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What links the murder of seventeen-year-old Helen Carstairs in 1954 to the murder, over thirty years earlier, of Private Rodney Purbright? The tragic story of two sisters, one pretty, one plain, is key to both murders. The Rowan sisters are bound together by a secret they must keep, and their reclusive behaviour plants suspicion in the minds of their neighbours, who regard them as ‘witches’. Dispensing herbal remedies and keeping a mangy black cat add to their air of mystery and seem to bear out the rumours.

When a mysterious middle-aged woman moves in next door to St Stephen’s vicarage, she is immediately taken under the wing of Nancy Harper, the Reverend Bernard Paltoquet’s redoubtable housekeeper. As the relationship between the two women develops, however, ‘Mrs Aitch’ begins to entertain suspicions that her new neighbour is not all she seems. Bernard and his friend Dr Robbie MacTavish also begin to think she has a dark secret.

The year is 1961. Barney Carmichael is about to take on his toughest case yet when a mysterious and glamorous woman walks into his office unannounced. Her request is simple: find her son. It is soon clear that the task is far from simple, however. In fact, the more Barney and brother Jim delve into the mystery, the more confusing it becomes.

What is the dreadful secret hiding behind the front door of an insignificant South London terraced house? Following a triple killing in 1896, a series of murders occur sporadically in the same house, culminating in the murder of the new occupant's girlfriend over a century later. But is there a connection or are they simply coincidences? Reverend Bernard Paltoquet, the vicar of the local parish, is determined to find out.

Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, two young mothers meet violent ends in a large South London house. Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and Dr Robbie MacTavish, together with their friend, clairvoyant Dorothy Plunkett, are drawn into these tragic events, when young November Jones walks into Robbie’s surgery in the late autumn of 1962. What is the mystery surrounding her, and why is a restless spirit trying to communicate through her?

It is 1904, and every day the coaches plying between Lynmouth and Minehead scramble theirway up and slither their way down the 1 in 4 gradient of Porlock Hill, the most feared hill in all of England. It takes six sturdy horses to drag a laden carriage to the top.

Bei einer Schiffsreise geht die vermögende Lady Eulalia Evershaw unter mysteriösen Umständen über Bord. Einige Monate später findet auf Gladstoke, dem Landsitz der Evershaws, die Verlesung des Testaments von Lady Eulalia Evershaw statt. Auch Pater Brown wird gebeten, an der Testamentseröffnung teilzunehmen. Doch was der Notar Peabody zu verkünden hat, sorgt für mächtigen Unmut innerhalb der Verwandtschaft.

Gaukler, Gewandungen und Gewimmel: Tilla hat ihren rollenden Gemüsegarten vor den Toren eines Mittelalterspektakels aufgebaut. Diese Ablenkung kommt ihr gerade recht, denn die bevorstehende Hochzeit von Joos und Renate sorgt für reichlich Anspannung. In einer Verkaufspause gönnt sich Tilla mit Hölzi eine Auszeit und schaut sich das fieberhaft erwartete Ritterturnier an. Das endet jedoch abrupt in einer Tragödie: Ein Ritter wird tödlich getroffen - die Lanze seines Gegners war angespitzt.

Deutschland nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg: Berlin ist in vier Besatzungszonen aufgeteilt, den amerikanischen, den britischen, den französischen und den sowjetischen Sektor. Im Spätherbst 1946 häufen sich in den verschiedenen Zonen allerlei Verbrechen: Ein Überfall auf ein Umsiedlerlager endet mit einem Todesfall, während eine Bande Kupferdrähte stiehlt und Stadtteile in Dunkelheit taucht. Ein Mord an einem Fabrikbesitzer und ein Überfall auf eine Tauschzentrale werfen weitere Rätsel auf.

In Edwardian England, bookish and bespectacled Vita Carew longs to be left to her scientific studies. But she can't avoid the event of the season, a gala at Pemberton Hall. This glamorous concert and sumptuous dinner will mark the Pemberton household’s triumphant return to society after a run of misfortune. But disaster strikes as soon as the seafood is served.

England, 1928. When Lord Edgington and his young apprentice Christopher are called to investigate a simple theft at a grand Elizabethan estate, they are soon embroiled in a mystery involving priceless antiques, ancient myths and unscrupulous academics. But when people at Parham House are killed off apparently at random, the detectives must tackle a puzzle that may be impossible to solve.

When Lydia Wickham is struck down in the middle of the day, everyone turns to her husband, George Wickham, for answers, but he has nothing to tell them. He has no idea what happened to his wife. The task of investigating the matter falls to Kitty, Lydia’s sister, and Mr. Andrew Selkirk, a neighbor who is recuperating from an injury sustained while working as a member of the Bow Street Horse Patrol. Is George Wickham as innocent as he claims? Or did he hurt his wife and hope to get away with it?

A woman is found dead in an alley of the bad part of town called Rotten Row. She's thought to have been bludgeoned to death, but as Lady Vivienne Harlowe and Sheriff Zachariah Fitch investigate the crime, it is soon realized that she was poisoned.

Ulfie will mit der Ufafamaschi nach Leipzig ins Jahr 1989 reisen. Doch er landet in Ost-Berlin. Ulfie wundert sich, als er die gut bewachte und unüberwindbare Mauer erblickt, die die ganze Stadt teilt. Gemeinsam mit den Journalisten Siggi Schefke und Aram Radomski reist Ulfie schließlich doch noch nach Leipzig. Sigi und Aram planen dort heimlich, die 70.000 Friedensdemonstranten zu filmen und das Material nach West-Berlin zu schmuggeln. Ganz schön gefährlich! Ulfie gerät in eine spannende Verfolgungsjagd mit der Stasi, lernt einiges über die Kraft des Gebets und erlebt ein anrührendes Happy End.

Miss Penelope Monckton, just returned from nursing with Florence Nightingale's in Crimea, has come to the country estate of one of the most scandalous men in England, Lord Rickarby—nicknamed Rakerby—to collect a bequest from his late wife, her childhood friend Millie. But something about Millie's death doesn't sit right with Penny. A celebrated painter, Joss, Lord Rickarby, knows Miss Penelope Monckton only from the letters she sent to his late wife during her time nursing in a war zone.

Kevin W. Ryan is a seventy-seven-year-old first-time novelist, who spent a year as an interim president/CEO of Wyndham Community Hospital located in Willimantic, Connecticut, in the mid-1990s. He immediately became enthralled with the history and beauty of the city and its surrounding countryside.

Eigentlich hätte Philippe du Pléssis mit der Suche nach einer uralten Schatulle aus Familienbesitz schon genug zu tun. Aber als im Château de Cotignac ein Gemälde gestohlen wird und im Schlossgraben eine Leiche treibt, findet er sich plötzlich in einem Mordfall wieder. Die zuständige Kommissarin Charlotte Maigret macht aus ihrer Abneigung gegen den adeligen Lebemann keinen Hehl. Doch bald taucht ein zweiter Toter auf und die Polizistin und der Dandy müssen gemeinsam ermitteln.

Der Tresor des Professor Versegy wurde aufgebrochen und der Schmuck seiner jungen Frau und seine Wertsachen gestohlen- oder hat der labile alte Herr den Diebstahl nur vorgetäuscht? Einige Indizien deuten daraufhin, aber eine Täterbeschreibung und weitere Umstände lassen bei Detektiv Plank Zweifel aufkommen.

In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh's Old Town, 16 people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox's insatiable need for his anatomy classes. Burke and Hare and their wives, Lucky and Nelly, are all complicit, but only Burke swings for their crimes. Lucky, Nelly and Hare go on the run from the angry mob, reinvention their only means of survival. Years later, journalist Duncan Fletcher hears rumours of sightings of the two women. Keen to impress his editor, Duncan investigates the aftermath of the murder trial.

Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted to be sheriff. A World War II veteran and widower, he is elected due to the political machinations of his brother. His new territory is the fabled Madison County, North Carolina—a place of the steepest mountain ridges and most isolated coves and valleys. A place where the seasons matter more than the calendar and the past is as real as the present.