Rural Mystery

In Louviec, einem kleinen Ort in der Bretagne, gehen merkwürdige Dinge vor sich: Ein Wildhüter wird mit einem kostbaren Messer in der Brust tot aufgefunden. In der Nacht zuvor wollen die Alten des Dorfes den hinkenden Schritt eines Geistes gehört haben, der immer dann erklingt, wenn Unheil bevorsteht. Als Adamsberg, der legendäre Kommissar, von dem Fall Wind bekommt, ist er nicht mehr zu halten: Er steigt in die Ermittlungen ein und sofort fallen ihm drei Flohbisse an der Leiche auf – ein Detail, das sonst niemand gesehen hat.

Farbenprächtige Rosenfelder, ein geheimes Archiv der Düfte, mysteriöse Todesfälle... Es ist Mitte Mai in der Provence. Pierre Durand genießt das Zusammenleben mit Charlotte, doch als deren Jugendfreundin Anouk auftaucht, ist es mit der Idylle vorbei. Die Rosenzüchterin steht unter Mordverdacht – ihr Nachbar wurde tot in seinem »Archiv der Düfte« aufgefunden, wertvolle Dokumente fehlen. Charlotte ist von der Unschuld ihrer Freundin überzeugt. Die Beweislage ist alles andere als eindeutig, und so macht Pierre sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

The livestock sniper switches to humans. As the phantom’s death toll mounts, tensions rise. Jergen County becomes an armed camp. People carry guns everywhere. With accidental shootings and the sniper’s deadly work, the death toll skyrockets. The livestock sniper switches to humans. As the phantom’s death toll mounts, tensions rise. Finally, Jergen County becomes an armed camp. People carry guns everywhere. With accidental shootings and the sniper’s deadly work, the death toll skyrockets.

Peace was always an elusive thing for Detective Carter Boyce, even before his wife died. Since then, living has become even harder. Now, investigating what looks like a murder suicide, Carter begins piecing back together a life he didn’t even know was broken. He stumbles back into his childhood neighborhood, where Old Man Kopchek is still missing a leg, but none of his acerbic wit. The old man begins teaching him the magic of savoring the mundane and the seemingly unimportant.

Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor—an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists. Knox's shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It's not long before more than just the pizza shop is at risk.

Port Kingerton: the insular cray-fishing town at the butt-end of South Australia, where everyone knows everyone. And everyone knows too that when Abigail Fancy left town at seventeen, she hung out the window of her boyfriend's Corolla, middle fingers held high, swearing she'd never come back. And she hasn't, until now.

1987: It's late summer and a time of change when a 17-year-old girl leaves the local shopping center in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never seen again. Her unsolved disappearance is never far from the town's memory. There's those who grew up in the shadow of her loss whose own lives were altered forever, and those who know more than they're saying. It just takes an outsider to ask the right questions.

Dass Sandra Flemming, die Inhaberin des Higher Barton Romantic Hotel, ein Händchen für das Lösen von Kriminalfällen hat, hat sich im beschaulichen Örtchen herumgesprochen. So bittet die Farmerin Creeda Sandra um Hilfe, da die alte Dame befürchtet, von ihrem Ehemann getötet zu werden. Sie ist sich sicher, dass er ihr regelmäßig Gift ins Essen mischt, denn er möchte die Farm verkaufen und hat eine jüngere Geliebte. Doch ein Arzt findet bei Creeda keine Hinweise auf eine Vergiftung.

Irgendwas war heute anders an Hilke, ganz sicher. Richtig: Sie hatte einen zartroten Lippenstift aufgetragen. Was war denn hier los!? Ernst Mannsen ist irritiert. Hat der Inhaber des neuen Luxushotels im Dorf tatsächlich was mit der netten Tourismusbeauftragten angefangen? Doch sicher nur, weil er sich davon Vorteile für sein Hotel verspricht. Hilke passt so gar nicht zu diesem Großmaul vom Festland. Doch sie scheint bis über beide Ohren verknallt zu sein. Keine Zeit mehr für die Kirchenorgel, fürs Brötchenschmieren beim Blutspenden des Roten Kreuzes oder für die Hilfe in Minna Paulsens Kinderclub.

Né movente né testimoni per la nuova indagine di Jules Rosset e una Alma sempre più riluttante. All'alba di un giorno di maggio, il corpo di un uomo viene trovato tra i binari della stazione di Chiavari, dilaniato dal treno merci delle 4.43. Quando l'ispettore Jules Rosset si prepara a seguire l’iter richiesto nei casi di suicidio, qualcosa di stonato lo mette in allarme. A complicare la situazione c’è l’Alfonsina, ricoverata in un centro di riabilitazione cardiologica dopo un piccolo intervento.

Nella Via Privata Vassallo, a Sestri Ponente, il tempo passa lentamente, le tradizioni si rispettano e il clamore del mondo arriva attutito. Regine di questo regno, chiunque vi abiti lo sa, sono le signorine Devoto: Santa, Mariannin e Siria, uguali eppur diverse, e convinte che il genere umano si divida in due: le persone per bene, rispettabili, cristiane e all'antica, e quelle poco raccomandabili, cioè tutte le altre.

Thorny Wallace returns to her hometown for peace and quiet. WWII is distant thunder in the small rural town, but Los Angeles is always a clear and present threat. As she begins to look into an old death, she finds that there is always more going on in the small quiet town than meets the eye. But, when she thinks she has the players figured out, the FBI shows up.

Cuando una figura misteriosa aparece en Three Pines un frío día de noviembre, lo primero que sienten Armand Gamache y el resto de los vecinos es curiosidad. Luego, recelo. El recién nombrado comisario de la Sûreté de Québec sospecha que la criatura tiene raíces profundas y oscuras intenciones. Sin embargo, confía en que sus temores crecientes no se hagan realidad. Unos días más tarde, la triste figura se ha evaporado y se halla un cadáver en la iglesia...

Beset on all sides, time is running out: to solve the case, and to save his future... Harry Probert-Lloyd has inherited the estate of Glanteifi and appointed his assistant John as under-steward. But his true vocation, to be coroner, is under threat. Against his natural instincts, Harry must campaign if he is to be voted as coroner permanently. On the hustings, Harry and John are called to examine the body of Nicholas Rowland, a pioneering schoolteacher whose death may not be the accident it first appeared.

When the truth lies out of sight... West Wales, 1850. When an old tree root is dug up, the remains of a young woman are found. Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has been dreading this discovery. He knows exactly whose bones they are. Working with his clerk, John Davies, Harry is determined to expose the guilty. But the investigation turns up more questions than answers and raises long-buried secrets. The search for the truth will prove costly.

Solve a murder, bring a killer to justice... but at what cost? Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has begun work as the acting coroner of Teifi Valley with solicitor's clerk John Davies as his assistant. When a faceless body is found on an isolated beach, Harry must lead the inquest. But his dogged pursuit of the truth begins to ruffle feathers. Especially when he decides to work alongside a local doctor with a dubious reputation and experimental theories considered radical and dangerous.

Poor judgements have tragic consequences... The latest in the unputdownable Teifi Valley series. The Teifi Valley's coroner, Harry Probert-Lloyd, is struggling: with the blindness that drove him home from London, with the county magistrates and with an estate teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. He needs an escape, so when Dr Benton Reckitt is asked to give a second opinion on the apparently natural death of young Lizzie Rees, Harry willingly goes with him. But mistakes are made.

After the family's devastating tragedy, Detective Dave Burrows is crystal clear that his wife, Mel, is no longer interested in their marriage. Before Dave can talk to Mel, he and his partner, Bob Holden, are sent to investigate a suspected sheep stealing at a station north of Carnarvon where they very quickly realise that this crime is a lot more than just stock theft. As a ferocious tropical storm floods the airstrip and uncovers more than anyone expected, Dave and Bob find themselves isolated, outnumbered and in extraordinary danger.

Dove Connolly is dead. That’s not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove. Now his best friend, Sharkey, is home asking awkward questions about Dove’s death, about the strange graphic novel he left behind and, most of all, about Sandra. Sandra Mohan. Missing now for more than a decade, whereabouts unknown. This, however, is a town dead-set on keeping its secrets. And Sharkey is already drawing attention from all the wrong quarters.

Ten years ago, 15-year-old Darren Davies was shot dead at the river mouth. The killer was never found. Now, Darren's mother Sandra receives a visit from the police. Her best friend, Barbara Russell, has also been found dead, out in the bush. And Barbara's DNA matches the DNA found under Darren's fingernails. When the investigation into Darren's murder is reopened, Sandra begins to question what she knew about her best friend. As she digs, she discovers that there are many secrets in her small town - and that her late son had his own, too.