Glühwein, Plätzchen und ein Mord: Es weihnachtet sehr in Krindelsdorf. Ein knackig-kurzer Krimi für mordsbesinnliches Hörvergnügen zwischen Weihnachtsmarkt und Adventskaffee. Inklusive Rezepten für Jessica Müllers Lieblingsplätzchen und Tante Isobels speziellen Weihnachtsdrink! Der Lehrer Anton Bierbichler taucht nicht zur Probe des Krippenspiels der Krindelsdorfer Grundschule auf. Man findet ihn an eine Futterkrippe gefesselt - erfroren. Und das kurz vor dem Fest der Liebe! Wo Hirschberg doch schon froh ist, wenn sich Totschlag in der eigenen Verwandtschaft vermeiden lässt.

Sofia erbt den Campingplatz ihrer Oma und zieht kurzerhand von Hamburg an den Hirschgrundsee. Dort trifft sie nicht nur auf liebenswürdige und skurrile Dauercamper - sondern auch auf eine Leiche! Doch der Täter hat nicht mit Sofia gerechnet: Schließlich will sie ihr Erbe einfach nur wieder loswerden. Aber wer kauft schon einen Campingplatz, auf dem ein Mörder frei herumläuft? Also muss Sofia selbst ermitteln.

Franz Eberhofer, vor kurzem noch ein angesehener Kommissar bei der Münchner Polizei, wird strafversetzt – ausgerechnet in sein niederbayerisches Heimatdorf. Dort treiben ihn zwar erneut seine stocktaube Großmutter und sein Beatles hörender Vater in den Wahnsinn, doch ansonsten geht es in seinem Leben eher beschaulich zu. Bis eines Tages eine Reihe von seltsamen Unfällen die Idylle stört und seinen kriminalistischen Ehrgeiz weckt. Franz Eberhofer ermittelt in seinem ersten Fall und entlarvt die heile Welt der Dorfgemeinschaft als trügerisch.

Der Flensburger Hauptkommissar John Benthien freut sich auf erholsame Feiertage. Gemeinsam mit seinem Vater möchte er auf Sylt ein ruhiges Weihnachtsfest verbringen, fernab von Stress und Arbeit. In ihrem Kapitänshaus auf der Nordseeinsel steht plötzlich die neue Nachbarin Annelie Jansen im Wohnzimmer. Die verängstigte ältere Dame berichtet von einem Einbruch in ihrem Haus und dass sie sich verfolgt fühlt. Bereitwillig nehmen die Benthiens ihre Nachbarin bis zu den Festtagen bei sich auf.

Wien. Vier wohlhabende Männer im besten Alter sterben innerhalb kürzester Zeit unter ähnlichen Umständen. Und nur die Anwältin Evelyn Meyers glaubt nicht an Zufall... Mehrere Jugendliche, allesamt Insassen psychiatrischer Kliniken, sollen Selbstmord begangen haben. Kommissar Pulaskis Misstrauen ist geweckt, er beginnt zu ermitteln. Seine Nachforschungen bringen ihn mit Evelyn zusammen, und ihre gemeinsame Spur führt sie bis zur Nordsee.

Lana Fleming’s sister has vanished from the set of TV’s hottest show, and no one seems to care. Desperate for answers, Lana sneaks in as an extra, only to get stranded with Griffin Hart, an A-list action star with a reputation for good abs and bad decisions. Though Griffin didn’t expect to be cast as a librarian’s sidekick in a real-life thriller, he’s weirdly into it—and into her. Even more unsettling—she sees right through his playboy persona. But their meet-cute soon turns deadly when they uncover a Hollywood scandal for the ages.

Timothy and Jonah, wealthy entrepreneurs with a spoiled son, hide sins from their past—one involving a death on a cruise, the other a crime in Bali. Nathan and Samantha, the hot ex-nanny turned trophy wife, grapple with infertility and a shocking paternity secret. Bartosz and Angelika (he’s a chef, she’s a former sex worker) carry debts to the other couples they don’t even realize they owe. Over fourteen days, the couples bond—but their pasts are too deeply intertwined to stay hidden. The sly concierge, Putu, knows more than he lets on.

Amy Nicols (Lizzy Caplan) was an FBI agent with a dogged need to protect everyone—until that instinct caused her to mishandle a crisis, lose innocent lives, and lose her job. Now a civilian working in private security, that mistake still haunts her. One morning on the commuter train, she overhears a young couple plotting a murder. Ignoring warnings from her family and friends, Amy’s instinct to protect and serve compels her to investigate. But the further she goes, the more she finds her own life in danger.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face. She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband. Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: she was in a terrible car accident one year ago. Every morning, she wakes up unable to remember most of the last decade. Including her own wedding.

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.