Rural Mystery

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.

Eine Wellness-Oase ist gut für die Nerven – Kriminalermittlungen auch? Die humorvolle Krimi-Reihe kehrt mit ihrem zweiten Fall für Lady Ilse zurück. Nach dem nervenaufreibenden Kriminalfall in Grünwald benötigt Lady Ilse mit ihren Freundinnen Tilde und Marga erst mal eine Entspannungskur. Wo ginge das besser als in dem angesagten Wellnesshotel „Tölzer Oase“? Doch ob die Freundinnen ihre versprochene Erholung bekommen, bleibt fraglich, denn sie werden nicht nur von dem charmanten Franzosen Marcel De'Albray umgarnt, sondern auch von einer unbekannten Frau verfolgt.

Once upon a Christmas in a quaint and cozy town by the sea, bookstore owners Lou Prescott and Velma Crawford find themselves knee deep in shiny ornaments, strings of garland, and tangled bundles of Christmas tree lights. When full time employee Eden Halliwell introduces them to a teenager with a secret looking for a part time job, the newest merchants in Holiday Bay decide to hire her, which ultimately sets off a chain of events that will change everything.

Twenty-eight-year-old Lexi could have had it all, if it weren’t for that fateful night 10 years ago when she was charged with murder. Now she’s back in her close-knit hometown, Garrison, with a tarnished reputation and a criminal record to match. Her sole mission is to shed her past and learn to live her new life. After all, she already served her time. She spent a decade grieving over what happened to her best friend, even if the details are unclear.

Pie witch Reese is living her dream: running the bakery she’s always wanted, selling magical pies, and landing a date with handsome Prince Forrest of the Autumn Court. But people around her start vanishing, returning hours or days later with no memory of their missing time.

Gerryton, PA is a small, peaceful community where everyone has the fortune to watch their fellow neighbor grow and thrive through life. A place where even the most inconspicuous face can hide a very dark secret… While most of life in Gerryton is peaceful, Camilla struggles with her past demons. She finds comfort in her closest friends and her life partner, Michael. Soon, Camilla discovers that she has become a fixation for someone in Gerryton, unsure of who to trust her friendly demeanor turns to paranoia.

Es ist so weit: Endlich können Taissas Nachbarn Magnus und Vinzent ihre Pension "Zur Berghütte" eröffnen! Und die ersten Gäste reisen auch schon an. Die Teilnehmer der alljährlichen Notarkonferenz hat es nach Bad Bekenborn verschlagen und die Gruppe macht es sich in der Pension gemütlich. Womit niemand gerechnet hat: Unter den Notaren befindet sich ein Mörder! Gleich am ersten Tag liegt eine Leiche im Billardzimmer - mit einem Messer im Rücken. Vinzent und Magnus sind entsetzt. Wenn das rauskommt, können sie ihre Pension gleich wieder schließen.

Lilien, Leichen und Lemon Curd. Die junge Gärtnerin Mags Blake begleitet als Expertin eine Reisegruppe zu den spektakulärsten Gärten in Südengland. Zwischen atemberaubender Natur und außergewöhnlichen Unterkünften könnte das Leben kaum schöner sein, doch irgendetwas stimmt nicht mit dieser scheinbar harmlosen Gruppe aus Garten-Enthusiasten. Bald häufen sich die seltsamen Vorfälle, bis einer von ihnen tödlich endet... Nun ist es an Mags herauszufinden, wer in der Reisegruppe nicht das ist, was er zu sein scheint.

Violetta detta Vetta, giornalista di viaggi in una redazione romana, si è fatta spedire dal suo capo nell'isola della sua infanzia, Carloforte, dopo aver trovato nella giacca del fidanzato una scatoletta: una scatoletta da anello di fidanzamento. Terrorizzata dalla prospettiva del matrimonio, oltre che dal tradimento di Federico con cui si erano sempre detti che mai e poi mai si sarebbero convinti a quel "mercimonio orrendo", Vetta approda sull'isola pronta a scrivere un reportage leggero sulla tonnara e a godersi qualche giorno da sola.

Unrelentingly scary and thrilling, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an ambitious and chilling novel from acclaimed horror author Daisy Pearce. The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn’t come out. Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English...

From New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winner Matt Goldman comes Liar's Creek, which asks how far we'll go to protect the people we love. Riverwood, Minnesota is a scenic town threaded with trout streams carving their way through limestone bluffs. But beneath its picturesque...

Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and 100 miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a label around his neck, asking for him to be kept safe for a week, kept away from Hinton Hollow. Because something was coming.

In the quiet town of Lost Trail, Montana, the apparent abduction of long-time librarian Sybil Tombe shakes community to its core. An elderly neighbor reports seeing a gray-haired, bearded man driving up to Sybil’s house the night she disappeared. New sheriff Zak Waller plunges into the investigation, but keeps uncovering more questions than answers.

Gli investigatori Maurizio Vivaldi e Alessandro Meucci si ritrovano ad indagare su un’inquietante incongruenza, nell'altrimenti placido paesaggio delle colline astigiane: gli addetti di un piccolo comune di provincia si sono insospettiti, dopo aver visto quattro ragazzine nel cortile del misterioso Antonio Fregapane. Quest'ultimo, agricoltore dai modi schivi, in paese ha fama di essere un tipo strano, che si aggira per i dintorni un po' come uno spettro.

Accepting second best is good for her career, but first-grade teacher Retta Curt delays signing up for the disappointment. Given two weeks to consider her contract, she retreats to Gram’s cottage on Moon Lake, the last place she felt contentment. But the cottage is derelict; Cousin Julie, distant; and Sweet Picks, the family ice cream stand, in danger of folding. A surly newcomer is buying and then running down properties until nothing remains of the idyllic lakeside community she remembers.

When Alastair Stewart loses his wife and unborn child and is badly injured in an ambush in Miami, he moves back home to upstate New York to begin his life over. He opens a private investigation agency. Along the way, he rescues a dog thrown from a moving car. Sherlock becomes his faithful sidekick as he investigates an explosion in a local bluestone quarry. Then a dying mother persuades him to take on a cold case, her autistic son who disappeared 10 years ago. His investigation not only leads him to the boy, now a man, but also a drug and money laundering ring.

Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town. It’s Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney’s mother, Shifty, asks Mick to take a look, he finds there’s more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be rehabbing his leg, signing his divorce papers, and getting out of town—and most of all, staying out of the way—but he keeps on looking, and suddenly he’s getting shot at himself.

Die junge Gärtnerin Mags freut sich auf Weihnachten mit ihrer Familie und auf heimelige Stunden vor dem Kamin. Kurz vor dem Fest möchte ein Fotograf Aufnahmen des Gartens machen, den Mags in ein wahres Winterwunderland verwandelt hat. Doch dann bricht ein Schneesturm über Cornwall herein, das Cottage ist eingeschneit. Mags nimmt es mit Humor - bis sie im Schnee über die Leiche des Fotografen stolpert. Die Polizei wird Stunden brauchen, um zum Cottage zu gelangen. Muss Mags den Mörder unter ihren Gästen suchen?

Ausgerechnet in Frankreichs schönster Straße gerät Luc Verlain in ein Dickicht aus Lügen, Neid und wohlgehüteten Geheimnissen. Bei einer schweren Sturmflut wird in einem kleinen Ort an der Atlantikküste eine Straße vom Wasser stark beschädigt. Die Rue de Paradis hätte nie bebaut werden dürfen. Nun sollen die Anwohner gegen ihren Willen umgesiedelt werden. Luc Verlain soll vermitteln - und findet sich bald in seinem kniffligsten Fall wieder. Nicht nur gibt es eine bei dem Unglück verunfallte Tote, sondern man findet auch den Bürgermeister des Ortes leblos. Ermordet.

After many months of grief over her brother's illness and death, journalist Zara Ellison is finally ready to begin a new chapter of her life and make a commitment to her boyfriend, Senior Constable Jack Higgins. But when she's assigned to investigate the Barker arrest, Jack begins to believe that Zara is working against him.