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With her Curiosity Shop open for business, Alice Carroll is finally settling into life in the picturesque Cotswold village of Little Pride. But then her old life comes knocking… Alice’s ex boyfriend, Steven, who dumped her to travel the world, has run out of money and asks Alice to sell off his collection of chess sets. Alice decides to host a tournament to showcase the boards, and her plan seems to be working. That is, until chess pieces begin to mysteriously disappear. And when a body is discovered outside the tournament, Alice realises that the victim was a pawn in another game.

Normalerweise ist im idyllischen Montegiardino an jeder Ecke fröhliches Geplauder zu hören. Als aber in tiefer Nacht ein Fremder in das kleine Städtchen kommt, verstummt der sonst so lebhafte Klatsch. Commissario Lucas Mitbürger fragen sich: Was will dieser unheimliche Mann hier? Und warum spricht er mit niemandem? Bald geben seltsame Geschehnisse ihren bösen Ahnungen Recht: Erst werden auf einem Bauernhof am Stadtrand eines Nachts die Gänse umgebracht, dann wird in den sonst so malerischen Hügeln ein Wanderer angeschossen. Er sieht dem Fremden zum Verwechseln ähnlich.

Luckily, Mina Wilde loves him anyway, as well as her two other literary boyfriends—the 'Napolean of Crime,' James Moriarty, and Poe's contemplative raven, Quoth. It's tough buying the perfect Christmas gifts for three lovers, but Mina's determined to make this year the best Christmas Nevermore Bookshop has ever seen. That is until the charity Christmas tree and all the presents donated by the village go missing. Heathcliff's grinching makes him the obvious culprit, but Mina knows Heathcliff isn't mean enough to steal gifts for the animal shelter . . . or is he?

Erica Duncan and Alan DeLorme are spending a few weeks at the summer theater where Alan will make his directorial debut, with Erica as his assistant. They think that the biggest problem during their stay will be injecting some life into a play that reads more like a manifesto than a drama. After two murders in two weeks, they’re not so sure.

When Lady Darriby-Jones encounters a roadblock on her quest to reclaim her beloved Rolls-Royce, she dismisses it as another molehill magnified by the local constabulary into a mountainous mess. Little does she know, the kerfuffle involves more than a traffic hiccup—it's a symphony of chaos orchestrated by the untimely demise of her dodgy yet reliable mechanic. Her mechanic may not have been a choir boy, but a dead one?

To Lily Sprayberry, selling homes is easier than buttering a biscuit—until a fire ignites her deadliest case yet. When I accepted the listing for the Wilson’s charming old farmhouse just outside town, I never imagined it would end in flames—or with a body inside. But that’s exactly what happened. I arrived for a showing to find the place ablaze, smoke choking the sky. Inside, firefighters discovered my client, James Wilson, dead. The sheriff—my husband, Dylan—and his investigators labeled it a tragic accident. But I knew better. Something felt off about the scene, too many ...

Jessica Murdoch, a member of the Mystery Writer's Murder Club, heads to a bed and breakfast in her hometown of Badger's Drift, Maine for some much-needed relaxation. When a murder takes place in her luxurious suite, she finds herself thrust into a real-life mystery that hits closer to home than she ever imagined.