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At the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains a murder is discovered: wealthy but naïve Mme Dauvray is found strangled in the salon of her villa, apparently for her famously expensive jewels. Her young English companion, Celia Harland, is missing, and her maid is bound and chloroformed upstairs. A young English inventor who has been courting Miss Harland adamantly protests her innocence, and begs the famous Sûreté detective Inspector Hanaud to investigate.

When a young woman is found dead in a peat bog near the banks of the river Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, thinks she is the victim of an ancient pagan ritual. Inspector Leo Falcone, however, knows this case is recent history and the horror is still very much alive.

While holidaying in Italy, Angela Marchmont is persuaded to postpone her trip to Venice and go to Stresa instead, to investigate a pair of spiritualists who are suspected of defrauding some of the town’s English residents out of their money. But what starts out as a minor matter swiftly becomes more serious when one of the residents in question is found dead in the beautiful gardens of his home, having apparently committed suicide.

A rare bird is nesting in the lush summer meadows of the Swiss Alps, and the grizzled members of Uncle Albert’s Royal Society for Natural History Appreciation travel en masse to get a closer look. The fact that they will be encamped at an opulent villa, coupled with the promise of a midsummer party, persuades his niece, and unenthusiastic secretary, Lady Caroline, to follow suit. As the champagne flows, and tales of rare birds grow taller, a killer makes a bold move. One of the more risque guests is strangled with her own elaborate dress.

Vor drei Jahren starb die zukünftige Braut Aoife bei ihrem eigenen Junggesellinnenabschied. Nun kehren ihre Freundinnen in die Villa zurück, in der sich jenes schreckliche Wochenende abgespielt hat. Sie sehnen sich nach einem Abschluss. Doch kaum haben sie die Villa betreten, brechen alte Wunden auf, und die Spannungen zwischen den Frauen nehmen zu. Jede hat eine andere Version der Ereignisse jener Nacht.

Nate doesn’t want to listen. He’s between missions and just wants to relax, not to travel hundreds of miles and hunt for the driver of the car that hit someone he doesn’t even know. But ignoring the call is not an option. What Nate had hoped would be a simple mission turns into something much more sinister, when he discovers a wide-reaching evil, festering in a small Northern California town. To confront it, he will need all the skills he’s learned working in the shadow world.

Becca Stenlund har det hele. Hun er ung, smuk og smart og bor i den skønneste gamle villa i skovbrynet; blåmalet, nænsomt renoveret og perfekt retro-chikt indrettet. Og så driver hun den populære livstilsblog Becca i Den blå villa, hvor hun deler ud af sit perfekte liv med upcycling-projekter, bæredygtigt børnetøj og økologisk plantekost. Alt emmer af overskud og idyl. En sen sommernat trasker Beccas 5-årige søn Bruno alene afsted langs landevejen for at finde sin far. Hjemme på køkkengulvet ligger hans mor ubevægelig og smurt ind i blod.

In the past, a murder at Villa Adele in 1901 deceives the Monte Carlo commissioner of police, causing the death of an innocent man. In 1951, new evidence is disclosed, along with lost treasure fortune seekers are willing to kill for.

Dolce Vita und Mord am Mittelmeer! Die Blumen-Riviera mit ihren palmengesäumten Stränden, dem tiefblauen Meer und der farbenprächtigen Architektur wird von einem spektakulären Mord erschüttert: Im Garten der Villa von Alfred Nobel wird der leblose Körper eines stadtbekannten Rechtsanwalts gefunden—mit einer Stange Dynamit im Mund. Der neue Chef der Kripo, Commissario Tomas Gallo, nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Schnell wird ihm klar, dass sich zwischen den malerischen Hügeln im Hinterland und den vibrierenden Küstenorten der Riviera ein Fall ungeahnten Ausmaßes entspinnt.

Walter Hartright se traslada a Limmeridge para dar clases de dibujo a Laura, una joven rica heredera sobrina del barón Frederick Fairlie. Poco antes de irse, tropieza con una misteriosa dama vestida de blanco que le habla de Limmeridge y de su propietaria fallecida, la señora Fairlie. Desde el principio Walter siente una gran atracción por Laura, quien está prometida con sir Percival Glyde, que solo busca arrebatarle su herencia. Solo se interpone en su camino la misteriosa dama de blanco.