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A missing treasure. A cursed property. Will Ellie’s bed and breakfast turn into a dead and breakfast on opening weekend? Excited to restart her life after a bitter divorce, Ellie Byrne plans to re-open her aunt’s old bed and breakfast with a murder mystery weekend. But when she finds out the property possesses a cursed treasure that has robbed all previous owners of their lives, she worries her fresh start may lead to her death. Threats abound and when a body turns up, Ellie’s convinced the curse is real.

After a long, cold, and snowy winter it looks as though spring may be arriving early in North Harbor. Sarah Grayson is busy at her store, Second Chance, and she's looking forward to an afternoon break from the hustle and bustle, tagging along to an open house with her friend, Detective Michelle Andrews. But it turns out the house has a haunted history, and when a ghost hunter is found dead on the premises, Sarah knows the best way to arrive at a solution is by looking into the not-so-dearly departed.

Zoey sells tacos next to a bookstore that doubles as a bar, but her quiet life in the one-stoplight town is turned upside down when a dead body is discovered near her taco truck. When Zoey and her friends emerge as the leading suspects in the investigation, she knows she has to do something. She has too many secrets in her past to let the investigation continue.

Chaos surrounds both. Doreen has had enough of her estranged husbands antics, but, when he shows up dead in the garden outside her favorite Chinese food restaurant, she's horrified and anxious. And, of course, in the eyes of the rest of the world, guilty. There's no Doreen for her to call to help out this time, but she knows Mack has her back, although he's being questioned too. The police force rallies around her, as their history rips apart her former life and finds out that all her suspicions about Mathew were correct, and he'd been in deep trouble.

My name is Megan and it’s been three months since I’ve found a dead body. At first, the most recent death in our cozy little town had nothing to do with me. The police said the poor man had a heart attack and lost control of his car. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t a heart attack. It was murder. Why did it have to happen in front of my yarn store? And why do I keep discovering dead bodies like it’s a hobby? I’d ask a therapist, but it turns out it was the local therapist who wrapped his car around the lamp post in front of my store.

Blessed (or cursed, depending on who you ask) with human intelligence, Sir Edgar Allan Kipling, magical talking cat extraordinaire, spends most of his time keeping his human wizard out of trouble—whether she wants him to or not. If she knew what he usually got up to, she would protest most vociferously. But sometimes a cat’s gotta do what a cat’s gotta do, and one can watch only so many soap operas before an offer of mischief and adventure is too good to turn down.

Lily and Cassie are desperate to be welcomed into their new town. But their back-breaking work constructing a Halloween maze keeps getting waylaid by odd events. And when haunting events continue at their new home, the mother and daughter duo suspect they may be facing a mischievous spirit.

Seit der extravagante Hundesalon »Crew Ella« neben Robert Mondrians Buchhandlung eröffnet wurde, ereignen sich seltsame Dinge: Diebstähle häufen sich, und auf den Wegen an der Rems begegnet man so vielen Dalmatinern wie nie zuvor. Als ein Tierarzt im Salon erdrosselt wird, gerät schnell Besitzerin Ella Reitermann – stilbewusst wie ihre berüchtigte Londoner Namensvetterin und mit Dalmatiner-Faible – unter Verdacht. Nur hat sie ein Alibi. Doch manchmal beginnt die beste Spur dort, wo man am wenigsten Ahnung hat.

Join Francie and the gang one last time as they team up to fight their most savage enemy of all: Kong’s fleas… Yes, they’ve got to find the Baron and his sixth cursed book before untold horrors are unleashed on the town. Of course a wealthy widow was poisoned at the first annual poetry slam competition. And by now you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that an avant-garde performance art troupe has moved into Francie’s backyard and rehearsals consist of bongos, glitter and panda costumes.

Ava Decker longs to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning her own bakery. Ready for a fresh start, the former forensic accountant turned pastry chef is excited to turn life’s lemons into sugary success. But her hopes crumble when her mean boss turns up dead. Arrested as the prime suspect, things get worse when the police discover the victim left Ava the shop and her house in her will. And with only an adorable kitten who thinks he’s a dog and an exasperated best friend as the voice of reason, the newly bequeathed owner must turn super-sleuth to clear her name.

All eight-year-old Erik wanted for his birthday was a bird. What he got was Solo—a traumatized lovebird whose mate was recently devoured by a boa constrictor at a local pet shop. But when Kiki learns that Solo originally belonged to Ruthie Goldman, a beloved member of their temple community who died after a brutal home invasion, she realizes this is no ordinary rescue pet. Solo may be small, but he's carrying big secrets—literally.

Hannah Barry is a broken-hearted realtor who finds herself in charge of Mazie, a retired police Beagle. As her life tumbles away, she finds herself caught up in a murder. Can she learn to cope with having a dog and solve a crime while saving her career? As things go from bad to worse, she meets new friends, makes enemies, and, with Mazie’s help, solves many murders.

When a fellow partygoer is poisoned while bobbing for apples, Francie needs to get justice for her friend. But just days after the crime, she gets devastating news: the Jibbleson sisters’ fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. Even though most (okay, all) of their inventions explode, Francie knows they’d never commit murder. She promises to get them out of their jail cell and back to their workshop faster than you can sing the Monster Mash.

Tensions are high at the Three Counties Show when accusations of cheating add fuel to a longstanding feud. For Jude Gray, whose only hope was to not make a fool of herself showing her Kerry Hill sheep, farming life has never been so dramatic. When a body is found, belonging to one of the competitors, there is no shortage of suspects. Every sheep farmer in this close-knit community has a motive and beneath their show-ready smiles, they all have something to hide.

Hettie and Tilly book themselves into the Sandscratchers Villa for a seaside holiday. The feline duo find themselves plunged into a spate of alarming fairground murders as a carefree vacation turns into a holiday nightmare. As the deckchairs unfold and the ice creams melt, they face their most baffling case yet, but first they must find the bodies!

Fresh off her engagement and still basking in the glow of new love, Ellie Rockwell should be focused on wedding plans. Instead, she and daughter Evie find themselves knee-deep in adorable kittens as Silver Circle tackles kitten season in Tablerock, Texas. But wedding catalogs and bottle-feeding schedules take a back seat when local artisan Penelope Periwinkle is discovered murdered among her handcrafted items at the town's annual Crafts and Creations Festival.

Halloween is coming to North Yorkshire, and the seaside town of Whitby is getting ready for its annual Goth Festival, where Goths of all ages descend on the town for a week of music, costumes, and spooky fun. When one of Liz McLuckie’s friends has a terrifying encounter with the Barghest—Yorkshire’s legendary Dog of Death—it sparks a series of mysterious fatalities in the town. Are supernatural forces at work, or is there another, more human, explanation?

Ex-celebrity and current (assistant) private investigator Maizie Albright finds her already strange life has become even odder. Her new partner is 150 pounds and canine. Her ex-partner/still-boyfriend is on the wrong side of her infidelity case. So it's Spy vs Spy — or rather, Detective vs Detective — when Maizie and Nash realize they're both tailing the same subject for very different reasons.

It's summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Bertie James' college class is having their 40th-anniversary reunion. The opening-night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library, and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed over the years. After the reception, some of the women take a walk down the boardwalk to the pier, using flashlights to illuminate the dark path, but what's scarier than the dark is finding the former director of the Lighthouse Library floating lifeless in the water.

Tablerock, Texas is not a town accustomed to blizzards. But as a once-in-a-lifetime freeze buries the town under piles of snow and ice, life grinds to a frosty halt. For Ellie and Evie Rockwell it means being snowed in at the Silver Circle Cat Rescue with their circle of friends—all of whom are feeling the chill in more ways than one. In an attempt to defrost the increasing tension among the group, they share stories of their past—including the unsolved murder of a local woman that has left a frosty shadow over Tablerock for years.