Police Small Town Mystery

Mutée disciplinairement à New York, Colorado, un petit village raciste du fin fond de l'Amérique, sans couverture mobile et où il ne se passe jamais rien, la lieutenant de police de couleur noire, à forte corpulence, Agatha Crispies a trouvé un échappatoire à son désœuvrement dans l'animation d'un club de lecture au sein du commissariat. Mais alors qu'elle désespérait de pouvoir un jour enquêter à nouveau sur un meurtre autre que celui d'un écureuil, une série d'effroyables assassinats et disparitions viennent (enfin) troubler la tranquillité des lieux.

In Louviec, einem kleinen Ort in der Bretagne, gehen merkwürdige Dinge vor sich: Ein Wildhüter wird mit einem kostbaren Messer in der Brust tot aufgefunden. In der Nacht zuvor wollen die Alten des Dorfes den hinkenden Schritt eines Geistes gehört haben, der immer dann erklingt, wenn Unheil bevorsteht. Als Adamsberg, der legendäre Kommissar, von dem Fall Wind bekommt, ist er nicht mehr zu halten: Er steigt in die Ermittlungen ein und sofort fallen ihm drei Flohbisse an der Leiche auf – ein Detail, das sonst niemand gesehen hat.

The O’Connells of Livingston, Montana, are not your typical family. Follow them on their journey to the dark and dangerous side of love in a series of romantic thrillers you won’t want to miss. Raised by a single mother after their father’s mysterious disappearance 18 years ago, the six grown siblings live in a small town with all kinds of hidden secrets, lies, and deception.

The flood waters are rising. And so is the body count… Police officer Fiona MacLeish has been ordered to step back from her role in Police Scotland. Haunted by the murder of her parents, she’s dangerously close to breaking point: and is back in her remote childhood home nestled in a valley on the Scottish border. But there’s a terrifying storm coming…

Called to investigate the bloodstained aftermath of an eventful Christmas party, detectives Anderson & Costello discover that the holiday season can be anything but merry. A family man is stabbed to death at a crowded Christmas Ice Show. Murder in plain sight. No clues, no witnesses, no known motive.

Good cops have no use for coincidence. When a driver slams his pickup truck—twice—into a tandem bike being ridden by Carlos Guzman and his fiancée, Tasha, in Briones, California, it's more than a simple hit-and-run; the driver clearly intended to harm them. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman gets the call with the news of her son's accident and wastes no time racing to his side. She is greeted by Police Captain Eddie Mitchell, formerly of Posadas County, who allows Estelle to "consult" on the investigation—but only to a point.

Posadas County, sitting along New Mexico's southern border, has enjoyed a surge in visitors, jobs, and prosperity since rancher Miles Waddell used much of his inherited half billion to create an internationally renowned astronomy complex atop Torrance Mesa. Passion, not profit, drives Waddell. Yet benefits include a narrow-gauge train linking the village of Posadas to NightZone. But a ripple of unease is felt across the county with the arrival of developer - no, speculator - Kyle Thompson.

On prom night, Caroline Winterfield walked away from the ruins of an abandoned mansion called Haven Cliff and into the woods…never to be seen again. Only her three best friends know what really happened. But a secret is a secret, and a promise is a promise—even when it shatters lifelong friendships. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of that night, Midge, Kelly, and Talia reunite at Haven Cliff, now a gleaming architectural jewel. But they aren’t alone. Someone is watching.

When a fiery-haired Dover women is found dead in a remote mountain campsite, the matriarch of the hill people demands justice. The gruesome murder scene is like nothing Sheriff Sadie Mills has seen before and as she navigates backwoods' politics, her search for the truth becomes a fight for survival. Surrounded by wilderness is Possum Gap, the isolated town in Kentucky where dark secrets and violence runs rife among its people.

Ein atmosphärischer Frankreich-Krimi. Sainte-Valérie, ein idyllisches Dorf in der Provence inmitten von Weinbergen und Olivenhainen. Der ehemalige Pariser Kommissar Pierre Durand würde den Spätsommer in seiner Wahlheimat genießen, wenn ihn nicht gerade seine Freundin verlassen hätte. Doch auch mit der dörflichen Ruhe ist es plötzlich vorbei: Der Lokalcasanova wird ermordet in einem Weinkeller aufgefunden – neben einem Rezept für ein Coq au vin. War es ein makabrer Racheakt eines gehörnten Ehemanns? Die Dorfbewohner halten fest zusammen.

“Dispute in progress, lethal weapons involved.” Deputy Pegasus Quincy takes the call to resolve violence on a Friesian horse ranch in Arizona. Intent on his own personal vendetta, partner Shepherd Malone refuses to declare a murder in a fatal fire at the ranch. Peg unwisely circumvents the law to investigate anyway. Two families feuding over water rights, a Gypsy clan suspected of drug dealing, and a blackmailer on the loose, all lead Pegasus astray on her quest to find the killer in a desert mountain town beset by flash floods and arsenic-laced creeks.

That brash decision lands Pegasus Quincy in the midst of a hostile murder situation. She alienates her new partner and almost gets him killed. She ignores regulations and jeopardizes an ongoing investigation. Just when she thinks things couldn’t get worse - they do! She encounters the Nettle family: an insanely jealous wife, a banished son, and a sister whose little girl has been traumatized by an explosion at the illicit family whiskey still.

Sheriff Wade Mackay needed a break. Little did he know, a day of fishing would land him right into the aftermath of a deadly accident. The only survivor is a woman who doesn't remember her name and has no identification. Wade's instincts ignite when he notices the telltale marks of old bruises on Jane Doe. What hidden truths lie beneath the layers of her forgotten past? For true crime writer Dougal Lachlan, Twisted Cedars holds secrets that refuse to stay buried.

En la inhóspita inmensidad de las estepas mongolas, una familia de nómadas realiza un macabro descubrimiento: el cuerpo de una niña de cinco años enterrada junto con su triciclo. El comisario Yeruldelgger, un tipo temperamental marcado por la tragedia y a quien su trabajo ha llevado casi al límite de la locura, observa la escena del crimen con una mezcla de perplejidad y agotamiento infinitos. Apenas cinco horas antes se encontraba en Ulán Bator, en las oficinas de una empresa china, investigando la aparición de tres cadáveres salvajemente mutilados.

The deliciously twisty twenty-fifth novel in the much-loved Libby Sarjeant audiobook series by Lesley Cookman.

When Daniela Cain returns to her small hometown after seven years’ absence, she finds that flooding has left the village all but deserted. She’s there to collect something she left in her childhood home, then she plans to leave. But upon entering the old house she discovers her younger sister’s body half-submerged in the water. As Daniela tries to work out what happened to Auryn, she uncovers dark secrets from her childhood as one of four sisters in the household, when the Cain’s and another local family begin to turn on each other with devastating results.

The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston’s ruling families arranges to have the case assigned to Detective Justin Savile, the charming black sheep of the dynasty that founded the town. Aided by his wise-cracking partner and a young woman from the Carolina mountains whose strength and love rescues him from his own destructive impulses, Savile sets out to unravel the deceit hidden in Hillston’s past.

Luc Verlains delikatester Fall. Hinter dem Glanz der schönen Welt kulinarischer Hochgenüsse entdeckt Luc Verlain eine raue Wirklichkeit voll Neid, Konkurrenz und brutaler Arbeitsbedingungen. Es ist der Höhepunkt der französischen Gourmetsaison: Die Spitzenköche und Restaurantbetreiber fiebern der Vergabe der Sterne des Guide Michelin entgegen. Ausgerechnet in der renommierten "Villa Auguste" wird der berühmteste Restaurantkritiker des Landes noch während der Vorspeise vergiftet. Dabei sollte seine Höchstwertung doch die Karriere des legendären Auguste Fontaine krönen.

Im tiefsten Sauerland einen Bauernhof voll verrückter Tiere hüten? Davon ist Stadtpflanze Sabin nicht sonderlich begeistert, denn im wahren Leben sucht sie Schwerverbrecher und keine verschollenen Esel. Aber was tut man nicht alles, damit die beste Freundin beruhigt in die Flitterwochen fliegen kann. Dass Sabin gleichzeitig vor Ort ihrem neuen – und sehr heißen! - Kollegen dabei hilft, in einer Diebstahlserie zu ermitteln, braucht ja niemand zu erfahren.

Daniel Kind's relationship with Miranda is on the rocks. After the bright lights of London, Miranda feels isolated in the Lake District and Daniel fears that she will just up and leave. And Miranda wouldn't be the first: ten years ago Emma Bestwick left her cottage and never returned. Her disappearance went unaccounted for, much to the chagrin of DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the local Cold Case Review Team. But in a small, rural community, someone is bound to know something. And that someone has recently started calling the local newspaper and dropping hints about Emma's death.