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Divorced, broke, and broken down in the old mining town of Nightmare, Arizona, Olivia Kendrick is desperate for a job. At forty-two years old, she never thought she would be starting over like this, let alone in a tucked-away town filled with tourists, offbeat residents, and an outspoken UFO hunter. Olivia takes a job at a year-round haunted house, but when she arrives for her first day, she faces real horror: a local man's body has been dumped at the front entrance.

Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective Charles Paris Charles Paris is in Oxford, appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept drama company. No fan of immersive theatre, he's unimpressed with the director's vision and less than thrilled to be rehearsing...

The murder of women priests in the shrine town of Walsingham sucks Dr Ruth Galloway into an unholy investigation. Ruth's friend Cathbad is house-sitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the...

As Lord Chamberlain, John spent his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square - or afterwards, to find her red-dyed corpse in a subterranean cistern.

Roasted chestnuts from vendor’s carts, fresh-cut spruce trees lining the sidewalks, extravagant gifts, opulent dinners, carols at St Patrick’s Cathedral, a warm meal, and a few of minutes shelter from the cold at one of the charitable food lines. It’s Christmas in Gilded Age Manhattan. And for the first time ever an amazing giant ball will drop along a rod on the roof of the New York Times building to ring in the New Year. Everyone plans to attend the event. But the murder of a prominent newsman hits a little too close to home.

For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That’s when life delivers him another hook to the jaw: his estranged father, Leland, has been murdered in what appears to be a robbery-gone-bad at his salvage yard, Miller’s Pull-a-Part.

Sherlock Holmes, le détective consultant que tout l'empire britannique, voire toute l'Europe connaît, a rencontré des énigmes et des aventures nombreuses que son fidèle ami le Dr. Watson nous relate encore une fois ici. C'est aussi l'occasion d'aller un peu plus que loin que les seules aventures que Watson a lui aussi vécues, avec les débuts de Sherlock, quand il était encore étudiant, et de découvrir son fameux frère, Mycroft Holmes, personnage presque plus énigmatique que Sherlock.

ll lavoro di Lila Emerson consiste nel badare alle case altrui in assenza dei proprietari. Un'occupazione all'apparenza semplice e senza particolari implicazioni. Questo almeno è quello che ha sempre pensato fino al giorno in cui, guardando fuori dalla finestra, assiste a un omicidio: una giovane donna precipita nel vuoto, da un appartamento in cui verrà poi trovato il cadavere di un uomo, Oliver Archer.

Mr Wraxall, uno scrittore benestante, intraprende un viaggio in Scandinavia per scoprire il mistero del mausoleo in cui è sepolto il Conte Magnus e dove nessuno può entrare. Una produzione audio da brivido con musiche inquietanti e suoni, che ti condurranno tra gli oscuri meandri della pazzia, del sadismo, del crollo nervoso imminente e dell’assassinio.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES. This audiobook in The Thursday Murder Club series is read by a new narrator, Fiona Shaw. Featuring an exclusive conversation between Richard Osman and award-winning presenter...

A wry, hardbitten solicitor with a bad knee and a brave cocker spaniel walks into a bomb, a fake heiress, and a family conspiracy—then fights to get one real woman her life back. I woke up with one brogue, a dog in my office, and a metal cigar case in my jacket that my gut said would remove me from the gene pool if I pressed the wrong button. That was the start of it. By the time the train reached the Cairngorms I'd got a dead woman on a bed that wasn’t the heiress, a fake identity stitched together like bad theatre, and a solicitor who’d decided law was only a suggestion. I’m no detective.

After her last disastrous episode as an amateur sleuth, Gracie Elliott is back. The budding romance writer has spent the past year crafting her first novel. Her hard work and determination pay off when her manuscript wins the Cream of the Crop award, a contest for unpublished writers, sponsored by the Society of American Romance Authors.

Halloween is here in Cornwall, and while it’s immediately clear to Mack that it’s not nearly as big a deal as it is back in America, someone decides to take advantage of the night to steal a display of gold jewelry from the art museum. The museum’s curator calls in both Aksel and Mack to solve the case, and they’ve got to work together to get to the bottom of things. Meanwhile, Sophie’s sticker business is taking off, and Ada has a decision to make about her future. But as Mack gets closer to solving the case, she soon uncovers a conspiracy that’s much bigger than she could have ever imagined.

Full-time baker and sometime-sleuth Sally Muccio is enjoying life as a new bride and only wishes that sales in her bakery would pick up. So when popular TV host Donna Dooley invites her and best friend, Josie, to be guests on Someone's in the Kitchen with Donna, it’s the answer to their prayers. The pair is excited about the opportunity until they discover Donna's new assistant is none other than Josie's former nemesis from culinary school, Kelly Thompson.

What would you do if a pushy cat came scratching at your door? A rare male calico cat. Would you shoo him away? Invite him in? Or let him take over the place while you searched for his caregiver? Better yet. What would Sally do? Join Sally and Rodney on this wild ride of a rambunctious, bossy, cuddly stray cat that seems to know more than he’s saying. And is the source of chaotic upheaval on Sally’s compound, including sending Sally to jail. Stray Cats and Burglars is a fun, family friendly adventure.

Caution: rough waters ahead! Let's sail to America, Desmond suggested. It will be fun, he promised. Except, no matter where Rosemary goes, murder seems to follow, even to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! The journey was supposed to be part of the adventure, and what could be more fun than a few days aboard a veritable floating palace? Except Rosemary should have known it wouldn’t be all fun and games. She should have known bunking across the hall from a murder mystery author would come to no good. She should have followed her mother’s advice and stayed safely on dry land!

A femme fatale with an axe to grind. Marla Dotson is used to getting what she wants, and what she wants is Dwayne Morrow—both on and off the case. Convincing an old acquaintance to grant him an apprenticeship had been hard enough, yet the initial assignments were proving to be anything but rewarding for Dwayne Morrow. Crawling through garbage to snap photos of awful people doing awful things was not the exciting career choice he had envisioned.

When washed-up ‘80s rock star Rex “The Rocket” Rockwell collapses mid-power ballad on the Elysium Dream, the crowd thinks it’s part of the act. But cruise director Barty Butterfield knows the difference between a dramatic finale and a dead body.

Sofia genießt ihren Urlaub: drei Wochen Sonne, Strand und Meer - und endlich mal kein Mord! Doch kaum ist sie zurück am Hirschgrundsee, wartet schon der nächste Fall: Der Wohnwagen der Hetzeneggers ist verschwunden! Sofort begeben sich die Hirschgrundis auf die Suche. Als sie das gute Stück endlich wiederfinden, ist die Freude schnell vorbei - denn direkt neben dem Wohnwagen liegt ein toter Rocker! Sofort fällt der Verdacht auf die Hetzeneggers, und ausgerechnet die schöne Kommissarin Kiesewetter übernimmt den Fall.

Nur wenige Meilen von Mydworth entfernt liegt das abgelegene Chilton House - ein Rückzugsort für Londons exzentrische Künstler, die dort den Sommer mit Malerei, Diskussionen und rauschenden Festen verbringen. Doch als nach einer Wohltätigkeitsauktion einer von ihnen tot im Fluss gefunden wird, ist es vorbei mit der Bohème-Romantik. Die Polizei tippt auf einen Unfall im Rausch. Doch Kat und Harry haben ihre Zweifel - und stoßen bald auf ein kunstvoll gewebtes Netz aus Lügen.