Rural Town Mystery

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.

Mit einem Mord hätte Taissa Lausen nun wirklich nicht gerechnet! Hier im beschaulichen Bad Bekenborn in Ostwestfalen. Dabei hat Taissa schon genug um die Ohren. Erst vor kurzem hat sie von ihrer Tante die kleine Tankstelle im Ort geerbt - und prompt sitzt ihr das Finanzamt im Nacken. Und jetzt ist auch noch ihre Nachbarin tot! Ermordet! Der Hauptverdächtige ist ausgerechnet Taissas einziger Mitarbeiter Vinzent, dessen Hilfe sie dringend benötigt, wenn sie die Tankstelle am Laufen halten will.

Mai in Cornwall. Die junge Gärtnerin Mags Blake und ihr frischgebackener Ehemann Sam haben sich in Rosehaven ein altes Cottage gekauft. Sie machen sich voller Energie daran, es zu renovieren und den Garten zu gestalten. Eines Tages entwurzelt ein Sturm die Weide hinter dem Haus und legt eine Blechkiste mit rätselhaftem Inhalt frei, die offenbar vor vielen Jahren dort vergraben wurde. Ehe Mags den Mann befragen kann, der mehr über die Vergangenheit ihres Cottages weiß, wird er ermordet in seinem Fischerboot gefunden.

Quinn Kelley leads a normal life in a small, quiet Texas town. She teaches at Sutter High School with her lifelong best friends, Eli, Bess, and Jess. One ordinary Wednesday afternoon, everyone is taken completely by surprise when the unthinkable happens! Quinn is in the middle of teaching a history lesson to her students when a scream pierces the air. Quinn darts out the door only to find distraught students, including her own son, rushing out into the hallway because their teacher dropped dead in front of them!

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.

Travel writer Jill Curtis loves her job, but she desperately needs a break if she's to achieve her dream of becoming an investigative reporter. Sent to Kentucky by her boss to find out why thousands of tourists flock to Bourbon Country every year, Jill's dream seems to be slipping further away. After all, nothing interesting ever happens in small-town America...does it? Staying at an estranged relative's B&B, Jill's plan to uncover what makes the state's bourbon tours so popular goes awry when she trips over a body at one of the distilleries.

Kate hasn’t been home in years, but with her marriage over and her job in jeopardy, she doesn’t know where else to turn. Desperate for comfort, Kate retreats to the Mallee, a place crawling with dark secrets and lingering childhood memories. When she’s offered a carer’s job on the isolated Rosebud Farm, Kate soon meets old Harry Quickly, an intriguing young boy called Maxie and a handsome harvest contractor who’s not shy about making his intentions known. Under the endless Mallee skies, Kate discovers that she might just have a future in the place that has haunted her past.

When irascible Farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, it seems like an accident initially - despite the fact that he was widely disliked. Only his daughter, Lilah, is prepared to defend his memory. And when, slowly, Lilah begins to suspect foul play, no-one is eager to help her investigate. Suspicion becomes certainty when two more deaths occur - and both of them are unmistakably murder. There is certainly no shortage of suspects, and it falls to local Policeman Den Cooper to investigate the mysterious deaths.

Karen Slocombe isn’t sure why she visited SuperFare that day - as a committed member of the Food Chain group and a regular stallholder at local farmers’ markets, it’s a place she would normally avoid. Luckily for Karen, she leaves moments before a bomb explodes. Only a few days later, Karen finds herself in the midst of another horrific crime. When friends from the Food Chain group start warning Karen not to tell the police certain details, her suspicions are instantly aroused. Could the two events be linked?

With Peaceful Repose Cemetery, Drew Slocombe is determined to revolutionise the entire death industry. Unfortunately, Drew’s Gravedigger has just discovered that their cemetery has one too many corpses when the body of an elderly woman is found. The police seem to think that the body is that of a vagrant, but for Drew things don’t add up. The mystery deepens when Genevieve Slater turns up at Drew’s door. As a man looking to escape both money worries and marriage problems, Genevieve proves impossible to resist.

Maggie Gerber - one of the founding members of the Good Buy Girls - loves her quiet life in St. Stanley, Virginia. But all that changes when Sam Collins, her old flame, moves back to town as the new sheriff. On top of that, Claire Freemont, a librarian and the newest member of the Good Buy Girls, starts acting utterly strange. When Maggie goes to visit her the next day at the library, she finds the body of a very dead man. Turns out the man is someone from Claire's past.

When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems willing to ignore. With her friend on the run and the police investigating the bones of an unidentified dead body at a historic homestead near town, Eliza becomes convinced that the truth lies in her memories of the New Year’s Eve years ago when her friend Grace disappeared from Kinsale forever.

As the owner of Old Hat Vintage Fashions, Charley Carpenter supplies retro apparel to the residents of Oakwood, Ohio, but she’s been known to set business aside to play detective when a mystery rears its head. And there’s no bigger mystery in Oakwood than the murder of Regan Fletcher - a case that’s haunted the town for decades.

Doctor Rowan Dupont knows death. She grew up surrounded by it in her family’s Victorian funeral home, and it’s haunted her since the day her twin sister drowned years ago. Between her mother’s subsequent suicide and the recent murder of her father, coming home to run the funeral home feels fitting - even if it leaves her vulnerable to an obsessive serial killer.

In Middlesbury, a rally is being held by the British Allegiance Party - a far-right group protesting against the opening of a new Mosque. When the crowd disperses, a body is found in an alleyway. Tommy Meegan, the loud-mouthed leader of the group, has been stabbed through the heart. Across town, a Muslim community centre catches fire in a clear act of arson, leaving a small child in a critical condition. And the tension which has been building in the town for years boils over.

At an AA meeting, handyman and part-time investigator Jay Porter meets a recovering addict who needs his help. In the midst of another grueling northern New Hampshire winter, Amy Lupus’ younger sister, Emily, has gone missing from the Coos County Center, the newly opened rehab run by Jay’s old nemeses, Adam and Michael Lombardi. As Jay begins looking into Emily’s disappearance, he finds that all who knew Emily swear that she’s never used drugs. She’s a straight shooter and an intern at a newspaper investigating the Center and the horrendous secret hidden in it - or beneath it.

Thea Slocombe, nee Osborne, is trying to settle into normal, domestic life with Drew and his two children in Broad Campden. But in the course of an attempt to make friends locally, she finds the body of a close neighbour and suddenly feels much less settled and secure. No longer a house-sitter, she has no choice but to stay in the village and deal with whatever happens next. And doing this risks damage to her marriage.

Frühling in der Provence. Die Felder blühen. Und einer mordet... Der dritte Fall für Pierre Durand. Das Luberon-Tal überzieht ein Blütenmeer, die Destillerien haben Hochbetrieb. Doch inmitten des Idylls wird die Inhaberin einer Kosmetikfirma tot aufgefunden. Unfall? Mord?