Police Procedural Cozy

When the owner of the Bully Pulpit Diner decided to stop letting servers accept tips, he figured the raise he gave them would keep them happy. Apparently not. Or were some of his other hobbies what got poor Ben Addison killed? Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman contends with angry food servers, rowdy frat brothers at Sweathog Agricultural College, a batch of customers who seem to know nothing, and a thief who must have really wanted something from Ben. One of them keeps a good secret in the small town of Logland, Illinois.

Der Mailänder Polizeipsychologe Matteo Basso ist in sein malerisches Heimatdorf am Lago Maggiore zurückgekehrt, um die Fleischerei seiner verstorbenen Eltern zu übernehmen. Doch schon bald hat er größere Sorgen als die Suche nach dem perfekten Salsiccia-Rezept: Die Leiche seiner Freundin Gisella wird am Ufer des Sees gefunden. Im Gegensatz zur Polizei glaubt Matteo nicht an einen Unfall und beginnt, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln.

Ein Alptraum für Polizeikommissarin Viktoria Engel: Sie erschießt im Dienst einen Unschuldigen, den 16-jährigen Rouven Kramer. In ihrer Not inszeniert sie die Tat, als hätte sie aus Notwehr gehandelt, doch die Dorfbewohner hegen Zweifel. Als kurze Zeit später eine weitere Leiche auftaucht, bizarr inszeniert wie Rouvens Tod, bricht eine Welle von Misstrauen über das Dorf herein, bis sich niemand mehr vor dem anderen sicher fühlt.

Police Chief David O'Callaghan and Chelsea Adams' wedding day is fast approaching. Unfortunately, at the last minute, David discovers that there is one small problem to be taken care of before he can walk down the aisle - divorce his first wife!

Nachts auf dem Gletscher, da gehört der Mensch nicht hin. Da sind nur die Geister der Toten und der Sturm und der Schnee. Trotzdem entdeckt Skipisten-Toni hoch oben im Dezember ein seltsames Licht - und wenig später die Leiche eines Einsiedlers. Mit einer Pfeilspitze in der Schulter. Ähnlich wie der weltberühmte Steinzeitmensch Ötzi, der Jahre zuvor fast am selben Ort gefunden wurde.

Nora Newberry is doing her best to move forward since her best friend, Raquel Madden, was murdered and their dream of opening a diner together was shattered. While things will never be the same, she knows Raquel would want her to be happy, and this helps guide her toward a future she wishes they could have shared. A future where The Madness Diner will be open for business and thriving! Until that happens, however, she has been keeping her culinary skills sharp by catering events around her hometown.

Spencer's police chief, David O'Callaghan, learns this lesson the hard way when he orders Mac Faraday to stay away from the south end of Spencer's mountaintop - even though he owns the property. It doesn't take long for Mac to find out what lies on the other side of the stone wall and locked gate, on which hangs a sign warning visitors to Keep Out!

In this fourth mystery on Deep Creek Lake, Mac Faraday finds himself up to his eyeballs in mobsters and federal agents. Mac Faraday believes he has his work cut out for him in protecting his lady love from one of the most dangerous leaders in organized crime; but when bodies start dropping in his lakeshore resort town, things may be hotter than even he can handle.

Fame comes at a price. Some pay with their privacy. Others pay with their pride. Khloe Everest paid with her life. Determined to get her pretty face in front of the cameras, Khloe Everest fakes an abduction only to make a grand entrance in the midst of a press conference held by Spencer's Police Chief David O'Callaghan.

A financial Ponzi-style fraud costs the Wilsons everything but the old family manse.... Opening the Four Acorns Inn sounds like a good idea, except for one thing - someone is out to ruin them any way possible, and that includes murder. Scarlet Wilson's love life keeps tanking, no matter what she does. It's pretty sad when the elderly ladies at the inn have a better romantic life than the 40-something innkeeper. Is she cursed when it comes to men, or is there something more sinister going on?

After 10 months of marital bliss, Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are still discovering and adjusting to their life together. Settled in their new home, everything appears to be perfect...except in the middle of the night when, in the darkest shadows of her subconscious, a deep secret from Jessica's past creeps to the surface to make her strike out at Murphy.

"Gonzo" Hartinger ist zurück! "Der Förster schmeißt einen Mann in den Kuhflucht-Wasserfall. Die Story musst du machen!" Als Lokalreporter Karl-Heinz "Gonzo" Hartinger diesen Anruf erhält, ist er gerade in Berlin gelandet - nun ist sein Wochenendtrip im Eimer. Kurz darauf kommt eine Grünen-Landtagsabgeordnete auf einer Bergwiese, der Frauenmahd, zu Tode. Zufall, dass beide Leichen in der Nähe des geplanten Kraftwerks gefunden wurden? Oder steckt eine uralte Familienfehde dahinter?

Für Patta soll Brunetti diesmal nur pro forma in einem Kavaliersdelikt ermitteln: Er soll den Ruf des Bürgermeisters schützen, dessen künftige Schwiegertochter die Gesetze übertreten hat. Paola hingegen ist unerbittlich: Sie möchte wissen, was für ein Mensch der Tote war, der bei den Brunettis in der Nachbarschaft umgekommen ist. Dabei sieht alles zunächst nach einem Unfall aus: Die Schlaftabletten waren bunt wie Bonbons und der Junge nicht ganz richtig im Kopf.

Mit allen Weihwassern gewaschen. Die Jugendliebe Maria im Kloster, ganz Altötting bevölkert mit Pilgern und der alte Wirt Bichler ermordet in der Kirchenbank: Die Rückkehr in seinen Heimatort hat sich Kommissar Max Kramer beschaulicher vorgestellt. Seine Ermittlungen beginnen zäh, doch Maria kennt sich aus mit dem Neid, den Lügen und Intrigen hinter dem katholischen Anstrich und unterstützt ihn tatkräftig. Ungünstig nur, dass dabei das alte Feuer zwischen den beiden erneut entfacht.

Joshua's eldest son, Joshua Thornton Jr. (J.J.) has graduated at the top of his class from law school and returns home to spend the summer studying for the bar exam. However, to Joshua's and Cameron's shock and dismay, J.J. moves into the main house at Russell Ridge Farm and Orchards, the largest dairy farm in the Ohio Valley, in order to rekindle a romance with Suellen Russell, the one-time leader of a rock band who is twice his age. Quickly, they learn that she has a deep dark secret.

When Sir John Magill, the wealthy Irish industrialist, fails to show up at his hometown on a well-publicised visit, neither his family nor the Belfast police can explain his disappearance. Foul play is suspected when his bloodstained hat is discovered, and Scotland Yard is called in. With his characteristic genius for reconstruction, Inspector French evolves a gruesome theory about what happened to the elderly man, but his reputation - and that of Scotland Yard - will depend on finding out who was responsible.

Former police chief Katherine Sullivan has been called brilliant, brave, compassionate, and quirky, but after decades of crime fighting, this resilient grandmother with an artist's soul is discovering that retirement can be just as deadly as being on the job. When Katherine returned to her hometown, her only thought was to comfort her recently divorced daughter. That was before a young woman was found murdered on the estate of the town's richest family.

In Old Loves Die Hard, Lauren Carr continues the rags-to-riches story of Mac Faraday, an underpaid homicide detective who inherits 270 million dollars and an estate on Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. Mac is settling nicely into his new life at Spencer Manor when his ex-wife Christine shows up-and she wants him back! Before Mac can send her packing, Christine and her estranged lover are murdered in Mac's private penthouse suite at the Spencer Inn, the five-star resort built by his ancestors.

Two people are brutally murdered in their summer place on Deep Creek Lake. Suspected of the murders, former child star and one-time teenybopper idol Lenny Frost takes innocent bystanders hostage in a local pub and demands that Mac Faraday find the killer. Can Mac save the hostages and himself from the wrath of the enraged has-been by piecing together the clues in less than twelve hours? Or will it be a fatal last call at the stroke of midnight?

Small town life, big academic egos, corruption, revenge, and Spam musubis! The Musubi Murder is the first campus crime novel set in Hawaii, and the perfect gift for mystery lovers, Hawaii expatriates, disillusioned academics, and anyone who fancies Spam (the meat). Renowned Hawaii-born voice-over artist Nicole Gose brings her spot-on vocal characterizations and impeccable comic timing to this reading.