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Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he’s dating anybody yet). But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it’s going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she’ll do a better job than the police possibly could—because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands.

Charlie Gibson is the first port of call when Marion Hennessey, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, finds herself in trouble. Marion's yoga instructor has been murdered, but Marion herself was the intended target, and Charlie has to find the killer before they strike again. The stakes are high as Charlie finds herself mired in the word of celebrity gossip. And she soon finds herself a new leading man as the gorgeous Rowan McLeod seems happy to help her in any way he can. However, the closer she gets to Rowan, the more questions Charlie seems to have regarding her relationship with Jake.

Lucy Harrington has returned to Kurland St. Mary to help with her friend Sophia Giffin's wedding. But her homecoming is made disagreeable by the presence of Major Robert Kurland, whose bungled proposal has ruffled Lucy's composure, and a meddling widow who has designs on her father, the village rector. Wary of the cloying Mrs. Chingford from the start, Lucy has doubts about the busybody's intentions with her father. But everyone else seems to think they make an ideal match—until the courtship is curtailed when Mrs. Chingford is found dead at the bottom of a staircase.

The upcoming YA book festival at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library is bringing in renowned authors from all over the world. When bestselling author Todd Harrison unexpectedly visits librarian Lucy McNeil at her Outer Banks beach house after a meeting, she is puzzled by his presence, since they’re virtually strangers. After she steps inside to get him a drink, she’s shocked to discover that he’s been murdered on her deck in the few minutes she left him alone.

Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington Manor after her grandfather suffers a heart attack. Back in her childhood home for the first time in years, Saffron faces tense family relationships made worse by the presence of the enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired on as a doctor to the ailing Lord Easting. But the man is no doctor—in reality, he is a mysterious figure involved in the trafficking of dangerous government secrets, and his presence at Ellington can only mean trouble.

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When an American party of intellectuals, who boast of knowledge of a rare slug species, ask Lady Darriby-Jones to stay at Darriby Hall, she hesitantly agrees. She is in for a rude awakening when one of them is found dead with a gunshot wound. She thought it would be a matter that might be swept under the carpet until she's identified as a suspect. It leads her to wonder:Who's the trigger-happy culprit? When did they turn into a slug-slayer? How on earth did they pull off this shocking slug-icide? And . . . Why, oh why, would anyone shoot a slug savant?

What a Way to Go has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Spinster and secret novelist Clarissa Knightley and her gruff American engineer, Captain Huntley, along with their friend and cousin, the Honorable Jack de Sackville and Lady Elspeth, are to wed at last! In anticipation of the double wedding, friends and family are gathering at moldering Wycliffe Manor—until a dying stranger is discovered on the neglected grounds. Despite the tragedy, aristocratic wedding guests and their retinues, foreign and domestic, continue to arrive, not all by invitation.

Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades. Its new heirs are determined to create a welcoming home. Yet soon after the latest family moves in, bones are uncovered in the orchard . . . and odd strangers arrive. When her curate father returns his family to Gravesyde for the marriages of the manor's heirs, gawky spinster Patience Upton has high expectations—until her father is murdered. Shock at learning her father had a mysterious past leads to alarm that the killer may have been after his notebook, which she now possesses.

Normally Darla, the ghost that haunts the Redemption Inn, behaves herself. Relatively speaking. Nancy, the owner of the Redemption Inn, swears that Darla is harmless. At least, mostly harmless. Maybe she plays a few pranks on some unsuspecting guests, but it's all in good fun. Until one of the hotel guests is found dead at the bottom of the stairs, and Darla is the one who's blamed.

Alara never thought she'd know her biological family, much less have a criminal mastermind father who kidnaps her mother. To get her mother back and gain the upper hand, Alara has to solve a mystery that no other psychics have been able to crack before her father's swift deadline arrives. Alara, Irene, and a couple of stowaways travel to a nearby city to investigate the murder of her father's loyal lieutenant, but Alara didn't expect the only witnesses to be a house full of paperbacks and an ornery bobcat.

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What do you do when everything you’ve held to be true, when your entire life, in fact, turns out to be a lie? When 22-year-old Steve Cline learns that he’s illegitimate, and his real father is a racehorse trainer, he heads to the Maryland track. Steve’s father recruits him to work undercover in an effort to discover who’s been doping his most promising horses, and he quickly gets caught up in the unique lifestyle inherent to the backside. But it is not a life without peril because some men are willing to do anything to get the right horse under the wire first.

Mord oder Selbstmord? Wie kam der reiche Wissenschaftler Pommeroy Stockton zu Tode? Dies gilt es zu klären. Er hinterließ einen seltsam chiffrierten Abschiedsbrief. Wird es der DENKMASCHINE gelingen, diesen zu entschlüsseln?

Frühmorgens auf einer einsamen Eifel-Landstraße: Tilla stößt während ihrer Liefertour auf ein verunglücktes Cabriolet, das mit voller Wucht gegen einen Baum geprallt ist. Den Fahrer entdeckt sie leblos hinter dem Steuer. Da ihr Handyakku leer ist, muss sie am nächsten Hof um Hilfe bitten. Dort erkennt man das Auto sofort: Es gehört einem Mann aus dem nahegelegenen Adenau. Doch als Tilla mit der herbeigerufenen Polizei zum Unfallort zurückkehrt, sitzt plötzlich eine andere Leiche hinter dem Steuer!

Taxifahrerin Sarah Teufel macht den Verbrechern in Ostfriesland das Leben schwer - denn in Palinghuus wird nicht gesabbelt, sondern ermittelt! Jetzt gibt es drei weitere Fälle in einem Hörbuch! Folge 4: Das Streetfood-Festival Watt 'n' Food lockt wie jeden Sommer viele Gäste nach Palinghuus und natürlich lassen sich auch Sarah, James und Britta die angebotenen Köstlichkeiten nicht entgehen. Doch als sie Krögers berühmtes Labskaus probieren, fällt Herr Kröger auf einmal tot um, vergiftet! Der Verdacht fällt auf seine Frau - doch dann wird diese ebenfalls leblos aufgefunden.

Dive into the depths of mystery with B.E. Lockwood's captivating novel, "The Puzzle Chamber Mysteries: The Submerged Sanctuary". Join Professor Lillian March and her intrepid team as they embark on a thrilling expedition to uncover the secrets of an ancient, hidden sanctuary submerged beneath the waves.

Lucy Swift, witch and knitting shop owner, thought her biggest challenge at a marketing course in Oxford would be untangling the enigma of consumer behavior, not a murder mystery. But amid the hallowed halls, someone is weaving a deceptive web that leaves Lucy second-guessing her senses. It's all fun and games until a corpse appears in her dormitory, silent and still—definitely not an illusion.

Nach einer gescheiterten Schriftstellerkarriere kehrt Elijah in sein leeres Elternhaus zurück, das abgelegen an einer Meerenge im US-Staat Washington liegt. Er stürzt sich in die Restaurierung der baufälligen Hütte und bestellt das Land. Warum aber ist er wirklich zurückgekehrt? Wegen Nakita – seiner großen Liebe, die er nie vergessen konnte. Doch dann wird Erin Landry, die von allen bewunderte Ärztin, tot auf Elijahs Grundstück aufgefunden. Ein Verbrechen, das direkt aus seinem eigenen Buch entnommen sein könnte. Schnell wird klar: Jemand versucht mit allen Mitteln, ihm den Mord anzuhängen.