Rural Mystery

From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son - an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill.

Clint Belmet's parents were killed in a Comanche raid when he was young, but that hasn't stopped him from taking a job leading freight caravans on the old Santa Fe Trail, from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico - a route that goes right through Comanche territory. Here is the raw, primitive West of the early pioneers, great caravans of freighters rumbling across the deadly prairies, risking attack by Comanche.

Menace awaits. Sleath. Quiet, peaceful. A small village hidden away in the Chiltern Hills, almost forgotten by the modern world. Nothing much seems to happen here; little disturbs the centuries-old tranquillity. Until the ghosts begin to appear and frighteningly bizarre events start to occur. Psychic investigator David Ash, a man burdened by the dark secret of his own past, is sent to Sleath to investigate the phenomena and his discoveries there drive him to the very edge of his own sanity.

One big day. Even bigger secrets… –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Louise’s wedding day at the isolated, idyllic Grantham Hall in rural Wales is supposed to be the best of her life, but her daily battle with chronic pain and paranoia provide a...

A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...

There's a long list of victims but who was the killer's true target? When a helicopter loses controls over the Lake District, the crash comes tragically close to a fell running competition. Runners and bystanders are caught in the devastation. DI Kelly Porter attempts to coordinate the rescue...

'Full of atmosphere and shocks' THE TIMES 'One of the best Aussie thriller debuts since Chris Hammer's Scrublands' PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH 'The pace spirals and the twists multiply' S. R. WHITE , author of international bestseller Hermit ------------ Ten years ago, six teenagers hiked into the...

For decades, the unsolved murder of Father Michael Leary has haunted Billings, Montana, the community he served. And it’s haunted no one more than Lindsay Keller, who admired and confided in him as a teenager. Compelled by his example to work for justice, she became a prosecutor. But after a devastating case left her shattered, she fled the rough-and-tumble for the safety of a desk, handling real-estate deals and historic preservation projects. Now Lindsay finds herself in possession of the priest’s wallet, the photo of a young girl tucked inside.

Former lawyer Merrin McKenzie has returned to her hometown of St Ives, the stunning coastal town in Cornwall. She has settled back into life there in a lovely cottage, and new friendships are beginning to blossom.

For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That’s when life delivers him another hook to the jaw: his estranged father, Leland, has been murdered in what appears to be a robbery-gone-bad at his salvage yard, Miller’s Pull-a-Part.

Winter in Magnolia Grove means snowy streets, local cheer, and… a feud so frosty it could rival the weather. When a Polar Plunge at the annual Frost Fest ends in murder, suspicion falls on the ambitious (and some might say, cutthroat) owner of Feta & Friends.

Moving deeper undercover than ever, Lyle Villines now works as a major meth distributor directly for infamous Mexican cartel leader Chapo Guzmán. And the deeper he gets, the more he wants out. Taking over a territory and running drugs through the flatlands of Kansas is only the beginning, though. Someone's gunning for Lyle...and hard. Someone who can afford to send teams of trained siccarios - Mexican hit men - to attack him and his operation. Someone who can find him, no matter where he is and will stop at nothing to see him dead.

I utkanten av den småländska byn Borstaryd lever Xavier ett stillsamt liv i sin röda stuga. När ett mord sker under en nyårsnatt och han genom bybornas skvaller misstänks som gärningsman, tvingas han in i en stödgrupp ledd av psykologen Lisbeth. Motvilligt tar Xavier inom stödgruppen sig an uppgiften att formulera tio minnen, en uppgift som är både smärtsam och svår eftersom stora delar av hans förflutna i Frankrike är höljt i dunkel. Han minns inte vad som fick honom att lämna Nice den där dagen för snart 25 år sedan och han är inte säker på att han vill minnas det heller.

Lyndon B. Johnson is president, Beatlemania is in overdrive, and gasoline costs 30 cents a gallon when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas. But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed. A phone call leads Ned to a body in the Red River and into the urgent investigation headed by his nephew, the newly elected constable Cody Parker. Together they work to head off a multistate killing spree that sets northeast Texas on fire.

Long-buried family secrets fight their way to the surface in this compelling mystery. HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED On Glenbeg Farm, it was a morning like any other. Only the distressed bark of beloved collie Samson hinted that all was not well . . . When the bodies of wealthy matriarch...

In a sleepy North Carolina textile town, rookie reporter Ronald Truluck is bored with writing about lawn mower thefts when he gets a tip—city councilman Lamont Moody got drunk, drove his Bonneville off the road, and ripped up somebody’s front yard. But the police let him walk away. Recognizing a cover-up when he sees it, Ronald vows to break Lamontgate and make his bones as a serious journalist. It won’t be easy. Ronald is a long-haired pothead who’s loosey-goosey with the facts. His paper, The Eagle, runs pet-of-the-week photos on the front page, not corruption stories.

Die ersten fünf Bände der humorvollen Neuharlingersiel-Krimis rund um das Kulttrio: den Dorfpolizisten Rudi, die Lehrerin Rosa und den Postboten Henner. Und dessen große Familie, die so manchen Stein ins Rollen bringt. Dieser Sammelband enthält Band 1-5 der Reihe: 1. Krabbenbrot und Seemannstod 2. Der letzte Heuler 3. Miss Wattenmeer singt nicht mehr 4. Mörderjagd mit Inselblick 5. Muscheln, Mord und Meeresrauschen

“Sharks are as timid as rabbits,” says a superintendent of the Coast Guard, dismissing the possibility that a shark could be the culprit in an unprecedented fatal attack at the Jersey Shore. It’s July, and swimming in the sea is a popular new pastime, but people up and down the East Coast are shocked and mystified by the swimmer’s death. A prominent surgeon at the shore, Dr. Edwin Halsey is the one who examines the victim, and the only one who believes the perpetrator was a shark—and that it will strike again.

There isn't much crime in Lilyvale, Arkansas, but local authorities have their hands full with Ms. Sherry Mae Stanton Cutler and her housemates - a crafty group of retirees who've dubbed themselves the Silver Six. But when Sherry Mae's niece, Nixy, arrives to keep them in line, Lilyvale also plays host to a killer.

Set in a small town that keeps its secrets tidy, We Weren’t Alone unfolds in multiple points of view, each carrying one piece of what happened before the rain-slick overlook and the fall no one saw the same way. A neighbor. A bartender. A sister. And a few voices that don’t always agree with themselves.