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Librarian Prunella Pearce has left heartbreak behind to start a new life in the village of Winterbottom, where there's little social life to be had aside from the meetings of The Winterbottom Women's Institute at the parish hall. But a bit of excitement ensues when the group is about to elect a new president—and the nominees for the position begin dropping like flies. One is found face down in a lemon drizzle cake stabbed with a crochet hook. Another dies spectacularly in the revolving doors of a Harrogate hotel.

The residents of an apartment block, in Central Krakow, are trapped in their own building. All windows and doors are sealed, phone lines are down and the Internet is off. Seven people, cut off from the world. It quickly turns out that they are participating in a strange game played by the...

Spooked by a terrifying storm and equally frightening, recurring dream, Melissa Jenkins had no idea the real nightmare was just beginning and would involve a family she'd never met. Melissa volunteers at the Serenity Institute. During her work there, she unknowingly participates in experimental procedures being developed for unscrupulous governments. Seeing things are not right, she sets out to save a patient she's befriended: Noah Rucker. Meanwhile, Noah's stepbrother, Gabriel, also senses trouble at the Institute. He and his buddies set out to rescue Noah.

The Feral Women’s Institute is a secret underground organization of older women loosely descended from witches. You'll find them everywhere, but due to their special talents for hiding in plain view and speaking without being heard, you may not notice them. Rose is their lingerie designer. Her life's work is to find the elusive comfortable bra for the older woman. The trouble begins with a genetically engineered parasite. This one only eats Lycra. With her work in ruins, Rose has no option but to find the source of the problem and put a stop to it. Will Rose find the culprit?

Theres the legend. Theres the evidence. Then theres the truth. Sunday Martin thought shed be honoring her fathers legacy as a serious journalist, not faking hauntings on an American ghost-hunting show. So when her widowed mother pays a fortune to consult a British paranormal researcher who...

The two crime experts are enlisted by legendary rock star Billy Diamond to find his missing daughter. A level-headed student at Yale, Devon left six months earlier with her boyfriend, Carlos, for a career development retreat in Nevada. Her calls and notes became less frequent until they stopped. Billy wanted to give his daughter space—but after learning Carlos' body was found a few miles upstream from the ranch, he needs answers.

For software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, his private compound on the Florida coast is a sunny no-man’s-land separating his family from the rest of the world. Now, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the renowned Locard Institute have been summoned to its dark side. Martin’s pregnant daughter, Ashley, had ventured on a day trip in her motorboat into the Gulf, only to wash up dead on a nearby shore. Although the local coroner determined her death was an accident, Ellie and Rachael soon confirm Martin’s gravest fear: His daughter was murdered.

‘A brilliantly fresh take on a cold case mystery. I adored the characters, the wit and the specificity of the work . . . An extremely accomplished debut’ Holly Seddon ‘[A] fresh new voice in crime fiction . . . . Procedural fans will love this confident and assured debut’ Jane Casey 'A...

Der Titel "LORDSPIEL" symbolisiert die Rolle des Protagonisten Lord Leyton Lawlay, welche er als renommierter Advokat auf der Bühne jenes politischen Theaters spielt, dessen EISERNER VORHANG die Welt in Ost und West teilt. Die Systemkonfrontation bildet den realen Hintergrund der fiktionalen Hörspielserie, wenngleich die Mitte der 1980-er Jahre angesiedelten Episoden vornehmlich von charmanter Atmosphäre geprägt sind. Sobald neben dem gediegenen Rechtsanwalt der launige Journalist Tony Wilkins auftritt, ist – nach feiner englischer Art – Noblesse mit Nonchalance gepaart.

Dr. Morgan Snow is a well-known sex therapist who is treating Cleo Thane, a beautiful business owner...and prostitute. Cleo caters to the wealthy and powerful and after delivering a tell-all manuscript to Dr. Snow, she disappears. A serial killer is murdering street hookers and using the book, Morgan desperately searches for clues to stop the killer before Cleo becomes his next victim.