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"Anne Perry's "vastly entertaining" (The Star-Ledger) holiday novels are "as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable--the gripping story of an unforgettable battle between goodness and evil in Victorian London--and a lonely woman's search for meaning in her life. Although she lacks for nothing, Claudine Burroughs dreads the holiday season for forcing her to face how empty her life...

In true Zoe Donovan fashion, Zoe ends up in jail on the second night of her honeymoon after she finds herself the only suspect in the first murder Heavenly Island has seen in a decade. Although she has been ordered to leave the investigation to a man known only as toad, she can't help but snoop around just a bit while enjoying the tropical paradise with new husband Zak. In the midst of enjoying days at the beach and moonlit walks under the stars,...

Jake Morgan is a throwback investigator - a stubborn, no-holds-barred neo-gunslinger whose bold investigative style unsettles friends and criminals alike. Morgan has a sideways sense of humor and cutting wit that leads others to challenge him to no avail. So what happens when a murder arises and the only suspects are the powerful men capable of destroying Morgan's investigation and Morgan himself? Jake Morgan comes in guns blazing to take down the...

Small-town attorney Bocephus Haynes investigates the murder of a teen pop star, the prime suspect of which is a local high school football hero, the victim's boyfriend.

"Ex-crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days on an unusual hobby, developing strangers' forgotten and discarded rolls of film. He loves the small mysteries the photographs reveal to him. Then Leonard finds something no one would ever expect, or want, to see captured on film-the murder of a young woman. But that's impossible, because the woman is already dead. Leonard was there when it happened five years earlier. He has never been able to shake...

"With the dark arctic winter closing in on a quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, a policeman is murdered and it falls to Ari Thór Arason to piece together a puzzle that involves tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik where someone is being held against their will"--

When her beloved grandmother is found dead, the victim of foul play, school psychologist Skye Denison sets out to uncover the truth about the murder and unwittingly stirs up a hotbed of family tensions, old secrets, violence, and death.

Season two of the story of an emotionally damaged ex-police detective who goes back on the job to investigate a serial killer after her seemingly happy marriage falls apart.