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Mattia Cattaneo, rampollo di una famiglia per bene, sparisce dalla sua villa di Alassio e viene ritrovato due giorni dopo con un proiettile in testa. Sequestro di persona finito male? Jacopo Bignone, giornalista della Ponente Press, non lo crede e segue una pista che porta in Spagna. A Valencia, proprio il giorno del rapimento, c'è stato un eccidio di narcos. Unico indizio, l'identikit di un italiano visto aggirarsi in zona: Luca Dolmetta, un agente immobiliare che, come Mattia, frequentava il più esclusivo night club di Alassio, l'Iguana Club.

Agatha blir tvungen att ta ett jobb på Lunds bibliotek för att hjälpa pensionärer med digital teknik. Däremot anade Agatha inte att hennes två sysslor skulle sammanflätas förrän en pensionär dör knall och fall mitt under kursen. De tre kvinnorna samlas kring en hemmasnickrad mordutredning med hjälp av Sherlotta.

Agatha har äntligen fått napp hos investerare som vill vidareutveckla AI-verktyget Sherlotta. Till hennes förfäran tvingar de henne att sitta och jobba i ett trendigt öppet kontorslandskap. Hennes mamma Märta vänder också in och ut på sig själv när hon får uppdraget som bröllopskoordinator på ex-mannen Anders kommande vigsel med Christos. Hon gör sitt bästa för att styra upp festen, men det är inte lätt när prästen hittas död – och Anders blir en av de misstänkta. Strax efter dödsfallet får Märta en blöt bibel och ett hotbrev skickade till sig.

On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death. Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current queen of England) is adamant that the death in question is a magically compromised murder and not a suicide, as the police had assumed. After the shocking revelation contained by the body in question, Alex must put her personal loss aside to uncover the deeper issues at stake, before more bodies turn up.

December 1940. With the Blitz devastating Britain’s cities, Lizzie Hayes and the women pilots of the Air Transport Authority are more crucial to the war effort than ever before. But when the relative peace of the village of Scotney is shattered by the disappearance of the Chief Inspector’s niece, it’s Lizzie’s training as a psychologist that draws her into another disturbing police case alongside DI Jonathan Kember.

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams."

This light-hearted, laugh-out-loud cozy mystery also features mother-daughter sleuths Brandy and Vivian’s witty tips for buying and selling antiques, along with a selection of tasty recipes. Perfect for getting you into the holiday spirit—whatever the time of year!

Vivian Borne—true-crime author, antiques dealer, and ex-sheriff of Serenity, Iowa—is looking forward to meeting her new editor in London. Flying first class, rooms at the Savoy…her long-suffering co-author, daughter Brandy, worries the trip will bankrupt them both, but the alternative—Mother travelling alone—is unthinkable. Brandy’s almost tempted to make her fiancé, Tony—Serenity’s Chief of Police—call Scotland Yard and warn them Vivian’s coming.

When popular podcaster Nicole Chatterton wants an interview for Killers Caught, true-crime author Vivian Borne is overjoyed. Finally, some recognition for the sleuthing skills the septuagenarian antiques dealer and her daughter Brandy have demonstrated, solving countless crimes in their small hometown of Serenity, Iowa! Dolled up and dressed to the nines, Vivian figures the interview is going swimmingly … until Nicole turns the tables, accusing the mother/daughter duo of committing the very crimes they solved.

Two o’clock in the morning is the perfect time to be asleep. So when long-suffering Brandy Borne is rudely awoken by her eccentric mother, Vivian, and invited on a surreptitious shopping trip, the idea is less than tempting. But if Vivian—Serenity’s true-crime writing, septuagenarian super-sleuth—has a nose for sniffing out antiques, Brandy’s sense of smell is just as good … and trouble’s on the wind. A little light blackmail and one run-in with the police later, and Brandy and Vivian are the ‘proud’ owners of a selection of dead stock.

Eccentric 70-something Vivian Borne and company, amateur-sleuths-turned-pro, have a challenging case to solve as a series of creepy crimes plague an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, where a fiend is misguidedly dispensing Poe-etic justice. Small-town Antiqua, known for its quaint main street of antique shops, has set out to celebrate the gothic poet with food, fun, and rare memorabilia, only to have the Master of the Macabre's twisted tales come to deadly life.

The award-winning, laugh-out-loud adventures of antiques dealers Brandy Borne and her drama-queen mom Vivian have made Trash 'n' Treasures "one of the funniest cozy series going" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine). In the latest installment, after flames consume a historic mansion full of priceless treasures, along with its occupant, the question arises: who charred the corpse? Brandy and Vivian are on the case in their 14th Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery!

With their reality TV series Antiques Sleuths, Brandy Borne and her quaintly kooky mother, Vivian, have a real hit on their hands. But when another hit enters the picture, Brandy's implicated for the crime. With Brandy now wearing basic jailhouse orange, Vivian must largely investigate alone, sorting through a rogue's gallery of suspects that includes a too-friendly farmer's wife, a ratings-happy TV producer, a questionable husband-and-wife auctioneer team, and even the chief of police himself!

Brandy Borne's exceedingly eccentric mother, Vivian, has been invited to perform her one-woman interpretation of the Scottish play (sometimes called Macbeth) at the neighboring town of Old York's annual fete. As soon as they arrive, tragedy strikes: the theater owner drops dead onstage while giving Vivian the grand tour. Before they know it, Brandy and Vivian are entangled in a progressively perilous murder plot.

Folge 10: Ganz Palinghuus ist in heller Aufregung: Das Watt'n'rennen findet wieder statt! Der traditionelle Lauf durchs Watt lockt Teilnehmer aus der ganzen Umgebung an. Natürlich läuft James auch mit. Sarah feuert ihren Ehemann kräftig an, und kurz sieht es sogar aus, als würde er gewinnen - bis den Zuschauern klar wird, dass nicht James schneller, sondern alle anderen langsamer werden. Der Grund ist schnell gefunden: Alle Läufer zeigen Vergiftungserscheinungen! Will jemand den Lauf sabotieren? Doch dann entdeckt Sarah eindeutige Beweise, dass das Gift nur einen der Teilnehmer treffen sollte.

When one of the ladies in residence at Hampton Court Palace fails to answer her maid's call in the morning, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate. What Mrs Bramble finds sends shockwaves through the whole palace: Miss Philomena Franklin, slumped over her desk, a knife in her back.

Während der Proben zum jährlichen Krippenspiel wird der Organist der kleinen Kirchengemeinde hinterrücks erschlagen - und niemand will etwas mitbekommen haben. So holt Pfarrer Jasper Johnson einmal mehr seinen Freund Colin Duffot zu Hilfe, der als Tanzlehrer über eine erstaunliche Menschenkenntnis verfügt, die ihm schon bei mehreren Mordermittlungen geholfen hat. Doch bald zeichnet sich ab, dass die Hintergründe der Tat über zwanzig Jahre zurückreichen könnten. Was aber hat der Tod des Organisten mit der Künstlerkommune zu tun, die in den neunziger Jahren die Gleech-Farm bewohnte?

Ein vergifteter Lakritzfabrikant ist ungefähr das Letzte, das sich Colin Duffot für seinen Job als Vertretungstanzlehrer auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff gewünscht hat. Doch sein Ruf als Hobby-Profiler ist ihm ohnehin schon vorausgeeilt - warum also nicht zum dritten Mal in einem Mordfall ermitteln? Während er die Passagiere des Schiffs innerhalb und außerhalb seiner Tanzstunden ins Visier nimmt, begeben sich seine Mitstreiter, Pfarrer Jasper und Krankenschwester Norma, in der schottischen Heimat des Ermordeten auf Spurensuche.

Ein Dorf in Mittelengland, zwei Morde und ein ungewöhnliches Ermittlertrio: Die alte Mrs. Summers sitzt eines Morgens tot im Sessel, ein Bratenthermometer im Gehörgang. Im Wald wird ein unbekanntes junges Mädchen gefunden, erschlagen mit einem Fleischklopfer. Ex-Tanzlehrer Colin, Pfarrer Jasper und die kleinwüchsige Krankenschwester Norma haben eine ganz eigene Idee, wie man den Küchenutensilienmörder findet: Man bringt ihm das Tanzen bei.