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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.

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.

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.

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. 

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...

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...

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.

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.

L'Ispettore Capo Giovanni Di Falco, in servizio presso il Commissariato di pubblica sicurezza di una cittadina marinara della Sicilia occidentale, possiede un suo personale archivio. Si tratta di un armadio di metallo dove all'interno il poliziotto conserva gli incartamenti ufficiali, in copia, dei casi di cui si è occupato. Ogni caso ha una sua cartella. Per identificare l'indagine, sulla copertina di ognuna, di Falco di solito scrive una frase tratta del dialetto siciliano.

Una muerte en plena partida. Un equipo a contrarreloj. Un misterio que pondrá a todos en jaque. Durante la final del campeonato femenino de ajedrez en Hondarribia, la joven ucraniana Oksana Adrianova cae fulminada sobre el tablero. La escena, tan impactante como inexplicable, despierta todas las alarmas. En plena guerra del Donbás, Oksana había sido acogida por una familia local para escapar del conflicto, pero su muerte revela una verdad más oscura.

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...

Julia Bird har lämnat London för att börja om i den pittoreska byn Berrywick. Hon är nybliven pensionär och dessutom nyskild, men fast besluten att skapa sig ett nytt liv. Den mysiga stugan hon köpt, med öppen spis och rustik charm, är allt hon drömt om. Men när hon låter riva den gamla trädgårdsboden för att göra plats för ett hönshus hittas en kropp efter en ung kvinna som verkar ha varit begraven i decennier.

När bestsellerförfattaren Vincent Andrews, uppvuxen i Berrywick, ska göra en uppläsning på biblioteket vill Julia inte missa det. Vincent är charmig och trollbinder publiken. Uppläsningen slutar i kaos, och några timmar senare hittas Vincent död bakom bokhyllorna. Julia bestämmer sig för att göra en egen utredning.

Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year, or when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges.

Teresa Maritano si è finalmente decisa a lasciare la polizia. Abbandonato il suo ruolo di ispettrice, ha aperto un bar e trovato la tranquillità che tanto desiderava. Tutto però cambia quando riappare il commissario Marco Ardini, suo ex capo. Una bambina di nome Carlotta è scomparsa da giorni, una bambina che Teresa conosceva abbastanza bene. Deciderà quindi di aiutare Ardini nelle indagini. Queste porteranno i due a scavare in un caso torbido, che li condurrà dapprima a cercare informazioni su un'altra bambina amica di Carlotta, Paola, e in seguito sulla strana madre di quest'ultima.

'Finally a novel I couldn't put down for an entire weekend' - Petra Hammesfahr, German bestselling author 'Anna Jansson is the new literary voice from the Nordic countries' - Berliner Morgenpost One forgotten grave. Two identical crimes. A killer who was supposed to be dead. Detective...

Monsieur le Commissaire und der Mord aus dem Hinterhalt. Nach einem Ritterturnier auf einem Schloss an der Loire machen die Gäste einen grausamen Fund: Ein Mann wurde von Pferden zu Tode getrampelt. Doch der vermeintliche Unfall entpuppt sich schnell als Mord, das Opfer wurde mit einem Pfeil erschossen. Die örtliche Polizei ist überfordert und holt sich Hilfe von Commissaire Philippe Lagarde. Kurz darauf ereignet sich auf dem Areal eines anderen Schlosses ein ähnlicher Fall.

Ottenuto l'affidamento della piccola Paola, la vita di Teresa Maritano sembra finalmente aver preso la svolta tanto desiderata. Il suo passato nella polizia è finito, e ora gestisce un bar nella tranquilla provincia ligure. Eppure, come già successo in precedenza, l'arrivo del commissario Ardini rimescolerà di nuovo le carte in tavola. Tormentato da un trauma della sua infanzia, riflesso in un oggetto rinvenuto sulla scena del crimine del falegname Remo Valsi, Ardini è incapace di continuare le indagini.

When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals turn to the trusted elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra, “one of the all-time greats” (Jeffery Deaver). “An utterly delightful tale starring...