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When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold War landscape. Before it's over, she'll chase a lost child through foster care and follow a trail of Dominican exiles to the Caribbean. Forever looking over her shoulder, she nearly misses what's right in front of her: her own desire for home, connection and a new romance at the local bar.

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Tessa Treslow's peaceful homecoming is suddenly shattered when the dead body of a crooked con man turns up in her aunt's shop. To make matters worse, the sheriff in charge just happens to be Tessa's ex-boyfriend . . . And things did not end well between them all those years ago. When it comes out that the con man was trying to get his hands on the family business, Tessa knows they're in trouble. With her family in danger, Tessa becomes a woman on a mission to find the con man's killer.

Katie always looked after her beloved younger brother Chris - until she left him alone for one selfish afternoon, and their picture-perfect family fell apart. Although Chris survived the attack, the scars ran deeper than the ones left across his face. Now they're adults, and they haven't spoken in years. Then she gets a call, from Detective Laurence Page. Page is facing an unusually disturbing crime scene. Alan Hobbes, a distinguished and wealthy philosophy professor, has been brutally murdered.

Army retiree Tessa Treslow is as excited as the other residents of New Oslo, Idaho, when the cast and crew of the TV show Picks with Ricks comes to town! Tessa and her Aunt Edna put their car restoration business on hold to let the celebrity antique hunters pick through their old garage, hoping the trash contains a treasure that will help fund their new business. But it turns out that the pickers come with TV cameras, likeable stars, a stressed-out producer—and a murderer!

Retired army officer Tessa Treslow has settled in with her Aunt Edna in her hometown of New Oslo, Idaho. After the disasters of the previous fall, Tessa and her family are back on their feet as they start a new dream venture: a vehicle restoration business. Tessa and the enticing local math teacher Nick Hunt are also working together to organize a charity run during the New Oslo Pioneer Days festival. All seems to be going well . . . until Tessa finds a dead body in the town park!

Romy, une adolescente lumineuse et sensible, est accusée du meurtre d'une fille de sa classe, un jour ou sa mère lui a justement demandé de ne pas aller en cours. Un enquêteur débarque alors au Domaine, leur maison dans la campagne. Les relations familiales et amicales dans cette petite ville font surgir des secrets enfouis, tandis que Romy tente de se construire et affronte les douleurs de l'adolescence qui semblent échapper à ses parents.

Un polar captivant dans le décor de la côte d'Opale. Êtes-vous prêts à découvrir la vérité ? Dans une villa de Wimereux, jolie station balnéaire de la Côte d'Opale, d'ordinaire si tranquille, une jeune femme est sauvagement assassinée. Le meilleur ami du policier Marcus Kubiak est retrouvé sur les lieux du crime. Groggy, il tient dans sa main un couteau et sa culpabilité ne fait aucun doute.

At 13 years old, a Ouija board told me that I was destined for greatness. And the sad part? I really believed it. But 24 years later, life is anything but great. So what’s a girl to do when life gives you lemons? Grab some tequila, a blender, and move to Carmel by The Sea, of course!

Our new life in Scotland isn’t perfect, but somehow, being surrounded by the bewitching Highlands has kept the memory of our parents alive. But amongst the looming mountains, lush greenery, and murky lochs, there are hidden mysteries. Mysteries that may hold the key to both our past — and our future. And I’m more determined than ever to get to the bottom of the feud between the Duncan and Blackwood clans. But although things may seem oddly quiet, nothing stays that way when magic is involved.

Living up to the legacy of my impressive parents - Orin and Simone - is beyond intimidating. Still, I’m determined to forge my own way in our world. Too bad my fiery, impulsive nature has me repeating the same mistakes. Like falling for a very moody Fae and a tempting human who’s exceedingly curious about my magic. Having my very own adventure would be exciting if it weren’t for the magical assassins trailing my every step. Could that have something to do with my uncertain destiny?

Der berühmte Geisterjäger Harry Price hat in seiner Karriere bereits unzählige Trance-Medien des Betrugs überführt. Als bei einer Séance in einer feudalen Stadt-Residenz der Geist eines Mädchens namens Rosalie beschworen wird, und Price keinerlei Merkmale einer Täuschung aufdecken kann, beschließt er, die Herren aus der Baker Street 221b um ihre Mitarbeit zu bitten. Der Meisterdetektiv soll herausfinden, ob Harry Price nicht vielleicht doch einem Betrug aufgesessen ist.

Ellie's father believed one should reach for dreams and, before he disappeared, he instilled that quest in his daughter. However, he also taught her about secrets and, like the tornado that raged the day of Ellie's birth, unpredictable and disastrous secrets formed to whirl throughout her life.

In The Drugstore, stories of ordinary people's strife in the 1950s come to life—like the fire at Miss Pansy's dime store and the quest of 14-year-old Becky Bartlett, whose father runs the corner drugstore. Everyone in the neighborhood is caught in a whirlpool of crime when holdups and a murder overtake the mom-and-pop business on Park Avenue. Then the holdup man begins to stalk Becky Bartlett, but he had no idea about her possible strength of character...which could lead to his demise.

Abused by his father and tormented by his brother Regalito, seventeen-year-old Antonio Scaglione plans to sail to America, but jeopardizes the freedom he seeks by taking Regalito's ruby necklace with a Gypsy's curse. While on the ship, he and his new friend Thomas test the curse by placing the necklace on a prisoner in the brig. The prisoner dies. Antonio will spend his life trying to find a way to keep the necklace from killing again.