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¿Viste el último capítulo de la serie de moda? El asesino también. El primer gran triunfo del escritor Toni Galán en su nueva vida en Los Ángeles es convertirse en guionista de una popular serie de televisión. Todo parece ir viento en popa hasta que una mujer es encontrada sin vida. Las particulares circunstancias que envuelven al cadáver sitúan las miradas de todos sobre la serie de ficción. Alguien está recreando las escenas de crímenes que Toni escribió.

Madrid, Berta Kerrigan es una escritora de éxito de novelas policiacas que está atravesando el peor momento de su vida. Carlos y su hija Olivia han desaparecido en un crucero por Europa al que ella se iba a unir después de unos viajes de promoción. Desde hace seis meses apenas sale de casa y es incapaz de escribir una sola palabra. Apenas se mueve por la exclusiva urbanización privada en la que nueve casas de lujo parecen vivir ajenas al peligroso mundo de fuera de sus muros.

Una historia llena de ternura sobre una pareja de detectives formada por el padre y la hija del Kamogawa Shokudo, un restaurante escondido en Kioto, que siempre está lleno. El éxito entre la clientela radica en que este dúo singular se ha especializado en preparar exactamente el plato que el público anhela y recuerda de su pasado y no es capaz de reproducir o encontrar. Y lo hacen investigando la historia de la persona en cuestión.

Fleeing some unsavory doings in her hometown of Charlotte, Jenna accepts her uncle's gracious invitation to stay with him in small-town Hokes Folly, North Carolina. In exchange, she'll help him out in his antiquarian bookstore. But soon after she arrives, Jenna finds her uncle's body crumpled at the base of the staircase between his apartment and the bookstore. Before the tragedy even sinks in, Jenna learns that she's inherited almost everything her uncle owned...which adds up to more than a million dollars.

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...

Vivian Wainwright is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Misty Bay Tearoom, a quaint English-accented shop on the Oregon coast. But on the eve of the tearoom's second anniversary, the dream turns nightmarish when a man falls to his death from a hotel balcony. The body belongs to Dean Ramsey, ex-husband of Vivian's assistant, Jenna. Detective Tony Messina quickly zeroes in on Jenna as the prime suspect, since she was seen leaving the hotel shortly before the body was found.

Eva Stewart runs a charming bed and breakfast in the Florida Keys with her talkative parrot. One of her favorite things to do is read murder mystery novels. She even has a murder mystery book club. When a dead body is found near the bed and breakfast, Eva has a real murder mystery on her hands. Can she help solve the mystery, even if it implicates one of her esteemed guests and ruffles the feathers of the local police department, or will her book smarts be the end of her?

As dawn breaks on the Canary Islands, a fisherman discovers a woman lying dead on the rocks nearby, her body arranged like a piece of art. To solve the case, Chief Inspector Diego Quintana gets unexpected help from Swedish journalist Sara Moberg, who runs the Scandinavian newspaper on the island, as well as from handsome former investigator Kristian Wede. But not even that can stop the killer from striking again.

Fiona, Sue, and Daisy, three retired ladies who volunteer at the local charity shop, Dogs Need Nice Homes, can’t believe their favorite customer is dead. Eighty-six-year-old Sarah Brown was found murdered in her hallway by her delivery man, a domino clutched in her hand—with a name scratched on it. When another person is found dead with a domino in their hand, and with the police making no progress, the ladies will need to help unmask a serial killer. At least they have Fiona’s scruffy-haired terrier cross to assist them.

Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream — opening Carly's Grilled Cheese Eatery. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled-cheese concoctions. That is, everyone is but Lyle Bagley, her one-time high-school boyfriend who’s now the town bully — and he just bought the building that houses her eatery and wants her out.

Twenty-five-year-old Victoria Justice has never really gotten over a near drowning at the hands of a high school bully, but has attempted to build her confidence and career as a court stenographer under the mentorship of The Honorable Frederica Scott Wannamaker, the county's first African American Superior Court judge. But when her old nemesis appears on the court docket, Victoria's carefully crafted world implodes - evidence goes missing, a potential mistrial abounds, and the judge winds up drowned in the courthouse bathroom.

While Augusta Hawke is a successful author of eighteen crime novels, since her husband's death, she's been living vicariously through her Jules Maigret-like detective Claude and his assistant Caroline. Then a handsome police detective appears investigating a real-life mystery. Where are her neighbors, the Normans? No one has a clue what's happened—except Augusta. Although she isn't nosy, spending all day staring out the windows for inspiration means she does notice things. Like the Normans arguing. And that they've been missing a week.

The first three books in the Irish Village Mystery series are included in this edition: Murder in an Irish Village, Murder at an Irish Wedding, and Murder in an Irish Churchyard.

Ci sono mattine da dimenticare. Proprio come accade a Elena quando viene svegliata all’alba dalla madre ottantenne che le annuncia di aver lasciato il marito per andare a vivere con due amiche coetanee e subito dopo, invece di essere promossa, viene licenziata dal giornale in cui lavora. Basterebbe molto meno a fiaccare l’entusiasmo di chiunque, sennonché arriva una notizia che per molti sarebbe drammatica, ma non per lei: in una via del centro di Milano vengono ritrovati due trolley grondanti sangue. Subito, l’intuito di Elena drizza le antenne. Potrebbe significare che non tutto è perduto.

Forty-something Maggie Sharpe is returning to her quaint childhood town of Dogwood Mountain, Missouri, nestled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains, Maggie recently inherited Dogwood Bakery, along with a cute little cottage, from her aunt Marjorie. With a son in the Navy, deployed six months at a time, and an ex in Kansas, Maggie decided that it was time for a change, but she soon learns that life back home is not all sprinkles and jelly-filled donuts.

Paige Palmer spent her entire adult life studying to earn her doctorate in philosophy, only to be passed over for the job of her dreams. Escaping academia, she takes a job as barista at a quirky and cozy shop, The Roastery on 33rd, feeling somehow drawn to the charming spot in the quaint New Hampshire town. But there are secrets in the Roastery that have been percolating for decades. When a body is discovered in a secret room in the building, Paige’s impatient and tough-as-nails boss becomes increasingly convinced that an in-house investigation will be necessary to catch the culprit.

David Harwood sta assistendo impotente allo sgretolarsi inesorabile della propria vita. Dopo la morte della moglie e la chiusura del giornale per cui lavorava, rimasto solo con il figlio di nove anni è costretto a trasferirsi a casa dei genitori a Promise Falls, la cittadina in cui è cresciuto. Quella che sembra essere un'esistenza destinata a un anonimo fallimento intraprende però una direzione inaspettata quanto tragica.

Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won’t be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town’s storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to collect allies and rally library support throughout Catalpa Springs, GA. However, Cleo soon rolls into trouble. A major benefactor known for his eccentric DIY projects requests all available books on getting away with murder. He’s no Georgia peach, and Cleo wonders if she should be worried. She knows she should when she finds him murdered - and evidence points to her best friend.

Qualsiasi cosa per riaverla. Qualsiasi cosa per riaverle entrambe. Due donne, due amiche, Giulia e Livia, rapite una sera di novembre mentre tornano dal cinema. Una delle due riesce a fuggire, ma non ricorda nulla, né del rapimento né del suo passato. Il suo aiuto potrebbe essere determinante per la polizia, se solo riuscisse a mettere insieme le schegge di verità che come lampi le attraversano la mente. Il volto che però vede nello specchio continua a esserle del tutto estraneo.

Courtney Burden a tout : un riche et beau mari, Jeb ; deux magnifiques enfants, Cameron et Sawyer ; un métier créatif et une brownstone de trois étages à Brooklyn, New York, là où tout le monde veut vivre. Mais elle a aussi un défaut : elle glane tous les meubles que les gens laissent sur les trottoirs de la ville. C'est compulsif. Et ce canapé, elle n'aurait pas dû le prendre, car depuis des trafiquants de drogue sont à sa recherche, pour retrouver la coke cachée à l'intérieur.