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On a summer's night in 1994, 16-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town. She left no trace - only heartache for her mother and her sister, Heather. Twenty-five years later, Heather walks into a stranger's house. There, the loving wife and doting new mother kills two people in cold blood. So only one remains...Jess is sent to report on the case that shocked the hometown she left behind. But it's anything but business to her.

"Goodbye, cruel world." The famous writer Ian O'Shelley is found dead in his cottage in Earlsraven with a suicide note beside him. Nathalie Ames is a big fan of the author and starts to look into the case more closely. She discovers that O'Shelley was a man with many secrets. Was it really suicide? Or was the likeable bestselling author murdered? But while Nathalie is investigating O'Shelley's past, her private life is breaking down - all because of her move to Earlsraven.

Guy Hogan and his wife planned to share their dream home in Colorado but cancer his took her from him. The mountains became his refuge and each day he hoped the next cast of his flyrod will chase away his loneliness. Then he finds a man’s body in his favorite trout stream. Learning why the man died becomes a quest to fill his emptiness. Hogan befriends a young woman as empty as he. Their path leads to a ring of poachers killing elk for their antlers, a break neck car chase across the twist and turns of the highest paved road in the United States, and the fury of a mountain flash flood.

A quinta-feira agora é o melhor dia da semana. Com os crimes mais recentes solucionados, o Clube do Crime das Quintas-Feiras encontra-se em uma maré de tediosa normalidade. Mas não por muito tempo. Quando Elizabeth recebe a carta de um velho conhecido, sabe que está diante de um belo mistério. O agente do serviço secreto sessentão, com quem a ex-espiã tem uma longa história, acaba de cometer um erro terrível e precisa da ajuda dela.

Wiktor Leszczyński, autor poczytnych kryminałów, rozczarowany swym dotychczasowym życiem rzuca wszystko i wyjeżdża z Krakowa w nieznane. Osiedla się w Borach Tucholskich, w starej leśniczówce, w której wreszcie zaczyna odzyskiwać spokój. Tam poznaje młodą policjantkę Emilię Radecką, która coraz bardziej go intryguje, adoptuje Dropsa – psa ze schroniska – i powoli jego życie zaczyna wracać na właściwe tory. Niestety w jego otoczeniu dochodzi do kilku morderstw. Co więcej, ofiary giną w taki sam sposób jak bohaterowie jego książki.

Há trinta anos, um menino foi encontrado vivendo na mata como uma criança selvagem. Ao ser interrogado, ele não sabia nada sobre seu passado. Agora, já adulto, Wilde ainda não tem nenhuma lembrança confiável sobre suas origens. Quando Naomi, uma garota que mora nos arredores da floresta, desaparece, ninguém parece levar a sério o seu sumiço, nem mesmo seu pai. Até que Hester Crimstein, uma famosa advogada criminalista com quem Wilde tem uma trágica conexão, fica sabendo que a jovem era vítima de bullying na escola.

When a farmer is found dead in his own pumpkin patch, Abby and her tenant Tripp have to find the real killer before an innocent man is put away for life.

"Leb wohl, tristes Dasein." Der berühmte Schriftsteller Ian O'Shelley wird tot in seinem Cottage in Earlsraven aufgefunden - neben ihm liegt ein Abschiedsbrief. Aber war es tatsächlich Selbstmord? Oder wurde der sympathische Bestsellerautor umgebracht? Nathalie ist ein großer Fan des Autors und fängt an, sich genauer mit dem Fall zu befassen. Sie entdeckt schnell, dass O'Shelley eine ganze Reihe an Geheimnissen hatte - findet sich hier das Motiv für einen Mord? Doch während Nathalie O'Shelleys Leben durchleuchtet, muss sie feststellen, dass es auch in ihrem Privatleben drunter und drüber geht und ihr Umzug nach Earlsraven nicht ohne Folgen bleibt.

Agnès non crede alle sue orecchie quando viene a sapere del decesso della zia. Non è possibile, la zia Colette è morta tre anni prima, riposa al cimitero di Gueugnon, c’è il suo nome sulla lapide... In quanto parente più prossima tocca ad Agnès andare a riconoscere il cadavere, e non c’è dubbio, si tratta proprio della zia Colette. Ma allora chi c’è nella sua tomba? E perché per tre anni Colette ha fatto credere a tutti di essere morta? È l’inizio di un’indagine a ritroso nel tempo.

When her law partner is murdered and the only witness is a blue macaw named Gigi, attorney and pet-sitter Kendra Ballantyne, with the help of her hunky P.I. boyfriend, must teach Gigi to sing like a canary and reveal the killer.

When shelter manager Lauren Vancouver finds out that her old mentor, Mamie Spelling, is an animal hoarder, no one is more shocked, and she jumps in to help re-home the cramped critters. But Mamie's troubles don't end there. She's accused of murder when the CEO of a pet shelter network is found dead. And Lauren's dogged determination to clear her former friend of murder may put a killer on her tail.

No nine-to-five cubicle career will suit Stacie Calder—the naturalist much prefers working in the great outdoors. Specifically, the spacious and spectacular Alaskan wilderness, whose rugged charms she shares with sightseers on the top deck of the tour boat where she works. But one May afternoon, Stacie’s passengers see more than glittering glaciers, frolicking harbor seals, climbing bears, and soaring seabirds…they also witness a man lying dead in the frigid Alaskan waters. And it seems likely that someone gave him a fatal push.

Adam Havel je uzavřený mladý muž se zálibou v knihách, který má dvě práce a malou garsonku na Hájích. Jeho život je průměrný až nudný - z práce do práce a pak domů mezi své milované knihy, sem tam navštívit sestru Táňu a její dvě malé děti a tak stále dokola. Pak se ale v jeden jediný den stane naráz svědkem krvavého zločinu a setká se s tajemnou, neohroženou Dianou, která obrátí jeho svět vzhůru nohama. Adamův život postupně připomíná čím dál tím víc napínavý román, ve kterém hlavní hrdina nejde pro ránu daleko.