Mystery England

Sophias Eltern führen ein zurückgezogenes, fast schon spießiges Leben in ihrer Gärtnerei im englischen Suffolk. Doch bei einem Besuch entdeckt Sophia ihre Mutter erhängt an einem Baum, den Vater in einer Blutlache daneben. Unerträglich und unvorstellbar findet Sophia die Theorie der Polizei, dass die Mutter ihren Mann ermorden wollte und sich selbst daraufhin richtete - und beginnt zu forschen. Sie findet das Buch, das ihre Mutter immer schreiben wollte: handschriftliche Kladden voller Grausamkeiten, die ihre Vergangenheit prägten und Sophias Gegenwart zerstören könnten.

Eva Blalock did not embezzle—she stole five million dollars in cash from the contracting company where she worked. Her employer, R.L. Standridge, doesn't want the authorities involved because the money isn't actually legitimate earnings for the business, and he is offering a five percent reward to any private investigator who will return his loot.

After four years of war, with attacks escalating day by day and public support crumbling at home, the American effort in Iraq rests on one last gambit: a tenuous alliance with the Sunni tribes of Anbar to deny al-Qaeda sanctuary and take the fight to the terrorists.

Phantom footsteps echoing from empty rooms. Lights mysteriously turning on and off. Doors opening and closing by themselves. Sam Baltrusis, author of a dozen books including Ghosts of Salem and a featured expert on several TV shows on the Travel Channel, has worked the graveyard shift at several haunted hotels where guests check in...but don’t check out.

When oyster farmer Andie Greatorex is robbed of a bucket of oyster seeds worth $35,000, she comes to Julia Snowden for help. Who wants to sink Andie's successful business? Is it a rival oyster farmer, an ex-employee, a neighbor who objects to the oyster cages floating on the beautiful Damariscotta River, a lobsterman who feels pushed out by the farm leases, or someone from Andie's personal life? Then Andie turns up dead, floating by her dock in the SCUBA gear she wears when harvesting her oysters.

The villagers are quite a handful, from the rogue that is Claude Jeremiah Greengrass and his wily dog, Alfred, to the mysterious spinster Adelaide Bowes. Even some of the newcomers seem to be a little odd. But thankfully for Constable Nick, they are mostly law-abiding characters. But when old conflicts between villages flare up, it’s Constable Nick who has to sort things out.

In the Middle East, refugees fleeing dictatorship and terrorism pour across the borders into Europe, destabilizing countries already in the throes of economic crisis. But not all who seek refuge share the same reasons for so doing.... In the UK, the nationalist far right gathers strength - fueled by a government unable or unwilling to protect its own. England is on the brink. All it will take to send it tumbling into the abyss...is a single push. And in the midst of it all, two men have arrived in London, dark harbingers of death to come.

Along the border in Texas, a deadly firefight claims the lives of two Border Patrol agents. On a highway in suburban Virginia, a bomb blast targets the director of the CIA. From the halls of power in D.C., secrets reach out, signing the death warrants of those who uncover them. For CIA paramilitary Harry Nichols, deceit has become a way of life. Fifteen years in the Clandestine Service have left him weary, recovering from a devastating betrayal. Little does he know the betrayals have only begun. With CIA Director David Lay missing and presumed dead, Nichols finds himself tasked with protecting Lay's estranged daughter and hunted by an ex-Spetsnaz kill team. His only mission is to keep her safe. Her only desire is to find the man who ordered her father's murder.

Wenn du sein Flüstern hörst, ist es zu spät... Nach dem plötzlichen Tod seiner Frau will Tom Kennedy mit seinem kleinen Sohn Jake neu anfangen. Ein neues Haus, eine neue Stadt - Featherbank. Doch der beschauliche Ort hat eine düstere Vergangenheit. Vor 20 Jahren wurden in Featherbank fünf Kinder entführt und getötet. Der Mörder wurde unter dem Namen "Kinderflüsterer" bekannt und schließlich gefasst. Die alten Geschichten interessieren Tom nicht. Als jedoch ein kleiner Junge aus der Stadt verschwindet, machen Gerüchte die Runde, dass der Täter von damals einen Komplizen gehabt habe.

Wenn du sein Flüstern hörst, ist es zu spät... Nach dem plötzlichen Tod seiner Frau will Tom Kennedy mit seinem kleinen Sohn Jake neu anfangen. Ein neues Haus, eine neue Stadt – Featherbank. Doch der beschauliche Ort hat eine düstere Vergangenheit. Vor 20 Jahren wurden in Featherbank fünf Kinder entführt und getötet. Der Mörder wurde unter dem Namen "Kinderflüsterer" bekannt und schließlich gefasst. Die alten Geschichten interessieren Tom nicht. Als jedoch ein kleiner Junge aus der Stadt verschwindet, machen Gerüchte die Runde, dass der Täter von damals einen Komplizen gehabt habe.

Das kleine Städtchen Coventry in New England hatte schon tausende Schneestürme erlebt... aber noch keinen wie diesen. Menschen gingen in das weiße Gestöber und kamen nie mehr zurück. Jetzt, zwölf Jahre später, zieht ein weiterer Sturm auf und die Bewohner von Coventry erinnern sich an diejenigen, die sie im Schnee verloren haben. Ein Fotograf trauert um seinen kleinen Bruder. Der Tod seiner Frau hat tiefe Narben im Leben eines Gelegenheitsdiebs hinterlassen.

With high season behind them, ballerina on-the-mend Allie Larkin and Aunt Gully are finally lying low. But then an unexpected guest arrives at the lobster shack: a crustacean so huge he's dubbed Lobzilla around Mystic Bay and on social media. Soon, with everyone showing up for a peek in their tank, Allie and Aunt Gully have more on their plate than they can handle.

He may be a millionaire, but Vern Wheeler never forgot that he is a son of Maine - land of big sky, wide lakes, and the fattest salmon on the East Coast. To escape the boardroom, he buys a rundown fishing lodge in the wilds of his home state, and with his brother turns it into the most fashionable retreat in New England. After years of happy fishing, the Wheelers have no interest in selling Raven Lodge. But a local Native-American group won't take no for an answer.

Lauren Stafford, a traumatized divorcee, decides to rent a cottage on the edge of a beautiful ancestral estate in the Welsh Marches. But from the very first day of arrival she instinctively knows there's something terribly wrong here—something malevolent and ancient—a feeling the whole place is trapped in a time warp. She really ought to leave. But the pull of the lake is too strong, its dark magic so powerful it crosses over into dreams . . . turning them into nightmares. What lies beneath its still black surface? And why can't Lauren drag herself away? Why her? And why now?

They sent 300 warriors to kill one man. It wasn’t enough. Mercia lies broken but not beaten, her alliance with Wessex in tatters. Coelwulf, a fierce and bloody warrior, hears whispers that Mercia has been betrayed from his home in the west. He fears no man, especially not the Vikings sent to hunt him down.

In the New England university town of Elm Harbor, a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town's past, the secrets of a prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American political influence. At the center is Lemaster Carlyle, the university president, and his wife, Julia Carlyle, a deputy dean at the divinity school - African Americans living in "the heart of whiteness".

The Penistone Line is a railway line in South Yorkshire, England. It runs from Sheffield to Huddersfield, via Penistone and Barnsley, and has a history that goes back almost two centuries. In that time, it has picked up more than its fair share of ghost stories, perhaps due to the fact that its early history was marked by a number of accidents and disasters leading one Victorian reporter to call the line "The Graveyard of the Railways".

Closing the Circle & Murder in New England is about a very dysfunctional family. Closing the Circle & Murder in New England is about a deadly secret and a high school reunion.

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery - including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while others in the village have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place...and then they dissapear!

An American president who will do anything to win reelection...An Iranian leader who will stop at nothing to bring about apocalypse...An ancient evil, only waiting to be reborn....High in the Alborz Mountains of northwestern Iran, an archaeological team disappears. American citizens are among the missing...With the presidential election only months away, President Roger Hancock authorizes a covert CIA mission into the mountains of Iran. Their objective: rescue the archaeologists and uncover the truth.