In a sleepy Danish town, death lurks amongst the dusty bric‑a‑brac…The elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dying. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her loyal dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern at work.Armed with a fierce sense of justice and a fondness for tea and cake, Anne-Maj launches her own investigation. The f...

Death is best served... pampered?When a woman is brutally murdered at a luxury spa resort, it's the retiree Anne-Maj Mortensen who stumbles upon the body.Despite being slowed down by a recent knee operation, she takes matters into her own hands and launches her own investigation, much to the dismay of the local police.But when another murder is committed, Mrs Mortensen can't help be be drawn further into the cast. Can she solve the mystery and outsmart the killer be...

In a sleepy Danish town, death lurks amongst the dusty bric‑a‑brac…The elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dying. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her loyal dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern at work.Armed with a fierce sense of justice and a fondness for tea and cake, Anne-Maj launches her own investigation. The f...

Bloomsbury presents Home by Cailean Steed, read by Paula Masterton.'Such a good read' Val McDermid'Absorbing, moving, and alarmingly believable' Carole Johnstone, author of Mirrorland'Home is a white-hot gem of a book; brilliantly researched, so gripping and propulsive you’ll want to consume it in one go' Kirstin Innes, author of Scabby QueenSomeone has broken into Zoe’s flat. A man she thought she’d never have to see again.They call him the Hand of G...

Growing, growing, gone…Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish.Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down. But even stalwart sleuth, Amita Khatri, and her son in law, Jason, are foxed this time when a local woman tells them her husband, a mild-mannered academic has gone missing.And he’s not the only person to disappear. Soon Amita, Jason, and irascible reti...

Growing, growing, gone…Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish.Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down. But even stalwart sleuth, Amita Khatri, and her son in law, Jason, are foxed this time when a local woman tells them her husband, a mild-mannered academic has gone missing.And he’s not the only person to disappear. Soon Amita, Jason, and irascible reti...

One Day meets Up: The House That Made Us is a love story – and a life story – told through a series of photographs and based on a true storyWhen Mac and Marie marry and find a home of their own, Mac takes a snap of themselves outside their newbuild bungalow, the garden bare and the paint on the front door still wet. It becomes a tradition, this snap, and slowly the photographs build into an album of a fifty-year partnership.Every ...

A Kirkus Reviews Earphones Award WinnerKausar Khan returns to dispense more vigil-aunty justice in the second installment of the critically acclaimed Detective Aunty series—and this time, the crime Kausar is investigating is dredging up memories she buried long ago . . .When Kausar Khan moved back to Toronto to be closer to her family, she didn't expect to have another murder investigation on her hands so soon—or ...

With his sniffer dog, Pippin, Dr. Peter Bannerman uncovers suspects, treats animals, tracks a kitten kidnapper, and must solve a locked-room mystery.In the fourth book in the series, Dr. Peter Bannerman’s brother Sam takes in three Bengal kittens after the previous owner, his neighbor in a Winnipeg north end apartment building, is found dead. The death was originally thought to be due to accidental autoerotic asphyxiation, but after investigation, Sam is arrested a...

A new job can be killer in this series debut mystery set in Wales, perfect for fans of Sheila Connolly and Paige Shelton.After crossing the pond, Dr. Gwen Griffith finds herself in the quirky place she fell in love with, Dillynaidd, Wales. A former managing editor for a Texan newspaper, Gwen is ready for the next stage in her life as the head of the journalism department at the local university in town. With her best friend, Carolyn Sparks–who is also the universit...

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall…Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and mor...

Witty, endearing, and wildly entertaining, this Southern cozy mystery is a little bit Gilmore Girls, a little bit Finlay Donovan, with a big helping of Only Murders in the Building. Narrated by AudioFile Earphone Award Winner, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker!Lila Shaw stopped trusting anyone the minute her husband went to jail for white-collar crime, taking their country club lifestyle with him. Now Lila is broke, friendless, and losing her house—and to m...