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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.

Nurse Gemma Tate is heartbroken when she hears that one of her young charges at the Foundling Hospital has been killed. She knows that police inspector Sebastian Bell will work tirelessly to uncover the truth, but obstructed by the curt matron, he’ll need her help navigating the cloistered world of the orphanage.

Lane Winslow is enjoying a perfect sunny day at the lake when she spots a gravely injured young man drifting in a sinking rowboat. Hypothermic, bleeding, and soaked in icy, bloody water, he is unable to speak, leaving Lane at a loss. What series of events brought him to this grisly fate? Darling and Ames are quick to pick up the case, but leads are few until Angela’s young son finds an unsettling clue on the beach - a bright red swastika lapel pin - that points to the National Unity Party of Canada.

August 1816. England is in the grip of what will become known as the Year Without a Summer. Facing the twin crises of a harvest-destroying volcanic winter and the economic disruption caused by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the British monarchy finds itself haunted by the looming threat of bloody riots not seen since the earliest days of the French Revolution. Amidst the turmoil, a dead man is found hanging upside down by one leg in an abandoned chapel, his hands tied behind his back. The pose eerily echoes the image depicted on a tarot card known as Le Pendu, the Hanged Man.

December in Cottageville should be filled with holiday cheer, but for dog groomer Sarah Carter, it's anything but merry. When a tragic accident involving an out-of-control big rig crashes into the Cottageville Library—leaving her friend and love interest Jared Greene injured—Sarah's peaceful holiday season takes a gut-wrenching turn. While tending to Jared's recovery and keeping her dog grooming business, Carter's Canine Coiffure, afloat, Sarah and her loyal Australian cattle dog, Whiskey, find themselves caught up in two unsettling mysteries.

An eager yet insecure young psychiatrist begins her first job in a women’s psychiatric unit—only to be met with cold resistance, strange irregularities, and troubling signs of mistreatment. Rejected not only by her colleagues but even her patients, she’s on the verge of quitting when tragedy strikes: one of her patients dies by suicide. Refusing to walk away, she teams up with an old college crush and her determined mother to investigate. What they uncover is beyond her imagination—criminal negligence, illicit relationships, and the misappropriation of millions in state funds.

Pastor Dennon Rockwell left war zones behind for a quiet life of faith—but violence has found him once again. Teaming up with relentless reporter Emily Navarro, whose FBI contacts suggest a larger conspiracy at play, Dennon hunts for answers. But when a mysterious, cloaked woman—calling herself Alice from Wonderland—confronts him in his own church, she issues a chilling warning: walk away, or suffer the consequences. She’s as tough as they come, and Dennon senses a hidden motive beneath the surface.

When seaside milliner Paige Andrews discovers local candy maker Milo Love face-down in a bubbling vat of molten candy corn, she knows two things instantly: this was no kitchen mishap…and someone in Sea Glass Beach has a deadly sweet tooth. With her eccentric dining club friends rallying at her side, Paige dives headfirst into a swirl of sticky secrets, Halloween hijinks, and sugar-coated lies. But when a celebrity ghost hunter sets up shop in her boutique, stirring gossip about the spirit Paige has been trying (and failing) to ignore, the mystery only deepens.

Nicole Nicoletti, Eddie’s lover, has set Chicago on fire with her sports betting picks, and needs his help. Her father, a successful trainer, faces a long suspension for drugging his horses, but insists he was framed. When a murder points to Nicole’s father, the investigation ramps up another notch. The mob’s gambling boss is on his deathbed. After years on the Most Wanted List, the kingpin of the mob’s offshore gambling operation is back in town. The track’s top owner has enlisted Eddie’s help to gamble on his horses. A professor’s stolen lab book might hold the secrets everyone wants.

Marriage can be murder. Rosemary Lillywhite can't wait for her brother, Frederick, and her best friend, Vera, to tie the knot. She's over the moon they've finally caved in and admitted their love for one another, but even more than that, she wants them out of her too-crowded townhouse! The long-awaited and excessively lavish country wedding is slated to take place in Pardington in one week's time, and when an ominous warning arrives, Rosemary is relieved she'll be out of harm's way. The only problem is that wherever she goes, murder isn't far behind.

All that glitters is not gold… When Denali Dahlgren's posh California dream goes bust, she feels like she's hit rock bottom. But just as her prospects run dry, she strikes a claim of unexpected inheritance—an entire Alaskan town left to her by an uncle she never knew existed. Trading palm trees for spruce, she arrives at a ghost town that once glittered with gold rush glory. But instead of nuggets, Denali finds an unfinished café to run, a treasury of off-kilter townsfolk, and the attention of a dashing bush pilot who may just be her heart's jackpot.

Drawing upon her background in ancient history and her experiences on archaeological digs, author C.S. Harris crafts authentic, compelling novels that appear regularly on best-seller lists and have won numerous awards. In 1812, surgeon Paul Gibson discovers a stiletto wound in the base of a corpse’s skull and immediately contacts Sebastian St. Cyr. And when another body turns up with the same injury, the lives of St. Cyr’s family are threatened if he doesn’t back off. Now, the pressure’s on to find the culprit before anyone else gets killed.

It's an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbors from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her, and enlists the help of Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm. But Sarah's and Zoë's search reveals more secrets than answers.

London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Garden leaves only one survivor - and one witness: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the prince regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis. When the Machiavellian power broker quashes any official inquiry that might reveal his daughter's unorthodox presence, Hero launches an investigation of her own and turns to Sebastian St. Cyr, viscount Devlin, for help.

Miracle Springs is a place of healing. Strangers flock there hoping that the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. And, if none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked scone from the Gingerbread House bakery, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That's Nora's special talent: prescribing the perfect novel to ease a person's deepest pain and lighten their heaviest burden.

When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case—the disputed authorship of bestselling children’s book Millie the Temple Church Mouse—that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep. But even he cannot fail to notice the judge’s dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest.

With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his "child", Pam, are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot - which is much more complicated than she knows.

When Alex arrives in Provincetown to patch things up with his new wife, Mina, he finds an empty wine glass in the sink, her wedding ring on the desk, and a string of questions in her wake. The police believe that Mina, a successful romance author, simply left, their marriage crumbling before it truly began. But what Alex finds in their empty cottage points him toward a different reality: Mina has always carried a secret. And now she's disappeared.

A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s evidence put the killer behind bars—or so everyone believes. But since the trial, Claudia’s learned a horrific truth: her evidence and her testimony were wrong. And someone she knows made sure of it.

Richard Ainsworth's French B&B has been taken over by a production company shooting a historical film at the Château de Valençay. But everything grinds to a halt with the sudden passing of an actor under suspicious circumstances.