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Book eleven in the bestselling cosy mystery series, which follows Aussie photographer and witch Lily as she navigates a new life in the UK.Lily's feeling a bit out of place at a high-end fashion show, but she can't wait to see Will's sister, Sarah,...

All journalist Ginnie Casey wants is to find out why her sister died--instead she uncovers a deadly secret.Grieving, she questions the police, but is frustrated at their inability to give her any answers. All they can tell her is she must wait for the...

A cop targets those who shatter the innocence of the young in this novel by the author of The Magpie, finalist for the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction.DSI Billie Wilde is back at work after a shocking case that saw her life thrown into utter turmoil...

What is justice? If the police and the legal system failed you, how far would you go to make things right?A serial killer is burning people alive in London. But these are no random murders - there is a method in the madness. Ten years ago, events were...

She wakes surrounded by an inky black darkness and can barely breathe. A sack is covering her head, and her hands are tied behind her back. She desperately tries to struggle free as she hears footsteps walking toward her. She silently starts to cry as a...

Hunting a killer, a female detective is drawn into the abyss...Liverpool is in the grip of a serial killer. He suffocates his victims using a bin bag, and discards them like refuse on the streets.After tricking her way through a psychological evaluation,...

An uninhabited Scottish island.Ten stranded strangers.A murderer on the loose.Ursula Smart, along with her dysfunctional family, heads to Scotland for a gentle weekend of foraging and camping in the Outer Hebrides.Their boat capsizes. Washed up on an...

A faded country house in the middle of nowhere.The guests are snowed in.The murders begin.Withering and waspish, Ursula Smart (not her real name) gate-crashes her mother's book club at an isolated country house for a long weekend retreat. Much to...

THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE WINNER VICTORIA DOWD'S LATEST MYSTERY!If you love Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood, Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz, Faith Martin and Sophie Hannah, you'll love this brilliant whodunnit.The phones are out.The roads have flooded...

Ada's normal life is suddenly turned upside down when she arrives at work at Headington House, London, on a wintry morning and is confronted with a copy of her death certificate. Ada is questioned about her death and the issue of a pay-out cheque of...

Jilted grooms, sudden deaths, broken hearts and threatening letters. All in a day's work for super sleuth Kate Palmer!Nurse Kate Palmer thought the pretty Cornish village of Tinworthy would be the perfect place for a peaceful retirement. She couldn't...

Cold case detective Lauren Riley wakes up in the hospital certain of two things: she was stabbed and left for dead...and the person who did it was a cop.After being brutally stabbed at her desk late one night, Lauren Riley works her way backwards through...

Clever and feisty Cassandra McKenzie engages her newest assignment for the Pinkerton Agency with a knack for deception and a blade in her boot. Smart, skilled, and unafraid to get her hands dirty, Cassandra grudgingly takes on a new assignment in...

Witty and irascible Rose McKenzie tackles Denver's criminal cases with a woman's intuition and a loaded Smith and Wesson tucked in her skirt pocket.​Eager for adventure beyond her scientific experiments, Rose accepts her uncle's challenge to become...

Be careful what you wish for... it may come true.When Bernie, Adam and their friends travel to the idyllic town of Heywood, Arizona, to witness a marriage, they never expected to find the officiating minister poisoned to death.With the Heywood sheriff...

A tourist is shoved from a cliff. It's up to an unruly ghost to solve the murder.When Bernie and her ghostly grandmother, Ruby, witness the killing of a tourist from a far, they find themselves ensnared in a vengeful group of suspects, each having an...

From the award-winning author of Hearts of the Missing and the Nicky Matthew Mysteries seriesTHE THIRD WARRIORAncient prophecies and murderWhen Fire-Sky Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is guided by an eerie spirit to the body of a missing...

When Marianne is jilted by Seth the very morning their Caribbean cruise sets sail, she boards the magnificent MS Minerva as a reluctant solo traveler, never imagining the imbroglio that awaits her on what was meant to be a romantic getaway. Upon meeting...

Liars and Tycoons and Perfume, Oh My! In the hilarious, award-winning romantic mystery The Sweet Scent of Death, PR account executive and transplanted Southerner Jill Cooksey is trying to launch a new fragrance for her client and prove to herself...

Sara Almquist and her FBI colleagues rush to find who endangered the lives of hundreds at a political rally in order to poison with botulism toxin their target-a woman candidate for the U.S. Senate. Soon, Sara is tracking related murders in the...

Scientist Sara Almquist is asked to investigate a death of a participant in a clinical trial conducted by a biotechnology company making cultured meat-meat made in a test tube. She learns although the product may sometimes contain toxic components,...

Strange symptoms. Bloody secrets. Can one reporter solve a medical mystery before she ends up in a body bag? Jordan Reed put her world on hold to hunt down corruption. So when the gutsy journalist gets tipped off about blood money changing hands at...

As granddaughter of the inn's matriarch, Elizabeth Pennington saw to every intricate detail in the renovation of the popular seaside destination after a deadly hurricane nearly destroyed it. When the body of a female guest is discovered in the newly...

A child's body is found in a marshy bog on Cape Peril, an island off Maine, in 1952. Private investigator Dana Greer, running from a cold case and a failed marriage, is intent on finding the murderer. A series of long kept secrets complicate the...

Stolen charms. A mysterious woman running for mayor. Can beginner's magic save an ill-fated land?Novice witch Sarah Spellwood wants to grow her powers and protect her village. But to win over a cunning fox familiar who can improve her gifts, she must...

A homicide surfaces on the outskirts of Santa Fe and blindsides newlyweds Detective Rick Romero and Jemimah Hodge, derailing their honeymoon plans and putting their married life on hold. Romero's preliminary investigation reveals that this...

Rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley. Without warning, her vision wavers, and the lone suspect appears to divide into two men--the real suspect, frozen in time, and a shadow version with a gun. Confused by what she's...

Forced to move back home to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia after her father and brother end up in jail for running a Ponzi scheme, Sophie Parker does the best she can. While living with her curmudgeonly aunt, she works as a wench waitress at a...

Press your cell phone button and you will die! PI Peggy d'Sousa finds this out the hard way. To snare a serial killer, Peggy has to crack hi-tech secrets, do some good old fashioned leg work that takes her all the ...

Sarah's screaming woke her from a deep sleep. The nightmare always displayed the slaughter at Mountain Meadows in 1857 in southern Utah. She heard the chaos, the loud voices, the cries of the wounded and the dying, the calls from children trying to find...

Registered nurse Harley Davis has been more than content with her predictable, uneventful, average middle class existence. After surviving a tumultuous childhood and being abandoned with her newborn baby as a teenager by the child's father, Harley was...

Arches Treasure Arches Treasure Nancy Duncan and her partner, Bobbi O'Brien, are on vacation in Southern Utah, perusing the giant structures of red clay and white slick rock. In the Arches National Monument, Nancy uncovers a partially buried broken chain...

Finding the truth sometimes means throwing out preconceptions.  Using intuition is a good tool, it should be used.

What does it take to solve a murder in a supermarket parking lot? A mischievous husky dog, an entrepreneurial high school student, and a little lasagna lady with a whole lotta heart!When Luella Genova witnesses a hit-and-run in the parking lot of the...

Troubled Treats, Donut Mystery #19, from New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck!There's been a murder at the old wagon factory, a building recently purchased and now being renovated  by Suzanne's mother.  What's more, Jake and Suzanne...

A Fresh Season Sarah Garland and her best friend Amanda are finally happy that the harsh winter in Snow Falls, Alaska has ended and Spring has arrived. With the new season, Sarah hopes that the joys of Spring will take away the difficult battles she...

Murder strikes again in the small town of Berry Cove. Dana Sweet, part time mystery riddles blogger who has inherited the Cozy Cupcakes Café from her late grandmother, is once again drawn into a strange murder with a bizarre twist.The Holiday...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck, Book 12 in The Donut Mysteries!Suzanne and Grace must track down a killer when one of their old classmates is murdered at their high school reunion.  There are plenty of suspects gathered back...

If the crime is challenging and tangled, it's a proper crime.When Sherry Proper latches onto a crime, begins digging deep, she doesn't let go—not until she knows what is going on. Some people don't like that, especially the power...

Ignoring the fact that the Russian mob has a hit out on her, Stephanie St. James, AKA Miss Prim & Proper, throws herself into planning a glamping trip for Swamp Team Three. It's an uphill battle to convince Fortune, Gertie, and her great-aunt Ida...

I take his head in my hands and force him to look at me. "Nate," I say again, this time more forcefully, "where did all this blood come from?" This seems to get through, and his unseeing eyes struggle to focus on mine as one whispered word escapes his...

New from Jessica Beck, the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Donut Mysteries, The Classic Diner Mysteries, and The Ghost Cat Mysteries.Assault and Batter, Book 11 in the Donut Mystery Series!When Emily Hargraves tells Suzanne that she's marrying...

A body is discovered on the floor of the cat café, and all the black cats are missing! Sixty-something cat shelter volunteer Lynley Cannon always finds more trouble than a cat in catnip, but this time it's not about her. Someone is targeting very senior...

A remote lake house, a threatening phone call, and a terrifying mystery that could be her last. Desperate to protect her best friend Julie after a strange threatening phone call, Bethany Lights flees Alaska to a small town nestled in the North...

As the third book in the series begins, Grant's Crossing is preparing for the annual Fall Fair and Halloween. They weren't prepared for another murder and the mystery around it. As Alysha Grant continues building her career, and overseeing Leven...

1976. Es ist die Zeit des Kalten Krieges. An der Côte d'Azur und vor allem in Saint-Tropez ist davon nichts zu spüren. Die Urlaubsgäste vergessen die latente Bedrohung, feiern sich und genießen das savoir vivre, das schöne Leben. Nicht so Commissaire...

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