Vertaling door Kathleen Rutten.

Vertaling door Annette Zeelenberg.

De jaarlijks terugkerende droge,hete voorjaarswinden vegen door de straten van Havana als inspecteur Mario Conde een jonge vrouw te hulp schiet die met autopech langs de weg staat.Ze is gek op jazz, speelt saxofoon en is beeldschoon - en Mario Conde is op slag verliefd.

Maar zijn mooie dromen worden ruw verstoord als hij wordt belast met een ernstige zaak: een jonge scheikundelerares van de school die ook Conde heeft bezocht wordt vermoord in haar woning aangetroffen. Ook worden er sporen van marihuana in het huis van dit trouwe lid van de Partij gevonden. Tijdens zijn onderzoekingen komt Conde terecht in een wereld in verval, waar kontlikkerij, vriendjespolitiek, drugs en bedrog hoogtij vieren.

When Elizabethan secret agent Ursula Blanchard is re-united with her husband, she learns that her daughter has disappeared and investigates, uncovering a sinister plot to dethrone her queen in the process. 17,500 first printing.

Ellie Haskell embarks on a rollicking hunt for the killer of a fellow member of the Chitterton Fells Charwomen's Association

Farberville, Arkansas is playing host to its first ever mystery convention. Sponsored by the Thurber Farber Foundation and held at Farber College, Murder Comes to Campus is playing host to five major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. Dragooned into running the show when the original organizer is hospitalized, local bookseller Claire Malloy finds herself in the midst of a barely controlled disaster. Not only do each of the writers present their own set of idiosyncracies and difficulties (including one who arrives with her cat Wimple in tow), the feared, distrusted, and disliked mystery editor of Paradigm House, Roxanne Small, puts in a surprise appearance at the conference. Added to Claire's own love-life woes with local police detective Peter Rosen, things have never been worse. Then when one of the attendees dies in a suspicious car accident, Wimple the cat disappears from Claire's home, and Roxanne Small is nowhere to be found, it becomes evident that the murder mystery is more than a literary genre.

When a beautiful, beguiling newcomer to Maggody turns up murdered, police chief Arly Hanks traces her e-mails and begins to suspect that someone in town may have killed her--perhaps one of the many women she made jealous.

When a member of an Internet mailing group turns up dead, his peers take it upon themselves to investigate the crime, much to the annoyance of the FBI and Anneke Hagen, who is having enough trouble preparing for her wedding

In her fifth case, Elizabethan herbalist Susannah, Lady Appleton, must root out a killer when two women are accused of witchcraft while the real killer, an expert in poisons, remains free to strike again.

American anthropologist Penny Spring and British archaeologist Sir Toby Glendower embark on their twelfth adventure aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, where a rakish father-and-son pair of millionaires meet their end

Sunny McCoskey is the independent chef/owner of Wildside, a little cafe nestled in Napa Valley, where the food is exactly right. When the heir apparent to a major vineyard is shot dead, and Sunny's eccentric winemaker friend, Wade, is arrested for the murder, she launches her own investigation. The solution lies in the tangled personalities and politics of the wine industry, and in the threat posed to the valley by the glassy-winged sharpshooter. Set in a region renowned for its food and wine, Sharpshooter launches an entertaining mystery series featuring Sunny and an engaging cast of wine professionals, cooks, socialites-and suspects.