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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The Christie sisters and their bookshop cat, Agatha, flirt with coldhearted crime when bookish matchmaking turns into a date with death. Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie share a love of books, reading, and their new roles as co-caretakers of the Book Chalet, their...

'WHAT A FASCINATING READ. I WAS TOTALLY IMMERSED IN THIS WORLD ANNA CREATED. SHE IS A WONDERFUL STORYTELLER' - LORRAINE KELLY 'A BEAUTIFULLY PORTRAYED AND IMAGINATIVE TALE OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND IN ALL THEIR VULNERABILITY AND POWER' - S. G. MacLean, author of THE BOOKSELLER OF INVERNESS...

Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie share a love of books, reading, and the Book Chalet - their family's historic bookshop tucked midway up a scenic Colorado mountain. But romance? That's another story. So when their cousin signs them up for her newest business venture - matchmaking based on bookish tastes - the sisters approach their blind double dates with foot-dragging dread. And while Ellie's date meets her low expectations, Meg's match, a book-loving romantic straight out of classic literature, is a charming surprise...until he turns up murdered the next morning.

The incomparable Inspector Alan Grant returns in the latest addition to our enormously popular Josephine Tey series. As well as all the usual delights of Tey’s writing and the Inspector himself, To Love and Be Wise also features one of the most cunning and surprising twists of any of Tey’s novels – making it an absolute must-listen for any Golden Age crime aficionado.

After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. But his attempts to start again are wrecked when a brutal homicide claims the...

Logan branched off and became his own boss while partnered with his uncle, while Lyric blossomed with her writing career and became a publisher who then moved into the movie industry. Busy with their careers, they never neglected their number one priority, their twin son and daughter, LJ and Legacy.

Drei mächtige Männer kommen zusammen und planen eine Verschwörung. Drei andere Männer wünschen sich nichts mehr als die Vernichtung ihrer Kontrahenten. Eine Konfrontation scheint unvermeidlich. Drei ungeklärte Todesfälle beschäftigen die Polizei. Und sie beschäftigen auch Pater Brown, der mal wieder ganz zufällig in die Sache hineingeschlittert ist.

In Amerika stehen drei Kommunisten im Verdacht drei Millionäre ermordet zu haben. Doch die Alibis der Verdächtigen scheinen hieb- und stichfest. Father Brown ist sich nicht sicher, ob alles wirklich so ist, wie es auf den ersten Blick scheint. Dann macht er auf der Suche nach dem einzig möglichen Täter eine überraschende Entdeckung.

Drei mächtige Männer kommen zusammen und planen eine Verschwörung. Drei andere Männer wünschen sich nichts mehr, als die Vernichtung ihrer Kontrahenten. Eine Konfrontation scheint unvermeidlich. Doch wer hätte dabei mit solcher Brutalität gerechnet?

Three unabridged readings of original novels from the creator of Paul Temple. Three unabridged readings of original novels from the creator of Paul Temple. In The Desperate People, read by Neil Pearson, Philip Holt is determined to uncover the truth about the death of his brother, Rex, and those who were responsible for it. In Dead to the World, also read by Neil Pearson, Philip Holt's skills are again in demand after he meets Robert Scranton, a wealthy American, on a plane returning to England from the USA.