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"Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She’s the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was...

"Tea shop owner and bride-to-be Daisy Swanson must solve a murder before she can say “I do” in the latest Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery set in Pennsylvania’s Amish country… Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer. She’s supervising a special tea event to help commemorate the 100-year-anniversary of her town’s historic covered bridge. But the main event is her upcoming wedding to her beloved fiancé Jonas. Somehow...

"1930. Nell Fagan is a journalist on the trail of an intriguing and bizarre mystery: in 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and 300 years later, it happened again. Nell confides in the best sleuth she knows, judge'sdaughter Rachel Savernake. Thank goodness she did, because barely a week later Nell disappears, and Rachel is left to put together the pieces of the puzzle. qLooking for answers, Rachel travels to...

"A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long...

In 1994, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel's Australian South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, and the killer was never found. But 25 years later the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case Detective James Cormack on the trail of the killer. Suspicion is cast over the entire town, fracturing the harmony they have spent years rebuilding. In...

'The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the script on a typical investigation narrative, revealing the biggest law enforcement embarrassment in South Dakota history. In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Police back then didn’t...

"I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him... At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man -- the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down...

"August, una joven de veintitrés años, no cree en casi nada. Ni en los videntes, ni en las amistades que se entablan con facilidad, ni en encontrar esa clase de amor que sale en las películas. Entonces llega Jane. La misteriosa e imposible Jane. Con mucho carácter, una sonrisa amable y el cabello alborotado, aparece para ayudar a August cuando ella más lo necesita. Jane es la persona que August sueña encontrarse en el vagón del metro día...

"Former FBI behavioral analysts River Ryland and Tony St. Clair are asked to assist on a profile to catch the Snowman, a serial killer who has stayed hidden for over twenty years. Twenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging ominously on a tree in the victims' front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end--or so everyone thought. But now crimes...

Leyendas apaches, minas abandonadas y experimentos secretos en la segunda entrega de la nueva serie de Preston & Child que mezcla arqueología, historia, asesinato y suspense. Corrie Swanson, joven agente del FBI, se enfrenta al descubrimiento de un cuerpo momificado en High Lonesome, un pueblo minero de Nuevo México abandonado hace mucho tiempo. El cadáver se encuentra en posición fetal, el rostro presenta un rictus terrorífico y entre sus ropas...