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After Mr. Frank "Finance" Michaels loses the family’s financial nest egg in a Ponzi scheme, his wife Maddie does whatever she can to help keep up the appearance that everything is financially fine. When she starts a bargain hunter’s blog under the alias Mrs. Frugalicious, her website becomes a viral hit with a growing "frugarmy" of budget advice seekers.

Kuschelige Andenbewohner, eine fieberhafte Schatzjagd und ein gruseliger Fund: Im 21. Teil der Cosy-Crime-Reihe "Maisie, Mord und Meer" von Fiona Wilder schweißt ein fellsträubendes Abenteuer Maisie und ihre Kollegen fest zusammen. Wandern mit Alpakas auf Englands berühmtestem Küstenpfad – es könnte so romantisch sein. Doch leider hat Oliver die Idee von Finley geklaut und kurzerhand ein Teambuilding-Wochenende bei Audrey Greens Alpakafarm gebucht. Eher lustlos meistert die dreiköpfige Redaktion des Cornwall Weekly die erste Etappe des South West Coast Path.

Applebricks ist verzweifelt: Seit Wochen laufen die Vorbereitungen zu seinem 101. Geburtstag. Sogar die Queen soll kommen! Doch dann verdirbt ein rätselhafter Todesfall den Green Havenern die Feierlaune. Feinde hatte das Opfer genügend, doch gerade Maggie trifft der Verlust schwer - erst recht, als sie plötzlich unter Tatverdacht steht. Während der Podcast-Club nach dem wahren Täter fahndet, tauchen zwei langvermisste Bekannte wieder auf. Und Maggie beweist zum krönenden Abschluss ihrer kriminalistischen Karriere Kombinationsgabe und Schlagfertigkeit.

Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are sweltering in their stuffy basement office on the hottest day of the year when they are handed an impossible case. Fifteen years ago, Imelda Phelps was battered to death in the hallway of her home. The brutal crime shocked the residents of the pretty market town of Chipping Norton. The killer was never caught. The motive for the murder remains a mystery. Could the happily married mother-of-two’s stunning good looks have played a part in her death?

Lady Eleanor Swift’s marriage to dashing Chief Inspector Hugh Seldon is just days away. There’s a lot to organise from the dress to the catering, including, of course, the all-important wedding cake. But Eleanor is heartbroken when their chef, apple-cheeked Annie Tibetts, dies of poisoning. And as the doctor confirms her death wasn’t an accident, accusations fly around the whole community.

The Aspen leaves turn golden, prompting a season of romance to fall over the little Colorado town of Estes Park. As love is professed through precious gems, the local jewelry shop on Elkhorn Avenue experiences a rush of customers—not all of whom have the best of intentions.

Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan have been invited to rural Suffolk to take part in the christening of the newest member of the aristocratic Montcalm family. But on arriving at Dunham Manor, they discover the household in turmoil as the ceremonial dagger used in Montcalm family christenings for generations past, has gone missing. Dorothy and Alan offer their help in locating the ancient heirloom, but when a stranger is murdered in the village—stabbed in the back with an ornate dagger—Sir Edwin Montcalm finds himself the prime suspect in a very puzzling murder.

Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year. They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his rock hammer has disappeared from the Suulutaq Mine in the Park. Was it deliberate? An accident? Foul play? Kate Shugak may be the only person who can find out. But for the fact that Kate, too, is among the missing....

A man is found dead, lying at the bottom of the stairs to his flat, his body blocking the door of the elderly woman who lives downstairs. The worried landlord who finds the body seeks advice from his friend's wife—now Detective Inspector Ariadne Moralis. Something in his demeanour hints at a hidden secret. When it becomes apparent that the body has been moved, it is clear the man's death was not an accident.

Tonya Kappes presents Books 19-21 in the Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery series: Book 19: Wildlife, Warrants, & Weapons, Book 20: Blossoms, Barbeque, & Blackmail, and Book 21: Lanterns, Lakes, & Larceny, featuring sleuthing campground owner in Normal, Kentucky, Mae West....

If you think going home again is hard, try being a plus-sized PI with a troubled family legacy. But Savannah Reid is no shrinking violet. She's ready for her high school reunion, complete with mean girls, ex-beaus - and murder charges.... When Savannah Reid fled McGill, Georgia, all those years ago, everyone figured the chubby girl from the wrong side of tracks wouldn't be back.

Santa Caterina in der Vorweihnachtszeit: Das ganze Dorf ist außer sich, weil es geschneit hat. Ausgerechnet an dem Tag, an dem auf dem Dorfplatz das lebende Krippenspiel vorgeführt wird! Matteo, Isabella und die Schwestern sind in weihnachtlicher Stimmung und genießen das Krippenspiel. Doch dann der Schreck: einer der heiligen drei Könige bricht während der Aufführung zusammen - Mord! Der tote Darsteller war einst Bürgermeister von Santa Caterina - und der aktuelle Bürgermeister, Duccio Lenzi, befürchtet Schlimmes.

For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa, instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.

Auf einer Feier des New Yorker Millionärs Ralph Drake erfährt Irene Adler, dass zurzeit an der Wall Street große Aufregung herrscht. Dem Weltmarkt wird in großen Mengen Gold zugeführt, so dass sich der Goldpreis im freien Fall befindet. Gleichzeitig versucht ein unbekannter Investor, sich in für den Bestand der amerikanischen Wirtschaftsordnung wichtige Firmen einzukaufen. Irene Adler vermutet, dass der Zirkel der Sieben bewusst einen Zusammenbruch der Weltwirtschaft vorbereitet. Doch woher kommt das ganze Gold? Ist es dem Zirkel der Sieben etwa gelungen, den Goldvulkan zu finden?

White Lotus meets The Guest List in international bestselling author S. C. Lalli’s next thrilling novel, where two business moguls were set to be married in the biggest event of the year—until they’re both found murdered the day before the wedding—and a social outsider must unravel the...

May, 1924. It's been months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted . . . and a truly terrible actress. Not that Emma minds; she's too busy making her academic parents turn in their graves with her new job writing painfully historically inaccurate scenarios for Foremost Studios. So when one of Kitty's old flames calls Emma and tells her it's imperative he meet with Kitty that morning, she's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it.

A mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness between two small aircraft leaves ten people dead. Was it a bird strike, pilot error...or premeditated murder? Then an eleventh body is found in the wreckage: a man shot gangland style, twice in the chest and once in the head. In an investigation that reaches to the highest levels of government, justice may not be served, but Kate Shugak is determined that the truth will out, even at the risk of her life and the lives of those she loves most.

England, December 1927. Arrogant Edward Linton has returned from years of living in Paris. But has he changed? Because, if not, the consequences for him might be deadly. When Mrs. Kate Forbes and her academically minded niece, Lady Jane Scott. are invited to a gathering at Linton Hall, the last thing they expect is to become amateur sleuths pitting their wits against Inspector Ridley of Scotland Yard to solve a shocking murder. Faced with an ensemble of social climbers, eccentrics, and schemers, our daring duo must untangle a web of secrets, lies and deceit if they're to discover whodunnit.

For years her explorer father promised Dr. Lauren Westlake she'd accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. But as the empty promises mounted, Lauren determined to earn her own way. Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren receives two unexpected invitations. The first is her repentant father's offer to finally bring her to Egypt as his colleague on a new expedition. The second is a chance to enter the world of New York's wealthiest patrons who have been victims of art fraud.