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'Vera Wong is my new favourite sleuth' Elle Cosimano Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on...

‘Had me laughing aloud within its first five pages. Charming, hilarious and heartfelt’ Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read Life is good for sixty-year-old teashop owner and amateur sleuth, Vera Wong. Her teashop is bustling, and her son, Tilly, finally has a...

Vier Freundinnen. Ein Luxusresort. Zwei Wochen All-inclusive – und ein Urlaub, der zum Albtraum wird. Luise, Mo, Valerie und Patricia starten perfekt in ihren Traumurlaub. Doch das Paradies trügt. Erst verschwindet eine Urlauberin, dann ist plötzlich Valerie weg und Luise begreift: Hier geht es um Leben und Tod. Hinter den Kulissen des scheinbar perfekten Ferienresorts verbirgt sich ein tödliches Geheimnis.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Raquel Gimeno viaja en coche con su familia. Sus dos hijos y su madre descansan detrás mientras su marido conduce a su lado. Agotada por los preparativos del traslado, cierra los ojos y se queda profundamente dormida. Al despertar, se encuentra en un descampado. Aún dentro del vehículo. Pero sola. Su familia ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro.

Raquel Gimeno viaja en coche con su familia. Sus dos hijos y su madre descansan detrás mientras su marido conduce a su lado. Agotada por los preparativos del traslado, cierra los ojos y se queda profundamente dormida. Al despertar, se encuentra en un descampado. Aún dentro del vehículo. Pero sola. Su familia ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. El caso es asignado al inspector Vázquez. Sin embargo, David no está pasando por su mejor momento. Su prometida, Irene Ochoa, también se ha esfumado, acusada de asesinato. Él se resiste a creerlo, pero, entonces, ¿dónde está ella?

England, 1914. Die Welt ist von Konflikten gezeichnet. Der verletzte Captain Hastings wird ins Anwesen Styles Court eingeladen, um sich von seinen körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu erholen. Styles ist ein prachtvolles Landhaus und Heimat seines Kindheitsfreundes. Für Hastings ein Ort der Ruhe … glaubt er. Doch an den heißen Sommertagen braut sich etwas Finsteres zusammen.

Es sind sechs Monate vergangen, seitdem die Königin der Vampire sich in Schweigen gehüllt hat, und das Schicksal der Welt befindet sich seither auf Messers Schneide. Schließe dich den furchtlosen Dunraven Schwestern bei ihrer Mission an, die Vampirapokalypse in einem sonnenfinsteren und endlos-eisigen Winter zu überleben.

Leopoldo Estuardo, detective retirado, es contactado por Inés Polti para que investigue el asesinato de su hermano. Estuardo se hace cargo de la investigación de Jerasmus Polti, un reconocido multimillonario, cuyo presunto asesino confeso es David Polti, su hermano psicópata. Con la ayuda de Nina, su centenial asistente, el investigador tendrá que interrogar a los testigos, hacer sus pesquisas y detectar las pistas y mentiras, sólo a través de una pantalla.

When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold War landscape. Before it's over, she'll chase a lost child through foster care and follow a trail of Dominican exiles to the Caribbean. Forever looking over her shoulder, she nearly misses what's right in front of her: her own desire for home, connection, and a new romance at the local bar.

The collected BBC Radio 4 crime dramas featuring Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor Like his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he's a movie buff, Coleman is no film star - he's a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his...

From New York Times bestselling author Elle Cosimano, comes Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank—a hilarious short story diving into Finlay Donovan's partner-in-crime Vero's past. Anyone can spot a window of opportunity, but not everyone can manage to fall straight through one. Veronica Ruiz is on...

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

Che cosa unisce Jordan Marsalis, fratello del sindaco di New York ed ex tenente di polizia, e Maureen Martini, commissario di polizia a Roma? Apparentemente nulla. Eppure, per strade e vicissitudini diverse, si troveranno uniti in un'indagine su un beffardo assassino che compone i corpi delle sue vittime come i personaggi dei Peanuts, dopo averle seviziate nei modi più efferati.

The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her...

Vera Spark è una giovane investigatrice privata in carriera. Essendo italo - americana, è la più adatta dello studio investigativo per essere spedita dal suo capo negli Stati Uniti. Parte dunque come inviata speciale da Milano a Bryce Canyon, nei parchi californiani.

Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and adoring as a kitten. A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can’t believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a kitten with claws of steel a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard.

With what Graham Greene once called her "devilish cunning," Vera Caspary offers one of her most suspenseful thrillers in this tale of love, jealousy, guilt, and hate. When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife nineteen years his junior, he can't imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasized suspicions, making his impending suicide look like murder.

Thorpeness, 1973. Wrongly exiled from London, Judge Neville Hanmer sought solace and a quiet life on the Suffolk coast. But then a face from the past unexpectedly resurfaces and he turns to The Anglian Detective Agency for help. Laurel, Frank, and the rest of the team are busier than ever trying to solve the mysterious theft of rare plants from Yoxford Hall Gardens. But when Judge Hanmer doesn't show for their meeting, they find themselves embroiled in yet another case.

Aldeburgh, 1972. The local community is devastated by the accidental death of a local fisherman. Another tragedy to add to the recent murders of three young women. Soon, Laurel Bowman, Frank Diamond and the rest of the Anglian Detective Agency are pulled in to investigate another complex and dangerous case. But one of them is convinced that the fisherman's death is not an accident and they'll do anything to prove it. Even risk breaking up the agency.