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Retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe thought she was done chasing stories. After forty years behind the lens, she traded deadlines for open roads, setting off along the East Coast with her loyal companion Atlas—an eighty-pound German Shepherd–Great Pyrenees mix with an uncanny instinct for trouble. But Clara's trained eye for the telling detail and Atlas's protective instincts keep drawing them into mysteries that others overlook. From Charleston's azalea-draped streets to the windswept dunes of Assateague Island, from Hudson Valley orchards ablaze with autumn color to the salt-...

Three days in the mountains. No satellite signal. No sign of life. When Gemma Hartley’s pager sounds before dawn — MISSING PERSON, 72 HOURS OVERDUE — she and her legendary German Shepherd Kira are in the truck within twelve minutes. That’s what they do. That’s what they are. But what Gemma expects to be a routine search becomes something else entirely when Kira finds Alexis Mercer’s body at the base of Devil’s Ledge — and the evidence points not to accident, but to murder. Fresh from Minneapolis and still carrying the grief of a SAR operation gone wrong, Gemma came to Elk ...

The mountain buries its secrets under four feet of powder. This winter, one of them surfaces. January in Elk Creek is a different world — the ski season crowds flooding in, the cold settling into the bones of the valley, and the trails going silent under snowpack. When an avalanche on the north face of Ridgeline Mountain reveals a body that was never meant to be found, Gemma and Kira are called to confirm what the snow has uncovered. What looks like an accident turns into something much darker. Nathan Cole was an IT manager at the Elk Creek Ski Area. He was also running a quiet blackmail ...

A thirteen-year-old secret is buried in the Colorado mountains. A K-9 handler and her aging German Shepherd are about to dig it up. When skeletal remains surface on a remote trail outside Elk Creek, newlywed SAR handler Gemma Hartley-Reyes and her veteran air-scent dog Kira are pulled into a cold case that no one in town wanted reopened. As Gemma trains a new recruit and navigates married life, the investigation uncovers a web of silence stretching back over a decade. Someone in Elk Creek knows exactly what happened. And they're watching Gemma get closer. Perfect for fans of Margaret ...

Colorado Trail Days brings the whole town together. Someone in the crowd has been hiding in plain sight for twenty-six years. The annual celebration has transformed Elk Creek into a carnival — food vendors, parade floats, and thousands of hikers who’ve made their way through these mountains all summer. Gemma is working the SAR booth with Kira at her feet when the case cracks open: new evidence places Warren Haskell at the scene the night Brianna Hartley vanished, and for the first time, there’s enough to push. But Warren Haskell is not the kind of man who falls easily. He built this ...

Retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe came to Charleston for the azaleas and the architecture. She expected to spend her days capturing the city's legendary beauty through her lens while her loyal companion Atlas—a German Shepherd–Great Pyrenees mix with instincts sharper than any human's—padded contentedly at her side. But when Clara joins a historic walking tour through the French Quarter, her camera catches something she was never meant to see: a shadow moving in the window of an abandoned carriage house. Hours later, a real estate heir is found dead inside that same building...

Warren Haskell is behind bars. Marco has proposed. Spring has arrived in Elk Creek. Everything should finally feel like enough. When a social media influencer with 2.3 million followers disappears on the Colorado Trail, Gemma and a visibly aging Kira are called to search the same high country that started it all. But what looks like a missing hiker becomes something far more sinister, the influencer had a follower who wasn’t content to just watch, who had been tracking her route across the state for months, who saw her public posts as an invitation. The Jade Brown case forces Gemma to ...

Die Torrent-Hexen von Harlot Bay – Eine Cozy-Mystery-Serie! Alle zehn Bücher in einem Set! Lernen Sie Harlow Torrent, Teilzeit-Journalistin und Vollzeit-Switch-Hexe, und ihre verrückte Hexen-Familie in dieser zehnbändigen Serie kennen.

Henrietta und ihr gemütliches Antiquitätengeschäft haben die turbulente Weihnachtszeit voller kauflustiger Touristen und ungebetenen Einbrechern überstanden. Doch dann ereignet sich im Leuchtturm von Hearts Grove eine Tragödie: Nicht nur das Licht ist erloschen, es wird auch eine Leiche gefunden. Ehe Henrietta sich versieht, steckt sie mal wieder mitten in einem neuen Mordfall. Und als kurz darauf ein zweiter Toter auftaucht, wird klar: Hier geht etwas sehr Dunkles vor sich. Kann Henrietta die Fakten aufklären und einen weiteren Mörder fassen?

Während Mel und Angie den Valentinstag in ihrer Cupcake-Bäckerei Fairy Tale mit Buttercreme und Backkursen begehen, traut sich Mels Mutter nach 30 Jahren endlich wieder auf ein erstes Date. Doch das Liebes-Comeback endet weniger süß als viel mehr tödlich, denn ihr wohlhabender Begleiter Baxter Malloy schwimmt leblos im Pool! Da Mels Mutter die letzte Person ist, die ihn lebend gesehen hat, wird sie in den Augen der Polizei zur Verdächtigen Nr. 1.

Two smalltown deaths reveal two bigtime killers… Millbury, Massachusetts 1923. While vacationing in New England, PI Jax Diamond and his courageous canine partner, Ace, bite off more than they can chew when they discover a dead body in the woods, and it vanishes before the lawmen show up. Laura Graystone, Broadway star, auto expert, and Jax’s heartthrob, is once again front and center digging for clues while trying to ditch an old boyfriend. That is, until her brother becomes Jax’s prime suspect. Then all hell breaks loose, and Ace is left in the lurch, tracking down leads with his new...

#1 Most Important Political Book of 2023, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) A Best Book of 2023, The Telegraph (Great Britain) A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the war in Ukraine, including revealing new primary source material on Germany's transformation In...

Amanda Graham dachte, sie hätte endlich das ruhige Leben gefunden: ein geerbtes, charmant-verstaubtes Bed & Breakfast, eine wohlernährte Katze namens Oscar – und das alles in dem idyllischen Küstenstädtchen Ravenwood Cove. Doch dann macht sie zwischen den Dünen eine schreckliche Entdeckung und steckt wieder bis zum Hals in einem Mordfall! Sicher, das Opfer war nicht gerade der Liebling der Stadt – einige meinen sogar, sein Abgang sei längst überfällig gewesen.

Sofia genießt ihren Urlaub: drei Wochen Sonne, Strand und Meer - und endlich mal kein Mord! Doch kaum ist sie zurück am Hirschgrundsee, wartet schon der nächste Fall: Der Wohnwagen der Hetzeneggers ist verschwunden! Sofort begeben sich die Hirschgrundis auf die Suche. Als sie das gute Stück endlich wiederfinden, ist die Freude schnell vorbei - denn direkt neben dem Wohnwagen liegt ein toter Rocker! Sofort fällt der Verdacht auf die Hetzeneggers, und ausgerechnet die schöne Kommissarin Kiesewetter übernimmt den Fall.

Als Nathalie und Louise am allerwenigsten damit rechnen, wird Louise von ihrer Vergangenheit als Agentin eingeholt. Nie hätte sie es für möglich gehalten, dass ihre Entführung vor vielen Jahren noch einmal Folgen haben würde, doch jetzt meldet sich ein Unbekannter bei ihr - und was er verlangt, ist nicht nur schockierend, sondern auch tödlich! Natürlich fällt auch ihren Freunden auf, dass mit Louise etwas nicht stimmt. Fieberhaft versuchen sie herauszufinden, was gerade passiert. Dabei ahnen sie nicht, in welcher Gefahr sie sich befinden.

Retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe has finally convinced her longtime friend Emmy Drayton to join her on assignment—a peaceful week photographing wild ponies on North Carolina's remote Ocracoke Island. But when Clara discovers a body in the surf beneath the historic lighthouse, their reunion becomes something far more dangerous. The victim was investigating a Civil War shipwreck that the locals have protected for generations, and someone on this tight-knit island will kill to keep its secrets buried. As a nor'easter bears down on the Outer Banks, Clara and Emmy find themselves ...

Die Ruhe kehrt nur für kurze Zeit in das altehrwürdige Morrisey-Gebäude zurück, denn kurz nach dem Lösen ihres ersten Mordfalls findet Meg Dawson eine geheime Treppe im Keller, die in die berüchtigte Unterstadt Seattles führt. Dort findet sie nicht nur eine Leiche, sondern gleich zwei. Auch wenn die beiden Todesfälle durch ein ganzes Jahrhundert getrennt sind, haben die Opfer mehr gemeinsam, als Meg ahnt. Ohne Lauries Hilfe, der beruflich nach Japan ziehen musste, versucht Meg mit ihrer Geisterfreundin Ripley die Fälle zu lösen.

The stakes turn deadly aboard a gambling riverboat. New York City, 1923. After three easy cases explode into a mess of major crimes, PI Jax Diamond is ready to throw in the towel on his job. He can barely make ends meet, so how will he ever give Laura, his fiancée, the comfortable life that she deserves? In the nick of time, one of his wealthy clients makes him an offer he can’t refuse – a side job on a gambling steamboat making a thousand bucks a week. But Laura and Ace, their loyal companion, smell something fishy about the steamboat captain. With the help of their friends and a ...

When retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe accepts an invitation to a prestigious photography retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains, she expects nothing more than autumn landscapes and quiet contemplation. But the historic Merriweather estate holds secrets that stretch back over a century, and when a fellow photographer is found dead at the base of a scenic overlook, Clara recognizes something the local sheriff doesn't—the body has been arranged to match a photograph taken in 1903. The Merriweather family archives contain seven haunting images documenting tragic accidents spanning ...

A holiday is a time to relax, unwind and see the sights. But for two adventurous sexagenarians, the sights have a tendency to include dead bodies. Etta and Dora, both newly retired teachers, travel from their home in Southern Italy to a fairy-tale German town for their first home swap holiday, delighted by their neighbours’ warm welcome. But the welcome turns sour when the Night Watchman of Rothenburg is brutally murdered while his tour group takes photographs nearby, a halberd buried in his chest and a peculiar iron mask by his side. When the murderer claims a second victim and the son ...