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The purrfect Seacastle Christmas mystery to keep you up all night. When preparations for Christmas at the Grotty Hovel are interrupted by the discovery of a body in the back garden, local sleuth, Tanya Bowe, finds herself embroiled in a cold case mystery. The local police are less than...

When life turns up the heat, Ginny Malone is ready to whip up a new beginning . . . High-powered criminal attorney Ginny Malone never expected to swap her designer suits for flour-dusted aprons, but a twist of fate sends her fleeing to the quaint coastal town of Moonstone Bay, California. With...

David Mathews, the wildly popular candidate expected to win the Colorado governor's seat, has been murdered. His death has made headlines across the nation and Denver's police are scrambling to solve the high-profile case. Mathews's estranged wife Sydney had motive—her husband's...

It's been a hectic holiday season in small-town Glen Lake, North Carolina, and after managing her mom's busy needlepoint shop, Nina's Nimble Needle, Shelby Phillips is looking forward to a relaxing January—but a killer has different plans . . . All of Gwen Lake is ready for a month of...

In a lakeside town in upstate New York, Daisy Swanson's daughter Jazzi carries on the family tradition as proprietor of a bookshop and tea bar—as well as her mother's legacy as a sleuth . . . Belltower Landing gallery owner Sophronia Abbott is a fixture at Tomes & Tea. She's one of their more...

Chef Bunny MacBride has gotten roped into a ghost-hunting reality show called Food & Spirits, creating dishes to whet the appetites of apparitions. Along the way, she's discovered she has some supernatural gifts of her own—and an eerie knack for solving murders . . . The cast and crew are on...

Seacastle's famous medium is dead. Did his secrets kill him? When a revered spiritualist correctly predicts his own death, his clients are torn between awe and alarm. But the police are calling it murder and one of their own was the last person known to visit him. The case seems open and shut...

Former child actor Jarrod Jarvis has finally settled into a quieter life in his late fifties in Palm Springs—bit roles here and there, a comfortable routine, and a steady relationship with Secret Service agent Jim Stratton. His twenty-three-year-old daughter Liv, however, has inherited none of...

At a coastal memorial for Helen Bowers, Mara Vale notices a small mistake. The table cards are in the wrong order. One guest has been placed where she should not be. Another name is missing. The welcome speech has been moved. Condolence cards have been hidden in a drawer. A letter appears and disappears from the writing room. Lilies arrive according to an order nobody admits to placing. And Noor Bell, a writer who barely knew Helen, has been invited for reasons no one can yet explain. Mara has come to host a memorial. Instead, she begins to read the house.

Vous êtes le détective : saurez-vous résoudre ce meurtre avant la fin du dîner ? L'affaire Verreman a défrayé la chronique. Ce respectable lord anglais est en effet accusé de meurtre. Vous vous retrouvez dans sa somptueuse demeure, le lieu du crime, devant les principaux protagonistes de l'affaire. Les membres de sa famille, l'entourage de la victime, les témoins mais aussi le policier chargé de l'affaire et le médecin légiste : chacun vous donne sa version des faits. À l'issue de cette murder party, il ne fait guère de doute que Lord Verreman est coupable. Et pourtant...

A village bookseller finds her quiet life in the Cotswolds turned upside-down by a true crime podcast that casts her as the villain in a grisly murder from her past—a thrilling novel from the award-winning author of the Murder Most Unladylike series. On February 22nd, Alice Mildmay, a...

A missing woman everyone hates. A sleepaway camp for adults with bad personalities. A one-of-a-kind detective. “Once again the incomparable (and unhinged) Jo Firestone proves that she is damn funny.”—Ziwe, on Murder on Sex Island Marie Jones is back on her feet. Mostly. She’s keeping her...

Based on a true-life unsolved murder case, this debut novel is a compulsively readable atmospheric thriller that combines the chilling tension of true crime with the skillful imagination of an island native. Monique Daly was a teenager when she escaped Nantucket twenty-five years ago, leaving...

Prepare to be whisked away into a world of intrigue, secrets, and a purr-fectly puzzling mystery in Murderous Meow! In the quaint town of North Pleasanton, librarian Magnolia Bennett leads a seemingly ordinary life, surrounded by shelves of books, but when a shocking crime shakes the quiet community—the murder of local "cat lady" Georgia Canton—Magnolia and her furry friends find themselves thrust into the heart of a baffling whodunit.

Un ex poliziotto. Una città che non perdona. Una resa dei conti rimandata troppo a lungo. Segui le indagini del Drago, un investigatore senza licenza né padroni, nelle ombre di una Milano sotterranea. Dopo giorni di convalescenza, l’ex poliziotto Lorenzo Visconti, detto il Drago, lascia il...

She lost everything. Except the will to fight. When former CIA operative Meg Dalton finds a shocking clue that suggests her long-missing daughter might still be alive, she's forced into a desperate, high-stakes search for the truth. Fifteen years after little Ivy vanished without a trace at a...

"Hast schon gehört?" "Was meinst?" "Na die Sache mit dem jungen Grafen." "Was ist mit dem? Jetzt sag schon." "Er heiratet ein Mädchen von hier. Isabella Kirnbauer." "Oh... das ist ja..." Jeder im Bezirk wusste, wer der Isabella ihr Vater war. Der alte Säufer. Und ihre Großmutter - über die sprach man besser gar nicht. Das ist ja wie in der "Neuen Post". Nur besser, weil man im Südburgenland ist und die Leute persönlich kennt. Und dass dann die Gegenbraut auf der Hochzeit Blut spuckend zusammenbricht, ist erst der Anfang der Katastrophe.

"Im Grunde bin ich ein Naturwissenschaftler, den es reizt, Abstecher in die trügerische Literaturwissenschaft zu unternehmen. Das erkennen Sie auch an meinem klaren und präzisen Verstand." England Ende der 40er Jahre. Oxford-Professor und Exzentriker Gervase Fen, wie er selbst betont, der einzige Literaturwissenschaftler der Kriminalliteratur, der je Detektiv wurde, hat es sich in den Kopf gesetzt, Lokalpolitiker zu werden. Das Dörfchen Sanford, in das es ihn für seinen Wahlkampf verschlägt, erscheint zunächst ruhig und friedlich. Doch der Schein trügt.

Benvenuto a Santa Caterina! In dem malerischen Dorf im Herzen der Toskana lebt, arbeitet und betet Kloster-Schwester Isabella. Doch wie aus heiterem Himmel muss sie plötzlich in einem Mordfall ermitteln! Von da an macht es sich die neugierige Nonne zur Lebensaufgabe, die großen und kleinen Verbrechen der Dorfbewohner aufzuklären. Carabiniere Matteo ist froh über diese himmlische Hilfe, denn schließlich hat er als einziger Polizist von Santa Caterina alle Hände voll zu tun ... Mit Witz, Charme und dem Blick fürs Menschliche ermitteln Isabella und Matteo in der Toskana.

Bestseller-Autor Sebastian Wolf sucht im malerischen Bergdorf Montalto Ligure nach Ruhe und Inspiration für seinen nächsten Thriller. Doch als der Dorfpfarrer brutal ermordet wird, findet sich der Schriftsteller inmitten einer Serie mysteriöser Todesfälle wieder. Besteht ein Zusammenhang zu einer alten Dorflegende? Während sich zwischen den engen Gassen und der drückenden Sommerhitze Liguriens die Mordopfer häufen und die Zeit davonläuft, arbeitet Wolf mit Ispettore Flavotti zusammen, um den Täter zu finden. Kann er das Rätsel lösen, bevor der Mörder sein grausames Werk vollendet?