Winter Women

When Detective Karen Hart hears a scream echoing out of beautiful Lincoln Cathedral one snowy evening, she is the first officer on the scene. In the chapel a man lies murdered, a bloody cross carved into his forehead. A note to the police from the murderer, signed by "The Cleanser", confirms their worst fears: this sadistic slaying is the first of many. When early leads become dead ends, Karen starts to wonder if there’s a link to a rumoured conspiracy within police ranks - particularly when an abrasive new officer is assigned to the case.

Spring, 1890. The long New York winter is over, the buds are blossoming, and romance is in the air. But not all’s right in Gilded-Age Manhattan. Genevieve, a society journalist, and her fiancé, Daniel, are working with photographer Dagmar Hansen on an investigation into the House of Refuge, a children’s workhouse, inspired by Daniel’s near incarceration when he was young. Genevieve is also working on her own piece for the Globe about the Sunflower Mission House, which burned down in a suspicious fire.

From USA Today best-selling author Willow Winters comes the conclusion to the heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense trilogy, Irresistible Attraction.

I should feel shame for not wanting this to end, but he doesn’t want it to end either. When the darkness sets in, the flames all flickered out, and the loud click of the locks signal it’s over, that’s when reality comes back. The war. The drugs. All of the lies that leave a tangled web for me to get lost in. I don’t want any of it. I only want him. Jase Cross. My enemy. And yet, the only person I trust...Jase Cross will be my downfall.

Janine Potter grew up on the other side of the tracks. Her mother, Nancy, struggled with just about everything—alcohol, men, money—and Janine made a pledge to herself that she would never be like her. At age nineteen, Janine met Jack Potter, the son of an oil tycoon, and never looked back. Her life became a series of cocktail parties and multi-million-dollar apartments all across the world, and rubbing elbows with celebrities. Slowly, memory of her mother faded, although the trauma never really did.

Amelia Amesbury—widow, mother, and countess—has a secret. Amelia writes for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion, relationships, and manners under the pen name Lady Agony. But when a lady’s maid writes Amelia to ask for advice when she believes her mistress has been murdered—and then ends up a victim herself—Amelia is determined to solve the case.

Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.

Hannah Hickok is looking forward to her first Christmas in Casper Creek. She has plans for cookies, cuddles with her fiancé Cooper Wyatt, and a visit from Chris Kringle. Instead, the man who visits isn’t the one Hannah was inspecting. No, it’s her former fiancé Michael…and he’s arrived with an agenda. Michael has more attitude than brains, and he’s ready to make life difficult for Hannah…right up to the point where his new fiancée is killed and her body goes missing from the morgue.

As the holiday season lights up Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece's beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. Add to the mix a tasty staff competition—a peppermint bark-off—along with Victorian costumes for this year's Dickensian Christmas theme, and Pepper almost forgets to be nervous about meeting her fisherman boyfriend's brother for the first time. But when a young woman working in her friend Vinny's wine shop is brutally assaulted, costumed revelers and holiday cheer are the last things on Pepper's mind.

Lexi Winter is tough, and has stood on her own two feet since childhood, when she was a victim of notorious paedophile: the Spider. All she cares about now is a roof over her head and her long-term relationship with Johnny Walker. She isn't particular about who she sleeps with...as long as they pay before leaving. Lexi is also an ace hacker, tracking and entrapping local paedophiles and reporting them to the cops. When she finds a particularly dangerous paedophile who the police can't touch, she decides to gather enough evidence to put him away. Instead, she's a witness to his death.

Poland, 1943: Please don't do this! Her shrill cry pierces the night air, the screams breaking the silence of the falling snow. But the man she calls to does not turn, vanishing into the darkness with a child clasped in his arms.

When a string of bodies are discovered high up in the branches of trees near the Canadian border, FBI Special Agent Katie Winter is called in to hunt down the killer responsible for the bizarre crime. What can his signature mean? And where will he strike again?

A string of murders around a frozen lake on the American-Canadian border leads the FBI and Canada to create an elite unit to tackle cross-border killers. FBI BAU Special Agent Katie Winter, originally from the Upper Peninsula and accustomed to its harsh winters and rough terrain, is the perfect candidate—yet with the childhood disappearance of her sister still haunting her, it was the one place Katie had hoped never to return.

When a team of sled dogs uncovers the remains of a murder victim, the annual sled dog festival brings a string of suspects. In this frozen tundra, can Katie stop the killer before he chooses his next victim?

When her Great-Aunt Jessabelle passes away and leaves her home to Samantha, Sam and her daughters, Darcy and Rachelle, begin refurbishment on The Jessabelle House, a glorious house not far from the town of Siasconset on Nantucket. Once there, Samantha discovers her aunt's diaries, which reveal dramatic secrets from the past—and still more reasons not to trust the Colemans.

Berlin, Sommer 1949: Die Redakteurin Vera Lessing hat während des Zweiten Weltkrieges ihre Eltern und ihren Mann verloren. Sie will vor allem eines - die traumatischen Erlebnisse für immer hinter sich lassen. Doch als ihr Jugendfreund und Kollege Jonathan auf mysteriöse Weise ums Leben kommt, wird sie unweigerlich in seine Arbeit hineingezogen. Jonathan hat Recherchen über ehemalige Kriegsverbrecher betrieben. Gleichzeitig stand er im persönlichen Kontakt mit einer jungen Frau namens Marie Weißenburg, eine Sekretärin im Stab Konrad Adenauers.

Noch kurz vor seinem Tod nimmt ihr Vater den Schwestern Nina und Meredith das Versprechen ab, sich um die pflegebedürftige Mutter zu kümmern. Doch der Versuch, dieses Versprechen einzulösen, gerät zur Zerreißprobe – die Mutter war ihr Leben lang kalt und abweisend zu ihren Töchtern, was bei Meredith und Nina tiefe Spuren hinterlassen hat. Denn auch sie haben Schwierigkeiten, Nähe zuzulassen, und drohen die Liebe ihrer Männer zu verlieren. Doch dann kommen sie dem Geheimnis der Mutter auf die Spur, das sie in eine weit entfernte Vergangenheit führt.

Ivy Gover, a curmudgeonly middle-aged charwoman with some slightly witchy talents, inherits a rural cottage in Buckinghamshire and takes up residence near the tiny village of Little Warby. Having settled in with a rescued dog and a pet pigeon, she manages, despite her anti-social instincts, to have surprising effects on her new neighbors. But her biggest challenge will likely be the twelve-year-old runaway who shows up at her door.

Florence Beaumarie möchte mit ihrem charmanten Freund Charles Florentin entspannte Tage in dessen Landhaus im idyllischen Saignon im Luberon verbringen. Die ehemalige Pariser Kommissarin hofft auf stille Stunden vor dem Kamin, Wanderungen über winterliche Lavendelfelder und die Gelegenheit, ihre Beziehung zu Charles auszuloten. Doch schon am Tag ihrer Anreise wird eine junge Frau vor dem Polizeikommissariat von Avignon erschossen. So schnell ist es mit der Idylle vorbei. Die resolute Madame Beaumarie nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und stößt auf einige Überraschungen.

Nach einem Unfall fängt Troja noch einmal neu an und macht sich als Privatdetektivin selbstständig. Doch das ist alles andere als einfach, denn zahlende Klienten und seriöse Aufträge sind dünn gesät, und als Blondine hat man es ganz und gar nicht leicht im harten Detektivalltag. Trojas Karriere nimmt allerdings rasant Fahrt auf, nachdem sie bei dem exzentrischen Witwer Titus Conti als Mitbewohnerin eingezogen ist. Ehe sie sich's versieht, steckt sie mitten drin in einem seltsamen Fall von Kunstraub.