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"Welcome to paradise," archeologist Susan Dunne hears on arrival at the Caribbean island to research petroglyphs and unravel the mystery of her brother's drowning. Was John murdered? This sunny tourist paradise conceals shadowy secrets - violent native unrest, a sunken treasure guarded by legendary Jumbies, and a bloodthirsty cult.

Delia Dickens has come home to Dickens Island, a small island in the Long Island Sound, after a twelve-year stint in Manhattan. She’s looking forward to helping her father revitalize the general store that the family owns as well as curating a small book nook. Most importantly, she wants to reunite with her fifteen-year-old son. But Dickens Island isn’t the peaceful town Delia remembers–and she might be in more danger here than she ever was in the big city. Delia’s Aunt Reenie and Uncle Brad, both prominent community leaders, are at odds over the sale of a farm and its future use.

Emma Galway’s suicide has haunted the Meredith Island for fifty years. Back on the island to lay her grandmother to rest, Kate can’t avoid reflecting on the death of her aunt. Learning that her late mother had believed Emma was murdered and had conducted her own investigation, she decides to track down her aunt’s killer. With the help of her neighbour, impetuous and hedonistic sculptor Siobhan Fitzgerald, Kate picks up where her mother had left off.

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Following the death of her uncle Cornelius Vanderbilt in September 1899, a somber Emma is in no mood for one of Newport's extravagant parties. But to keep Vanderbilt's reckless son, Neily, out of trouble, she agrees to accompany him to an Elizabethan fete on the lavish grounds of Wakehurst. Held in Wakehurst's English-style gardens, the festivities will include a swordplay demonstration, an archery competition, scenes from Shakespeare's plays, and even a joust. As Emma wanders the grounds distracted by grief, she overhears an argument between a man and a woman behind a tall hedge.

Art expert Emma Lindhal is anxious when she's asked to appraise the antiques in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was murdered nine years earlier, her killer never found. As she goes about her painstaking work and one shocking discovery yields clues that lead to another, Emma becomes determined to uncover the secrets of the house and its occupants. When the lifeless body of another young woman is found in the icy waters surrounding the island, Detective Karl Rosén arrives to investigate.

Als in der Nähe des Leuchtturms der isländischen Stadt Akranes die Leiche einer zunächst unbekannten jungen Frau gefunden wird, stellt sich schnell heraus, dass sie keine Fremde in dem kleinen Ort ist. Polizistin Elma, die selbst in Akranes aufgewachsen und nach dem Ende ihrer Beziehung aus Reykjavík in den Ort ihrer Kindheit zurückgekehrt ist, übernimmt die Ermittlungen zusammen mit ihren Kollegen Saevar und Hördur. Gemeinsam stoßen sie auf ein Geheimnis in der Vergangenheit der Toten, dessen Folgen bis heute nachwirken.

An einem dunklen, verschneiten Wintermorgen wird in der Nähe von Reykjavík ein verlassener Schiffscontainer entdeckt. Darin: die leblosen Körper von fünf jungen Frauen. Wie kann so etwas Furchtbares geschehen, und wer zur Hölle steckt dahinter? Während der Polizist Daniel sich mit dem brutalsten Verbrechen seiner Karriere konfrontiert sieht, untersucht die Finanzermittlerin Áróra den Hintergrund eines Verdächtigen, der sich als Verlobter von Daniels Ex-Frau entpuppt. Daniel und Áróra treffen auf skrupellose Verbrecher, die bereit sind, bis zum Äußersten zu gehen.

"Wir haben deine Frau. Der Preis für ihre Freiheit beträgt zwei Millionen Euro. Ihr Leben liegt in deinen Händen." Als der vermögende Unternehmer Flosi nach einem langen Arbeitstag nach Hause kommt, muss er feststellen, dass sein Haus durchwühlt wurde. Glas ist geborsten, das Abendessen auf dem Fußboden verteilt, und von seiner Frau Guðrún fehlt jede Spur. Eine auf dem Küchentisch hinterlassene Nachricht bestätigt Flosis Befürchtung: Guðrún wurde entführt. Wenn er nicht das geforderte hohe Lösegeld zahlt, wird seine Frau sterben.

Eine junge Frau verschwindet spurlos, und ihre Schwester riskiert alles, um sie zu finden... Áróra Jónsdóttir lebt in London und ist Ermittlerin im Bereich Wirtschaftskriminalität – sie spürt Geld auf, das illegal in Steuerparadiesen und auf Offshore-Konten versteckt ist, und sie ist sehr gut in ihrem Job. Privat ist Áróra eher eigenbrötlerisch. Zu ihrer Familie hat sie wenig Kontakt, und als ihre Mutter sie bittet, nach Island zu fahren, um nach ihrer älteren Schwester Ísafold zu schauen, die sich nicht mehr meldet, ist sie genervt.

Andrea “Andi” Silvers is starting to feel like this tiny fishing village of Coffin Cove, on the Vancouver coast, just might be home. She’s living with Hephzibah and sort of dating Harry. Her job at The Gazetteis going well. Things are looking up. Then, the body of a young woman is found on nearby Hope Island, where Hephzibah and Harry’s mother moved to when they were children. Andi sets out to get the scoop on the story. She wants to be the one to identify the body and to find out what happened.

In the second installment of Maria DiRico's new Catering Hall Mystery series, Mia Carina is back in the borough of Queens, in charge of the family catering hall Belle View Banquet Manor, and keeping her nonna company. But some events - like murder at a shower - are not the kind you can schedule....

When recently divorced Chloe Canton is gifted her grandmother’s house in Bermuda in her will, it seems a perfect time for a fresh start. Her chance at paradise comes with a rundown business, a neighbour who is putting pressure on her to sell up for development and another who quickly makes herself comfortable in Chloe’s house. Chloe discovers a dead body on the local riding trail soon after she arrives and finds herself dragged into a murder investigation.

Ursula Smart, along with her dysfunctional family, heads to Scotland for a gentle weekend of foraging and camping in the Outer Hebrides. Their boat capsizes. Washed up on an uninhabited island, the Smart women face starvation, freezing conditions, and - worse - no Wi-Fi. A fun break swiftly turns into a desperate battle for survival. Someone begins killing them off one by one.

Renovations on Tregarrick Rock Hotel are coming along, and Evie Mead thinks they just might be done by opening day. Then one of her sister Margot’s old Hollywood friends, Louise, arrives unannounced - and expects VIP treatment. Evie has half a mind to tell Louise to find other accommodations, but Margot pleads with Evie, saying that Louise is grieving her recently deceased husband. Evie pities her, and, besides, the sisters need help. But when a member of the hotel staff is found dead and then another murder follows, the sisters’ plans crumble before their eyes.

A man is found dead on a beach on a small island off the coast of Germany. The gruesome discovery rocks the close-knit community of Amrum: in a town where nothing stays secret for long, who among them has a motive for murder? DI Lena Lorenzen is brought in to investigate. For her, it is an unwelcome homecoming to the isolated island she turned her back on fourteen years ago. But now her past - and the island’s - is catching up with her.

Now chief of the Whitewitch Island police department, if temporarily, Georgia is called on to intervene when a disturbance has her investigating at The Acropolis Hotel. Accusations fly about a missing girl her mother claims is dead, while the owner's nephew makes it clear he doesn't respect Georgia's authority or anyone else's for that matter. But when one of their number turns up dead alongside an older death that looks far too similar to be a coincidence, Georgia and Benny fall down a deep, dark rabbit hole of lies, deceit, double-crossing and homicide, among other criminal activities.

As a storyteller, Maureen Nash can't help but see the narrative cues woven through her life. Like the series of letters addressed to her late husband from a stranger—the proprietor of The Moon Shell, a shop on Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The store is famous with shell collectors, but it's the cryptic letters from Allen Withrow, the shop's owner, that convince Maureen to travel to the small coastal town in the middle of hurricane season. At the very least, she expects she'll get a good story out of the experience, never anticipating it could end up a murder mystery.

Island life can get pretty weird. Wiccan weddings, psychic brides, mermaid parades, eccentric parrots...novelist Liz Holt has gotten used to it since moving back to the barrier island of Melbourne Beach, Florida, and once again working in her family's hotel and emporium, the Indialantic by the Sea. But one thing she'll never get used to is murder.