Farm Mystery

This is the story of a Worcestershire farm from the 1930s to the 1970s, highlighting the great changes in farming practices and the people who found themselves part of the agricultural and country life. Alongside the story of the owners, Fred Archer provides the listener with rich anecdotes of village life - the pea-picker and his gypsy wife, the excitement caused by the arrival of the land girls and the terrible effects of myxomatosis.

Laid off from a job in the city, Katie Montgomery and her 13-year-old daughter, Carol Grace, move home to Sardis County…to the farm that had been owned by her grandfather, Arthur “Junior” Ballantine, with the hopes of raising her daughter in the relative safety of rural America. Alan Blake is a cop. He also leaves the city to go to Sardis County…but not for the same reason. Alan arrested one of the Giambini crime family’s star gamblers: poker expert Moses Turley.

Thomas and his wife Anne worked hard while their young son George attended the local school in the village of Thirstonfield. Their lives seemed content until that fateful day when Thomas happened upon Jack Bright. The act of kindness shown by Thomas would be repaid by the most abhorrent act imaginable. From that moment on, their simple, honest lives would be forever changed as their world is turned upside down by the arrival of the mysterious stranger.

Giles and Marion Wilkerson are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. They have recently moved to France, and it seems like the perfect excuse to invite a few friends and family over. Vicki Wilkerson, their daughter, has been once before, but this time she is bringing a friend; her new fiancé; Akash. Her father does not approve. When Vicki's brother also arrives uninvited, the situation takes a turn for the worse. With the phone lines down, heavy snow on the way, and no mobile signal to be had, it looks like they will be staying at the farm for far longer than anyone anticipated.

Jude Gray has worked hard to bring a steady equilibrium to life on Malvern Farm and things are going well. The only fly in the ointment is the foul addition of a new face in the village: staunch townie and chauvinistic sleaze, Des Smith. Jude has nothing but sympathy for his caring, patient wife, Loretta, who has become a regular visitor to the farm for a cup of tea and a chat. But things take a turn for the worse when a hit and run outside The Lamb brings death once again to the village. Is it an accident or is something more sinister afoot?

Seit einiger Zeit verschwinden in New York Kinder spurlos. Es gibt keine Anhaltspunkte. Die Kinder kommen allesamt aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Die Polizei vermutet, dass es sich um Entführungen handelt - doch in keinem der Fälle wurden Lösegeldforderungen geltend gemacht. Special Agent Owen Burke und sein Partner Ron Harris haben einen entsetzlichen Verdacht. Als Agenten beim FBI haben sie schon oft in die Abgründe der menschlichen Existenz geblickt. Doch dieser Fall lässt selbst die hartgesottenen Agenten nicht ungerührt.

When you look in the mirror, who do you see? With Mandy the haunted doll now safely ensconced in Mason Town Museum, sealed in a glass case, Shady Groves and her colleagues, Annie and Ray, can relax. After a fashion. The small-town museum they run is not like others, it’s a place that seeks to contain and understand artifacts and relics charged with negative energy. Their aim is to gradually reduce how potent that energy can be, and the destruction it can lead to. All is well, until Shady chances upon a mirror in a thrift store. The reflection staring back at her is not quite her own.

1945, dintorni di Cambridge. I dieci fisici tedeschi in attività più importanti al mondo vengono rinchiusi in una villa e spiati dagli americani per sei mesi. Solo il dieci per cento delle intercettazioni è stato pubblicato finora. Questo è il romanzo di tutto il resto. Questa è una storia dimenticata. Una storia che sembra una leggenda e invece non lo è. È una storia che ha segnato per sempre le sorti della fisica e del mondo.

Norah Campbell was an addict. The loss of her fiancé drove her to despair; she lost custody of her daughter, Gemma, and control of her life. Now Norah is in recovery and she wants Gemma back. But to do so, she must move in with her eccentric aunt and uncle, and they refuse to give up control without a fight. When strange occurrences keep happening at the farm and Norah makes a gruesome discovery, she soon realises she’s living with a monster. As her mental health spirals out of control and she is tempted to relapse, she begins to wonder if she is also a monster.

Carole Perceval lives alone on a remote Yorkshire farm, trying to forget a painful past in the solitude of the moors. Her life is one of tranquil routine, until one rain-swept night when a disheveled figure appears from the darkness. The man has no memory, no idea who he is. His only certainties are that he is being pursued and that he must escape at all costs. He is exhausted and desperate, and the farm is his only refuge. At first terrified, Carole finds something in this enigmatic stranger that answers a deep-seated need of her own.

The Murder Farm is a place where any villain, serial killer, terrorist, or outlaw can go to seek asylum or conduct any business of their choosing. The price of such a service is, of course, exorbitant. Run by a family of three—Pop, Mum, and Betty—the Murder Farm is infamous in the underworld for its discreet and hospitable caretakers. One evening, however, the villain Doctor Talky and his band of miscreants arrive, and things start to go haywire.

Blair O'Rourke is a criminal defense lawyer who has written off men. She sets out on a road trip to forget the last one she was involved with and finds herself hunted by someone he has sent after her. Stranded in the small town of Rolling Brook, will she trust another man to keep her safe, and can she stop herself from falling for him in the process? Not one to refuse someone in need of help, especially when Blair has no one else to turn to, local farmer Jake Redland becomes entangled in the same trouble she brought with her from Chicago.

In real life, no one tells you what is happening. You pick “the truth” up by combining tidbits of information, gossip, newspaper fillers, rumor, confidential memos, telephone messages, fake news and maybe-fake-news-but-who-knows. A Hat Rack in a Snake Farm is written as a collection of the above which, together, reveal the story. This is an on-the-ground look at what happens when there are millions of public dollars "for the taking" and the corporate hyenas gather.

Die Heuboden-Bande ist verblüfft: Buzz; einer von den starken Muskelkatern; bittet die Detektive um Hilfe. Sein kleiner Sohn Carlo ist spurlos verschwunden. Spurlos? Das können weder Wolle noch Hilde und schon gar nicht Herr Schulz glauben. Der Spürhund ist schließlich ein fantastischer Schnüffler und Wolle hat in seinem Pelz alles; was man zur Spurensuche braucht. Die Bande startet ihre Ermittlungen und ist bald auch noch einem unheimlichen Gespenst auf den Fersen.

Moments before the wedding, Christopher Sterry finds the groom, his twin brother, murdered. One would expect Christopher to become the next Earl of Longford. No one would be surprised if he married his twin's almost-bride, Helen Grove. She is, after all, his closest friend and confidante. Except Christopher is deaf in an inflexible world that believes a deaf mute is no better than a barbaric half-wit, unfit to be an earl and quite capable of murdering his brother.

Er dachte, er wäre vorbereitet. Er dachte, seine Familie wäre sicher. Er hatte sich geirrt. Fünf Jahre, nachdem eine Lungenpest zwei Drittel der Weltbevölkerung auslöschte, lebt Armeeveteran Marcus Battle zurückgezogen und isoliert, allein mit seinen Waffen, seinen Essensvorräten und den Gräbern seiner Frau und seines Kindes. Ohne zu ahnen, welches Chaos in der Welt außerhalb seiner Ranch im Herzen von Texas herrscht, lebt Marcus ein spartanisches Leben. Wer ungefragt sein Land betritt, wird erschossen.

Forbidden love, murder, and mayhem lay in wait for naïve Julia Bridgewater. Julia and her brother, Peter, are finding their new life at Farm End challenging. Their dairy farm in Findon is not doing well. Their dad, who is struggling with depression, wants to sell the farm and move on. He has not forgiven the Hearns for destroying his brother. One night, Julia meets the enigmatic Seth Hearn, from the neighboring Crow Farm, and she is instantly drawn to him.

Alexis “Lex” Blake swore she would never return to the town where she’d lost her home and her family in a devastating fire that only she survived and can barely remember. But when her aunt dies, leaving behind a mountain of debt, Lex has no choice but to head back to Northern California to settle her family’s estate.

In this long-awaited prequel to his New York Times bestselling series, Jefferson Bass turns the clock back to reveal the Body Farm's creation - and Dr. Bill Brockton's deadly duel with a serial killer. In the summer of 1992, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee senator Al Gore begin their long-shot campaign to win the White House. On a sweltering hillside in Knoxville, Dr. Bill Brockton, the bright, ambitious young head of the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Department, launches an unusual - some would call it macabre - research facility, unlike any other in existence.

He married for money, she wed by force. On the brink of losing everything, the Duke of Summerton marries heiress Caroline Howlett, but at what cost? She wants neither his crumbling estate nor his title, and what is he, as a man, without them? Before he can resolve this dilemma, something more dangerous than doubt threatens their marriage. When Caroline said she'd rather be dead than married to the duke, she hadn't meant it literally.