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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-...

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 ...

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.

Ich bin alles andere als begeistert, als das Bundesamt für Magie einen Ausbilder schickt, um sicherzustellen, dass meine Fähigkeiten auf dem neuesten Stand sind. Agent Quinn Redmond ist ein verklemmter Feenmann mit einer rigiden Einstellung zu Regeln und Vorschriften, die selbst ein Weltverbesserer wie ich als erdrückend empfindet. Als sich ein unheimlicher Nebel über die Stadt legt, reagieren die Einwohner auf sonderbare Weise. Das bedeutet Überstunden für Chief Fox und die örtlichen Polizeikräfte.

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Alois Mistelzweig, gescheiterter Pianist, und Berta Bartók, pensionierte Köchin mit zweifelhafter Vergangenheit, können sich nicht ausstehen. Dennoch wohnen sie gemeinsam in der Zürcher Villa ihrer verstorbenen Arbeitgeberin und halten sich mit kleinen Diebstählen über Wasser. Als ihnen eines ihrer Opfer auf die Spur kommt, bieten sie einen Deal an: keine Anzeige, dafür die Suche nach einer verschwundenen Freundin. Schon bald kriegen Alois und Berta es mit Erpressung und einer Leiche zu tun – dabei liegt unter dem Birnbaum in ihrem Garten ihr größtes Problem begraben.

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 ...

“I now pronounce you husband and…” New York City, 1923. The most talked-about wedding is quickly approaching, and PI Jax Diamond is on top of the world. His good friends are decorating the nightclub for a glorious reception, and Ace, his courageous partner and best man, is prancing around, anxious for the event to begin. The only thing missing is the bride. Three days before the wedding, a group of mastermind criminals pull off the biggest diamond heist the city has ever seen, but that’s not the only gem they steal. And boy, do they have their hands full. Every police officer from ...

The chilling prose of Karin Slaughter meets the high-stakes plotting of The Butcher and the Wren in a dark debut following three normal sisters, their own forgotten traumas, and the serial killer that lives within one, begging the question: can you ever truly recognize the evil around you? Three...

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 ...

Murder in the dunes: A new mystery series where dark secrets lurk beneath the surface, with a dash of humor to keep things afloat. During the renovation of the boardwalk by a moor, workers discover a body. DNA analysis reveals a match to a missing persons case that Enna and her former boss unsuccessfully investigated in 2016. The Fleetstedt team takes on the case, forcing Enna to confront a part of her past she’d rather keep buried. Pavel, on the other hand, investigates as thoroughly as ever — but not as carefully as Enna would have liked. What neither of them suspects: The past casts ...

Ein unbeabsichtigter Mord, eine kuriose Flucht und eine unfreiwillige Ermittlerin - Molly Murphys erster Fall. Der historische Cosy Krimi für mörderisch gute Stunden! Seit ihrer Geburt wusste Molly Murphy, dass sie irgendwann in Schwierigkeiten kommen würde - genau wie ihre Mutter es vorausgesagt hatte. Nach einem Unfall, der mit einem Toten endet, muss sie ihr geliebtes Irland und ihre Identität hinter sich lassen und flüchtet an die anonymen Ufer Amerikas.

Cultureclash im Schrebergarten und eine Leiche im Gemüsebeet: Rosenkohl und tote Bete ist der erste Band einer humorvollen Krimi-Reihe rund um eine Schrebergarten-Kolonie in Berlin. Eben hatte sich Ex-Polizist Manne Nowak noch voller Vorfreude auf das Garten-Jahr eingestimmt, da wird die Ruhe in der Berliner Kleingartenanlage "Harmonie" empfindlich gestört - und zwar von Mannes neuen Nachbarn.

Wenn einer ehemaligen Polizistin die Probleme bis nach Cornwall folgen ... Die humorvoll-spannende Cosy Crime-Reihe zum Mitermitteln beginnt! Jodie "Nosey" Parker erfüllt sich endlich den Traum der eigenen Catering-Firma und tauscht dafür das hektische Leben als Polizistin in der Großstadt gegen das gemütliche Leben in ihrem Heimatdorf in Cornwall ein. Ein bisschen Ruhe ist genau das, was sie und ihre Tochter jetzt brauchen. Allerdings entpuppt sich Jodies erster Auftrag als komplizierter als gedacht, denn sie soll die Hochzeit ihres Ex-Freundes ausrichten.

As two young people from different worlds are joined together in marriage, the murmuring among the guests is that the relationship is doomed. But only one knows the form that doom will take. Etta and Dora, retired teachers from the South of Italy, arrive with their Basset Hound, the strong willed, loveable Leon, for a home swap holiday in a German mansion, just in time for the celebrations following the wedding of their hosts’ son to a beautiful Parisienne socialite. But the festivities come to an abrupt end when the bride falls face first into the wedding cake, a bullet in her heart. ...

Retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe came to Assateague Island to capture images of wild horses for a magazine assignment. Instead, she and her loyal dog Atlas discover a body buried in the dunes—and find themselves drawn into a mystery that stretches back sixty years. When Clara learns that the victim was investigating a decades-old land dispute between two local families, she realizes that someone on this tight-knit island is willing to kill to keep the past buried. As a nor'easter bears down on the coast, Clara must navigate a web of old money, stolen land, and family secrets ...