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Retired schoolteachers Pat, Liz and Thelma don’t know what to think. The death of Neville Hilton is not a crime. Just your standard, if tragic, heart attack. At least that’s what the autopsy shows. But his ex-wife isn’t convinced. She’s sure his current wife was involved – maybe she wasn’t at some horse event, as she told police. And so the three friends step away from the Melmbury slice to investigate.

London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon. A woman has been found dead in a lake in a place where she shouldn’t have been. Jane needs to gather the clues and find the killer before someone else from the agency gets hurt… Shy and handsome code-breaker Arthur Cilento is bewildered by the arrival of the efficient Miss Treen and her cat Marmaduke.

Tutte le famiglie attirano guai, ogni famiglia li attira a modo suo. Amy Wheeler e suo suocero Steve non fanno eccezione. Lei per i guai è una vera e propria calamita, e di certo non l’aiuta il lavoro alla Maximum Impact Solutions, agenzia specializzata nella protezione di persone famose. Stavolta Amy si trova su un’isola privata al largo della Carolina del Sud per garantire l’incolumità dell’irriverente e ricchissima scrittrice Rosie D’Antonio, minacciata da un magnate russo a cui non è piaciuto riconoscersi in un personaggio del suo ultimo romanzo.

The last thing Officer Dixie Jones wants to do over winter break is take an assignment in the Podunk town of Lily Rock. But if locating a missing baby Jesus statue for the Christmas tree lighting ceremony is what she needs to do to land the big city assignment of her dreams, that’s exactly what she’ll do. As soon as Dixie arrives in town she realizes there are worse things at play than stolen decorations. Mysterious emails. Biker gang activity. A deadly fire. One thing is clear, there is more to Lily Rock than meets the eye.

Gwinny is at a stately home in the Yorkshire Dales, filming a small part in a gender-swapped remake of Dracula while looking after the dog of an elderly friend who lives nearby. During filming, an actor is found dead inside a locked trailer—with a stake through their heart! The film's star, an obnoxious big-shot Hollywood actress who once played a cop on TV, decides she will solve the crime. But Gwinny isn't impressed, and they clash as both women mount rival investigations.

On board the world’s finest luxury cruise ship, the days are filled with sunshine, cocktails, and incredible new places to explore. Unless you are employed as the ship’s detective, that is. That job falls to a lady called Patricia Fisher, a whip-smart sleuth whose special skills include attracting trouble, getting shot at, and running away screaming. So, when a mysterious stowaway is found murdered in the bowels of the ship, it falls firmly into her lap to work out not only who he is, but who killed him.

This bundle includes Curse the Day, Doom and Broom, and Spell's Bells.

I never thought my life would take a turn into the world of murder mysteries, but here I am, Ophelia Pane, vampire veterinarian extraordinaire, caught in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse... or should I say parrot and vampire? As I struggle to juggle my overflowing clinic of fur babies and mythical creatures, a simple house call to check in on a chatty parrot named Elvis turns into a nightmare when I stumble upon his owner’s lifeless body.

Even the most glamorous stately homes hide secrets and lies from the past... When Flora receives a shocking telegram about her father’s sudden death in a riding accident, she rushes back to her childhood home, Cleeve Abbey. Once a governess to young Eddy, Viscount Trent, and daughter of the Earl’s trusted butler, Flora finds the house steeped in unease. Her plans to lay her father to rest beside her mother, Lily, are upended when mystery surrounds Lily’s final resting place.

Quinn Callahan befindet sich in einer schweren Midlife-Crisis. Beruflich steckt sie in einer Sackgasse, die sie nirgendwo hinführt, aber damit hat sie sich abgefunden. Sie ist fünfundvierzig und geschieden. Ihr Mann hat sie für ihre beste Freundin verlassen–wie klischeehaft! Doch eigentlich war alles in Ordnung–bis Quinn, eine praktizierende Hexe, eine grundlegende Regel bricht, und ihr langweiliges Leben auf den Kopf gestellt wird.

Despite the rumors, I'm definitely not a witch, my VHS tapes are not cursed, and renting one absolutely will not hurt anyone. Unless they forget to return it on time—late fees are killer. Kidding! As a werewolf, I can smell everyone's emotions. Guilt stinks like rotten fish, happiness is citrusy, and buttery popcorn...well, that's just my snack. But it's all too overwhelming. To make matters worse, a visitor ends up dead in front of my video rental shop and rumors spread fast. Gossiping ghosts and busybody vampires claim my movies magically murdered him.

Alessia “Allie” Wells is a woman of science. She doesn’t believe in things like werewolves and vampires, sparkly or otherwise. Until her wedding day, when a darkly alluring man appears and kidnaps her in the middle of her glamorous Upper East Side nuptials, whisking her away to a magical island. As the weeks pass, Alessia struggles to accept this new world—an enchanting land rife with fascinating creatures—and her place in it. She soon learns of the curse that is holding her new island captive…and killing everyone on it.

Alyson Prescott moves to Cutter's Cove, Oregon, after being placed, along with her mother, in the witness protection program. She is forced to leave her old life behind and become a middle-class girl, living in a middle-class town. Alyson struggles with the duplicity in her life as she strives to reconcile her new life with the old.

Bexley Cosgrove has a soft spot for abandoned animals after being abandoned herself as a young child. She knows she owes her life to the dog who found and rescued her, so as an adult, Bexley has committed her life to rescuing as many dogs and cats as possible. In book 1 of a new spinoff series set in picturesque Gooseberry Bay, Bexley finds a dog hiding on the car deck of the ferry that runs between Seattle Washington and the peninsula where the small town of Gooseberry Bay is tucked onto the shoreline of a beautiful deepwater inlet.

Edinburgh, 1948. Welfare Officer Helen Crowther has enough on her plate between her hectic job, her complicated love life, and her growing reputation as a troublemaker. Last year's scandal did nothing to help with the disapproval she already gets as a woman in her line of work. All she wants now is to focus on doing what she loves: helping the poor of the Fountainbridge ward in the city of Edinburgh. The last thing she needs is another string of murders to distract her . . .

Everything is going smoothly as Emma prepares for the grand opening of the spa. The therapy rooms are painted. The sales shop and café are stocked with meditative and delicious goodies, from essential oils to avocado masks and prickly pear massages. The fountain in the Courtyard of Peace is burbling with good vibrations. In fact, there isn’t a whiff of trouble until that morning when Emma is shocked to learn that a rival spa owner has been bludgeoned . . . with an item from the goodwill basket Emma gave her. Worse, a witness is pointing the finger at Emma.

Jane Ladling is the sole proprietor of her family’s landlocked cemetery, Garden of Memories. She’s responsible for the, er, guests, but there’s a slight problem. Well, besides her moody cat, Rolex, and her sixty-two-year-old best friend’s unrequited crush on the sheriff. An extra body now rests in Plot #39. Enter Special Agent Conrad Ryan. He’s gruff, he’s gorgeous, and oh, yes, he kind of suspects her of murder. What’s an innocent—and very single, not that it matters—girl to do? Solve the crime herself. Even if she must turn the small town of Aurelian Hills, Georgia upside down.

Mit Herz und Schnauze - Siggi ermittelt auf Sylt! Für alle Hörer:innen von humorvollen Küsten-Krimis. Inselmord und Krabbencocktail : Kosmetikerin Siggi Pizolka aus Dortmund steht vor der Pleite. Doch dann erbt sie vollkommen unerwartet ein Haus auf Sylt. Kurzentschlossen zieht sie mitsamt Lebensabschnittspartner Torsten und Yorkshire-Hündin Candy auf die Nordsee-Insel. Hier möchte Siggi mit dem Verkauf von Dessous, Kosmetika und erotischem Spielzeug bei der berühmten und gut betuchten Kundschaft landen. Bis das Geschäft floriert, schlägt sie sich als Reinigungskraft durch.

Yvonne Parker is enjoying an early morning hack through the fields on the outskirts of Shaftesbury in Dorset, with her horse Toby, when they discover a dead body. Jewellery is strewn on the ground, and the identity of the body is unknown. Who is the man who appears in the field? Is he involved in the crimes? Yvonne and Toby have stumbled across a tragedy which will reveal more about her home town and friends than Yvonne could ever imagine.

Alle Vögel sind schon tot – vier Hobby-Ornithologen ermitteln in ihrem ersten Fall am Chiemsee. Harald, Katja, Thilo und Sabine sind Vogelbeobachter. Oder Birder, wie es in Fachkreisen heißt. Jeden Sonntag treffen sie sich in aller Herrgottsfrühe auf dem Beobachtungsturm im Grabenstätter Moos am Chiemsee, um ihrem Hobby nachzugehen und ein seltenes gefiedertes Exemplar vors Fernglas zu bekommen. So auch an diesem Sonntag, als sie das Nest eines brütenden Braunkehlchens entdecken. Nur dass sich unweit entfernt ein weniger schöner Anblick bietet.

Per fortuna l’avvocato Ettore Mezzalama ha un cuore d’atleta. Ne ha bisogno per resistere alla fine del suo matrimonio e alle stranezze di un figlio ribelle che è una vera dannazione. E già questo basterebbe a mandare in frantumi la normalità di una rispettabile vita borghese. Se poi si aggiungono la scoperta tardiva della propria omosessualità e la relazione clandestina con Ferdinando, fascinoso musicista e suo vicino di casa, allora serve davvero un fisico bestiale. Per completare il quadro da crisi di nervi ci si mette pure una socia insofferente all’autorità.

When Charlemagne (the pup) vanishes to uncover a lottery ticket alongside the road, Sally embarks on a tangled quest to reunite the ticket with its rightful owner. But time is ticking, and a mysterious, determined thief is hot on her trail. Will Sally and Joan crack the case before the ticket—or she—expires? Should she just cash it in and keep it for herself? What’s an 87-year-old spunky woman to do?

The Jessie Harper Paranormal Cozy Mystery series is set in 1930s Liverpool, a city the author knows well. They are light-hearted tales with oodles of British humour partly supplied by Khan, the magical, talking cat.

Sadie Alden has been invited to the South Coast to investigate a murder and it’s a welcome change of pace given the chaos of the past few weeks. Hope Falls is a small town at the bottom of the main island, isolated by the cliffs that surround it and unwelcoming to outsiders. Sadie’s familiar tries to warn her that it won’t be all sand and sunshine, especially when they’re surrounded by murder suspects, but at least she can leave the werewolf drama behind for a couple of days.

When Amanda Parker returns to the small seaside town where she lived for two years while in witness protection she finds that she left a piece of herself behind. Literally. A ghost image of her alias, Alyson Prescott, has been living in her house for the past decade waiting rather impatiently for her return.