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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 is that Harriet is about to deliver the first ingredient in two new recipes (recipes for love and murder) and a whole basketful of challenges.

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 for her to stay out of danger, and she's pretty sure he's hiding something.... It seems Tannie has mysteries of her own solve....

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...

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...

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.

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.

The past is a fire that never stops burning. At a desolate rest area in Kronviken, a woman's body is found - severely burned, unrecognizable, her identity erased by a melted blue cap. For Detective Inspector Maria Wern, it is a gruesome puzzle. For her colleague, Per Arvidsson, it is the...

A TV journalist searching for her long-lost sister is trapped in an isolated colony where she must fight to survive—and confront her guilt, her past love, and the terrifying truth about what really happened to her sister.

After a student choir’s practice session at a Helsinki villa turns deadly, Detective Maria Kallio finds herself in the middle of the action - and her first murder case. Someone in the group wanted playboy Tommi Peltonen dead, but that’s one song these suspects refuse to sing. Behind the choir’s jovial facade lies bitter passion, and the victim’s seemingly perfect life hid a host of sins that made him a target of almost everyone in the villa. As a young female - and a redhead to boot - Maria knows that solving this case will help her overcome her perceived shortcoming in the eyes of her colleagues.

Mia's busy with a full schedule of events at the family business - among them an over-the-top Nativity-themed first birthday party and a sweet 16 for a teen drama queen. But her personal life is even more challenging. Her estranged mother has returned - and her lifelong friend Jamie has discovered a shocking secret about his past. He's so angry that he starts hanging out with Lorenzo, who claims to be his long-lost brother - even after it becomes clear that Lorenzo's story is as fake as a plastic Christmas tree. 

Das alte Ehepaar Delcroix wird grausam erschlagen aufgefunden. Zuerst sieht alles nach einem Raubüberfall aus. Doch warum wurden einige wertvolle Gegenstände im Haus zurückgelassen? Philippe Lagarde soll der Sache auf den Grund gehen. Diesmal betrifft ihn der Todesfall auch persönlich, denn das Mordopfer war jahrelang ein Mentor für ihn, und sie standen sich nahe. Hat Bertrand Delcroix etwas beobachtet, wofür er sterben musste? Bei seinen Ermittlungen stößt Philippe Lagarde auf ungeahnte Abgründe - und bald gibt es eine weitere Leiche.

Sestri Ponente, novembre 1956. La palazzina di via D'Andrade ospita un campionario di umanità molto varia: la sarta laboriosa aiutata da una giovane apprendista timida e bella; l'oste truffaldino; la vedova insolvente con il figlio dalle spalle larghe, la vita stretta e poca voglia di faticare; la cinquantenne con tanti figli ma nessun marito... Tutti sanno tutto - o quasi - di tutti. Alcuni sono amici, altri si sopportano, tutti si danno una mano per affrontare le ristrettezze. E c'è una cosa che unisce indissolubilmente gli abitanti di via D'Andrade: l'odio per la loro padrona di casa.

Montana native Gabriel Du Pre has been hired as a consultant by a group of filmmakers shooting a documentary on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Du Pre is a descendent of a Metis fiddler and voyageur named Cruzatte who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey. And Du Pre's daughter, Maria, has been cast in the role of Sacajawea. But trouble is afoot. First a fire damages the film props, and then two bodies are fished out of the river. Someone doesn't want them there.

A miracle is for sale. But the cost is paid in blood. For the elite clients of the Cheiron Clinic, the world-renowned fertility center is a place of hope and new beginnings. But behind the hospital's sterile, white walls, Detective Inspector Maria Wern discovers a much darker reality - one...

Ein Jahr ist es her, dass eine junge Frau nicht mehr von ihrem Strandspaziergang zurückgekehrt ist. Seitdem gilt sie als vermisst. Als genau ein Jahr später wieder eine Frau unter ähnlichen Umständen verschwindet und kurz darauf ihre Leiche an den Strand gespült wird, soll Philippe Lagarde ermitteln. Ist es Zufall, dass beide Frauen einander ähnlich sahen? Handelt es sich um das Werk eines Serientäters? Dann verschwindet die nächste Frau spurlos, und Philippe Lagarde darf keine Zeit verlieren.

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.

Commissaire Lagarde in Gefahr. Mit seiner Freundin Odette verbringt der ehemalige Elitekommissar Philippe Lagarde unbeschwerte Sommertage am Meer und genießt seinen Ruhestand. Doch plötzlich holt ihn sein Beruf wieder ein: im Wald von Gonneville geschieht ein brutaler Mord. Ein Großindustrieller und seine Verlobte werden auf einem Hochsitz getötet. Sein ehemaliger Kollege bittet ihn um Hilfe. Offenbar hatte der Tote viele Feinde - alte Geschäftsfreunde und zahlreiche Exfrauen. Und wer ist das Mädchen, das plötzlich im Wald auftaucht? Dann gibt es einen weiteren Toten.