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Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, Michigan. After years of moving, schooling, and training, she wants nothing more than to find a place she can call home, and a small town outside of Ann Arbor seems perfect. Katie quickly gets to work in building a life for herself in Baxter, and beyond reviving her love life, she also finds a pair of business partners in a team of father and son family practitioners. But that idyllic dream is immediately shattered when one of her patients is found dead.

Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend Michael bought. But she wasn't thrilled by the lifetime of junk accumulated by the house's eccentric previous owner, Edwina Sprocket. The easiest solution: hold the end-all and be-all of gigantic yard sales.

Rare-books expert Brooklyn Wainwright is invited to the 50th birthday party of her neighbor Suzie's aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life character who's turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house. Part of the fun involves a seance, but after the lights flicker, one guest is dead, poisoned by a cocktail intended for Grace. It seems someone is determined to turn Grace's playful palatial estate into a house of horrors.

When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Robin, to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright anticipates both recreating a beautiful book and spicing up her love life. But then Robin's apartment is ransacked, and the great guy she recently met is murdered in her bed. Now Robin is the number one suspect. Obviously, exploring the Kama Sutra's bliss will have to wait until after Brooklyn finds the killer...

Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairytale come true - until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend. Three years ago, Max Adams fell in love with Emily and gave her the copy of Beauty and the Beast. Soon afterward, he died in a car crash, and Brooklyn has always suspected his ex-girlfriend and her jealous beau. Now she decides to find out who sold the book and return it to its rightful owner - Emily.

Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori have decided to make champagne, a first for the Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. But then Gino Tomassi, Quinn's uncle, turns up on their doorstep, demanding help in solving the mystery of what happened to Zara Tomassi, the first wife of his grandfather, who died in a San Francisco hotel in 1923 under suspicious circumstances. It seems there's no coincidence that her death came the day after President Warren Harding passed away in that same hotel.

Pub owner Maura Donovan hasn't seen her mother for over 20 years, so when she suddenly shows up in Maura's pub, Maura's not sure what to expect. Her mother is trying to find a life for herself back home and has taken up a position working with the new owners of the Crann Mor hotel just outside Skibbereen. That is until her new boss is found dead in the gardens, dumped down the hillside behind the hotel.

On a cold evening, Zeb, a single mum in her thirties, is found wandering aimlessly on a remote road. She is dazed, confused, and bloodied. She doesn't know where she is or how she got there. She has travelled far from home and someone has attacked her. Memory loss means she can trust no one, and, with her assailant unidentified, Zeb is desperate to be reunited with her son and to ensure his safety. But what will her search for the truth uncover? Will it bring answers or more questions? And what if the person she can rely on the least is herself?

Meg Langslow and Michael's house is serving as the marshalling point for the annual Caerphilly holiday parade. The theme is the 12 Days of Christmas, and it features 12 drummers from the school's marching band, 11 bagpipers, 10 leaping lords costumed in medieval finery from the college's drama department, and so on. There are also assorted floats, a live nativity scene on a flatbed truck, the three wise men on Caerphilly Zoo camels, and Santa in a bright-red horse-drawn sleigh.

Samantha Washington has dreamed of owning her own mystery bookstore for as long as she can remember. Now that she's preparing for her store's grand opening, she's also realizing another dream - penning a cozy mystery that's set in England between the wars. But as Samantha indulges her imagination, the unimaginable happens in real life. A shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, and the police suspect her - after all, the owner of a mystery bookstore might know a thing or two about murder, right?

On March 4, 1861, the air at the inaugural ball is charged with hope and apprehension. The last thing anyone wants is any sort of hitch in the proceedings, so Lincoln's trusted entourage is on their guard: Allan Pinkerton, head of the president's security team, is wary of potential assassins, and Lincoln's oldest friend, Joshua Speed, is by his side, along with Speed's nephew, Adam Quinn, who's been called to serve as Lincoln's assistant. But despite the tight security, trouble comes anyway: a man is found stabbed to death in a nearby room.

Miracle Springs is a place of healing. Strangers flock there hoping that the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. And, if none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked scone from the Gingerbread House bakery, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That's Nora's special talent: prescribing the perfect novel to ease a person's deepest pain and lighten their heaviest burden.

A shocking hit-and-run in front of her Village Blend coffeehouse spurs Clare Cosi into action. A divorced single mom, Clare is also a dedicated sleuth, and she's determined to track down this ruthless driver who ran down an innocent friend and customer. In the meantime, her ex-husband, Matt, the shop's globetrotting coffee buyer, sources some amazing new beans from Brazil. But he soon discovers that he's importing more than coffee, and Clare may have been the real target of that deadly driver.

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but certainly not innocent priest! This collection contains a group of stories from the Innocence of Father Brown, told unabridged.

Sara Kvist, nybakad journalist från utbildningen i storstaden, sommarjobbar på lokaltidningen i en liten österbottnisk stad. Nu skall hon få både jobbpraktik och möjlighet att umgås med pojkvännen Robert som har ett stall i staden. Naturligtvis är det Sara som får jouren på midsommarafton. Uppdraget är att rapportera från traktens dansbanor tillsammans med sympatiska fotografen Oskar. Men planerna ändras: några ungdomar hittar ett lik i skogen. Sara dras in allt djupare i historierna kring dödsfallet. Hon intervjuar den dödas make och flera personer som har sitt att säga.

Murha on muotia -kirjasta tuttu toimittaja Noora Hankasuo päättää tarttua uuteen työtarjoukseen kartanomiljöössä kuvattavan tv-sarjan käsikirjoittajana. Kuvausryhmä matkustaa Hämeessä sijaitsevaan historialliseen Terttulan kartanoon, mutta kesäisen idyllin rikkoo yllättäen raaka veriteko. Noora huomaa jälleen olevansa keskellä murhamysteeriä. Kuvausryhmän jäsenten taustoista alkaa paljastua yllättäviä ja järkyttäviä asioita, eikä Noora enää tiedä, keneen uskaltaisi luottaa.

Kuuluisan muotikuvaajan ylelliset uudenvuodenjuhlat päättyvät karmivalla tavalla, kun huippumalli Viveka Blomgård putoaa parvekkeelta ja kuolee. Tapahtumaa pidetään onnettomuutena, mutta toimittaja Noora Hankasuota jää vaivaamaan parvekkeella vilahtanut tumma varjo; Viveka ei ollut siellä yksin. Juttua penkoessaan kolmikymppinen Noora uppoutuu yhä syvemmälle muotimaailman vaiettuihin salaisuuksiin. Nooran ja Vivekan veljen Johanin romanssin syvetessä selviää, että luurangot kolisevat myös Blomgårdin huutokauppasuvun antiikkikomeroissa.

Sent en kylig aprilkväll kommer Anna Neale hem och finner sin make David död i arbetsrummet. Hans ansikte är förvridet av plågor och allt tyder på att han har dött av en allergisk chock. Men när Anna hittar ett mystiskt paket, adresserat till maken, inser hon att det förmodligen inte var en olyckshändelse. Snart dyker den ena obehagliga överraskningen efter den andra upp och sakta börjar Anna inse att livet med David var byggt på en lögn. I sin sårbara situation träffar hon den charmige Matthew, som hon genast attraheras av.

Vauhdikkaan rikossarjan aloitusosa. On juhannusaaton aatto. Hämeenlinnan maineikas puhaltaja Jarkka Nurminen on jälleen vapaalla jalalla ja etsimässä totuutta. Miksi hänen oli istuttava vankilassa kuusi vuotta murhasta, jota ei tehnyt? Kuvioihin tempautuvat mukaan myös vikkelä pikkurikollinen Jojo sekä asekauppias Leksa. Aseet puhuvat, renkaat ulvovat ja päät putoilevat. Lisäksi sade uhkaa hukuttaa koko kaupungin. Puhaltaja aloittaa Hämeenlinnan alamaailmaan sijoittuvan Hämeenlinna noir -sarjan, jota värittää Tapani Baggelle tyypillinen letkeä kerronta ja musta huumori.

Siguiendo su instinto y curiosidad, además de su orgullo de artista y su respeto por la música, en esta ocasión Sam Numit investiga y tira del hilo para ver qué hay detrás de una posibilidad que hasta ahora parecía insólita: que Jim Morrison, el líder del grupo The Doors, presuntamente fallecido en París en 1971, aún esté vivo. Durante su investigación, Sam se adentrará en los entresijos del mundo de la música, con su cara más oscura y su lado más miserable.