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Jonathan Stride's best friend makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Now Stride's partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask: Did Stride kill him?

"A cliff-hanger murder mystery around archaeological digs in Quebec."--

In 1909, Florence Kinrade is, by all appearances, the dutiful daughter of a wealthy Hamilton, Ontario land-owner, engaged to the parson’s son. Intriguingly, she also leads a double life as a vaudeville showgirl in Richmond, Virginia. Holding many parallels with Lizzie Borden, another famous mystery involving a family murder and an inscrutable young woman, Florence becomes the central figure in a gruesome crime—the murder of her sister, Ethel.

Somewhat-retired LA private eye Amos Parisman is hired by lonely booking agent Pinky Bleistiff to find one of his missing singers, Risa Barsky. But what starts as a simple investigation turns into a complex puzzle when Pinky is murdered and Risa is still nowhere to be found. With suspects dropping dead at every turn, Parisman must act quickly to discover the truth about Risa's relationship with Pinky before an innocent person gets sent to prison.

As December turns Lake Eden into the North Pole, the heat is on in Hannah Swensen's kitchen to honortwo Christmas promises: baking irresistible holiday cupcakes and preventing a person who attempted murder from succeeding the second time around! While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa's waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michele's love life is becomingcomplicated, Lisa needs Hannah's advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she's not willing to share.

Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude.

When some valuable books are stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator, he calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate.

A local lord asks Hugh of Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit, identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith.

Adepte du spiritisme, Alicia, 59 ans, se suicide au pays des merveilles dans des circonstances nébuleuses. La mort tragique de celle qui a publié "Tunnel vers l'au-delà" accentuera les tensions malsaines qui régnaient déjà dans son entourage. Cette situation deviendra explosive lorsque les critiques littéraires qui ont démoli son oeuvre avec une cruauté inouïe, seront assassinés tour à tour.

Lorsque l'horreur atteint son apogée, que la peur nous terrorise, nous glace le sang et que le meurtre se transforme en une sorte de jeu macabre où la fiction dépasse parfois la réalité... Voilà ce à quoi Hope Town, ce petit village habituellement bien paisible situé en plein cœur de la Baie-des-Chaleurs en Gaspésie, est brusquement confronté. Dès lors, une enquête policière se met en branle, dirigée par le seul et unique Tom Fisher, un enquêteur chevronné de la Sûreté du Québec, aux agissements plutôt étranges qui sera chargé d'élucider ce mystère.