De schilder René Magritte en zijn echtgenote Georgette worden gewekt door hun schoonmaakster Carmen. Ze is in alle staten! De arme vrouw, die ook voor hun buurman Charles Bogaert werkt, struikelde over zijn lijk. Maar wanneer het trio bij zijn huis aankomt, is het lichaam verdwenen, samen met Magrittes schilderij Le principe du plaisir, dat in Bogaerts bezit was. Hun onderzoek leidt hen naar Brugge, een zonderlinge parel met kanalen waar stille spoken dwalen. René, Georgette en hun hond Lou...

The brilliant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane.

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB

A brand new series.

An iconic new detective duo.

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Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.

Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. A...

THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO 2022'S MOST ORIGINAL MURDER MYSTERY, EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE*

When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out.

The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty:

the debut writer (...

A DAZZLING JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED MURDER MYSTERY FOR FANS OF RICHARD OSMAN AND JANICE HALLETT**

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every go...

By night, Vivian Parry performs the role of Manhattan's sharpest theatre critic, immersing herself fully in every show she sees. By day, she uses work, sex, and psychotropic drugs to keep her comfortably numb.

Desperate for a promotion and at the urging of her editor, she agrees to an interview with David Adler, an enigmatic graduate student. When he later disappears, Vivian soon learns from his devastated fiancée that she was the last person to have seen him alive. The police refu...

Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe run the most in-demand private investigation agency in New York City.

The three detectives make a formidable team, solving a series of seemingly impossible crimes - from a priceless art theft and a decades-old unsolved murder, to mysterious disappearances that expose corruption and bribery at the highest levels of power.

But it's not long before their headline-grabbing breakthroughs, unconventional methods - and untraceable pasts - attract the a...