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Jenny Starling is spending Christmas in a snowed-in country house cooking all the traditional food she loves. But the family she’s working for are not full of the seasonal spirit. In fact, they seem to hate each other. On Christmas Eve, someone is found dead on the kitchen table. And the head of the family is blaming Jenny! But with an incompetent detective called in, and seemingly no motive for the murder, Jenny will have to give the police a hand. She will stop at nothing to clear her name and find the real murderer.

Ein festliches Dinner im Herrenhaus zu Mapleton: Sir Eustace Vernon hat all seine Liebsten eingeladen, um mit ihnen Weihnachten zu feiern. Doch der Abend entwickelt sich anders als gedacht. Eine geheime Nachricht in seinem Knallbonbon bestürzt ihn dermaßen, dass er mitten in der Tischrede die Tafel verlassen muss. Die heitere Gesellschaft lässt sich von der Abwesenheit ihres Gastgebers nicht erschüttern und setzt munter die Feierlichkeiten fort, die in einer Partie Bridge gipfeln. Bis auf einmal ein markerschütternder Schrei den Frieden im Haus stört.

Der zweite Provence-Krimi in der Reihe "Die Lavendel-Morde" von Carine Bernard begleitet Polizei-Schülerin Lilou Braque, die gerade ihr letztes Praktikum für die Ausbildung zur Commissaire in einem kleinen Städtchen in der Provence absolviert, bei ihrem ersten Mordfall. Lilou ist schockiert: Gleich die erste Mord-Ermittlung in ihrer Karriere betrifft sie auch persönlich. Ihr Nachbar Frédéric Benoit wurde eiskalt ermordet. Aber wer würde dem hilflosen alten Mann, für den Lilou oft gekocht hat, etwas antun?

Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur detective. Jenny Starling is catering the 21st birthday party of upper-class twins Alicia and Justin. She arrives at their parents' country house and is immediately met by the police. A young man has drowned in the pond. Was it an accident or murder? But the birthday party goes ahead. Then, just after midnight, everyone gathers for a champagne toast...and one of the guests falls down dead. The police are baffled, and there is a whole party full of suspects.

Bientôt Noël. Le sapin sent le roussi pour Agatha Raisin qui ne digère toujours pas d'avoir été larguée par James Lacey. Pour se forcer à l'oublier, elle se lance à corps perdu dans la préparation du réveillon pour ses amis. Jusqu'à en faire une obsession... Même le meurtre de Mrs Tamworthy, retrouvée morte après un repas arrosé à la ciguë, ne la détourne pas de son but. Pourtant, la riche veuve avait prévenu Agatha : elle était convaincue qu'un membre de sa famille voulait la tuer avant la fin de l'année.

Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning 18, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return. She immediately launched into her same old scams, picking off Sinful residents with ease before disappearing again as quickly as she’d appeared.

When an old man is burned alive in a sleepy ex-mining village, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is called in to investigate. He soon discovers that, beneath the facade of a close-knit community, the burn from decades-old betrayal still smoulders. When everyone had a motive, can he unravel the secrets of the past before the killer strikes again? Meanwhile, back at Northumbria CID, trouble is brewing with rumours of a mole in Ryan’s department. With everyone under suspicion, can he count on anybody but himself?

Nikki is a flirtatious six-time divorcee. Geraldine is her quirky grandmother. Mix in a bunch of gun-toting grannies, an outrageous retirement home, and unsolved mysteries, and there's definitely going to be some excitement. Follow along as Nikki and the cast of retirement home vigilantes work to solve the mystery before everything goes up in smoke.

When a 10-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet. The circus has rolled into Newcastle upon Tyne, bringing with it a troupe of daring acrobats, magicians and jugglers - and one of them is a killer. Ryan and his team must break through their closed ranks to uncover a secret which has lain buried for eight years, before the killer strikes again - this time, to silence the only living witness....

Izzy, her boyfriend, and her holiday-crashing neighbor, Etta, are off to the driest, flattest, and most infertile inhabited continent on earth - where even the cutest of creatures might try to kill you. But that’s only the beginning of their problems. A Taste Society courier goes missing. And 26 hours after Izzy lands in Australia, a crocodile is found dead. With a human corpse inside. Not quite the start to her relaxing holiday she’d been hoping for.

For Southern girl Verity Long, friendship means sitting down to stories and sweet tea on the front porch. For her gangster ghost housemate, it means dragging Verity out to a remote haunted asylum during a raging thunderstorm to do a favor for a long-dead mob boss. But Verity is always ready to help out a friend, even one as eternally eccentric as Frankie. And in the case of Mint Julep Manor, the stakes are too high to refuse.

Photojournalist Abi Logan is finally ready to put her hectic career on hold and set down roots in the heart of the Scottish countryside. Studying the business and art of distilling whisky at Abbey Glen and volunteering at the Shepherd’s Rest women’s shelter in her spare time seem a surefire way to find the peace and stability she craves. It’s also the logical way to take her mind off her personal life. Abi’s business partner, Grant MacEwan, is facing a career-threatening disability, and as much as Abi longs to be there for him, he seems to prefer the company of a rival.

Entre son agence de détective qui tourne au ralenti et les réunions des dames de Carsely, Agatha s'ennuie. Aussi, est-elle enchantée lorsque son ex-mari James Lacey l'invite pour des vacances mais - horreur ! - sa conception d'un séjour idyllique est le petit hôtel décrépit de Burryhill-on-Sea où enfant, il passait ses étés. Et tout va de mal en pis : quand un autre client de l'hôtel est assassiné, Agatha est la principale suspecte - et est obligée de résoudre l'affaire depuis sa cellule de prison !

Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie are finally off to Florida on the vacation they’ve always talked about. Days filled with white sand, turquoise water, and fruity drinks are the only thing on the agenda. But when Gertie’s “hot date” turns up dead and she’s the number one suspect, they’re forced to hang up their bathing suits and shift to investigating mode.

The second in this hilarious cozy mystery series features a woman who is a talent agent for showbiz animals and discovers that she has a talent herself: solving crimes. Kay Powell, theatrical agent to non-human animals, is babysitting - that is, birdsitting - her client, a parrot named Barney, on the set of his new TV show, Dead City. When the show’s charismatic star is shot in his trailer between scenes, the only eyewitness to the crime is - you guessed it - Barney.

As the owner of Old Hat Vintage Fashions, Charley Carpenter supplies retro apparel to the residents of Oakwood, Ohio, but she’s been known to set business aside to play detective when a mystery rears its head. And there’s no bigger mystery in Oakwood than the murder of Regan Fletcher - a case that’s haunted the town for decades.

Blaue Lavendelfelder und der Duft von frischem Blut - ein unterhaltsamer Frankreich-Krimi mit einer außergewöhnlichen Ermittlerin, der uns mitten in die atmosphärische Provence entführt. Ein Fall von Wirtschaftskriminalität führt EU-Ermittlerin Molly Preston nach Südfrankreich, in ein beschauliches Dorf zwischen alten Olivenbäumen und den ewig singenden Zikaden. Bei ihren Ermittlungen stößt sie auf geheimnisvolle Zeichen an der Wand einer kleinen Kapelle.

Nach dem erfolgreichen Start seiner Krimireihe um Daphne und Francis Penrose, dem sympathischen und ungewöhnlichen Ermittlerpaar aus Cornwall, führt uns Thomas Chatwin zurück ins das eigentlich beschauliche Städtchen Fowey an Cornwalls Südküste. Der Mord an dem beliebten Arzt Dr. Finch erschüttert die Kleinstadtruhe. Weil der zuständige Chief Inspector mit dem Kopf schon im Jagdurlaub ist, sind Postbotin Daphne und ihr Mann gefragt. Wer hätte Grund gehabt, dem Arzt etwas anzutun? Und welche Rolle spielt der charismatische Literaturprofessor Lewis Russel?

In dem beschaulichen Küstenstädtchen Fowey an Cornwalls Südküste kennt jeder sie, und sie kennt jeden: Daphne Penrose, Postbotin der Royal Mail. Daphne liebt besonders die frühen Morgenstunden, wenn Fowey erwacht und sie mit ihrem Postfahrrad durch die kleinen Gässchen fährt. Eines Morgens allerdings wird die Ruhe gestört. Im Haus der Malerin Sandra McKallan scheinen sich merkwürdige Dinge ereignet zu haben, von der Bewohnerin fehlt jede Spur. Zur selben Zeit fischt Daphnes Mann Francis eine Leiche aus dem Hafen: den Reeder Edward Hammett.

Peace on Earth isn’t everyone’s cup of tea in Charlotte MacLeod’s “A Cozy for Christmas”. Peter Lovesey’s “The Haunted Crescent” delivers a holiday ghost story with a twist. A training session for department-store Santas turns up Saint Nicks who are anything but angels in Isaac Asimov’s “Ho, Ho, Ho”. Marcia Muller’s “Silent Night” finds a tough private investigator searching San Francisco’s Tenderloin district - and discovering something unexpected.