Police Small Town Mystery

He came out of the woods at the back of the rural bank in upstate New York. He was wearing a baseball hat, sunglasses, and a balaclava. Nothing of his face was visible. He was also wearing nylon basketball warm-up pants with snaps to allow for easy removal while standing and a loose-fitting nylon top. He went around the side of the small stand-alone building, avoiding the drive-through window on the other side. No customers were in the bank. The manager and her assistant were at the two teller windows.

Lavendel-Duft und ein mörderischer Rosenkrieg: Mit einer Leiche in einem Badesee beginnt der 5. Provence-Krimi um die sympathische junge Kommissarin Lilou Braque. Die junge Kommissarin Lilou Braque und ihr Freund Simon wollen einen wunderbar warmen Herbsttag im beschaulichen Carpentras für einen Badeausflug nutzen – und machen eine furchtbare Entdeckung: Im Wasser des Lac du Péty treibt der leblose Körper einer Frau. Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Unfall hin. Kurz darauf wird Lilou zu einem weiteren Todesfall gerufen, offenbar hat sich der Notar Jean-Claude Sousteron mit seiner eigenen Waffe erschossen.

He was a CPA with a practice run from his house. He lived quietly with his dog Lucy. Friendly guy, but secretive about his life. A very private person with no local friends except Danny Osgood, a neighborhood kid who played video-games on the CPA's high-speed computer. He had little contact with the neighbors or folks in town. How did he end up with two bullet holes in his head? A simple murder in a small upstate NY town - or something much bigger? The extent of the crime goes far beyond this quiet town. Other states come into play. Then, outside of the country.

A Fort Worth detective finds contentment as a small-town police chief. Orin Cage left a 15-year career with the Fort Worth PD to become Chief of Police in the small North Texas town of Rather. Glad to have escaped the high-pressure of the Metroplex crime scene, Cage takes a laid-back, but still effective, approach law enforcement.

It appeared that Helen McAllister–for whatever reason–had simply got out of the car sometime the previous morning, taking her keys and bag and phone with her, and walked away… Ten years later there has been no trace found of the teacher who went missing from a small village on the last day of the school year. Her lover Alice Hauser's accusations of impropriety on the part of the senior investigating officer, DI Thomas Maitland, led to his early retirement, his life in disrepair.

Ghost hunters on a mission, mysterious flying gavels, and down home southern cooking When flying gavels and a levitating judge cause upheaval in a small rural town, it's up to Eden Patterson with her husband Luke and a team of ghost hunters to uncover the cause for the disruptions. But secrets hide within the walls and beyond the courthouse. What or who is this mysterious presence that wants to tear down the walls of justice? Find out in this new series filled with smell visions of fried chicken, green beans and chunks of ham, and double crusted apple pie.

Liz just wanted to confront her cheating boyfriend. She didn’t think it’d lead to disaster. Liz has had enough. It’s time to confront Mickey and toss the serial cheater out of her life for good, but her plans take an ugly turn when she discovers he’s also a murderer. As the sole witness to his vile act, she has no choice but to run. Sure Mickey won’t let her get far, Liz races across state lines, but when her aging car fails her, she knows it’s only a matter of time until he finds her. Agent Nate Cole is ready to hang up his badge. Living a life undercover has taken its toll on ...

Final Cycle 2nd Logland Mystery Marti and Nick have inherited The Bully Pulpit Diner in Logland, Illinois, and their first Christmas season has town grounch, Louella Belle Simpson, as a regular customer. She point out calorie content to other diners and lectures people on their weight. This doesn't encourage people to order pie. When Louella Belle turns up dead, there are plenty of people who were tired of listening to her, but murder seems like an extreme reaction. Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman has few clues and little help from the alarmed Logland residents. No one at Man-Up Tatoos saw ...

Im tiefsten Sauerland einen Bauernhof voll verrückter Tiere hüten? Davon ist Stadtpflanze Sabin nicht sonderlich begeistert, denn im wahren Leben sucht sie Schwerverbrecher und keine verschollenen Esel. Aber was tut man nicht alles, damit die beste Freundin beruhigt in die Flitterwochen fliegen kann. Dass Sabin gleichzeitig vor Ort ihrem neuen – und sehr heißen! - Kollegen dabei hilft, in einer Diebstahlserie zu ermitteln, braucht ja niemand zu erfahren.

On a quiet suburban street in upstate New York, a body is discovered. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil lived a simple life - his murder seems senseless. But then Detective Peter Decker discovers Brady’s father was convicted of murder many years ago. Decker begins to suspect Brady’s death may be connected to his father’s crimes. Then one of Brady’s closest friends vanishes, a pool of blood the only clue to his fate.

The livestock sniper switches to humans. As the phantom’s death toll mounts, tensions rise. Jergen County becomes an armed camp. People carry guns everywhere. With accidental shootings and the sniper’s deadly work, the death toll skyrockets. The livestock sniper switches to humans. As the phantom’s death toll mounts, tensions rise. Finally, Jergen County becomes an armed camp. People carry guns everywhere. With accidental shootings and the sniper’s deadly work, the death toll skyrockets.

In questo secondo titolo della serie, che ha per protagonisti i detective Gigi Sambuco e Selmo Dell’Oro, Pavia è oscurata da un incessante manto di pioggia, che sembra quasi riportare a galla le perversioni, altrimenti represse, di un’intera città. Questo, almeno, sembrerebbe essere il caso di Giorgio Grechi, insegnante da una vita al liceo classico e ora in pensione. Animato da pulsioni sessuali mai soddisfatte, così come da un generale, insopprimibile malessere, l’uomo si ritrova invischiato nelle manipolazioni di Silvia, una bella e annoiata rampolla dell’alta società.

The small town of Rislake in the picturesque Blue Mountains is about to be engulfed by a major bushfire. The order has been given for the residents to clear out. But a last sweep uncovers one person is missing: Tracey Hilmeyer, wife of one of the firefighters tackling the blaze. Detective Kennard is in town to help with crowd control, but instead he finds himself driving straight towards the inferno to look for Tracey at the Hilmeyer home. When he gets there, he finds her dead at the bottom of the stairs, and it’s clear she was murdered.

It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley Fisher, a former small-town sergeant, to be reporting for duty as an FBI agent on her first assignment. Teamed with a man she's not sure she can trust and struggling to prove herself - while fighting the pull of her old life and family dramas - Riley is tasked with investigating a vicious death threat against the newly elected female state governor.

Was it just an untimely Accident? Or was it Murder? When Honor Mason’s sister, Martina, arrives; a despairing widow, with five rambunctious kids in tow, and haunted shadows in her eyes… Verity and Honor wonder. Are they coming home to stay…or running for their lives? And then they find the first body… Just a taste of what’s to come. A brand-new Paranormal Cozy to keep you up at night. Burgandy Blunder will hit the shelves this November.

Annie Jordan’s newly opened can of worms sends her and Tyler on a trip. Two trips, as a matter of fact. They need to sort out the family matter. Whose father is who? Does what was in the past stay in the past or can Annie and Tyler unearth the mystery of their parentage? What about the mysterious woman who’s left her a message. Who is she? How does she fit in with Sam? Does she? Annie’s trying not to be overtly curious, but can you blame a girl—ahem, woman!—for wondering about this newly arrived stranger? Then there’s the matter of all the bad luck she’s been having. And the ...

On a bleak Christmas morning, Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English patrols a desolate canyon on the Arizona reservation. Back in Kansas, her father, the sheriff of Benteen County, is lonely enough with no family around to go in to work at his office. On the way, Sheriff English calms a wild incident in a church parking lot. Then he hears of a death threat. The crèche, at the center of the town’s largest holiday yard display, has been desecrated, and its owner plans to kill the neighbors he suspects are responsible.

It starts with a body - a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. For Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations at the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office, an already horrific crime takes on a personal edge when she discovers the victim is an old friend, from a dark past she thought she'd left behind.

A hit-and-run or something else? The district attorney does not like what she sees, and the police report is not conclusive. She assigns her part-time investigator Brad Petronella to look into the case. The case quickly expands into much more than just a possible road accident. Ranging over a number of upstate NY counties, a major drug network is uncovered.

Farbenprächtige Rosenfelder, ein geheimes Archiv der Düfte, mysteriöse Todesfälle... Es ist Mitte Mai in der Provence. Pierre Durand genießt das Zusammenleben mit Charlotte, doch als deren Jugendfreundin Anouk auftaucht, ist es mit der Idylle vorbei. Die Rosenzüchterin steht unter Mordverdacht – ihr Nachbar wurde tot in seinem »Archiv der Düfte« aufgefunden, wertvolle Dokumente fehlen. Charlotte ist von der Unschuld ihrer Freundin überzeugt. Die Beweislage ist alles andere als eindeutig, und so macht Pierre sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.