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Geheimnisse, Lügen und Mord am Sehnsuchtsort St. Peter-Ording Kurz vor dem Beginn der Hauptsaison wird eine junge Frau bei Maleens Knoll tot aufgefunden. Pia Jacobs, die erst vor einem Jahr von Hamburg nach Tönning zog, wurde brutal ermordet. Die Kommissare aus St. Peter-Ording untersuchen...

Tödliche Rituale im Wien der Jahrhundertwende Ein blutiges Ritual erschüttert das vornehme Wien des Jahres 1896: Bei einer vermeintlich satanistischen Messe wurde eine junge Frau bestialisch ermordet – ihre Kehle durchgeschnitten, Zunge und Herz fehlen. Als Inspektor Leopold von Herzfeldt...

A former cop turned minister is forced to bring back his old skills when his church is rocked by a murder within its hallowed walls. Asa Carter was once one of Chicago’s best homicide detectives. But he left that world behind to go into the ministry. When he’s offered a pastorate position in his wife’s hometown of Glen Pines—a small, quaint, and quiet town that is a far cry from Chicago—he accepts, hoping the slower pace will bring him much-needed rest.

A brutal murder on a New England beach in the mid-1980s lures detective Joseph Tey from months of self-imposed isolation. As Tey delves into the mystery, he worries about the erosion of skills that once allowed him to solve complex mysteries. Aided by a journal he has kept of his past experiences while caring for his mother, a former detective who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, Tey cautiously re-enters the world he left behind and discovers the terrible truth about why he left.

Al 17 di rue des Saules, nel cuore di Montmartre, le giornate sono scandite da piccole abitudini e buone maniere, e la vita degli inquilini scorre lenta tra un pain au chocolat e due chiacchiere pacifiche davanti a un caffè bollente. Non c'è nulla che Berthe, portinaia dai capelli di neve, non sappia di loro. Così una mattina, quando per la prima volta in vent'anni Monsieur Gorin non ritira il suo giornale, la donna non ha dubbi: qualcosa non torna.

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Vor allem sein hellsichtiger Blick auf die Seelenzustände der Täter lässt den gewitzten katholischen Priester bei seinen Ermittlungen ein ums andere Mal die verzwicktesten Fälle lösen. Das malerische Städtchen Heiligwaldenstein bildet mit dem gleichnamigen Staate eines jener Duodez-Fürstentümer, aus denen das Deutsche Reich zum Teil noch so lange bestand.

One detective's pursuit of truth and justice When a young woman's body is found in an alley, Jack Mallory takes on the case as the on-call detective. But before he can make a start, he is suddenly reassigned by his boss, Terrance Singleton, to the cold case of Timothy Waters, who had served 20 years in prison for the murder of Elizabeth Mitchell, the daughter of the then mayor. A review of his conviction has set him free and as a friend of the family, Singleton wants to make sure Mallory finds more evidence to put him back behind bars.

Accident or Murder? Jonny Cardew expected a restful few days at the Reimagine the Light Festival listening to enlightening discussions and enjoying good wholesome food.

Sherlock Holmes himself would have us believe that, once a case was finished, it–or the people involved–never crossed his mind again. "A client is to me a mere unit," he once told Watson, "a factor in a problem." And yet, in a career spanning multiple decades and thousands of cases, he must have occasionally re-crossed paths with previous clients–and the occasional villain as well! This anthology, with twenty-nine brand new stories, spread over three volumes, reveals some of those sequel investigations.

Two men met at dawn. Only one walked away. Is he a murderer or the next man marked for death? London, 1868. Etty Redgrave will bend rules, reputations, and polite society itself to protect the innocent. This time, justice demands she stand beside the last man she ever wanted to defend. Her childhood nemesis is accused of killing a man on the duelling field, an illegal and dishonourable act shielded by aristocratic privilege. The evidence is damning. The scandal inevitable. Yet something about the death refuses to sit neatly in its box.

È primavera sulle Highlands, ma all’orizzonte di Hamish Macbeth si addensano nuvole nerissime. Ha avuto la promozione (di cui avrebbe volentieri fatto a meno), il suo nuovo capo è insopportabile, e un certo Sean, insieme con la sua ragazza, è arrivato in paese a bordo di un furgone...

A structural failure. A dead man. And three people who all touched the system before it broke. When Matthias Corvin is killed by a sudden collapse inside his own meticulously designed home, it looks like a tragic accident. Until Dr. Elias Ward begins to examine the mechanics.

Sono giorni di pioggia a Vigàta, quegli acquazzoni violenti e persistenti che non danno requie, fiumane d'acqua scatenata che travolgono case e terreni lasciando dietro di sé un mare di fango. È in una di queste giornate che un uomo, Giugiù Nicotra, viene trovato morto in un cantiere, mezzo nudo, colpito da un proiettile alle spalle. Aveva cercato scampo in una specie di galleria formata da grossi tubi per la costruzione di condotte d'acqua.

The first original novel inspired by the hit MASTERPIECE Mystery! series Miss Scarlet and the Duke. At the height of Victorian "Egyptian Mummymania," when illusion and obsession captivate London society, a discovery defies all reason—the body of a recently murdered woman found inside a...

The Adventure of the Black Peter is a story from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Retired whaling captain Peter Carey—nicknamed “Black Peter” for his savage temper—is found brutally murdered, harpooned through the chest inside his locked garden shed one stormy night. His terrified family calls in Holmes after the police arrest an innocent young man (John Neligan) whose father had once been ruined by Carey. Holmes quickly realizes the murder is connected to a past crime at sea and sets a clever trap by advertising for a skilled harpooner.

The Adventure of the Empty House is the story that marks Sherlock Holmes’s dramatic return to London after his presumed death at the Reichenbach Falls. Three years after the event, Holmes suddenly appears in Watson’s study disguised as an elderly bookseller, revealing he survived and spent the intervening years traveling. The two friends are soon drawn into the baffling murder of Ronald Adair, a young aristocrat who was shot in the head inside a locked room with no apparent motive or entry.

In The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, a classic tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Violet Smith, a young music teacher, seeks Holmes’s help because a mysterious bearded man on a bicycle silently follows her every Saturday as she cycles from her remote employer’s house to the train station. She is working as a live-in governess for the wealthy Mr. Carruthers at Chiltern Grange, shortly after her uncle’s death in South Africa left her as his potential heir.

Harald Harst erreicht ein rätselhafter Brief eines wohlhabenden Reedereierben aus Hamburg, der von unheimlichen Erscheinungen und beunruhigenden Vorfällen berichtet. Zugleich behauptet er, ein angeblich seit über 150 Jahren lebender Seher aus Lissabon erhebe Anspruch auf sein Erbe. Für Harst stellt sich schnell die entscheidende Frage: Steckt hinter alldem übersinnliche Macht – oder ein raffiniert eingefädelter Betrug?

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Vor allem sein hellsichtiger Blick auf die Seelenzustände der Täter lässt den gewitzten katholischen Priester bei seinen Ermittlungen ein ums andere Mal die verzwicktesten Fälle lösen.

On his return from South Africa, Charles Knox is invited to spend the weekend at the country home of Sir Neville Strickland, whose beautiful wife Rosamund was once Knox's fiancée. But in the dead of night Sir Neville is murdered. Who did it? As suspicion falls on each of the house guests in turn, Knox finds himself faced with deception and betrayal on all sides, and only the enigmatic Angela Marchmont seems to offer a solution to the mystery. This 1920s whodunit will delight all fans of traditional country house murder stories.