Home Mystery

Wohnt nebenan ein Mörder? Der spannende Psychothriller von Joy Fielding. Nach einem traumatischen Erlebnis zieht Maggie mit ihrer Familie nach Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. Sie hofft, in der gepflegten Gegend mit den freundlichen Nachbarn ihre Vergangenheit endlich hinter sich zu lassen. Doch dann verlässt sie ihr Mann, und auch die Idylle ihres Viertels erweist sich als trügerisch: Eine lautstarke Auseinandersetzung im Haus gegenüber, zwielichtiger Besuch nebenan, spitze Bemerkungen bei einem gemeinsamen Grillfest.

Wohnt nebenan ein Mörder? Der spannende Psychothriller von Joy Fielding. Nach einem traumatischen Erlebnis zieht Maggie mit ihrer Familie nach Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. Sie hofft, in der gepflegten Gegend mit den freundlichen Nachbarn ihre Vergangenheit endlich hinter sich zu lassen. Doch dann verlässt sie ihr Mann, und auch die Idylle ihres Viertels erweist sich als trügerisch: Eine lautstarke Auseinandersetzung im Haus gegenüber, zwielichtiger Besuch nebenan, spitze Bemerkungen bei einem gemeinsamen Grillfest.

Dare Buckley has come home - or at least, he's come back to Palladian, the small town he left as a teenager. After a major lapse in judgment forced him to resign from the Seattle PD, Palladian is the only place that'll hire him. There's one benefit to hitting rock bottom, though: the chance to investigate the mystery of his father's suicide.

In 1958 Detroit, neighbors on Alder Avenue struggle to care for one another amid a city rife with conflicts that threaten their peaceful street. Grace, Alder’s only expectant mother, eagerly awaits her firstborn; her best friend, Julia, prepares to welcome twin nieces; and Malina sets the tone with her stylish dresses, tasteful home, and ironfisted stewardship of St. Alban’s bake sale. Life erupts when childlike Elizabeth disappears while in the care of Grace and Julia. All the ladies fear that the recent murder of a black woman at the factory on Willingham Avenue where their husbands work may portend what has become of Elizabeth.

A bakehouse in the making. A dangerous ghost in the tower. Will their welcome to the neighborhood be short-lived? Imogen wants nothing more than to complete her sweet dream. With her adoring fiancé Hank at her side, the witch and her friends dive into renovations for their new home and soon-to-be bakery. But all their efforts seem futile when they wake to find the house eerily ripped apart all over again.

Detective Karen Parks has finally gotten the chance to close a pair of ten-year-old murder cases. These cases had troubled her for years, because the killer had laughed in her face and walked off scot-free. Now, though, when his daughter came forward to admit that, at ten years old, she had seen him kill her mother and sister, Karen finally had her chance. All she had to do was find him, and at last she got a tip telling her where he was staying.

I can’t contain my smile as we open the white screen door and step into our new home. Building a life with my amazing new husband Archie in this historic farmhouse is my dream come true. This is where we’ll grow old together, and where I can finally forget about my past. Or is it? First, it’s a light left on in the attic, and music playing when no one is home. Next, a faded photograph of me on a hazy summer day long ago, delivered in an unmarked envelope. After years of running, someone has finally found me. My new home, our safe haven, has been threatened.

Cantankerous, old-fashioned, and stubborn as hell, Donald Wilson was the first American soldier to enter Dachau, and has suffered with the horrors ever since. Now at 95, he grapples with a recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and believes there is nothing left to live for.

During her first mission after graduating from the field training epidemiology program at the CDC, Camille Carter gets wrapped up in a new mystery surrounding an outbreak that is affecting only the children at Our Community Health Clinic in a small rural town in Nigeria. With the help of Dr. Lee, a Doctors Without Borders physician, Camille attempts to uncover the origin of the outbreak before it takes one more child's life. With a new romance budding, Camille looks for answers in all the wrong places.

In 1951 South Africa, Sunny Kumar is part of an elite, scientific team developing futuristic AI technology, the likes of which the world has never seen. When there is a security breach at the mining corporation lab where he works, Sunny is forced to run for his life losing his country, the woman he loves, and himself. Trapped in a dangerous, high-stakes rivalry between two powerful nations, he must confront his past to discover the truth and clear his name.

When Penny O’Dwyer is snatched from the quiet streets of Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, her family is distraught. Bright, beautiful, career-driven, she had the world at her feet. Local police scour the muddy hills surrounding the town, but, finding no leads, they turn to criminal behaviourist Jessie Boyle.

With contributions from Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss, Douglas Wilmer, and many more, this book was put together by fan site Sherlockology to help save Undershaw, the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"Your son is missing," they say, and life as I know it is over. "Where would he go?" the police ask. "Where would he be?" my daughter begs. My heart races as images flash in my mind. The cabin we rent every autumn, surrounded by fiery-red maple trees. Voices raised. Tears falling. A marriage falling apart. And worst of all my husband telling our child, Theo, to run. The rest is a blank in my memory. If I close my eyes I can almost see it. A betrayal that has left me alone, in tatters, grieving for what we had.

Sherlock Holmes! The very name of the world's greatest detective conjures up images of Victorian London, gaslit streets, hansom cabs, and dense fogs. But there was a time, a dark three-year period, when London had to make do without Sherlock Holmes. From 1891 to 1894, he was presumed dead, having perished during the epic struggle with that infamous Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarty, atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived.

The town of Sweet Home gets four unwanted visitors this New Year's Eve when a prison bus crash allows four homicidal and terminally ill convicts to escape. They decide to spend their last days on Earth wiping out a small snowy mountain town. Their plan is simple and easy to remember. First, take out communications and power. Second, take down the sheriff's department. Third, move house to house and leave no survivors. Will anyone survive the night and live to see the new year?

Can you remember your first love? Have you ever wished for one more chance to experience those feelings and turn back time? Peggy Prescott lives a seemingly perfect life, but destiny is closing in. What begins as a whodunnit mystery immersed in a love story soon transforms into an adventure where anything is possible. Peggy's path winds in two directions, but which will she choose? Which would you choose?

Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop has heard the rumors about the missing children from the '50s and '60s. Everyone has. But she's never put much stock in them—Until a five-year-old girl goes missing from an elementary school carnival.

I wake on the sofa, my head throbbing. Why did I fall asleep here? In the darkness, I make my way to my bedroom. I know immediately something is wrong. The sheets I tucked in so carefully this morning are rumpled, disturbed. I turn on the lights. And then I scream. There’s a body in my bed. And I know this man: We went on two dates together. Who could have killed him? And how did he get into this house? Only two people have a key: me and my ex-husband, Matthew. I cast my mind desperately back to last night, to the last few painful months.

Kate Sharp loves the perks of her location scout profession. When she fills in for a researcher at a Regency-themed English house party, she’s looking forward to indulging in the posh atmosphere of tea on the lawn and elegant candlelight dinners, but when the guest next-door is murdered in a locked room, Kate becomes the prime suspect.

Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he’s meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away—with his little girl inside. When he finally gets home after the worst day of his life, the house is empty. His wife is gone too. The place is ransacked and the kitchen is streaked with blood. Someone out there has Tony’s little girl. And his wife may already be dead.