Rural Town Mystery

Erica Weisz, a new substitute teacher in the small town of Frosthaven, Florida, has a dangerous secret. When two gunmen attack the school where she works, it becomes impossible to keep the truth buried. Wounded and running for her life, she must learn to trust the only person who can help her, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agent Justin Thiery. But Thiery has his own personal demons to overcome if he is to save Erica and find redemption for himself.

After many months of grief over her brother's illness and death, journalist Zara Ellison is finally ready to begin a new chapter of her life and make a commitment to her boyfriend, Senior Constable Jack Higgins. But when she's assigned to investigate the Barker arrest, Jack begins to believe that Zara is working against him.

Alma, periodista y escritora de treinta y cuatro años, regresa a Paraíso, la urbanización en pleno campo en la que vivió hasta la adolescencia, veinte años después de que un trágico accidente acabara con su felicidad familiar. Llamada por un impulso inconsciente, alquila la casa en plena naturaleza donde creció para tratar de reencontrarse con los recuerdos, en la esperanza de que sirvan de respuesta a sus preguntas vitales.

Jon Frederick spent his adolescence protecting his mentally ill brother and worrying about his parents' farm as it headed toward bankruptcy. So when Mandy Baker, the alluring new girl in town, pursued him, he was easily enamored. But on the day he ended their tryst, Mandy vanished. There is no doubt in the small Minnesota town of Pierz that the flirtatious girl is dead, and there is little doubt that Jon got away with murder.

Red Dirt Country features the thrilling return of Detective Dave Burrows, now a member of the stock squad in Western Australia. Recovering from an undercover case in outback Queensland, Dave Burrows finally returns to Perth, to join his pregnant wife, Melinda, and their small daughter, Bec. Things have been off-kilter between Mel and Dave for some time and nothing he says or does seems to make it right.

Was würden wir tun, um unsere schamvollsten Geheimnisse zu bewahren? In der Kleinstadt Miracle Creek geht eine Scheune, die zur Therapiezwecken eingesetzt wurde, in Flammen auf. Zwei Menschen sterben - Kitt, die eine Familie mit fünf Kindern zurücklässt, und Henry, ein achtjähriger autistischer Junge. Im Prozess wegen Brandstiftung und Mord sitzt Henrys Mutter Elizabeth auf der Anklagebank. Hat sie ihren eigenen Sohn ermordet? Die Beweise sind erdrückend. Doch während des Prozesses wird klar: In Miracle Creek hat jeder etwas zu verbergen.

When Orla Macrae receives a letter asking her to return to the family cattle property where she grew up, she does so grudgingly. Her estranged uncle, Palmer, may be dying, but he is the last person she wants to see, especially since she's made a new life far away from where she lost so much. But on his deathbed he utters a few enigmatic words about a secret locked away and a clue as to its whereabouts.

In the vein of The Lovely Bones and The Little Friend, Ghosts of the Missing follows the mysterious disappearance of a 12-year-old girl during a town parade and the reverberations of this tragedy throughout the town.

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.

If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this mystery series set in the small town of White Eagle, Montana. In book 10, Tess and Tony plan a secret wedding ceremony, Nona plans a visit, and Tess and Mike plan a face-to-face meeting with their father. In book 11, Tess fills in at the post office. While on route for the first time in a year, she discovers that her father has left her brother Mike with a baby. In book 12, Tony offers to pay for a televised ad promoting the haunted house, and Tess agrees to act as spokesperson.

Eine Wellness-Oase ist gut für die Nerven – Kriminalermittlungen auch? Die humorvolle Krimi-Reihe kehrt mit ihrem zweiten Fall für Lady Ilse zurück. Nach dem nervenaufreibenden Kriminalfall in Grünwald benötigt Lady Ilse mit ihren Freundinnen Tilde und Marga erst mal eine Entspannungskur. Wo ginge das besser als in dem angesagten Wellnesshotel „Tölzer Oase“? Doch ob die Freundinnen ihre versprochene Erholung bekommen, bleibt fraglich, denn sie werden nicht nur von dem charmanten Franzosen Marcel De'Albray umgarnt, sondern auch von einer unbekannten Frau verfolgt.

Set in 1959, the year the music died, The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic, clock-ticking saga set in a small Montana town. When a fatal car accident shatters ten-year-old Lucas's world, he finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up.

In a small, isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran's life is unravelling. As she fills her days cleaning the caravan park she owns, she is preoccupied by worry — about the behavior of her son, the growing absence of her husband and the strained relationship with her sister. Her one source of solace is slipping out to the beach early in the morning, to watch the birds.

Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children reappear a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect bent on protecting their secrets.

Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself deep in the Missouri woods on a perfect spring day. But there is nothing idyllic about her grim walk - a body has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Detective Jace Budewitz wants Angela on the scene.

A headless stranger is found in the woods of Wild Thyme, a small town in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. All signs point to a man-killing bear, and Officer Henry Farrell would just as soon leave this hunt to the Game Commission. But doubts arise when he discovers the victim was a retired investigator. What drew the investigator to sleepy Wild Thyme? Before Henry can find answers, his own nephew disappears into the hills. Then an old flame dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving Henry as the prime suspect.

Ganz Hummelstich ist im Backfieber! Mit einer überdimensionierten Kirschtorte streben die Dorfbewohner gemeinsam einen Eintrag ins berühmte Buch der Rekorde an. Doch scheinbar versinkt nicht jeder fröhlich bis zu den Ellenbogen im Mehl: Denn, bevor der offizielle Gutachter Viktor Piepenbrink seines Amtes walten kann, wird er in der Jauchegrube des Dorfes aufgefunden - ermordet! Steckt hinter dem feigen Anschlag die neidische Nachbargemeinde? Oder hatte sich der Gutachter Feinde gemacht? Bea und ihre Freunde gehen der Sache auf den Grund.

È mezzogiorno nel convento di Santa Caterina e suor Isabella si stupisce: come mai le campane non suonano? Quando Isabella va a vedere, fa una scoperta terribile: suor Raffaella giace senza vita nel cortile del convento. A un primo sguardo, sembra che la suora sia caduta dal campanile, ma allora qual è il significato del numero che è stato tracciato nella polvere accanto al cadavere? È stato davvero un incidente, come afferma con sicurezza granitica la madre superiora?

Come Away From Her is a boldly written mystery-suspense novel set in the rural town of Black Walnut. The story revolves around the arrival of Tess, a deaf woman running from her past, who unwittingly sets into motion a chain of disturbing events as she is forced to share her secrets with the strangers around her. Her presence upsets the status quo for the townspeople, none more so than for Cap, the pastor of the local church whose life has been marred by substance abuse and tragedy. The morning that Cap discovers a dead body outside the church, life as the town knows it is forever changed.

Myles's courtroom testimony should have put Pryor, their one-eyed ringleader, behind bars after the bank robbery gone wrong, yet somehow Pryor got off scot-free while Myles served time. Now, upon his release, Myles decides he is done with his life of wrongdoing—a change that will only be possible if he can kill Pryor and turn over a new leaf. Pryor has other ideas, and the collision between these two deadly forces soon leaves the ex-con in critical condition, clinging to life in a hospital bed.