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A young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.

"The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor-well, to themselves, anyway-Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn't give...

Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, awakened to a sense of her own danger, pursues the truth about the suspicious drowning of another twelve-year-old near the Hotel Paradise, a once-fashionable resort that belongs to Emma's family.

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of one family and their battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations,...

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long...

Murmur Lee is suddenly drowned in the Iris Haven river sending her circle of friends on a quest to discover what really happened to her; and in death, Murmur experiences her own journey as she is transported into her familial past.

On a sizzling-hot September day, Eva Knox's ex-boyfriend, Dudley Dexter Codman the Third, along with a bunch of his corporate cronies from Boston, arrive at Eva's family's guest inn and olive farm, Knox Plantation. Maps and binoculars in hand, the New Englanders claim they're on a bird-watching holiday. Only, Eva knows that her ex doesn't know the first thing about birds. Nor does he care. Eva can't fathom why he'd show up after all these years in...

"Una fiesta. Un asesinato. Sin testigos. El cadáver de Kerry Dowling, de dieciocho años, aparece en el fondo de la piscina. Ninguno de los invitados a la fiesta que dio, aprovechando la ausencia de sus padres, ha visto absolutamente nada. Sin embargo, la ausencia de testigos no significa que falten sospechosos, y la policía no tarda en centrarse en el novio de Kerry, con el que discutió en mitad de la celebración; o en su vecino, que se enfadó...