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Sandro Vasiliadis, a nurse at the Whidbey Island General Hospital, has died of an apparent heroin overdose. When his grieving mother bends over to kiss her son's corpse at the viewing, she shrieks, "That's not Sandro!" Convinced that her son must still be alive, Maria Vasiliadis hires Kyra Rachel and Noel Franklin to solve the mystery. With questions of foul play continuing to swirl around the death, the detectives' inquiries lead them deeper into Sandro's life and eventually to a medical clinic that specializes in transgendering.

The second in the Islands Investigations International Mystery series, Always Kiss the Corpse takes Kyra and Noel's investigation from the rush of Seattle to the seeming peace of the San Juan Islands in this thrilling pause-resistor. It's only once the detectives come to understand Sandro in life that they unlock the secret to his death.

The Islands Investigations International team is back! This time, Kyra Rachel and Noel Franklin are sleuthing around Quadra Island in the employ of Noel's old high school buddy, Jason Cooper. In a quiet wooded area of the island, Jason, his wife and two younger boys are worried for the oldest son in the family. Derek was discovered badly beaten in the woods by Campbell River and has remained in a deep coma for three weeks. Desperate to find out what happened to his son and why, Jason hires Noel and Kyra.

Hours after rejecting the Corrowa People’s native title claim on Brisbane’s Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead. Aboriginal people were once prohibited from entering Brisbane’s city limits at night, and Meston Park stood on the boundary. The Corrowa’s matriarch, Ethel Cobb, is convinced the murders are the work of an ancient assassin who has returned to destroy the boundary, but Aboriginal lawyer Miranda Eversely isn't so sure.

After dallying with sexy vampires and ingeniously reinterpreting the Dracula legend (Insatiable, Overbite), #1 New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot is ready to rock ’n’ roll once more with Heather Wells. The un-petite assistant New York City college dorm director and sometime sleuth is back...

Il suo nome è Sandy. Forse la conoscete come l'amorevole moglie del detective sovrintendente Roy Grace. Ma in lei c'è molto di più di quanto sembri: una donna con un passato oscuro, un presente complicato e un futuro incerto. Fino al giorno della sua scomparsa. La sua sparizione ha messo in moto una ricerca a livello nazionale ma senza alcun risultato, così tutti si sono convinti che sia morta. Dove è finita Sandy? E perché è scappata? Cosa può spingere una donna a lasciarsi ogni cosa alle spalle e svanire nel nulla?

“The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun."" —Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night THEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS. Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their...

Private eye Travis McGee outwaits and outwits a deranged killer as he searches for a missing wife on a remote Caribbean island, where he also tangles with a baby-faced businessman with a taste for murder.

Wie du mir, so ich dir. Ein Mann wird tot aufgefunden. Er wurde brutal gefoltert, und auf seiner Stirn prangt der rote Lippenstiftabdruck eines Kusses. Kommissarin Tanja Müller soll sich dem Fall der Todesküsserin annehmen, der sie schnell an die Grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit bringt. Denn ins Visier der Medien gerät ausgerechnet ihre beste Freundin, und weitere Morde folgen. Hat die psychisch kranke Emma tatsächlich etwas mit den grausamen Taten zu tun? Plötzlich steht Tanja vor einer tödlichen Entscheidung.

Du hast die Wahl in fünf... vier... drei... zwei... eins... Die Influencerin Sabine fährt ihr Leben an die Wand und will den Tragödien, die ihre Freunde Emma, Tanja und John erleben, entkommen. Sie will atmen, ankommen, sich finden... Als sie zu einem spontanen Wandertrip aufbricht, wird sie entführt. Sabine findet sich in einem Lost Place wieder, wo sich Martha, eine alte Dame, um sie kümmert. Wieso trägt sie Dessous? Was wollen die Menschen von ihr? Kann sie fliehen, bevor sie es herausfindet?

Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with ""rebound beau,"" vigorous vegan math...

Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it too, but this time her cake just might be cooked.Her wedding cake, that is. With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. And when a pretty junior turns up dead, Heather's sure things can't...

Twenty-five years ago, a body was discovered in the Turney family barn—and the locals were all too ready to believe that killing blood ran through Turney veins. Every member of the family came under suspicion, their reputations crumbled to pieces, and with no convictions, no one has ever been cleared. Daughter Jill, now a Chicago lawyer, is ready for this case to be solved and for her broken family to be repaired at last.

Every small town has one unsolved case that haunts its memory, festering for generations below the surface. Over sixty years ago, Daisy Doe was murdered and discarded outside Pineville, Alabama, buried without a name or anyone to mourn her loss. When Star Cavanaugh's father tried to solve the case, he too was killed. Now a cold-case detective with resources of her own, Star is determined to get to the bottom of both crimes. But to do so, she’ll have to face an entire town locked in corruption, racism, silence, and fear—and the same dangerous killer who took two other lives.

As Aerieville, Tennessee’s Flower House finally gains in popularity, Sierra Ravenswood finds herself feeling ready for new challenges. Luckily, the shop has grabbed the attention of the mayor’s daughter, and bride-to-be, Marissa Lakely. Sierra is thrilled, and nervous, to land her most important job yet: providing flowers for the biggest wedding Aerieville has ever seen. Everything seems to be under control until Sierra makes a startling discovery: the wedding planner, lying in a heap at the bottom of the stairs. He survives only long enough to mutter: “It was the snake.”

Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family business—a private investigation firm—by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, despite the rest of the clan’s misgivings.

Delta Douglas is settling into small-town life in Tundish, Montana, and her stationery shop is thriving. But when Delta asks well-known Montana artist Tilly Tay to display a miniature version of a mining town in her shop, Wanted, trouble soon comes into the fold. Tilly is obsessed with getting everything just right before the unveiling, but when her grand reveal showcases a tiny murder, an element Tilly swears she did not add, confusion sweeps the crowd. That's when a body is discovered perfectly mirroring Tilly's display.

The scissors are sharpened and the cardstock stacked for Delta Douglas' latest workshop: a 3D cardmaking event at socialite Lena Laroy's birthday extravaganza. As co-owner of Wanted, the local stationery shop, Delta is ready to wow her guests with her one-of-a-kind crafts. But at this party, paper isn't the only thing bent out of shape. When a threatening present is unwrapped and the guest of honor's sister-in-law is discovered dead by the trees, Delta realizes another killer is loose in her small town.

In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas, and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver. When Annie's search turns up a different victim—shot dead, not drowned—Annie questions if the hero they seek is actually a killer.

Es sollte ein reiner Entspannungsurlaub werden. Die mythologische Parabiologin Karla Lorenz hatte beschlossen, bei einem Selbstfindungstrip zum Moor Windeby wieder zu sich zu finden und zur Ruhe zu kommen. Ihre lebensgefährlichen Abenteuer hatten an ihren Nerven gezehrt. Eine Reise in die Natur versprach der leidenschaftlichen Biologin die maximale Entspannung. Das Moor und die charakteristische Nebellandschaft strahlten auf sie von jeher Ruhe und Frieden aus. Konnte es etwas Schöneres geben, als ganz allein durch dieses schöne Stück Natur zu wandern? Aber war sie wirklich allein?