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A Deadly Hunt. DS ‘Heck’ Heckenburg has been tasked with retrieving one of the UK’s most wanted men. But the trail runs cold when Heck discovers a videotape showing the fugitive in a fight for his life. A fight he has no chance of winning. A Dangerous Game. Heck realises that there’s another player in this game of cat and mouse, and this time they’ve not just caught the prize: they’ve made sure no one else ever does.

An elderly woman collapses and dies during a Sunday morning church service in Oakham. But things aren't quite as innocent as they seem. Within hours, there's a second unexplained death in Rutland. Then a third. But the victims appear to be completely unconnected. With the body count rising by the day, DI Caroline Hills and DS Dexter Antoine need to uncover the link before more innocent people die. Only one thing is certain: a killer walks the streets of Rutland. But no-one knows who the next victim will be, when they will be killed—or why.

Half witch, half killer, wholly unsuccessful at every faery bargain so far...Geneviève Crowe makes her living beheading or resurrecting the dead in near-future New Orleans. After entering an accidental engagement, overcoming attempted murder, and discovering a family secret, Geneviève is ready for things to settle down, but carnival season in New Orleans is not the best time of year for "normal".

Rook Campbell is broke, divorced, jobless, and in desperate need of steady employment, which is hard to come by in the small town of Rothdale, Kentucky. With the help of her friend and neighbor Bryan, she lands a good job at the Four Wild Horses Distillery and meets an attractive coworker with lots of dating potential. Her life is finally headed in the right direction until a coworker dies under suspicious circumstances and a shipment of rare small-batch bourbon goes missing. Worse, her personal life begins to unravel as her beloved grandmother falls ill.

When witches flood her peaceful hometown for a convention, Dylan is in no shape to protect herself. She's not sure which will happen first - another witch killing her for her powers, or the ruling council punishing her for misuse of magic. Murder strikes quickly. When a witchy gossip columnist dies, the peaceful convention turns riotous. Was the witch murdered for spreading lies, or for stealing magic? And was it coincidence that she ate Dylan's dessert? There is a mansion full of suspects but only one man who can learn the truth - Roman Bane.

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a local playground in the center of Black Rock Falls, Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy, David Kane, rush to the scene. Jenna recoils with horror when she sees the body, dressed in a thin nightgown, her face covered by a terrifying Halloween mask. Jenna makes a connection with a cold case where the killer tortured young women for years and was never caught. Days later, Jenna’s fears are confirmed. A serial killer is back in town, and they’re picking off women one by one.

Lacey Doyle, 39 years old and freshly divorced, has made a drastic change: She has walked away from the fast life of New York City and settled down in the quaint English seaside town of Wilfordshire. In a romantic daytrip in the English countryside, Lacey lucks out in an antique market and stumbles upon an incredible find. She has high hopes as she makes it the centerpiece of her next auction.

It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother’s bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home. Cameras and questions don’t usually faze Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but the media frenzy surrounding the Wolff case is particularly nasty…and thorough.

TUÉ PAR UN BAISER (Un Roman Policier de Lacey Doyle – Tome Cinq) est le cinquième tome de la charmante nouvelle série de cosy mysteries par Fiona Grace, qui commence par MEURTRE AU MANOIR (Tome 1), un bestseller n°1 avec plus de 100 fois 5 étoiles - et en téléchargement gratuit! Lacey Doyle, 39 ans et fraîchement divorcée, a opéré un changement drastique : elle a délaissé sa vie trépidante à New York et s’est installée dans la pittoresque ville en bord de mer de Wilfordshire.

A young woman's body is found dumped in the Essex countryside. Investigative reporter Riley Gavin recognises her as Helen Bellamy, a former girlfriend of her colleague, PI Frank Palmer. Ex-military policeman Palmer is accustomed to death, but this is different; this is the brutal murder of someone he was once close to. He knows only one way to deal with it: find the killers.

Called to the home of her fiancé's former mistress late one night, Francesca finds her curiosity piqued. But upon arrival, she is shocked to find Daisy Jones's bloodied body…and even more devastated when the evidence points to one suspect—her fiancé, Calder. Francesca cannot—will not—believe that Calder is capable of such an act. Still, she is unable to shake her instinctive sense that Calder is lying about something. The police are far less inclined to believe his innocence, and Calder is arrested for Daisy's murder.

Wall Street Journal best-selling author Colleen Mooney delivers a zany, offbeat thrill ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat. You’d think a mystery that begins with an eligible man taking a bullet might be a bit dark, but Colleen Mooney has something else in mind, something like a screwball chase all over town, from Lee Circle to the Lakefront, with a stop at Charity Hospital, and finally to the French Quarter’s favorite gay dance club, at all times accompanied by Schnauzers, one of them named Geaux Cup.

When Tracy and her colleagues set up a challenge to raise money for a good cause, the town of Fern Grove is happy to offer their support. They never expected that it would attract the attention of some crooked characters. When one such character, a shameless heartbreaker, is found dead, it seems the town is happy to turn a blind eye. Tracy feels a sense of responsibility and pity towards the family of the deceased. But who killed him?

Soap writer and producer Morgan Tyler knows she's in trouble when her life threatens to become even more dramatic than her story lines. Morgan has hired a private investigator to help unravel the mystery of her childhood, which is rooted in a terrible secret she's kept for years. But a more immediate crisis arises when Morgan's best friend, Nancy, is arrested for the murder of her boyfriend's evil ex.

Stumbling over a dead body on the beach trips Ziva Diaz up in more ways than one, particularly when one of her beauty clients is charged with the murder. She doesn’t believe for a minute that Mrs. J. would murder anyone; too bad she’s the only one. As Ziva sets out to solve the mystery, someone else sets out to ruin both her reputation and her friend’s wedding. Can Ziva solve the case and serve up some just desserts? Or will her investigation fall flatter than a wedding soufflé?

At the end of the first practice session for the iconic Indianapolis 500 race, Kate Reilly is stunned to discover she was the fastest driver on the track. She's even more surprised to learn she wasn't the first woman to top the speed charts in the race's 106-year history. That feat was accomplished in 1987 by PJ Rodriguez, who shocked the racing world and the wider one by committing suicide 10 days later. When the press, bloggers, and social media go crazy over the connection between PJ and Kate, Kate begins to lose her identity.

The late - as in dearly departed - Bailey Ruth Raeburn is delighted when she's assigned a new mission by Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, even if she is no good at following the rules for Earthly Visitations. This time she's determined to be the perfect unseen emissary, no matter what it takes. Arriving late in the evening in her old hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma, to find a woman drowning in a pond, Bailey Ruth carries out a daring rescue with textbook invisible effort. But she soon realizes there's more to the woman’s accident than a late-night walk gone wrong.

New series from award-winning author. When Mollie McLaughlin obtained her chauffeur’s license at the Department of Motor Vehicles, she had no idea what the day would bring. As part of her duties at the Northeast Georgia Banner newspaper, Mollie was tasked to drive celebrities to the owner’s office for interviews. Her boss, lovingly called the Curmudgeon, was testing her mettle before giving her reporting assignments. Mollie was prepared for irascible clients, but she wasn’t expecting murder or that her twin would be her partner in solving the crime.

Most people think of the morgue as that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary, albeit dreadful, work. Less familiar is the other type of morgue, the dry and dusty version, the newspaper morgue, usually housed in the basements and backrooms of newspaper buildings, where old news clippings are filed away. Dolly Madison Sprowls has been in charge of the Hannawa Herald-Union’s morgue for more than forty years. She is gruff and salty, well past the age of retirement, and the unchallenged queen of her ink-stained domain.