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Venturing to a sprawling mansion in Cornwall--led by the ghost of Aunt Dimity--Emma Porter puts aside her broken heart to restore a once glorious chapel garden, where she overhears rumors about the near-death of a beautiful family cousin.

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder. No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter--and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache,...

When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is found alongside the interstate in Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sherriff Walt Longmire is determined to discover the identity of the victim and is forced to confront the horrible similarities of this murder to that of his first homicide investigation as a marine in Vietnam forty years ago. To complicate matters, Virgil White Buffalo, a homeless Crow Indian, is found living in a nearby culvert and in possession...

A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried--but not forgotten.

2009 Christy Award winner!Three strangers each encounter the same mysterious storm and awake the next day to find that everyone else has vanished. There's Conner Hayden, a successful but unscrupulous trial lawyer who has forsaken his family for his career; Helen Krause, a middle-aged model struggling to come to grips with her fading beauty; and Mitch Kent, an enterprising young mechanic unable to escape a past that still haunts him. Afraid and desperate...

There's a big stink in Blacklin County, and everyone seems to think Sheriff Dan Rhodes should do something about it. The smell is coming from the giant chicken farm owned by Lester Hamilton. Rhodes sees this as a matter for the state's air-quality enforcement agency, not the county sheriff. That all changes, however, when Hamilton is found dead, floating in an old rock pit not far from the town of Clearview.

After solving the mayor's murder and exposing high-level corruption in Las Playas, Carly Edwards is happy to be back on patrol with her partner, Joe, putting bad guys behind bars. But then everything starts going wrong. Her ex-husband, Nick, begins pulling away just as they were starting to get close again. Joe's wife lands in the hospital with a mysterious illness, and their baby is kidnapped. As Carly chases down every lead, her newfound faith is...

When Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his old friend Henry Standing Bear are the de facto wedding planners for Cady, Walt's daughter, the wedding locale arrangements go up in smoke before the big event; when the two men set out to find a new site, they witness a Crow woman plummeting from cliffs.

Escaping haunting memories, J.D. Jessup travels to Tucson and volunteers on an organic farm. The landowner has one rule: If J.D. sees an "illegal," call the border patrol. A ride along the fence line leads him to a beautiful young woman near death. Longing to atone for the choices that drove him to Tucson, J.D. hides her and unleashes a chain of deadly events he could never have imagined.