une star du rock au même endroit.

Hamburg, 1952. Der ausgebrannte Privatdetektiv Henry Burger soll den verschwundenen Geliebten einer Frau finden. Die Auftraggeberin entpuppt ich als die Tochter einer Familie von hanseatischen Großindustriellen und der Gesuchte wird wenig später tot aufgefunden. Burger gerät, ohne es zu wollen, in einen Sumpf aus Kriminalität und Intrigen, die bis ins Rotlichtmilieu herabreichen.

The Falconer Files Brief Cases follows DI Harry Falconer and DS Carmichael solving murders in and around Market Darley. Each story presents a unique murder mystery with a seasonal or thematic twist.

When Isobel Shadow discovers a dead body in the middle of her bookstore, she and her sister Freya are thrown into a whirlwind of danger and mystery. With the police breathing down their necks and a killer on the loose, they are desperate to solve the crime before they become the murderer’s next victims. As Isobel and Freya use their sleuthing skills to uncover the murderer and protect the small town of Willowdale, Rhode Island, they uncover a secret about themselves that will change their lives forever.

A whimsical paranormal cozy mystery filled with small-town charm, a hint of the unexplained, and a touch of literary flair. Nan Nettles has always seen the world through a dreamy, poetic lens, and her husband, Mossy, is more than happy to play the romantic bard to her wandering muse. But when their road trip to a charming Florida town takes an unexpected detour, they find themselves caught up in a legend whispered on the coastal breeze.

When young music teacher Andre Beaufort discovers an antique player piano in the basement of his apartment building, he is visited by the ghost of the original owner: a dapper and charismatic playboy from the Roaring Twenties, Freddy Birtwistle. Andre has never seen a ghost and Freddy has never been one, so they get off to a rocky start. But when Andre finds his neighbor murdered on his doorstep, he and Freddy join forces to narrow the pool of suspects.

Lacey Doyle, 39 years old and freshly divorced, made a drastic change when she walked away from the fast life of New York City and settled down in the quaint English seaside town of Wilfordshire. Now with a new relationship and a blossoming business, it looks like Lacey has the life she always dreamed of. But when Lacey receives a Fabergé egg on consignment, she never expects it to hatch a murder plot. Now, with a dead curator and whispers of forgery swirling through the salty air, Lacey must piece together an enigmatic puzzle before the killer cracks their next victim!

Sarah Anderson thought she'd seen it all in Rosewood Hollow—from solving a century-old murder with a ghost named Amelia to tracking down stolen sapphires with her telepathic Papillon, Pixie. But this Christmas, death darkens her door once again when a newcomer is found murdered at the local bookstore. With her best friend Lily as the prime suspect, Sarah and Pixie must put their hard-earned sleuthing skills to the test.

Book 5: Driven To It Abigail Wentworth's reunion lunch with old friend Alison Fairweather takes a dark turn when she spots a familiar face, sending her life into chaos. Book 6: All Hallows While DS Carmichael takes his stepsons trick-or-treating and DI Falconer mans the station, DC Roberts' routine interview in Carsfold is interrupted by an explosion, leading to a murder investigation.

If you can’t beat them, join them. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is so annoyed by the infighting at tiny Bradley, North Carolina’s town council meetings that she decides on a radical course of action: she’ll run for the open seat on the council. After all, she taught most of the elected officials—she should be able to enact some order. But order apparently isn’t in the works. This becomes clear when a fellow candidate is found . . . murdered. Myrtle and her senior sidekick Miles must uncover the killer before someone else becomes a lame duck.

The dead don’t always stay buried. And some refuse to move on. After barely surviving his brush with death, Clay Donovan is stuck between worlds—his body clings to life, but his soul refuses to let go. As he struggles to understand the new rules of the afterlife, a restless spirit begins terrorizing a college campus, seeking vengeance on those who left him behind. Darcey, ever the fiend, is ready to do what she does best: eliminate the problem. But Clay isn’t convinced death is the only way out.

Hellmont beschließt, ein wachsames Auge auf die Rivalen Tammens und Aldrink zu halten. Denn eines scheint klar zu sein: deren Auseinandersetzung ist noch lange nicht am Ende. Obwohl Aldrink zu einer Strafe verurteilt wurde, sinnt Tammens weiterhin auf blutige Rache... Als kurz darauf Hellmonts Kollege, Kommissar Haymar, mitten in der Nacht an den Schauplatz eines dramatischen Geschehens gerufen wird, deutet zunächst noch alles auf einen tragischen Verkehrsunfall hin, in den Aldrink verwickelt ist.

Ingeborg Struckmeyer ist ein Kind des Ruhrgebiets. Nach Abschluss ihres Studiums in Münster und Köln war sie als Diplom-Bibliothekarin tätig. Seit 2004 lebt sie in München. In den letzten Jahren erhielt sie mehrere Kurzgeschichten- und Kurzkrimipreise. Sie hat das Märchen Die gläserne Prinzessin sowie drei Kurzkrimibände veröffentlicht: Tödliche Rache, Todesschreie und Todesängste, alle im Geest Verlag. Gemeinsam mit Friedlind Lipsky schrieb sie unter dem Pseudonym Frida Mey die beiden schwarzhumorigen Kriminalromane Manchmal muss es eben Mord sein und Radieschen von unten (Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag).

Katie Wilk has begun her second month of the school year with her math and science students when a series of shocking events rock their small town—a teenage beauty queen is found dead in a state park, Katie’s neighbor’s three-year-old daughter is abducted, and Maverick, her dog, has a search-and-rescue certification exercise which turns into a real emergency. Doctor Pete Erickson, the man Katie was starting to have feelings for, seems curiously out of touch with her these days, but she and the new veterinarian in town may turn out to have quite a lot in common.

Två entusiastiska studenter vid Västgöta universitet tar initiativet till en amatörteatergrupp och annonserar efter skådespelare för att sätta upp Romeo och Julia. I samma veva hittas Roy Pedersen, en av Europas främsta experter på Shakespeare, brutalt dödad. Han har varit spårlöst försvunnen i åtta månader och först nu kan polisen börja söka efter hans mördare. När litteraturforskaren Helena Waller förstår att Pedersen var ett okänt originalmanuskript av just Romeo och Julia på spåren ger hon sig iväg till Verona för att försöka hitta det på egen hand.

Vill du veta vem som får årets Nobelpris i litteratur? Helena Wallner tror inte sina öron när stiftelsens ordförande avslöjar hemligheten. På vackra Bjertorps slott möts ett sällskap för att utse den författare som ska tilldelas ett prestigefullt pris. Men inget blir som de tänkt sig. Morgonen därpå hittas en av medlemmarna död under märkliga omständigheter. Plötsligt förbyts den trevliga samvaron i en mardrömslik jakt på en oberäknelig mördare som tycks vara ute efter fler offer.

Härmed tillkännages att ett mord kommer att äga rum i Götasalen fredagen den 1 juni klockan 20.00. Det är många som sätter frukostkaffet i halsen när annonsen dyker upp i lokaltidningen samma morgon som deckarfestivalen om Agatha Christie ska invigas vid Västgöta universitet. Är det ett skämt eller kanske en annorlunda hyllning till den stora författaren? När en av gästerna faller död ner under kvällens middag blir alla varse att det är blodigt allvar. En giftig skandal är en spännande och fängslande deckare där Helena Waller och Emma Lundgren hamnar mitt i ett morddrama.