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The Whitby Library is a hive of activity. The basement of the old building is under construction and there are smaller projects on the main floor, too. The work is being done practically pro-bono by Cornelius, a Friends of the Library member who's a local real estate investor and builder and now a philanthropist.

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors. When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of...

Ruby zieht für den Sommer zu ihrer Zwillingsschwester in die idyllische Kleinstadt in den Rocky Mountains. Umso geschockter ist sie, als sie später die Leiche von Vivian Burton, der Besitzerin einer umstrittenen Schönheitsklinik in Paradise, findet. Bevor sie weiß, wie ihr geschieht, findet sich die New Yorkerin zusammen mit ihrer Schwester erneut mitten in den Ermittlungen wieder.

Dorothy Martin isn’t overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge, picturing cramped student accommodation. But St. Stephen’s turns out to be recently renovated, and, bolstered by ensuite facilities, Dorothy is looking forward to exploring the historic and beautiful city. It is not long, though, before disaster strikes. Lost in the maze of college buildings, Dorothy stumbles into a laboratory—and is shocked to find what looks like a pool of blood on the floor.

The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water and, on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members of his crew go aboard the yacht, they find not one male corpse but two. The dead men were chairman and vice chairman of Moxon General Securities, one of the largest financial houses in the country. Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard is called in. French soon discovers that Moxon's is on the brink of collapse.

Three locked rooms. Three impossible crimes. One determined sleuth. Miranda Abbott is back in a new mystery from the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder and Mystery in the Title The famous are descending on the town of Happy Rock. This time, the stars are not of the screen but of the page...

Aufgeschlitzte Autoreifen, vergiftetes Essen und tote Ratten im Schwimmunterricht - in Cherringham Hall, einem renommierten Mädcheninternat, gehen eigenartige Dinge vor sich, die langsam aber sicher Angst und Schrecken verbreiten. Als sich dann auch noch die Lehrkraft das Leben nimmt, die Cherringhams Eliteschülerinnen die beliebteste Mentorin ist, bleibt der Internatsleitung nichts anderes übrig, als die beängstigenden Geschehnisse so diskret wie möglich aufklären zu lassen.

'Dark, insidious, unsettling, fabulous.' Sharon Bolton We thought we were building paradise. We didn't know we were building it on graves. The Starlings is everything you could want - luxury homes, ocean views, security gates. The Gold Family transformed a derelict building into Dorset's most...

Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime...

Ein Weihnachten wie kein anderes: RomCom trifft Cosy-Crime unterm Mistelzweig – unterhaltsam wie ein Netflix-Weihnachtsfilm! Wer Emily Henry mag, wird diese rasante Weihnachtskomödie lieben ... Sydney Swift hat eine einfache Mission: 1. Ihre jüngere Schwester davon abhalten, einen notorischen Verbrecher zu heiraten. 2. Dessen Bodyguard verführen, um an wertvolle Informationen für die CIA zu gelangen. 3. Sich um keinen Preis verlieben.

On a lecture tour, Mark Twain is reunited with Tom Blankenship, his boyhood pal and the model for Huck Finn. When Tom is charged with murder, it's up to Twain to be as good a lawyer as he is a friend.