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Forty-something Maggie Sharpe is returning to her quaint childhood town of Dogwood Mountain, Missouri, nestled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains, Maggie recently inherited Dogwood Bakery, along with a cute little cottage, from her aunt Marjorie. With a son in the Navy, deployed six months at a time, and an ex in Kansas, Maggie decided that it was time for a change, but she soon learns that life back home is not all sprinkles and jelly-filled donuts.

Dogwood Donuts owner Maggie Sharpe is busy preparing for the introduction of a new lunch feature at her shop. To clear her mind after long hours at work, she takes walks around the neighborhood and her route takes her by the old house on the hill that used to belong to her aunt. It seems someone is doing renovations and Maggie becomes curious about the new owner. When curiosity makes her take a closer look, the disgruntled owner makes it abundantly clear that she’s not welcome. A suspicious incident happens at the house, a body is discovered, and all fingers seem to be pointing at Maggie.

Claire Barclay finds a home in England after 25 years of travelling. She has money, a tour guide business, and ambitions. She is shocked by the murder in her quiet village, but is not going to give up on the haven she has finally found. With the help of her sister, the barracuda barrister, her new dog, new friends, and the unexpected stimulus of a new man in her life, she deals with suspicion, confusion, and threats.

Anki Karlsson glæder sig til en rolig sommer på Gotland med rideture og godt selskab. Hun har samlet en lille gruppe ryttere til en idyllisk tur gennem Gotlands smukke landskaber. Samtidig vender Ankis ven, Tryggve, hjem fra fastlandet – med en kvinde ved sin side. Men før Anki når at forstå sine konfliktfyldte følelser, bliver gruppen ramt af et chokerende dødsfald. Og da endnu en deltager forsvinder, står det klart, at noget mere alvorligt er på spil.

Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute. In 1864, at seventeen, she emigrates to Australia, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprenticeship as an undertaker's assistant with Crowe Funeral Services, Tatty marries owner Titus Crowe. Titus himself soon dies, and Tatty inherits the business, becoming Sydney's only female undertaker.

The only magic Emma Hart believes in is caffeine and the power of the dryer to lose one sock per load. A public interest lawyer buried under a mound of student debt, Emma's whole life has been one turn of bad luck after another. Her streak seems to continue when she gets lost on the way to see a client in the remote Pocono Mountains. A chance encounter with a suicidal angel lands her in Spellbound, a town where supernaturals have been cursed to remain for centuries - probably not the best time for Emma to discover that she's actually a witch.

New witch Emma Hart is at her wit's end and, this time, it's not the result of her vampire ghost roommate, her snarky owl, or her feelings for a certain fallen angel. Key members of Spellbound society are acting like children and it's wreaking havoc on the town's regulation-happy infrastructure. When Emma is turned invisible during the investigation, she realizes that the spell was no accident and that someone is out to silence her - permanently.

Klangvolle Namen schmücken hübsche Menükarten, verführerische Gerüche schweben über dem Dorfplatz – ein Kochwettbewerb in Himmelsricht versetzt das kleine Örtchen in helle Aufruhr. Ganz besonders natürlich Emma Ferrari, die mit ihrem Feinkostladen mittendrin ist und alle mit besten italienischen Zutaten versorgt. Ihre Freundin, die adelige Konstanze von Hohenfels, steht tatsächlich im Finale, und ausgerechnet deren egozentrische Mutter, die 92-jährige Isadora, ist Teil der Jury. Doch kaum sind die ersten Portionen serviert, kippt Isadora vornüber in ihren Risottoteller – mausetot!

Harriet, der i mange år har haft Harriets Antiques i Lund, dør på mystisk vis. Samtidig forsvinder Kjell, souschefen i Albin Larssons herreekviperingsbutik, pludselig sporløst. Den excentriske hr. Larsson finder det svært at leve uden tjenestefolk, så han ansætter Bodil som erstatning for Kjell. Men det tomrum, som Kjell efterlader, er svært at udfylde. Larsson og hans sidekick Oskar, der kæmper med både sit forhold og det rejsebureau, som tiden synes at være løbet fra, begynder at lede efter den forsvundne Kjell. Undervejs støder de på lyssky agenter, affyrede pistoler og udstoppede dyr.

Der erste Fall für Emma Ferrari! Aromatische Öle, feinste Weine, bunte Pasta und cremiger Mozzarella: Der kleine Feinkostladen Alimentari del Sole ist ein sinnliches Fleckchen Italien im gemütlichen Himmelsricht an der Donau. Hier schaltet und waltet die Italienerin Emma Ferrari, die ihr Lädchen heiß und innig liebt. Bald wird sie sich ihren Traum erfüllen und das blaue Haus, in dem sie ihr Geschäft hat, endlich kaufen. Doch dann macht ihr Vermieter Roland Seelig einen Rückzieher: Emma soll ihr Kaufangebot verdoppeln, sonst ist das Alimentari Geschichte und ihr Traum zerplatzt.

A rollicking good insightful John Putnam Mystery with the redoubtable Lucy Lancer and Miss Corsa at their wittiest finest. A Dartmouth Admission interview goes wrong leading to a lost $50,000 bond, a wild reunion weekend, murder, and more.

Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone Mill, Pennsylvania. Corporate success didn't bring true happiness, but Rachel also knows she can never be Amish again. Instead she runs a B&B and tries to help her community in ways they can't help themselves. But now a gruesome discovery has been made on her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture - the body of prominent Englisher businessman Willy O'Day. Aaron refuses to hire a lawyer, trusting his innocence, and his faith, to see him through. Rachel isn't so sure, especially given the long public feud between the two men.

Claire Barclay is enthusiastic about her British Mystery Book Tour business. She enjoys taking her guests, usually from America, to the settings of mystery novels where bodies are long dead. Her neighbor's plea for help to deal with a recently murdered well-known author unsettles her. She leaves the body to the police and takes her guests to Cornwall, including a British tourist who far is too interested in the dead author.

Emma Lathen is called the American Agatha Christie and Nero Wolfe Without Portfolio by New York Times and Wall Street Journal reviewers. Set in the land of the old rich in Northern Connecticut juxtaposed with working people is this witty and insightful conflict between the two groups. Book number two in her John Putnam Thatcher series.

Loch Down Abbey is full of guests for a Highland Ball. Including several uninvited members of the Inverkillen clan, the Abbey's former residents. Housekeeper Mrs MacBain thinks her biggest challenge will be finding suitable rooms for everyone and keeping the peace at cocktail hour. Until the morning after the ball, when one of the guests is discovered inside the Abbey's library - as dead as a doornail.

Emma Lathen's fourth John Putnam Thatcher mystery centering on fraud, murder, and forensic accounting. An ironic and insightful mystery with great charm by the "American Agatha Christie" and "Nero Wolfe with Portfolio", according to New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and LA Times reviewers.

When book dealers Molly O’Donnell and Emma Clarke meet at an estate sale, they are both there for the books. But Emma ventures past a “No Admittance” sign into the basement and finds, not only a vast occult library, but also the dead body of a notorious book thief. She calls Molly, who spots a warning note in Elizabethan script next to the body. Cautious Emma follows Molly’s adventurous lead as they search for the missing book to which the note belongs, which Molly thinks must be a book of spells—a grimoire.

A woman’s body has been found in a squalid motel. Her driver’s license shows that Dawn Purvis was in her late 30s and lived in Weaverville, California - and the only connection between that town and Alpine is their gold-mining and logging origins. Emma, Milo, and the ever-inquisitive Alpine Advocate receptionist, Alison Lindahl, are curious, though Alison is a bit distracted by the new county extension agent’s good looks. Meanwhile, there’s something strange about the older couple who have moved into the cabin down the road that was once owned by a murder victim.

En eftermiddag går faxmaskinen pludselig i gang inde på kontoret hos Albin Larsson, der ejer en herreekviperingsbutik i den gamle universitetsby Lund. Faxen viser sig at være et råb om hjælp, skrevet af hans tidligere kæreste, romanceforfatteren Gunnel Ahlström. Gunnel er gået under jorden efter mistanke om, at hun er involveret i bogforlæggeren Fiona Bertilssons forsvinden. Fiona blev sidst set forlade sit sommerhus i Österlen på vej til stranden, kun iført badekåbe. Hvad de færreste ved er, at Fiona også er leder af et kriminelt netværk, der er involveret i afpresning og handel med LSD.

Claire Barclay, owner of a mystery book tour company, collects three women at the Manchester airport who have flown in from Tucson, Arizona, then starts on a tour of Yorkshire and the sites of mystery novels. She meets the rest of the tour in York: two British couples and Phillip, a single man.