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Après dix années passées à Richmond, Will Seems revient dans la petite ville où il a grandi pour prendre un poste d'adjoint au shérif. Il y retrouve cette terre du sud de la Virginie hantée par l'histoire, celle des riches plantations de tabac et de l'esclavage, que le progrès semble avoir oublié. Will devra affronter ceux de son propre passé lorsqu'un de ses amis d'enfance est assassiné. Alors qu'un vieil homme est suspecté, la communauté noire de la région engage une détective privée, Bennico Watts, pour l'innocenter.

The 12 crimes of Christmas: Bart Sagan is a thief, yes, but more or less a good guy - at least, he wouldn’t rob an orphanage if he didn’t have to. Not at Christmastime, anyway. But then the local crime boss, Harry King, loses a shipment of drugs and orders Bart to burglarize the 12 addresses to which it’s been accidentally sent. Can Bart and his ragtag band of independent criminals keep their Christmas spirit while breaking and entering at the behest of a drug lord? Can they keep their lives if they don’t?

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.

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...