The perfect cozy Christmas murder mystery Imagine being stuck indoors with your family, waiting for something to happen... and then disaster strikes.Christmas 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered together for another legendary Christmas at their Sussex mansion. As family tensions simmer on Christmas Eve, the champagne flows, the silver sparkles and upstairs the bedrooms are made up ready for their occupants. But one bed will lie empty that night...Come Christmas morning, guest David Campbell-Scott is found lying dead in the snow, with only a hunting rifle lying beside him and one set of footprints leading to the body. But something doesn't seem right to amateur sleuth Hugh Gaveston. Campbell-Scott had just returned from the East with untold wealth--why would he kill himself? Hugh sets out to investigate... and what he finds is more shocking than he ever could have expected.
How far would you go to hide a priceless secret?When Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis's longtime assistant, Maggie, returns to her ancestral home on Ikaria for her 104-year-old grandmother's funeral, she quickly realizes not only was Yiayia likely murdered, but that a series of other long-lived Ikariots had recently died under the same suspicious circumstances. Back in Athens, Andreas and his chief detective Yianni pursue a smuggling and protection ring embedded in the Greek DEA, and its possible involvement in the assassination of an undercover cop.These two cases don't appear to be related to each other...but then Maggie and Yianni uncover a connection between their respective leads in the elder-killings on Ikaria and the DEA corruption case, and they realize that there are international intrigues far more dangerous at play than anyone had imagined.
From the creator of BBC's Death in Paradise series comes a wholly original new mysteryJudith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives just outside Marlow with no man in her life to tell her what to do and she keeps herself busy setting crosswords for the newspaper. But Judith's peace is disrupted when she witnesses a murder while out for a swim in the Thames River.The local police don't believe her story, so she investigates for herself, joined by a salt-of-the-earth dog-walker and the prim and proper wife of the local vicar. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. When another body turns up, they realize the puzzle they set out to solve might be a real-life serial killer's deadly trap...
LA Confidential meets Harry Bosch in this cinematic, gritty police procedural. Hollywood's glittering past casts dark shadows, and some people will kill to keep their secrets out of the light.Shot dead and stripped of his valuables, the senior curator at the Huntington Library appears to be the victim of a mugging gone wrong―a case doomed to rot in an evidence locker. But scholar-turned- LAPD Detective Tully Jarsdel suspects something more sinister is afoot. An investigation that starts with disgruntled grad students and antique dealers soon reveals a history of theft and fraud, all leading to Hollywood's abandoned playground: Catalina Island.In his most dangerous investigation yet, can Jarsdel uncover LA's lost history before the conspiracy silences him forever?
Aidan Marlowe just won the lottery. Is today the best day of his life... or the worst?Aidan Marlowe is the superstitious type―he's been playing the same lottery numbers for fifteen years, never hitting the jackpot. Until now. On the day of his wife's funeral.Aidan struggles to cope with these two sudden extremes: instant wealth and the emptiness of his life without the mother of his children. But the money gives him options, and he and his young twins leave everything behind for a new life.Even so, it's not long before Aidan realizes he's merely trading old demons for new ones. Because someone is watching him and his family very closely. Someone who knows exactly who they are, where they've come from, and what they're trying to hide. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want...
