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When a panicked stranger shows up at Charm and Cherish, Becca Colwin feels compelled to help. But when that stranger then disappears, leaving behind her heirloom violin, the aspiring witch detective is drawn further into a web of deceit and intrigue complicated by a history only her three magical cats truly understand.

In this delightfully witty historical rom-com, a scandalous mystery and an opposites-attract romance combine—perfect for fans Enola Holmes and Bridgerton! Georgina Harrington should never have trusted her feckless cousin Percy with her most precious archaeological discovery. But no one would...

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Chase is the police pup of the Paw Patrol! He has finished his time as a police pup and begins his life as a private detective! Join Chase as he investigates crimes across adventure Bay and works with the Adventure Bay police to arrest the worst of the worst criminals across adventure Bay!

The 1857 murder of Harvey Burdell shook the nation. Since then, it has spawned true crime books, scholarly essays, podcasts, and novels. Yet, one of the perhaps most famous chroniclers of the case has been forgotten: Walt Whitman. Follow a team of university researchers as they recover the Good Gray Poet's lost reporting on the case and unearth what the author of Leaves of Grass had to say about New York City's most notorious murder trial.

When three late-Victorian gentlemen escape from their claustrophobic suburban life to go on a cycling tour in the Black Forest of Germany, their trip turns into a comic expedition.

Paris, 1928: Agatha Christie and fellow writer Dorothy L Sayers board the Orient Express, bound for Constantinople. Christie in particular is looking forward to a break from recent dispiriting events in both her work and private life – the finalisation of her divorce from her philanderous husband Archie, and the miserly reception of her latest book.

Join Private Investigators Lee Danker and Cory Spondent as they go around the world and solve the toughest cases. A comedic look into wacky cases private investigators get, this show is sure to have your stomach hurting and tears in your eyes from all the laughter!

Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest. Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation. Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide—a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows her gut. Harry trusts in facts. They’re both desperate to catch a killer before he kills again.

All they want for Christmas is you . . . 'This should be on every crime reader’s Christmas wish list’ CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of We Begin at the End *THIS WINTER'S MOST CHILLING KINDLE TOP 20 AND AUDIBLE TOP 10 BESTSELLER* * In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom...

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In this gripping standalone novel from USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble, a wealthy hotel heiress goes to Jekyll Island certain her friend's death wasn't an accident--and gets more than she bargained for when the killer begins to play mind games with her. Even though...

This collection offers three novels of adventure and suspense from Patricia Wentworth, each with its own plucky and independent young heroine. First, Jane Smith is incognito at stately Luttrell Marches, in the middle of a mystery of secret formulae, political plots, and secret passages. Then, Sally Meredith is entrusted with the red lacquer case containing the formula for her uncle’s new and deadly gas, and is soon in the clutches of sinister foreign agents.

Può un romanzo mandare in pezzi un'intera famiglia? Quando Marco, un giovane sceneggiatore, decide di raccontare in un libro la storia della sua famiglia, non immagina le conseguenze che quelle pagine avranno sui suoi affetti più cari. Ordinando i ricordi della madre e dello zio, Marco insegue i fili della famiglia Grimaldi attraverso una lunga e irrisolta rivalità, quella tra il nonno Emanuele, "fascista antropologico" nato alla vigilia della marcia su Roma, e suo fratello Raimondo, "comunista granitico", classe 1917 come la Rivoluzione bolscevica.

Valencia 1854: Casta More, la esposa de un diputado nacional, cacique de Almería, es encerrada por su esposo en la Casa de las Desamparadas de Valencia, dirigida por las singular Madre Micaela, una mujer de alta cuna decidida a sacar de la calle a las mujeres de mal vivir, enseñándoles un oficio. Nadie, ni siquiera la propia Casta, sabe qué motivos ha tenido realmente su marido para enviarla allí.

Un detective privado, un martillero público y el dueño de una pujante universidad se ven enfrentados a la fatalidad por los celos, las desconfianzas y las dobles vidas que esconden, pero también por la codicia que quiso imponerse como ética durante los últimos años de la dictadura y la década de los noventa en Chile.

Il 14 dicembre 1994 non è un mercoledì come tutti gli altri a Peckham Rye, nel sud di Londra. Diana Lloyd giace ai piedi delle scale della sua antica villetta a schiera in stile georgiano. Qualcuno l’ha spinta giù dal terzo piano, prendendola alle spalle. La pioggia batte incessante sui vetri e Diana ha la vista oscurata, riesce solo a sentire il bisbigliare confuso dei suoi inquilini. L’anziana proprietaria non voleva che quella bizzarra famiglia piena di debiti entrasse in casa sua, ma non si possono scegliere gli inquilini in quella parte della città. La casa di Rye Lane allontana tutti.

Sozinha no mundo, Eleanor fica encantada ao receber uma carta do dr. Montague convidando-a para passar um tempo na Casa da Colina, um local conhecido por suas manifestações fantasmagóricas. O mesmo convite é feito a Theodora, uma alma artística e sensitiva, e a Luke, o herdeiro da mansão. Porém, o que começa como uma exploração bem-humorada de um mito inocente se transforma em uma viagem para os piores pesadelos de seus hóspedes. Com o tempo, fica cada vez mais claro que a sanidade — e a vida — de todos está em risco.

DS Charlie Woodend has a murder to solve. Trouble is, nobody seems to want him to solve it. Not Eddie, a Liverpudlian thug sent to threaten him; not DCI Bentley; not Deputy Commissioner Naylor, whose word is law in Scotland Yard; not even the dead girl's mother herself. But Woodend cares. He will find the murderer, he promises himself, even if that means putting his career and perhaps even his own life on the line.