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The Dales Detective Agency is on the brink of closure. Samson O’Brien has returned to his position as an undercover operative for the Met in London, and his relationship with Delilah is under pressure. Their troubles are only multiplied when an ecologist is found dead and the finger of blame is pointed firmly at Delilah’s older brother, Will Metcalfe. It seems an open and shut case. An argument over an ecology report for planning permission which got out of hand, with Will known to have a hot temper. But Delilah won’t accept he’s guilty and neither will Samson.

A fatal accident at Bruncliffe’s livestock auction mart leads to a call for detectives Samson O’Brien and Delilah Metcalfe. What starts as a simple health-and-safety investigation soon takes a sinister turn when they discover evidence that suggests murder. Clive Knowles approaches them for help – his sheep are being threatened by the gang of rustlers that is plaguing the Dales. Meanwhile, poacher Pete Ferris has also decided to play his hand, setting in motion a blackmail plot which will ensure Samson is pulled back into trouble with his nemesis Rick Procter.

Date with Poison is the brilliant fourth novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective Agency series and is perfect of fans of M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin series and Gervase Phinn. A young teenager has gone missing. Can Samson O'Brien and Delilah Metcalfe find him? Spring is in the air in Bruncliffe. But not everyone is filled with the joys of the season. Implicated in the murder of a man in Leeds, the Dales Detective Agency’s Samson O’Brien is facing tough questions from the police....

A woman in tears in the Dales Detective Agency is never the best way to start the week. But when that woman is the wife of Bernard Taylor, town mayor and eminent businessman, there is even more cause for alarm. So when Nancy Taylor asks the detectives to investigate whether her husband is having an affair, Samson O’Brien and Delilah Metcalfe know they will have to tread carefully. The case, however, proves to be more complex than even they had imagined.

From stolen washing to inheritance investigations, Bruncliffe’s Dales Detective Agency is being inundated with cases. But with Samson O’Brien still in London helping the Met Police clear his name, and the newly appointed member of the investigations team, Ida Capstick, distracted by her brother George’s insistence that their farm is haunted, Delilah Metcalfe is struggling to meet the mounting demands for the agency’s services. So when the mother of a local estate agent arrives at the offices insisting her son is missing, Delilah is relieved to have Samson return to help.

Death is coming to Bruncliffe; its target is Samson O’Brien. Oblivious to his impending date with fate, Samson is busy juggling a number of cases at the Dales Detective Agency. Too busy, in fact, to notice his partner behaving oddly. Because Delilah Metcalfe knows what is coming. A hitman. Sent from London with one objective: to finally silence the troublesome O’Brien before his corruption case can make it to court.

Having lived his life suspected of being a serial killer, Carl Louis Feldman begins his journey into old age at a nursing home in Texas. Though he was never charged with any crimes, the staff aren’t sorry to see him go when his estranged daughter arrives to take her father on what could be his last road trip. When Carl protests that this is not his daughter at all, the nurses are all too ready to excuse it as a product of his steadily deteriorating mind. But were those old suspicions about him true? And if he is an honest man, who has just driven him away from safety?

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

Prunella Pearce, Bree, and the other ladies of the Winterbottom Women’s Institute are planning to spend Halloween at the Montgomery Hall Hotel murder-mystery weekend, just as the Hall’s past comes back to haunt it. The hotel is now in the incapable hands of Tarragon Montgomery, with its faltering finances overseen by elderly matriarch Cecily. Meanwhile, the local actress hired to play Psychic Selma for the weekend has been replaced by an impostor. But who is she and what is her agenda?

Nikolai, a bodyguard in the prestigious Centurion Personal Protection agency, is injured in the line of duty. While recovering from his injuries, he is assigned to a new client. An easy case, his boss tells him. Nikolai travels to a small quiet town north of Siberia to provide protection for a young woman, on her dad’s request. At first, both Nikolai and his boss see the assignment as a whim of a rich overprotective father.

Freddy left her childhood home in Newhaven 22 years ago and swore never to return. But now her parents are dead and she's back in her hometown to help her brothers manage the family fishmonger. Nothing here has changed: the stink of fish coming up from the marshes; the shopping trolleys half-buried by muddy tides; the neighbours sniffing for a new piece of gossip. It's not what Freddy would have chosen, but at least while she's here she'll get to see her childhood best friends, Toni and Pauline. At school, the three of them were inseparable.

Jamie Bond is a former cover model who switches gears to take over the family business: The Bond Agency, a high-powered P.I. firm located in Los Angeles that specializes in domestic espionage - catching cheating husbands. Jamie's assembled a team of other disenchanted former models to help her take names and kick derrieres among L.A.'s wealthiest philandering husbands.

In einem kleinen Dorf auf der schwäbischen Alb wird die betagte Ines Schneider ermordet. Hauptverdächtiger: ihr Pflegesohn Jo Haug. Jo ist vorbestraft, außerdem geistern seit Jahren Gerüchte durchs Dorf, dass Haug auch seine vor 15 Jahren verschwundene Jugendfreundin Vanessa skrupellos und qualvoll getötet haben soll. Für die Dorfgemeinschaft steht fest: Nur er kann der Täter sein. Jos Verteidigerin Linn Geller hält jedoch nichts von solchen Vorurteilen und recherchiert unabhängig von der örtlichen Polizei.

"Stop the wedding!" No bride wants to hear those words, least of all Susannah "Legs" Carter, one of the Bod Squad's best agents. But when her colleague Jackson bursts in with news that her presumed-dead father may still be alive - and possibly a double agent - the vows are on hold, and the Bod Squad hits the road.

Who would fall for an assassin...except another assassin? After a security breach is written in the sky - literally - the Bod Squad jumps back into action. An important member of the team has been assassinated by the mob, and the squad's public enemy number one, Baba Samka, is getting too close. Could his deadly work be an inside job? Only trained assassins Tyka and Mahmoud have the very particular set of skills the Bod Squad needs to solve this case.

Claire hat sich getraut und ist endlich Zug, Bus und Auto gefahren. Aber jetzt erwartet sie die nächste Herausforderung: Eine Fahrt mit dem Schiff! Eigentlich hat die Reisebüroangestellte mit Angst vor Verkehrsmitteln keine Lust, erneut Detektivin zu spielen. Doch dann wendet sich die geheimnisvolle Countess Abigal Redvers an sie - ihr Sohn hat sich mit dem Auto auf eine Europatour begeben und ist seitdem spurlos verschwunden. Claire ist fasziniert von dem Fall und beschließt, sich zusammen mit dem selbsternannten Privatdetektiv Andrew auf die Suche nach dem jungen Adligen zu machen.

Um sich aus einer beruflichen und privaten Sackgasse in ihrer süddeutschen Heimatstadt zu befreien, stürzt sich Marie kurzentschlossen in einen Neuanfang in Schweden – neuer Job, neues Haus, neues Leben inklusive. Schon bald nach ihrer Ankunft wird jedoch klar, dass ihr übereilter Aufbruch in die nordschwedische Provinz ihr nicht den Karrieresprung verschaffen wird, den sie sich erhofft hatte. Marie versucht sich davon zunächst nicht unterkriegen zu lassen.

Die Sherlock Holmes Box 7 beinhaltet die Hörspiele "Silberblesse", "Das gelbe Gesicht", "Der Angestellte des Börsenmaklers" und "Die Gloria Scott".

Eine Reise wider Willen. Claire leidet unter ständigem Fernweh - und ihr Job im Reisebüro hilft nicht gerade dagegen. Denn ihre Phobie vor Autos, Zügen und Flugzeugen macht das Verreisen unmöglich. Doch dann verschwindet ihre Kollegin und beste Freundin Leslie während eines Urlaubs in Frankreich spurlos. Und auf dem Konto des Reisebüros fehlt Geld. Ist Leslie damit durchgebrannt? Oder ist ihr etwas zugestoßen? Die Polizei ist ratlos und Claire beschließt, die Suche nach ihrer Freundin selbst in die Hand zu nehmen.

Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And her luck may have just run out. P.I. Jamie Bond knows there's corruption in the Los Angeles County D.A.'s office. What she doesn't know is how far it runs and if her on-again, off-again love interest, A.D.A. Aiden Prince, is involved. Is he aware of the danger lurking in his halls of justice? Is he dating his exotic beauty of a co-chair? And why are drug dealers making middle of the night calls to the D.A.? Jamie is determined to find out.