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An old photo, deadly secrets, and a killer's next target: an archivist's thrilling race against time to expose the truth! Ever stumble upon a mystery that drags you in deeper than you ever expected? That’s exactly what happens to Jane Parker, a sharp-witted archivist-turned-sleuth who’d rather keep her nose in dusty files than danger. But when a decade-old party photo exposes more secrets than she could imagine, Jane teams up with her detective friend Logan Erickson and the ever-curious photographer Godric Hughes.

High school wasn’t a grand time for everyone, but when a group of friends decide to meet up at a B and B ahead of their 10-year reunion, old grudges resurface, and one of them ends up dead. Now the owners, a kindly older couple, are on the hook for the accidental death due to anaphylaxis, but they insist no mistakes were made on their part. Fortune is asked to look into the situation before the inept local sheriff railroads the couple or simply allows gossip to run them out of business, which will cost them their home. Swamp Team 3 heads to Voodoo Island to find a way to clear the couple.

1927: Accompanying Mr. Redvers on an assignment to Ootycamund to quell revolutionary rumblings, Jane finds there’s more than meets the eye to India’s Queen of Hill Stations. Ooty’s lush tea plantations and tranquil gardens barely conceal its secrets--scandalous affairs, political sabotage, and a mounting anti-colonial movement. Even Redvers intends to subvert his official mission in Ooty, by arranging a series of clandestine meetings with local resistance leaders. But it’s not until the shocking death of a British national that Jane and Redvers are truly drawn into Ooty’s deepest shadows.

Rejoining the private eye business after taking a step back to be a mother, Jane Monterrey finds herself thrust into a complicated mix of cases. Timothy Dawson, suspected of having affair, is arrested by the FBI during her stakeout. Suspicion brews as the wife gets angry about Jane’s results. While sorting that out, a case involving a beer recipe comes to the door. Soon Jane is following a scavenger hunt of clues with a reporter tagging along, avoiding a shady lawyer intent upon finding the same brew. Add to the mix a missing goat, and Jane definitely has a full plate.

A bodyguard has his work cut out for him protecting a headstrong heiress in this classic tale from New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon. Bodyguard to an heiress is Tyler Duhan's idea of hell. The steely, sexy ex-marine has heard—and dismissed—the gossip about the haunted old LeBeau...

When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home if unequal P.I. enterprise. That is...

Ein neuer Fall für Jan de Fries, von BILD-Bestsellerautor Dirk Trost. Bereits auf der Einweihungsfeier seiner Anwaltskanzlei ereilt Jan de Fries ein neuer Auftrag. Onnos Freundin muss sich nach einer Prügelattacke auf dem Greetsieler Hafenfest, die mit einem Nasenbeinbruch endete, vor dem Gesetz verantworten. Der Grund für den Angriff weckt sofort Jans Sinn für Gerechtigkeit: Die Großeltern der jungen Frau wurden beim Verkauf eines wertvollen Grundstücks übervorteilt und sie will die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft ziehen.

Strahlend blauer Himmel, weiße Schäfchenwolken und friedlich auf dem Deich grasende Schafe: Diese Postkartenidylle wird jäh unterbrochen, als dem ehemaligen Anwalt Jan de Fries wie aus dem Nichts eine junge Frau mit Rastazöpfen vors Auto läuft. Am darauffolgenden Tag treibt dieselbe Frau tot in einem Tretboot im Norder Tief. Jan steckt in großen Schwierigkeiten, denn die örtliche Kriminalpolizei identifiziert ihn schnell als Hauptverdächtigen, und er sieht sich gezwungen, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Bald führt ihn die Suche nach dem Täter in die Welt der Kitesurfer.

Als der ehemalige Anwalt Jan de Fries mit seinen Freunden Uz und Onno zum Krabbenfischen auf die Nordsee hinausfährt, ahnt er nicht, dass er nur wenige Stunden später in die leeren Augenhöhlen einer toten Frau starren wird. Für die zuständigen Kriminalbeamten Hahn und Mackensen steht von Anfang an fest, dass die Tote bei einem Segelunfall ums Leben gekommen ist. Jan und die Schwester der Toten, Eva Ehrlich, hingegen sind überzeugt davon, dass es sich um Mord handelt.

Ein spannungsgeladener neuer Ostfriesen-Krimi von BILD-Bestsellerautor Dirk Trost. Mitten in einem Schneesturm wartet der ehemalige Strafverteidiger Jan de Fries an einem einsamen Bahnübergang darauf, dass das rote Warnlicht endlich erlischt. Als er die Geduld verliert und bei dem dunklen Bahnwärterhaus nach dem Rechten sieht, stößt er unvermittelt auf eine frisch eingeschneite Leiche. Im gleichen Moment hört er den eigenen Wagen davonrasen - und mit ihm seinen auf dem Rücksitz seelenruhig schlafenden Hund Motte.

In Fever in the Dark, Fiona and Annie return home from their one-year anniversary trip to discover that their poignant proposal video has been posted on YouTube and has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits. Their fame comes just on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage across the country. As some of the attention turns vicious, Fiona pulls in an old friend, private investigator Jane Lawless, to help separate the harmless threats from the potentially harmful. Then a murder occurs, and Annie and Fiona are both suspects.

Ten years ago, Ryan Comeaux was convicted of killing his girlfriend and was sentenced to life in prison. Now a witness has come forward who claims she was with Ryan the entire night and it’s not possible that he was the killer. But the local police assume she’s mistaken and aren’t interested in reopening what they view as an open-and-shut case. The witness, Kelsey Spalding, has her own reasons for wanting Ryan’s conviction overturned and hires Swamp Team 3 to prove him innocent.

Britt Ickles doesn't remember much from her only visit to her mother's childhood home when she was a kid, except for playing with her cousin Timmy and the eruption of a sudden family feud. That's why, when she drops by unannounced after years of silence, she's shocked when her aunts tell her Timmy never existed, that she must be confusing him with someone else. But Britt can't shake the feeling that Timmy did exist...and that something horrible has happened to him. Something her aunts want to cover up.

David Randall is a lively, carefree fellow with a talent for finding things. His perfect family life is derailed when he loses his little daughter, Lindsey, in a car accident. He is haunted by her in his dreams, fearful that she blames him. Randall, thrown out by his second wife and wanting to leave a dead-end detective agency to start his own, reluctantly accepts an invitation from Camden, his psychic friend, to stay in his boarding house.

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the British Regency period.

Kate and Naz are struggling. Jamila is avoiding Peter. Saskia is surprising everyone by making a success of Waltham Lodge.And Jaiden is on the trail of a stolen Art Deco figurine. Her search will lead her through the streets of London. Into the dark secrets of suburbia. Beyond the night time city and the people who inhabit it. And to the limits of her own capacity to forgive.

Before I can say café latte, Galloway’s dodging my calls, I’ve got a raccoon on my hands who’s decided mi casa es su casa, my ghostly best friend has a crush to die for, and local teenager Kira Melendez has turned up missing. So much for an easy day. I have a sneaking suspicion my life is about to become a whole new level of crazy.

Stephen Fox may be a moron, but he may also be America's next president. The dimwitted legislator is just smart enough to know when to smile for the camera. But two women stand in the way of his campaign: his mistress and his wife, who has never recovered from the death of their daughter, a pain she manages by devoting herself to fundraising for children with Down syndrome.

When Father Tibor is then arrested on murder charges, it tears at the very foundation of Demarkian's world. While Gregor has very strict rules about for whom and under what conditions he will consult, all those rules go by the wayside. Demarkian is now a man possessed, and his one goal is to find out what really happened and who is really responsible for the murder Father Tibor is charged with.

In Waldorf Pines, ostentation and pretension are the order of the day. But even by local standards, Martha Heydrich is a stone cold pain. She's the stay-at-home wife of a very rich husband, into everybody's business and rumored to be having an affair with a local teenager, Michael Platte. One morning she seemingly vanishes, and that night her husband returns home to find the pool house ablaze. Once the fire is extinguished, police discover two bodies - one is Michael Platte and the other is presumed to be Martha....