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'Vera Wong is my new favourite sleuth' Elle Cosimano Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on...

A USA Today bestseller Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Audie Award Winner for Mystery Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of...

Nosy shopkeeper turned amateur detective Vera Wong can’t resist solving a murder, even while she’s on vacation, in this delightful mystery from USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Chinese mother and detective extraordinaire Vera Wong delights in meddling, which happily has led her...

Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.… A New York Times' Best Mystery Novels of 2025 2026 Edgar's Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award Nominee 2026 Audie Award for Best Mystery Finalist Ever since a man was found...

Det er sommer i Åre. Regnen siler ned, men gravemaskinerne fortsætter ufortrødent med at grave i fjeldet, så der kan bygges nye eksklusive feriehuse til turisterne i byen. Da der sker et alvorligt jordskred i forbindelse med arbejdet, påvirker ulykken lokalsamfundet voldsomt, og mørke...

Første bind i krimiserien om journalisten og antiheltinden Vera Bergström. Bogen fik en overvældende modtagelse i Sverige, hvor den har solgt over 200.000 eksemplarer og blev kåret som Årets debutkrimi af Det Svenske Kriminalakademi. Efteråret er på vej i Åre, en lille by i Midtsverige...

Eine Reihe mysteriöser Todesfälle sucht den beliebten Skiort Åre im Norden Schwedens heim. Die Opfer haben eines gemeinsam: Sie alle waren weit über 60 Jahre alt. Hanna Ahlander ahnt schnell, dass etwas nicht stimmt. Gleichzeitig gerät ihre Beziehung zu ihrem engsten Kollegen Daniel Lindskog ins Wanken, und der Konflikt verschärft sich, obwohl die beiden aufeinander angewiesen sind. Während die Uhr tickt, müssen Hanna und Daniel verhindern, dass weitere Menschen ermordet werden – aber dafür müssen sie wieder zueinander finden.

‘Had me laughing aloud within its first five pages. Charming, hilarious and heartfelt’ Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read Life is good for sixty-year-old teashop owner and amateur sleuth, Vera Wong. Her teashop is bustling, and her son, Tilly, finally has a...

Paris, 1942. The war is everywhere. But inside the quiet corridors of the Bibliothèque nationale, another battle is being fought—one measured in documents, archives, and secrets hidden in plain sight.

Vier Freundinnen. Ein Luxusresort. Zwei Wochen All-inclusive – und ein Urlaub, der zum Albtraum wird. Luise, Mo, Valerie und Patricia starten perfekt in ihren Traumurlaub. Doch das Paradies trügt. Erst verschwindet eine Urlauberin, dann ist plötzlich Valerie weg und Luise begreift: Hier geht es um Leben und Tod. Hinter den Kulissen des scheinbar perfekten Ferienresorts verbirgt sich ein tödliches Geheimnis.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Lucy Entwhistle's beloved father has just died; aged twenty-two she finds herself alone in the world. Leaning against her garden gate, dazed and unhappy, she is disturbed by the sudden appearance of the perspiring Mr Wemyss. This middle-aged man is also in mourning - for his wife Vera, who has died in mysterious circumstances. Before Lucy can collect herself, Mr Wemyss has taken charge: of the funeral arrangements, of her kind aunt Dot, but most of all of Lucy herself - body and soul.

From Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes the stunning new Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest Evening. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."—Louise Penny "As a huge fan of both the...

Una mattina estiva del 1920 la giovane Lucy perde il padre improvvisamente ritrovandosi sola e disperata, senza speranze. È uno sconosciuto a risvegliarla dal torpore che il lutto le ha causato: il legame con Everard Wemyss, quarantenne rimasto vedovo da poco, è immediato, e la condivisa sofferenza per la recente perdita dà origine a una confortante intimità. Ma il matrimonio con Wemyss sarà diverso da come Lucy aveva sognato: le mura di casa diverranno quelle di una tetra prigione dove i giorni sono scanditi da rituali irrazionali.

Torino, 1935. Il lunedì di lavoro di Anita inizia con una novità: Leo Luminari, il più grande regista italiano, vuole portare sul grande schermo uno dei racconti gialli pubblicati su «Saturnalia», la rivista per cui lei lavora come dattilografa. Il che significa poter curiosa - re dietro le quinte, intervistare gli attori e realizzare un numero speciale. Anita, che subisce il fascino della settima arte, non sta nella pelle. L’entusiasmo, però, dura solo pochi giorni, finché il corpo senza vita del regista viene ritrovato in una camera d’albergo.

Andrea e Katia sono due giovani dalle vite profondamente differenti. Lei, bella, intelligente, di buona famiglia, avviata a una brillante carriera da avvocato, abituata a ottenere sempre ciò che desidera; lui, imponente, sportivo, affascinante come la notte, ma senza genitori, e dunque costretto a badare a se stesso sin da quando aveva cinque anni. E poi, un pesante passato alle spalle e un difficile segreto che Andrea non può rivelare.

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss, both recovering from recent unhappiness, meet and quickly fall in love. However, over their new-found bliss looms the spectre of Vera, Wemyss’s first wife who died in mysterious circumstances. After their wedding the couple return home and Lucy really does begin to be troubled by what happened to Vera. Considered a high-water mark by the author, the story is an extraordinarily black vision of a young wife who gradually begins to understand that her husband will accept nothing less than total intellectual and emotional servitude.

Everyone in Lark’s End thinks Vera Calloway is a sweet old woman with a knitting bag, a fondness for tea, and an overfed cat named Watson. Everyone is wrong. When Major Barnaby collapses face-first into his prize petunias at the village fête, the police see a tragic heart attack. Vera sees a professional hit. And after forty years in the Service, she knows the difference. Now someone is buying up village land, blackmailing locals, and eliminating obstacles. Vera should leave it to the authorities. Unfortunately, the authorities are useless.

The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her...

Winterferien in Åre. In der besinnlichsten Zeit des Jahres wird außerhalb des Dorfes eine Männerleiche gefunden. Das Opfer wurde schwer misshandelt. Doch der Mord gibt Rätsel auf: Das Opfer hatte scheinbar keine Feinde. Als in einem der umliegenden Dörfer die Frau eines freikirchlichen Pastors verschwindet, geraten Hanna Ahlander und Daniel Lindskog unter Druck. Die Gesuchte ist hochschwanger. Und sie braucht Medikamente.