Rural Town Mystery

Farbenprächtige Rosenfelder, ein geheimes Archiv der Düfte, mysteriöse Todesfälle... Es ist Mitte Mai in der Provence. Pierre Durand genießt das Zusammenleben mit Charlotte, doch als deren Jugendfreundin Anouk auftaucht, ist es mit der Idylle vorbei. Die Rosenzüchterin steht unter Mordverdacht – ihr Nachbar wurde tot in seinem »Archiv der Düfte« aufgefunden, wertvolle Dokumente fehlen. Charlotte ist von der Unschuld ihrer Freundin überzeugt. Die Beweislage ist alles andere als eindeutig, und so macht Pierre sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

The livestock sniper switches to humans. As the phantom’s death toll mounts, tensions rise. Jergen County becomes an armed camp. People carry guns everywhere. With accidental shootings and the sniper’s deadly work, the death toll skyrockets. The livestock sniper switches to humans. As the phantom’s death toll mounts, tensions rise. Finally, Jergen County becomes an armed camp. People carry guns everywhere. With accidental shootings and the sniper’s deadly work, the death toll skyrockets.

Thorny Wallace returns to her hometown for peace and quiet. WWII is distant thunder in the small rural town, but Los Angeles is always a clear and present threat. As she begins to look into an old death, she finds that there is always more going on in the small quiet town than meets the eye. But, when she thinks she has the players figured out, the FBI shows up.

Peace was always an elusive thing for Detective Carter Boyce, even before his wife died. Since then, living has become even harder. Now, investigating what looks like a murder suicide, Carter begins piecing back together a life he didn’t even know was broken. He stumbles back into his childhood neighborhood, where Old Man Kopchek is still missing a leg, but none of his acerbic wit. The old man begins teaching him the magic of savoring the mundane and the seemingly unimportant.

Port Kingerton: the insular cray-fishing town at the butt-end of South Australia, where everyone knows everyone. And everyone knows too that when Abigail Fancy left town at seventeen, she hung out the window of her boyfriend's Corolla, middle fingers held high, swearing she'd never come back. And she hasn't, until now.

1987: It's late summer and a time of change when a 17-year-old girl leaves the local shopping center in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never seen again. Her unsolved disappearance is never far from the town's memory. There's those who grew up in the shadow of her loss whose own lives were altered forever, and those who know more than they're saying. It just takes an outsider to ask the right questions.

Dass Sandra Flemming, die Inhaberin des Higher Barton Romantic Hotel, ein Händchen für das Lösen von Kriminalfällen hat, hat sich im beschaulichen Örtchen herumgesprochen. So bittet die Farmerin Creeda Sandra um Hilfe, da die alte Dame befürchtet, von ihrem Ehemann getötet zu werden. Sie ist sich sicher, dass er ihr regelmäßig Gift ins Essen mischt, denn er möchte die Farm verkaufen und hat eine jüngere Geliebte. Doch ein Arzt findet bei Creeda keine Hinweise auf eine Vergiftung.

Irgendwas war heute anders an Hilke, ganz sicher. Richtig: Sie hatte einen zartroten Lippenstift aufgetragen. Was war denn hier los!? Ernst Mannsen ist irritiert. Hat der Inhaber des neuen Luxushotels im Dorf tatsächlich was mit der netten Tourismusbeauftragten angefangen? Doch sicher nur, weil er sich davon Vorteile für sein Hotel verspricht. Hilke passt so gar nicht zu diesem Großmaul vom Festland. Doch sie scheint bis über beide Ohren verknallt zu sein. Keine Zeit mehr für die Kirchenorgel, fürs Brötchenschmieren beim Blutspenden des Roten Kreuzes oder für die Hilfe in Minna Paulsens Kinderclub.

Cuando una figura misteriosa aparece en Three Pines un frío día de noviembre, lo primero que sienten Armand Gamache y el resto de los vecinos es curiosidad. Luego, recelo. El recién nombrado comisario de la Sûreté de Québec sospecha que la criatura tiene raíces profundas y oscuras intenciones. Sin embargo, confía en que sus temores crecientes no se hagan realidad. Unos días más tarde, la triste figura se ha evaporado y se halla un cadáver en la iglesia...

Lavendel-Duft und ein mörderischer Rosenkrieg: Mit einer Leiche in einem Badesee beginnt der 5. Provence-Krimi um die sympathische junge Kommissarin Lilou Braque. Die junge Kommissarin Lilou Braque und ihr Freund Simon wollen einen wunderbar warmen Herbsttag im beschaulichen Carpentras für einen Badeausflug nutzen – und machen eine furchtbare Entdeckung: Im Wasser des Lac du Péty treibt der leblose Körper einer Frau. Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Unfall hin. Kurz darauf wird Lilou zu einem weiteren Todesfall gerufen, offenbar hat sich der Notar Jean-Claude Sousteron mit seiner eigenen Waffe erschossen.

Beset on all sides, time is running out: to solve the case, and to save his future... Harry Probert-Lloyd has inherited the estate of Glanteifi and appointed his assistant John as under-steward. But his true vocation, to be coroner, is under threat. Against his natural instincts, Harry must campaign if he is to be voted as coroner permanently. On the hustings, Harry and John are called to examine the body of Nicholas Rowland, a pioneering schoolteacher whose death may not be the accident it first appeared.

Solve a murder, bring a killer to justice... but at what cost? Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has begun work as the acting coroner of Teifi Valley with solicitor's clerk John Davies as his assistant. When a faceless body is found on an isolated beach, Harry must lead the inquest. But his dogged pursuit of the truth begins to ruffle feathers. Especially when he decides to work alongside a local doctor with a dubious reputation and experimental theories considered radical and dangerous.

Poor judgements have tragic consequences... The latest in the unputdownable Teifi Valley series. The Teifi Valley's coroner, Harry Probert-Lloyd, is struggling: with the blindness that drove him home from London, with the county magistrates and with an estate teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. He needs an escape, so when Dr Benton Reckitt is asked to give a second opinion on the apparently natural death of young Lizzie Rees, Harry willingly goes with him. But mistakes are made.

Né movente né testimoni per la nuova indagine di Jules Rosset e una Alma sempre più riluttante. All'alba di un giorno di maggio, il corpo di un uomo viene trovato tra i binari della stazione di Chiavari, dilaniato dal treno merci delle 4.43. Quando l'ispettore Jules Rosset si prepara a seguire l’iter richiesto nei casi di suicidio, qualcosa di stonato lo mette in allarme. A complicare la situazione c’è l’Alfonsina, ricoverata in un centro di riabilitazione cardiologica dopo un piccolo intervento.

Dal mare alla montagna: un viaggio che comincia con una vacanza e si trasforma in un nuovo intrigante caso per Jules e Alma Che cosa ci fanno Jules e Alma, con tanto di prole e suocera al seguito, su un pulmino a nove posti stracarico di bagagli? Strano a dirsi, stanno per concedersi una vacanza dove l’ispettore Rosset è nato e cresciuto: in Valle d’Aosta. Neanche il tempo di scendere dal pulmino, però, e Jules si trova invischiato nel caso più destabilizzante della sua carriera: Lia Favre, amica di infanzia e suo primo amore, è scomparsa senza lasciare tracce.

L'ispettore Jules Rosset deve rinunciare ad Alma, la colf dallo “sguardo” speciale? È una fredda sera di metà dicembre quando alla Radici & Figli, azienda di arte sacra, divampa un incendio. I resti di un cadavere carbonizzato e una misteriosa scritta in arabo sono gli elementi con cui l'ispettore Jules Rosset si ritrova a fare i conti. Come se non bastasse, Alma ha altri pensieri per la testa.

Un’indagine in bilico tra lecito e illecito per l’ispettore Rosset e la sfuggente Alma. È l’alba di una fresca mattina di settembre quando Jill piomba nel sonno dimenticandosi della piantina di cannabis che gli hanno regalato a un rave. Cinque mesi dopo un vecchio Ford Transit con tre cadaveri e un grosso carico di marijuana si capotta in un bosco nel cuore dell’entroterra ligure. È un’indagine dai contorni sfocati quella in cui si trovano catapultati l’ispettore Jules Rosset e l’inquieta Alma.

Twenty years after her brother Callum mysteriously vanished, Orla Payne is still haunted by his disappearance. The case was closed after her uncle's suicide - the police believed he killed himself in the Hanging Wood out of guilt over murdering the boy, even though a body was never found. Daniel Kind recommends Orla contact DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the Lake District's Cold Case Review Team, to see if she can discover the truth about what really happened all those years ago.

Samuel Williams braucht eine Auszeit. Nicht nur erwartet seine Lebenspartnerin Marit ein Kind von ihm – seit Weihnachten will ihm auch die Kriminalkommissarin Maja-Sofia Rantatalo nicht aus dem Kopf gehen. Auf Anraten seines Mentors zieht sich der Pfarrer für ein paar Tage in ein verschneites Schweigekloster zurück, um über seine Zukunft nachzudenken. Doch die Ruhe wird jäh gestört, als Maja-Sofia ihm einen unverhofften Besuch abstattet: Eine alte Frau wurde ermordet, und die Spuren führen direkt zu der Klostergemeinschaft.

È una vita tranquilla quella di Nestor "il Greco", proprietario di un piccolo negozio antiquario a Chiavari. Finché una sera la giovane moglie Elena, troppo bella, troppo esuberante, troppo tutto, non ritorna più a casa. Il mattino dopo un pescatore aggancia con i suoi palamiti il corpo di una donna... Toccherà all'ispettore Jules Rosset e all'efficiente Alma, suo insospettabile grimaldello di fiducia, riportare a galla la verità. Perché non è tutto oro quello che luccica.