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A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen. It's late August in Shady Hollow, and intrepid reporter Vera Vixen agrees to chaperone the school’s annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture. Naturally, her...

The fourth book in the Shady Hollow mystery series sees Vera embroiled in a case involving star-crossed lovers whose affair may have turned deadly. It's spring in Shady Hollow, and romance is in the air. Even reporter Vera Vixen is caught up in the season as her relationship with new police...

Mit Chemie, Charme und Fahrrad auf Mörderjagd – Band 2 der hinreißenden All-Age-Krimireihe »Flavia de Luce«! Nie zuvor hat die junge Flavia de Luce einen so aufregenden Theaterabend erlebt. Der begnadete Puppenspieler Rupert Porson schlägt das Publikum in seinen Bann, und beim furiosen...

A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets...

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond...

A nun’s corpse leads beloved amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce to uncover decades-old secrets in this charming final novel in the New York Times bestselling series. “I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective I’ve ever read, full of realism, self-confidence, and...

Maxie McNabb, the irresistible Winnebago-driving sixty-something-year-old, is back–and criminals from the frigid Iditarod Trail to the scorching Southwest had better beware. With her canine companion, Stretch, in tow, Maxie is "the most refreshingly original protagonist to come along in years"...

Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. After all, he is terrifyingly good at it. Stimulated by violence, he and his brother, Cecil, had easily graduated from juvenile delinquents to full-blown killers. And Carl, now serving a life sentence in an Arkansas penitentiary, carries out a daring escape with a...

A young woman accused of murder while on holiday in Venice enlists a friend to come help her—but once they begin unraveling clues, there’s no telling what else will come to light. “Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers.”—A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling...

Ein Mord in Londons High Society. Zwei intensive Liebesgeschichten. Drei Monate, um den Schuldigen zu finden. Teil 1 von Josi Wismars New-Adult-Suspense-Reihe als Hörbuch Isabelle hat drei Monate Zeit, um ihre beste Freundin aus dem Gefängnis zu holen. Vee wird für den Mord an ihrem Chef –...

"Weizmann’s music bona fides inform the novel’s tone and purpose, but it’s equally clear how steeped he is in the styles of detective fiction past and present...This is a story of murder, but also of vivid life." -- The New York Times “A confident, polished storyteller who honors his...

Mord auf der Zielgeraden - Bahn frei für Hobbydetektivin Lady Emily Hardcastle und ihre Zofe Flo Armstrong! September 1909. Eine Woche mit eleganten Dinnern, rauschenden Partys und aufregenden Autorennen - Lady Hardcastle und ihre Zofe Florence Armstrong folgen der Einladung Lord Riddlethorpes auf dessen Landsitz. Doch während des ersten Rennens geschieht ein fürchterlicher Unfall, und einer der Fahrer stirbt. Die beiden Frauen ahnen, dass kein Fahrfehler dahintersteckt, sondern eine weitaus teuflischere Ursache.

In the latest installment in the beloved Shady Hollow series, everyone's favorite vulpine investigator Vera Vixen must contend with a cold-hearted killer—and the ghost of her own past. It's a crisp, cool autumn in Shady Hollow, and preparations are underway for the annual Harvest Festival...

The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to...

The second book in the Shady Hollow series, in which some long-buried secrets come to light, throwing suspicion on a beloved local denizen. It's autumn in Shady Hollow, and residents are looking forward to harvest feasts. But then a rabbit discovers a grisly crop: the bones of a moose. Soon, the...

From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This...

Das Sautrogrennen - für die einen eine legendäre Veranstaltung am Freudensee im Bayerischen Wald. Für die anderen eher die Regatta des ländlichen Proletariats. Zu diesen anderen zählt sich auch der Fellinger, seines Zeichens Lebensmittelkontrolleur und Hobbyermittler. Eigentlich wollte der Fellinger nämlich zur Polizei. Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte. Damals, beim letzten Sautrogrennen ist der Löffelmacher unter ungeklärten Umständen ertrunken. Tragisch. Und jetzt stirbt beim Bruder vom Löffelmacher, der sich als Gastronom verdingt, ein Tourist an vergiftetem Schweinsbraten.

A missing woman everyone hates. A sleepaway camp for adults with bad personalities. A one-of-a-kind detective. “Once again the incomparable (and unhinged) Jo Firestone proves that she is damn funny.”—Ziwe, on Murder on Sex Island Marie Jones is back on her feet. Mostly. She’s keeping her...

A village bookseller finds her quiet life in the Cotswolds turned upside-down by a true crime podcast that casts her as the villain in a grisly murder from her past—a thrilling novel from the award-winning author of the Murder Most Unladylike series. On February 22nd, Alice Mildmay, a...

The delightful Father Tom Christmas returns, and the cozy hamlet of Thornford Regis comes to life, in C. C. Benison’s witty, beautifully written series that is “a must-read for lovers of classic English mysteries” (Kirkus Reviews). Although Father Tom Christmas serves his little church...