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At 11:58 on a Tuesday night, the phone at the front desk rings from a room the system says is empty. Forty-one seconds. Nobody speaks.Faye Lang has run the night audit at a sixty-eight-room hotel off the interstate east of Columbus for four years without a number out of place. Just after midnight her count is wrong by one: the record shows forty guests, and the building slept forty-one. The forty-first was keyed one wall from her desk, cancelled five...

The Ravens of Whitechapel and Other Curious CasesSherlock Holmes – The Animal Cases, Volume 1A missing canary. Vanishing pigeons. Ravens blamed for theft and murder. Horses terrified by a danger no human seems able to see.In this unique collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the world's greatest consulting detective encounters cases in which animals play a crucial role in uncovering the truth. Set against the atmospheric backdrop of Victorian London, these stories explore the fascinating connection between human nature, instinct, and...

Evelyn Carter bought a box of old books from Nathan Cole's shop on a Tuesday evening.By Friday morning she was dead.Nathan worked homicide for twenty years before he came to Ashford to sell books and mind his own business. But Evelyn was his friend — and tucked inside one of those books were three folded pages that somebody in this quiet town was willing to kill for.Seven years ago the Briggs family lost their farm. Michael Briggs swore it had...

In Frosted With Fear, the first delicious mystery in the Deadly Delights Cozy Culinary Mystery Series, pastry chef Rosie Hart finds herself in the middle of a real-life crime scene when a celebrity baking judge drops dead after sampling her lemon cupcakes. Set in the charming town of Sweet River, this culinary cozy mystery mixes mouthwatering recipes, small-town gossip, and a generous helping of whodunit suspense. With her café under fire and her reputation on the line, Rosie must sift...

She thought she'd buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over.Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear—to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn't let anything go.The little Cape Cod beach town is exactly what she needs: lighthouse and dune grass, a café that knows your order, and seven women past fifty who pull an eighth chair into their morning...

History was not finished with him...Churchill never intended to choose Penn McGavell.Yet when Britain needed one man for a mission that could alter the course of the First World War, he did.It was a decision both men would come to regret.And for Penn, a mistake that destroyed the future he thought was his.Relegated to the far-flung outpost of Zanzibar, Penn goes to war.A war of redemption that carries him from East Africa into the heart of Lawrence of Arabia's revolution...

A Deadly Secret Is About to Bloom in Willowberry. Willowberry's dahlia show and competition should be all ribbons, flowers, and friendly contestants. Instead, unpopular judge Dez Colby turns up dead, and Stella and her curious American Bulldog, Rex, are soon sniffing around another murder. Chief Detective Ben Morgan wants Stella to leave the investigating to him. But anonymous messages keep pointing her toward old betrayals and secrets someone desperately wants uncovered. Dez Colby had plenty of enemies. Growers he'd humiliated....

In the first book of this bestselling mystery series, criminal investigator Larry Macklin is faced with a mutilated corpse that he suspects is tied to the smokey ruins of an old home in his rural North Florida town. The difficulty for Larry is that the arson case is in the hands of an investigator who despises him. On top of all this, Larry must navigate the difficult relationship he has with the sheriff ,who is not only his boss but...

How far would you go to protect your secret?As the sun sets over the quaint town of Cambria, California, Cordelia Bennett, a sprightly seventy-two-year-old librarian, hums a classic tune while tidying up the bookshelves.Just as she's about to lock up for the night, a mysterious sound startles her. She turns. The fading light reveals a chilling presence in the shadows, and Cordelia realizes she’s not alone.Someone else is there, watching her every move—someone with one agenda in mind—making sure today...

When medical journalist Theo Croft arrives in Scotland to film a documentary on the tuberculosis pandemic, he soon finds himself in the sleepy village of Salen, where nineteenth century inhabitants mistook the disease for vampirism.As Theo and his film crew slowly unravel the truth behind the vampire panic, a series of unsettling events lead to a horrific discovery.Theo returns home to find that something has followed him back. Something monstrous that has left its mark on him. To protect everything...