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“Smuggling, sexual betrayal, high-class fakery and, of course, mafia money make for a rich brew.” —Sunday Times (London) As Venice braces for a winter tempest, Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon’s intrepid Italian sleuth, finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the...

They thought it was an open and shut case, they were wrong. When former MI6 agent Selwin Birks is found dead in his Costa Blanca villa, police call it a suicide. A few days later, MI5 agent Chris Kane is also found dead, killed on his boat. But the local police can see no connection. Maverick...

Jake Adams finds himself on his isolated Montana ranch enjoying early summer, when he gets a call and finds out an old friend has died in a tragic accident. This death brings back old memories for Jake, but the circumstances of the death seem unbelievable. So, together with Sirena, he takes the...

One night. One secret. One girl who never came back. The island welcomed four wealthy teenagers that week. By midnight, only three remained. Seventeen-year-old Lexi and her rich friends arrive at an adults-only resort in Turks and Caicos, determined to escape their parents—and indulge in sun...

An elderly French artist is found dead in his rooms in London clutching a miniature portrait of a little girl. Intrigued, Constable Sam Plank delves into the world of art dealing and finds himself navigating the fragile post-war relationship between England and France. What is the link between this and the recent attacks on customs officers in London Docks? And will a beautiful mademoiselle put paid to Martha Plank’s matchmaking?

A beautiful corpse. Zero clues. Peace in Castillac shattered once more. When another native of the French village is found dead, Molly and the gendarmes are stumped. Complicating matters, Ben is hired to defend Molly’s prime suspect. Uh oh, mixing romance with detective work can be a dangerous business… or at least, it can lead to some unsteady conclusions. Will Molly figure out where she’s gone wrong in time to nail the killer? Or will her scheme to unmask the murderer at Lawrence’s disco birthday party fall apart?

A disturbed wife. A nanny. And a pack of cowardly, lying friends. Simon Valette, a cultured and successful Parisian, moves his family to Castillac looking for peace and quiet. Before they've had a chance to settle in, someone is found murdered in their library. Molly and Ben work double-time to disentangle all the lies--including those told by their own friends. Will they manage to trap the killer before another victim trusts the wrong person and winds up dead?

A dead Baron. A missing emerald. And way too many suspects. Amateur sleuth Molly Sutton has her hands full this time! Shut out of Castillac’s latest murder case and running out of money, she’s praying for a brilliant scheme or at least some dumb luck to strike. Believing good food can be the solution to almost any problem, she comes up with a culinary idea designed to stave off financial disaster—and finds that even a perfect meal can end up a flop. As for the poor late Baron, once Molly manages to get inside the Château, she quickly pokes her nose where it doesn’t belong.

Boston girl Molly Sutton moves to a small village in France to lick her wounds after a divorce. Castillac is charming, the croissants amazing, the wine delectable. Molly's new life is full of contentment, if a bit short on excitement. But then a girl goes missing... and Molly's world gets turned upside down. Truth be told, no one in the village feels safe. They struggle to believe such darkness could exist in a friendly village, where people spend most of their time thinking about nothing more frightening than what to have for lunch.

What if Valerie is still alive? Virtually no one in the village of Castillac holds out any hope. It has been seven years, after all. Seven years since the popular, mischievous Valerie Boutillier disappeared without a trace. The exertions of the gendarmes, led by Chief Dufort, yielded almost no clues, and his failure to solve the case had been one of the main reasons he quit the force. But then a shred of evidence appears. It might be nothing. But Molly Sutton isn’t afraid to grab hold of it and take it as far as she can. Will a shred be enough?

When the big-budget reality series Destiny Island sails into Grand Cayman with a brand-new, purpose-built floating film set, the production hires AJ Bailey and Reg Moore to keep the ecosystem safe. But when a routine inspection dive uncovers an interesting but seemingly harmless artefact, the find quickly attracts interest from people who might not be who they claim to be. Half a century earlier, rising film star Kit Soderberg arrives on the island under the cover of a science conference, tasked with an unofficial mission to coax the superpowers towards de-escalation

A widow in a mansion. Dark secrets. And poison, deadly poison. After amateur detective Molly Sutton stumbles on a dead body, she wastes no time before eavesdropping and elbowing her way into conversations all over the French village of Castillac. But when Chief Dufort is about to clap handcuffs on the wrong man, she’s got to do more than chat to save him. Will she have the stuff—and the skill—to pull it off?

From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. . . . Each of the buildings...

A taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sunday Times) In the middle of the night, a car drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but...

Ellie McLellan thought wedding planning would be the toughest challenge of her life. But with Quinn Walsh secretly crafting a surprise, relatives flying in from the UK, and the Cozy Corner Café doubling as their wedding venue, chaos quickly takes center stage. Ellie's nerves have nothing to do with saying "I do"—she just wants everything to go as planned.

In der Küstenstadt Kinlough an der Westküste Irlands treffen drei alte Freunde nach Jahren wieder aufeinander. Im Sommer 2003 gehörten Helen, Joe und Mush zu einer unzertrennlichen Clique, deren Mittelpunkt die mutterlose und ungestüme Kala Lanann war – das strahlende Zentrum ihres Universums. Bis sie kurz darauf spurlos verschwand. Jetzt, 15 Jahre später, kehrt Helen widerwillig für eine Hochzeit nach Irland zurück. Joe, mittlerweile ein berühmter Musiker, ist ebenfalls in der Stadt. Und Mush hat es nie aus Kinlough herausgeschafft. Dann werden menschliche Überreste im Wald gefunden.

During the National High School Cultural Festival ceremony, Yoshiyuki Shimizu - the current Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a literary giant - was fatally stabbed by a man who rushed out from backstage. The arrested suspect, 37-year-old Akatsuki Nagase, began publishing his memoirs in a weekly magazine following his arrest.

Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison... Each of the buildings in this audiobook tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.

Visiting a small Lancashire town to learn their culinary secrets, a retired detective and his former police dog dream of delicious dishes …… what they get is the dead body of a famous TV chef. Instantly plunged into a mystery that threatens to test their limits, Rex and Albert must stay one step ahead of the killer. However, it seems that everyone around them had a motive for wanting the TV chef to meet an untimely end. With no end of suspects, who can they turn to for help? Everyone around them could be the killer and it quickly becomes clear that someone does not want this mystery solved.

On a culinary tour of the British Isles, a retired detective and a failed police dog intend to taste the smoked fish that made the town famous …… but when the first person they meet turns up dead a few hours later in an apparent suicide neither one of them believes, both man and dog must accept they’ve stumbled into another mystery. All too soon, they wish they hadn’t poked their noses in because what they have uncovered could be truly sinister.