Criminal Mystery

Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney Hackberry Holland yields to the myriad urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat - and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers.

It is fall in Normal, Kentucky, and the town is celebrating the season with a Bourbon Festival. Mae West is trying to enjoy the festival and a night out with Hank. While trying to dodge the one question every keep asking (When is the wedding?) Mae overhears an argument between the bourbon king's son and another man and woman. So, when she stumbles over a body with ties to the Bourbon King, her hackles are raised.

Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager's disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi's clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle's execution, Sashi's mother visits Jack Swyteck, who's doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news: "Sashi called me."

Diana Davis has been head of the family business since the death of her husband, an infamous bank robber. She's a woman in a man's world, but no one messes with her. Her only son, Angus, is a natural born villain, but he needs to earn Diana's trust before she'll allow him into the business. Once he's proved he has the brains to run their clubs in Marbella, he is given what he's always wanted. It's the beginning of a reign of terror that knows no bounds.

When orphan Catrin witnesses a murder on the streets of Collis, she’s pulled into a deadly chain of events where the only certainty is that the killer will strike again. Assigned to investigate is the mysterious and brilliant Simon, whose insights into the mind of a predator are frighteningly accurate. As the grisly crimes continue, Catrin finds herself caught between killer and detective while hiding her own secret—forbidden magic granted by moonlight that’s destined to make her an outcast.

When Hank Sharpe asked me and the laundry club ladies to join him in an undercover investigation to help find a missing person, me and the ladies grabbed our sleuthing notebook without hesitation. As undercover Forest Bathing Therapist trainees we were bound and determined to find out with happened to Kyra Tenney. When we did find her body in what appeared to be an accidental forest fire, we thought we were finished with our undercover act.

When the owner of the local zip line is found dead on the ride, the small town of Normal, Kentucky, is in a state of shock. With the local ranger and sheriff at a loss for leads, it falls to the Laundry Club Ladies-a group of nosy sleuths led by Mae West-to crack the case.

Gourmetköchin und Hobby-Detektivin Doro Ritter aus München ist unterwegs zu einem Undercover-Einsatz ins wunderschöne Bardolino am Gardasee und fragt sich bereits jetzt, worauf sie sich da nur eingelassen hat. Enzo, Hausherr des Weinguts Buccelli, leidet darunter, dass sich seine Frau Paola seit geraumer Zeit von ihm distanziert und hinter seinem Rücken regelmäßig große Summen vom Familienkonto abgehoben hat. Er will endlich wissen, was dahintersteckt, und hat Doro engagiert, um ihm zu helfen.

Doro hat das große Los gezogen. Ihr Vater schickt sie nach Valeggio sul Mincio am südlichen Gardasee, um für seine Fernsehreportage passende Orte, Rezepte und Geschichten aufzutun. Ihr Freund Vinc soll sie dabei unterstützen. Italien, bezahlter Urlaub – nichts wie los. Vor Ort sind Vinc und Doro dann die heimlichen Stars, jeder will von der Reportage profitieren. Doch plötzlich herrscht Alarmzustand. Ein Tourist wurde vergiftet, und das kurz vor dem berühmten Tortellinifest auf der Ponte Visconteo. Polizei, Festkomitee und die gesamte Gastronomie sind geschockt und in heller Aufregung.

Mae West is bound and determined to stay in shape for her wedding day and with all the delicious Southern dessert Mary Elizabeth is serving for Thanksgiving Mae has joined the local running group to race in Thanksgiving's annual Turkey Trot. She never figured murder would be on the menu and a couple of people she loves have a perfect motive. The list of suspects isn't exactly brief especially when one of the governor's recently pardoned prisoner is at the top of the list.

When Miss Daniel Boone Days is murdered and our good friend Helen Pyle, owner of Cute-icles beauty salon, is standing over our beauty queen with a gun, lets just say Helen didn't giddy up on out of there. Nope. She was hauled down to the sheriff's department and booked for murder. Ranger Tucker Pyle is taken off the case because let's just say he knows his Aunt Helen didn't do it, but who better to snoop around to help him out? Yep! You guessed it!

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, a small town in the Daniel Boone National Forest and Happy Trails Campground, where the annual Christmas activities are in full swing. But behind the twinkling lights and festive cheer lies a sinister secret. When a local delivery driver is found murdered in Seymore's Candy Cane Factory, suspicion quickly falls on the eccentric cast of characters who call Normal home. From the grumpy old man who owns the candy cane factory, to the bubbly town fiddle player, Otis Gullett, who is secretly in a rendezvous with the factory owner's wife. No one is above suspicion.

From New York Times best-selling authors and illustrators Mike Mignola and Tom Sniegoski come two thrilling antiheroes: Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal, battling against crime. An uneasiness festers upon the city streets, threatening the peace and safety of law-abiding citizens. A war is escalating, and it seems as though the good and righteous are being crushed beneath the unholy weight of evil's onslaught.

Faridi and Hameed work together to solve the mystery of a strange murder. The killer makes a mistake and the intended target is still alive. Faridi and Hameed have to save the innocent man and unmask the killer. Faridi comes up with a dangerous idea. This could also put his own life in extreme danger.

Let me be the first person to welcome you to Normal, Kentucky, located in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest. I'm Mae West, the owner of Happy Trails Campground. The campground is full and the campers are excited to participate in Normal's annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. It's a little spooky seeing the hundreds of jack-o-lantern faces all light up. It's the dead body or two among them that chills me to the bone. Especially when one of those bodies is found in a cave and someone I love is a suspect. And when Hanks asks me for input on the case, I know it's important.

קורבנות טראומה אינם דבר חדש עבור החוקרת הרפואית פיית' מקינטייר, אבל המקרה החדש שהגיע אליה שונה. מייסי קרואו, סוכנת אף־בי־איי ששוכבת בבית החולים מחוסרת הכרה לאחר תאונת פגע וברח, דומה לה דמיון מטלטל. כשפיית' רואה את מייסי לראשונה היא מרגישה כאילו היא מביטה במראה. אבל איך זה ייתכן? מה עשתה מייסי בסמטה אפלה באמצע הלילה, באותו היום שבו שלחה לפיית' הודעה? פיית' ידעה תמיד שהיא מאומצת, אבל עכשיו היא מגלה שנסיבות הולדתה אפופות בסודות, ושהיא בעצם אינה יודעת דבר.

When I begged Hank Sharp to take dance lessons to celebrate Valentine's Day, I knew I was getting more than I had bargained for. But when a dancer's dead body shows up at the height of the competition and Hank is hired to investigate the murder, I had no idea what we were in store for when he had Dottie Swaggert and Henry Bryant go undercover as a dance competition couple to get insider information.

Around here we say bless her heart and sometimes it's just not in a good way. Take Neva Hudson for instance, bless her heart, she's the town gossip, not to mention someone who likes to toot her own horn. Two toots too many 'cause bless her heart, someone has strangled Neva and left her for dead in of all places . . . the church's Christmas play.

Mick McFarland is stunned when he's arrested for murdering business tycoon Edwin Hanson, brother to David Hanson - one of Mick's former clients. Mick is even more shocked when he's confronted with the incriminating evidence: surveillance footage of him stalking the victim and pulling the trigger. As Mick's legal team fights against windmills trying to beat the prosecution in court, his wife, Piper, journeys across the country, trying to win her husband's freedom by going after the man she is convinced is out to destroy Mick and David both.

How can one man be so incredibly frustrating but so sexy at the same time? Ryder knows two things. Tragedy can strike at any moment so you have to hold tightly to the gifts life gives you. And Shay is one of those gifts. To Ryder their 15-year age difference is nothing, Shay is the man he wants. Now he just needs an opportunity to plead his case with the sexy lawyer. He gets his chance when Shay asks him to assist on a case involving a missing person, but the investigation quickly turns perilous.