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London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

When Althea Ravenspell agrees to take in the granddaughter she’s barely met, she expects nerves, adjustment, maybe teenage attitude—not a full-blown haunting in her son’s old bedroom. Pillows fly, temperatures drop, and a lilac-scented spirit whispers a single plea: Find the key. As Althea investigates the mysterious message, she uncovers a chilling link to America’s most dangerous haunted mansion—and realizes the ghost isn’t after her at all. It wants Carly.

A serial killer. A dangerous road. And a cell phone going straight to voicemail… A string of murders happening just across the state line makes residents of idyllic Maple Springs nervous. While Michelle Watson is obsessed with finding the killer’s pattern, her twin Chelsea disagrees with her...

Nachdem im Zuge einer Hundeschau ein preisgekrönter Pudel verschwunden ist, werden Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson mit den Ermittlungen betraut. Der verzweifelte Besitzer glaubt an eine Entführung, doch auch ein Mord kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden.

A Cozy Christmas Mystery Short Story Featuring Sarah Carter and Her Red Heeler, Whiskey When a cherished holiday quilt vanishes from the Cottageville Charity Auction, dog groomer and amateur sleuth Sarah Carter figures it’s just another small-town mix-up—until mysterious quilt squares start...

Maggie Andrews catches alligators for a living, sells romance novels with her twin sister, and has approximately zero interest in dead bodies. So when she rolls up to a routine gator call and finds her biggest rival face-down in the mud with a bullet in his head, she does what any reasonable...

Solving murders, smooching criminology professors, and just the right amount of alligators combine in Swamp Princess, the cozy mystery + rom-com follow up to Gator Queen! Maggie Andrews is swamped—literally—as she tries to balance running her family's gator trapping business, "defining the...

Das Orkantief Waldemar bereitet dem traditionellen Föhrer Silvesterlauf ein jähes Ende. Bei Hedehusum hat der Sturm ein herrenloses Segelboot an Land getrieben. Eine riesige Blutlache an Deck weckt den Verdacht, dass sich ein Verbrechen abgespielt haben muss. Kurz darauf wird in den Dünen ein Toter entdeckt, aber der stellt die Polizei vor ein Rätsel: Das Blut im Boot stammt nicht von ihm.

Whales and Tails is a cozy mystery series set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary. When she isn't working with the cats, she helps best friend Tara, operate the coffee bar/bookstore/cat lounge they own, named Coffee Cat Books.

After finding letters from her father in an old box in her mother's house, Libby is determined to look into his untimely death. With her loyal Labrador, Shadow, and a close-knit circle of friends, Libby dives into a high-stakes investigation that stretches from corrupt boardrooms to desolate mountain trails. As mysterious forces close in, a long-lost truth emerges, and Libby finds herself facing more danger than she could have imagined.

A legendary treasure, a vanished professor, and a haunted library—welcome to the world of Emily Plankhurst. In the quaint town of Taos, New Mexico, Emily has inherited her family's research library and is determined to continue their legacy. But when a renowned history professor goes missing while searching for a long-lost Conquistador treasure, Emily finds herself caught up in a twisty mystery. With the help of her ghostly grandmother and a worried colleague of the professor, Emily must navigate through a town full of treasure hunters and clues to find the truth.

A cozy, seasonal romance-mystery in which a grumpy café owner teams up with a sunshiny pet groomer to solve a murder that's shocked the small town of Labrador Falls. First book in the Dog Park Murders miniseries that's a perfect blend of Only Murders in the Building and The Pumpkin Spice Café...

Some houses whisper. Others refuse to let go. As Carly Ravenspell grows more confident in her abilities, her grandmother’s stories take a chilling turn. The tale of her own home—a house where residents vanish every twenty-seven years—is the next fireside tale. But the past isn’t the only thing stirring. When the two turn their attention to Blackwood Manor, Carly finds herself investigating a haunting in the present day—one marked by strange occurrences, restless spirits, and a house that seems determined to reveal its secrets on its own terms.

When owner of Carter’s Canine Coiffure, dog groomer and amateur sleuth Sarah Carter agrees to enter Whiskey, her loyal Australian red heeler cattle dog, in Cottageville’s Halloween Pet Parade, she expects a weekend of wagging tails, pumpkin treats, and charming small-town chaos. What she...

Whoever said that holidays are relaxing? When Nesta Griffiths is offered a week of free accommodation on the North Wales coast, she finds it impossible to turn down. It’s only after her first night’s stay at the Seashell’s caravan park near Talacre Beach that she realises her last-minute getaway deal might well have been too good to be true. When holiday park owner Beryl Fisher is found dead in her cabin at the hands of a fishing knife, things soon take a peculiar turn.

After losing her parents, Carly Ravenspell is sent to live at Thornwood Estate with a grandmother she’s never met. What she finds isn’t just a new home. It’s a doorway into something…other. As Carly settles into her strange new life, her grandmother begins sharing stories—of haunted mansions, restless spirits, and a mysterious witch named Emma whose past is tangled with Carly’s own. At first, they feel like nothing more than eerie tales meant to pass the time.

Someone's dishing the dirt on the dog-show world, until she's muzzled for good: "[A] winning cozy . . . the ending is a surprise."—Publishers Weekly Summer means two things to Melanie Travis: a break from her teaching duties at Connecticut's elite Howard Academy and a chance to plan the...

When a wealthy couple dies in what appears to be a tragic car accident, Steve Levitan and his golden retriever Rochester are drawn into a mystery that reaches far beyond the quiet streets of Stewart's Crossing. The victims' twenty-year-old son, Daniel Farahani, seems more comfortable navigating a post-apocalyptic survival game than facing the devastating reality of his parents' deaths. As Steve helps the young man through his grief, disturbing questions begin to emerge. Was the crash really an accident? Or was someone determined to make sure the Farahanis never reached home?

"Nail biting crescendo of an ending!" Reader Review ★★★★★ ___________________ To find the truth, she’ll have to read between the lines… Bookstore owner and crime writer Jen is leaving her amateur sleuthing days behind her. She’s got a new novel to finish – if she could just...

"Nail biting crescendo of an ending!" Reader Review ★★★★★ ___________________ To find the truth, she’ll have to read between the lines… Bookstore owner and crime writer Jen is leaving her amateur sleuthing days behind her. She’s got a new novel to finish – if she could just...