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Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 1 - 3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT.

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village to find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 4 - 6: THICK AS THIEVES, LAST TRAIN TO LONDON and THE CURSE OF MABB'S FARM.

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 7 - 9: THE BODY IN THE LAKE, SNOWBLIND and PLAYING DEAD.

The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.

When a major network offers a TV deal to a group of new writers, the stakes couldn't be higher. They'll have a workshop in Cherringham to shape their show ideas - and win the prized contract. But when the writers get ominous threats, it seems their lives are in danger. Can Jack and Sarah find the culprit in time ... before there's a real 'killer pitch'?

Folge 44 der britischen Erfolgsserie. Als der leblose Körper des Kriminaljournalisten Tom Pinder aus der Themse gefischt wird, vermuten alle, dass der stadtbekannte Trunkenbold versehentlich im Fluss ertrunken ist. Doch Pinders junge Kollegin glaubt nicht an diese Erklärung und bittet Jack und Sarah, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Während sie sich in die Geschichten vertiefen, an denen Pinder gearbeitet hat, entdecken Jack und Sarah bald, dass er sich einige sehr gefährliche Feinde gemacht hat, die bereit sind, vor nichts Halt zu machen, um eine gefährliche Wahrheit zu verbergen.

Sir Harry reist im Auftrag des britischen Geheimdienstes nach Paris und nimmt natürlich seine Ehefrau Kat mit - schließlich ist ein Aufenthalt in der französischen Hauptstadt immer ein Abenteuer. Kat beschließt, sich selbst auf die Suche nach ihm zu machen. Seine Spur führt sie von prächtigen Hotels zu den dunklen Nachtclubs der Place Pigalle - und schon bald wird klar: In der Stadt der Liebe kann ein einziger falscher Schritt tödlich sein ...

When Sir Harry is asked to go to Paris for a Secret Intelligence Service meeting, he - of course - asks Kat to come along. But the getaway à deux quickly turns dangerous when Harry goes missing. Suddenly, with both their lives in danger, it's up to Kat to find out what's really going on. As the trail takes her from grand hotels to the late-night bars of Place Pigalle, it soon becomes clear that treachery has a murderous price in the City of Light.

When the lifeless body of crime journalist Tom Pinder is fished out of the river near Jack's barge, it seems that the hardened old drinker may just have had one too many... and accidentally slipped to a watery death. But Pinder's young colleague doesn't buy that explanation, and asks Jack and Sarah to investigate. As they dig deep into the stories that Pinder was working on, Jack and Sarah soon discover that he had made some very dangerous enemies prepared to stop at nothing to keep a dangerous truth buried.

From the authors of the best-selling series "CHERRINGHAM". This compilation contains episodes 4-6: "MURDER WORE A MASK": Lavinia's annual Masked Ball at Mydworth Manor is a highlight of the season - but the lavish party comes to a full stop when one of the guests is found dead down by the lake. Harry and Kat suspect that the dead man was the victim of a clever case of murder. And the killer's work is not yet done... "DEADLY CARGO": Mydworth's Excelsior Radio Company is world-famous for its expensive radio-phonographs.

Als der beliebte Tennistrainer Todd Winters eines Nachts mit seinem Auto von der Straße abkommt und in den Fluss stürzt, scheint es sich um einen tragischen Unfall zu handeln. Aber Kat und Harry finden heraus, dass der attraktive junge Mann eine Menge Geheimnisse hatte. Wollte ihn jemand aus dem Weg räumen? Bald schon stoßen die beiden Detektive auf eindeutige Beweise für ein Verbrechen! Doch sie müssen auf der Hut sein - denn in der vornehmen Welt des Mydworth-Lawn-Tennis-Clubs könnte ein verzweifelter Mörder bereit sein, wieder zu töten.

From the authors of the best-selling series CHERRINGHAM. When heart-throb American tennis coach Todd Winters careens off the road in his speeding car one night and plunges in the river, it seems like a tragic accident. But Winters was a young man with many dangerous secrets, and Harry and Kat discover there's no shortage of people who wanted him out of the picture. Soon they discover clear evidence: the accident was no accident at all. And now Harry and Kat had best be careful too... even in the genteel world of the Mydworth Lawn Tennis Club, a desperate murderer could be ready to kill again.

Folge 43 der britischen Erfolgsserie. Lampenfieber in Cherringham: Der Chor des beschaulichen Ortes soll in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall gemeinsam mit anderen Chören aus dem ganzen Land Händels "Messias" aufführen. Doch nur wenige Tage vorher wird einer der erfahrensten Sänger, der zurückhaltende Musiklehrer Arthur Chisholm, mitten in der Nacht ausgeraubt und niedergeschlagen. Und es bleibt nicht bei diesem einen Vorfall - auch bei anderen Chormitgliedern wird eingebrochen.

When Cherringham choir stalwart Arthur Chisholm is robbed in the dead of night, ending up in hospital, it seems he's just the victim of bad luck. Bad timing too, since he will now miss the choir's special holiday performance of Handel's Messiah - to be performed with scores of other local choirs, in London's Royal Albert Hall. But as more of their fellow choir members are burgled, Jack and Sarah realise these crimes are no coincidence.

Facing boredom after his long-postponed knee surgery, Jack volunteers at Fitz Morton Manor to serve as steward, chatting with visitors about the long history of the house. And when the retired volunteer Cyril Roebuck is found dead in the Great Hall, one morning, it seems at first that the dear old man must have suffered a heart attack. But the room was locked from the inside - and it quickly becomes clear that Cyril could not have bolted it. Soon Jack and Sarah are confronting the odd mystery of the locked room... and what must be - in fact - a case of foul play.

Harry and Kat take the sleeper train to the Scottish Highlands for a New Year's weekend, guests of an American movie mogul who's bought himself a "real live castle". But when a massive blizzard leaves them isolated, it soon becomes clear that the other guests who've made it through the snow all have secrets. And after an "accident" that is clearly no accident, our two heroes wonder.

When young Ewan Mackay - on a dark stormy night - sails his little dinghy out to a mysterious wreck site some miles offshore from Littlehampton, he never returns. The police assume he drowned at sea - but Ewan's father is not convinced and asks Harry and Kat to investigate. Soon, they learn there are not only dark secrets about the night Ewan disappeared, but also plenty of people who wished him harm. And as they dig deeper, they too find themselves in grave danger both on land and sea.

Do you wonder whether there’s another way? Another, more creative, more meaningful approach to living your life. Well there is and there’s a growing movement of people from all kinds of walks of life who are proving that the way we end up doing what we do in life is often a side effect of external forces. Rather than a deliberate, conscious and authentic set of choices that have come from you and your unique needs. What are you chasing? Success? Safety? Fame? Fortune? Recognition? Have you stopped to think recently why you’re doing what your doing with your life? Are the stories that ...

Eine mörderische Silvesterparty... Neujahr rückt näher und Kat und Harry sind zu einer exklusiven Party nach Schottland unterwegs: Der amerikanische Filmmogul Jack Garner lädt auf die imposante Inverdoran Castle in den Highlands ein! Aber kurz nach ihrer Ankunft gibt es einen heftigen Schneesturm, der die Burg komplett von der Außenwelt isoliert. Während sich Kat und Harry mit den anderen Gästen bekannt machen, wird ihnen schnell klar, dass in der gehobenen Gesellschaft jeder seine Geheimnisse hat. Doch ein seltsamer Unfall eines Gastes erweckt das Misstrauen der beiden Ermittler.

Endlich hat Jack die lange aufgeschobene Knieoperation hinter sich gebracht. Doch nun muss er sich schonen und langweilt sich, daher arbeitet er ehrenamtlich im Besucherservice auf dem geschichtsträchtigen Landsitz Fitz Morton Manor. Eines Morgens wird sein Kollege Cyril Roebuck tot in der Großen Halle aufgefunden. Zunächst sieht es danach aus, dass der liebe alte Mann einen Herzinfarkt erlitten hat. Doch der Raum war von innen verschlossen - und Cyril konnte ihn nicht verriegelt haben! Jack bittet Sarah, mit ihm das seltsame Rätsel des verschlossenen Zimmers zu ergründen.