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The villagers of King’s Abbot are shocked when a wealthy local widow commits suicide and the very next day her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, is stabbed to death. Dr. James Sheppard, the local physician, discovers the body of his friend and narrates the ensuing hunt for the killer. - One of the most fiendish mysteries with the most dramatic twists in Christie’s extensive oeuvre.

Will justice slip through his fingers like smoke? DCI Harry Grimm is on edge—big changes loom, and his team reels from loss. But when a charred corpse surfaces in a coffee warehouse, he's thrust back into the fray. As bodies appear from Yorkshire to Scotland, Grimm races to outsmart a cunning killer. In Ashes of Betrayal, David J. Gatward delivers a thriller where secrets smolder and danger ignites.

In Grimm Up North, scarred ex-soldier DCI Harry Grimm lands in rural North Yorkshire, exiled from Bristol and itching to leave—until a local teen vanishes. With a brutal awareness of human trafficking’s horrors, Grimm suspects the worst. As he clashes with locals and digs into dark secrets, he races against time to save a life in this gripping, darkly humorous series debut.

In Blood Fountain, city-tough Harry Grimm finds rural peace shattered when a decapitated corpse appears on his favorite pub’s quoit pitch. Soon, another body turns up at a famed waterfall, hinting at dark undercurrents in this quiet town. Grimm must dive deep into local grudges and hidden hostilities, racing against time to catch a killer lurking beneath paradise’s idyllic surface. Haunting, atmospheric, unforgettable.

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove. The locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. A worldwide sensation, hailed by New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.”

Hoping to escape the scars of city life, cop Karl Alberg settles into a peaceful Canadian town—where roses bloom and the local librarian is both captivating and single. But small towns hold dark secrets, and Alberg soon faces the brutal murder of an old man. In The Suspect, L.R. Wright weaves a haunting thriller, where the quietest places often hide the deepest shadows.

Chief Inspector Alleyn is traveling through New Zealand while he recovers from an operation. On a train with the famous Carolyn Dacres Comedy Company, on tour of New Zealand, Alleyn befriends members of the troupe - an amusing diversion until, unexpectedly, they turn deadly.

When vintage cookware collector Jaymie Leighton spies an original 1920s Hoosier brand kitchen cabinet at an estate auction, it’s love at first sight. She successfully outbids the other buyers and triumphantly takes it home. But that night on the summer porch where they’ve left the Hoosier to be cleaned up, a man is murdered.