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A Dead End Former TV star Kit Wilder arrives in the affluent, Mayflower-pedigreed town of Westdale hoping for a quiet fresh start. What she finds instead is a skeleton in her house, a murder investigation, and a dangerously charming detective named Romeo Moretti. Armed with instincts borrowed from her old TV role as hotshot detective Ellie Gold, Kit throws herself into the case — if only to get back to renovating her kitchen and avoiding her gin-swilling, razor-tongued mother.

An absolutely page-turning cosy mystery, where death comes to a small village. Perfect for fans of Faith Martin. Where there’s a body in Malvern End, there are secrets to be uncovered… Jude Gray has worked hard to bring a steady equilibrium to life on Malvern Farm and things are going well...

A propulsive thriller about a writer who gets caught up in the case of a missing woman, for fans of Lisa Jewell, Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware. After suffering a loss, Janine and her husband Kamal need a fresh start. They leave their family and everything they know in Manchester and move to...

'A delight from start to finish' Juliette Lawson When an American stranger turns up claiming to be the rightful owner of the school’s magnificent country estate it could spell trouble for everyone at St Bride’s... No one can believe it when the headmistress, Hairnet, instantly accepts the...

When two of Westdale's oldest rival families agree to bury the hatchet with a high-profile wedding, it should be the social event of the season. Instead, the mother of the groom turns up dead before the cake is even cut, and the fragile peace between the families threatens to shatter along with the champagne flutes.

When world-famous, highly reclusive author J. W. Quicksilver chooses a local book club for his first public appearance, the residents of Whispering Bay have trouble containing their excitement. That is until he's found murdered. But things are not always what they seem. It turns out that the dead man wasn't J. W. Quicksilver after all, but a shifty conman who'd been running a publishing scam leaving a mile-long trail of victims. When the real J. W. Quicksilver becomes the prime suspect in the murder, he turns to Lucy for help.

At twenty-three, former TV star Kit Wilder has officially hit rock bottom. Blacklisted from Hollywood and desperate for a fresh start, she retreats to the picture-perfect town of Westdale — all manicured lawns, old money, and Mayflower pedigrees — to quietly finish her degree and renovate a charming fixer-upper. Simple enough, right?

Just when Kit Wilder thought she had small-town life figured out, Westdale goes and serves up another body. The victim: Jasmine Tilton — former professional cheerleader, full-time trophy wife, and stepmother to Kit's sweet study buddy Charlotte. The suspect: Charlotte's older sister. The problem: Kit is pretty sure they've got the wrong person.

In the quirky, picturesque lakeside community of Lily Dale, where the residents can talk to the dead, young widow Bella Jordan is the lone skeptic among believers. She doesn't believe in ghosts…but after a year in the village, she would admit that her new friends do sometimes seem to know impossible things. Still, when a Black stranger dressed in old-fashioned clothing arrives unexpectedly at Bella's guesthouse at midnight on Juneteenth, only to vanish the next day as if he'd never existed, Bella's sure there has to be a logical explanation.

Heathcote, England, 1984. A mysterious figure is sneaking into homes through backdoors and open windows. Known locally as 'the Fox', he knows everything about everyone, leaving curious objects in their homes or taking things from them. When beloved Anna disappears, everyone believes the Fox is responsible. For the villagers, finding Anna will be difficult - but stopping the Fox from exposing their darkest secrets might just be impossible.

There are some crimes you can't sweep under the carpet... Lena Szarka, a Hungarian cleaner working in London, knows all too well about cleaning up other people's messes. When her friend Timea disappears, she suspects one of her clients is to blame. However, the police don't share her suspicions...

Mina Fairchild keeps to herself. Her secluded life protects the secrets she hides, as well as a certain peculiarity that even people in the colorful town of Auburn, Nebraska find strange. But when her movie-star sister Bernadette shows up on her sofa, Mina's cozy bungalow is overrun with paparazzi. One dark-eyed reporter seems to see straight into Mina's soul and her world begins to crumble. It's bad enough when he noses around her secrets, but then he starts digging for information about her mother.

When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone missing. No one knows why anyone would bother stealing it: the picture is of no value—the real, priceless painting is under lock and key at the art show itself.

SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT A year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she's suspected murder all along. Now the unveiling of the Amenmose exhibit is triggering a series of unexplained attacks, and there's only one man she can trust. FBI...

A dead man in Big Bay Creek, spring break, and a rogue FBI agent would be enough to drive Chief Callie Jean Morgan to drink...if she hadn't already quietly crawled inside a bottle of gin to drown her sorrows. When her investigation into the stranger's death heats up an unsolved abduction case, Callie finds herself pitted against the town council, her son, the agent, and even the raucous college kids enjoying idyllic Edisto Beach. Amidst it all, Callie must find a way to reconcile her grief and her precious taste for gin before anyone else is killed.