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Maggody's high school has a new computer lab. Folks are calling the Internet the Devil's workshop, but the adult computer class is filling up. When some unusual images flash across monitors -- and a pretty student is found dead in an abandoned shack -- the town demands that Arly find the answers.

Maggody Police Chief Arly Hanks is all shook up when she hears that her mother collapsed during a pilgrimage to Graceland and is in a Memphis hospital. Another member of the tour is pushed to her death from a hotel balcony. When a prominent Maggody citizen stands accused of the murder, Arly's suspicious mind tells her to snap into action.

In the midst of planning for her mother's wedding, Hannah Swensen accidentally hits a man with her cookie truck while driving down a country road during a storm. Though she feels guilty, she is shocked when she finds herself arrested for murder. When the autopsy reveals that the mysterious stranger may have consumed a poisonous blackberry pie, Hannah must learn his identity and track down the baker to clear her own name of the crime.

Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimée Leduc. Here, Aimée faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all the while being hunted by a killer in the sewers beneath the Seine. 'Aimée makes an engaging protagonist, vulnerable beneath her vintage chic clothing and sharp-witted exterior.''Publishers Weekly, starred review

Scottish sleuth Hamish Macbeth investigates the murder of Fergus Macleod, the tyrannical head of Lochdubh's new recycling center, while coping with the bizarre edicts of a member of the Strathbane Council and his lazy new constable.

The Scottish detective Hamish Macbeth arrives for an appointment at the dentist's and finds him dead, apparently of nicotine poisoning. Did he smoke himself to death, or is there a link to missing bingo money?

Soon after the police break up an anti-GM crops demo on a Cotswold farm, a man is found savagely murdered in circumstances chillingly reminiscent of the infamous, unsolved Meon Hill murder of 1945. Ex-policeman Latymer's professional curiosity is piqued by the similarities between the two cases, and he calls upon his old friend and colleague Keith Berry to help him with his research.

When a peaceful monastery in Que?bec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sa?urete du Que?bec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.