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Bath, Maine’s Festival of Lights was supposed to twinkle with cheer, not fizzle with murder. When demanding organizer, Margot Bellamy, is found electrocuted beside Santa's sleigh, the holiday glow dims fast. Suddenly, Santa's a suspect, the lights keep flickering, and Bath is buzzing louder than a string of faulty bulbs. Penelope should be busy selling scarves and ornaments at her shop, The Curious Finds, but with Grandma Joyce declaring doom, Teo, Penelope’s Teacup Chihuahua, sniffing up trouble, and the festival on the line, sleuthing feels as inevitable as fruitcake. Could it be Edna...

A lost beagle. A body on the cliffs. More small-town secrets than shells on the beach. A surprise inheritance. A gift for trouble turned a weary city dog trainer into Crestview Cove’s latest detective. Everyone’s whispering. The clues are stacking up. My canine sidekick is sniffing out the truth faster than I can leash him. Officer Sam Nolan, all charm, wants to keep me out of the deep end. This town is a tide pool of gossips and rivalries. The waves keep crashing in. Every neighbor has something to hide. Family secrets and old grudges churn beneath the surface. A desperate culprit is ...

It's Bridget Sway's first dead Christmas. And she's dreading it. Almost more than she dreaded Christmas when she was alive. In an attempt to get her in the holiday mood, her parole officer signed her up to participate in the Christmas Parade which means she has to spend the entire Christmas week spreading seasonal joy as a Festive Spirit. But that's only if she graduates from Christmas Camp. Everything is going terribly until she finds a dead body under a fir tree.

The Winter Gala was meant to honor victims—not add another to the list. Renee Morrow, a budding journalist, dies just as she's about to hand Maggie a warning—and her exposé dies with her. Biscuit, her loyal hound, and Maggie chase shattered pearls, hidden microchips, and an old locket that won't stop burning against her skin. But the truth tangled in this case feels too close to Maggie’s own splintered past. Suspects are everywhere: a curator guarding the museum's reputation, a historian obsessed with Maggie’s former identity, a janitor cleaning up the wrong mess, and an accountant...

A Killer Hides in the Winter Cheer Ivy Sinclair thinks the Frosty Festival will serve up peppermint cheer, not mystery. But when Pepper Ann, a rising hot-chocolate star, collapses with a Frosty Note in her hand, Ivy steps in. Watson’s sharp nose and her neighbor Alice’s gentle wisdom steady Ivy as she digs into the anonymous notes. The suspects simmer fast. Cerise, Pepper Ann’s long-time rival, hides a friendship the town never knew about. Jack, Pepper’s troubled brother, had plenty to gain and a note that ordered him to stay quiet. As more notes appear, Ivy uncovers grudges, ...

The lion sneezes, the viscount dies tidily, and Miss Imogen Aldridge would very much like everyone to stop implying these facts are related. As a clergyman’s daughter and uncredited assistant to the Tower of London menagerie, she is meant to sketch lions, not explain why a peer of the realm has been found neatly strangled in a locked inner corridor with her spare key obligingly in the door. Unfortunately for Imogen, the Crown has sent Mr Felix Seward, a very calm, very inconvenient inspector who thinks in ledgers and does not believe in accidents. Between them lie: an enraged but innocent...

Agatha Christie — the Queen of Crime and the world's best selling author — created dozens of detective novels and over a hundred short stories in her long and storied career, but few of her characters are as beloved and admired as the mild-mannered but incisively brilliant amateur sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. First introduced in 1927 in the short story "The Tuesday Night Club" (the first chapter of this volume), Miss Marple would become a favorite with readers and would appear in a dozen novels and over twenty short stories.

The BRAND NEW cozy mystery from Mary Grand, author of the NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A Christmas Murder

"Some legacies are written in shadow." Celeste Osborn is thoroughly unimpressed with her destiny as the next generation of Osborn witches. While her mother, Stella tends to the mishaps on Mystique Island, Celeste dreams of a life beyond wards and spells, preferably one that involves actual fun. Between surviving her brother Aaron's ridiculous schemes, maintaining her reputation as the girl with the sharpest tongue in town, and pretending she doesn't notice the shadows, Celeste has enough on her plate. The last thing she needs is a killer hunting his prey at the Wonder Wharf Amusement Park. ...

Miss Elinor Gresham makes ghosts for a living. It is the living men who cause trouble. Fake ghosts, real corpses, deeply inconvenient feelings. Hired to stage elegant terrors in a ruined cliff top chapel, Elinor arrives at Wynthorpe Castle with her lenses, her invoices, and very little patience for talk of curses. The duke needs his houseguests terrified of a fashionable White Lady and impressed by his proposed harbour, not whispering about bad luck and walking away with their money. Unfortunately, once the lights are arranged and the gauze is hung, someone obligingly provides a very real ...

Als die investigative Journalistin Alexi Ellis ihren Job verliert, macht sie sich mit ihrem unsozialen Wildkater Cosmo auf den Weg zum wunderschönen Hopgood Hall, dem Hotel ihrer alten Freunde Cheryl und Drew Hopgood, um endlich wieder zur Ruhe zu kommen. Doch das Chaos folgt Alexi auf dem Fuße und bei ihrer Ankunft sind Cheryl und Drew in völliger Aufregung: Ihre gute Freundin Natalie Parker ist verschwunden! Alexi hat mit dem Journalismus zwar nichts mehr am Hut, aber immer noch einen sechsten Sinn dafür, wo eine gute Story zu finden ist, und will der Sache auf den Grund gehen.

The Murder at the Vicarage is the first novel to feature Agatha Christie's beloved amateur sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, set in the seemingly peaceful English village of St. Mary Mead. It is up to the vicar's seemingly mild-mannered neighbour, the observant elderly spinster Miss Marple, to unravel the truth.

So hat Evi Pflaum sich ihren ersten Arbeitstag in der alten Heimat nicht vorgestellt: Ihr Vorgesetzter ist im Dauerkrankenstand und der erste Mordfall landet direkt auf dem Schreibtisch der jungen Staatsanwältin. Rätselhafte Malzspuren an der Leiche führen in die Brauereien und Mälzereien der fränkischen Bierstadt. Hochmotiviert legt sich die chronisch unterzuckerte Evi nicht nur mit ihrem neuen Chef an und betrinkt sich mit ihrer besten Freundin auf der Kerwa – sie verliert sich auch in den grünen Augen von Gerichtsmediziner Dr. Niklas Rosenbeet.

In quiet towns, the most dangerous weapon isn’t a gun. It’s a story, tidy, sympathetic, and repeated until nobody remembers to check the receipts. This collection delivers four true-crime–inspired, cozy-leaning whodunits told in first-person by everyday sleuths who know systems: a prairie pharmacy assistant who understands restricted paper trails, a church lunch coordinator who can reconstruct a cup’s journey from hand to hand, a canning-club organizer who spots “expertise” performed as camouflage, and a volunteer fire-auxiliary member who knows when a scene is trying too hard ...

Some secrets are worth dying for. Others are worth killing for. One year after arriving in Tidal Cove, animal behaviorist Wren Calloway has finally found her place. She's engaged to fisherman Jonah Hartley, building a life with his daughter Bea, and helping traumatized animals heal at her seaside cottage. The past is behind her. Until Sarah Prescott arrives. Sarah never knew her father—he died before she was born. But a letter from her recently murdered grandfather, Harrison Prescott, has led her to Tidal Cove with a devastating revelation: Thomas Prescott didn't die in a car accident. He...

A decade of lies. A dinner party turned deadly. And a pet sitter who won't stop until she finds the truth. Carrie Ashford has built an unexpected life in Charleston. What started as pet sitting has evolved into something more—she's become the city's most unlikely detective, with a menagerie of rescued animals and a relationship with Detective Marcus Hale that's finally moving forward. When Marcus makes a dinner reservation at the city's most romantic restaurant and hints at "something important," Carrie dares to imagine a future she'd given up on. But murder has terrible timing. When ...

The Miss Dumpy parade is back in all its glory on Secret Seal Isle, and with Rain in charge, the residents are getting more than they bargained for. When the festivities are temporarily delayed, Cookie discovers Rain's not the only one with junk in her trunk. A dead body is found in the classic automobile Rain commandeered for the inn's float. And when the corpse is identified as a man with ties to the DeMasi mob, it appears Cookie's past may have finally caught up with her. But Cookie's not the only one who is threatened by the murder investigation.

All Cookie James, FBI agent and Innkeeper extraordinaire, wants is a romantic date with her hot handy man… but what she gets is a corpse presented with a big red bow. When she and Dylan discover a boat with a dead body, not only is her picnic ruined, but a woman from Dylan's past returns to the island. The famous rock star appears to want a comeback tour with her former bodyguard. But Cookie doesn't have time to worry about that, because her oh-so-sexy ex-FBI partner has arrived, too. And he's ready to make a little music of his own.

Cookie James thought she was going to make things right with the island's hottest handyman when she approached Dylan Creed at his favorite fishing hole. But her attempt at a peace offering doesn't go so well when it leads to the discovery of a dead body. Even worse, it requires a phone call to the reason Dylan is so aloof with Cookie–FBI agent Hunter O'Neil. When Hunter arrives, he's quick to enlist Cookie's help as he takes the helm of another murder mystery on Secret Seal Isle. And soon enough, sparks fly, making it clear the case isn't the only thing Hunter's interested in.

Ein abgelegenes Château und ein ungeklärter Todesfall – der dreizehnte Band der Provence-Krimi-Reihe von Bestseller-Autor Pierre Lagrange. Herbststürme fegen über die Provence, als Ex-Commissaire Albin Leclerc einen merkwürdigen Brief erhält: Der reiche Industrielle Charles Agnel lädt zu einem Gourmet-Wochenende in sein abgelegenes Château ein. Erst vor Ort erfährt Albin, warum er hier ist: Einer der Anwesenden hat vor Jahren Charles' Ehefrau ermordet, und Albin soll nun den Schuldigen entlarven.