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Who killed Eric Davenport? A senior mathematics professor at Underhill College has been found dead in his office, the victim of murder. At Underhill, a small liberal arts college with a pricy tuition and a pampered student body, all of the students are close to their professors. But at least one loved Eric Davenport in a deeply inappropriate fashion. Some hated him. And then there is the faculty at war with itself. And the idiotic administration. And the twin boys who live next to campus. And what’s with all those praying mantises?

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a convergence of the whole household at their Oxfordshire home, Ruth—the middle sister—decides to spend some weeks there recovering from the pressures of the writing life. Their next return is heralded by the tragic news that Ruth has taken her life after an evening at the Surrays' hosting a set of publishers and writers, one of whom is named as Ruth's literary executor in the will she left behind.

Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are no strangers to murder. After all, they’ve encountered corpses on their properties before. But this is the first time they’d decided to take a chance on a property where two suspicious deaths have already occurred. Most buildings on the former boarding school property will be repurposed for an upscale retirement community, but the developer has no use for the headmaster’s house given its violent history. The headmaster and his wife were killed there decades earlier, their deaths remaining unsolved to this day.

In ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall stoßen Liesl und ihre Freundin Barbara auf das beneidenswert schöne Hinscheiden der Öder Chorleiterin Magdalena Schamberger. Und als dann prompt noch jemand beim Leichenschmaus der Dahingeschiedenen dahinstirbt, ist für Liesl alles klar. Ganz Öd ist ein einziger Sündenpfuhl, den es auszuheben gilt. Dabei kommt Vergangenes zutage, was die Gegenwart ganz schön zum Wackeln bringt...

La detective policial Sarah Collins investigará la muerte de un policía veterano y una joven inmigrante. La principal testigo, una agente de policía en entrenamiento, ha escapado. Sarah pronto se verá buscando respuestas dentro de su mismo departamento de policía, algo que puede costarle su carrera y mucho más.

A zero tolerance policy results in the death penalty for all crimes, no matter how minor. When a judge is kidnapped, and a ransom note demands the release of all prisoners awaiting execution, kleptomaniac Detective Inspector Kate Swanson is put on the case. But soon her boss also disappears. Under increasing pressure from her superiors, and the growing social unrest, Swanson must race to find a man whose murdered wife and daughter link the missing men. Can she find him before it's too late?

London, 1878. Als die junge Sängerin Pauline Westray in einem Fotoatelier überraschend stirbt, stehen der Fotograf Clarence Fox und seine Ehefrau Mabel vor einem Rätsel - war die Praline, die sie kurz vor ihrem Tod aß, vergiftet? Während die Polizei keine Erklärung für den Tod finden kann und den Fall bald als natürlichen Tod zu den Akten legt, kann Mabel, die die junge Frau kannte, das nicht glauben. Mabel und Clarence beginnen, weitere Nachforschungen anzustellen. Schon bald stoßen sie auf mehr als nur einen Verdächtigen aus Miss Westrays Umfeld.

Sugar Creek Gap is a Southern small town where everyone puts their differences aside in order to come together for the greater good of the cozy, close-knit community. But when a citizen, Jeff Faulkner, goes missing from the annual Sugar Creek Gap High School fundraiser, the rumor mill starts to turn faster and faster, churning up the past. Bernadette Butler, a local mail carrier, hears all the gossip swirling around while delivering the mail on route. Bernie can't help but collect clues with all the gossip flowing faster than she can deliver the mail.

The over 800 radio broadcasts summarized in this book combine exciting, high-technology advancements of the 1940s with high adventure! This is why Captain Midnight riveted over 20 million people - equally among youths and adults - to their radios around the globe. It's also why many fans went on to become career aviators. Originally written by military pilot Robert M. Burtt, and recovered by screenwriter and novelist Leonard Zane, these post-WWII thrills are back! So come climb aboard prop and jet planes, and haaaapppyyy laaandiiiings!

The story follows the exploits of three desperate escaped convicts. They rob banks and have a string of successes. They buy guns, nice clothes, and fast cars and read about themselves in the newspapers. Bowie, the central figure of the three thieves, had been serving time for a murder he committed when only 16. Bowie falls in love with Keechie, the cousin of one of his partners, and she joins him on the run.

Dopo un gravissimo incidente il pilota Jerry Burton decide di trascorrere un periodo di riposo a Lymstok, un piccolo paese nel quale la vita scorre fin troppo monotona, insieme all'esuberante sorella Joanna. Presto però la vita dei due, come quella di molti altri abitanti del villaggio, viene stravolta da una serie di lettere anonime. Queste strane missive all'inizio sembrano più assurde che nocive ma, alla fine, provocano ben due morti. Chi, fra gli irreprensibili abitanti della piccola comunità, è il responsabile?

Questo autore di thriller racconta di un'investigatrice che, non contenta di rispondere alla piccola posta di una rivista femminile, entra in contatto con la malavita londinese, forse spinta da motivi sentimentali. Ma non aspettatevi un romanzetto giallorosa, anche se potreste essere ingannati dal tono brillante: il noir è in agguato dietro ad ogni strada, come può capitare a Londra.