Bird Mystery

Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It’s just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep – every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags.

The clever little ladybird is off on a trip to the seaside, but those two bad men, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, are also back and they're up to their wicked ways again. This time they're planning to steal the mermaid's long, luscious hair and sell it to a famous star...luckily, the crime-busting ladybird has another cunning plan to stop the thieves!

Um dos mais ricos comerciantes da Inglaterra, Joseph Waite sempre deu o melhor para a filha, Charlotte, mas jamais permitiu que ela tivesse uma vida livre. Na primavera de 1930, quando ela foge de casa, Waite mantém o caso longe da polícia e procura os serviços de Maisie Dobbs, conhecida por sua discrição e seus poderes de dedução.

A delightfully quaint mountain town, my cozy tearoom, a missing couple, and there’s something seriously weird about my bird. I didn’t expect to get wrapped up in a mystery through my husband… He’s dead. Retreat to the mountains, settle into my inherited family home and try to move on … a widow with kids and a parakeet. It was a good plan. It should have worked. I didn’t ask for a missing couple to complicate my first days, but there they were…or, rather, weren’t. I KNEW my detective husband was gone … but then here he was. Colorfully solving mysteries with me … he’s ...

The epic story of a senator’s rise and fall. Mark Coffin of California was barely 30 years old when he won a startling upset victory in his race for a seat in the US Senate. A bright, handsome, energetic idealist with a passion for decency in government, he thought his honesty and dedication would see him through anything.

It's 1979, the Winter of Discontent, and Elizabeth Daton is a gun for hire whose career is brought to a shuddering halt when a job leaves a young girl hospitalized.

Three months into her new role as a Psychiatrist at a clinic in New York, Erin Cartwright is asked to evaluate the case of a man who murdered his mother and sisters at the age of 17. Found not guilty by reason of insanity and held in a maximum-security psychiatric facility for 27 years, Timothy Stern is now eligible for release. Upon learning the crime occurred in the same village she once visited as a child, Erin is on the verge of refusing to take the case, when a startling discovery triggers memories she’d rather keep hidden and a suspicion the wrong man is behind bars.

The oyster party had the kiss of death upon it—even though there were two 'R's in the month. Miriam Birdseye—famed revue star and sleuth—could have told you that from the start. She isn't a bit surprised to learn that her fiancé's mother died in the night. But who at the seedy Sussex hotel would have poisoned the bivalves? Could it be the hotel proprietor—a handsome, drunken bankrupt? His put-upon wife? Miriam's impressively moustachioed fiancé? Or the menacing, unsavoury chef?

It may not be as grim up north as they say, but it wasn't where amateur private investigators Natasha DuVivien and Miriam Birdseye intended to spend their Christmas. When the principal boy in a production of Cinderella is murdered, and a ballerina hits the bottle a little too hard, they do the only logical thing they can do and join the cast, stranding themselves in a small industrial town for the sake of art and sleuthing. The show must go on, after all, and the detective duo must get to the bottom of things - before the final curtain falls.

Catherine moved to the close-knit community of Galveston Island to leave the past - and the terrible mistake she made - behind her. What she didn't realise was how much influence her mother-in-law, Rosalyn, has over the island and that being a Callahan means having strict standards to uphold. She soon meets Morgan, the one woman who seems to get her. But Morgan is still reeling from the former rape accusation against her teenage son, Alex, which left her side-lined from the community.

La Melancolia de los Hombres Pajaroe este thriller, muy recomendable para escuchar en un viaje largo o durante una semana de puesta en forma paseando, nos encontramos con un empresario de éxito, propietario de barcos, aviones e incluso bancos, que de repente, cuando su hija aparece brutalmente asesinada, se da cuenta que su escala de valores está más que trastocada.En el exótico e incomparable marco de la isla de Pascua van a coincidir una serie de personajes variopintos invitados a la inauguración de un hotel de lujo por parte del empresario Camargo.

Coral, her lover, and a number of friends visit a regular haunt known as Serenity Island. Collectively, they’ve done this for the past few years in order to celebrate Coral’s birthday, but this trip will be different, and causes Coral to rename their favorite spot! Once they’ve settled in to enjoy their week’s secluded holiday and celebrate Coral’s 30th birthday, everything starts to go wrong. After many terrifying and tragic events, Coral begins to wonder if they’ll ever get off the island in one piece, or indeed, at all....

In the riverside town of Bedford, four students can hear the haunting voice of a woman singing. The beautiful melody is coming from their neighbour, a recluse who never opens her door to anyone or leaves her home in daylight. They have no way of knowing that the woman next door, Madeleine Delaney, is driven by a dangerous memory that for over 20 years has controlled her meagre existence.

Detective Tom Fabian's past is catching up with him. It has been years since the most high-profile case of his career - when his evidence put infamous serial killer Christopher Wisher behind bars forever. But when Wisher summons a reluctant Fabian to his prison cell to hand over a diary, he realises that Wisher’s twisted games are far from over. Shortly after Fabian’s visit, Wisher is found dead in his cell. And a few days later, the police find a woman’s body bearing Wisher’s signature, a dead songbird....

刚归国的医生华唯鸿邂逅失明女孩夏初，在为其催眠治疗过程中，发现她患有多重人格分裂……剛歸國的醫生華唯鴻邂逅失明女孩夏初，在為其催眠治療過程中，發現她患有多重人格分裂……

A body in the river is all in a day's work for Detective Inspector Peter Johns and his sergeant, Paul Godwin. But things start to become more personal when Paul recognizes their key witness as a close childhood friend and Peter's son is detained for suspected child abduction. Peter and Paul discover they have more in common than they realized, and it becomes difficult to keep work and family life separated.

After years of IVF, Kirsten White is a devoted mum to Harriet - and she can’t believe the time has come to send her little girl off to school. But Harriet has now turned five, and she can’t stay Kirsten’s baby forever. It might be hard, but it’s time to entrust her daughter’s care to her new teacher...the classroom is the one place she should be safe. Miriam Robertson has been waiting for the perfect little girl to walk into her class. She’s very picky...but when Harriet walks in, Miriam knows: this is the child she’s been waiting for.

Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched.

Svart Marmor är en roman om makt och om okända krafter i Sverige. Bokens huvudpersoner, Lea och Jack dras in i ett spel där det kan kosta livet att veta för mycket om en orden med gamla anor och internationella förgreningar - och där någon till sist måste betala ett pris. David Ericssons erfarenheter som långtradarchaufför har han haft nytta av som journalist och författare. Han har under de senaste tio åren framgångsrikt givit ut ett antal romaner och en novellsamling och hans historier ofta haft anknytning till chaufförslivet.

One phone call in the middle of the night changes the life of a former soldier Joelle McCoy. Her best friend and battle buddy Concepcion Chapa is dead, and McCoy isn’t taking the alleged car accident at face value. Determined to discover the truth, McCoy sets out on a mission to find her best friend and bring her home.