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Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are attending the re-opening of Tyrone’s Castle, an ancient Cornish inn originally built by smugglers. Over dinner that night, the guests entertain one another with ghost stories inspired by local legends and superstitions. But it would appear that the curse of Tyrone’s Castle has struck for real when one of their number disappears into thin air. And then another....

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag - cars, houses, women. That's why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children's medicine. While the official story is that a psycho tampered with bottles, the boy's mother believes something much more sinister is at work...and the trail leads right back to the pharmaceutical company.

Private investigator Sebastian Clifford and his partner Birdie step into the world of celebrity when a star of children's TV turns to them for help. She's being blackmailed by someone who knows about her murky past, and she's desperate to keep it hidden. But silence comes at a price, and it's one she can't afford to pay. Clifford, who knows better than anyone what it's like to be punished for one mistake, agrees to help. As they dig deeper, they discover that everyone has secrets, and some are dark enough to kill for.

Retired army Sergeant Boonzie McCulloch travels to the wintry Highlands of Scotland to help a relative in danger but is soon deeper in it himself than he’d bargained for. Ruthless, controlling thugs are running amok across the region and will kill anybody to get their hands on a historic hoard of lost gold treasure....

When PI Callie Munro finds her tech specialist murdered inside his fortress-like Edinburgh flat, she knows the killing wasn’t random. He let his killer in. What he left behind is far more dangerous: surveillance footage of a hit-and-run that official records insist never happened. As Callie digs deeper, witnesses begin to vanish. She suspects that a covert government operation is monitoring civilians and silencing anyone who gets too close.

It is the year 1939 and Adam Paradise, the creature of Frankenstein legend, has returned to civilization to discover his place in the world. While enjoying an evening of moviegoing in Chinatown with his friend Hank, they end up in the middle of a brazen robbery. Adam thwarts the holdup, which puts him on the hit list of not only the Tongs, but Yakuza killers, the Italian mob, and a mysterious mastermind bent on starting an ethnic gang war.

Jamie Sinclair is only meant to be minding the cat. A temporary house-sitting job in a windswept Scottish seaside town feels straightforward enough. Keep the place ticking over. Tackle a few handyman jobs. Enjoy time away from London, with sea views and the steady company of a glossy black cat. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

Prairie Nightingale, PI, has it all: great kids, a private detective agency run by brilliant women, and maybe a handsome FBI situationship. When her daughter’s best friend asks her to look into a bitter family estrangement, Prairie is reluctant to take on a case that requires even more life/work balance than she’s already attempting—especially with her parents visiting from out of town.

The DNA evidence should have made the rape a slam dunk case. But after the evidence disappeared from a police locker, the man accused of brutally raping a popular actor’s daughter walked free. Hired by the actor, private detective Dan Reno’s job seemed simple enough: discover who took the...

Some murders are meant to be seen. FBI Agent Sebastian Price has worked homicides for years, but the body in the warehouse changes everything. Crucified on the wall. Throat torn out. And when Sebastian starts digging into who the victim really was, he realizes this isn't just murder. It's a message.

Cuando un joven millonario neoyorquino se esfuma tras una noche de fiesta, nadie parece preocupado: ni sus amigos, acostumbrados a sus excentricidades, ni la policía, que prefiere cerrar el caso como una huida voluntaria. Solo su prometida sabe que algo va mal. Por eso contrata a Toni Galán, un investigador privado con un instinto especial para los secretos más turbios y los casos que nadie más quiere tocar. Lo que comienza como una búsqueda rutinaria pronto se transforma en un rompecabezas mortal.

Retired police detective inspector Thomas Maitland has rented a house in Cornwall; he's going to paint his way to recovery from the experiences of the spring. A local woman with an intriguingly expensive collection of modern art wants to put on a show of his work. But Maitland's next door...

Millie Hargrove traut ihren Augen nicht, als sie die Transportkiste für das neue Theaterstück öffnet: Statt eines chinesischen Glücksdrachen liegt darin ein toter Koch – mit einem japanischen Hackmesser in der Brust. Während Sheriff Rick Moreno wegen Zahnschmerzen kaum weiß, wo ihm der Kopf steht, nimmt Millie die Ermittlungen einfach selbst in die Hand. Doch nichts ist so, wie es scheint: Der Restaurantbesitzer übernimmt kurzerhand das Kochen für seinen ermordeten Angestellten, bevor eine zweite Leiche auftaucht.

Der Pastor in Estherwieck wird tot im Watt aufgefunden. Die Polizei geht von einem Verbrechen aus. Als eine frühere Freundin des Pastors als vermisst gemeldet wird, gerät Niklas John unter Verdacht. Als deren sterbliche Überreste in der Nähe einer alten Marinekapelle gefunden werden und Niklas den Verdacht nicht ausräumen kann, bittet er Fentje Jacobsen als Anwältin um Hilfe. Können die beiden gemeinsam den wahren Mörder finden?

Ein Rauchfangkehrer fällt bei der Arbeit von einem Hausdach und stirbt. Die Polizei geht von einem Unfall aus. Doch der Chef des Toten ist anderer Meinung. Er vermutet Fremdeinwirkung und beauftragt Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson mit privaten Ermittlungen.

Tyrone Vollmann ist dem Grauen des Pazifikkrieges entkommen und fristet sein Dasein als Privatdetektiv. Alkohol und Drogen helfen ihm, sein Kriegstrauma zu ertragen. Eines Tages sucht ihn ein Psychiater auf, der mehrere Veteranen in seinem Sanatorium behandelt, die ebenfalls von Visionen gequält werden. Visionen, die Vollmann kennt.

Ishmael Jones is someone who can’t afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He’s employed to search out secrets, investigate mysteries, and shine a light in dark places. Sometimes, he kills people. Invited by his employer, the enigmatic Colonel, to join him and his family for Christmas, Ishmael arrives at the grand but isolated Belcourt Manor in the midst of a blizzard to find that the Colonel has mysteriously disappeared.

London is known for its bustle and intrigues, but the sedate English countryside can host - or hide - any number of secrets. Frances, the widowed Countess of Harleigh, needs a venue for her sister Lily's imminent wedding, away from prying eyes. Risings, George Hazleton's family estate in Hampshire, is a perfect choice, and soon Frances, her beloved George, and other guests have gathered to enjoy the usual country pursuits - shooting, horse riding, and romantic interludes in secluded gardens.

Omstrede en skatryk oud-politikus Armand Deysel is vermoor, en Kassie en Rooi het nie minder nie as ses verdagtes. ’n Britse ondersoeker is op die spoor van die waardevolle Doolhof-halssnoer, en ’n platsakman steier telkens terug van die samelewing se dwarsklappe.

When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius wouldn’t normally accept a job this vague, a mutual friend dangles the prospect of a very rare orchid in exchange for his services, and Wolfe can’t resist. With a mind to suss out useful backstage gossip, Wolfe turns to his faithful assistant, Archie Goodwin, to impersonate a journalist in order to speak to the cast. Though Goodwin’s conversations prove unfruitful, on his last day at the theater, the director is murdered in his sound-proof booth.