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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 ...

Russell Vaughn told his wife he was in Denver on business. His car turned up at a trailhead with keys in the ignition. And Russell Vaughn hasn’t been seen in forty-eight hours. Autumn has settled over Elk Creek in layers, aspen gold and mountain frost, the deep blue of skies that seem to go on forever, the first dusting of snow on the highest peaks. It is Gemma and Marco’s first autumn as a married couple. It is also Kate Soren and Scout’s first real case. Russell Vaughn was a respected Elk Creek businessman. He was also, as the investigation quickly reveals, running a very careful ...

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 ...

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 ...

Der Fund eines Hundeskeletts setzt eine mysteriöse Mordserie in Gang – ein Mensch nach dem anderen wird vergiftet. Und wieder einmal müssen Berta und Pauline, die beiden Hobbygärtnerinnen mit Miss-Marple-Gen, einem Serienmörder das Handwerk legen. Nur kommen sie ihm dabei gefährlich nahe … Schwarzhumorig, charmant, spannend: eine fesselnde Mischung aus Cosy Crime, Pflanzen-Know-how und Mörderjagd.

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

Honig ist süß. Aber für manche ist er bitterer Ernst. Im sonst so ruhigen Hunsrück steht ein besonderer Tag bevor: Die 1. Hunsrücker Honigmesse. Die Vorbereitungen laufen auf Hochtouren. Während Loni mit Freuden Honig verkostet, kann sich Anneliese nur schwer für das Thema begeistern. Honig ist Honig, oder nicht? Doch dann tauchen anonyme Briefe auf und Annelieses Ermittlungsfieber wird geweckt. Will jemand die Messe sabotieren? Die beiden Hobbydetektivinnen geben alles, um den mysteriösen Absender zu entlarven – vergebens.

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Auf Mallorca will sich Marie endlich ihren großen Traum von einer eigenen Bar erfüllen. Bis es soweit ist, arbeitet sie als Rezeptionistin in einem kleinen, exklusiven Wellnesshotel. Doch schon bald muss Marie feststellen, dass hinter der sonnigen Urlaubsidylle der Baleareninsel auch menschliche Abgründe lauern können. Und sie entdeckt eine neue Leidenschaft: das Lösen von Kriminalfällen! Als die Leiche des Schülers Mateo an den Klippen von Caví gefunden wird, ist die Dorfgemeinschaft erschüttert.

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 ...