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When Rodney Hart is found dead and his prized turkeys on the loose just days before Brooke Ridge Falls' Thanksgiving festivities, Lexy Baker and her band of spirited senior sleuths are on the case.

Katey loves living in the small town of Pine Falls, and just as she thought that she could finally settle into her retirement and run her little coffee shop, she has been called back to Detroit. A former colleague whom Katey saved from a student who once tried to murder her, resurfaces seeking revenge. Despite his supposed death in prison, a recent death of a girl has a note found on her body addressed to Katey.

Step aside, Zodiac. There’s a new serial killer on the loose in San Francisco, and the police have enlisted Poppy and Ophelia’s help to get to the bottom of it. With multiple bodies already having been found, and the killer showing no signs of stopping, Poppy knows they’re racing against the clock to save as many lives as possible. The killer has made it obvious he's after attention, but once he realizes he's got Ophelia’s, he makes it clear he thinks he's a match for her.

In 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, looking for a sign, a signal, an answer to an enigma that has haunted him since childhood: Was Bach murdered by a famous oculist? And years later, was Handel a victim of the same doctor? Allegro follows his investigation, from the salons of London to the streets of Paris, recreating an enthralling and turbulent time, full of rogues and brilliant composers, charlatans and presumptuous nobles. Running parallel to this search is the rise of Mozart, his knowledge and fame, his trials and losses.

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Cuatro amigas con un tatuaje en común desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Una mujer es asesinada a golpes por su pareja. Una prostituta se suicida en extrañas circunstancias. Hay algunos crímenes invisibles. Crímenes que apenas dejan tras de sí un titular de prensa y una investigación policial rutinaria que pronto se convierte en estadística y archivo.

2. Juli 2022: In Genf bereiten zwei Einbrecher den Überfall auf einen Juwelier vor. Doch dieser Raub ist alles andere als zufälliges Verbrechen ... Fünf Tage zuvor plant Sophie Braun ein großes Fest anlässlich ihres 40. Geburtstags. Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in einem großzügigen Haus am Genfer See, das Leben scheint ihr zuzulächeln. Aber die Idylle trügt. Denn ihr Ehemann ist offenbar in kriminelle Machenschaften verstrickt. Ihr Nachbar, ein vermeintlich untadeliger Polizist, spioniert die intimsten Winkel ihres Lebens aus.

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In book 17 of the series, Tess and Tony are asked to chair the annual Halloween event, which once again, will feature a televised therapy session conducted by paranormal psychologists Tim Rivers and Tom Masters. While participating in a ghost therapy session is always a hoot, Tess is feeling overwhelmed and distracted this year with all the changes in her life and she wonders if she'll be able to handle everything that is coming down the pike as efficiently as she hoped she would.

In Clouds of Witness, Dorothy L. Sayers presents another brilliant case for the charismatic Lord Peter Wimsey. This time, the stakes are personal. When his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murder after the death of their sister's fiancé, Lord Peter must race against time to uncover the truth and clear his family's name. Set against the backdrop of English aristocracy and filled with Sayers’ signature wit and intricate plotting, this classic detective novel takes listeners through a maze of lies, secrets, and conflicting testimonies.

Aly is looking forward to a quiet Christmas back home with her parents. She’ll attend the annual Holly Jolly Jamboree, watch her mother perform a skit, and reconnect with the festival’s director, her mom’s best friend Lottie. The jubilee quickly goes from jolly to melancholy when Aly and Mom arrive at the fairground to find Lottie dead. Everyone loved Lottie, so how could this have happened? The police barely investigate before concluding that the death was a suicide, but Aly and her mom are certain the scene was staged.

Es wird besinnlich am Hirschgrundsee: Weihnachten steht vor der Tür und die Hirschgrundis lassen sich allerhand einfallen, um die Camper in Stimmung zu versetzen. Es gibt einen kleinen Weihnachtsmarkt, Fackeln rund ums Klohäusl, einen Plätzchen-Back-Wettbewerb für die Kinder und sogar eine Esel-Wanderung. Alles könnte so schön sein, wären da nicht diese ungehobelten Jäger, die Evelyns Café besetzen. Besonders der Vorsitzende, Frank Klinkenberg, geht Sofia auf die Nerven, weil er sie ständig anbaggert. Als Jonas das mitbekommt, sieht er rot und legt sich mit ihm an.

Die Bankangestellte Viktoria Specht wird im Homeoffice erschlagen. Während der Untersuchung des Tatorts fallen merkwürdige Details auf: Ein wütender Kakadu, der immer wieder "Litschi" ruft, ein vereinsamtes und verwirrtes Chinchilla, sowie die Tatsache, dass Viktoria an diesem Tag mehrere unerwartete Besucher hatte. Kommissar Schiemann und die Tierflüsterin Kira Mauerfuchs folgen den Hinweisen von Spechts Tieren und erleben eine Überraschung. Dabei ist Kira abgelenkt, denn am selben Tag deckt sie neue Untaten der Pharmafirma auf, die sie für den Tod ihrer Mutter verantwortlich macht.

Spätsommer, Erntezeit im Rheinland: Ein junger Landwirt wird gewaltsam aus seinem Traktor gezerrt. Kurze Zeit später findet man seine Leiche am sogenannten Siebenschuss, einer alten Landmarke mit Hasenrelief - versehen mit einer Ohrmarke für Schweine.

Poppyridge inn is in chaos when Abby discovers the body of a strange man in a guest room. But he isn't a stranger to everyone. When detectives suspect her father, she doesn't know what to believe. Cassandra has just arrived back at the inn after a much-needed Caribbean cruise, and caution tape was the last thing she expected to run into. When she learns that Abby's father is about to take the blame for the murder, she's determined to help. After all, she can sense things about people and has no doubt Briggs is innocent.

Halloween has arrived in Olmeda, and someone's celebrating by leaving bloody pentagrams all over the city. As the resident official witch, it's my job to figure out what the pentagrams mean and if they're more of a threat than a prank. Extra points if I find out who did it before they ruin the best holiday of the year, one I plan on spending with Ian. But finding the culprit is harder than expected—nobody saw anything and there's no shortage of suspicious paranormals. In the words of my new personal motto: everyone is a suspect.

In the quaint village of Birdswing, the winter of 1939 is bitterly cold. Still haunted by his ex-wife’s murder and eager to contact the Fenton House ghost, Ben enlists Lady Juliet in an amateur séance. But the surprise return of Juliet’s rogue husband, Ethan, upends her life, setting tongues wagging. While she fights to make him sign divorce papers, a bloodless, naked corpse confronts Ben. The murdered man, handsome but uneducated and known to make passes at all things female, is discovered in an oh-so-proper estate.

On Dr. Benjamin Bones’s first night in the quaint Cornish village of Birdswing, a shocking hit-and-run leaves him seriously injured and his unfaithful wife dead. As he recuperates, Lady Juliet, a fiery aristocrat who won’t take no for an answer, pulls him into a sleuthing partnership destined to change both their lives. Suspecting that Ben’s late wife was murdered, he and Juliet dive headfirst into the investigation, questioning Birdswing's most eccentric and suspicious residents.

When an old friend reaches out to Sinclair Crowe, he and his wife, Jayne Frost, head to New Orleans for what they think will be simple visit before they finally make the journey back to the North Pole. They’re looking forward to some fun and great food. But things in the Big Easy are about to get downright difficult when a sudden death and a shocking incident threaten Sinclair’s friend’s reputation. It’s pretty obvious things are not as they seem, but digging deeper means putting themselves in danger.

Mercy and Lizzie McCarthy are settling in to the charming seaside village of Shamrock Cove on the west coast of Ireland. Lizzie throws herself into organizing a book festival and mystery writer Mercy even agrees to come out of her bookish hidey-hole to do get involved. But then the star author for the event is found dead. James Brandt was killed by a falling bookshelf in his own cottage… The local detective is not convinced by Mercy’s suspicion of murder but when someone else turns up dead, the police cannot ignore it.