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USA Today Bestseller! "Full of tongue-in-cheek humor, excellent dialogue, and fantastic characters, this expertly crafted story from Carter (The Blonde Identity) is a heart-melting rivals-to-lovers romance combined with a delightful locked-room mystery." — Library Journal (starred review)...

When a New York City literary agent returns to her small hometown to bury her father, murder is the one plot twist she didn't see coming. Allie Cobb thought she'd left Rushing Creek, Indiana, behind for good, carving out a name for herself in Manhattan's literary world, far from her famous father's shadow. But when his sudden death brings her - and her feisty rescue cat, Ursula - back home, Allie's barely unpacked before tragedy strikes again. Her father's bestselling client is found dead under the town's historic bridge, and Allie's childhood friend is the prime suspect.

Allie Bishop is no stranger to pain. Fifteen years ago, she watched as her father brutally murdered a woman he had taken captive. As it turned out, there had been many more. Now a Special Agent with the FBI, Allie spends her days hunting down the worst humanity has to offer. Her nights are spent beating back the lingering shadows of her past. Her newest case confronts her with a series of middle-aged women with their faces meticulously cut off.

When the bodies of middle-aged men begin turning up around Tacoma, the case is quickly turned over to the FBI. Ominous graves marked with cryptic shrines indicate a deeper meaning to the crimes. Are the bodies sacrifices, messages, or something else entirely? Still reeling from a fresh revelation about someone in her past, Special Agent Allie Bishop is sent on a whirlwind ride through her city's underbelly, going deep into dark, hidden worlds full of greed and corruption.

Having returned from a successful case among the mountains of Idaho, FBI Agent Allie Bishop is sent undercover to investigate strange happenings in a local prison. Inmates are going missing upon their release, and some are turning up dead. Meanwhile, someone remains intent on seeing Allie dead, and any answers surrounding her mother's disappearance continue to elude her grasp.

It's only temporary. That's what Shelby Phillips tells herself when she returns to excruciatingly harmless Gwen Lake after her graphic arts career—and the office romance blooming with it—get tossed like rejected design mockups. Her plan is as simple and fool-proof as a tent stitch: manage the family needlepoint shop during her parents' RV vacation. It's just a month. It's not as if they're retiring . . . right?

For Libby Beckett, opening her charming yarn shop, and introducing customers to the joys of knitting and crochet, is the work she was meant to do. Until the yarn she loves is used for murder…. Libby has come home to Collinstown, Maryland to live her dream and open her own yarn shop, aptly...

Business is booming for Libby Beckett and her fabulous Maryland shop, aptly named Y.A.R.N., but when a town festival brings a fatality with it, Libby gets all tangled up in murder. As spring comes to Collinstown, the village launches a food festival to draw a new group of tourists. Libby, proud...

In the aftermath of solving a gruesome investigation, FBI Agent Allie Bishop is called out to Boise to assist with a case. Someone is targeting public officials with extreme malice and leaving no trail. After escaping a near-death assault on her way out of town, Allie's mind is teeming with new questions and old fears. Who was the mysterious man who had tried to warn her, and who were the people who so clearly wanted to see her dead? Navigating a new field office and a new partner, Allie is forced to confront her own weaknesses while juggling fresh concerns about her family's past.

The Limekiln Estate has witnessed many a dark crime over the years. When DI Allie Shenton is called out to a suspicious death, she isn't surprised to see it's a local she knows only too well. While the slaying of Billy Whitmore is on everyone's lips, a woman is stabbed in her home. A day later and a third victim turns up. Three known associates brutally murdered—the bodies are piling up quicker than the forensic evidence is coming back. Yet Allie senses there's something more disturbing going on. She's sure Fiona Abbott, Billy's partner, is involved too.

When one of the notorious Johnson brothers is murdered and a bag of money goes missing, a deadly game of cat and mouse is set in motion. Detective Allie Shenton and her team are called in to catch the killer, but the suspects are double-crossing each other and Allie has little time to untangle the web of lies. As she delves deeper into the case, things take a personal turn when Allie realises she is being stalked by the very same person who attacked her sister seventeen years ago and left her for dead.

A gripping new crime series for fans of Val McDermid, Jane Casey and Cara Hunter ‘Gold-standard crime writing’ Erin Kinsley ‘An impressive start in an exciting new series’ The Sun ‘Authentic and atmospheric’ Adele Parks, Platinum ‘Packed with authenticity’ Mail Online Evidence...

Um die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen, muss sie sich ins Herz der Finsternis wagen: "1979 – Jägerin und Gejagte" ist der erste Fall für Investigativ-Journalistin Allie Burns von Bestseller-Autorin Val McDermid. Schneestürme, Stromausfälle, Streiks und ungeklärte Todesfälle: Der Winter 1979 beschert Schottland ein Debakel nach dem anderen. Für die junge Journalistin Allie Burns sind schlechte Nachrichten jedoch die einzige Chance, über etwas anderes als Familiendramen und Babywunder zu berichten und vom "Boys' Club" der Zeitung endlich ernst genommen zu werden.

The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940. During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in her kitchen whilst cooking for her husband and children. She becomes trapped in the rear of her home, but regains consciousness just in time to see a familiar face, offering hope of rescue. But instead, Madeline is tragically strangled to death. As a dangerous murderer uses the Blitz to cover their crime, local detective Jamie Barton enlists the help of Madeline’s sister and volunteer firefighter, Penny Fairfax to help.

As Audrey Sinclair reaches the end of her mourning period, she and Hugh Marsden, the Viscount Neatham, are at long last looking toward their future together—and hoping for a respite from the dangerous criminal investigations they've found themselves entrenched in.

When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey's packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer. Detained in Dover for an inquest that is being led by a prejudiced magistrate, she is joined by trusted friends and family—and the newly minted viscount, Hugh Marsden—to prove her innocence. But when it's discovered the murdered man was a private inquiry agent, hired to follow the duchess while she traveled the Continent, they enter a race to find out who hired him and why.

Unsettled with his new role in society, and being deemed one of London's most eligible bachelors, Hugh is happy to fall back on his Bow Street skills to track down Lady Redding—and to see Audrey again. But the viscountess's disappearance is only half of the puzzle. A long-lost ring worth a fortune could be the driving force behind the deadly events, and as Audrey and Hugh unravel the truth—along with the secrets and complications surrounding their future—a killer closes in on the house party . . . and selects a new victim.

After a murder scandal nearly sent her husband to the gallows, Audrey, the Duchess of Fournier, has retreated to the countryside to distance herself from gossip—and from the Bow Street officer who proved as irritating as he was intriguing. But when Audrey's friend Charlotte, the Countess of Bainbury, dies mysteriously on Fournier Downs parkland, she summons the only person she trusts to uncover the truth: Principal Officer Hugh Marsden.