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When a model is found dead during a life drawing class, the police are confident they have their culprit. The case, they say, is neatly wrapped up. But theatrical agent Ginny Fellows knows better.

Derbyshire, dicembre 1924. È un freddo Natale ad Alconbury Hall, la residenza di campagna della nobile famiglia Lennox. Così freddo che nemmeno generose dosi di sherry riescono a riscaldare la mente e il cuore di Lady Millicent Carmichael, mentre detta le sue scandalose memorie alla nuova segretaria. Beatrice però ancora non riesce a cogliere il sottobosco di ten­sioni che attraversa quella conturbante atmosfera natalizia.

Joanna Haslam, brillante journaliste londonienne à qui rien ne semble sourire dernièrement, se retrouve tirée du lit par son patron pour aller couvrir les funérailles de sir James Harrison, monstre sacré du cinéma britannique, qui vient de s'éteindre à l'âge vénérable de 95 ans. Un reportage mondain qui a peu de chance de lancer sa carrière... Et pourtant, sous le luxe et le glamour qui entourent la dynastie Harrison, Joanna ne tarde pas à remonter la piste d'un secret.

Valmont-sur-Loing, à la lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau, a tout de la bourgade paisible... en apparence du moins. Aux côtés de Tante Alice, laissez-vous embarquer dans une exquise enquête.

Stephen Gray, medico, è intento a raccogliere campioni di flora e fauna da uno stagno, quando ai suoi occhi si offre uno spettacolo raccapricciante. Appena sotto la superficie scorge il volto cereo di un uomo, il resto del corpo quasi completamente nascosto dalle piante. Si tratta dello scultore Julius D'Arblay, che la notte precedente non è rientrato a casa. Sembra esclusa l'ipotesi dell'incidente, data la scarsa profondità dello specchio d'acqua, o del malore improvviso, essendo improbabile che la vittima fosse andata a passeggiare al buio in un luogo così isolato; resta da valutare quella del suicidio.

After their divorce, Visiting Nurse Melanie Bass must keep in contact with Dr. Artie Krapaneck, her philandering ex-husband as they share custody of her beloved dog, Bruno. When she arrives at a Connecticut highway rest stop to retrieve the dog for “her week”, she discovers the body of her ex-husband along with that of an unknown woman. It seems that now Artie will finally be out of her life forever. He isn’t.

Un soir de janvier. Chloé est sauvagement assassinée à l'institut de beauté où elle travaille, à La Baule. Le lendemain matin, son corps est découvert par sa patronne... dans le banc solaire. Chloé Feuvrier était bien connue dans la région : quelques années plus tôt, elle avait été élue première dauphine de Miss France. Dans la foulée, elle avait publié un livre polémique sur "Les dessous pas très chics de Miss France". Il ne lui avait pas valu que des amis.

Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowboys, at the premier U.S. country music festival when his girl dumps him for the Cowboys’ shifty manager. When that same manager ends up at FallFest’s walk of fame with his handprints—and his head—in cement, Lew finds himself on the top ten most wanted list instead of the music charts. With the help of his loyal Cowboys and the close-knit festival staff, Lew must clear his name before the killer gets away—or strikes again.

Enfant du Blitz, Barbara veille jalousement sur plus d'un secret. Désireuse d'épargner à ses enfants les dures réalités de la vie, elle leur a raconté peu de choses sur son enfance misérable, et quasiment rien sur les périodes sombres et mouvementées de son mariage avec l'un des plus célèbres photographes britanniques. Consciente de ce passé morcelé, Sophie, sa fille cadette, s'efforce de comprendre qui sont véritablement ses parents afin de pouvoir se construire sa véritable identité - au grand dam de Barbara.

Seguint el seu instint i curiositat, a més del seu orgull d'artista i el seu respecte per a la música, en aquesta ocasió en Sam Numit investiga i tira del fil per veure què hi ha darrere d'una possibilitat que fins ara semblava insòlita: que en Jim Morrison, el líder del grup The Doors, presumptament mort a París el 1971, encara estigui viu.

Eighty years ago, D. H. Lawrence moved to Taos to make a home for himself in the mountains of New Mexico. To welcome the famed writer, his neighbor brought over a stew and left the container as a gift. But this was no Tupperware - it was a handcrafted pot made in the ancient tradition. Decades later, the neighbor’s great-grandson wants it back, and there is no one in New Mexico better at stealing artifacts than Hubie Schuze. Hubie agrees to search the Lawrence ranch for it. But then a blizzard descends on the estate, trapping Hubie and other guests indoors with a killer....

When Alberta Scaglione and her black cat, Lola, stumble across a tree house hidden in the trees and a dead body underneath it, they take a detour from their morning jog into solving a murder. Now, the Ferrara ladies will have to exercise extreme caution to avoid a permanent decline in their health....

When a Catholic priest hangs himself during the pope's inauguration, his friend and ex-priest Alex Harker is dragged into a secret war that has been playing out on the fringes of society since the birth of Christ. The suicide sets into motion a planned timetable of terrifying events that will irrevocably change the world as we know it.

Reduce da un evento inatteso e imprevedibile che le ha certamente stravolto l'esistenza, la giovane Miss Bee, alias Beatrice Bernabò, a poco più di vent'anni si trova in una situazione inedita. Una nuova vita le si spalanca davanti agli occhi. Miss Bee si ritroverà invischiata in un enigma dai contorni ancor più foschi del solito, così come fosco le appare il suo presente sentimentale, per tacer del futuro.

Spinster Nettie Soards goes missing. Ten days later her body is found in Dead Man’s Canyon, and the next day an unidentified man is found dead not far away. The coroner rules spinster died accidentally from falling off a cliff and dead man was shot through the heart. Reports in the newspapers disagree with the coroner’s verdict about the cause of death for Miss Soards and his dismissal of further investigation into the death of the identified man. Outraged by the coroner’s decision, Maisy Malone and her best friend Mabel Normand decide to look into the spinster’s death.

Eine Reise an die französische Riviera! Sir Harry erhält vom Innenministerium den Auftrag, nach Nizza zu reisen - Kat und er beschließen kurzerhand gemeinsam dorthin zu fahren. Das junge Ehepaar kann es kaum erwarten: Strahlender Sonnenschein, azurblauer Himmel, wundervolles Essen und rauschende Feste mit Blick auf die weltberühmte Bucht. Was für ein Abenteuer! Aber es kommt anders als erwartet, denn hinter der glamourösen Fassade der Stadt verbergen sich dunkle Geheimnisse.

When Harry and Kat head south to the French Riviera, they look forward to dazzling parties, a shimmering sea, and wonderful food. But once they step off the legendary Paris-Nice train, Le Train Bleu, things start to be anything but restful. Asked to assist in a dangerous case of blackmail - they soon find that the streets and alleyways of the Cote d'Azur hide not only cafes and bistros ... but also secrets and danger of a most deadly sort.

In Aunt Kate and Lady Jane's second lighthearted cozy mystery, Kate's retired friend Norman West goes missing. But does his disappearance relate to a brutal murder? England, June 1928 The relationship between aunt and niece continues to grow when Lady Jane comes to stay with Kate in Sandham-on-Sea. However, instead of enjoying a week of fine dinners, long lunches, and clotted cream teas, they become entangled with Norman's secret life and a murderous conspiracy—which Scotland Yard's Inspector Ridley insists they stay away from.

Cody Bonner - identical twin, daughter of a major movie star, a teenage street kid in Los Angeles - she’s a bank robber at 19 and a prison inmate at 20. When she’s released after six years, she returns to LA with a purpose: to learn the truth about her sister, Julie, who washed up on a Malibu beach a year earlier. The connection between the twins was so powerful that the day Julie died, Cody collapsed in the prison yard. Now that bond is driving her to seek justice - at any cost.