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Between shopping for Halloween costumes, volunteering for the annual pumpkin festival, and coaching her girls to the state soccer finals, high school teacher Tj Jensen finds her good friend Zachary Collins dead in his favorite chair. When the handsome new deputy closes the case without so much as a “why” or “how,” Tj turns her attention from chili cook-offs and pumpkin carving to complex puzzles, prophetic riddles, and a decades’ old secret she seemed destined to unravel.
Would you recognize a serial killer if you met one? Talked to one every day? Artist Lia Anderson doesn't, and neither does anyone else at the Mount Airy Dog Park. But a violent death brings Detective Peter Dourson into the close-knit group, and he is convinced someone is not who they seem. As the investigation uncovers secrets, Lia struggles with warring emotions while a killer watches and plans.
Ashbrook, New Hampshire. Beatrice Young and her two cats are hot on a local counterfeiting case. With the help of her ex-husband, Matthew, and the sheriff, Beatrice and her two crime-solving cats fight to solve the mystery of who's producing the bills.
«Все беды от женщин» – так можно было бы охарактеризовать сюжетную схему, которую автор использовал в большинстве своих книг. Однако у Кейна никогда до конца не ясно, кто кого искушает, ангел перед нами или демон в ангельском обличье. Любовные отношения между героями романов Кейна – это всегда огонь, страсть, кровь и... предательство.
Она любила рисковать. Опасность для нее была своего рода наркотиком. Доза становилась все круче, все страшнее, но Лорна Кеплер уже не могла остановиться. Это сделала за нее Смерть. Полиция закрывает дело "за неимением состава преступления". Но частный детектив Кинси Милхоун уверена: это убийство.
When Caro Lamont, former psychologist turned pet therapist makes a house call to help Kevin Blackstone with his two misbehaving German Shepherd dogs, she expects frantic dogs, she expects a frantic dog owner, she even expects frantic neighbors. What she doesn't expect is that two hours later the police will find Kevin dead, his dogs impounded; and that as the last person to see Kevin alive (well, except for the killer) she is suddenly a person of interest, at least according to Homicide...
"San Francisco has always been a beacon for second, third, and fourth-chancers." That's what my Uncle Oscar used to say. "There's nothing here to hold you back. You can do - or become - whatever or whoever you want." Oscar owned a small antique shop called the Green Vase, here, in San Francisco. His specialty was Gold Rush history. He'd acquired an extensive collection of artifacts from that time period, mostly due to his network of contacts in the construction industry. You see, after the...
After a few years as a police officer in Chicago, Michael Keane has no trouble relaxing into the far less stressful job of deputy sheriff in his small hometown. After all, nothing ever happens in Hidden Springs, Kentucky. Nothing, that is, until a dead body is discovered on the courthouse steps. Everyone in town is a little uneasy. Still, no one is terribly worried—after all the man was a stranger—until one of their own is murdered right on Main Street. As Michael works to solve the case it...
Someone is trying to kill leading British Shakespearean actor, husband, father, ladies man, and soon-to-be Knight of the Realm Winstanley Fortescue. The actor, rehearsing his starring role in the forthcoming play *Serpent in the Heather* , is conked on the head backstage. He falls off a ladder and lands on the resident Pest Control Officer, Montmorency D. Mousa (otherwise known as Monty), the company cat. When Fortescue comes to, he finds to his horror that he has been switched into Monty's...
When millionaire Arthur Arbuthnot mistakes gossip maven Annabel Hinchby-Smythe for a decorator—and hires her to redecorate his apartment—the fiscally challenged Annabel can't refuse. When she sees Arbuthnot's tatty London flat, she knows anything will be an improvement. And any gossip she can dig up will be pure gold for the tabloids. But when Arthur is found dead, his frisky relatives begin to lick their chops. Arbuthnot's beloved tabby, Sally, was the only witness to the homicide—and the sole...
Margot returns to her well-to-do family in England on the eve of her Aunt Chloe's murder trial—she is accused of fatally stabbing her twin sister with a kitchen knife in the garden. Nothing has been the same since Claudia's body was found: her 14-year-old daughter, Lynette, refuses to leave her bedroom, the paparazzi are relentless, and Tikki, the family's beloved Abyssinian, goes to stay with the neighbors. When another body, whom no one recognizes, shows up facedown in the pond while the...
Vanessa and her twin brother Vance are very close. So when someone pushes Vanessa down a flight of stairs and puts her into a coma, Vance wants revenge. He decides that masquerading as Vanessa will lead him to the villain. With her clothes, her makeup, and what he knows about his beloved sister, he pulls it off very well and is on the verge of learning what he needs to know. ..Until he discovers a serious threat that might destroy all his efforts. There is one pair of eyes he can’t pull the wool...
Written by Marian Babson. When two grand dames of Hollywood, silent film star Eve Sinclair ('she put the sin in Cinema') and ex-hoofer Trixie Dolan set out for London to attend a film retrospective held in Eve's honour, they fully expect to be the centre of attention. What they don't expect is that all the lovely attention will be generated not by an appreciation of their talents but by a series of grisly murders associated with the retrospective. Even less do they expect to find themselves...
A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-eyed Balinese, a depressed ginger Persian with a cod-liver-oil addiction, and Adolf, an imperious mouser with a patchwork face. But a freak storm sets the pigeon among the cats—a carrier bird downed on the doorstep with a tiny load of large flawless diamonds. And Bettina's dilemma escalates, as...
Douglas Perkins of Perkins and Tate (Public Relations) Ltd believed that the business of a PRO was to put the client's best foot forward, and try to hide the other three cloven hooves. He even went on believing it when Black Bart and his Troupe of Hillbilly Singers were wished on the firm by their American associates, who had arranged for the Troupe to make a few appearances on English TV shows. The tangled personal relationships and professional jealousies within the Troupe soon gave Perkins a...
The last thing 11-year-old Robin wants to hear is that his mother and her new husband are extending their honeymoon indefinitely. Not that staying with his Aunt Mags is so bad, but there's her boyfriend to contend with, and the members of the school gang are insisting that he complete a dare before they let him join the group. They want Robin to kidnap Mrs. Nordling's prize-winning cat when no one is home. Getting into the Nordling's house is easy, and Robin manages to find the cat and put him...
### Product Description Romeow and Juliet is the first in a cozy mystery series set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary. When she isn't working with the cats, she helps...
Знаменитый роман о поимке нью-йоркскими полицейскими преступников, занимающихся транспортировкой наркотиков из Франции, легший в основу одноименного фильма.
В этой книжке великому сыщику Эркюлю Пуаро придется сначала «поиграть в убийство» на празднике в сельском английском поместье, а затем, когда окажется, что забава с изображением мнимого убийства превратилась в убийство вполне настоящее, раскрыть тайну смерти девушки.
Девятнадцатилетняя Ло Денэм привыкла быть одна. После трагической гибели родителей она осталась со старшей сестрой Би. Но шесть лет назад Би бросила ее и присоединилась к загадочной благотворительной организации под названием «Проект Единство». Однажды Ло получает уникальный шанс взять интервью у лидера «Единства» Льва Уоррена. Она надеется, что эта возможность поможет узнать о судьбе своей сестры. Ло предстоит раскрыть страшную правду об истинных целях организации и о том, что случается с ее...
Казалось бы, каких сюрпризов можно ожидать от вечеринки в честь сорокалетия свадьбы? Однако это в порядке вещей, когда речь идет об искрометном семействе, где верховодит неуправляемая, как природная стихия, Маргарет. Среди приглашенных — ее дочь Стелла с мужем Джорджем. Их брак распался, но супруги пока держат это в тайне. Чтобы не огорчать родителей, им придется вместе посетить торжество, а уж потом — гори все синим пламенем! Но эта семейка вообще кишит секретами, и буквально все родственники,...
Пенсильвания, наши дни. В небольшом городке, где обосновалась русская община, происходит череда загадочных убийств. Николь — молодая вдова одного из погибших — обнаруживает в семейном банковском сейфе отрезанную кисть. Плоть выглядит свежей, а из раны все еще капает кровь. Но ведь, согласно документам, сейф не открывали с 1946 года! На бумаге, в которую завернута рука, на старославянском языке написано имя Распутина. Может ли быть, что это нетленные мощи великого старца, убитого в 1916 году? ...
Он учуял, что в поезде идет облава, знал, что это означает. Откуда-то со стороны тепловоза донесся крик детектива железнодорожной полиции: "За ушко да на солнышко, ребятишки, за ушко да на солнышко!" Бродяги горохом посыпались с поезда. Он слышал их крики и ругань в темноте. А состав тем временем проползал мимо. Они всегда применяли на товарняках этот прием позволяли бродягам забраться в вагоны на станции, на запасных путях, но там их не вылавливали, иначе бы это превратилось в дурацкую игру в...
Мотель Оушен Стрит во Флорал Бич, Калифорния, находился, как ни странно, на улице Оушен, рукой подать до стены, спускающейся на три метра вниз, к океану. Пляж — бежевая полоса, затоптанная следами, которые каждый день смываются высоким приливом. Публика может попасть туда, спустившись по бетонной лестнице с металлическими перилами. Выступающий в воду деревянный пирс для рыбной ловли увенчан с ближайшего конца офисом управления портом, который выкрашен в ядовито-синий цвет. Семнадцать лет назад...