Rural Town Mystery

With a mix of Anglo, Native, and Hispanic cultures, the village of Bonney, New Mexico, has its share of folklore and legends, but no one has ever heard of the Ghost Girls before. Three high school girls have convinced their fellow students that they have powers, but now that they're graduating, new recruits are needed to carry on the tradition.

Der Lehrer Steiner hat einen Turm bauen lassen. Angeblich für Vermessungszwecke. Doch im Wirtshaus erzählen sie sich, er beabsichtige, seine Frau dort hinunterzuwerfen. Aber dann liegt er selber unten, mit zerschmettertem Schädel und leeren Augen. Wer hat seinen perfiden Plan für sich missbraucht? Und wer erbt jetzt den Hof, den der Lehrer nie haben wollte? Seine Frau? Oder der ungeliebte Bruder, dessen Name voreilig ins Kriegerdenkmal gemeißelt worden war? Doch er kehrte zurück, und statt seines Lebens hat er nur einen Arm im Krieg gelassen - und jegliche Menschlichkeit.

Agata gegen Goliath - Ein kleines sizilianisches Dorf. Als der Tabbacchere Costanzo plötzlich stirbt, gerät seine Frau Agata ins Visier des rücksichtslosen Bürgermeisters und seines korrupten Klüngels: Sie wollen ihr das üppige, mit Orangen- und Zitronenbäumen bepflanzte Land abnehmen. Doch Agata wehrt sich. Sie schart eine Reihe von Verbündeten um sich. Und die rebellische Gemeinschaft nimmt es mit dem hinterhältigen Bürgermeister und seinen Kumpanen auf... Götz Otto wurde weltweit bekannt mit dem James-Bond-Film "Der Morgen stirbt nie".

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.

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.

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.

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.

At a bleak boys boarding school in Cornwall in the eighties when bullying is rife, Will and his best friend Luke are involved in a horrific incident that results in Luke leaving. Twenty-five years later their paths cross again and memories of a painful childhood come flooding back to haunt them both. Will’s wife, Harmony, is struggling after a miscarriage that has hit her hard, and wishes Will would open up about what happened. But as Will withdraws further, she finds herself drawn to the charismatic stranger from her husband’s past.

Ashley Stone’s new job leaped from dream to nightmare and faster than you can say “small town murder.” Swept into an unimaginable vortex of international intrigue and global terrorism, Ashley has to somehow untangle the motives of a clearly insane mastermind. This is, of course, assuming she can subdue her own demon - a secret so breathtaking she can barely acknowledge it. Meanwhile, dashing Ned Stevens falls hard for Ashley. Abductions, unbridled mayhem, and of course, vicious murder - cruel elements combine to tear Ashley and Ned’s pristine love apart.

McGee Ridge, earthquake-rattled and clinging to the thousand-foot cliffs of the Northern California coast, is nestled in one of a very few truly wild places left in the Lower 48. It is also home to a band of off-grid outlaws who vanished behind the famed Redwood Curtain in the 1960s and whose time there is swiftly coming to an end.

Das Grauen wohnt nebenan... Was tust du, wenn deine Nachbarn versuchen, sich in deinem Leben einzunisten? Mikael ist mit seiner Familie in ein kleines Nest in Südschweden gezogen, wo er einen Neuanfang wagen will. Die Nachbarn sind ausgesprochen reizend, doch die heile Vorstadtidylle trügt: Jeder verbirgt dunkle Geheimnisse, heimliche Sehnsüchte und sogar kriminelle Taten. Dann ereignet sich ein schrecklicher Unfall. Mikaels Frau wird von einem Auto angefahren und ringt mit dem Tod. Mikaels Verdacht erhärtet sich: Es war kein Unglück, sondern eine vorsätzliche Tat.

Das Grauen wohnt nebenan... Was tust du, wenn deine Nachbarn versuchen, sich in deinem Leben einzunisten? Mikael ist mit seiner Familie in ein kleines Nest in Südschweden gezogen, wo er einen Neuanfang wagen will. Die Nachbarn sind ausgesprochen reizend, doch die heile Vorstadtidylle trügt: Jeder verbirgt dunkle Geheimnisse, heimliche Sehnsüchte und sogar kriminelle Taten. Dann ereignet sich ein schrecklicher Unfall. Mikaels Frau wird von einem Auto angefahren und ringt mit dem Tod. Mikaels Verdacht erhärtet sich: Es war kein Unglück, sondern eine vorsätzliche Tat.

In the darkest hour, a blood-soaked teenager flees the rural Gerandaroo football oval. Eight months later, Bess, a young teacher, returns home to Gerandaroo. A childhood game of dare with her former best friend forces Bess to form a women's footy team to play against Denby, a rival town. Bess reluctantly recruits players, but the team has to contend with hostile locals - including Bess's own father. Will this help the small community to come back together - or will it be the final thing that blows everything apart?

When Sassi Stapleton receives a middle-of-the-night phone call to tell her that her beloved grandmother is unwell, she quickly puts her job on hold, packs her ute and sets off on the long drive home, knowing her grandfather will need her. Less than an hour away from Sassi's hometown, Barker, she swerves to miss a roo and her car rolls down an embankment. By the time Sassi is found, her grandmother has already passed away.

All Tara wants is to forget. Home again after years traveling the world, she’s determined to put her painful past behind her. Surrounded by her big, loving, loud family, and with the distraction of her new restaurant, she feels like she’s finally beginning to heal. Then in walks Jace Travers. With one quirk of his beautiful, full lips, he shoots her carefully constructed life to smithereens. She does her best to avoid him, but that quickly proves hard to do when mysterious things begin to happen.

Zahn can't get the missing girl he found—and the one he can't find—out of his mind. Someone in this mountain valley is collecting children, and Zahn is gradually drawn into the case while still trying to break through to his daughter. Then she disappears too.

Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor—an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists. Knox's shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It's not long before more than just the pizza shop is at risk.

Its 1943 and the war continues on in Ambridge. But the minds of the villagers are focused a little closer to home. For many centuries, a local tradition has told of a mystic living in a hermit’s cave just outside the village. Legend tells that she has hidden her prophecies around the area, but none have ever been found. When a visiting academic arrives in Ambridge, there for war work, but personally intrigued by the prophecies, he becomes determined to find out more. And as the prophesies are uncovered, it appears the mystic knows more than anyone could have predicted.

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.

Ein Geheimnis kommt selten allein! Mia will die Zelte in der Stadt abbrechen und im Haus ihrer Großmutter mitten im Schwarzwald neu beginnen. Dass sie allerdings gleich am ersten Abend ihres neuen Lebens gemeinsam mit ihrer besten Freundin Chrissi bei Nacht und Nebel einen völlig verwahrlosten struppigen Esel klaut und anschließend in ihrer Scheune über eine Leiche stolpert, gehört natürlich nicht zum Plan.