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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.

Was Mister Warrick der DENKMASCHINE erzählt, klingt wie ein Märchen. Angeblich hat er seinen bevorstehenden Tod in einer Kristallkugel gesehen. Da Professor van Dusen ganz bestimmt nicht an Märchen glaubt, nimmt er den Auftrag an, Mister Warricks Leben zu retten. Doch das erweist sich als nicht so einfach wie angenommen. Er findet kein Motiv für einen geplanten Mord.

Welcome to Monroe Island, a cozy little town with a spooky secret! Crisp autumn air, crackling leaves, and the smell of pumpkin muffins fill the streets, but lurking in the shadows of Maplewood Street is something far less cozy—an abandoned Victorian house with a chilling reputation. When Ky and her ghost-hunting friends—Greg, Ben, Sandy, and Mikey—form The Phantom Finders Club, they're ready for adventure, not realizing they’re about to uncover the island’s darkest mystery.

Sheriff Wade Mackay needed a break. Little did he know, a day of fishing would land him right into the aftermath of a deadly accident. The only survivor is a woman who doesn't remember her name and has no identification. Wade's instincts ignite when he notices the telltale marks of old bruises on Jane Doe. What hidden truths lie beneath the layers of her forgotten past? For true crime writer Dougal Lachlan, Twisted Cedars holds secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Maggies entfremdete Halbschwester Angel taucht in der Stadt auf, nachdem sie jahrelang in einer merkwürdigen Hippie-Kommune gelebt hat, aus der sie nun entflohen ist. Bald darauf kommt auch ihr Freund Echo nach Fair Haven, um nach ihr zu suchen. Kurze Zeit später wird seine Leiche am Fuße einer Brücke entdeckt. Echo wurde zuletzt in Angels Gesellschaft gesehen, und Maggie weiß, dass Angel in jener Nacht mit zahlreichen Kratzern und Schrammen nach Hause kam.

Joshua hat neues Personal für das belebte Bücher-Café im charmanten Fair Haven eingestellt und die schüchterne Maggie freundet sich schnell mit der Barista Babs und dem Regalauffüller Casper an. Als Maggie bemerkt, dass einige ältere Typen Casper nach der Arbeit schikanieren, hilft sie ihm, zu entkommen. Am nächsten Tag wird einer der Rowdys mit aufgeschlitzter Kehle tot im Park gefunden. Ist der stille und zurückhaltende Casper wirklich ein Mörder? Um die Wahrheit herauszufinden mischt sich Maggie in die Ermittlungen des Polizisten Gary ein.

Death stalks the fog-shrouded streets of London. A mysterious killer is hunting down vampire familiars, driving stakes through their hearts, and cutting off their heads for good measure. Nestled in his padded, bug-infested cell at Seward’s Sanatorium for the Criminally Insane, R.M. Renfield, familiar prime to Count Dracula, imagines he is safe from the scourge… Until he awakens standing over the body of his cell mate with the murder weapon in hand.

Mario Medina, un joven y algo bisoño detective recibe un encargo tan insólito como aparentemente sin complicaciones: Eladio Struber, un anciano argentino de edad avanzada quiere recuperar a toda costa los manuscritos de una enigmática novela que escribió hace años y repartió entre varios amigos de los que se ha distanciado.

Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday, seven years earlier. Still grieving for her dead husband and trying to pull together the pieces of her life, she is thrust into a shocking local investigation, when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home.

Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft House in Shropshire, have to cut short their successful trip to Oxford when they receive a telegraph: a decapitated and mutilated body has been found on the estate. While trying to help the strangely slow police investigation, the couple face an unsettling threat to their livelihood: after years of searching, a legitimate heir of Thorncroft estate has been found!

On the eve of a major international AIDS Conference in London, the Conference chair is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Tracking down how he died reveals layers of deception, rivalry and danger for those close to him.

Danielle Garrett presents Books 1-5 of the Sugar Shack Witch Mysteries, a paranormal cozy mystery series filled with magic, mystery, family squabbles, sassy heroines, and a mysterious monster hunter—all with a little sugar sprinkled on top. This bundle includes Sprinkles and Sea Serpents, Grimoires and Gingerbread, Mermaids and Meringue, Sugar Cookies and Sirens, and Hexes and Honey Buns.

Spannung auf der beliebten Insel Norderney. Ein 102-jähriges Mordopfer – eine erfolglose Journalistin und ein lebensmüder Pfarrer ermitteln. Auf einer Norderneyer Aussichtsplattform wird ein verbrannter Körper gefunden. Das Opfer ist der 102-jährige Wattführer Josef Monningen. Tilla Flock, die als Journalistin für das Anzeigenblatt hoffnungslos unterfordert ist, will herausfinden, wer dem Inselältesten das angetan hat.