Rural Mystery

In the quiet seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, a man is found unconscious on the beach with a strange symbol carved into his skin. The victim - a local drug addict - has no recollection of who attacked him or how he got there. The sleepy coastal community is sent into shock. And when another victim branded with the same vicious mark dies from his wounds, DI Louise Blackwell realizes she is dealing with a sadistic serial killer. But why is the twisted attacker targeting Weston’s most vulnerable people? And what is the meaning behind the mysterious symbol?

As July 4, 1928, approaches, Sheriff Lily Ross and her family look forward to the opening of an amusement park in a nearby town, created by Chalmer Fitzpatrick - a veteran and lumber mill owner. When Lily is alerted to the possible drowning of a girl, she goes to investigate, and discovers schisms going back several generations, in an ongoing dispute over the land on which Fitzpatrick has built the park.

Quinn Kelley leads a normal life in a small, quiet Texas town. She teaches at Sutter High School with her lifelong best friends, Eli, Bess, and Jess. One ordinary Wednesday afternoon, everyone is taken completely by surprise when the unthinkable happens! Quinn is in the middle of teaching a history lesson to her students when a scream pierces the air. Quinn darts out the door only to find distraught students, including her own son, rushing out into the hallway because their teacher dropped dead in front of them!

Eigentlich sollte Eve Mallow einen Nachruf auf den berühmten Cellisten Bernard Fitzpatrick schreiben. Aber als sie in Saxford St Peter ankommt, ist das ganze Dorf in Aufruhr. Fitzpatrick ist keines natürlichen Todes gestorben, er wurde umgebracht! Bei ihren Interviews hält Eve daher Ausschau nach einem potenziellen Mörder. Und bald ist klar: Im Dorf gibt es kaum jemanden, der dem Musiker wirklich wohl gesonnen war. Doch ist einer der freundlichen Dorfbewohner tatsächlich ein kaltblütiger Mörder?

The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems. In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller - a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic - plans to reconstruct the 5000-year-old stone circle at Avebury.

Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and 100 miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with a label around his neck, asking for him to be kept safe for a week, kept away from Hinton Hollow. Because something was coming.

Twenty-eight-year-old Lexi could have had it all, if it weren’t for that fateful night 10 years ago when she was charged with murder. Now she’s back in her close-knit hometown, Garrison, with a tarnished reputation and a criminal record to match. Her sole mission is to shed her past and learn to live her new life. After all, she already served her time. She spent a decade grieving over what happened to her best friend, even if the details are unclear.

Schweden im tiefsten Winter. Nur widerwillig tritt der ehemalige Großstadtpfarrer Samuel Williams seine neue Stelle in dem verschlafenen Dörfchen Klockarvik an. Doch der Schein trügt: Schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft stößt der Geistliche auf die Leiche des Hotelbesitzers Finn Mats Hansson - und Verdächtige gibt es zuhauf! Samuel Williams macht sich seine Position zunutze, um in seiner neuen Gemeinde nach schwarzen Schafen zu suchen.

Pie witch Reese is living her dream: running the bakery she’s always wanted, selling magical pies, and landing a date with handsome Prince Forrest of the Autumn Court. But people around her start vanishing, returning hours or days later with no memory of their missing time.

Ma tu guarda: un'altra rogna per il povero don Prusòt. Che poi lui non chiede tanto: giusto pace, tranquillità, un bicchiere di vino a pranzo, e magari un piatto di pere caramellate. E invece no, ogni volta ce n'è una a destabilizzare Pravorino, che è sì solo un paesello, ma dà grattacapi come se fosse una città. Questa volta proprio al campo di bocce, tra l'altro. Forse il maresciallo dei Carabinieri dovrà intervenire. Chissà, sembra essere una cosa seria, conviene controllare.

Gli investigatori Maurizio Vivaldi e Alessandro Meucci si ritrovano ad indagare su un’inquietante incongruenza, nell'altrimenti placido paesaggio delle colline astigiane: gli addetti di un piccolo comune di provincia si sono insospettiti, dopo aver visto quattro ragazzine nel cortile del misterioso Antonio Fregapane. Quest'ultimo, agricoltore dai modi schivi, in paese ha fama di essere un tipo strano, che si aggira per i dintorni un po' come uno spettro.

Accepting second best is good for her career, but first-grade teacher Retta Curt delays signing up for the disappointment. Given two weeks to consider her contract, she retreats to Gram’s cottage on Moon Lake, the last place she felt contentment. But the cottage is derelict; Cousin Julie, distant; and Sweet Picks, the family ice cream stand, in danger of folding. A surly newcomer is buying and then running down properties until nothing remains of the idyllic lakeside community she remembers.

When Alastair Stewart loses his wife and unborn child and is badly injured in an ambush in Miami, he moves back home to upstate New York to begin his life over. He opens a private investigation agency. Along the way, he rescues a dog thrown from a moving car. Sherlock becomes his faithful sidekick as he investigates an explosion in a local bluestone quarry. Then a dying mother persuades him to take on a cold case, her autistic son who disappeared 10 years ago. His investigation not only leads him to the boy, now a man, but also a drug and money laundering ring.

When a shocking abduction sends shockwaves through the tranquil town, one woman is thrust into a perilous journey. She's the wife of a trusted colleague in the sheriff's department, making this case deeply personal, and time is running out. This tale is more than just a desperate rescue mission; it's a story of redemption and love. Cate, a woman marked by her past, yearns for her own shot at happiness. Can she truly start over and trust that she's found the love she's always dreamed of?

Tras una larga temporada en Londres, Agatha Raisin regresa a su querido pueblo de Carsely y a su deseado James Lacey, el apuesto coronel retirado que no parece precisamente encantado de tener a su vecina de vuelta. Sin embargo, Agatha apenas tiene tiempo de elaborar nuevas estrategias de conquista cuando se produce un espantoso asesinato. La víctima es la joven y animosa Jessica Tartinck, conflictiva líder de un grupo de excursionistas enfrentada a los relamidos terratenientes locales al reclamar el derecho de paso de los miembros de la asociación a través de sus tierras.

De vuelta a los Cotswolds tras unas largas vacaciones, Agatha Raisin descubre que el objeto de todas sus fantasías, el atractivo James Lacey, ha caído bajo el hechizo de una recién llegada al pueblo. Elegante y divertida, Mary Fortune es también una jardinera excepcional, y su triunfo en las inminentes jornadas de puertas abiertas de los Jardines de Carsely se da casi por seguro. Sin embargo, cuando la bella Mary Fortune es encontrada muerta, enterrada cabeza abajo en un macetero, Agatha Raisin vuelve a la carga para desenmascarar al asesino.

Es ist so weit: Endlich können Taissas Nachbarn Magnus und Vinzent ihre Pension "Zur Berghütte" eröffnen! Und die ersten Gäste reisen auch schon an. Die Teilnehmer der alljährlichen Notarkonferenz hat es nach Bad Bekenborn verschlagen und die Gruppe macht es sich in der Pension gemütlich. Womit niemand gerechnet hat: Unter den Notaren befindet sich ein Mörder! Gleich am ersten Tag liegt eine Leiche im Billardzimmer - mit einem Messer im Rücken. Vinzent und Magnus sind entsetzt. Wenn das rauskommt, können sie ihre Pension gleich wieder schließen.

Lilien, Leichen und Lemon Curd. Die junge Gärtnerin Mags Blake begleitet als Expertin eine Reisegruppe zu den spektakulärsten Gärten in Südengland. Zwischen atemberaubender Natur und außergewöhnlichen Unterkünften könnte das Leben kaum schöner sein, doch irgendetwas stimmt nicht mit dieser scheinbar harmlosen Gruppe aus Garten-Enthusiasten. Bald häufen sich die seltsamen Vorfälle, bis einer von ihnen tödlich endet... Nun ist es an Mags herauszufinden, wer in der Reisegruppe nicht das ist, was er zu sein scheint.

Violetta detta Vetta, giornalista di viaggi in una redazione romana, si è fatta spedire dal suo capo nell'isola della sua infanzia, Carloforte, dopo aver trovato nella giacca del fidanzato una scatoletta: una scatoletta da anello di fidanzamento. Terrorizzata dalla prospettiva del matrimonio, oltre che dal tradimento di Federico con cui si erano sempre detti che mai e poi mai si sarebbero convinti a quel "mercimonio orrendo", Vetta approda sull'isola pronta a scrivere un reportage leggero sulla tonnara e a godersi qualche giorno da sola.

Schon wieder ein Toter in Bad Bekenborn! Ausgerechnet den netten Herrn Berger von nebenan hat es erwischt! War es wieder ein Mord? Noch bevor die Tankstellen-Besitzerin und Hobbydetektivin Taissa Lausen der Sache nachgehen kann, flattert die nächste Zahlungsforderung vom Finanzamt herein. Da kommt das Angebot von Bauer Dirkschneider gerade recht: Er will ihr ein Stück Land abkaufen. Doch Taissa ist nicht sicher, ob dabei alles mit rechten Dingen zugeht. Während sie noch grübelt, landet plötzlich ihr bester Stammkunde Antonius im Krankenhaus.