Nouveautés

After being fired from the library, 68-year-old Jim Butterfield decides to retire and move to Oceanview Cove to fulfill his late wife's dream of living near the ocean. But Jim never expects that he will end up in the center of a murder mystery instead of reading about one. On the second day after coming to the town, his neighbor is found dead, and Jim becomes the prime suspect. Together with Ginger, a cat with extraordinary sarcastic abilities, Jim must untangle a web of secrets and lies hidden behind Oceanview Cove's colorful facade to clear his name.

Newlyweds Lady Swift and Detective Hugh Seldon are honeymooning in the most romantic city on earth. Clifford, her butler, has come along for the trip to make sure everything goes to plan for the happy couple. And Gladstone, the mischievous bulldog, to make sure it doesn’t!

It's 1941 in the quaint Village of Worthington, Ohio. Life is changing at the end of the Great Depression. Elizabeth Russo, 23, teaches elementary school but feels uncertain about her future. Her Sicilian immigrant father ran The Red and White, a popular village general store.

Mentre il freddo dicembre avvolge Fonterone, la tranquilla routine di Agata Cornero viene interrotta da un invito speciale: la contessa Caterina Brandolini da Mosto organizza un’elegante asta di beneficenza. La serata, ospitata nel più raffinato ristorante della città, promette di essere memorabile, con opere di artisti locali e un esperto banditore a condurre l’asta. Ma dietro la facciata scintillante si nasconde un pericolo letale.

Derbyshire, dicembre 1924. È un freddo Natale ad Alconbury Hall, la residenza di campagna della nobile famiglia Lennox. Così freddo che nemmeno generose dosi di sherry riescono a riscaldare la mente e il cuore di Lady Millicent Carmichael, mentre detta le sue scandalose memorie alla nuova segretaria. Beatrice però ancora non riesce a cogliere il sottobosco di ten­sioni che attraversa quella conturbante atmosfera natalizia.

Paralegal Harper Williams excels at managing the myriad details of her cases, and she thrives on the legal drama that often comes with Discovery. But when an armed intruder invades her posh, uptown office, the gruesome outcome fuels Harper’s determination to command justice in a whole new way. Heady fears, dark secrets, and volatile relationships compound the mystery of her friend’s murder, leaving Harper with unanswerable questions and deep doubts. Elusive suspects… a disturbed mind…

Sawyers Bend has a way of hiding its secrets. But this one won’t stay buried forever. Avery Sawyer runs a successful brewery in Sawyers Bend, but the shadow of her father’s unsolved murder looms over everything. Prentice Sawyer made enemies easily, and a year after his death, no one has been brought to justice. The killer has made it clear—he’s not finished with the Sawyer family. Avery is tired of looking over her shoulder. She’s determined to find the killer and set her family free from their father’s past.

Land Where My Fathers Died is the story of a young man's search for identity, love, and his place in the world. While incarcerated six years for a murder he never committed, Jo Shelby Ferguson lost his only family in a highway accident. Upon his release from the Mississippi state penal farm, a trunk, the only earthly possession left to him, yields several bundles of old letters. Upon reading the first letter, he discovers they are written by his great-great-great grandmother.

When Sheriff Zachariah Fitch hears about a corpse found inside the wall of Maltby le Marsh Abbey, he wants nothing to do with the investigation since that is where his estranged sister resides as a nun. But with the local constable asking for his help, and Lady Vivienne accepting the case for them, he quickly finds himself not only working on a murder, but having to face his ghosts of the past involving his sister.

"Dark" Arrowsmith and Spiral Wood are grifters—in love and living on the edge—until Spiral vanishes near the village of Aftonhouse in the Scottish Highlands. Posing as a reporter, Dark discovers a remote community with a criminal underbelly and finds herself falling for an enigmatic, reformed smuggler named Lachlan Robertson. But Aftonhouse is a place of tragic secrets, all revolving around Lachlan and Spiral. Ironically, Dark must use her skills as a con artist to find Spiral and uncover the truth. Then she must choose between the men she loves…

When Sophia Vance, a disgraced journalist, arrives in the isolated coastal town of Blackwater Cove, she is drawn to the ominous lighthouse that towers over the town—a silent keeper of long-buried secrets. What starts as a routine story quickly turns into a dangerous obsession when she learns about the mysterious disappearances tied to the lighthouse and a journalist who vanished before her.

Sonny Marshall never forgot how he failed his sister. Haunted by her trauma during a home invasion, the thirty-two-year-old martial artist swears he’ll never let another innocent suffer. So when the valiant saxophonist hears from a friend about a fresh clue in a missing kid’s cold case, he refuses to heed the warnings of his GF and family and pursues justice.

The only ambition Miss Emily Mifford holds for her first season in London is to endure it without completely humiliating herself; a difficult task when one has an unfortunate habit of saying precisely the wrong thing at the wrong time... After clashing publicly with the odious Lady Hardthistle, Emily soon learns that there are worse things than being embarrassed—like being accused of murder! When the belligerent baroness is found strangled to death at a ball, the finger of blame points at Emily.

Her family’s deadliest secret is about to become her most dangerous truth. When family historian Lyra Kincaid uncovers her ancestor Elara’s cryptic 19th-century journal, it connects her lineage to Oakhaven's infamous Whispering Bluffs train robbery—a bloody, unsolved crime. Elara’s words hint at a terrifying secret, a "debt" still casting a lethal shadow. Lyra’s quest for truth immediately provokes powerful forces; a break-in and chilling threats prove some secrets are meant to stay buried.

When a human skull gatecrashes her friends’ big day, it officially becomes the worst wedding Ginny Cole has ever been to. But as the assembled guests await the police, the two families staring daggers at each other across the aisle, Ginny starts to suspect that these nuptials were deliberately sabotaged. Together with her fellow widows in crime-solving, JM, Tuppence and Hen, she decides to uncover who wanted this marriage dead on arrival.

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen Pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor’s life—from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner—had differing opinions of him. And to complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor.

In the shadowed depths of the Vatican’s Secret Archives, archaeologist Marcus Russo, Father Michael Dominic, and investigative journalist Hana Sinclair uncover a chilling artifact—a centuries-old music box intricately crafted and bound with symbols of forgotten rites of alchemy. What begins as an academic curiosity quickly turns into a dire warning, as whispers of its sinister origins surface. The box, linked to an enigmatic 18th-century composer, Vincenzo Malvagio, holds within it a melody unlike any other—a composition rumored to have the power to summon forces beyond human comprehension.

Lady Ellen settles back into life at Ashcombe Hall and eagerly awaits the return of Captain Ernest Hamilton from Cairo. But her peace is shattered when a notorious thief is found dead on the neighbouring Worthington estate. Heading over to console Lady Jane Worthington, Ellen’s day takes an unexpected turn—a plane crashes on her land, piloted by flame-haired Alex, the Duke of Loxborough, who is once again masquerading under a pseudonym. As charming as he is, Ellen is unnerved by his presence—she does not trust him.

Kriminalhauptkommissar Markus Fischer hat die Nase voll: geschieden, ausgebrannt und einfach durch mit dem Job. Doch dann meint es das Schicksal gut mit ihm - und beschert ihm auf Gran Canaria einen millionenschweren Lottogewinn! Fischer kündigt und will fortan in einer idyllischen Bungalowanlage dem süßen Nichtstun frönen. Doch die Entspannung findet ein jähes Ende, als eines Morgens ein Toter mit einem mysteriösen Metallstück in der Brust im Pool treibt.

A killer’s in the frame—and Ginny Fellows is running out of time to focus. When a local photographer turns up dead, theatrical agent Ginny Fellows is reluctantly pulled into the case. Ginny must unravel a web of newsroom secrets and hidden rivalries. Panic attacks keep her close to home, but with support from her steadfast friend Adam, her eccentric actor clients, and her clever cat Tuxie, she's determined to bring the truth into focus. Smart, witty, and refreshingly original, Murder in Focus is a must-listen for fans of unconventional sleuths and small-town suspense.