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A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine...boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bills to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get. The client tries to call Kinsey off, an accusing husband surfaces, and a double murder turns the case sinister.

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find....

Sir Roger Parkes is a man of some influence in the West Country. When he loses touch with his youngest daughter, he has a word with the Assistant Chief Constable of the local force. It's not a police matter, he is told, but if Sir Roger wants to pursue it privately, there is a lady who might be able to help-two of them, actually.

Artemus Black doesn't believe in fate...but even a hardened Hollywood PI can question destiny when cases turn ugly. With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, nicotine, and anger management issues, how much worse can it get? The answer is plenty, and Black finds himself in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder - and bad hair days.

When London’s finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time. But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns up dead in a locked room in an apparent suicide, Skins, Dunn and Ellie realize this is going to be a much tougher gig than they thought.

MCM Investigations are back! Although Brigit isn’t sure for how long. Money is tight, business is slow, and her partner, Paul, has been temporarily crippled due to her attempts to be in two places at once; one place being at the bottom of a ladder. It’s therefore manna from heaven when an old friend comes to them in need of help.

The voice was smooth, cultured, almost tender as it oozed from the phone into Connor Fraser's ear. 'I've heard about you, Mr Fraser, and I'm very impressed by your work. So I've decided to employ you. I am going to kill Father John Donnelly sometime in the next seven days. And you are going to stop me—or die trying. If you check your account, you'll see I've deposited £70,000. And, just to be fair, I'll give you an hour, starting now, to find Father Donnelly before the games begin. Refuse my offer, and someone you love will die. Good hunting, to both of us.'

After Sir Robert's injury from the battle of Waterloo begins troubling him again, his wife Lucy insists they relocate from the village of Kurland St. Mary to Bath, along with her sister Anna, so that Robert can take the waters and recover. At the Roman baths, Robert befriends an elderly and pugnacious businessman, Sir William Benson, ennobled by the Crown for his service to industry. Their acquaintance is short-lived, however, when the man is found drowned in the baths. Robert vows to find his killer, with Lucy's aid.

A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Marybeth Pickett finds an unmarked package at the front door of the library where she works. When she opens the package, she finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why did they leave it with her? She learns that during World War II several Wyoming soldiers were in the group that fought to Hitler's Eagles Nest retreat in the Alps - and one of them took Hitler's personal photo album. Did another take this one and keep it all these years?

Liam, a quiet, unassuming accountant, depressed with marriage difficulties and recently made redundant, impulsively rescues two people from a knife attack. The consequences change his life forever.

Die schöne Schwedin ist nur noch von einem einzigen Gedanken besessen: Sie will endlich die Wahrheit über den grausamen Mord an ihrer Schwester erfahren. Sherlock Holmes nimmt die Herausforderung an, dem Urheber des Schreckens das Handwerk zu legen. Noch ahnen weder Holmes noch Watson etwas von dem blutigen Ritual, das nachts in den Straßen des Londoner East Ends ausgeführt wird - dem Avalon-Ritus...

Bei Nacht und Nebel flieht sie aus ihrem Heimatland, um in der Fremde ihr Glück zu suchen. Fast scheint es, als wäre sie endlich am Ziel ihrer Träume angelangt, da fällt ein drohender Schatten über ihr neues Lebensglück. Ein fürchterlicher Verdacht beschleicht sie, und so wendet sich die edle Dame mit den Saphiraugen an den einzigen Mann, von dem sie sich Hilfe verspricht - den beratenden Detektiv Sherlock Holmes. Holmes und Watson stürzen sich Hals über Kopf in ein neues Abenteuer.

Ein ungewöhnlicher Auftrag für Sherlock Holmes: Obwohl kein Verbrechen geschehen ist, wird der Meisterdetektiv mit einem Fall betraut, der den Rahmen des Gewöhnlichen sprengt. Denn über Nacht sind vier mittellose Personen in London zu sagenhaftem Reichtum gelangt. Dies weckt Scotland Yards Misstrauen. - Holmes nimmt die Ermittlungen auf, um festzustellen, ob dabei alles mit rechten Dingen zuging. Doch da ereignet sich ein überraschender Todesfall. Und noch erkennt niemand das Wispern der Libelle...

Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und sein treuer Weggefährte, Dr. John H. Watson, werden zum Schauplatz eines grässlichen Verbrechens gerufen. Inspektor Lestrade steht vor einem schier unlösbaren Rätsel - denn alles deutet darauf hin, dass der Mörder selbst längst tot sein müsste. Und doch lebt er noch immer und bahnt sich einen Pfad des Schreckens durch London. Sherlock Holmes hat nur einen einzigen Anhaltspunkt, der einer Visitenkarte gleich in den Mündern der Leichname steckt: Die gläsernen Flügel der Sphinx...

Ganz London steht Kopf: Das rätselhafte Ableben Lord Ashburys erschüttert die feine Gesellschaft der englischen Metropole. Es gibt nur einen Mann, der jetzt noch Licht ins Dunkel bringen könnte. Doch selbst der legendäre Meisterdetektiv aus der Baker Street 221 B sieht sich jäh Hindernissen gegenüber, die unüberwindlich scheinen: Liegt am Ende doch ein tödlicher Fluch über dem Haus Ashbury?

Kaum aufs heimatliche Anwesen zurückgekehrt, wird Lucille Amos in dramatische Umstände verwickelt. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson müssen einsehen, dass in diesem Fall alle Hilfe zu spät kommt: Unweit von Harlington wurde die enthauptete Leiche des Lords entdeckt - Sandfort und seine Schergen haben ihre Drohung auf grausame Weise wahr gemacht. Holmes ist dennoch fest dazu entschlossen, den Mördern das Handwerk zu legen. Denn schon das nächste Opfer Sandforts könnte Lucille Amos heißen, die letzte verbliebene Erbin von Hysteria Hall...

Das British Museum in London: Ein anonymer Absender kündigt schriftlich ein geplantes Verbrechen an - die unbezahlbare Statuette einer römischen Göttin soll aus dem Museum gestohlen werden. Mr. Downing, der Kurator des Museums, bittet Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Hilfe in dieser Angelegenheit. Doch was als vermeintlich harmloser Einsatz beginnt, entpuppt sich bald als nervenzerreißendes Abenteuer. Holmes hat nur einen einzigen Anhaltspunkt, um ein weitaus schlimmeres Verbrechen zu verhindern. Und diese Spur führt zu einer rätselhaften Gestalt: "Sturmfront Steven"...

When four siblings are ripped apart by the foster system, one determined attorney must face corruption, danger, and deadly secrets to bring them back together. Attorney Sabre Brown takes on a devastating case to reunite four siblings separated by the foster system. Determined to bring the Winters children back together, she discovers that their original social worker died in a suspicious car crash, and corruption within child services might be to blame.

Wyatt Blake, district attorney turned defense lawyer, faces his first murder trial from the dark side. He’s representing Ryker Brando, a wealthy rock climber charged with murder for cutting the rope of his climbing partner, causing him to hurtle to his death. Colorado’s “Choice of Evils” defense will determine whether Wyatt can get Ryker off even though the man who fell was having an affair with Ryker’s wife. Wyatt, a widower with a six-year-old daughter, faces his own choice of evils in his personal life, as he battles grief and guilt over the tragic death of his wife.

Who would have thought a hitman needed a psychic like me for a bodyguard? Too bad he’s so smokin’ hot that I can’t concentrate, and all my visions involve kissing those amazing lips. A hitman should be safe from death when he’s the one doing the hunting, but for Stone, everything changes when he becomes the target. He’s not a stranger to enemies, but most people know better than to cross him. His boss, Quentin Vanetti, decides Stone needs help to stay alive long enough to find the assassin, so he enlists Serenity Jones. The only problem? She’s a psychic.