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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-...

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...

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.

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. ...

It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and unruly grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith).

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.

Maxwell Thornton ist nicht wirklich ein geselliger Mensch, aber das war ihm nie wichtig, denn bisher reichte ihm seine Karriere als gefeierter Chirurg. Doch nach dem Tod einer Patientin ist er nicht mehr in der Lage, ein Skalpell in die Hand zu nehmen. Er kündigt seine Stelle in der Stadt und übernimmt eine Hausarztpraxis in der abgelegenen Stadt Rainy Dale, Texas, mit 1001 Einwohnern. Rainy Dale ist von Exzentrikern bevölkert, die seine Geduld auf eine harte Probe stellen. Und zu allem Übel schwimmt auch noch nach wenigen Tagen sein nervigster Patient tot in seinem Pool.

Eine tote Autorin und ein Dorf, das nicht so idyllisch ist, wie es scheint... Der spannende Auftakt der Cosy Crime-Reihe im malerischen Cornwall! Mia Midway wollte als neue Bibliothekarin von Pennygrave nur ein wenig die Idylle Cornwalls genießen. Doch als sie Elenora Meil, eine berühmte Autorin aus dem beschaulichen Dörfchen, tot auffindet, merkt sie schnell, dass daraus nichts wird. Anders als die Polizei glaubt sie nämlich nicht an einen Unfall und kann es nicht lassen selbst Nachforschungen anzustellen.

#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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hudson Valley blazes with autumn color when retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe arrives to document the region's celebrated fall festivals. But the picture-perfect village of Kingsford-on-Hudson harbors a dark secret beneath its charming facade. On the eve of a historic unveiling—a Revolutionary War compass allegedly carried by George Washington himself—a respected professor dies under suspicious circumstances, and Clara's trained eye catches details that others miss. As Clara and her loyal dog Atlas dig deeper into the mystery, they uncover a web of deception spanning ...

It’s a deadly game of who’s who, and who isn’t. Things get pretty sticky for PI Jax Diamond and his courageous canine partner, Ace, when their best friend, a cop, is framed for murder. And not just anyone’s murder. The victim is the fiancée of the most notorious gangster in the city, Orin Marino, Jax’s worst enemy. Laura Graystone, the budding Broadway Star and Jax’s new squeeze, proves to be an ingenious partner as they sift through clues trying to find the real murderer. But when Jax is pinched for another crime, Laura and Ace are forced to go undercover. Hang on to your seat...

Ein Frühling im Veltlin, der alles verändert: Eigentlich wollte Reisejournalistin Mira Belgusto nur über Wein, leckeres Essen und die italienische Lebensart berichten. Doch als sie gemeinsam mit dem charmanten Ex-TV-Moderator Claudio Bertani über die Leiche der Winzerin Lucrezia Bianchi stolpert, ist es vorbei mit la dolce vita! Zwischen malerischen Weinbergen und köstlichen Antipasti geraten Mira und Claudio mitten in einen Mordfall.

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 ...

Das Ende ist nah — das behauptet Destiny Daychannel, eine Internet-Hellseherin, die mit ihrer Horde von Feuerschluckern, Jongleuren und Pantomimen auf Truer Island campiert. Harlow Torrent, Teilzeit-Journalistin und Vollzeit-Hexe, weiß ganz genau, dass mit der Welt etwas nicht stimmt ... und es sind nicht die Pantomimen, die Harlot Bay heimsuchen. Sie wacht immer wieder an seltsamen Orten mit neuen blauen Flecken auf und hat keine Ahnung, wie sie dorthin gekommen ist.

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 ...

April May liebt den Nachmittagstee mit feinen Sandwiches, Scones und köstlichem Gebäck. Als sie ein charmantes rosa-lila Haus sieht, beschließt sie spontan, es zu kaufen und ein Teehaus zu eröffnen. Die erste Überraschung ist eine Bengalkatze auf dem Dachboden, die möglicherweise einen Schatz bewacht. Wie sonst ließen sich die Einbrüche in ihr Haus erklären? Dann ist da noch der attraktive, arrogante Koch in ihrer Küche, den niemand sonst sehen kann. Ist er nur ein Produkt ihrer Fantasie oder ein Geist? So oder so verleiht er ihrem Menü eine köstliche französische Note.

When retired travel photographer Clara Whitcombe arrives on Cape Cod for a winter storm assignment, she expects dramatic skies and deserted beaches—not a mystery that washes up at her feet. A beloved marine biologist has drowned in waters she knew better than anyone, and while the official ruling says accident, Clara's instincts say murder. With her loyal dog Atlas by her side and a nor'easter bearing down on the coast, she begins asking the questions no one else will ask. The Cape in January is a world of gray seas and close-kept secrets, where year-round residents protect their own and ...