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A rookie agent searches for her estranged sister in this paranormal procedural. Harvest Rosenbloom is a trainee agent at the Bureau, an organization that specializes in investigating crimes of a supernatural nature. As a gifted witch with a unique second-sight, Harvest's abilities are an invaluable asset to the Missing Persons Unit-if only she could convince her boss of that fact. Her days consist of photocopies and data entry, but all of that changes...

Surviving a kidnapping is not for the faint of heart, as Darby Shaw knows all too well. Two months after being rescued, she's starting to get things back to a new normal. She's making changes, subtle though they may be, doing what she can to move on.Her latest case is just the thing Darby needs to keep her mind off the recent past: Justin Kendrick, paraplegic, is dead. Being poisoned, strangled, and stabbed through the heart seems like overkill. Together...

A body surfaces off the Isle of Man in a puzzling mystery by the master of the "pure British detective story" (The New York Times). The Manx Shearwater was scallop dredging-but it dragged up a body from the water instead. Considering that the corpse was tied at the ankles and weighed down with stones, it's clear this was no accidental drowning-and now the locals are in an uproar. The victim appears to be Cedric Levis, who had an extravagant...

Hodgkiss and the Second Bullet / Hodgkiss and the Stolen Memory / Hodgkiss and the Blonde Visitor. Hodgkiss is a suspicious old sod. When he hears of a dead body found in a locked room and the police have written it off as suicide, his suspicions are seriously aroused. He wins no accolades when he tells his son-in-law, Detective Sergeant Donald Burke, who has to investigate these crimes, 'The very fact that the body is found in such obviously improbable...

A Federal Holiday on the calendar means nothing but dread in the city of Annapolis. Fear has been king ever since a black man in dreadlocks began snatching young girls on federal holidays. Any man with dreadlocks is a suspect, but only one in particular is targeted, Barry Duval. He is black and he has dreadlocks...reason enough, it seemed. The media tarnishes his good name to the point that he loses his job and was kicked out of his apartment while...

A murder and a missing body interrupt a getaway in the south of France . . . Waldo and Averil Keelagher were looking forward to a holiday in the south of France in their new caravan. But delight turned to dismay when they discovered that Waldo's unbearable stockbroking uncle would be joining them. Not long after their arrival on the Riviera, however, they're relieved of their unwelcome guest when Waldo finds Uncle George dead in the wasteland...

The Squandered propels Bruno into an emotionally charged high-speed chase as he and Marie leave their rescued kids in Costa Rica and risk returning to the US at the request of Bruno's terminally ill father. Bruno's estranged and incarcerated brother needs Bruno to help rescue his abducted young grandchildren-children that Bruno hadn't known existed. Bruno cannot deny his father, and Marie will not let Bruno go alone. As fugitives, they return to...

En vacances estivales dans le Cap Sizun, l'héritier d'un magnat de l'industrie pharmaceutique tombe sous le charme d'une jeune guide... Morgane n'est pas de son milieu, mais il la fait accepter par ses parents. Pour les fiançailles, chaque invité repartira avec une figurine en faïence de Quimper : un couple de danseurs bretons en costume capiste, « Les Fiancés d'Audierne ». Les tourtereaux vivent un véritable conte de fées. Mais Paul et...

On New Year's Eve a string of grisly deaths strike a remote English hamlet For centuries Cobbold-in-the-Marsh has been haunted by the ghost of a Jesuit priest who lost his head rather than deny his faith. Since then, there hasn't been much bloodshed in this peculiar little village, but all that changes during the icy week just after Christmas. First a policeman is found drowned in the canal, a tragic death that shows signs of foul play. Then, as the...

Thanksgiving brings family, friendship, and foul play to New Mexico in this seventh Black Horse Campground mystery from the author of Fiesta of Fear.   An unseasonably warm November is a financial boon to Corrie Black's campground, but her personal life has taken a hit. Her friend, recovering addict RaeLynn Shaffer, disappeared two months ago, after some funds from a church festival goes missing. Det. J. D. Wilder immediately suspects RaeLynn...