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One inn. One mystery. One chance to begin again. After a devastating divorce and the loss of her family’s historic hotel, almost-sixty Jess Bryant is ready to disappear—until a crumbling seaside inn on Anna Maria Island offers one last shot at starting over. With her twin sister by her side...

This collection contains Book 1 - Undercurrents, Book 2 – Drowned Voices, and Book 3 – Emergence.

After her philandering husband's boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she's got a whole new life - including some amateur sleuthing...Mia is starting work at Belle View, her father's catering hall, a popular spot for weddings, office parties, and more. Soon she's planning a bachelor party for a less-than-gentlemanly groom. But it goes awry when the gigantic cake is wheeled in and a deadly surprise is revealed.

A masterful exploration of one of the Nazi regime’s darkest figures—and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust. By the time of her execution at thirty-six, Maria Mandl had achieved the highest rank possible for a woman in the Third Reich. As Head Overseer of the women’s camp...

A wedding weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A dog trainer bride. A billionaire groom with dangerous secrets. And a mystery that refuses to wait until after the vows.Dog trainer Raine Stockton wanted a simple mountain wedding with family, friends, and her beloved dogs. Instead, her marriage to...

Stenhoog ist der Deutschen liebste Urlaubsinsel – gleich hinter Sylt, Norderney und Borkum. Auf jeden Fall ein schöner Ort. Weniger schön, dass man ausgerechnet hier den örtlichen Pfarrer tot aus dem Wasser gefischt hat. Wie sich jedoch herausstellt, handelt es sich bei dem Toten in Wahrheit keineswegs um einen Geistlichen, sondern um den untergetauchten Bankräuber Arnas Ramanauskas. Nach jahrelanger Fahndung ist er endlich gefasst! Nur leider eben tot.

When Detective Maria Miller walks up creaking stairs into the attic of the old brownstone she senses this isn’t an ordinary crime scene. The brutality of the murder is enough to shock even an experienced detective like Maria. But there’s something else. An unsettling presence seems to lurk in the shadows sending a chill through Maria’s bones, making her desperate to run back down the stairs and never return. The killing is identical to the murder of an actress sixty years before, a crime that tore a family apart and sent shockwaves through New York City.

Más de 1.000.000 de lectores El verano está terminando y la teniente Valentina Redondo está contando los días para empezar sus vacaciones. Pero algo insólito sucede en el centro mismo del pueblo costero de Suances: el jardinero del antiguo Palacio del Amo ha aparecido muerto en el césped...

Meet Tannie Maria: A woman who likes to cook a lot and write a little. One Sunday morning, as Maria savours the breeze through the kitchen window whilst making apricot jam, she hears the screech and bump that announces the arrival of her good friend and editor Harriet. What Maria doesn't realise...

En el majestuoso Palacio Dorado, situado en el centro de Madrid, lo más selecto del mundo del arte se ha reunido para la inauguración de Pentimento, un museo que muestra reproducciones de obras de arte icónicas en el contexto donde se exhibieron por primera vez. Amanda Mendoza, la anfitriona, observa con desconfianza a uno de los invitados: el enigmático Dimas Chevalier, el ladrón de guante blanco más famoso de Europa, que, tras unos años en la cárcel, asegura que se ha reformado por completo.

Meet Tannie Maria, recipe writer turned crime fighter, who before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, finds herself embroiled in another mystery. A bushman’s life is under threat and Tannie is determined to find out who wants to kill him. But her boyfriend is keen...

Shortly before midnight, four teenagers broke into the old abandoned psychiatric hospital on Beacon Hill. Only three came out again. The missing girl—Riley Holt—is the seventeen-year-old daughter of the local police chief and she appears to have vanished into thin air. Called from Manhattan to take over the case, Detective Maria Miller and her partner Frankie Conroy uncover the sinister past of the abandoned hospital, which was once the hiding place of the notorious College Kid Killer, who never revealed the burial site of his final victim.

Every time I turn the corner towards home, I yearn for Ed to have returned. But he’s not coming back. The man I thought was my forever has been living a lie with me since the moment we met. I’m sick of hearing his voicemail message. I’m even more sick of the unanswered texts. He’s left me completely in the dark and I can’t even give our kids an answer to their never-ending question, ‘When’s Daddy coming back?’

A mulher mais importante do cangaço brasileiro, que inspirou gerações de mulheres, ganha agora sua biografia mais completa e com uma perspectiva feminista. Embora a mitificação da imagem de Maria Bonita tenha escondido situações de constante violência, ela em nada diminui o caráter...

When the bodies of two teenage girls are discovered in a rundown New York City hotel room, Detective Maria Miller is called to the crime scene. The best friends were supposed to be at a sleepover miles away in the suburbs. With no record of the girls checking in and the room on the thirteenth floor closed off to guests, what were they doing there? Sinister messages on their phones suggest the girls were lured to the hotel, using its reputation for hauntings as bait. The killer left no DNA behind and Maria’s efforts to trace their identity leads to a dead end. 

I stand at the front door and meticulously check my reflection in the glass. I must look perfect to meet Lou’s new boyfriend. I haven’t been invited but best friends don't require invitations, right? Scott's arrival coincides with Donna's, leaving me with no choice but to welcome her in, though I've made it clear she's an unnecessary addition to today's gathering. This meal is about introducing Scott to my mother and daughter – a fact Donna conveniently ignores.

Más de 400.000 lectores Oliver, un joven londinense con una peculiar situación familiar y una triste pérdida, hereda una casona colonial, Villa Marina, a pie de playa en el pueblecito costero de Suances, en Cantabria. En las obras de remodelación se descubre en el sótano el cadáver...

Beautiful, bright-eyed Michelle Jackson, a loving wife and mother, has been killed. Her husband Paul is accused of murdering her. Their little girl Emily, numb with grief, is refusing to speak. You’ll hate Paul for what he’s done. Everyone said they were the perfect couple, always holding hands. They did everything together. But when you hear about their whispered arguments and the terrible lies they both told, you’ll be certain Paul is guilty. But everything you think you know is wrong. After all, behind closed doors every marriage has secrets. And some are deadlier than others.

Die Geschichte um das wertvolle Dahlienbild erreicht einen neuen Höhepunkt: Carlos zittert um die entführte María Moreno und bringt Allmen dazu, Dinge zu tun, die dieser sich nie hätte träumen lassen. Ein raffinierter Krimi voller Action und Spannung.

1973, Texas: The FBI and local authorities descend on the infamous Sawyer family's compound after one of their victims escaped, carrying a tale so horrific it would shock the entire nation.1978, Illinois: Sheriff Leigh Brackett and Doctor Samuel Loomis end the Babysitter Killer's night of terror...