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On a hillside near the quaint Irish village of Glennkill, the flock gathers around the dead body of their shepherd, George, who lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George cared deeply for the sheep, reading to them daily, and as a result they are far smarter than your average flock. Led by Miss Maple, the sharpest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find George’s killer. With an assortment of woolly investigators on the case, there are furtive missions into the village and a collection of two-legged suspects to chew over.

For very nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Even more astonishing was the...

The crew from the wildly popular, fan favorite Fatal Impressions takes over Jules Keene's glamping resort, and they bring a lot of offscreen drama and baggage to the bucolic resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Added security, hundreds of calls from hopeful extras, and some demanding divas keep Jules's team hopping. When the show's prickly head writer ends up dead under the L. Frank Baum tiny house in what looks like a staged murder scene with a kitschy homage to the Wizard of Oz, Jules has to figure out who would want the writer dead.

The brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the author of the smash hit No.1 bestseller The Woman in the Window. 'Elegant, absorbing, full of Hitchcockian menace’ Lucy Foley ‘I was mesmerized’ Lisa Jewell 'Brilliantly plotted' Liz Nugent ‘Fans of detective fiction will be thrilled!’...

From the No.1 bestselling author, comes an exciting novel new to Hodder in eBook and audio. On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues...

Der gemütliche Dorfpastor Klaas Heiland wagt einen Neuanfang im bayrischen Touristenidyll Sonntal am See. Dabei muss er nicht nur mit seiner resoluten Haushälterin, dem überambitionierten Bürgermeister und den eigenwilligen Traditionen der Sonntaler zurechtkommen: Nein, hier in der Provinz geben sich die Mörder die Klinke in die Hand! Und im Gegensatz zum sympathischen Dorfpolizisten Tobias Kern hat der friedliebende Heiland ein Talent zur Lösung von Kriminalfällen. Herr Heiland schaut genauer hin: Ganz Sonntal ist aus dem Häuschen, denn das Fernsehen ist da.

Now a major film starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively as a pair of mismatched best friends, each with something to hide . . . 'Packed with betrayal, secrets and plenty of twists and turns' - Telegraph What happened to Emily? When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son from...

Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel featuring a former Hollywood starlet with a devastating secret in this psychological thriller People magazine praises as "fast-paced and involving", from an incredible new voice in suspense. I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being...

When cinema's hottest superhero, Matt Bane, enters Clare's store to buy some personalized notecards, it's hard not to be starstruck. But when Clare sees the police leading Matt out of The Fountain hotel in handcuffs only a few hours later, she can't believe her eyes. The affable actor is accused of killing his sister, but Clare's convinced he's wrong for that role. Now it's open call for suspects as Clare tries to reel in the killer before another victim fades to black....

Thomas Lieven ist alles, was sich eine Frau wünschen kann: gut aussehend, im besten Alter, charmant und ein begnadeter Koch. Aber der Mann ist noch viel mehr - Geheimagent wider Willen. Seine Abenteuer führen ihn quer durch das Europa des kalten Krieges, durch eine Zeit voller Hass und Fanatismus, Lügen und Verrat. Trotzdem geht er, dessen einzige Schwächen die Frauen und das Kochen sind, unbeirrt und unbesiegt durch jede Gefahr.