Ergebnis für "The Foxe" in Cosy Crime

When the celebrated biographer of the infamous pirate Blackheart takes a suite at the Mayfair Hotel to live out his final months, Goliath the porter is desperate to ask the one question that has haunted treasure hunters for decades: Where is the loot buried? Forbidden to disturb a guest, he instead visits the man writing the author’s own life story, only to discover him dead at his desk. Accused of the crime, Goliath turns to Cleo and Harry to clear his name.

Lavendel, Lorbeer, Leichenfund. Mags Blake ist überglücklich: Die ersten anstrengenden Wochen nach der Geburt ihrer Tochter sind überstanden, und auch beruflich steht Aufregendes bevor. Gulliver und sie sind zur renommierten Chelsea Flower Show eingeladen. Schon vor Monaten haben sie einen Schaugarten in der Nähe von Rosehaven angelegt, doch genau in jenem stolpert Mags plötzlich über eine Leiche. Diesmal will sie sich nicht in die Ermittlungen hineinziehen lassen - bis sie erfährt, dass der Mord mehr mit ihr zu tun hat, als sie hätte ahnen können.

Juni in Cornwall. Mags Blake erreicht ein Hilferuf ihrer Freundin Mary Shifter. Ihr Partner, der Pilot Tim Robinson, ist nach einer Schlägerei verhaftet worden. Die Anklage lautet auf Mord. Mags kann das nicht glauben. Mit der ihr eigenen Hartnäckigkeit versucht sie, Tim zu entlasten. Was ist wirklich in der Nacht vor dem Pub geschehen? Und was hat Tims Vergangenheit bei der Royal Air Force damit zu tun? Gelingt es Mags und ihre Freunden auch diesmal, den Nebel zu lichten und die Wahrheit aufzudecken?

Mags Blake hat schlechte Laune. Sie vermisst ihren Freund, der in Oxford arbeitet, und ihr Transporter hat den Geist aufgegeben. Da kommt ihr eine Ausschreibung gelegen: Eine alte Zinnmine soll in ein Gartenparadies verwandelt werden. Mags ist sogar bereit, mit einem exzentrischen Londoner Landschaftsarchitekten zusammenzuarbeiten. Doch bevor sie ihre Pläne vorlegen können, brennt das Gebäude der alten Mine ab - und in den Trümmern wird eine Leiche gefunden. Schnell ist klar, dass es kein Unfall gewesen sein kann. Welche Geheimnisse birgt die alte Mine, für die es sich zu töten lohnt?

December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her. But the poisoning of a guest on Christmas eve throws her new life, and the hotel, into chaos. Cleo quickly realizes no one can be trusted, not Scotland Yard and especially not the hotel’s charming assistant manager.

With the social season just around the corner, the women in Cleo’s family are having new outfits made by the most sought-after designer in the city. Madame Poitiers is bold, self-absorbed, and not French, despite her claims. When Cleo stumbles on her dead body in the salon, she is in a unique position to gather clues and speak to witnesses. But she doesn’t expect to find Harry Armitage’s business card in Madame’s possession. What is the alluring private detective’s connection to the victim? And why is he avoiding Cleo?

A wealthy businessman with a reputation for taking risks rose from the slums to the height of success. But success comes at a price, especially when it’s achieved at the expense of others.

Tulpen, Tee und tödliche Gefahr. Frühling in Cornwall: Eigentlich könnte alles so schön sein, denn Sam, der Freund der jungen Gärtnerin Mags Blake, ist endlich zu ihr gezogen. Doch ein anonymer Brief, in dem behauptet wird, der Tod ihres Vaters sei kein Unfall gewesen, lässt ihr keine Ruhe. Hatte sein Tod etwas mit seinem letzten Gartenprojekt zu tun? Als Hinweise auf Mags' Mutter auftauchen, die vor Jahren spurlos verschwunden ist, hat plötzlich auch die Polizei Interesse an dem Fall. Und schon bald schwebt Mags selbst in Gefahr.

When Harry Armitage passes an investigation to Cleo involving adultery, they both think it will end in divorce. But when the client’s wife is found stabbed in her drawing room, it becomes clear that marital problems are only part of the story. As they peel back the lies and expose the sordid details of a marriage in tatters, they see firsthand how gossip and politics fuel the machinations of high society.

Lilien, Leichen und Lemon Curd. Die junge Gärtnerin Mags Blake begleitet als Expertin eine Reisegruppe zu den spektakulärsten Gärten in Südengland. Zwischen atemberaubender Natur und außergewöhnlichen Unterkünften könnte das Leben kaum schöner sein, doch irgendetwas stimmt nicht mit dieser scheinbar harmlosen Gruppe aus Garten-Enthusiasten. Bald häufen sich die seltsamen Vorfälle, bis einer von ihnen tödlich endet... Nun ist es an Mags herauszufinden, wer in der Reisegruppe nicht das ist, was er zu sein scheint.

Baking. It can get a guy killed. A shadowy master criminal has been kidnapping experts from the food industry and stealing both food and equipment. The crimes are so unrelated no one in the world had noticed the connections. No one except Albert Smith, that is.

Max has settled nicely into life in Welling. He's got the best boyfriend ever born and a life he never imagined he could have. He's also written his new screenplay, and the hottest director in Hollywood has snapped it up enthusiastically. Things take a turn for the worse when one of the actors is murdered, and the best suspects are Max, his family, and his houseguests. The sheriff is no help at all, so Max needs to discover who the killer is before someone ends up behind bars.

Max is living the screenwriter dream. He's not even thirty, he's just won an Oscar, and he's dating the gorgeous star of his movie. But after that one magical night, everything crumbles. The movie star dumps him, and his latest screenplay is a blank document that stubbornly refuses to write itself. So Max decides to disappear into the middle of nowhere and maybe obscurity. He's just getting settled into his new life when suddenly someone is trying to kill him.

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Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek, Vermont, seems like the perfect place to start over after losing her Boston job to a merger and her relationship to her ex's gambling addiction. She's bought and redecorated the old grist mill pub, transforming the Inkwell into a cozy spot where tourists and regulars alike can enjoy a pint or a literary-themed cocktail, or join one of several book clubs.

When Marley McKinney's aging cousin, Jimmy, is hospitalized with pneumonia, she agrees to help run his pancake house while he recovers. With its rustic interior and syrupy scent, the Flip Side Pancake House is just as she pictured it - and the surly chef is a wizard with crêpes. Marley expects to spend a leisurely week or two in Wildwood Cove, the quaint, coastal community where she used to spend her summers, but then Cousin Jimmy is found murdered, sprawled on the rocks beneath a nearby cliff.

Just because she can see the dead doesn’t mean Verity Long wants to spend her days hunting ghosts. Instead, she’s over the moon to land a marketing job at the local bank…until she finds her new boss dead in the vault. Even her ghost friend, Frankie, knows that's no way to start a career. Relieved to let the police take charge, Verity steps aside, bound and determined to keep her ghost sightings to herself. But when she learns the main suspect in the murder is a very crooked, very dead mobster, Verity knows it's up to her to solve the case.

It's been years since screenwriter Georgie Johansen last visited her Aunt Olivia's farm in the coastal town of Twilight Cove, and things have certainly changed. First of all, it's now an animal sanctuary, and then there's the new farmhand who's as mysterious as he is handsome. Her first day on the farm, Georgie encounters the eccentric Dorothy Shale, an older woman who lives in a cabin in the woods. There are rumours that Dorothy's a witch, but Georgie doesn't believe that. Although, Dorothy does have an unusual magical presence around her.

In this delightfully charming rom-com mystery, a woman becomes accidentally entangled in a murder investigation (and with a handsome stranger) when her fake detective agency is enlisted to solve a real homicide. Emersyn Gray is definitely not a detective. Really, she’s an unemployed...