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When a new restaurant with a starred American chef opens in Cherringham, it seems the Spotted Pig has a worthy rival. But a series of disturbing incidents turns that rivalry into something dangerous - perhaps even fatal. Jack and Sarah get involved and soon discover dark secrets about the new chef Anna... Can they uncover what is really happening before both restaurants go belly-up? Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new audio episode released every two weeks.

Last year at Cherringham High, and for three girls that means facing the School Summer Challenge, a grueling fifty-mile hike across the Cotswolds, through thick woods, over steep hills, camping each night under the stars. But when one of them disappears in the middle of the night and is found dead in the morning, most believe a terrible accident has taken place. Was it really an accident? Jack and Sarah aren't convinced - and soon discover that secrets and lies can have terrible consequences... and always leave a trail.

Kat brings Harry across the Atlantic to New York for a planned whirlwind time in her home town - complete with a lavish suite at the Plaza. But when Teddy Crowther - grandson of a wealthy City magnate - is snatched by the mob, the pair is asked to help. As Prohibition New York swelters in a heatwave, the Mortimers soon find themselves playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse, not just with the kidnappers, but also the rest of the Crowther family, all of whom have everything to gain - and maybe lose - if Teddy is found ...

When Alex King, leader of legendary 90s rock group Lizard, hosts a party to get the band back together, old grudges surface. At dawn Alex is found floating in the pool of his Cherringham mansion. To the police it's a drug-fueled accident. But when Jack and Sarah get involved, they quickly discover that while a song may never die - the person, who wrote it, might have been murdered.

Every Halloween, the supposedly haunted Bell Hotel hosts its famous 'Ghost-Hunters Dinner', complete with scary stories, spooky apparitions and things that go bump in the night. But this year's event ends in a terrifying accident, and suddenly everyone wonders... Is there a real ghost loose in the hotel? Jack and Sarah are convinced that the culprit must be human: who would want bad things to happen at the classic hotel? But soon they're forced to confront their own superstitions as they find themselves on the trail of an unsolved Victorian murder.

A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Best-selling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott take listeners on an unforgettable journey of exploration to reveal how our universe actually works. Propelling you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space, this book builds your cosmic insight and perspective through a marvelously entertaining narrative.

When Cherringham choir stalwart Arthur Chisholm is robbed in the dead of night, ending up in hospital, it seems he's just the victim of bad luck. Bad timing too, since he will now miss the choir's special holiday performance of Handel's Messiah - to be performed with scores of other local choirs, in London's Royal Albert Hall. But as more of their fellow choir members are burgled, Jack and Sarah realise these crimes are no coincidence.

When Edward Townes - famed writer of novels about knights and maids, and castles and conquering - attends a medieval launch party for his latest book, he arrives ready to do more than celebrate. But party night brings a blizzard, a once-in-a-century storm that sees Townes staggering home, alone ... only to be found dead the next day. With Cherringham cut-off and the blizzard still raging, Jack and Sarah start investigating. Their questions reveal that many of those still stranded in the dark village have secrets. And Townes' killer is still in the village.

Claire and Terry Goodman seem to have everything. Successful business. Son at Oxford. New mansion right on the River Thames. And seemingly - plenty of money to spend. But when Jack and Sarah are asked to investigate an odd robbery at their home, secrets start to emerge. And as the truth is revealed, for someone it will be too much to bear, and murder may be the only way out.

When Jack and Sarah are called in to investigate mysterious pranks at an exclusive girls' private school, it seems at first that it might be the work of a few mean pupils with a grudge. But things quickly turn serious when a popular teacher meets a sudden, violent death. Now, with murder in the air, Jack and Sarah have their own lessons to learn about the Cherringham Girls School, its dark secrets... and who wanted that teacher dead before they learned the truth.

As Mark Zuckerberg once put it, "the Age of Privacy is over." But Zuckerberg and others who say "privacy is dead" are wrong. In Why Privacy Matters, Neil Richards explains that privacy isn't dead, but rather up for grabs. Richards shows how the fight for privacy is a fight for power. If we want to preserve our commitments to these precious yet fragile values, we will need privacy rules. Pithy and forceful, this is a must-listen for anyone interested in a topic that sits at the center of so many current problems.

Tödliche Beichte: Am Rande von Cherringham befindet sich das Kloster St. Francis. In dem kleinen katholischen Lehrorden lebt eine Handvoll Nonnen, die sich der Religion, der Kontemplation und dem Gebet widmen. Genau an diesem Ort ereilt den beliebten örtlichen Pfarrer Pater Byrne an Ostern gänzlich unerwartet der Tod. Die Umstände sind verdächtig, und bald beschäftigen sich Jack und Sarah mit dem Fall. Welche Geheimnisse nahm Pater Byrne mit ins Grab? Wer wollte seinen Tod?

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from 30 best-selling and award-winning authors - including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child - with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Very British - drei "Cherringham"-Hörbücher in einem Band! Folge 34: "Das Rätsel von Brimley Manor": Brimley Manor hat seine besten Tage hinter sich. Schon lange. Das einst prächtige Anwesen ist inzwischen ein Museum für allerlei verstaubte Kuriositäten des ehemaligen Eigentümers. Doch dann bricht ein Feuer aus - und Jack und Sarah entdecken immer mehr Hinweise, die auf Brandstiftung deuten! Die Angestellten von Brimley Manor scheinen allerdings nicht besonders interessiert, den Brand aufzuklären.

Sir Harry reist im Auftrag des britischen Geheimdienstes nach Paris und nimmt natürlich seine Ehefrau Kat mit - schließlich ist ein Aufenthalt in der französischen Hauptstadt immer ein Abenteuer. Kat beschließt, sich selbst auf die Suche nach ihm zu machen. Seine Spur führt sie von prächtigen Hotels zu den dunklen Nachtclubs der Place Pigalle - und schon bald wird klar: In der Stadt der Liebe kann ein einziger falscher Schritt tödlich sein ...

Folge 48 der britischen Erfolgsserie. Als der weltberühmte Zauberer Ludovico Visconti tot auf seinem Landsitz Compton Manor aufgefunden wird, scheint zunächst nichts verdächtig. Offenbar starb der alte Mann an einem Herzinfarkt. Seine langjährige Assistentin wird jedoch misstrauisch und bittet Jack und Sarah, Nachforschungen anzustellen. Aber in der Welt der Magie ist vieles anders, als es auf den ersten Blick scheint - und Zaubertricks können tödlich sein ...

Als der beliebte Tennistrainer Todd Winters eines Nachts mit seinem Auto von der Straße abkommt und in den Fluss stürzt, scheint es sich um einen tragischen Unfall zu handeln. Aber Kat und Harry finden heraus, dass der attraktive junge Mann eine Menge Geheimnisse hatte. Wollte ihn jemand aus dem Weg räumen? Bald schon stoßen die beiden Detektive auf eindeutige Beweise für ein Verbrechen! Doch sie müssen auf der Hut sein - denn in der vornehmen Welt des Mydworth-Lawn-Tennis-Clubs könnte ein verzweifelter Mörder bereit sein, wieder zu töten.

Folge 43 der britischen Erfolgsserie. Lampenfieber in Cherringham: Der Chor des beschaulichen Ortes soll in der Londoner Royal Albert Hall gemeinsam mit anderen Chören aus dem ganzen Land Händels "Messias" aufführen. Doch nur wenige Tage vorher wird einer der erfahrensten Sänger, der zurückhaltende Musiklehrer Arthur Chisholm, mitten in der Nacht ausgeraubt und niedergeschlagen. Und es bleibt nicht bei diesem einen Vorfall - auch bei anderen Chormitgliedern wird eingebrochen.

Do you wonder whether there’s another way? Another, more creative, more meaningful approach to living your life. Well there is and there’s a growing movement of people from all kinds of walks of life who are proving that the way we end up doing what we do in life is often a side effect of external forces. Rather than a deliberate, conscious and authentic set of choices that have come from you and your unique needs. What are you chasing? Success? Safety? Fame? Fortune? Recognition? Have you stopped to think recently why you’re doing what your doing with your life? Are the stories that ...

Eine mörderische Silvesterparty... Neujahr rückt näher und Kat und Harry sind zu einer exklusiven Party nach Schottland unterwegs: Der amerikanische Filmmogul Jack Garner lädt auf die imposante Inverdoran Castle in den Highlands ein! Aber kurz nach ihrer Ankunft gibt es einen heftigen Schneesturm, der die Burg komplett von der Außenwelt isoliert. Während sich Kat und Harry mit den anderen Gästen bekannt machen, wird ihnen schnell klar, dass in der gehobenen Gesellschaft jeder seine Geheimnisse hat. Doch ein seltsamer Unfall eines Gastes erweckt das Misstrauen der beiden Ermittler.