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Es ist ein lebens- und liebenswerter Teil der schönen Stadt Oldenburg, dieses Ofenerdiek, das durch die Buslinie 304 mit der City und dem Stadtsüden verbunden ist.Es geht hier ruhig und beschaulich zu, bis der Stadtteil an einem schönen Spätsommerabend...

Oberkommissarin Nora Horst vom Landeskriminalamt Saarbrücken wird nach einem schweren Unfall eine neue Aufgabe in einer kleinen Einheit zur Ermittlung in Cold Case Fällen zu-gewiesen. Aufgrund ihrer unfallbedingten Einschränkungen kann sie dieser...

"Ist dir klar, dass da draußen vielleicht gerade jemand umgebracht wird, während du hier rumstehst und über die richtige Konsistenz von Kuchenteig lamentierst?"Sommer 2017, kurz vor Beginn der Landshuter Hochzeit. Ihren wohlverdienten Lebensabend hat...

So hatte sich Maxi ihren Einstand in Niederbayern nicht vorgestellt.Ihre Siebensachen hängen in Frankfurt beim Döner-Ali fest und der neue Dienststellenleiter will sie gleich wieder loswerden, denn "Mord gibt es hier nicht!".Nichts-desto-trotz wird das...

Die Suche nach der Wahrheit beginnt ...Der Vater verschwindet. Die Mutter stirbt. War es wirklich Selbstmord?Rebecca Friedrichsen muss die tiefe Abneigung gegen ihre Mutter überwinden und deren geheime Arbeit fortsetzen. Nur dann kann sie ihren Vater...

Inspired by a sinister true story....On a desolate peninsula, Skelling Hall has stood for more than a century.When Iris Walsh flees to the Upper Peninsula in northern Michigan, she's grappling with some deeply disturbing truths. She seeks solace at her...

These shoes were made for more than just walking.I didn't belong.Not with the things I'd done. Not with my past.To move forward, I needed to finish what I'd started all those years ago. I had to face him. My only barrier to the life I wanted was me, and...

When the prize package for a cook-off comes with a dead body, it's up to Sherry Oliveri to figure out who cooked the victim's goose . . . Sidelined by an injury, longtime cook-off contestant Sherry Oliveri has agreed to offer her wisdom and moral...

Mystery novelist Sabrina Tate and her cat Hitchcock are headed to a country music show, but there's a killer on the loose who plans to end the evening with a deadly Texas two-step . . . As the summer tourist season draws to a close in Lavender,...

When a scavenger hunt turns up a dead body, dog walker Andi Grace Scott will have to make a dogged effort to collar the culprit . . . Setting out for a day of fun on her town's first-ever scavenger hunt, Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is...

Sabrina Tate and her cat, Hitchcock, must sort through the clues when a librarian is killed and justice is overdue . . . With construction on the town's new library nearing completion, mystery writer Sabrina Tate is thrilled that local book lovers,...

A GAGGLE OF GEESEA Joy Forest Cozy MysteryJoy Forest is working to beat the clock on a looming deadline, when she gets a call from her friend, Sophia, traumatized by the disappearance of the Goose Girl Statue, which has the reputation of...

When Pity is invited to go with her boyfriend on a bus tour of East Coast Major League Baseball parks, she is reluctant to go because she doesn't like bus rides and worse, she dislikes sports. But she agrees to go along to spend quality time with Mike...

Maria Olson can see beauty in everything, even discarded junk. The striking 31-year-old with black hair and brilliant blue eyes lives alone in her family's centuries-old adobe home in Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico.Although she has a successful online...

Book 3 is here. In this book, you will find a recipe for Cornbread. Alphabet Soup Recipe is available by signing up for my newsletter.Chef Jessica is asked to cater a funeral service for a family friend. Not something she typically would say yes to,...

California Wildfires have a long history of being started by humans. . . An arsonist and dry brush are a combustible combination. What if simply starting wildfires no longer brings the same thrill? Yes, the power of crackling fire and heat are...

Who knows the most about how to get away with murder? Jill, Nathan, and Angela head to New Zealand and Australia on a trip that is part work and part vacation. Jill is speaking at a forensic conference, while her friends are meeting with wineries to...

The pianist is brilliant and is moving towards the crescendo of Beethoven's Opus 110 when out of the church's organ pipes, an ice arrow strikes him in the heart. Jill's out of her pew and at the pianist's side before the echo of the last chord finished...

The last thing Rylie needs is a dead body ruining her big day. Or one of Garrett's exes. Love is not jealous. But Rylie is. Garrett is the perfect man-rich, mature, breathtakingly gorgeous. Plus, he still wants to marry Rylie after...

Here comes the bride, murder on the side. Shayla's wedding planning is nearly complete-the decorations are on order, playlists set in stone, and the perfect wedding venue has been reserved.Everyone in Seamus' family has been married at the Ballywick...

A serious page-turner from multi-million bestselling author Willow Rose. Once you start One, Two...He is coming for you - there is no turning back.Series sold more than 1 million copies!Journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her...

Widowed Lady Rosamund spends the first months of her mourning in the Lake District, where it's safe and peaceful, and murders are exceedingly rare. Luckily, she is rescued from this tedium by a house party comprised of playwrights, poets, and actors-an...

When it comes to love Mira hasn't had much luck, so when Aerie's new love interest, the owner of the Pizza Pub, is fingered for a crime at the construction site for the new theater, Mira will do whatever she needs to do to find the true culprit, even if...

 Toni L.P. Kelner has been writing thoughtful mysteries for over thirty years. She won an Agatha Award for her short story "Sleeping With the Plush" and her story "Baby Trap" was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery and Suspense...

From the moment Dana Bowman sees the redheaded nun arguing with a man on Main St. and Bast Overture receives an email from Eli Foster asking him to find her birth parents, the twin PIs are thrust into a complex chain of events involving extortion,...

Murder comes knocking when a killer hunts for budding amateur detective Pineapple "Motts" Mottley in the fourth novel of the Motts Cold Case Mystery series. The past and present collide for Motts when two serial killer brothers barge into her plans...

5 gripping, unputdownable Bettie Private Eye stories from the imagination of Connor Whiteley. An International Bestselling writer, Connor presents 5 very fun and outstanding Bettie stories in this one volume...

London is Lydia Crow’s city so when a man is found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, she takes it personally.Driven by her desire to improve her fledgling P.I. skills and an innate sense of justice, Lydia investigates. Even when it seems as if the...

Almost 50,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 5 short stories from some of his most popular series, you know you're in for an amazing treat and will be...

A Private Eye Convention. A Power Vacuum. A Poisoner On The Loose.Powerful people stepping down leads to danger.Private Eye Bettie English organises Private Eye Con. She hears her friends are stepping down. Bettie fears the fallout.More than she realises...

Catch a killer or save a child. What would you do?DI Jen Flowers thought she'd seen it all after fifteen years on the force, but when a vigilante serial killer hits the city and uses social media to gather supporters, she must fight the public and her...

Nurse Kate Palmer is Cornwall's answer to Miss Marple! But when a body turns up in her own garden can Kate solve the crime? Or is the murder a bit too close to home? Kate Palmer is stunned when she wakes up one morning to discover the body of a man...

Nicht vergeben. Nicht vergessen. Als ein hingebungsvoller Familienvater ermordet und seine Leiche gut für seine Familie sichtbar auf einem Feld gefunden wird, beginnt für Detective Robyn Carter ein neuer, entsetzlicher Fall. Gerade als Robyn mit...

Kitty Underhay's hymn book is open... at murder.Winter, 1933. Kitty Underhay is enjoying a restorative break from sleuthing on a visit to her family at Enderley Hall. The only thing marring her peace - aside from the uncomfortable sensation she...

Her chestnut hair, long and shiny, fanned around her head, moving gently in the wind. Her eyes, still open, stared at the back door, and her hand stretched out in a pleading gesture. Her lips, pale under the rosy lip gloss, were parted slightly as if to...

Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan. The document encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign. Yet hardly are the two of them airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern...

Mrs Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing... All she has to do is to masquerade as his aunt while he confirms the identities of seven undercover agents in Morocco - and keep him from making an unpleasant...

Someone wants her dead, and she can’t remember why.Zoe is a wife and a mother. Or so she’s been told. Ask her for more than that and she couldn’t tell you. The blow to her head wiped her memory clean.Zoe knows the blood on her shirt...

Cream teas, buttered crumpets and a very curious crime…Melissa Craig is settling in nicely to a new teaching position in the quaint little village of Upper Bembury, getting to know her way around, drinking tea with the eccentric staff, even...

A lifetime dedicated to research.An unsolved murder case.A killer who will stop at nothing to complete his masterpiece.Dana Grays' life is dedicated to studying the past until an unsolved murder thrusts her parents' cold case back to life.As the head...

April 1775.  Unrest grows in the colonial capital of Williamsburg, VA.  Opinions turn ugly when the city's armory is seized in the middle of the night by the British.  Faith prepares to be a bystander as her father-in-law Ezra takes lead...

The look of astonishment in his eyes, the blood pulsing like a fire hose from the veins in his neck, the feel of the blood hitting my face put huge grin across it. The eyes glazed over as life left the body. I dropped it into the wire basket...

<p><b><em>"Here's a new kind of sleuth with an ecological bent and an unlikely sidekick, a sometimes tense, sometimes funny murder mystery with a touch of romance." - P.B. Parris, author of Waltzing in the Attic and His Arms are Full of...

"When the Klan Comes to Pasadena, Intimidation Takes a New Form in DARK SPIRITS, a Historical Cozy Mystery by Alice Duncan"The Ku Klux Klan has opened a chapter in Daisy Gumm Majesty's home town of Pasadena, California. Worse, Klan members...

Ghost Seeks Help from Fake Spiritualist in Spirits Revived, a Historical Cozy Mystery by Alice Duncan--Pasadena, California, 1926--While conducting a séance for a client with more money than sense, Daisy Gumm Majesty is surprised when a seemingly...

Camping Trip Dampened by Murder in Cat Among the Fishes, a 9 Lives Cozy Mystery from Louise Clark--Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada—The long-promised Jamieson-Armstrong family camping trip takes a pause with news of murder at the local fish farm...