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Oscar Juliander was a rich lawyer and deputy chairman of the prestigious Royal Swedish Yacht Club. While at first his death seems like a tragic accident, there is evidence of foul play. Police detective Thomas Andreasson teams up with local lawyer Nora Linde to investigate. As they work to uncover clues, they face resistance from an elite world where nothing but appearance matters.

The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe, read by Nicholas Burns. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in...

It’s love at first light on a golden Sri Lankan beach… until the tide turns deadly. Café owner, Keya Varma, is overjoyed to escape the English Cotswold winter for tropical sunshine, and her happiness soars when her CSI partner surprises her with a marriage proposal. A quiet ceremony on a golden beach seems the perfect start to their life together. But paradise loses its sparkle when a priceless sapphire disappears, and a body is found on the sand. With the local police quick to accuse the newlyweds, Keya’s honeymoon takes a disastrous turn. Caught between suspicion and island ...

Ten strangers. A dead station. A nursery rhyme counting down to zero. The year is 2487. Ten people receive invitations to Eclipse Point, a decommissioned mining station orbiting a lifeless planet at the edge of colonized space. Their host, the mysterious U.N. Owen, promises rest, work, or reunion. None of them have met their host. All of them have secrets. On the first night, a recorded voice accuses each guest of a killing they were never punished for. Before the shock can settle, the first guest is dead, poisoned at dinner, and a holographic figure vanishes from the display in the common ...

The first in the GHOSTWRITER MYSTERY SERIES — FUN, FEEL-GOOD CRIME From the Amazon-bestselling author comes ghostwriter Roxy Parker. She has a wicked sense of humour, a taste for cheap plonk and an obsession with crime. It's a good thing, then, that her clients keep getting murdered… In this stand-alone adventure, socialite Beatrice Musgrave is found ripped to shreds below her cliff-top mansion. The police suspect suicide but Roxy smells a rat. She's been writing the heiress's life story and suspects she was hiding a dark secret beneath her twinset and pearls. From the posh suburbs of ...

Some places don’t close. They just wait for you to come back. Seabreeze Pier reopens in a blaze of lights and screaming rides, and Summer Caldwell, Head of Guest Safety, knows how to keep chaos contained. Until a “minor” ride fault feels wrong. Not broken. Tampered. Management wants smiles for the cameras. Summer wants the truth. Then a radio call cuts through the noise: someone’s locked inside the Funhouse. Mirrors warp reality. Exits shift. Alarms glitch. A guest vanishes in a crowd thick enough to hide anything, especially a killer who treats murder like public entertainment. ...

Twenty-five days. Three couples. One dare that blows up everything they thought they knew about love. Mara Lewis has been thinking some naughty thoughts—and, with the holidays here, she finally decides to say them out loud. At a sticky bar table with her boyfriend, Darius, she speaks her mind. Forget Secret Santa—what about a partner swap? Their friends, the perfect-on-paper Alice and Ryan, and the rule-following Lina and her older husband Charles, are used to her jokes. Only this time—nobody laughs it off. One napkin, too many cocktails, and a ridiculous list later, six signatures ...

She’s back in the town she swore she’d left behind. He’s still the boy next door—and the best friend who knows her better than anyone. Is this the fall they finally rewrite their story? Murphy Kennedy’s life has always had one constant: Banks Benson. Since she was four years old, he’s been her person—the neighbor who climbed through her window, the boy who made her laugh when life felt heavy, the best friend who never let distance get in the way—even when Murphy left for Boston to chase her dream design career. But when burnout hits hard, she finds herself back in her ...

I am the narrator of this book. I carried every soaked boot, every jangled key, every polite lie, and the entire corpse without so much as a thank-you; now they want me to smile and sell it too. Splendid. Welcome to a Regency manor house mystery where order is a weapon, and Miss Cecilia Arden wields it like a teaspoon sharpened by necessity. She arrives at Larkspur Hall in December, boots and patience equally damp, to take a post that requires figures, nerve, and the ability to shut a front door in the face of Dorset itself. She has all three. She also has very little choice. Naturally, the...

Sweet jars, quieter secrets, and a beekeeper everyone misunderstands. One missing charity crate sets the lane talking. Naomi Miller keeps neat ledgers, warm kettles, and a patch of orchard patience. When a crate of apple butter meant for the district benefit vanishes from her porch, she chooses order over rumor—stamping lids with a tiny bee, organizing a Listening Circle, and following faint clues that lead from hedgerow pull-offs to glossy counterfeit labels at the market. When the quiet beekeeper Aaron Glick steps forward to help, their careful teamwork uncovers a wider ring of ...

At Crystal Cliffs, privacy is everything. When billionaire Miles Davenport is found dead in an infinity pool at the exclusive Crystal Cliffs resort, the staff calls it a tragic accident. Detective Lina Brémont calls it murder. Trapped by a violent storm with a handful of influential guests, Lina uncovers a web of secrets, lies, and quiet control hidden beneath the resort’s perfect surface. Everyone has a motive. No one is telling the truth. And someone has already proven they’re willing to kill to keep the silence. A portion of the royalties from this book supports organizations that ...

The cage doors are open. The power is out. The apex predators are free. Deep inside the hermetic borders of Songho, a marvel of modern engineering has just been unveiled. It was supposed to be a propaganda victory. It was designed to show the world the regime’s power. Dr. Yuna Park knows the truth. The enclosures are too small. The security is all theater. And the storm battering the perimeter is about to expose every flaw in the system. When the grid fails, the magnetic locks disengage. In the darkness, the facility transforms from a monument of national pride into a slaughterhouse. ...

Jonathan Coe's previous novel, The Rotters' Club, was a novel of innocence: a nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in 1970s Britain. The Closed Circle is its mirror image: a novel of experience. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version...

He promised his daughter a vacation. Instead, he brought her onto a ship with a killer. Mike Dorset joins his sister Erin, her husband Nate, their two teenagers, and Mike's five-year-old daughter Ellie for a short cruise to the Caribbean, hoping for a few ordinary days after the events that nearly broke his life. But before the ship can settle into its first night at sea, Mike discovers Ruth Calder is onboard for a reason. Someone is hunting a hidden passenger list. The killer is disciplined, patient, and tied to the buried operational world Mike thought he had escaped. He knows how to move...

Crop circles are certainly an incredible phenomenon. Anyone who follows them superficially or doesn’t know their details cannot understand the countless facets and logical paradoxes that they continue to offer since the days of the first formations, documented around 1980. Art or hoaxes, believers or circlemakers: is there really a boundary between the elements involved? If so, what is it? In a twisted circular game, all the elements continue to overlap each other and to become entwined, making the mystery even more inextricable. So is it possible to somehow unravel this wildly tangled ...

Humanity left Earth a long time ago. They had treated their home planet poorly, and the deteriorating environment forced them to leave. They traveled 189 light years to a faraway world and named it Horizon, respecting the new lives they intended to build. Fortunately, they learned their lessons and treated their new world much better. After over 100,000 years away from Earth, they still revered her and taught their children her beauty.

The Red Death Murders transforms Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ into a fast-paced novel of detection with clues provided openly in the tradition of Agatha Christie, ingenious explanations worthy of John Dickson Carr, and a complex plot to delight fans of Seishi Yokomizo. A deadly plague The pestilence known as the Red Death had devastated Prince Prospero’s lands, and so he retired to his isolated castle with several hundred friends to outwait the blight in safety. Here, they distracted themselves from the horror outside the walls with decadent revelry ...

One community, one night, one test of what it means to repair what breaks. When someone starts snuffing lamps along the ridge and a toddler needs a doctor, the sleepy Maple Glen finds its mettle. Susanna Fisher and Micah Byler organize a practical, kind response—bell-wired posts, white-tie markers, daylight tasks for teens—and invite confession, restitution, and service instead of shame. The result: a quiet, believable mystery solved with empathy, and a romance that grows from respect. PRANK NIGHT AT PUMPKIN RIDGE is a high-stakes small-town cozy read—faith-friendly, clean, and rich ...

A podcast by three friends, George, Harrison, and Jeffrey where they cover Joe Abercrombie's First Law series in detail and spew out their opinions and theories, no matter how tinfoil or outdated. Episodes are released weekly on Fridays and will feature guests and pick the best meme of the week for the subreddit, Houseofthemememaker. Subscribe and listen to us on this journey into this epic series, it's better to do it than to live with the fear of it!