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When Helen Davenport is found strangled in her fashionable London flat, the discovery shocks even those who thought they knew her best. Glamorous, charming, and with just enough scandal in her past to raise eyebrows, Helen had always walked a dangerous line between admiration and envy. But who hated her enough to kill?

As an amateur sleuth, Lira has used her extraordinary intuitive abilities to assist the police. But this latest case of a woman's abduction is her most challenging yet. The recurring dreams leave Lira desperately searching for clues to the victim's identity and location, even as the weight of this burden threatens to push her to the brink of collapse.

For Sarah Anderson, life is a magical balancing act. Between raising two kids, nurturing a new relationship, and secretly trying to control her own fledgling magical powers, her hands are already full. So when the town’s quirky Christmas in July festival is crashed by a brazen bank heist and a shocking murder, her summer plans are officially iced.

Everything was going great for Tricia Miles, right up until her estranged mother, Sheila, arrives on her front step with an urn she says contains the remains of Tricia's father. Shocked and saddened, Tricia and her sister, Angelica, attempt to get to the bottom of what happened. But their efforts for clarity are dashed when Shelia disappears the very next day, leaving without a word.

Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called The Case is Altered where a weekly trivia game has revived its flagging fortunes—that is, until a body is found in the nearby river. Soon after, a mysterious new team arrives and shakes up the diverse field of regulars by scoring top marks in every round...every week.

From over 3,000 considered stories published in the past year, this anthology contains the twenty best, selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham under the auspices of New York City's legendary crime fiction specialty store The Mysterious Bookshop. Included are tales of suspense, detection, and puzzlement that illuminate the diversity of styles contained under the "mystery" umbrella and highlight some of the greatest practitioners of the short form working today, with a blend of household names and lesser known writers no less worthy of your attention.

Christine can’t believe her luck. The iconic Gloria Beaufort, founder of the billion-dollar beauty empire Glo, has personally chosen her to cover her grandson’s wedding for Bespoke, the cult fashion magazine that every A-list bride dreams of being featured in. A career-making scoop and a free trip to a castle turned five-star hotel on the Emerald Isle? It feels too good to be true… Because it is.

Trouble is blowing up all over Hoochville. In the aftermath of the Founder’s Day parade explosion, weird things keep happening that parallel events in Deana Marie’s new unpublished whodunit. Coincidence? Sadie doesn’t think so. And when a body turns up in the storage shed at River Rats Tavern, all eyes are on Deana Marie as the source of all the shenanigans. While Sadie’s focus is on finding Deana Marie’s manuscript copycat, most everyone else in town is too enamored with Hoochville’s new roller derby team, the Intoxiskaters, to even care.

Abbey Road. Site of the iconic studio where The Beatles recorded, plus THAT zebra crossing. Without access to their beloved Routemaster buses, Diana and Zaf are hopeful that they can attract business to Chartwell and Crouch tours by hosting tours of the studio. And Diana has the connections to make it happen... But then on a tour of the studio, they hear disturbing noises from a recording booth. And moments later, an old friend of Diana's is found dead.

When Gilbert Williams, a resident at Sunset House Care Home, claims to have once killed someone, care assistant Will Cavanagh initially dismisses his claims – he’s frail and vulnerable, he can’t imagine him ever killing someone – but he can’t seem to let his comments go. What if it’s true? What if he really did kill someone and he’s forgotten that he isn’t supposed to tell anybody…

Ghostwriter Carissa Blackwood is having the worst year of her life. After leaving her cheating husband, she finally takes up the offer to help her two eccentric aunts manage the Blackwood Bed ’n’ Breakfast Inn in Pelican Point, California—a house they only recently inherited from their deceased father, Bram Blackwood.

London, 1907: When the Season's most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. But all is not what it seems, and after a toxic beverage is revealed to be the cause of death, the king himself instructs Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves to unearth the truth.

A junior high janitor. A kidnapped pop star. And a talking guinea pig who saw too much. Oliver Holmes was content with his life as a janitor until the day he wakes to find a guinea pig on his bed adamant that he investigate a murder that might not be what it seems. Throw in a captivating veterinarian and an officer who knows the secrets of Oliver’s past, and he has his work cut out for him.

When a string of gruesome murders grips the city, reporter Eddie Marrow is the only one who sees the disturbing pattern—a trail of death that points to something far darker than a typical serial killer. With his career hanging by a thread and haunted by his own past, Eddie dives headfirst into the shadows of the city. As he peels back layers of corruption, obsession, and something terrifyingly unnatural, he finds himself face-to-face with a killer who seems to defy explanation—and might not even be human.

Blaze Stark, mega best-selling author and former St. Louisan, enters Mitchell Adam's office one night convinced someone wants to kill her. Given her bizarre peccadilloes and office decorum, he suggests a female therapist, but she refuses. Reluctantly, he agrees. His initial diagnosis is a major psychiatric illness, but Blaze is not a reliable informant and has hidden her early past from the world. After two deaths of people close to her, Mitch finds the shocking truths in Blaze's past by reading her dystopic young adult novels and by enlisting help from her bodyguard, Alonso.

1521, England: At Hampton Court, Thomas Tester tastes wine meant for kings—and for killers. Born to a bloodline of herbalists and poison detectors, Thomas risks everything to protect his family and the crown from betrayal cloaked in velvet and venom. 2025, Tennessee: Dr. Grace Blackwood uncovers a pattern of overdoses tied to falsified pharmaceutical trials. When whistleblowers start dying and her brake lines are cut, Grace must rely on ancestral knowledge, Appalachian resistance, and the long-buried Testers' ledgers to survive—and expose the truth.

In una valle selvaggia e silenziosa del Piemonte, Cesare, ex passeur che portava clandestini e merce di contrabbando oltre il confine con la Francia, vive in una baita con l'unica compagnia della lupa Micol. Indurito dal mestiere svolto e dall'ambiente che lo circonda, trascorre i suoi giorni lontano dal mondo. Ma tutto cambia quando una notte, in fondo a una scarpata Cesare trova il cadavere di Fausto, l'amico a cui aveva consegnato il suo lavoro e la sua esperienza, freddato da due colpi di fucile.

Agosto de 2016: tres miembros de una familia mueren brutalmente apuñalados en su casa de Hontoria. Once meses después, una llamada telefónica lleva el caso a la vida del periodista segoviano Jean Ezequiel. A base de horas de trabajo, alguna fuente anónima y la ayuda de su círculo íntimo, Ezequiel irá acercándose a la resolución del triple crimen y desenredando una tupida maraña de silencios e intereses creados entre las altas esferas de la sociedad segoviana.

Hausmeister Penzkofer lebt und arbeitet in einer Wohnanlage auf St. Pauli in Hamburg. Als er die Tür zur Wohnung von Herrn Schmadtke öffnet, da sich die Mieterin in der Wohnung unter ihm Frau Schreier über das Wasser beschwert hat, das von der Decke tropft, erblickt der Hausmeister den Mann tot, an einen Stuhl gefesselt. Schnell findet Penzkofer Gefallen daran, den Ermittlungen um die mysteriösen Ereignisse in der Anlage selbst nachzugehen. Er erfährt, dass der Tote Bienen gehalten hat, aber wo?

So aufregend war Frau Helbings Weihnachten noch nie. Ihr in den USA lebender Schwager Walter hat überraschend für Heiligabend seinen Besuch angekündigt, um in "good old Germany" ein Fest wie in Kindertagen zu verleben. Und am 25. Dezember wird Frau Helbing dann vor einem erlesenen Hamburger Publikum auf der Bühne stehen! Heide hat sie überredet, eine Rolle in dem Schwank Tratsch im Treppenhaus zu übernehmen, der zu Ehren ihres alten Freundes Dr. Rheder an seinem Geburtstag im St. Pauli Theater aufgeführt werden soll.