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Als die Journalistin Loyal hierhin zurückkehrt, hofft sie, sich mit ihrer besten Freundin aus Kindheitstagen zu versöhnen. Doch bevor Loyal mit ihr sprechen kann, wird die Freundin ermordet aufgefunden. Niemanden interessiert es, was mit der jungen Frau passiert ist, die schon immer als Außenseiterin galt. Also beginnt Loyal, selbst Fragen zu stellen.

In the dead days between Christmas and New Year, a body turns up on the grounds of Liggan Manor, and Malachite Peck is called in. The lady of the manor swears her family has nothing to do with it—and she wants Mal to prove it. Mal isn’t convinced, but with too much time on her hands, she agrees. What starts as a simple case quickly unravels into a tangle of family secrets, a whispered new will, and a surprising new heir no one saw coming. As generations clash over the sprawling estate, another second body is discovered, and it’s clear—a killer is hunting the Liggan heirs one by one.

In this "smart, irreverent secret history" novel, a high-school senior investigates the death of a star hockey player at her elite Jesuit school, where she discovers the rot at the heart of the institution—and the truth about her own past along the way (Stewart O'Nan). Frankie is a good...

After a couple of close calls, local news reporter Josie Posey and her meddling Mahjong Mavens have vowed to mind their own business and leave all crime-solving to the authorities. But when her friend Nellie's Aunt Pearl, a respected doll collector, needs help, Josie springs into action.

Fiscalista tutta d'un pezzo di giorno e ascoltatrice di gialli di notte, Violante ama il mistero, ma di solito se ne tiene ben alla larga. Eppure, durante una festa organizzata da un'amica nel suo appartamento in Brera, è proprio il mistero a trovare lei.

Die junge Anna vom Land und der adelige Journalist Fritz: ein ungewöhnliches Ermittlerduo. Anna Zech beginnt 1912 als Krankenschwester in der Münchner Gerichtsmedizin. Gleich ihre erste Leichenschau ist eine Tote aus der Isar. Anna glaubt nicht, dass die alternde Schauspielerin selbst ins Wasser gegangen ist. Auch der Skandalreporter Fritz von Weynand vermutet, jemand hat hier nachgeholfen. Denn die Tote hatte beste Verbindungen und kannte viele Persönlichkeiten. Anna, aus kinderreicher, kleinbürgerlicher Familie, ist vom adeligen Charmeur Fritz zuerst ein wenig eingeschüchtert.

Als Audrey Kepler das verlassene Thornwood House im ländlichen Queensland erbt, ergreift sie sofort die Chance, ihrem hektischen Leben in Melbourne zu entkommen und einen Neustart zu wagen. In einem Hinterzimmer des alten Hauses entdeckt sie die verblasste Fotografie eines gutaussehenden Mannes. Wie sie bald herausfindet, handelt es sich um Samuel Riordan, den vormaligen Bewohner von Thornwood House. Schon bald erfährt sie, dass Samuel beschuldigt wurde, kurz nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem Krieg eine junge Frau ermordet zu haben, was sie nicht glauben will. Als sie immer tiefer in Samuels Geschichte eintaucht, hat sie die böse Ahnung, dass der Mörder von damals noch lebt. Und dann droht sich ihr Verdacht auf gefährliche Weise zu bestätigen.

Sofia Dalmasso betreibt ein kleines Café in einem Bergdorf unweit des Lago Maggiore. Während die einen wegen ihres Risottos bei ihr einkehren, kommen die anderen, um sich die Zukunft voraussagen zu lassen. Denn Sofia hat von ihrer Großmutter das Kaffeesatzlesen gelernt. Als eines Tages ein Fremder ihr Café betritt und auf ihrer Kunst besteht, sieht sie zum ersten Mal das Symbol für den Tod. Am Tag darauf wird der Mann leblos aufgefunden. Von Schuldgefühlen geplagt, beginnt Sofia sich im Dorf umzuhören.

It's nothing short of inevitable that Cymbeline, Georgia, hosts an annual Shakespeare festival. But stage-struck Nina Fleet is about to learn that putting on an amateur-theatrical production can be murder. Nina's anticipating showbiz glamour and glitz when a community Shakespearean troupe arrives for a two-week stay at her B&B. But the lights dim when she learns the company's director is her nemesis, struggling actor Harry Westcott - who still claims to be the rightful heir to Nina's elegant Queen Anne home.

Nina Fleet’s life ought to be as sweet as a Georgia peach. Awarded a tidy sum in her divorce, Nina retired at 41 to a historic Queen Anne house in quaint Cymbeline, Georgia. But Nina’s barely settled into her new B&B-to-be when a penguin shows up on her porch...or, at least, a man wearing a penguin suit. Harry Westcott is making ends meet as an ice-cream shop’s mascot and has a letter from his great-aunt, pledging to leave him the house...too bad that’s not what her will says. Meanwhile, the Sisters of Perpetual Poverty have lost their lease.

Gin Sullivan is back in her small hometown of Trumbull, Pennsylvania, on an extended leave from her job at the Chicago medical examiner's office and rekindling an old flame with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Gin is readjusting to life at home when Jake receives harrowing news early one morning: the new housing development his construction firm is building has caught fire, and underneath one of the burnt homes is a dead body.

Undeterred by the handful of hiccups she's had with her bed and breakfast in the small tourist town of Cymbeline, Georgia, Nina Fleet has her pedal to the medal to make her inn the best it can be with her trusty Australian Shepherd, Matilda. Nina takes a booth at the annual Veils and Vanities Bridal Expo, put on by the town's two wedding pros: Virgie Hamilton, retirement-aged dress shop owner, and Roxanna Query, a Gen-X event planner and Nina's new friend. But everything goes wrong when Roxanna comes tumbling out of an oversized prop wedding cake, strangled to death by a scarf.

La Sanità è un’isola e per navigare il mare che la circonda ci vogliono passione, abilità e coraggio. Lo sa bene padre Raffaele, da poco tornato nei luoghi dove ha vissuto i primi anni di un’infanzia rubata e dove l’ombra di Peppino, il fratello malavitoso che il destino gli ha dato in sorte, si allunga su ogni evento del quartiere. Questa volta, però, un’ombra ancora più fosca avvolge le indagini del prete e della sua perpetua: è l’ombra della storia; di una guerra lontana che sembra ancora vicina; di una Napoli che si ribella ai nazisti; di un popolo fiero che non cede al gioco dei potenti.

Josie Posey and her posse of Mahjong Mavens are at it again, in this cozy mystery where the retired big city crime reporter turned small town crime solver uncovers another murder in picturesque English Village. When the clockmaker's daughter returns home for a visit, reporter Josie Posey is assigned the task of interviewing the talented watch designer. That very afternoon the young woman falls from a ladder while inventorying antique clocks.

Die Cosy-Crime-Entdeckung des Jahres! Jeden Morgen freut sich die 25-jährige Molly Gray darauf, in ihre frisch gestärkte Uniform zu schlüpfen. Sie liebt ihren Job als Zimmermädchen im altehrwürdigen Londoner Regency Grand Hotel und ist erst zufrieden, wenn sie die eleganten Suiten wieder in einen tadellosen Zustand versetzt hat. Doch als Molly den ebenso berüchtigten wie schwerreichen Mr Black tot in seinem zerwühlten Zimmer vorfindet, bringt das nicht nur ihren Sinn für Ordnung gehörig durcheinander.

The suspicious drowning death of Captain Edward Eubank breaks archaeologist Faye Longchamp’s heart. It also confuses her, because he was found in scuba gear and she’s never heard him even mention scuba diving. During their last conversation, he told her that he believed he’d found a storied shipwreck, but when Faye checks it out she finds nothing there—not a plank, not a single gold coin, nothing. If there’s no treasure, then why is her friend dead? But the situation quickly escalates beyond a murder mystery.

Josie Posey, a mature yet ever-feisty big city crime reporter turned crime solver, has officially retired to a touristy small town in middle America where she and her posse of friends "unofficially" have their noses in everything. Josie loves her new life, but a weekly game of mahjong isn't enough: she itches to get back into the action. She gets more than she bargained for when The Village Gazette asks her to interview their local celebrity, a former NYC prima ballerina. Then, the ballerina's husband is discovered dead—face down in the couple's beloved field of flowers.

Nevada Barr quickly attracted the attention of mystery fans when her first Anna Pigeon mystery, Track of the Cat, appeared. Now she immerses the intrepid park ranger in a perilous search that will take her far below the waters of Lake Superior. As Anna spends her days patrolling its shores, the surface of Lake Superior fills with tourists. In the depths below lie an ancient ship and the bones of its sailors.

Anne-Maj Mortensen kann sich wirklich Schöneres vorstellen, als ihren Ex-Mann nackt im Whirlpool zu finden – noch dazu mausetot! Die Polizei geht von einem Selbstmord aus, aber das will die resolute Rentnerin und Hobby-Spürnase nicht glauben: Sie ist fest entschlossen, gemeinsam mit ihrem treuen Dackel Mortensen die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Allerdings hat sie dabei weder mit einem ungewöhnlichen Paar gerechnet, das sich im Haus ihres Ex vergnügen will, noch mit einem Immobilienmakler, der möglicherweise alles andere als eine weiße Weste hat.

Living in a haunted house is nothing new to Danielle. In fact, she's rather fond of the ghosts who visit Marlow House. But after she brings home the twins, unexplained paranormal activities in the nursery perplex not just her, but the ghosts who frequently visit Marlow House.