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A Killing in November is an Oxford-set crime series of surprising twists, troubled pasts and a dynamic duo who are brought together by a mysterious murder investigation. Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective...

A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans’ mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK’s murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is turning up dead. Suspecting he’s next, Guidry hits the road to Las Vegas. When he spots a beautiful housewife and her two young daughters stranded on the side of the road, he sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks from the hit men on his trail. The two strangers share the open road west - and find each other on the way.

Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: November Dead List. In this series, a young priest opens one such envelope and discovers not a list of the dead but a list of people he knows to be alive and members of his congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a joke. Then the people named start turning up dead.

Kommissar Petersen hatte sich auf einen ruhigen und ereignislosen November auf der Insel gefreut, als ein bizarrer Mord dieser Hoffnung ein jähes Ende setzt. Während der zunächst sehr zäh verlaufenden Ermittlungen stößt er auf Machenschaften im Immobiliensektor. Die Anlage von Kapital auf den Inseln hat scheinbar eine hohe Anziehungskraft für Anleger. Ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste allerdings wird von einigen Akteuren die Gier nach dem Betongold skrupellos durchgesetzt.

It’s cold enough to freeze a shadow when Battle Lake local Tom Kicker braves the killer temps to bag a deer—only to get shot to death by his best buddy, Clive, in a hunting accident. Tragic, yes. Accident? Mira James, just a few weeks into working toward her PI license, isn’t so convinced.

Der erste Fall für Ryan Wilkins und Ray Wilkins – die Chemie und der Humor des Ermittlerduos aus gegensätzlichen sozialen Welten macht Lust auf mehr. DI Ryan Wilkins kennt die Universität Oxford nur aus der Ferne. Aufgewachsen in einem Trailerpark ist ihm diese elitäre Welt so fremd wie suspekt. Nun führt ihn der grausame Mord an einer jungen Frau ausgerechnet in die ehrwürdigen Hallen eines der Colleges – und an die Seite seines Namensvetters, des smarten DI Ray Wilkins, Spross einer wohlhabenden nigerianisch-britischen Familie und Oxford-Absolvent.

Who shot recently wed garage owner Richard Chaloner in November, 2016? The theory at the time was that it was a robbery gone wrong. The Crime Review Team in Wiltshire, England, was formed to investigate unsolved cases. The team, headed by Gus Freeman, has successfully resolved more than a dozen cold-case murders. For this case, the Crime Review Team needs to uncover the motive for the killing—and fast. Gus dismisses the original theory that the Chaloner murder was a robbery gone wrong. Something convinces him that it was personal.

For years, Inspector Richard Queen had been outshone by his writer son. Now, with Ellery away, he had a case all his own - or did he? The verdict had been accidental death, and only the victim's nurse had seen the one thing that made it murder. Recruiting a senior citizens corps of retired cops, Dick Queen tracked a murderer - and found himself courting his only witness! No wonder he kept muttering, "What's Ellery going to say…?"

Insurance investigator Nora Vásquez-Hollins arrives in the quiet mountain town of Prospect, Colorado to verify what should be a routine estate claim. Instead, she finds a problem. A valuable Art Nouveau brooch listed among a dead man’s belongings should not exist. Years earlier, the same brooch was reported stolen. And the insurance payout was already made. As Nora examines the late Raymond Esterholt’s meticulously organized records, she discovers an archive of carefully documented transactions stretching back decades.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio series created by Orson Welles, presented adaptations of classic literary works. These were performed by actors from Welles' celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann. The series ran from July to December 1938, after which the title was changed to The Campbell Playhouse.

The treaty is so simple that the American president can hardly believe his luck. In exchange for a few million tons of grain, the Russians, gripped by famine, will withdraw all troops and missiles from Eastern Europe. What’s more, this great success comes in an election year! It’s too good to be true—and something is about to go wrong.

His name is October. And he is a talented coffee shop musician that can see dark, sickening clouds swirling about the heads of those who are about to commit evil. He helplessly watches as a Clouded One kidnaps Hannah, his first true love, and as he struggles to save her, he discovers the terrifying truth: She's not the one they really wanted. The story takes place in the community of Belmont Shore in Long Beach, CA, where October is drawn into a world of surprising discoveries and disturbing answers about his cursed sight.

Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, two young mothers meet violent ends in a large South London house. Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and Dr Robbie MacTavish, together with their friend, clairvoyant Dorothy Plunkett, are drawn into these tragic events, when young November Jones walks into Robbie’s surgery in the late autumn of 1962. What is the mystery surrounding her, and why is a restless spirit trying to communicate through her?

Un nuevo y apasionante caso del ex inspector Miquel Mascarell y el detective Fortuny que los llevara a las bambalinas del mundo del espectáculo de la Barcelona de post guerra.

In the first book of this bestselling mystery series, criminal investigator Larry Macklin is faced with a mutilated corpse that he suspects is tied to the smokey ruins of an old home in his rural North Florida town. The difficulty for Larry is that the arson case is in the hands of an investigator who despises him. On top of all this, Larry must navigate the difficult relationship he has with the sheriff, who is not only his boss but also his father. The case heats up as Larry suspects that the motive for the murder is buried in his father's past.

Am Abend vor Allerheiligen kommt ein junger Mann nach La Rochelle. Gilles Mauvoisin weiß noch nicht, was ihn in der Heimatstadt seiner Eltern erwarten wird. Bald bekommt er eine überraschende Nachricht: Er, der mittellose Vollwaise, ist als Alleinerbe des großen Vermögens seines Onkels eingesetzt, den alle im Ort hassten.