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It’s nearly Christmas in the small English town of Little Wittering, and retired teacher Sally Smith is enjoying an afternoon in the hair salon. Until she sniffs out a corpse. With a body in the broom cupboard and a police-imposed lock-in until the culprit is caught, it doesn’t take long to deduce someone in the salon is a cold-blooded killer.

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain - and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a university professor asks Queen to teach a class, the detective finds there are people whom reason cannot touch: college students. Queen's adventure on campus is only the first of this incomparable collection of short mysteries.

In an utterly charming new paranormal cozy mystery from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle, a smalltown Rhode Island bookshop owner investigates the death of an eccentric librarian with the help of a wisecracking, 1940s gumshoe ghost. As a young widow, Penelope moved back to her quaint...

The eighth in the House-Flipper Mystery series set in Nashville, where the real estate market is to die for. In Nashville, carpenter Whitney Whitaker is ecstatic when the owner of an antebellum livery stable approaches her about rehabbing the barn and offers Whitney free rein with the design...

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly...

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly...

The City of Lights above, the darkness of evil below… “Dark, gripping, and impossible to put down” —Los Angeles Book Review In 1985, Kelly Burke has spent the past year working as an au pair in Paris after finally summoning the courage to take the first step toward her dream of becoming a French teacher. No more grinding away at two jobs back in the United States to support her freeloading mother and brother. No more living with the ghost of her murdered best friend. But when her classmate and fellow au pair, Erin, goes missing, Kelly worries history is repeating itself.

Susan Hunter presents Book 13 in the thrilling Leah Nash Mysteries...

Two gripping mysteries. One unforgettable collection. A suspicious death. A trail of secrets. And a pair of investigators—one human, one canine—who won't let the truth stay buried. In Neil S. Plakcy's "Dog Moves in Mysterious Ways," Steve Levitan and his golden retriever, Rochester, uncover a hidden online world where access is currency—and silence can be deadly.

In small-town Maine, winter isn’t the only thing that’s deadly. Retirement has bored Ruth out of her wits, so when the dispatcher job opens at the county jail, she jumps at the chance. There she meets Marmalade, the mysterious Maine coon cat who manages to keep sneaking into the jail—no matter how many times the sheriff kicks her out.

When the past wants to stay buried, it's up to a librarian-turned-dispatcher and a guilt-sniffing cat to dig up the truth. Ruth Daigle is still adjusting to her new life as a dispatcher at the Moose Head Mills Sheriff's Department when spring floods lead to a chilling discovery in the town library: a skeleton sealed behind a wall for thirty years.

A Las Vegas business trip. An acclaimed actress’s sudden death. When a suicide is exposed as a homicide, can a visiting sleuth outwit a killer in the city of sin? Clara Kelly had been hoping to learn the ins and outs of opening a bed-and-breakfast during a much-anticipated business trip to Las Vegas. However, her plans take a chilling turn when a celebrated actress seemingly commits suicide following the opening night dinner theater show. Clara, no stranger to the paranormal, soon encounters the actress’s ghost, who insists that she was murdered.

Zehn Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem die Bestatterin Brünhilde Blum zum letzten Mal getötet hat. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Partner Reza lebt sie auf einer Yacht in Kroatien. Ihre Wunden heilen, die Vergangenheit ruht. Bis eines Tages ein Gast an Bord ums Leben kommt und Blum gezwungen ist, ihre wahre Identität zu schützen. Scheinbar zufällig setzt sie Dinge in Gang, die nicht nur ihr Leben bedrohen, sondern auch das ihrer Kinder. Es bleibt nur ein Ausweg: Blum muss wieder töten.

The Bookbinder’s Code, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

A keynote speaker vanishes the morning of his own presentation. Onboard the luxury cruise ship Elysium Dream, two hundred corporate managers gather for the Leadership Unlocked Summit. The ballroom is ready. The stage is set. But the headline speaker never arrives. Dr. Elliot Frane—author, consultant, and the summit’s most anticipated voice—has disappeared somewhere on the ship. His luggage is still in the cabin. His badge lies on the floor. And the ship’s systems insist everything is perfectly normal. Cruise director Barty Butterfield knows better.

A quiet Alaskan town. A familiar place. And a death that doesn’t sit right. Becky, a lifeguard at her local pool, is used to watching people. Noticing small things. The things others miss. When a man is found dead at the pool, it’s first thought to be an accident. But something feels off.

The Dennings and the Cadys have been at war for years–ever since Russell Cady and Marcus Denning fell out and the business they built together fell apart. But now Russell’s daughter and Marcus’s son are tying the knot… and hopefully bringing peace. Except that someone’s sent Eve Mallow a warning along with her wedding invitation: watch out for trouble. But even she didn’t expect to find the father of the bride dead in his bed before he can walk his daughter down the aisle. So who’s ruined the big day?

Miss Marple meets Nancy Mitford in this glittering new Christmas murder mystery set in Bath, from the bestselling and award-winning author of D is for Death. On a frosty day in December 1936, librarian and part-time detective Dora Wildwood is summoned to Bath. She has no idea what will unfold...

Georg Dengler und Olga treffen auf ihren mächtigsten Gegner. Wolfgang Schorlaus neues Hörbuch handelt von der Frage, was für uns alle auf dem Spiel steht, von den Schatten der Vergangenheit und von den brutalen Arbeitsbedingungen der Zukunft – oder ist es längst die Gegenwart? Ein Dengler-Krimi auf der Höhe der Zeit. Georg Dengler vermisst Olga, sie ist wieder einmal verschwunden. In Rumänien entdeckt sie ein schreckliches Familiengeheimnis.

Ein Star-Anwalt, eine Ex-Soldatin und ein Kind in Gefahr: Band 2 der ebenso explosiven wie emotionalen Thriller-Reihe aus New Orleans von Bestseller-Autorin Karen Rose! Zwar hat der brillante Anwalt Kaj Cardozo damit gerechnet, dass sein aktueller Fall für ungewollte Aufmerksamkeit sorgt: Es geht um sexuelle Nötigung – und um einen bekannten Star. Aber als sein 10-jähriger Sohn Elijah nur knapp einer Entführung entgeht, ist Kaj geschockt. Um Elijah zu beschützen, schaltet er die Privatdetektei Broussard Investigations ein.