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'Tis the season for mince pies, mulled wine... and murder! A dead body. A locked Christmas stall with no way in or out. A cunning killer who's gone before the tea's gone cold. Christmas in Southbourne should be all twinkly lights and festive cheer, but Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue—the retired trio who run Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop— have little to celebrate. What with the elusive "Southbourne Stalker" prowling the streets of their sleepy seaside town, they're in need of a little seasonal magic.

When marketing executive Jessie Malone reluctantly returns to her childhood summer camp for an adult nostalgia weekend, she expects bug spray, awkward reunions, and maybe a mild existential crisis. She does not expect the camp’s charismatic counselor to vanish overnight. As Camp Maple Echo slips from quirky retreat into quiet panic, Jessie teams up with her relentlessly optimistic childhood friend Cal Becker to figure out what really happened.

For a hundred years, the residents of a rural Welsh village have been hiding the truth. Now, a newcomer has started digging around, uncovering more than just buried secrets. Retired detective, Graham Williams, has moved to Bethgelert for a fresh start, determined to put the horrors of last year behind him. He has seen his fair share of disturbing scenes, but nothing prepares him for what he sees hanging in the gnarly old tree outside his front window.

In this twisty domestic suspense novel with a touch of dark humor, a struggling valet driver with a shady side hustle and a soft spot for the ladies suspects that one of his targets might be a serial killer. It’s tough to get by in Honolulu these days. Prices are high. Salaries are low. Which is why Johnny Silva tells himself he’s not doing anything that bad. The people he and his girlfriend target have a lot of insurance—and a lot of jewelry.

Beth Cunningham's clever book subscription service is the talk of Oban, complete with local treats and hand-picked reads. But when elderly customer Nora Kelly is found dead in her armchair, Beth's book boxes are identified as the murder weapon. It seems a vengeful killer has the Wild Haggis Bookshop in their sights...

Arriving in the mountain town of Lily Rock for the Fourth of July weekend, Avery plans to rent a room from Stella Rawlins—a friendly local known for her love of books and quiet acts of defiance. When Stella is killed by a sabotaged firecracker hidden inside her library, Avery becomes the discovery witness…and an immediate suspect.

Odyssey Pruit paints pictures of the ghosts and spirits she saw in the halls of an old hotel where she worked ten years before. GUY HOGAN doesn’t believe in ghosts. Hogan is hired to guard Odyssey’s pictures for her first art show in the same old hotel. When an early blizzard closes the roads, knocks out the power and telephone, Hogan is trapped in the hotel with Odyssey’s quirky fans. When imps and ghouls make their presence known, Hogan questions his doubts, and the answer could be murder.

It was an average day when Alley Faye found a five-dollar bill on the ground with a message. The message was a warning, the Big Bad Wolf is coming. Can this little piggy get away? Piggy is the first short story in the Knightmare Hour series. If you like books you can finish in under an hour that will keep you on the edge of your seat, then you will love this quick pause resister.

The last thing Rylie needs is a dead body ruining her big day. Or one of Garrett’s exes. Love is not jealous. But Rylie is. Garrett is the perfect man—rich, mature, breathtakingly gorgeous. Plus, he still wants to marry Rylie after she almost got him killed with her stupid investigations. But those days are over. No more investigating. Period. When a snowstorm blows in with a vengeance, they’re all trapped in the lodge together. And one of them might just be a murderer.

1920, Wellington, New Zealand. Grace Devine is poised to build her thriving dress design business as the twenties begin to soar. But when a fashionable client is murdered, suspicion falls on Grace as the last person to see Agatha alive. As wary clients cancel and business begins to fail, Grace decides there’s only one way to prove her innocence and save her career…this seamstress will turn sleuth to find who really murdered the showgirl.

Flora Hyde-Clare’s visit to her beau’s ancestral home was always going to be a disaster. Her mother’s nervous habit of rambling nonsensically, her father’s thinly veiled contempt, her own desperate desire to make a good impression on Sebastian Holcroft’s parents, and his seemingly endless parade of siblings all guaranteed that their stay in the country would be intolerably awkward at best. Yet for all her dire misgivings, Flora never imagined one of the household servants would wind up slain in his own bed. But that is precisely what happens to the handsome young land steward.

Cornwall, 1910. På en afsides tidevandsø, hvor godset Tithe Hall troner, forbereder herskabet sig på verdens undergang. Greven Conrad er overbevist om, at Halleys komet vil udslette alt liv på Jorden, og han beordrer godset forseglet fra kælder til kvist. Men han overser én afgørende ting: faren, der lurer indenfor… Næste morgen bliver Conrad fundet myrdet bag låste døre – dræbt af sin egen armbrøst. Mistanken falder straks på den unge butler Steven Pike.

Feuer im Black Feather! Voller Panik eilen Nathalie und Louise zu ihrem Pub und sehen - nichts ... Falscher Alarm. Doch kurz darauf muss die Feuerwehr im beschaulichen Earlsraven erneut ausrücken. Diesmal brennt es tatsächlich. Und in den Flammen wird zu allem Unglück ein toter Mann gefunden. Wer war er? Und war sein Tod nur ein tragischer Unfall oder steckt mehr dahinter? Ein winziges Detail lässt Nathalie und ihre Freunde aufhorchen. Und schon bald haben sie es nicht nur mit campenden Künstlern und einer anstrengenden Wahrsagerin zu tun, sondern mit einem handfesten Verbrechen!

A Body at the Purim Carnival. A Hidden Past. A Community in Danger. When his golden retriever Rochester noses out a dead body behind the bounce house at Stewart’s Crossing’s first Purim carnival, Steve Levitan is pulled into two dangerous investigations, each revealing its own world of secrets, power, and betrayal.

A young landscape painter, finds himself stranded by a fierce snowstorm near the Scottish Border and seeks refuge at the ancient, isolated house. He is taken in by the graceful young mistress, and her eccentric, ascetic guardian, an antiquary and collector. He quickly falls in love. He realizes that his host is at the center of a profound and potentially dangerous mystery tied to this single object, The Copper Box, compelling him to stay and investigate.

Peace is finally within the Duchess's reach… Despite her tumultuous history with its former ruler, Duchess Jacqueline Arienta Xavier refuses to stand idly by as war ravages the Duchy of Savant. Calling for a ceasefire, Jax summons the rival leaders to Saphire, hoping to broker peace—and buy time for her friends, George Solomon and Serafina Braeknoch, to complete a secret mission. Optimism fills the air as the Savantian delegates arrive at Glennfeld Manor, but when disaster strikes, negotiations teeter on the brink of collapse—and death lurks close behind.

The body in the canal belongs to Steve's old friend. Can Steve and Rochester uncover the clues to what happened to him? When his college friend Doug moves to Stewart's Crossing after an ugly divorce, reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan sees a way to pay forward the help he received under similar circumstances. But when Doug dies under mysterious circumstances, Steve and his crime-solving golden retriever Rochester have a new goal: Find the truth behind Doug's death, even if Steve has to risk the freedom he has fought so hard for to do it.

Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the Black Hills when a missing camper’s mutilated body is discovered in a remote part of Wind Cave National Park. Jill searches remote portions of Wind Cave for the victim’s missing companion while Doug tries to determine their identities. The park investigation revelations pull them into a local crime and put their lives at risk. A prairie blizzard brings everything in Western South Dakota to a stop as the pieces of the mysteries start to fall into place.

In Food of the Dogs, Steve and his bride Lili head to Vermont for a relaxing honeymoon—until Rochester uncovers a murder victim. Their romantic getaway turns into a dangerous search for a killer hiding among small-town secrets. Dog Grant Me finds Steve back at Friar Lake Conference Center, where a winter cooking course becomes the setting for threatening notes, political intrigue, and a student’s murder. As a blizzard closes in, Steve, Lili, and Rochester must unmask a killer before the storm traps them with a murderer.

A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict Cumberbatch In the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and...