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Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now—in startling circumstances—one of their own is found dead in a ditch and homicide detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are sent to investigate. Could the murder be connected to the execution of the victim's friend thirty years ago—another member of The Seven—or even to the long-forgotten story of a servant girl on the brink of the Great War?

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.

Translator Rick Montoya is looking forward to a quiet weekend away with his girlfriend, Betta, an art fraud investigator for the Italian Culture Ministry. Their destination: the beautiful village of Urbino, home to Renaissance masters Rafael and the lesser-known Piero della Francesca. While Betta does have official business to attend to—namely, collecting a priceless Piero drawing from a wealthy Spanish collector on the ministry's behalf—she asks Rick to join her "in case she needs an interpreter," but with other, less-official intentions in mind.

This set contains books seven to nine in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Ritual Demise, Mortal Remains, and Silent Graves.

This edition includes books four through seven of the Irish Village Mystery series: Murder in an Irish Pub, Murder in an Irish Cottage, Murder at an Irish Christmas, and Murder in an Irish Bookshop.

Ellas son jóvenes, guapas y viven de las subvenciones estatales. Su único sueño es convertirse en las estrellas de un famoso reality show. Pero lo que no se pueden imaginar es que son el blanco de una persona desequilibrada cuyo objetivo es eliminarlas de una en una. Al inigualable trío de...

The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards – A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story. As the year comes to a close, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must set out through snow laden London to investigate the theft of a priceless clock and the receipt of seven macabre Christmas cards. Will they solve...

An intrigue tale of Americans in Europe studying, perfecting their skills in music and medicine and more as career hopes collide with romance and mystery. A tale written before so many Americans such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald went to Paris for the same reasons.

Iraq, 2003: in the post-war looting of the treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum, a legendary Phoenicean statue is stolen . . .Known as the Navigator, the statue points back to the days of King Solomon and is the vital clue to a secret of unimaginable power. Lucky then that UN investigator Carina Mechadi recovers it quickly. But a daring raid by helicopter in Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland and the statue is gone again - while Carina is only saved by the timely intervention of Kurt Austin of NUMA.

Das Geisterhaus in der Provence. Der weltberühmte Schriftsteller Valère Barbier zieht in sein neues Haus, Bastide Blanche, ein altes romantisches Anwesen in der Provence. Doch schon bald merkt er, dass es dort nicht mit rechten Dingen zugeht. Er verbringt keine einzige ruhige Nacht in seinem neuen Zuhause. Als sein Stiefsohn entführt wird, holen Barbier die Geister der Vergangenheit ein, und er muss sich mit alten Geheimnissen auseinandersetzen. War wirklich ein Unfall die Ursache für den Tod seiner Frau Agathe?

Ein Serienmörder tötet auf bestialische Art und Weise. Seine Opfer: junge Mütter. Auf der fieberhaften Jagd nach dem unheimlichen SCHNEEMANN kämpft sich Kommissar Harry Hole durch ein Labyrinth aus Verdächtigungen und falschen Spuren. Immer neue Morde geschehen. Als Hole selbst ins Visier des Killers gerät, entwickelt sich ein gnadenloses Duell.

Eine Lüge erfordert Einsatz ... Viele Lügen erfordern Hingabe ... In der archäologischen Grabungsstätte Branodunum, einem Römerlager an der Küste Norfolks, werden die Überreste einer jungen Frau entdeckt. DI Janssen und sein Team müssen herausfinden, wer sie war und weshalb sie hier begraben wurde. Um diesen Ort ranken sich Mythen und Geheimnisse, und an der Stätte fanden bereits mehrere Ausgrabungen statt. Aber seit wann liegt die Tote hier ... und wer wünscht sich, dass sie nie entdeckt worden wäre?

Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten. Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is called to the shores of Whale Fjord where the skeletons of a man and a woman have been discovered, both shot with British wartime bullets. Magnus uncovers a web of anger and revenge that stretches back 80 years and forward to a shocking murder in Reykjavík.

Bom dia und willkommen in Colares! Die beliebte Fernsehshow Ferienhaus der Sternchen kommt nach Colares! In einer Villa direkt am Strand wohnen mehrere Promis - darunter auch Lauras absolutes Idol: die Krimiautorin Nina Seier. Laura ist ganz aus dem Häuschen und sieht sich jede Folge an. Bis plötzlich die Kamerafrau der Sendung vor ihrer Tür steht und nach der Detektivin fragt. Die Kamerafrau entpuppt sich ausgerechnet als Bens Ex-Freundin Carmen, die Laura nicht gerade freundlich gesinnt ist.

Il commissario Maugeri, sfidando depistaggi e contraffazione di prove, indaga su due omicidi avvenuti all’interno di un CRAL (Circolo Ricreativo Aziendale Lavoratori). Quello che scoprirà, legato a filo doppio a vecchie storie di guerra, avrà dell’incredibile... Milano, 1949. Una nuova indagine per il commissario Maugeri, che, stavolta, ha a che fare con l’assassinio di un barista all’interno di un circolo ricreativo. Perplesso dalla ricostruzione ufficiale dei fatti, il detective troverà in un secondo omicidio il pretesto giusto per andare più a fondo nell’inchiesta.

A brilliant reporter, haunted by her husband's death.... A disgraced cop, tangled in a web of lies.... Two unlikely heroes. One unthinkable crime. Listen to the final three episodes of this addictive series.