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Alyson Prescott moves to Cutters Cove, Oregon, after being placed, along with her mother, in the witness protection program. In her previous life, Alyson was an A-list heiress with the excitement of a trend setting lifestyle and the security of old money. After witnessing a murder executed by two members of a powerful gang family, she is forced to leave her old life behind and become a middle-class girl living in a middle-class town. Alyson struggles with the duplicity in her life as she strives to reconcile her new life with the old.

Ember Burns was determined to overcome her grief and establish a new veterinary practice, but her first client lands her in the middle of a murder mystery. When the evidence points to a horse as the cause of death, she vows to protect him. Except horses don't talk and neither do the dead, so Ember has to rely on her intelligence and instinct to get to the truth. A truth buried under layers of small-town secrets big enough to get her killed.

Lacy Marie Crocker has settled into a comfortable groove back home in New Orleans, and with Valentine's Day right around the corner, she's busier than ever running a thriving pet boutique, helping her mother organize the upcoming National Pet Pageant, and untangling her complicated love life. But when delivering a king-sized order of dreidel-shaped doggy biscuits for a Saint Berdoodle's bark-mitzvah, Lacy stumbles into yet another murder scene - and the last person to see the victim alive was her own father.

Far from the publishing world that once defined her, Sheila Mackey has found a new life, a new home, and a new love. The love has four legs, a plumey tail, and a lot of fur. Meet Gracie the rescue collie. Too smart for her own good - certainly too smart for Sheila's good, when Gracie discovers a dead body during a dog park gambol. Especially since Sheila delves into mysteries surrounding this dead body...only to discover the new guy at the Torrid Avenue dog park is a barely retired cop. Not good for an amateur sleuth with a big secret of her own that she intends to keep.

Sheila agrees to soothe Clara’s nervousness, by accompanying her friend to the 20-year class reunion for North Bend County High. Nostalgia, good memories, old friendships - this should be fun, right? Ah, but grudges, old rivalries, and long-buried secrets also arise. And before the festivities wrap up, there’s one old classmate dead, another being questioned, and enough suspicion to cover several more. Sheila and Clara have their hands full, especially with Sheila wondering about her relationship with ex-policeman Teague O'Donnell.

Far from the publishing world that once defined her, Sheila Mackey's plan to escape to a quiet life in small-town Kentucky keeps hitting bumps in the road—and some of those bumps are dead bodies. Sheila and her friend Clara take on investigating a death that's colder than a cold case, because few in Haines Tavern, Kentucky, think it was a murder in the first place. Suicide? Accident? Murder? And Sheila is finding it harder and harder to protect her secret past, especially from Teague O'Donnell, who's shifting from a fellow dog lover to possibly much more.

Meg Dawson and the rest of the Morrisey residents can’t handle anymore surprises in their beloved downtown Seattle apartment building. So, when Meg finds a secret staircase leading down to the famous Seattle Underground, she’s tempted to turn back. The area was supposed to be closed off long ago. But turning back isn’t so easy when she stumbles on not one, but two bodies in the hidden space. And even though the two deaths are separated by a century, the victims have more in common than Meg first realizes.

Santa Claus is coming to town, but guess who’s coming first – Great Aunt Kit. And if Sheila and her fellow sleuth Clara want to give her author relative what she most wants, they’ll wrap up a murder. But not too fast, because Kit wants to be involved first-hand in solving this puzzle. Kit also has ideas on how to solve Sheila’s romantic relationship with detective-once-more Teague O’Donnell, starting with revealing on her dangerous secrets.

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn't seem to convince to leave, and a new family she'd never be able to live without.

Professional women gather from all around Ohio to talk to schoolgirls about their careers. Jazz Ramsey has also signed up to give the girls a taste of her lifelong passion: cadaver dog training. She hides a few bones in the unused fourth floor of the school for Gus the dog to find. The girls are impressed when Gus easily finds the first bone, but then Gus heads confidently to a part of the floor where Jazz is sure no bones are hidden - at least, not any that she's put there. But Gus is a professional, and behind a door that no one has opened in ages, is a human skeleton.

Ich habe mich nie bewusst dazu entschieden, Privatdetektivin zu werden, schon gar nicht mit einem überheblichen, sprechenden Kater als Co-Ermittler, aber jetzt gibt es kein Zurück mehr. Vor allem nicht in Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass eine prominente Politikerin direkt bei mir nebenan ermordet wurde.

After a serious accident leaves Calliope Rose Collins unable to continue with the career that has owned her soul for most of her life, she returns to Foxtail Lake, Hollister House, Great Aunt Gracie, and her childhood friend, Officer Cass Wylander, as she begins to rebuild her life from the ashes of what she once had. In book four of The Cat in the Attic series, Cass investigates a grisly murder, while Callie is busy working on an anniversary story relating to the cold case disappearance of a 12-year-old boy who went missing from a camping trip to Logan Pond 25 years ago.

Ich habe mich endlich mit der Tatsache abgefunden, dass ich mit Tieren sprechen kann, auch wenn das einzige Tier, das mir jemals antwortet, eine mürrische, getigerte Katze ist, die ich Octocat nenne. Noch weiß ich allerdings nicht wirklich, wie ich mein Geheimnis vor anderen verbergen kann ...

The secret of a carousel horse causes Casey to be kidnapped for the exchange of the mysterious horse. A thief, Casey, Peter, and the others are lost in another world trying to find the treasure that will save their lives. Will they find the treasure? Will Casey be found alive? Can they ever get back to Cornwall? What is this treasure that is worth a life? Jackie Lee tries to find Casey before it's too late!