Farm Mystery

She comes home to mourn her father. She stays to uncover the shocking truth. When college student Berry returns to her family’s small Southern California farm after her father’s sudden death, she believes she’s coming home to grieve and reassure her mother that she’ll soon be back for good to run the farm. With farming in her blood, she is eager to bring new life to the failing farm through modernization and sound financial management after receiving her degree in agricultural economics.

A series of robberies has disrupted the peaceful life at the Bean Farm. First, food disappears from The First Animal Bank. Then sheets and shirts vanish from a clothesline. By the time oats are stolen from the barn, everyone is suspicious and upset. Soon, the animals even suspect Freddy! Who, or what, is responsible for the crimes? What is the mysterious white shape in the Great Woods?

It's Halloween in Buttercup, Texas, and reporter-turned-farmer Lucy Resnick is up to her ears in more than goats and wayward cows. Not only has her well dried up, but it turns out the old house Lucy recently moved to has a reputation for spooks, and they are disturbingly active. Then a tarot card reading at a local mead winery foretells death, and minutes later, exotic game ranch owner Bug Wharton goes belly-up. When the dimwitted sheriff fingers local witch and mead winery owner Serafine Alexandre, Lucy gets involved and soon discovers that all kinds of things are brewing in Buttercup.

Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family's farm from financial ruin - but now what? She's barely scraping by on the farm's new organic business model, and the fall festival she organized to drum up business comes to a screeching halt when the body of a prominent townswoman is discovered underneath a scarecrow in a nearby field. Worst of all, the evidence points to Shiloh's childhood best friend, Kristy, as the prime suspect.

Jude Gray has worked hard to bring a steady equilibrium to life on Malvern Farm and things are going well. The only fly in the ointment is the foul addition of a new face in the village: staunch townie and chauvinistic sleaze, Des Smith. Jude has nothing but sympathy for his caring, patient wife, Loretta, who has become a regular visitor to the farm for a cup of tea and a chat. But things take a turn for the worse when a hit and run outside The Lamb brings death once again to the village. Is it an accident or is something more sinister afoot?

After solving a murder and getting her organic farm ready to overwinter, Shiloh Bellamy still expects the next few months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer's association. Well, she could've if the owner wasn't found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby. Once again, Shiloh gets tangled up in the investigation when the police ignore an entire crop of suspects to blame one of her friends.

A young widow inherits a run-down farmhouse and a whole new beginning in Virginia in this charming and emotional novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summerhouse. Quiet, unassuming, and overweight, Lillian did anything and everything to please her husband of twenty years, the...

"Unveiling the Mysteries of Animal Farm" is a comprehensive exploration of George Orwell's classic novel, designed to help listeners deepen their understanding of the text and its themes. This guide provides an in-depth analysis of the key characters, events, and themes in the novel, and offers insights into the historical and political context that influenced its creation. The book begins with an overview of the plot, introducing the key characters and events that drive the story.

It's the hottest summer on record. Norfolk is parched. One steaming night an old thatched barn at Wild Thyme Farm is torched. The battle to put out the blaze rages. Detective Sara is on the scene when there's a horrifying discovery: there's a body in the embers. Sara and her team have been investigating a series of fires breaking out all over the county—but this is the first body. Accident or murder?

Es geht um hohe Summen. Geld, das aus Geldtransportern geraubt wird: Doch es fehlt noch mehr, wie die Ermittler Eichborn und Wagner schnell feststellen müssen. Innerhalb weniger Monate werden mehrere Geldtransporter überfallen. Sie hatten jedes Mal eine außergewöhnlich hohe Summe Bargeld geladen. Als Eichborn und Wagner die Ermittlungen aufnehmen, stellt sich schnell heraus, dass es hier um weit mehr als Raub geht. Denn nicht nur Geld wurde gestohlen: Eine Woche vor den Überfällen verschwanden jeweils die Ehefrauen der Männer, die die Geldtransporter ausraubten ...

Most people on death row think they actually die at their public execution, and some do - but most are just given a strong sedative that simulates dying. Then they are taken to a place known as The Farm, a top-secret government facility. No one knows this better than Ajax Saber, a former vigilante killer who was sentenced to death in 2017. After suffering - willingly - through a year of Compliance Training, Ajax was given the unique, but controversial opportunity to work for a mysterious life-form called the Higher Up - a powerful alien who has the US government under his control.

'An absolute triumph' Andrea Mara 'Hard to put down' Liz Nugent Home truths come at a heavy price ... THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR MICHELLE MCDONAGH As her adoptive mother lays dying, journalist Cara Joyce overhears a shocking piece of information about her origins. It connects...

Ivy was happy to put her old life at Flordale Corporation behind her, but with a recent murder tarnishing her new inn’s reputation, she can’t afford to be choosy about paying guests. So when her former teammates from HR ask to hold their retreat at Runaway Farm and Inn, she throws down the welcome mat.

A brilliantly funny farmyard adventure, perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime – or any time at all! The ladybird said never a word. But the ladybird saw, And the ladybird heard . . . Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two crafty robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer’s...

Late summer blooms in beautiful Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and while a harvest thrives, Izzy Chambers Perry and the other Seaside Knitters will need to cast on their sleuthing skills to save a local farm. Unfortunately, finding a killer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack....

Every small town needs a big hero. Silas Tucker is the biggest football hero Cross Rivers, North Carolina, ever produced. But his town is in big trouble. The All-American quarterback returns—not to play ball, but to solve a mystery. Who's making one local after another disappear? Silas has...

Vera Teltz ist eine der renommiertesten Spannungsinterpretinnen, die mit ihrer ausdrucksstarken Stimme aus jedem Thriller das Maximum an Nervenkitzel herausholt. Ein totes Baby, eine verschwundene Mutter, eine Polizistin am Limit. Mitten in der Nacht fliehen zwei Frauen in Panik durch die schwedischen Wälder. Beide sind hochschwanger, die Verfolger ihnen dicht auf den Fersen. Kurz darauf wird Polizistin Hannah Wester mit einem neuen Fall konfrontiert: Im Unterholz hat man ein totes Baby entdeckt, die Mutter ist verschwunden.

When rescuers drop off a trio of pregnant goats at Runaway Farm they also deliver the promise of renewal and fun. Instead, the arrival of a ghost from Ivy’s past coincides with another murder in quaint Clover Grove. Learning about goat midwifery becomes the least of her problems.

When 16-year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black. Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben's and Andrea's world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of terror and despair.

A decade ago, the bodies of nine people were discovered at Black Valley Farm. The only suspect vanished without a trace. Clare has spent ten years living a lie, but a new podcast on the murders threatens to bring her carefully built life crashing down. Because someone else has listened to the podcast. Someone who knows Clare is lying, and who will stop at nothing to ensure the truth never comes to light.