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Una nuova indagine per Maria Viani, la biologa in pensione appassionata di gialli. Questa volta, un assurdo delitto interrompe l'escursione con il nipotino Walter alla ricerca del lupo appenninico.Nonostante la polizia, grazie a prove schiaccianti, abbia arrestato il presunto assassino, Maria Viani non crede alla sua colpevolezza e inizia una personale indagine parallela. Collaborando con l’avvocato dell’accusato e con l’aiuto del brigadiere Croce, suo buon amico, scava nella vita della vittima alla ricerca dei motivi del suo assassinio. Strappata alla quiete della vita di campagna, Maria risolverà il caso con un finale alla Nero Wolfe.

Die Geschichte um das wertvolle Dahlienbild erreicht einen neuen Höhepunkt: Carlos zittert um die entführte María Moreno und bringt Allmen dazu, Dinge zu tun, die dieser sich nie hätte träumen lassen. Ein raffinierter Krimi voller Action und Spannung.

Maria Viani, biologa in pensione e detective per passione, rispolvera una serie di efferati crimini compiuti 500 anni prima. I colpi di scena si susseguono in quella che si rivelerà la sua indagine più pericolosa. Maria Viani trascorre l'inverno frequentando la biblioteca civica alla ricerca di documenti sulla storia della Repubblica di Genova. In maniera del tutto fortuita le capita tra le mani il verbale di un processo per duplice omicidio, avvenuto nel centro storico nel 1550. Protagonista un ricco artigiano della seta genovese, condannato a morte.

Un nuovo enigma per Maria Viani, ex biologa con il pallino per le storie con delitto. Maria Viani coglie l’occasione di un lungo viaggio in macchina con il marito, per parlargli di un episodio accadutole negli anni Cinquanta, quando era una bambina e abitava nella piccola cittadina di Varazze. Racconta di un’anziana guaritrice che viene trovata morta nella sua cucina. Il fatto è liquidato dai carabinieri come incidente. Ma la piccola Maria non è convinta e, aiutata dal nonno, indaga. Riuscirà a scoprire cosa è successo veramente? E, ai giorni nostri, dove stanno andando Maria e suo marito?

After her philandering husband's boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she's got a whole new life - including some amateur sleuthing...Mia is starting work at Belle View, her father's catering hall, a popular spot for weddings, office parties, and more. Soon she's planning a bachelor party for a less-than-gentlemanly groom. But it goes awry when the gigantic cake is wheeled in and a deadly surprise is revealed.

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....

Wenn niemandem mehr zu trauen ist... Ein tödliches Lügengeflecht scheint den Vatikan unterwandert zu haben... Gerade wurde einer seiner ältesten Freunde brutal ermordet – und jetzt steht er selbst unter Verdacht: Geschichtsprofessor Don Cavelli fühlt sich in einem Albtraum gefangen. Er lebt im Vatikan, er ist "einer von ihnen" – und doch wird er über Nacht zum Staatsfeind Nr. 1 erklärt. Ihm bleibt nichts anderes als die Flucht.

Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family's Astoria, Queens catering hall into becoming the borough's premiere party site, and nothing could make her happier—except her boyfriend proposing. There's just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way.

Mia's busy with a full schedule of events at the family business - among them an over-the-top Nativity-themed first birthday party and a sweet 16 for a teen drama queen. But her personal life is even more challenging. Her estranged mother has returned - and her lifelong friend Jamie has discovered a shocking secret about his past. He's so angry that he starts hanging out with Lorenzo, who claims to be his long-lost brother - even after it becomes clear that Lorenzo's story is as fake as a plastic Christmas tree.

Belle View quickly becomes the site of a sea of wanna-be goombahs and phony girlfriends, and some of Mia's friends insist on getting in on the action. The production company owner and his executive producer ex-wife—who's also very minor British royalty—have assembled a motley crew that does as much infighting and backstabbing as the on-screen "talent." Even so, it's a shock when a dead body is found in the pool house of a local mansion rented by the show . . .

A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a different world lurking just...

Mein Name ist Nele. Ich fürchte, ich habe meine Schwester getötet. Doch lasst mich von vorne beginnen: Vor einigen Tagen habe ich einen faszinierenden Mann kennengelernt. Severin gefiel mir von der ersten Sekunde an, obwohl ihn eine Aura umgab, von der ich mich bedroht fühlte. Meine Schwester Jella warnte mich gleich vor ihm. Dabei war sie ihm nie begegnet. Oder kannte sie ihn in Wirklichkeit doch? Was verbarg sie vor mir? Ich durchstöberte die Unterlagen unseres Vaters, stieß dabei immer wieder auf Jellas Namen und begriff, dass auch er mir all die Jahre etwas verschwiegen hatte.

Il 1992, a Genova, non è un anno qualunque. Sono trascorsi esattamente cinquecento anni da quando Cristoforo Colombo – uno dei suoi cittadini più illustri – ha toccato per la prima volta le sponde dell’America. La città è in subbuglio, presa com’è dai preparativi di una grande commemorazione, che attirerà frotte di turisti. Maria Viani è una biologa col pallino per le storie di delitti. Una sera, passeggiando per Capo Santa Chiara, si imbatte in una vecchia villa dall’aspetto decadente ma estremamente affascinante.

The Euganean Hills golf community in northern Italy is a golfer's paradise. With a perpetual smell of freshly cut grass, rolling green plains, and bright blue skies, it seems nothing could go wrong for the tight-knit group that lives there. But the normally laid-back residents are shaken to their cores when one of their own turns up at the club brutally murdered. After discovering his friend's body, investigative journalist Riccardo Ranieri makes it his mission to track down the perpetrator of the heinous crime.

Sposata da poco con Luigi XVI, Maria Antonietta è già annoiata dal suo nuovo ruolo. Merletti e fronzoli non sono certo sufficienti a intrattenerla e a riempire le sue giornate. Quando però viene a sapere del furto dei gioielli della Contessa du Barry, decide di darsi da fare e sviluppare nuove abilità, questa volta come detective. Per il bene della missione, assegna a Rose, una modista, e Léonard, un parrucchiere, l'improbabile ruolo di spie.

Julio, un policía con varios casos sin cerrar y Margarita, una cocinera de caterings a domicilio, atraviesan una crisis matrimonial, tras casi 20 años juntos. Martina, su hija adolescente, tampoco es de gran ayuda en esta etapa de sus vidas. Con ánimos de salvar su relación, acuden a una psicóloga matrimonial quien les aconseja que se involucren más en la vida del otro. Antes de que Julio se dé cuenta, su mujer se habrá convertido en su mejor aliada para no dejar ni un caso sin cerrar.

The Bon-Appetempting Pizza Bake-Off has the small town of Branson, Georgia, buzzing—not least its organizer, Southern Style's food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin. But right before the finals one of the celebrity judges falls ill, and to Tiffany's horror, the magazine replaces him with none other than handsome TV star and restaurateur Bartholomew Driscoll. She's convinced he's only accepted the job to get revenge. She fully expects Driscoll will find a way to ruin the contest—but she definitely doesn't expect to trip over his dead body backstage!

Botanist Millie Whitehall leaves her New Jersey home to take a job in New Mexico. She plans to spend a peaceful summer surveying rare plants. Instead she becomes entangled in two heartless murders. Millie befriends one too many characters that she encounters during her work in the back country. Will it be the friendly oil and gas hand, out-spoken environmentalist, laid-back cowboy, charming foreign tourist, or handsome young Navajo biologist that ends up threatening her life?

Food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin has the best job in the world: she gets to eat for a living. At least, she hopes she has a job. Her trial period at Southern Style magazine is up—and rumors are swirling that management is making a choice between Tiffany and a rival columnist: the ambitious Jenny Lee Plumm. Former chef Tiffany knows she has a battle on her hands…but she didn't realize it was to the death!

Die Fabrikantin Lydia, Frau des Unternehmers Wellershoff, kommt eines Nachts nach Hause und findet in ihrer Einfahrt den abgetrennten Kopf ihres verschwundenen Mannes, der in einem Pappkarton platziert wurde. Nicht nur die Polizei, auch Reporter Bernd Kaltenbach beginnt über den Fall zu recherchieren. Er verknüpft die Ergebnisse der Polizei und bringt eine mögliche Verbindung zu ungeklärten Prostituiertenmorden ans Tageslicht. Als auch noch rituelle Kultgegenstände gefunden werden, scheint der Weg zu einer Satanssekte zu führen.