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Brought to you by Penguin Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From...

It's the day of the Christchurch Dog Show. The whole town is aquiver with excitement. The ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are hoping to make lots of new furry friends. After a very dramatic Best Biscuit Catcher competition, Fiona, Sue, and Daisy from the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop come across a shocking scene. The dog show's vet is performing CPR on a woman. The ladies rush over, but it's too late. Back at the shop, the ladies learn that the poor woman was murdered. Someone injected Sylvia Steadman with something very nasty indeed.

Brought to you by Penguin. The highly anticipated new novel - The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat for fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Cat Who Saved Books It’s time to...

A cosy, heartwarming story about finding courage, caring for others and the tremendous power of books. Translated from Japanese, The Cat Who Saved Books is the international bestseller from Sosuke Natsukawa. 'Enchanting' – The Observer Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller. The must-have sequel to Sosuke Natsukawa's bestselling The Cat Who Saved Books – an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat and the power of books to make a difference in the world. Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library has become a home from...

The last thing Adri Foster expected her sister to find while digging for antique glass was a body in the bushes.With just one year of teaching left before retirement, Adri had hoped to savor the final weeks of summer and the small town of Seven Springs’ Sesquicentennial Celebration.Instead...

A woman’s body lies in the heather, her neck broken. Her horse watches nervously from a few paces away. Despite looking like an accident, it doesn’t take long for DI Callum MacLean, newly arrived in Hampshire from Glasgow, to establish she was murdered. Nor does it take DS Daisy Donaldson, appearing soon after on horseback, long to identify the victim. Mary-Ellen Mitchell was a well-known and seemingly well-liked businesswoman, married to a respected local artist, and part of the close-knit community.

When these four amateur sleuths step aboard an old-fashioned steam engine, it’s all aboard…for sabotage.As the curtain rises on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow production, four intrepid women – one mother-daughter detective duo and two sisters with a knack for sleuthing – come together to...

Hannah Murphy knew something was going on at city hall, but she never thought it would be murder! Hannah and Razzy Cat are back on the case as they race to figure out who killed the girl found in the mayor’s office. This time, they may get more than they bargained for...

After agreeing to dog sit her daughter’s two cockapoos for a couple of weeks, Nesta decides to make full use of staying in a Flintshire market town by running her own stall. What she hadn’t banked on was another murder to solve. With the added help of her teenage assistant Darren, Nesta is...

Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.Residents are sneezing and coughing all over town and it seems like a brutal allergy season is upon us--until someone dies. When Dr. Verity reveals a supernatural cause, I'm on the case, but how do I track a culprit whose...

Kriminalroman Ein atmosphärischer Cosy-Krimi am See mit einer ermittelnden Maklerin und ihrer treuen Berner SennenhündinSie fand ein hundert Jahre altes Tagebuch, verborgen in einem herrschaftlichen Anwesen am See. Wenige Tage später war ein junger Mann tot.Die Immobilienmaklerin Lily Morgan...

Meet Sir Ginger, the Something-Something of Something-Something. No one knows his full name and most of the time, his human, Chad, can’t even be bothered to get the Sir Ginger part right. Sir Ginger loves Chad… as much as a cat with serious cattitude can love a man named Chad. And Chad loves...

Julia Bird har lämnat London för att börja om i den pittoreska byn Berrywick. Hon är nybliven pensionär och dessutom nyskild, men fast besluten att skapa sig ett nytt liv. Den mysiga stugan hon köpt, med öppen spis och rustik charm, är allt hon drömt om. Men när hon låter riva den gamla trädgårdsboden för att göra plats för ett hönshus hittas en kropp efter en ung kvinna som verkar ha varit begraven i decennier.

»Mörderisch gemütlich« ist die große Cosy-Crime-Themenedition der Hörbuchmanufaktur Berlin: warmherzig, eigenwillig und herrlich makaber. Hier treffen tierisches Chaos, ältere Held:innen, britischer Charme, Operngeister, Teetassen und schwarzer Humor auf ziemlich reale Verbrechen. Sieben vollständige Hörbücher für alle, die ihre Krimis lieber charmant, skurril und mit einem Augenzwinkern hören.

Sometimes a rising tide… Can be murder. Amateur sleuth and dog trainer, Eve, is delighted to take some time off and go on a camping trip to secluded part of Lake Superior’s coastline. The trip that’s supposed to be a relaxing and fun adventure takes a dark turn when Eve’s Search and...

Morgan Winters wants an ordinary life: A job at a bookstore, an apartment she can barely afford, and a healthy amount of existential dread. Her brother (AKA "The Ruiner") ruins that when he shows up on her bedroom windowsill, transformed into a talking cat. He claims it's due to a date gone horribly wrong, but Morgan's not buying it. Still, when he begs her to take him to a witch who can change him back into a human, she reluctantly agrees. Family is family. When they arrive in Hollowbeck—a suspiciously small and suspiciously magical town—they find the witch. Only she's dead. 

Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her quirky town of Vienna, Virginia, starting her new life as a bookbinder in her family-owned bookshop. With her trusty German Shephard RBG - Ruff Barker Ginsburg - by her side, what can go wrong? Okay, sure, bumping into her ex Scott or her former high-school nemesis Tricia is a drag. It certainly doesn't help that they’ve acquired the new hobby of shoving their recent engagement in her face every chance they get. But that doesn't mean Quinn wanted to find Tricia dead in the road. So why does half the town think she may have done it?

Newly widowed, Macy Garson is doing her best to live a simple and secure life that her beloved Jake would have been proud of. She loves her volunteer work at the Happy Paws dog sanctuary, but if she doesn't find a way to make money, and fast, she may not be able to keep up with her mortgage payments in a month or so.

In the woodland community of Shady Hollow, you'll discover a secret. Moose and mice, owls and bears live side by side in civilised harmony. The town has a coffee shop and a bookshop, a haberdasher and a bank. Life is peaceful, until a skeleton is found buried deep under an apple tree. Danger has returned to Shady Hollow. Ace reporter Vera Vixen only wants a good news story as harvest time arrives with the promise of glorious feasts ahead. But the discovery of the body casts a darker shadow.