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Everyone has secrets they would prefer to keep buried, but that’s what makes me so good at what I do. I’ve always been able to sense when people are lying, be it through their body language or the way they speak. As a criminologist, I’ve made it my life’s mission to help those who’ve suffered miscarriages of justice appeal their wrongful convictions. Thirty years ago, my 13-year-old sister was murdered and it felt like a part of me died with her.

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy. Among the cases she has to deal with are a poisoned quiche; a vet who has been ‘put to sleep’; a hanged horticulturist; a murdered rambler and a curate who meets his Maker somewhat sooner than expected.

I’ve spent years running from my past. After what happened to my parents, I needed to start fresh, far away from the whispers and stares. Now, as a struggling university student, I barely scrape by, living in a new town where no one knows me or the tragedy I’ve tried to forget. To make ends meet, I take on a ghostwriting job for a high-profile client. But the deal comes with one strange condition: their identity must remain a secret. Their only communication is through a distorted voice on an app.

Schreie zerreißen die nächtliche Stille einer Parkanlage. In letzter Sekunde kann der mörderische Anschlag auf eine Frau vereitelt werden. Sie kommt mit dem Leben davon, doch durch das traumatische Ereignis verliert sie ihr Gedächtnis. Kriminalkommissarin Karin Wolf, die zum Schutz dieser Frau eingeteilt wurde, versucht Stück für Stück die Vergangenheit der Frau zu rekonstruieren, um den Täter aufzuspüren. Schon bald muss Karin feststellen, dass ihr Schützling immer noch in Lebensgefahr schwebt. Der Verfolger hat seine Jagd noch lange nicht beendet.

It's mid-Winter in the Cornish seaside town of St Foy. In the midst of a family birthday party Emily Duggan, missing for three years and presumed dead after murdering her best friend Star Bright, arrives unannounced. To the bewilderment and shock of her family, Emily insists she didn't do it and has an alibi, but refuses to answer any questions.

On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter’s best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery—her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions…details that threaten to tear them apart.

Stormy “Breeze” Morgan was living the high life until her dreams came crashing down around her and she lost her book contract. With nothing left to do—and no money in her bank account—she’s forced to return to the family business, a diner in Northern Lower Michigan. Stormy never thought she would have to work with her family again, and it’s just as horrific as she expected. Things only get worse when, after a night of drinking with her cousin, a family Ouija board leads to a burst of magic and Stormy wakes floating over her bed the next morning.

EMS Captain turned sleuth Brighid Doran suspects that all is not what it appears on the surface at The Branston Club—a swanky ski lodge being built in her rural Vermont town. While dodging danger and digging up dirt, Brighid faces the ire of small town politics, crooked cops, and an ever deepening hole of deceptions, all the while struggling to cope with the constant deployment of her wife Major Sarah (Sam) Ann Musgrave.

When Harriet Gordon receives word from a friend about a tragic death, she and Inspector Curran are thrust into a web of family secrets that threatens to destroy them both in this all-new mystery from the author of Singapore Sapphire. Singapore, 1910—Harriet Gordon has found fulfillment at last...

While Augusta Hawke is a successful author of eighteen crime novels, since her husband's death, she's been living vicariously through her Jules Maigret-like detective Claude and his assistant Caroline. Then a handsome police detective appears investigating a real-life mystery. Where are her neighbors, the Normans? No one has a clue what's happened—except Augusta. Although she isn't nosy, spending all day staring out the windows for inspiration means she does notice things. Like the Normans arguing. And that they've been missing a week.

The Charleston streets are dressed for the holidays in sophisticated Southern style: topiaries adorned with red ribbons, garland entwined with white lights, and poinsettias potted in gold planters. The high class bordello in a stately historic home is certainly no exception. When Private Investigator Liz Talbot’s dear friend Olivia swears she saw a dead body in the parlor of this bordello, one Olivia accidentally co-owns, Liz promptly comes to her aid.

At a reunion of old school pupils and friends, recently retired Belle Harrington overhears a story about a gang of seven bullies, who blighted her life decades earlier. Over the course of 25 years, six of the seven have died or disappeared. One every five years, three months after each reunion. All seemingly accidental. Co-incidence...or something else?

The small town of North Harbor, Michigan, is just not big enough for the two of them: flamboyant phony Maria Romanov and feisty Nana Jo. The insufferable Maria claims she's descended from Russian royalty and even had a fling with King Edward VIII back in the day. She’s not just a lousy liar, she's a bad actress, so when she nabs the lead in the Shady Acres Senior Follies—a part Nana Jo plays every year in their retirement village production—Nana Jo blows a gasket and reads her the riot act in front of everyone.

Jotkut ihmiset ansaitsevat rangaistuksen, toiset ansaitsevat kuolla. Kun Louise Brobacke löydetään kuolleena uima-altaastaan jalat ja kädet sidottuina nippusiteillä, M-ryhmä ottaa tapauksen selvitettäväkseen. Käy ilmi, että Louise oli mukana useassa suuressa liiketoimintaprojektissa, joilla saattaa olla yhteys myös hänen murhaansa. M-ryhmän ilmapiiri on omituisen uhkaava, mutta Nora ei onnistu pääsemään selville, mistä on kyse. Kaikilla tuntuu olevan jonkinlainen kuristusote toisistaan, eikä Nora pysty luottamaan keneenkään kollegoistaan.

Jotkut ihmiset ansaitsevat rangaistuksen, toiset ansaitsevat kuolla. M-ryhmä on poliisin erikoisyksikkö, joka on perustettu ratkaisemaan erityisen monimutkaisia murhia. Kun Nora Feller pakotetaan jättämään työnsä poliisina Katrineholmissa, hän hakee paikkaa M-ryhmästä ja saa sen omaksikin yllätyksekseen. Vastaanotto tiimissä on hapanta, mutta Nora tuntee sentään jonkinlaista kumppanuutta profiloija Charlotte Victorinin kanssa. Noran ensimmäinen tapaus M-ryhmässä on poikkeuksellinen.

Jotkut ihmiset ansaitsevat rangaistuksen, toiset ansaitsevat kuolla. M-ryhmä suuntaa Katrineholmiin selvittämään oikeuslääkäri Nils Sachsin raakaa murhaa. Tehtävä herättää voimakkaita tunteita Nora Fellerissä, sillä juuri Nils on yksi niistä, jotka saivat hänet jättämään aikaisemman tehtävänsä Katrineholmin poliisissa. Kaikki jäljet osoittavat yhteen ja samaan suuntaan, mutta Noralla on pahaenteinen tunne, ettei kaikki mene aivan niin kuin pitäisi. M-ryhmän kollegoiden väliset kahnaukset käyvät vain ikävämmiksi, eikä Nora pysty enää luottamaan keneenkään.

Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn, in the middle of the green — with the body of an old man lying at their feet.

Caroline Crow ist spurlos verschwunden. Als der Chirurg Simon Banks und Carolines Ehemann Adrian jeweils eine abgetrennte, verbrannte Hand erhalten, wächst bei allen Beteiligten die Sorge, dass hinter Carolines Verschwinden viel mehr, viel Bedrohlicheres steckt. Der Kriminelle Gabriel Howard ist kürzlich aus dem Gefängnis entlassen worden und sinnt auf Rache. Detective Sheridan Hollers kriminalistischer Instinkt sagt ihr, dass diese Fälle zusammenhängen.

The Hollowbeck Midwinter Festival is the event of the season—complete with flying pigs, snow monster fights, and a free bar that no one should trust after the third round. The centerpiece? A lavish masked ball featuring Alaric's famously enchanting (and possibly cursed) masks. Morgan Winters isn't one for fancy dresses or mysterious strangers, but as Hollowbeck's unofficial town witch, she's expected to show up, mask up, and smile. At least the canapés are good—and Alaric's assistant Finn isn't bad either.

Nora Fellerin kaipaama uusi alku Malmössä päättyi katastrofiin. Nyt häntä itseään syytetään murhayrityksestä, ja hänen on luotettava kollegaansa Erikaan puhdistaakseen maineensa. Samaan aikaan puistosta löytyy kidutettu ja murhattu kennelinomistaja. Charlotte Victorinin johtama M-ryhmä kutsutaan jälleen kerran Malmön poliisin avuksi, mutta kuten tavallista, Charlotella on omat salaiset suunnitelmansa. Seuraa brutaali ja armoton välienselvittely. Nora Feller joutuu toimimaan kaukana lain ja omien periaatteidensa ulkopuolella taistellakseen vastaan voimia, jotka haluavat tuhota hänen elämänsä.