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Christina Scott confides that seven years ago she had the perfect life with a seaside home, a confirmed pregnancy and Steven, a loving husband – until one morning she woke to find herself alone. Christina's husband had vanished, taking nothing with him but his car – which was later found abandoned at the beautifully mysterious Oare Marshes. Now, with the legal presumption of Steven's death about to be made, Christina shows a photograph to Pearl. It's not of him, but of her young son, Martin, who has grown up without his father but Christina is adamant he now deserves to know the truth.

To find her brother…they must first find a killer ‘I need you. Hurry!’ It’s the worrisome text from her brother Connor that brings criminal analyst Claire Tinsley to picturesque San Miguel, Texas. There, she’s stunned to find her brother has vanished without a trace. Could he have...

Lily Jones is thrilled to find herself in the 1950s. She misses her 21st century life but has a blossoming romance with her musician friend Louis and her dream job working on a movie set. The lead actress Kitty Fox is a rising star, yet Lily recalls that after this movie she goes missing, her disappearance an unsolved mystery that barely makes a ripple in Hollywood history. But as Lily begins to understand the brutal studio system of Hollywood in the 1950s, she wonders if there might be something sinister at play behind Kitty's vanishing.

Bloomsbury presents Disappearance of a Scribe by Dana Stabenow, read by Marguerite Gavin. In this exquisite, absorbing historical mystery, Tetisheri, confidant of Queen Cleopatra, must solve a troubling case in ancient Alexandria. Alexandria, 47BC. Cleopatra – seventh of her name, avatar of...

Lin Coffin is enjoying her new life on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. One night while helping her cousin and her cousin's band members load instruments and equipment into a van, she meets a friendly young couple who help her after she falls on the sidewalk. The next day while working in the garden of a new client, Lin sees the girl again but there is something very wrong. Lin and her cousin, Viv, with the help of several others, work to solve the mystery of the girl's disappearance.

Everyone has a past, and everyone has secrets, no more so than FBI Agent Kira Lockhart. But, even after five years, Kira’s past keeps catching up with her. Hoping to distract herself with a new case, Kira realizes the disappearance of a young college student might be a part of a larger conspiracy.

Hayden’s life was normal until she fell through a mirror and was thrust into an alternate, magical place. Destiny Falls is not on any map and is home to a family she never knew she had. Every day she discovers a new enchantment. But something is amiss. Hayden gets an ominous warning from a strange woman who promises to tell her the town secrets and give her a package—if she’ll meet her at the mysterious ferry that lacks a published destination. The ferry visit is cancelled, but the package is delivered. Once it arrives, someone turns up dead. Then the suspicious episodes start.

The Whitstable Pearl restaurant has been busy all summer while Pearl’s detective agency has brought few interesting cases - until a prospective client calls. Christina Scott confides that seven years ago she had the perfect life with a seaside home, a confirmed pregnancy and Steven, a loving husband - until one morning, she woke to find herself alone. Christina’s husband had vanished, taking nothing with him but his car - which was later found abandoned at the beautifully mysterious Oare Marshes.

"In a remarkable performance, Steve West becomes Dr. John Watson, Jr...A top-notch mystery filled with clever twists and winning characters." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner In the third audiobook of this critically-acclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new...

It is the start of a long, hot summer, and Madalena Grimaldi has disappeared. Claudia is hired to find the missing schoolgirl, but she's already working on a case - the death of Guy Valentine, her father. As Claudia searches the streets, looking for the ghost of her derelict father and for the mysterious man who can lead her to Madalena, she finds herself sinking into a world where, for many, rock bottom is only the beginning.

Katie Porter must follow several confusing leads in her search for the truth concerning a case that the Fairfield Police Department has been unable to solve. She and her friends follow a trail of sinister notes, multiple suspects, unwanted flirtations, and a story that seems to go nowhere. Add the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the Porter’s elderly postman, and the near abduction of Gran, and the situation has the potential to become deadly. Pressure mounts as the crimes escalate. Can Katie Porter find Devlin Douglas before it’s too late?

In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter, Linda, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skåne to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her...