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In the small woodsy town of Henderson, California, the electric company is strict about sick days. So when meter-reader Vejay Haskell decides to play hooky, her first concern is staying out of sight. She skirts around the edge of town, making her way to Frank’s Place, a cozy saloon owned by her friend Frank Goulet. After two cups of hot buttered rum, they have an argument and she storms out into the pouring rain. She goes home, takes a nap, and awakens sober, embarrassed, and ready to apologize. But by the time she gets back to Frank’s bar, he is dead.

When the principal of Hollywood's premier preschool is killed in a hit-and-run accident, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum gets off the mommy track - to track down a murderer.

When quilter Jillian Hart returns to her lake house in Mercy, South Carolina, she discovers her friend, Tom, is missing-and his estranged half-brother has moved into Tom's house. Jillian doesn't trust the guy, especially since he allowed Tom's diabetic cat to escape. When police officers find Tom's wrecked car with a dead stranger inside, Jillian is determined to find out what happened to Tom-before someone else turns up dead.

Each year the Bohemian Club - a clique of powerful conservatives whose ranks include Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger - gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter-reader Vejay Haskell is about to get an all-too-close inside look. Searching the countryside for a coworker’s missing niece, she finds the beautiful gymnast lying dead in the bottom of a sewer drain.

When cat lover and quilter Jillian Hart volunteers to help a local animal shelter relocate a colony of feral cats living in an abandoned textile mill, she never expects to find a woman living there too. Jeannie went missing from Mercy, South Carolina, a decade ago, after her own daughter’s disappearance. Jeannie refuses to leave the mill or abandon Boots, her cat who died years ago. After all, she and Boots feel the need to protect the premises from “creepers” who come in the night.

Imprisoned in Nicaragua, an NFL star must escape to the United States to warn the government of an impending terrorist attack - before the sinister forces of the international intelligence community silence him forever.

Six decades after Virginia Woolf's death, landscape designer Jo Bellamy has come to Sissinghurst Castle for two reasons: to study the celebrated White Garden created by Woolfs lover Vita Sackville-West and to recover from the terrible wound of her grandfathers unexplained suicide. In the shadow of one of England's most famous castles, Jo makes a shocking find: Woolfs last diary, its first entry dated the day after she allegedly killed herself.

The Drama School at Bowmouth College is staging its annual Halloween masquerade, known for being a little unusual. Drama students are known for being mischievous and high-strung, but this year things are a little more serious: Sarah stumbles upon a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, and then events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed.

An off-duty police officer is shot and ex-nun Chris Bennett and her police-detective boyfriend find this motiveless murder puzzling. Praying for a break, Chris pursues a killer along strange paths: a pilgrimage that takes her from a suburban convent to a Brooklyn fruit market, and deep into the sacrosanct world of the NYPD - and ultimately back to the deadly place where it all began.

With Holding Lies, John Larison takes us deep into a thriving subculture of the Northwest, one born of the ferns and firs, rain and hot-springs, firebombs and whitewater. He takes us even deeper into the troubles of Hank Hazelton, a 59-year-old river guide, as he struggles to reconnect with his only daughter after a 14-year estrangement. His failure as a father haunts him, along with other deep regrets, tragedies, and longings. In the days before his daughter's arrival, Hank discovers a drift boat stranded below a rapid, empty except for a long smear of blood on its seat.

When her son's Hasidic babysitter vanishes, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum travels from her havoc-filled home in Los Angeles to a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn. In search of answers. In pursuit of justice. And in desperate need of a big, long nap.

Mattia Cattaneo, rampollo di una famiglia per bene, sparisce dalla sua villa di Alassio e viene ritrovato due giorni dopo con un proiettile in testa. Sequestro di persona finito male? Jacopo Bignone, giornalista della Ponente Press, non lo crede e segue una pista che porta in Spagna. A Valencia, proprio il giorno del rapimento, c'è stato un eccidio di narcos. Unico indizio, l'identikit di un italiano visto aggirarsi in zona: Luca Dolmetta, un agente immobiliare che, come Mattia, frequentava il più esclusivo night club di Alassio, l'Iguana Club.

Che fine ha fatto Fabio Mentone? Nella Milano del business e della produttività a qualunque costo, la scomparsa di un dirigente porta un'ombra di incertezza nella quotidianità della sede italiana di una importante multinazionale. Umberto De Santis è un responsabile marketing ed è sulla lista nera del grande capo, l'arrogante ingegnere Caio Massimo Siniscalchi detto "Il Tartarugo", un tagliatore di teste dal lauto stipendio e premi a cinque zeri: più licenzia, più guadagna.

ll lavoro di Lila Emerson consiste nel badare alle case altrui in assenza dei proprietari. Un'occupazione all'apparenza semplice e senza particolari implicazioni. Questo almeno è quello che ha sempre pensato fino al giorno in cui, guardando fuori dalla finestra, assiste a un omicidio: una giovane donna precipita nel vuoto, da un appartamento in cui verrà poi trovato il cadavere di un uomo, Oliver Archer.

Ai tempi del papa-re, nella cella campanaria di una pieve non lontano da Bologna viene trovato il cadavere di una giovane contadina. Don Priamo Gasparri, il parroco che il Vaticano guarda con sospetto, non crede che Amelia - "bella anche troppo" - sia morta per disgrazia. Vuole scoprire l'assassino per salvargli l'anima e per liberare il suo gregge da quell'ombra di violenza. Nell'indagine l'aiuta Cesare Cantalupi, medico giacobino perseguitato dalle autorità perché pratica la vaccinazione contro il vaiolo.

Beppe e Mirella Isnaghi, una collaudata coppia di sessantenni, partono alla ricerca del figlio Adriano di cui si sono perse le tracce in Paraguay. Accompagnati da Invención, una abilissima guardia del corpo che li protegge, finiscono per introdursi nell'anima di un paese sterminato, dalla natura implacabile e dalla storia crudele.

An seinem 75. Geburtstag droht der Mühlenbesitzer Kurt Weisser seinen Kindern mit Enterbung. Schließlich haben sie ihre Eltern im Stich gelassen, um ein oberflächliches Leben in der Großstadt zu führen. Doch Weisser gibt seinen Kindern eine letzte Chance und stellt ihnen ein Rätsel. Können sie es lösen, bekommen sie ihr Erbe. Am gleichen Abend wird Weisser ermordet. War es jemand aus der Familie? Oder hat die Tat mit einem Immobiliengeschäft zu tun, in das Wiessner verstrickt war?

Spring has come to Meg Corey's apple orchard—and it's quickly becoming a killer season. Just as she's getting the hang of managing the two-hundred-year-old orchard she's inherited, the dead body of a local organic farming activist is found in her springhouse. And the only thing that's sprung is a murder accusation - against her...

Madrid, Berta Kerrigan es una escritora de éxito de novelas policiacas que está atravesando el peor momento de su vida. Tras la llegada de Marisa, la asistente enviada por su editora Laura, parece que la escritora comienza a levantar cabeza, pero una pista le informa de que su hija y su esposo puede que no estén muertos. La publicación de su último libro sobre el caso de la niña desaparecida le ha devuelto su fama como escritora. Mientras, en un pueblo cercano se han encontrado los cuerpos de dos adolescentes, una pareja que era la más popular de sus instituto.

Madrid, Berta Kerrigan es una escritora de éxito de novelas policiacas que está atravesando el peor momento de su vida. Carlos y su hija Olivia han desaparecido en un crucero por Europa al que ella se iba a unir después de unos viajes de promoción. Desde hace seis meses apenas sale de casa y es incapaz de escribir una sola palabra. Apenas se mueve por la exclusiva urbanización privada en la que nueve casas de lujo parecen vivir ajenas al peligroso mundo de fuera de sus muros.