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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...

"Full of twists and turns" Reader Review ★★★★★ Can she close the book on a killer close to home? It should be the most wonderful time of the year, but when a stranger turns up dead after a Christmas party, the festive season is about to be anything but merry for the small town of...

Doreen Montgomery—an amateur sleuth who can’t help but stumble into trouble while solving crimes—falls right into another case. When a local break-in leads to the suspicious death of beloved jewelry collector Roger Bennington, Doreen finds herself drawn into a tangled web of secrets, old...

Cinderella's descendant is an amateur sleuth and an artifact witch. That should mean she's destined for happily ever after. Instead, there's a dash of danger and magical murder. Witch and one-time archeologist Gardenia Crescent needs a change. She’s had her fair share of gnome stalkers...

Stolen treasures, a cane-whacking elderly woman and a couple of dead bodies. A favorite furry sleuth returns in a new adventure!Follow semi-reformed computer hacker Steve and his clue-sniffing golden retriever Rochester as they track different kinds of thieves. From a tree-removal scam artist to...

An electrocuted millionaire at a garden party.One witch under suspicion.Can Fortuna Delphi clear her name before they shut her art gallery down?Fortuna Delphi is starting to feel like a part of Mystic's End. Sure, she still doesn't know who she's related to, the town's two most eligible...

A body in the woodlands near the crystal field.Smoky quartz that smoked the local mailman.Can Fortuna unearth the truth the authorities won't?When reporter and Mystic's End busybody Pepper Stanford discovers a sketched map that professes to reveal what the heck the deal is with mystics in...

Tis the season...for ghosts. Verity Long has come to terms with the fact that she can see spirits, and talk to them, and...she's actually making cookies for one of them. But she's drawing the line at any more ghost hunting or mystery solving. Until a dear friend needs help locating a missing...

The Harvey Ross Coastal Mystery series: Books 1-3 Retirement was supposed to be the end of Harvey Ross's detective career. It turned out to be just the beginning. Former Detective Inspector Harvey Ross has traded London's Metropolitan Police for the windswept shores of North Norfolk. Divorced...

At sixty-two, veterinarian Ruby Dakota has given up on romance, financial security, and sleeping anywhere but her clinic. Then FBI agents drag her to a biocontainment facility with a stunning revelation. Something about Ruby herself could save millions. Or get her killed. When bullets fly...

"Lauren Carr's books are never boring, that's for sure. They entertain, give us a good mystery to dig into, keep the reader guessing, give us a few good laughs and make us eager for the next book. Warning: Lauren Carr's series are addictive, so be ready to read more than just one book!" - Laura...

"Full of twists and turns" Reader Review ★★★★★ Can she close the book on a killer close to home? It should be the most wonderful time of the year, but when a stranger turns up dead after a Christmas party, the festive season is about to be anything but merry for the small town of...

Discover new delicious mysteries in this fourth installment in The Kamogawa Food Detectives series, the beloved Japanese bestseller and celebration of the healing power of food. “Off-beat and charming, [with] more complexity of flavor than you might expect.” – NPR – Fresh Air with Terry...

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.

As the Oxford Detective Society tackle their first case, someone is determined that a long-buried mystery should stay hidden… Oxford biographer Lyssa Moore is delighted to be commissioned to write about Amelia ‘Monty’ Montrose, the 1960s music icon who died mysteriously at her birthday...

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?