International Cozy Mysteries

The stamp market provides a perfect setting for a shadowy figure from Moscow, whose real interest in Paris may not be stamps. The closed case of the dead diplomat and his dubious widow refuses to stay closed, when evidence suggests the Egyptian statue is not the only priceless item missing from their apartment. In Deauville, France, Louie searches for two married sisters, traveling sans husbands. While in Paris, Mrs. Duchesney receives a coded invitation to rendezvous with a dead poet.

The agency never admitted its mistakes. It simply deleted them. After Ben disappeared from his assignment in the Middle East, his status was changed to IDX and the fix was ordered. His cover as an international journalist had given him access to the world and to almost everyone in it. This was, perhaps, their greatest fear. Ben Foulof was one of a rare breed of journalists who wrote only the truth. - Jamie Litton discovers that the worst thing anyone can say to his best friend is never change.

The rich are not like us. When it rains, they simply fly away, taking their secrets with them. On the Cote d'Azur, a missing journalist becomes an insider, offering his best friend a very special invitation to leave Paris for a masquerade ball at the Darimus Mansion in Antibes. New Year's Eve on the French Riviera? In the company of the rich and royal? How could Jamie Litton say no? It is more than this mystery writer could imagine. And as Ben Foulof has planned, more than his enemies had expected.

Ignoring his best friend's warning to stay out of Paris, mystery writer Jamie Litton leaves the Cote d'Azur and returns to Paris to investigate yet another unexpected death and the mystery evolving at Maxmillian's apartment. While Jamie is in Paris, learning the secrets of his eclectic Cafe Society, his best friend Ben Foulof goes it alone in South America to investigate rumors still clouding a murder discovered in the Paris antique store L'Indice.

A murder has been committed in Paris in an antique store named L' Indice. The store's strange history of unsolved murders and robberies began long before the WWII rumors of masterpieces stolen from castles on the Rhine. Jamie Litton, whose mystery writer's imagination won't let dead men, or secrets, rest in peace, moves in upstairs with hopes of discovering the truth for his next best seller.

2023 Illustrated Edition Illustrated book ‘How To Frame A Murder: Part One: Cat Painting Mystery’ is part of the Ronin: Have Sword– Will Travel Mystery series. It's part 1 of 2 of How To Frame A Murder. In How To Frame A Murder: Part One: Cat Painting Mystery, Horo-sha (the female ronin) and Riko (a streetwise boy) form a duo of crime-fighting investigators. They start their first official case together and investigate a simple theft of a painting, but the case turns horribly wrong when the suspects start dying. Horo-sha is confronted with a dilemma of mind and spirit as, for the ...

Newspaper mogul Mylocent Winecroft is eager for his knighthood. But after journalist Henry Henderson almost decimates this prospect, Henderson is promoted to foreign correspondent and promptly dispatched to Morocco. Caught in the whirlwind of mad monkeys, deep-fried snails, and a lack of booze, Henderson loses his marbles while searching for the Gujat tribe and their black magic.

En eftermiddag går faxmaskinen pludselig i gang inde på kontoret hos Albin Larsson, der ejer en herreekviperingsbutik i den gamle universitetsby Lund. Faxen viser sig at være et råb om hjælp, skrevet af hans tidligere kæreste, romanceforfatteren Gunnel Ahlström. Gunnel er gået under jorden efter mistanke om, at hun er involveret i bogforlæggeren Fiona Bertilssons forsvinden. Fiona blev sidst set forlade sit sommerhus i Österlen på vej til stranden, kun iført badekåbe. Hvad de færreste ved er, at Fiona også er leder af et kriminelt netværk, der er involveret i afpresning og handel med LSD.

In Paris, there were simply too many beautiful women hiding too many secrets, and this case was becoming too personal and too intriguing for Mrs. Duchesney to solve on her own. There was only one name on the engraved invitation: Louie Arnaud Bertrand, making it perfectly clear that Mrs. Duchesney was not welcome at Chateau de Robinesque-Roussel. Investigating the very delicate nature of this mystery would become her sleuthing partner Louie's first solo assignment.

Es verano y pronto sonarán los gritos de felicidad de los estudiantes que se gradúan. La artista Cilla Fallander tiene un nuevo trabajo después del drama del pasado invierno como la nueva gerente de un centro comercial que va a reabrir sus puertas. Pero las cosas empiezan a salir mal desde la primera noche y, durante los cuatro días de inauguración, los problemas continúan acumulándose. Todo esto hace pensar a Cilla que alguien lo está fastidiando a propósito, lo que conlleva consecuencias desastrosas para todos.

Första delen i mysdeckarserien Morden i Lund. Oskar Stenvall är en man utan ambitioner. När alla studiekamraterna gjorde karriär och skaffade familj blev han kvar på sin, inte så framgångsrika, resebyrå på Lilla Fiskaregatan i Lund. Där för han en stillsam tillvaro. Hans liv förändras abrupt när praoeleven Hanna från Arlöv kliver in i hans liv, samtidigt som hans excentriske granne, herr Larsson, utsätts för ett mordförsök i sin herrekipering. Och den misstänkte gärningspersonen – mannen med de gula byxorna – dyker upp livlös i Oskars gamla Volvo PV.

“Ask anyone on Atbara Avenue how well they know their neighbors, and they'll answer ‘well'. After all, they see each other across the vast distance afforded by close proximity, and that is probably for the best...”. For the best, because Atbara Avenue is a street where, all too often, murder feels like the solution.

Act It Out's re-enactments of scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots are not as innocent as they seem. Are the Act It Out historic tours a cover-up a for a Scottish drug distribution gang…? Tasked by HM Revenue & Customs to investigate, undercover agent D J Smith and her sniffer cat Gorgonzola join a tour. Posing as Shelagh Macbeth from Historic Scotland, our intrepid heroine—and her cat ‘Lady M’—become suspicious of their fellow guests.

Der Bürgermeister eines kleinen Ortes an der Elsässer Weinstraße wird tot in seinem Büro aufgefunden, die Polizei geht von einem Raubmord aus. Doch Jean Paul Rapp, seit einem Jahr nicht mehr Commissaire im District Colmar-Rouffach, glaubt nicht daran. Unterstützt von seiner Nachbarin, der Deutsch-Französin Sylvie Printemps, ermittelt er wie in früheren Zeiten: beharrlich, klug und mit untrüglichem Instinkt. Und die Stille im Weinberg scheint ihm der Schlüssel zur Lösung des Falls zu sein.

In Paris, two bodies have been found floating in the river. Side-by-side, the two friends are photographed smiling up into the heavens as if this had been nothing more than another Saturday spent happily fishing. Later, a third unclaimed body will turn up at the morgue. When the fourth appears, it is time for Paris sleuths Mrs. Duchesney and Louie Bertrand to get involved.

Detective Harith Athreya is recuperating from an illness in the beautiful backwaters of Kerala when he stumbles into a new form of intrigue: a family of vacationing Bollywood royalty who want his help making a murder mystery film. But not all is as it seems with the family - there are rumours of major money troubles, links to organised crime and growing rivalries between the scions. One of them is found dead, murdered in the exact manner of the film that Athreya has been helping to put together. Is this the work of an angry costar or something more sinister?

At the pinnacle of her medical career, Fliss Jenkins reflects on her life and those who made it possible, her gran in particular. The remarkable and much-loved Polly Evans had raised Fliss and given her an idyllic childhood in the small Welsh town of Brynavon. Returning there for her gran’s funeral, she realised how little she knew about Polly the woman. She decides to investigate. The emotional rollercoaster of self-discovery that follows is told with honesty, humour, and pathos as Fliss reveals long-buried and often shocking secrets.

Le pianiste virtuose Stephen Orlac est victime d'un grave accident de chemin de fer. Le docteur Cerral, un célèbre chirurgien à la réputation sulfureuse, sauve ses mains en pratiquant sur lui plusieurs opérations délicates. Stephen Orlac, bien que parfaitement remis physiquement, souffre d'un profond malaise. Malgré un travail acharné, il ne retrouve pas la dextérité qui l'avait rendu célèbre au piano. Il est tourmenté par de terribles hallucinations et, peu à peu, s'enfonce dans la dépression.

After retiring to her dream cottage on the rugged English shoreline, Annie opens her newly refurbished art studio for her weekend retreat and is excited to meet her first guests. What her guests aren't expecting is to be thrown into the midst of a murder enquiry, especially when one of her visiting artists is the victim and another is keeping secrets. Will Annie use her skills of perception to her advantage and stop the killer in their tracks?

Has Ella met her match? The glamour of the French Riviera quickly turns sour as she is caught up in an investigation that will have repercussions on both sides of the channel. When her mother telephones from France with news of her imminent arrest, Ella rushes to her aid, along with her aunt and an eccentric friend. But what starts as a simple disappearance quickly turns to murder, and Ella finds herself embroiled in a mystery that is far more complex than she’d anticipated.