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When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery.

Kriminelle Seniorinnen, ein singender Tom und ein merkwürdig zugeknöpfter Finley bereiten Maisie Kopfzerbrechen im sechsten Teil der Cosy-Crime-Reihe Maisie, Mord und Meer von Fiona Wilder. Die Polizei von Littleport - ein Thema für sich. Das weiß Maisie selbst am besten. Doch nun wird auch noch einer 79-Jährigen vorgeworfen, im Internet Drogen zu verkaufen. Die Seniorin bittet Maisie um Hilfe. Bevor diese aber etwas herausfinden kann, wird die Dame kaltblütig ermordet - mit der Waffe einer 99-Jährigen!

Brought to you by Penguin. The twenty-sixth thrilling novel in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series. Beautiful young women are disappearing by the dozen. A celebration is cut short when a concerned father crashes Detective Inspector Lindsay Boxer’s party. His daughter is missing...

Die Wohltäter nennen sich "The Merry Men" und verteilen üppige Geldgeschenke an bedürftige Senioren in Littleport. Ein wundervoller Akt der Nächstenliebe, allerdings scheint das Geld aus illegalen Quellen zu stammen. Denn in letzter Zeit jagt eine äußerst geschickte Bande Geldautomaten mit Propangas in die Luft. Maisie ist sich sicher: Es gibt einen Zusammenhang. Doch ob beim Women’s Club oder den Little Shanty Singers – überall stößt die neugierige Detektivin auf Schweigen. Hat sich ganz Littleport gegen Maisie verschworen?

Ein gruseliger Fund, ein Mord aus Eifersucht und ein schockierender Verdacht: Maggie Mirren ermittelt im sechsten Fall der Cosy-Crime-Reihe von Harriet Mansfield, gesprochen von Cornelia Meinhardt. Maggie Mirren organisiert mit Olivers Hilfe eine Schnitzeljagd für ihre Enkelin Minette. Doch bei der Vorbereitung macht sie eine schaurige Entdeckung. In einer Ruine liegen Knochen - menschliche Knochen. Sie erinnern Maggie an einen spektakulären Mordfall: Vor zwanzig Jahren erschoss Felix "the Finger" aus Eifersucht seine Freundin Camilla. Kurz darauf verschwand Camillas Liebhaber Oswald spurlos.

Mabel doesn't know a stinkin' thing about garlic farming. She knows how to develop an app and how to code. But when her aunt, Peggy Skinner, dies suddenly, Mabel inherits her Stinkin' Stuff Farm in Western Massachusetts. She arrives during peak harvest time - with three days to bring in the entire crop before rain can destroy it. But Mabel has an even bigger problem: She suspects her aunt's "accidental death" was murder. 

Richard Ainsworth moved to rural France to escape, so being voted mayor of the small town of Saint-Sauver comes as a terrible shock. Fortunately bureaucracy has its benefits and he is shipped off to a health spa to recuperate. The Esprit de l'Air is a world-famous venue on an island fort off the west coast of France, and was chosen specifically by his business partner and bounty hunter of international repute, Valérie d'Orçay. Richard should have been prepared then.

In a triumph for Mia's catering business and cooking school, Mia's Morsels is chosen to host a fall festival event in their Idaho mountain town-which means managing a bunch of stage moms and their social-media obsessed daughters as they get ready for the big beauty contest. There's a lot riding on the results of the Harvest Moon Festival-it's where the local coven leader is chosen for the following year.

China Bohannon, 1890s bookkeeper turned sleuth, is branching out…. Although still working with her uncle's detective agency, Doyle & Howe Investigations, she's almost given up on becoming a partner and is turning to providing security services, something her uncle, Montgomery Howe, and his partner, Gratton Doyle, aren't interested in.

Marta Escudero se enfrenta a un misterio que desafía toda lógica cuando varios cadáveres son descubiertos en una cueva marina. Las inscripciones en latín y las extrañas poses de las víctimas sugieren un oscuro ritual olvidado.

Brought to you by Penguin. A ghostwriter is locked in an interview room with a man who might be a murderer, in this gripping new mystery thriller from the #1 bestselling author of 56 Days and The Trap. The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their...

Dawn Cross sits motionless in her recliner, her eyes staring sightlessly at the television screen. Death is no stranger to Silver Fern House…but when Detective Lauren Pengelly arrives at the scene, it’s clear she’s got a cold-blooded murder on her hands.

'Tis the season for mince pies, mulled wine... and murder! A dead body. A locked Christmas stall with no way in or out. A cunning killer who's gone before the tea's gone cold. Christmas in Southbourne should be all twinkly lights and festive cheer, but Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue—the retired...

July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing - and the duo find themselves with a hysterical hotel manager and a case to solve. The first to disappear is Dr Goddard, a scientist doing something terribly top-secret for the government.

Tiene 36 horas. Si sigue las instrucciones, nadie saldrá herido… Cuando la periodista Tracy Frost despierta a la inspectora Kim Stone de madrugada con un mensaje urgente, a Kim no le hace ninguna gracia. Pero, al leer la nota que ha recibido la periodista, se le hiela la sangre. Tiene 36 horas para seguir el rastro marcado por un adversario anónimo. Si falla, habrá muertos. Su instinto le dice que no es una broma y reúne a su equipo, determinada a hacer todo lo posible para evitar lo que se avecina.

Ein verheerendes Feuer wütet in einem Gulfhaus im ostfriesischen Neermoor. Die Einsatzkräfte machen einen schockierenden Fund: eine stark verbrannte Leiche wird aus den Flammen geborgen. Die wenigen Zeugen, bulgarische Handwerker, verschwinden hastig vom Schauplatz; die Identität des Opfers bleibt unklar. Der stark beschädigte Tatort erschwert die Ermittlungen zusätzlich, zumal ein schlecht belichtetes Foto der Auffindesituation den einzigen Anhaltspunkt für Vivien Stein und Tamme Martens darstellt.

Business is going well at Gemma Rose’s quaint English teashop, and she's delighted about her first big catering job at a local village funeral...until the day ends with a second body and one of the Old Biddies accused of murder! Now, the resourceful tearoom sleuth must find out which delicious pudding contained the deadly arsenic - and who might have wanted the wealthy widow dead....

As summer settles over Airlie Falls, Texas, baker Rosie Hart is gearing up for the upcoming Fourth of July celebrations. Orders are coming in fast, but when someone calls in an order for a mud cake, Rosie feels uneasy. After a series of confusing phone calls, she comes to the chilling conclusion that the term mud cake is in fact code for a hit—someone is ordering a murder!

On Manhattan’s East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better. A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn’t seem the type to be on anyone’s hit list. But when Eve and her partner, Peabody, find blood inside the building, the lieutenant knows Marta’s murder was the work of a killer who’s trained, but not professional or smart enough to remove all the evidence.

Darci Hannah presents Book 6 in the Beacon Bakeshop Mystery series.