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Life in Little Shaw is as nice as pie for librarian Ginny Cole. She’s got a tentative truce with her grumpy neighbor Detective Inspector Wallace, and Sunday quiz nights at The Lost Goat with her friends (team name: The Merry Widows). Until the young quizmaster is found dead in the cellar. The police call it an accident; Ginny suspects murder. But with Wallace strangely impossible to locate and convince, she and the other widows must step—carefully, mind—into the breach.

Lady Eleanor Swift is visiting Dublin with her husband Hugh Seldon and butler Clifford to meet Samuel O’Sullivan, a man who may be able to tell her more about the mysterious disappearance of her parents two decades ago. Deciding they should explore the city a little more, they jump at the chance to visit the world-renowned Finnegan’s brewery. But their taste test of the famous black stout turns deadly when Eleanor spots a body in one of the barrels!

Three twisty mysteries, all set in Lyme Regis, one of England's most picturesque seaside towns. DC Tina Abbott is supposed to be staying with her mum Annie while she's on maternity leave. And Annie isn't supposed to be sticking her nose into murder cases. But then, Annie Abbott never does as she's told.

It’s the annual Locharran Highland Games and Ally McKinley has never seen her little village so busy or excited. Everyone’s enjoying the Scottish dancing, the bagpipes, and cheering the competitors on. But there’s a hitch in the proceedings when champion challenger Archie Armstrong drops dead in the middle of tossing the caber. Rushing to the scene, Ally is the first to spot that Archie’s death was no accident–this was murder!

Lone Island is a remote and windswept spot, but for nature reserve warden Pippa Grant it’s always been a haven. Until a body washes ashore—and she’s the one to find it. The police believe the deceased, Axel Marks, accidentally fell from the cliffs near Porthmerrin House, the grand estate on the mainland where Axel’s mother once served as housekeeper to the Grey family. But Pippa is adamant that there’s more to Axel’s death, and begs Ally and Jayden, the Shell House Detectives, to take the case.

Italy, 1929. No sooner have master sleuth Lord Edgington and his grandson-apprentice begun their grand tour of Europe than a wealthy landowner turns up dead. On arriving at the palatial Castello di Montegufoni, the duo must uncover the owner’s secrets and pick from a host of dubious suspects to find out who did him in.

The brand-new murder mystery in the Sunday Times bestselling series. *** An impossible death. A seaside town on the brink. Stay tuned for murder… Sidmouth is gearing up for summer – but murder is all year round… When a doctor is found dead in the woods, shot through the heart with a...

Völlig überraschend erhält Sir Baskerville eine Einladung zum Farmers Market nach Malloy. Er soll dort als Jurymitglied bei der Wahl zum schönsten Rind des Landes teilnehmen. Doch schon am Abend vor dem Beginn des Farmers Market wird das Rind Agat tot im Stall aufgefunden. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass das Tier keines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist. Und noch bevor der Täter gefasst werden kann, wird einer der Rinderbesitzer ermordet neben seinem Tier aufgefunden. Natürlich nimmt Sir Baskerville umgehend die Ermittlungen auf.

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Heavily pregnant yet still running her flower shop in Keswick, Simmy Brown agrees to deliver an unusual bouquet to remote Eskdale. There she encounters three generations of women—and the next day, one of them is brutally murdered.

When Laura Carlyle's old flame calls in a panic, she and Sebastian Silver find themselves in a Suffolk town where the local theatre is celebrating its centenary–and mourning its star. The Moonlight Theatre has staged Shakespeare for a hundred years, but now, with a charity gala just days away and property developers circling like vultures, Julius Caesar should be saving the theatre's future. Instead, the actor playing the title role has been stabbed to death on stage–and the prop dagger in his chest was very, very real.

From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series Some secrets are deadlier than others 1968...

The curtain is about to rise on the Bunbury Players' latest production, Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. But moments before the show starts, the leading man, retired star of stage and screen Bertram Manchester, is found dead in his dressing room. As rumours spread throughout the Cotswold village community, Detective Constable Windermere seizes her chance to catch a killer and secure the promotion she craves. The trouble is, every member of the cast has something to hide. Will her front-row seat to murder enable DC Windermere to uncover the truth ...

Im Trubel des Wochenmarktes von Carpentras wird ein Tourist um sein Portemonnaie erleichtert. Doch der Fall nimmt eine unerwartete Wendung, denn kurz darauf wird eine Leiche gefunden, die die Papiere des Touristen bei sich trägt. Ihre Ermittlungen führen die sympathische Polizistin ins Künstlermilieu von Carpentras, wo gerade das große jährliche Street-Art-Festival stattfindet. Gleichzeitig laufen die Vorbereitungen für Lilous Hochzeit auf Hochtouren, doch schon bald droht die Jagd nach dem Mörder Lilous privates Glück gefährlich zu durchkreuzen.

En Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, un hallazgo macabro sacude la rutina de la ciudad: un brazo amputado aparece en un contenedor, con un tatuaje que solo puede pertenecer a un hombre desaparecido días antes. La jueza Mara Ramírez, recién llegada a la isla y aún marcada por sus propios fantasmas, se enfrenta a su primer caso. A su lado —y en constante fricción— trabaja el inspector Aitor Ibarra, cuya torpeza para gestionar los sentimientos contrasta con su instinto policial.

Mercy McCarthy is delighted to see old neighbors and new friends come to the bookstore to support her sister’s autumn book club. But as Mercy closes the chapter on the evening, she stumbles across local grandmother Eva, lifelessly slumped in a squashy armchair at the back of the store. She recognizes Eva as one of the festival’s main organizers and though she looks to be at peace, the plot thickens when Mercy notices a suspicious mark on her neck. She knows this was no accident. With so many people in the store that night, any one of them could be the killer.

An einem malerischen Aussichtspunkt über dem Vézère-Tal findet Bruno die Leiche von Monique, einer erfolgreichen Geschäftsfrau. Auf dem Beifahrersitz drei Abschiedsbriefe, der Fall scheint klar. Doch Bruno wird ein ungutes Gefühl nicht los. Gleichzeitig verbreiten sich in Saint-Denis heimtückische Gerüchte, und schon bald steht sein Posten auf dem Spiel. Trotz allem bleibt Bruno Bruno. Er lässt sich ein köstliches Essen in prickelnder weiblicher Gesellschaft nicht entgehen und macht sich daran herauszufinden, was wirklich mit Monique passiert ist.

Marriage? It can be absolute murder. Wedding planner for the rich and famous, Felicity Philips is aiming to land the biggest gig of her life – the next royal wedding. But there are a few obstacles in her way … Between murderous bridezillas, psychotic mothers-in-law, vengeful dress designers, jealous ex-lovers, and more, Felicity has her work cut out just making it to each big day. Delve into this series of hilarious tales and discover thrilling mysteries that will take your breath away and characters you will wish were your friends.

I thought Gallows Gate couldn’t get any worse after the missing-teen fiasco. Turns out, it can. The Council’s breathing down my neck, dark magic is leaking through the cracks in the veil, and every supernatural creep in town seems to want a piece of me. Lucky me. Now I’m stuck juggling a probationary badge from the Merlin Group, a ghost with boundary issues, and a case that shoves me straight into the crosshairs of Gallows Gate’s most dangerous players.

Tanya Bowe, an ex-investigative journalist, agrees to interview the contestants of the National Talent Competition for the local newspaper, but finds herself up to her neck in secrets, sabotage, and simmering resentment. The tensions increase when her condescending sister comes to stay next door for the duration of the contest. Several rising stars on the circuit hope to win the competition, but old stager, Lance Emerald, is not going down without a fight.

What would you do to get everything you wanted? Life is good for Dashiell Dawson Dane (just Dash). Things with his boyfriend, Bobby, are better than ever. Teaching at a local college has provided routine and stability. And to his complete surprise, his self-published novel is doing well. Really well. So, when a mystery writers’ conference comes to Hastings Rock, Dash is thrilled to attend.

When a giant inflatable Halloween witch goes missing in the Pineapple Port retirement community, amateur sleuth Charlotte Morgan's eager to nab the culprit. But before she can lift a fingerprint, someone threatens to kill a new neighbor who looks like an adorable Pomeranian but possesses a disturbing talent for revenge. Moments later, a stranger demands the return of a mysterious wooden box… or else.

Lane Winslow is known in her idyllic British Columbia laketown of King's Cove for a bad habit of finding dead bodies. This time, all she’s found is a suspiciously well-made hat abandoned in the brush, but she’s certain there’s a mystery afoot. While Lane is overtaken by the urge to snoop around for clues, her husband, Inspector Darling, and his team at the Nelson Police Station find their straightforward case of a stolen boat suddenly complicated when a fourteen-year-old boy is reported missing from the local school.

A fete worse than death… After finding the killer of Lucy Roth six months ago, life has settled back to normal for bookshop owner, Nancy Hunter, and her grandmother, Jane. The annual Dedley End village fete is just around the corner, and Nancy is delighted when bestselling author, Thomas Green...

When your day starts with a man stuck to the top of a sailboat mast, things have to get better, don’t they? When real estate tycoon Bucky Bloom is found stuck to the end of a sailboat mast, a land war erupts in Pineapple Port.