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June Munrow, an elderly resident of Annie’s home town, Redwood Grove, is convinced that young Kelly Taylor’s recent drowning wasn't the tragic accident everyone believes it to be. Despite the police ruling, June is determined to prove there’s more to the story and hires the Novel Detectives to uncover the truth.

When Margaret Holt retreats to a quiet Cotswolds village after the death of her husband, the former Prime Minister, she expects peace, a neglected garden, and the chance to finally be herself. What she gets is a dead journalist, a detective who underestimates her, and a secret that reaches all the way back to Downing Street. Maggie spent thirty years watching powerful people from three steps behind. She noticed everything. Nobody noticed her. That was always her advantage. Dead Man's Bells is a British cozy murder mystery and the first book in the Mrs Holt's Mysteries series.

Handsome, grumpy local policeman Ben Taylor doesn't believe in coincidences, and he doesn’t think mysterious newcomer Milla Graham is as innocent as she seems. Why is she really here in Raven’s Edge, and how come she keeps turning up at his crime scenes, causing trouble? Can he solve this murder case without losing himself–or his heart–to the rather distracting Miss Graham?

The wilds are unforgiving, but Beth Rivers has already faced worse. Join her as she uncovers Alaska's mysteries and escapes into the wilderness in the first three books of the Alaska Wild series: Thin Ice, Cold Wind, and Dark Night.

While Geneva Bay’s upper crust gets ready to party down at a Prohibition-themed fundraiser, pizza chef Delilah O’Leary is focused on seeing her struggling restaurant through the winter slow season. The temperature outside is plummeting, but Delilah’s love life might finally be heating up, as hunky police detective Calvin Capone seems poised to (finally) make a move. But Delilah’s hopes of perfecting a new “free-from” pizza recipe for a charity bash are dashed when a dead body crashes the party.

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...

FBI agent Cookie James is enjoying her extended leave from the agency on Secret Seal Isle, managing her quaint inn and flirting with the oh-so sexy-handyman, Dylan Creed… until her sixty-year-old mother goes skinny dipping and is almost drowned by a corpse.

1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale. But discovering her beloved best friend Lily-Anne – with a paperknife through her heart – in the middle of the bookshop, is not a plotline she saw coming. The case is anything but textbook. With the discovery of a coded German message, and Hannah’s instinct that Lily-Anne’s husband is keeping secrets, she determines to get to the bottom of it. She can’t do it alone though.

Some recipes call for sugar and spice. Ours calls for solving a murder... My grandmother taught me that magic is like baking: it's all about intention. As a fire witch, I pour my heart into every loaf of bread, every comfort scone. Opening a bakery with my coven sisters was supposed to be the...

Mord mit Aussicht? Dieser ungemütlichen Frage muss sich Lena Becker als neue Bezirksschornsteinfegerin von Jork im Alten Land stellen. Ihr Vorgänger ist vom Dach gestürzt – doch schon bald kommen Lena Zweifel, ob es wirklich nur ein Unfall war. Zu allem Übel hat sich das alles ausgerechnet beim Haus der von Kiesows abgespielt, und Hajo von Kiesow fühlt sich als junger Bürgermeister der Stadt dazu berufen, Lena mit ihren Verdächtigungen in die Schranken zu weisen.

After Lindsey Bakeswell catches her celebrity chef fiance sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey leaves big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan, to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker - and gets mixed up in someone's sweet taste of revenge.

David Harwood sta assistendo impotente allo sgretolarsi inesorabile della propria vita. Dopo la morte della moglie e la chiusura del giornale per cui lavorava, rimasto solo con il figlio di nove anni è costretto a trasferirsi a casa dei genitori a Promise Falls, la cittadina in cui è cresciuto. Quella che sembra essere un'esistenza destinata a un anonimo fallimento intraprende però una direzione inaspettata quanto tragica.

Debora Camilli ha 25 anni e guida il taxi Siena 23. Un giorno però il destino la va a cercare. Ha il volto di una distinta signora che sale sul suo taxi e le chiede di aspettarla davanti a un portone... da cui non uscirà più. Ed è così che la sagacia e l'intuito della detective si risvegliano in Debora.

When Poe Baxter ditches academia for the thrill of rare book hunting, she expects adventure—but not a deadly one. A trip to Edinburgh should be the perfect start to her new career, but when questions about a mysterious book draw dangerous attention, Poe and her best friend Beattie find themselves tangled in a plot far darker than any novel.

It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man - Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.

Writer Saffi Graywood is looking for a quiet place to finish her latest book when she sets her sights on Last Chance Cove. After a winding drive along the rugged Oregon coastline, Saffi arrives at her home for the summer–an RV park overlooking wind-swept beaches with salt-soaked air and fog that rolls in without warning.

PIERWSZY TOM SERII KRYMINALNEJ Prywatne śledztwo Agaty Brok. Agata to pracująca samotna trzydziestolatka, z dużym talentem do rozwiązywania zagadek. Kiedy jej ukochany wujek Antoni prosi ją, by przyjrzała się bliżej śmierci jego sąsiadki i przyjaciółki Leokadii, Agata postanawia mu pomóc. Policja uznała co prawda jej śmierć za samobójstwo, ale pan Antoni w tę wersję nie wierzy…. Agata przystępuje do śledztwa, w którym pomaga jej kolega z pracy, Kermit. A że Agata właśnie rozstała się z chłopakiem….

Murder’s never on the reading list, until the book club starts dropping dead. Single mom Sophie “Phee” Kimball isn’t a detective; she’s an account clerk in the chilly town of Mankato, Minnesota. But when her eccentric mother in Arizona insists that members of her retirement‑community book club are dying because of a “cursed” novel, Phee reluctantly heads to sun-soaked Sun City West to snoop. Phee doesn’t believe in curses, and the deaths appear to be accidents: a golf cart crash, pneumonia, an allergic reaction, but something is clearly not right under the blazing desert sun.

Empty-nester Carole Cabobianco and her dog Poopsie have set out to clear her husband's name after he is heard raging about man who turns up dead three months later.

My name is Nora Black, and I'm 51 years young. At least that's what I tell myself, when I'm not having hot flashes; my knees don't hurt; and I can find my reading glasses. I'm also the proud owner of a salon called Scents & Scentsability in the small resort town of Garden Cove, where I make a cozy living selling handmade bath and beauty products. All in all, my life is pretty good. Except for one little glitch.