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In exchange for help escaping her long and wrongful imprisonment, embittered magical healer Blackthorn has vowed to set aside her bid for vengeance against the man who destroyed all that she once held dear. Followed by a former prison mate, a silent hulk of a man named Grim, she travels north to Dalriada. There she'll live on the fringe of a mysterious forest, duty bound for seven years to assist anyone who asks for her help. Oran, crown prince of Dalriada, has waited anxiously for the arrival of his future bride, Lady Flidais.

The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool. But after the crash of '29, when Lois and Judith's father killed himself to escape his debts, the family turned the summer home into a fulltime retreat from the world. Decades later, Judith is the queen of New York society, a fast-living beauty whose nerves are beginning to fray, while Lois still lives in the dilapidated old mansion, writing mystery novels to pay the bills. She is about to encounter a mystery of her own.

Winter storms lash the Isles of Scilly when DI Ben Kitto ferries the islands' priest to St Helen's. Father Michael intends to live as a pilgrim in the ruins of an ancient church on the uninhabited island, but an ugly secret is buried among the rocks. Digging frantically in the sand, Ben's dog, Shadow, unearths the emaciated remains of a young woman. Soon Scilly is cut off by bad weather, with no help available from the mainland. Ben must look beyond the islands to find a vicious killer.

When master sleuth Lord Edgington is called to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s wife at a beauty spot in the countryside, things go badly from the outset. A bloody and abandoned car hints at a dark fate for the missing woman, and when her husband forbids the detectives from entering his property, there is only one conclusion to draw.

The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley. Parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb, she must outwit a shadowy evildoer, a questionable antiquities dealer, and her loquacious son, Ramses.

A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. The character that made Bailey’s name is the medically trained detective Reggie Fortune, and he’s at his best in this short story investigating a murder and the disappearance of a nurse at a mysterious stately home.

On a balmy, late summer morning in Hilden Heights, Hattie Baker is found dead in her pool, and she wasn’t the first. A socialite and successful business owner, Hattie was an excellent swimmer. Even so, her death was ruled an accident. Her boyfriend, Mason Willis, however, doesn’t believe it was an accident. He thinks she was murdered and goes to Harry Starke for help. Thus begins an investigation that almost costs Harry his life.

England, 1617 Susanna Cobbett, teenage daughter of a powerful Worcester landowner, is found dead in a gloomy woodland pond which has an evil reputation as the Witching Pool. The girl is said to have drowned herself, driven to madness by a local widow named Agnes Mason, who is arrested on a charge of witchcraft. If found guilty, she will hang at the next Assizes. But Justice Belstrang, shrewd ex-magistrate and sceptic, does not believe a word of it. And when Agnes's family beg him to help, he finds himself caught up in an ever-darkening mystery.

A ghost is haunting the little Hertfordshire village of Cheriton.... In this fun short story, we meet quirky Detective Quentin Drex and his novel robot assistant as he investigates whether the legend of the Silver Bride is behind recent deaths at Cheriton Hall.

Although the Stock Market had crashed recently, it was too early for most people to predict that the Great Depression was about to get underway. For 39-year-old spinster schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers, it’s business as usual. And part of her usual business is taking her class for an outing to the aquarium to see the penguins. Instead, she spots the floating corpse of Wall Street broker Gerald Lester and quickly realizes that Inspector Oscar Piper of NYPD Homicide isn’t up to solving this tricky case.

Anna genießt den Sommer in der Toskana. Nur der Pool im Garten liegt noch immer in seinem Dornröschenschlaf. Doch als Anna die Renovierung des alten Schwimmbeckens in Angriff nehmen will, macht sie eine furchtbare Entdeckung: Unter dem Pool liegt das Skelett eines Mannes! Wer ist der Tote? Und wie ist seine Leiche in den Garten von Annas Großeltern gekommen? War es Mord? Obwohl Commissario Martinelli alles versucht, um Anna aus den Ermittlungen herauszuhalten, verfolgt sie schon bald eine erste heiße Spur.

Männlich, athletisch und mausetot: Im Pool eines Fitnessstudios schwimmt eine Leiche im Tanga. Dieser feucht-grausige Fund wirft nicht nur viele Fragen auf, sondern gewährt Kriminalhauptkommissarin Maike Pech auch ungewollt tiefe Einblicke in das horizontale Filmgewerbe. Ganz schön schmuddelig geht es in diesem fünften Fall von Pech & Schwäfel zu - brillant gesprochen von Comedy-Star Mirja Boes.

Kriminalhauptkommissar Markus Fischer hat die Nase voll: geschieden, ausgebrannt und einfach durch mit dem Job. Doch dann meint es das Schicksal gut mit ihm - und beschert ihm auf Gran Canaria einen millionenschweren Lottogewinn! Fischer kündigt und will fortan in einer idyllischen Bungalowanlage dem süßen Nichtstun frönen. Doch die Entspannung findet ein jähes Ende, als eines Morgens ein Toter mit einem mysteriösen Metallstück in der Brust im Pool treibt.