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Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can't stand the thought of handling another death investigation. That's until his niece's body is found in the property of one of the city's wealthiest citizens. The coroner calls it an overdose, but the case doesn't add up. Against orders, Ash launches an investigation to find his niece's murderer.

After the death of her husband, Liz McLuckie has taken early retirement and moved to Whitby, a picturesque fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast. She thinks the renovation of two ramshackle fishing cottages will take her mind off things, but she soon discovers Whitby isn’t quite the peaceful retreat she imagined. When she discovers the body of a local Professor near the medieval Abbey, Liz reluctantly finds herself at the center of a murder investigation. The post mortem reveals death by drowning. So how did he get onto the clifftop? And why did he have a fish in his pocket?

Winter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing left. Her mother is dead, she has no prospects and she cannot afford the rent. But as she goes through her mother's things, Sam finds a stack of hidden letters that reveal a family and an inheritance that she never knew she had, three thousand miles away in Yorkshire. Begars Abbey is a crumbling pile, inhabited only by Sam's crippled grandmother, Lady Cooper, a housekeeper and a handful of servants. Sam cannot understand why her mother kept its very existence a secret.

Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat’s...

It's the 1930s, and a mysterious illness is spreading over Scotland. But the noble and ancient family of Inverkillen, residents of Loch Down Abbey, are much more concerned with dwindling toilet roll supplies and who will look after the children now that Nanny has regretfully (and most inconveniently) departed this life. Then Lord Inverkillen, earl and head of the family, is found dead in mysterious circumstances. The inspector declares it an accident but Mrs MacBain, the head housekeeper, isn't so convinced. 

It's 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister's arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan's cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come under surveillance by the murdered cop's partner and are caught in a tangle of buried family memories.

Does something wicked lurk within the ancient walls of Studborne Abbey? Find out in this Historical Romance duology! 'The Lady's Guide to Deception and Desire' Are the Duke of Studborne's motives for courting Rosamund all they seem? She must uncover the truth, and only one person in the abbey...

1956: In a quiet English village, the smoldering ruins of Rosemont Abbey have set the residents’ tongues wagging, and everyone is quick to accuse troublemaker Paul Everly of the crime of arson. Paul has vanished without a trace, leaving only his plucky twin sister, Louisa, certain of his innocence. Fueling her conviction is an inexplicable connection—she felt her twin’s death an hour before the abbey went up in flames.

Rebecca Lane regresa a su pueblo preocupada por su hermano. Este parece ver fantasmas, como si estuviera perdiendo la razón. Cuando llega, este le pide que se quede con él en Swanford Abbey, un lujoso hotel que en tiempos fue una abadía medieval, un lugar del que la gente dice que está...

On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened.

In the Highlands in the late 1950s, much of the local newspaper’s success was due to Mrs. Smart, the no-nonsense office manager who kept everything and everyone in line. Her murder leaves her colleagues in shock and the Highland Gazette office in chaos.

The Brand NEW instalment in the bestselling Exham-on-Sea series.An unsolved murder echoes down the corridors of Cleeve Abbey for years. The Exham-on-Sea’s History Society's annual summer picnic comes to an abrupt end when human bones are discovered in Washford River, beside historic Cleeve...

Emma's spirits are elevated after she and husband George Knightley host a joyful holiday celebration at the Hartfield estate. But it's instantly a bitter January when her father makes an unexpected announcement—he and Miss Hetty Bates have decided to marry. Not only must Emma relinquish her role as mistress of the household, but also accept the reality that the excitable Miss Bates will become her stepmother . . .

Halloween, 1899. A satanic aristocrat, a missing village girl, and a fire that scorches Black Abbey Towers into legend. Present day. The haunted abbey has been requisitioned as a film set and the cast is dying to be involved. Retired NCA advisor-turned-hitwoman Dottie Barker is posing as a stunt expert while secretly bumping off local criminals, vigilante style. The "Quirky Quintet" - four fearless WI ladies and their eccentric plus-one - have been cast as extras, but their talent for stumbling into murder investigations proves harder to contain than their cackling.

Abbey Grange (The Abbey Grange) erschien erstmals 1904 im Strand Magazine und wurde 1905 mit 12 anderen Fällen in Die Rückkehr des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht. Handlungszeitpunkt: Januar 1897: Ein tyrannischer Adliger wurde brutal ermordet, scheinbar von einer in der Gegend tätigen Einbrecherbande. Aufgrund einiger unstimmiger Details bezweifelt Sherlock Holmes diese Theorie und die vorliegenden Zeugenaussagen.

Abbey Grange (The Abbey Grange) erschien erstmals 1904 im Strand Magazine und wurde 1905 mit 12 anderen Fällen in Die Rückkehr des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht. Handlungszeitpunkt: Januar 1897: Ein tyrannischer Adliger wurde brutal ermordet, scheinbar von einer in der Gegend tätigen Einbrecherbande. Aufgrund einiger unstimmiger Details bezweifelt Sherlock Holmes diese Theorie und die vorliegenden Zeugenaussagen.

Handlungszeitpunkt: Januar 1897: Ein tyrannischer Adliger wurde brutal ermordet, scheinbar von einer in der Gegend tätigen Einbrecherbande. Aufgrund einiger unstimmiger Details bezweifelt Sherlock Holmes diese Theorie und die vorliegenden Zeugenaussagen. Nachdem er den Täter aufgespürt und herausgefunden hat, warum die Zeugen ihn decken, zeigt er Verständnis für die Gründe der Tat und verzichtet vorläufig darauf, die offiziellen Ermittler der Polizei auf die richtige Spur zu führen...

La tenuta di Loch Down Abbey, dimora della famiglia Ogilvy-Sinclair per seicento anni e ora trasformata in un hotel di lusso, è in fermento: è in programma un sontuoso ballo e ogni angolo dell'albergo è pieno di ospiti ben vestiti, sorrisi falsi e drammi pronti a esplodere come tappi di champagne. Ma il mattino dopo, tra i resti di una festa eccessivamente animata, una persona viene trovata morta in biblioteca.

Scozia, anni Trenta. Una misteriosa epidemia si sta diffondendo in tutto il paese, ma il nobile casato degli Inverkillen, residente a Loch Down Abbey, è molto più preoccupato dell'esaurimento delle scorte di carta igienica e di chi baderà ai bambini, ora che la Tata ha purtroppo lasciato questa vita, causando non pochi disagi.

Derbyshire, December 1861. Haunted by the events of the summer, Samantha Kingston has found her retreat to the country less restful than she hoped. When a house party reintroduces V. T. Wyatt into her life after a three-month absence, she has mixed feelings. It doesn't help that they must keep their distance to stop the gossip mill running. But when Samantha stumbles across the body of someone she recognizes and in whose death she fears she may have played a part, keeping their distance becomes impossible.

Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben. Als der Detektiv 1887 erstmals in einer längeren Geschichte auftauchte, konnte niemand ahnen, welches glorreiche Schicksal ihm beschieden war.