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Veronica Mars meets the World of Warcraft in The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss, a mystery romp with a most unexpected heroine. If it were up to me this book would be called Hilarious Things That Happened That Were Not At All Dahlia's Fault -- or HTTHTWNAADF, for short. OK, I probably...

Die Reben zwischen Meran, Kaltern und Salurn stehen in voller Blüte. Tiberio Tanner, Chef einer kleinen Detektei, erkennt überrascht, dass er offenbar durch den Erwerb einer teuren Flasche Rotwein einen eigenen Rebstock gewonnen hat. Gleich am nächsten Tag macht sich auf, seinen Gewinn zu betrachten - und findet eine Leiche. Ein junger Mann ist erschossen worden. Wer ist der Ermordete? Und was hat es mit dem dreizehnjährigen Luca auf sich, der behauptet, den Mörder in der Nähe des Rebstocks beobachtet zu haben?

Veronica Mars meets the World of Warcraft in The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss, a mystery romp with a most unexpected heroine. You'd think that after I took a bullet in my arm following my last case, that I'd be timid about going in guns blazing a second time. But you'd be wrong. I faced...

A brand new espionage thriller series from Neil Lancaster, the author of the best-selling Max Craigie series. No Way Out, Book 2 in the series, available to order now! 'Feels like a blockbuster movie… Amazing, authentic characters, some of the best dialogue I've read' HELEN FIELDS 'Brilliant!...

Zwei Morde im September. Detektiv Tiberio Tanner, passionierter Weintrinker und Genussmensch, beschäftigen gleich zwei Fälle im Meraner Land: Zum einen soll er dem Verdacht auf Weinpanscherei nachgehen und dazu Beweise sicherstellen. Und dann muss er in einer Privatklinik ermitteln, in dem eine Hebamme ermordet worden ist, ohne dass der Täter gefasst werden konnte. Besonders der zweite Fall bereitet ihm Kopfzerbrechen, denn kaum hat er seine Ermittlungen aufgenommen, wird der Chefarzt der Klinik getötet - genau ein Jahr nach der Hebamme.

1978, ein Dorf in der Eifel: Sanne und Ulrike haben Osterferien. Wenn sie nicht auf dem Hof helfen müssen, düsen sie mit ihren Fahrrädern durch die Gegend und kriegen alles mit. In zwei Monaten ist Fußball-WM, die Mädchen bekommen aber einfach nicht genug Hanuta-Bilder für ihre Sammelalben. Also schneiden sie ein paar Männerköpfe aus dem Fahndungsplakat in der Post. Denn das ganze Land ist gerade in Aufruhr über drei Buchstaben. RAF. Und dann geschieht tatsächlich ein Bankraub. Festgenommen wird der einzige Langhaarige im Dorf.

In A Fatal Winter, Max Tudor - Anglican priest, former MI5 agent, and village heartthrob - investigates two deaths at Chedrow Castle. But his growing attraction to Awena Owen complicates his case, as does the recent arrival at Chedrow Castle of a raucous group of long-lost, greedy relatives, any one of whom has a motive for murder. With a cozy setting, intricate puzzles, and a handsome (non-celibate) priest doing the sleuthing, the books in this series are destined to become instant classics in the mystery world.

The powerful Lord complains loudly to the local bishop, who asks Father Max Tudor, vicar of Nether Monkslip and former MI5 agent, to investigate. Just as Max comes to believe the poisoning was accidental, a body is discovered in the cloister well. Can Max Tudor solve the case and restore order in time to attend his own nuptials?

Lord and Lady Baaden-Boomethistle have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the good old days, when the lord of the manor sprinkled benefits across the village like fairy dust. Father Max Tudor's invitation to dinner at the Hall comes as a welcome novelty; it will be his first time meeting the famous family that once held sway in the area.

When the body of the glamorous film star Margot Browne washes ashore, Max's former colleague, Patrice Logan, requests his help. It's a perfect closed-circle murder: Margot must have been killed by one of the actors, stylists, scriptwriters, or second-tier royalty aboard the yacht. Patrice suspects the yacht's owner, a playboy film director she's been keeping tabs on for smuggling, but Max isn't so sure.

Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max's training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play.

Though a few years past 60, Sarah Kelling's aunt Emma is as vigorous as a girl of 22. She sings, she dances, and when the local fire department needs a fundraising boost, she's happy to jump out a window for charity. This summer, she decamps to Maine, to beat the heat at an island retreat for artists and great thinkers. There are writers, painters, a psychic, and a historian, and their company promises to be great fun - until a few of them go treasure-crazy.

If she weren't so fabulous, the Countess Lydia Ouspenska might be considered a gangster's moll. The last time she met Max Bittersohn, Boston's famed art-fraud investigator, she was forging minute Byzantine masterpieces to make ends meet. But when Max bumps into her on the Common, the Countess is back on her feet. She has taken up with Bartolo Arbalest, a master forger currently masquerading as an art restorer. And as Bittersohn knows all too well, even the most genteel fraudster cannot be trusted.

Like many old New England families, the Kellings live to die. Although their family vault is spacious and comfortable, it will not do for Sarah Kelling's great-uncle Frederick. In his will, he demands to be buried inside the ancient family tomb at Boston Common, which hasn't admitted a new member in more than a century. But when the Kellings crack the old vault's door, they find a recently built brick wall - and behind it lays a surprisingly fresh corpse, a skeleton with rubies in its teeth.

Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max Bittersohn, have made names for themselves tracking down stolen paintings, sculptures, and, when necessary, the occasional murderer. But this is the first time they have been asked to find a missing Rolls Royce. When Bill Billingsgate's prize 1927 New Phantom disappears, they head for his estate on the Massachusetts coast, arriving - to their horror - just in time for Billingsgate's annual Renaissance fair.

Boston and its suburbs are stuffed with Kellings, and the city is about to get one more. Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max Bittersohn - a pair of amateur sleuths equally at home in back alleys as they are at black-tie balls - are about to have a baby. And if the child takes after his parents, he will be one of the cleverest infants in New England. But while Sarah is a month away from giving birth, she cannot let pregnancy slow her down - she has a murder to solve.

Ein neuer Fall für Pressefotograf Bronski - und die Fortsetzung der spektakulären Krimireihe von Bernhard Aichner. Frühling der Wunder. Deutschland erlebt das Unfassbare. Ein Blinder kann plötzlich wieder sehen, ein Terroranschlag wird verhindert, und eine Prophezeiung erschüttert das ganze Land. Verantwortlich dafür ist ein Mann, der aus dem Nichts kam. Ein Mönch, unscheinbar und bescheiden, das Volk glaubt an einen neuen Messias. Nur David Bronski und seine Kollegin Svenja Spielmann zweifeln.