Showing results for "The Craft" in Crime Fiction

Enjoy this perfect pair of quirky crime dramas featuring art theft, forgery, murder and double-dealing. Craft, tells the story of failed artist, Adam Bax. He is amazed when one of his paintings sells for a large sum, unexpectedly giving him overnight fame. Though still deeply disillusioned with the world of art, he embarks on a little nefarious money-making scheme, aided and abetted by his estranged wife, Tessa. Cashing-in in a way you wouldn’t quite imagine this comedy drama follows the twists and turns of the over-inflated underworld of the British art scene.

Wild swimming in February? No, thank you. It sounds like torture to Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue, the retired ladies behind the counter at Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. Still, no one ever died of plunging into the icy waters around the sleepy little English town of Southbourne. Until now. The body of Colin Barclay, retired PE master and wild-swimming fanatic, washes up in a secluded cove. Days later, a shifty new customer comes calling at Dogs Need Nice Homes. "Is this where you solve murders?" she asks, her eyes darting wildly round the shelves of bric-a-brac.

A spectacular, voice-driven mystery from a highly acclaimed crime writer. How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you're guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, Scotland. The locals put her age at somewhere between 55 and 70. They think she's divorced or a lifelong spinster; that she...

Amber thought she had troubles before her grandma was arrested for murder… Former PI-in-training Amber Winslow has decided to flee her life in the dead of night, carrying nothing but the clothes on her back. Down on her luck and with no other choice, she heads to the sunny state of Arizona to...

An epidemic of teenage suicides leaves a rural community grieving—and the death toll keeps rising. Can Kiki go undercover as an art teacher at a local high school to help? To clear her calendar, Kiki must juggle multiple obligations and make a tough decision: Can she trust her in-laws (including her alcoholic mother-in-law) to take an out-of-state vacation with her kids? To make everything work, Kiki must move in with her OTHER mother-in-law and that's enough to make Kiki want to commit suicide. Once in place, Kiki suspects these are not just copycat deaths. There's another dynamic at work.

Fünf Hobby-Detektive. Eine strickbegeisterte Oma. Ein gefährliches Exportgeschäft. Amsterdam ist ein teures Pflaster. Findet auch Kaatje Hommel. Die alte Dame bessert ihre Rente mit dem Verkauf selbst gestrickter Mützen auf. Das läuft wunderbar, bis ihr ein angesehener Unternehmer das Geschäft kaputt machen will. Kurz darauf ist der Mann tot. Arie, Maddie, Jack, Jan und Elin ermitteln und finden bald heraus, dass hinter dem großen Vermögen des Toten ein mindestens ebenso großes Verbrechen steckt.

Eine Reihe von Raubüberfällen, eine Leiche und ein Rätsel, das unlösbar scheint: Der spannende zweite Teil der Cosy-Crime-Reihe um den kleinen Antiquitätenladen. Henriettas gemütliches Antiquitätengeschäft in Hearts Grove bereitet sich auf die Hauptsaison vor. Doch ausgerechnet kurz vor der geschäftigsten Zeit des Jahres wird ihr beschaulicher Laden von einer Reihe Raubüberfällen heimgesucht. Plötzlich wird nicht nur die Herkunft einiger ihrer wertvollen Schätze infrage gestellt, sondern auch noch ihre Geduld auf die Probe.