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Suite à une sanction disciplinaire, le capitaine Paul Capitaine, membre de la Cellule-Élysée, est expédié à Quimper, sa ville natale. Il se heurte aussitôt à son supérieur qui lui ordonne de bâcler une enquête sur la mort de squatters dans un incendie… Seulement, Paul Capitaine est breton et, plus on veut lui cacher une vérité, plus il met d'énergie à la révéler ! Ses investigations lui attirent beaucoup d'ennuis et d'inimitiés, mais aussi des soutiens, parfois inattendus.

When the new owner of the Bone Gap Gazette drops dead faster than Aunt Hecate's soufflés, Sage finds herself at the center of yet another murder investigation. With the town buzzing louder than a hive of magical bees, she must use her wit, charm, and occasionally malfunctioning magic to uncover the truth.

After solving her first big murder case in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina, Madeline Maclin hopes at last to be taken seriously as a private investigator. She has opened an office in the home of her best friend, Jerry Fairweather, a man haunted by his past who enjoys running harmless scams. Jerry doesn’t feel worthy of anyone’s love, which is bad news for Madeline.Secretly, Madeline has questions about the accident that killed Jerry’s parents and suspects that Jerry’s sister Harriet knows more.

Freelance writer Emerson Ward is minding his own business one sweltering July day when Larry Forrester shows up at the door of his Chicago brownstone, accuses him of seducing his teenage daughter, Ellen, and tries to kill him. A week later, when Larry's ex-wife tells Emerson that Ellen has gone missing and asks him to find her, Emerson also learns that his girlfriend, Nell, is pregnant. While Nell and Emerson confront the difficult decision of whether or not to keep their baby, Emerson discovers that Ellen may have been facing the same dilemma.

A disgraced former detective walks into a bar and . . . gets funding for a private investigation agency? If it didn't happen to Jazz Callender, she wouldn't believe it either. All she has to do is partner up with a national security risk known as Lucia Garza, accept one-hundred thousand dollars, and take on assignments that seem to have no purpose. Easy-peasy.

Maggie Gerber and those discount divas the Good Buy Girls are gearing up for their first big holiday thrift-shop sale. But one of the Girls - Joanne Claramotta, pregnant with her first child - is acting less than festive. It could be hormones. Or it could be Diane Jenkins, the young knockout her husband Michael hired as his new deli assistant. Calming Joanne’s nerves proves impossible when Maggie finds Michael unconscious on his deli floor - with Diane next to him, strangled to death with her apron strings.

Hollis Brannigan is a personal shopper at a prestigious Los Angeles concierge service, but has her sights set on a position in the company's investigations department. To hone her skills, she takes on discreet investigations for fellow employees. Hollis becomes embroiled in a murder when she walks into one of LA's upscale consignment shops and discovers a young woman on the floor, draped in designer gowns.

Half witch, half killer, wholly unsuccessful at every faery bargain so far...Geneviève Crowe makes her living beheading or resurrecting the dead in near-future New Orleans. After entering an accidental engagement, overcoming attempted murder, and discovering a family secret, Geneviève is ready for things to settle down, but carnival season in New Orleans is not the best time of year for "normal".

Brought to you by Penguin. Don't trust the Liar. Don't go in the River. Do not cross the King. In Red Valley, California, you follow the rules if you want to stay alive. But even that isn't enough to protect Sadie now that she's unexpectedly become the Liar: the keeper and maker of Red Valley's...