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June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, these brand new dramas are based on three of her best short stories. Tape-Measure Murder: When Mrs Spenlow is murdered in St Mary Mead, the village gossips all agree that her husband must have killed her - until Miss Marple is called as an alibi ...

When Janek Mitter wakes up from a night of too much alcohol and sex, he must break into the locked bathroom, where he finds his wife dead in the bathtub. Suffering from amnesia as a result of his drinking, he falls into a lethargic state that lasts throughout his murder trial, conviction, and imprisonment in a mental hospital. Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren launches a new investigation when Mitter is murdered.

As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.

A beautiful American widow flees to a remote convent in Greece after an attempt on her life and becomes involved with a ruthless tycoon.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Freaky pleasure ... it scratches a nostalgic itch for those who grew up on Saturday morning Scooby-Doo cartoons and sugar-bombed breakfast cereal"--USA Today"Deliriously wild, funny and imaginative. Cantero is an original voice."--Charles Yu, author of How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe.

Mage Alex Verus is hanging on by a thread in the ninth urban fantasy novel from the national best-selling author of Burned. When Mage Alex Verus ends up with a position on the Light Council, no one is happy, least of all him. But Alex is starting to realize that if he wants to protect his friends, he'll need to become a power player himself. His first order of business is to track down dangerous magical items unleashed into the world by Dark Mages.

Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey. Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life - or at least, she's perfectly fine. She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister. Ivy Gamble is a liar.

Kinsey Millhone's latest client is Malek Construction, a 40 million company still in family hands. It doesn't take an accountant to see that the four Malek brothers stand to inherit a fortune. But one of the brothers has been missing for 18 years, and Kinsey's assignment is to find him. The stock of family memories is filled with nothing but bitterness, and the prodigal son will find no comfort at the Malek table ...

Un doigt coupé et un diamant en forme de pentagramme, plus connu sous le nom de "l'étoile du diable", telle est la signature du tueur qui terrorise Oslo durant cet été caniculaire. L'inspecteur Harry Hole va être contraint de réprimer son animosité envers Tom Waaler, son collègue et ennemi, s'il veut résoudre cette affaire qui pourrait bien être sa dernière. Alors que Hole tente de comprendre les motivations de l'assassin, tout laisse à penser qu'un tueur en série opère dans les rues de la capitale norvégienne...

McEvoy tombe dans le piège d'un terrible assassin. À cause de difficultés financières au Los Angeles Times, le journaliste Jack McEvoy va être licencié. Amer, il décide de partir en fanfare et commence un article qui, il en est sûr, devrait lui valoir le prix Pulitzer. Pourtant, l'affaire semble banale : Alonzo Winslow, un dealer de seize ans, est accusé de viol et de meurtre... et il a avoué. Mais Jack comprend vite que ces aveux pourraient bien avoir été extorqués à l'adolescent par une police désireuse d'améliorer ses statistiques.