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When a body turns up in the dumpster behind Caroline's Cupcakes, Holly White is horrified to learn her best friend, Caroline, is the main suspect. Everyone in town, including Mistletoe, Maine's sheriff, saw Caroline fighting with the victim on the night of his death. Worse, Caroline's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a custom-designed marble rolling pin. Now, just 10 days before Christmas, Holly's up to her jingle bells in holiday shenanigans and in desperate need of a miracle.

August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve. A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong - with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this ‘tragic accident’ than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking top secret intelligence to foreign rivals.

Someone is killing cozy mystery detectives! Charlottes friend Tilly dies and leaves her a cryptic message about the Cozy Mystery Killeran assassin who has a grudge against amateur detectives. She's left more clues hidden inside tea cosies stashed all over Pineapple Port, which is good, because someone has robbed her home, leaving Charlotte with few leads. While Charlotte and Declan follow the clues to find the killer, Mariska and Darla work to surprise them with upgrades to the couples new detective agency office.

1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale. But discovering her beloved best friend Lily-Anne – with a paperknife through her heart – in the middle of the bookshop, is not a plotline she saw coming. The case is anything but textbook. With the discovery of a coded German message, and Hannah’s instinct that Lily-Anne’s husband is keeping secrets, she determines to get to the bottom of it. She can’t do it alone though.

Gaillac, southwest France. Gil Petty, America's most celebrated wine critic, is found strung up in a vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine. For forensic expert Enzo Macleod, the key to this unsolved murder lies in decoding Petty's mysterious reviews - which could make or break a vineyard's reputation.

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady’s maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village’s inaugural art exhibition—and bicycle race—to look forward to. But at the exhibition opening, there’s a panicked shout of ‘Fire!’ In the confusion, the main attraction—an extremely expensive book—is stolen from under everyone’s nose, as is a valuable painting lent by Sir Hector Farley-Stroud.

1961, Philadelphia. After having to betray his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world. Though the ghosts of the past still haunt him, the tiny Australian town of Coral Shoals is paradise. Blake surfs, plays guitar and runs his own bar, the Surf Shack. But then the body of a young woman is found at a local motel , and evidence links her to the Surf Shack. It soon becomes clear to Blake - who knows a thing or two about murder - that the only way for him to protect paradise is to find the killer.

Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington Manor after her grandfather suffers a heart attack. Back in her childhood home for the first time in years, Saffron faces tense family relationships made worse by the presence of the enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired on as a doctor to the ailing Lord Easting. But the man is no doctor—in reality, he is a mysterious figure involved in the trafficking of dangerous government secrets, and his presence at Ellington can only mean trouble.

December 1927. Mystery-writer Marius Quin has one previous bestseller, endless looming mortgage payments, and no idea how to write his next book. When his childhood friend Lady Isabella Montague invites him to an intimate New Year’s Eve party hosted by a narcissistic actor, Marius seizes upon the distraction. With his perpetually glum Basset hound along for the ride, he navigates the snowy lanes to the opulent estate of Everham Hall. As the celebrations begin, fireworks light up the sky, champagne corks pop, and then the host is murdered…

Julia Bird loves a walk in the countryside. There’s nothing quite like the fresh air and green rolling hills of the Cotswolds to clear your head. Unless you come across a dead body, that is… When the local Berrywick vet, Dr Eve Davies, is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, the police believe it’s nothing more than a tragic accident, but Julia isn’t so sure. Just a few days earlier when she took her dog, Jake, to the vets, Dr Eve said she believed something awful was about to happen. It turns out she was right…But who would want the beloved village vet dead?

Ten years have passed since the apparent end of the Miss Marple murders, when Agatha Christie’s friends’ maid, shares concerns for her cousin’s safety at a remote mental institution.

Agatha agrees to help, and takes along her other old friend, Mary Westmacott, to visit the Gateshead Institute.

At the asylum, disturbing questions pervade: Are one of the patients having an improper relationship with married wealthy proprietor, Doctor Archibald? What are the strange scraping sounds, that only Mary can hear in the dead of night? And what secret lies behind the hidden grave in the nearby woods?

Als ein großer TV-Sender einen heiß begehrten Serienvertrag für Nachwuchsautoren ausschreibt, ist der Konkurrenzkampf eröffnet. Die Finalisten reisen zu einem Workshop ins idyllische Cherringham, um ihre Ideen weiterzuentwickeln. Doch was als kreative Woche beginnt, wird bald bitterer Ernst: Drohungen machen die Runde, und schnell wird klar – hier geht es nicht nur um Geschichten, sondern um Leben und Tod. Jack und Sarah nehmen die Ermittlungen auf. Können sie den Täter rechtzeitig entlarven?

Georg Dengler, der Stuttgarter Privatermittler, macht sich auf die Suche nach seinem Sohn und dessen Freunden. Er findet bei Jakob zu Hause Aufkleber, wie sie Unbekannte in den letzten Wochen auch in den Tiefkühltruhen von Supermärkten angebracht haben. Auf Jakobs Computer findet er Fotos und Filme aus Hühner- und Putenmastanlagen. Ist sein Sohn ein radikaler Tierschützer geworden? So lernt Georg Dengler auf der Suche nach Jakob seinen Sohn erst wirklich kennen – und kommt den mörderischen Methoden von Massentierhaltung und Lebensmittelindustrie auf die Spur.

Zachary Paterson discovers a surfing buddy’s body weeks before a big local surfing competition. Patricia Garret and Shirley Martinez vowed they’d never get involved in another murder investigation ever again. After being held hostage at gunpoint, they’d lost their zest for solving homicides. They’d promised Detective Byron Garret that they would no longer interfere. Besides, they have another mystery to solve. Plum trees are disappearing from the yards of Beach City residents.

The book club may have the clue to a murder…. Someone isn't playing by the rules… The reading group at Norcester’s specialist crime bookshop adore a cosy whodunnit. So they are delighted to find themselves guests of honour at a remote country house for the weekend, to inspect the extensive...

A finales de 1931, poco después de la gran fiesta republicana, se descubre el cadáver de una mujer enterrado bajo las baldosas de una pequeña edificación del barrio de Llefià, en Badalona. La historia de este crimen real, que llenó durante meses las páginas de los periódicos de toda España, es recreada en esta novela, recorrida por una trama absorbente que recoge no solo el crimen de la alemana Emmy Langer, sino los primeros años de un tiempo de esperanza y de rupturas revolucionarias que pronto fueron enterradas en fosas anónimas, como lo fue el cadáver de la propia Emmy.

Ambientado en la isleña población de San Expósito, el libro cuenta cómo sus protagonistas, movidos por el sexo, el dinero, la ambición de dominio o la mera crueldad evolucionan de forma irremediable hacia un último encuentro mortal. Así, intriga, erotismo, violencia, deconstrucción de estereotipos y reflexión moral se entrecruzan en el territorio de esta historia que supone una indagación en la infamia, una inspección ocular de los sótanos del alma humana y las oscuras motivaciones que hacen que el hombre sea un lobo para el hombre.

Ein Wein, der auf dem Meeresgrund gereift ist – so etwas hat Adeline noch nie gehört. Der edle Tropfen ist von Miranda, einer alten Dame, die im Rathaus von Nizza, Adelines Arbeitsplatz, nach Hinweisen auf ihren tot geglaubten Sohn gesucht hat. Adeline, die sich als Archivarin leidenschaftlich für Familienforschung interessiert, fasst sich ein Herz und reist zu Miranda nach San Remo, in die Stadt der Blumen, traumhaften Buchten und malerischen Strände, um Nachforschungen anzustellen.

What is going on in old Mr Stevenson's house? After his death, the remote cottage was bought at auction by a Bolivian man, Carlos Ramon Álvarez, for a dream price. And strange things have been happening there ever since. Nathalie and Louise are suspicious. They find out something astonishing: Álvarez and old Mr Stevenson knew each other. And Stevenson had more money than anyone ever imagined. Nathalie and Louise pull off a daring stunt to gain access to the cottage.

A female camper has been found dead in Pelham Woods near Earlsraven. The cause of death: a stew of deadly poisonous mushrooms cooked on her gas stove. But the victim turns out to be Dutch celebrity chef Keetje Koopmans, who would never have made such a mistake.