Rural Town Mystery

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.

Newly divorced Lily Kimura returns to her hometown to start fresh with her daughter and her recently retired parents. She’s committed to rebuilding her life, starting with a new job at the town theater. The Starlight Cove Playhouse has been closed for years, ever since a tragic fire took the life of the lead actress. Now, thanks to an anonymous donor, the town is finally ready for a revival. So is Lily, who wholeheartedly dives into her new duties as theater manager, including an unexpected connection with the visiting movie star playing the lead.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dal mare alla montagna: un viaggio che comincia con una vacanza e si trasforma in un nuovo intrigante caso per Jules e Alma Che cosa ci fanno Jules e Alma, con tanto di prole e suocera al seguito, su un pulmino a nove posti stracarico di bagagli? Strano a dirsi, stanno per concedersi una vacanza dove l’ispettore Rosset è nato e cresciuto: in Valle d’Aosta. Neanche il tempo di scendere dal pulmino, però, e Jules si trova invischiato nel caso più destabilizzante della sua carriera: Lia Favre, amica di infanzia e suo primo amore, è scomparsa senza lasciare tracce.

Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his wife Lysette is having an affair. The Whiteleys are wealthy and live with their 16-year-old daughter Amber in the Dungeon House. But Malcolm begins to disintegrate psychologically, and when Lysette tells him their marriage is over, he snaps, and takes out the old Winchester rifle. In the present day, Hannah Scarlett's cold case team are looking into the three-year-old mystery of the disappearance of Lily Elstone, whose father was Malcolm Whiteley's accountant. Their investigation coincides with the disappearance of another teenage girl.

L'ispettore Jules Rosset deve rinunciare ad Alma, la colf dallo “sguardo” speciale? È una fredda sera di metà dicembre quando alla Radici & Figli, azienda di arte sacra, divampa un incendio. I resti di un cadavere carbonizzato e una misteriosa scritta in arabo sono gli elementi con cui l'ispettore Jules Rosset si ritrova a fare i conti. Come se non bastasse, Alma ha altri pensieri per la testa.

Un’indagine in bilico tra lecito e illecito per l’ispettore Rosset e la sfuggente Alma. È l’alba di una fresca mattina di settembre quando Jill piomba nel sonno dimenticandosi della piantina di cannabis che gli hanno regalato a un rave. Cinque mesi dopo un vecchio Ford Transit con tre cadaveri e un grosso carico di marijuana si capotta in un bosco nel cuore dell’entroterra ligure. È un’indagine dai contorni sfocati quella in cui si trovano catapultati l’ispettore Jules Rosset e l’inquieta Alma.

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.

Schweden im tiefsten Winter. Nur widerwillig tritt der ehemalige Großstadtpfarrer Samuel Williams seine neue Stelle in dem verschlafenen Dörfchen Klockarvik an. Doch der Schein trügt: Schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft stößt der Geistliche auf die Leiche des Hotelbesitzers Finn Mats Hansson - und Verdächtige gibt es zuhauf! Samuel Williams macht sich seine Position zunutze, um in seiner neuen Gemeinde nach schwarzen Schafen zu suchen.

Eigentlich sollte Eve Mallow einen Nachruf auf den berühmten Cellisten Bernard Fitzpatrick schreiben. Aber als sie in Saxford St Peter ankommt, ist das ganze Dorf in Aufruhr. Fitzpatrick ist keines natürlichen Todes gestorben, er wurde umgebracht! Bei ihren Interviews hält Eve daher Ausschau nach einem potenziellen Mörder. Und bald ist klar: Im Dorf gibt es kaum jemanden, der dem Musiker wirklich wohl gesonnen war. Doch ist einer der freundlichen Dorfbewohner tatsächlich ein kaltblütiger Mörder?

In einem kleinen Dorf in Yorkshire geschieht ein brutaler Mord: In einer Scheune entdeckt der Dorfpfarrer die enthauptete Leiche William Teys'. Neben dem Toten kauert Roberta, seine leicht debile Tochter. Sie behauptet: "Ich war's." Und verstummt. Scotland Yard schickt Inspector Thomas Lynley und Sergeant Barbara Havers. Die beiden arbeiten zum ersten Mal zusammen und sind ein eher ungewöhnliches Team. Doch der Fall lässt ihnen keine Eingewöhnungszeit.

A St Mary Mead, un tranquillo villaggio nella campagna inglese, la vita scorre monotona, senza che accada mai nulla di nuovo. O almeno così pensano tutti. Tranne miss Marple, persuasa che il male possa nascondersi ovunque. E infatti, quasi a dimostrare la teoria della simpatica ed estrosa anziana signora, proprio nella canonica davanti alla sua villetta vittoriana viene commesso un feroce delitto.

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.