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Nancy climbs straight into another mystery! Nancy Drew is on the case again—and this mystery is more dangerous than ever! When she's asked to investigate a series of strange hauntings at an old mansion, Nancy leaps into action. Shadows move, unseen music plays, and jewelry vanishes without a trace! As Nancy begins to uncover the truth, disaster strikes—her father, the famous lawyer Carson Drew, is kidnapped! Now Nancy must race against time to find her father and expose the greedy culprit behind the eerie mansion’s secrets.

Melton Mowbray is world famous for its pork pies, but beneath the façade lies an undercurrent of lies and deceit, and Albert Smith just saw something that made him curious. The operation hiding in plain sight is worth a lot of money. The kind of money people will kill to protect and now they need to make him vanish. Quietly. Permanently. Good luck with that. Albert spent decades taking down criminals and his mind is as sharp as it ever was. Get ready for pandemonium.

A cryptic puzzle, a web of secrets, and a town full of suspects—can a determined bookstore owner uncover the truth before it’s too late? In the small town of Thistle Ridge, Emma Carter attends the estate sale of Gertrude Holloway, the town’s former recluse, hoping to find unusual books for her beloved new bookstore, Novel Escapes. However, she gets more than she bargained for when a puzzle book reveals chilling clues about Mrs. Holloway’s untimely death. Help arrives in an unexpected way as the town's mischievous golden retriever, Chewie, leads his owner—handsome local ...

A widow in a mansion. Dark secrets. And poison, deadly poison. After amateur detective Molly Sutton stumbles on a dead body, she wastes no time before eavesdropping and elbowing her way into conversations all over the French village of Castillac. But when Chief Dufort is about to clap handcuffs on the wrong man, she’s got to do more than chat to save him. Will she have the stuff—and the skill—to pull it off?

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there’s a crash from inside the house, and when the Marlow Murder Club rush to investigate, they are shocked to find the groom-to-be crushed to death in his study.

Murder Never Tasted So Sweet Ivy Sinclair thought life in Maplewood, Maine, would be quiet—newspaper columns. Dog walks with her beagle, Watson. Friendly neighbors and cozy town traditions. But when the fiftieth annual baking competition begins, celebration turns deadly. Luna, a sharp-tongued judge, collapses—poisoned before dessert was served. The police might ignore Ivy’s instincts, but she trusts her gut—and Watson’s bark. A strange bottle of mead, a cryptic note, and a victim with far too many foes tell her this case is anything but simple. Luna was notorious for feuds and ...

Olivia Greer is counting the days until her date with Michael Bellemare, when her sister, Sage, calls in a panic. As the principal of Lily Rock Music Academy, she meticulously planned the parent orientation weekend. Then, an academic tutor is found dead.

Emma Reed and her beloved Corgi move from London to Cornwall with the dream of opening a tea shop - but first, they'll have to collar a criminal in the first book in a charming new series.

When Emmy Cooper's life in Chicago is turned upside down, the young interior designer retreats to her family's lake cottage resort in the beautiful Wisconsin Northwoods for a much-needed break. Hoping to clear her mind and gain a fresh perspective, she looks forward to enjoying the slower pace and the crisp, clean pine air at her beloved Cooper's Cove Resort with her family, dogs, and her best friend, Whitney. Unfortunately, her homecoming isn't as calm as she'd hoped.

In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing The Black Cat Café makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hastily dug hole, with a dead black cat by her side. The woman's face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the café's black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the café's garden?

Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn't come home last night, so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow's resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive party with the MADS committee but no one remembers seeing him disembark. And then Oliver's body washes up on the Thames with two bullet holes in him. It's time for the Marlow Murder Club to leap into action.

Riley Thorn and her hot tattooed private investigator boyfriend are all moved in to their new fixer-upper. Not only do they finally have their own place they also haven’t found any new dead bodies on the premises. Yep. It looks like summer is over, and so is Riley’s bad luck. Or is it? While Nick gives up sleeping and showering to obsess over the cold case that still haunts him, his business partner Mrs. Penny is calling the investigative shots. It’s every bit as bad as you can imagine.

From New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield comes this exceptional thriller and "exciting journey" into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary).1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three...

Mara Voss arrived in Blackwater Hollow looking for a quiet refuge. She inherited a shop filled with dusty volumes at the edge of a forgotten river. She thought her greatest challenge would be paying off old debts. She was wrong. The building holds a dark secret. Hidden beneath the floorboards is a manuscript that writes itself. Every new page added to the ancient ledger unleashes another terrifying event upon the isolated community. The townspeople are trapped in a cycle of their own silent complicity. They know exactly what happens when the ink dries. Now the locals are turning hostile. ...

When the Village Blend caters a glittering rooftop party, their creative coffee concoctions are eclipsed by a shocking murder in this thrilling new Coffeehouse Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. Years ago, when master roaster Clare Cosi was a newly divorced mom raising...

Rylie's thrilled when she gets a long-term locum veterinarian job in the beautiful Napa Valley wine country where her best friend lives, and she's looking forward to enjoying the area and spending time with Sophie and Sophie's husband, Lucien. That is until the owner of a local bar is found dead...

When veterinarian Rylie Sunderland moves to Lake Tahoe to try to make sense of the mess her life's become, she suddenly finds herself entangled in a murder investigation. After the veterinary hospital where she worked burns to the ground, Rylie packs up the pieces of her life and her golden...

Retired school teacher, clerk to the Parish Council, devoted churchgoer. Josephine Hillson is the proverbial pillar of the community. But apparently not everyone in the community sees her that way. And at the end of a warm September’s day, with the Summer Social winding down, Josephine goes to meet her maker in the swimming pool of Mountjoy Manor.

Echinacea, Extortion, and a Deadly Bake-Off Cedar Grove’s Spring Bake-Off is famous for sweet pastries, herbal creations, and friendly rivalries. But when one of the judges suddenly collapses before the competition begins, the festival turns from celebration to crime scene. Florist Iris Bennett never meant to solve a murder between arranging bouquets at Perfect Petals. But when her curious one-eyed Persian cat Winston uncovers a suspicious clue and her spirited assistant Sadie starts connecting unsettling details, Iris begins to suspect the bake-off is hiding far more than secret recipes....

Shears of Suspicion at Cottage Row A Gracie Bloom Cozy Mystery Welcome to Cottage Row… Where the tea is warm, the neighbors are friendly— …and secrets don’t stay buried for long. Gracie Bloom thought she was opening her shop for another peaceful morning of teacups, linens, and friendly conversation. But when she steps into the hardware store next door, she finds something no small town expects— A body. With a beloved neighbor arrested and the entire town ready to settle on an easy answer, Gracie isn’t convinced. Something doesn’t feel right. The story is too neat. The clues ...