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Led by his passion for paleontology, Lyndy’s father, Lord Atherly, has traveled all the way to Montana, to explore the fossil-rich horse ranch owned by Stella’s mother, Katherine, and her second husband, Ned Smith. Urged by Lady Atherly to look after her husband, Stella and Lyndy follow in his wake. Stella is excited to be reunited with her mother, and Lyndy is eager to experience the real “Wild West.” Both are equally thrilled to participate in a fossil dig.

Zoë Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoë wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline’s boss is persistent, and as Zoë attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she’s never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he’s found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralyzing fear?

"Le mariage de Lord St. Simon et sa curieuse conclusion ont cessé longtemps d'être un sujet de conversation dans les milieux éminents que fréquente l'infortuné jeune marié. Des scandales neufs ont éclipsé celui-ci, et leurs détails plus piquants ont relégué aux oubliettes ce drame vieux de quatre ans."

Sharing lodging in the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva has eased some of the financial strain on the two old school chums, but money is still tight in these years following the Great War. So when the local vicar - and pigeon-racing club president - approaches them with a private inquiry opportunity, the ladies accept. There's been a spot of bother: The treasurer has absconded with the club's funds and several prized birds. But when they visit the man's loft, they find their elusive quarry lying in white feathers and a pool of crimson blood - the only witnesses cooing mournfully.

New York Times best-selling author Joanne Fluke’s cozy mysteries grow in popularity with each new series entry. One summer in Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swensen attends the grand opening of a newly refurbished hotel, where her famous red velvet cupcakes will be served in the new Red Velvet lounge. But when a party guest falls from the hotel roof, festivities come to a screeching halt - and Hannah becomes the surprising target of a murder investigation

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

Dive into the thrilling Chris Matheson Cold Case Mysteries with this exclusive box set, featuring the first four books in Lauren Carr’s bestselling series! Join retired FBI agent Chris Matheson and his quirky “Geezer Squad” as they unravel chilling cold cases, blending razor-sharp suspense, laugh-out-loud humor, and small-town charm. Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries, detective thrillers, and gripping whodunits, this collection delivers over 1,000 pages of heart-pounding investigations.

Es ist der Winter 1937, und der Ort Okamura befindet sich in heller Aufruhr: schon bald wird die renommierte Ichiyanagi-Famile ihren Sohn vermählen. Aber unter den Tratsch über das anstehende Fest mischt sich ein besorgniserregendes Gerücht: ein maskierter Mann streift durch das Städtchen und fragt die Leute zu den Ichiyanagis aus. In der Hochzeitsnacht dann erwacht die Familie durch einen furchtbaren Schrei, auf den eine unheimliche Melodie folgt.

Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble. Consuelo is 16. Diabetic. And the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V. I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child.

An old friend's sister disappears without a trace. There's no sign of foul play, but she'd been acting very peculiarly. Meanwhile, Liz's cousin, Christie, comes to stay. She takes an immediate - and uncharacteristic - dislike to the local bookshop owner, Gina. Why does everyone put up with her awful behavior? Christie is convinced that Gina is manipulating everyone around her. Is she onto something dangerous or just pushing her new friends away? No one believes her suspicions until another friend goes missing late at night on the misty Fen marshes.

Der neue Thriller des Nr.-1-SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautors: Privatdetektiv Peter Hogarts dritter Fall. Eigentlich wollte der Wiener Privatdetektiv Peter Hogart nur einen Kurzurlaub in Paris verbringen. Doch dann verschwinden bei einer exklusiven Auktion in der Opéra Garnier plötzlich seine Freundin, die Kunsthistorikerin Elisabeth, sowie eine mittelalterliche Knochennadel - ein nahezu unbezahlbarer Kunstgegenstand. Wenig später werden zwei Antiquitätenhändler grausam ermordet, und für Hogart beginnt eine fieberhafte Jagd.

After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad - because he is no longer Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard. He is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. After Harry had no choice but to swear his fealty, Mab wasn’t about to let something as petty as death steal away the prize she had sought for so long.

When Declan and his uncle Seamus find a dead woman in the master closet of a house for sale, Seamus hopes that means he'll get a deal...but private detective Charlotte Morgan is more interested in why the body has a note pinned to its chest.

The “consistently high-quality” (Booklist) Charlie Parker series continues with a white-knuckled new thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a...

Rain Christiansen, cold-case detective and reluctant medium, is very aware of that fact. But when infamous serial killer Thomas Kane wants to meet, there's no way Rain can say no. He also can't refuse Kane's offer - find his missing wife, Delilah, and he'll reveal the location of his victim's bodies. Rain has never turned down a good quid pro quo, and he doesn't intend to start. The hunt for Kane's wife leads to yet another cold case, three copycat murders, and an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Soon, Rain is dealing with a ghost unlike any he's ever dealt with before.

Auf der Suche nach einer verschwundenen Kollegin wird der mürrische Wiener Privatermittler Peter Hogart nach Prag geschickt. Doch die Goldene Stadt zeigt sich ihm von ihrer düstersten Seite: Binnen Stunden hat er nicht nur einige äußerst zwielichtige Gestalten, sondern auch die Prager Kripo gegen sich aufgebracht. Nur die junge Privatdetektivin Ivona Markovic, die gerade eine Reihe bizarrer Verstümmelungsmorde untersucht, scheint auf Hogarts Seite zu stehen. Als die beiden bei einem Anschlag nur knapp dem Tod entrinnen, wird klar, dass es eine Verbindung zwischen ihren Fällen geben muss.

Qui était Jim Thompson ? Homme d'affaires américain, né en 1906, il a mystérieusement disparu en mars 1967 en Malaisie alors que les Américains étaient très engagés au Vietnam et, plus généralement, dans la région. Ancien membre de l'OSS, puis de la CIA, très au fait de la vie politique thaïlandaise et des agissements inavouables des services secrets américains dans cette partie du monde. A-t-il été assassiné ? S'est-il perdu dans la jungle implacable de Cameron Highlands ? Où a-t-il décidé de s'évaporer pour recommencer ailleurs une autre vie ?

Meet two sleuths from a sleepy Yorkshire village as they investigate murders and discover the secrets behind the twitching curtains. Date with Death is the first cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series, perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M.C...

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day.… Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. He doesn’t know the half of it… Mab has just traded Harry’s skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains - led by one of Harry’s most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone - to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever.

"...Mon père avait trouvé la mort en janvier 1885. Deux années et huit mois s'écoulèrent. J'avais vécu tranquille à Horsham et je commençais à espérer que cette malédiction ne pèserait plus sur notre famille, qu'elle avait été levée avec la disparition tragique de la génération précédente. Cependant, je m'étais rassuré trop vite; hier matin, le destin frappa à ma porte, comme il l'avait fait avec mon père."