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Chloe Carter is ready for her 15 minutes of vicarious fame. Her boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is competing with two other chefs to win Chefly Yours, a cable reality series. The show takes place at an upscale market, where a random shopper is selected to be the lucky recipient of a home-cooked gourmet meal; the winning chef is then chosen by the viewers. But Josh's television career might be over before it starts when a shopper's wife, Francie, dies after dining on his signature lamb chops and pesto gnocchi.

Having an executive chef boyfriend guarantees Chloe Carter the best table at Simmer, Boston's hottest new restaurant, any night of the week. But the Back Bay foodie's incredible comped dinners are usually enjoyed without Josh, whose pressure-cooker job has taken over his life. The same can't be said of Leandra, the pretty blond Simmer server whose body was just found in a seafood delivery truck. The truck belongs to Owen, the fiancé of Chloe's best friend, Adrianna. And Owen has no alibi for the night Leandra was strangled with her apron strings and dumped in his truck.

After months between gigs, Chloe Carter's dishy boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, has just landed his dream job: executive chef at Simmer, Boston's soon-to-be hottest new restaurant. As Josh preps for a New Year's Eve grand opening, Chloe, on winter break from grad school, hooks him up with Food for Thought, an annual charity fundraiser.

Frühschwimmen ist gesund - allerdings nicht für die Professorin Verena Böck, die beim Bahnenziehen im Villinger Kneippbad ermordet wird. Die Spuren führen Hubertus Hummel, den ermittelnden Lehrer, in die Schwenninger Hochschulszene. Ausgerechnet bei einem Fest der Polizei-Fachhochschule geschieht ein zweiter Mord. Diesmal stirbt das Opfer durch das Gift des Blauen Eisenhuts.

Mitten im Schneegestöber bleibt die Schwarzwaldbahn mit einem Ruck stehen. Unter den Passagieren sind auch Hubertus Hummel und sein Freund Klaus Riesle. Der stößt in der Zugtoilette auf den ermordeten Chef einer ortsansässigen Brauerei. Vom Täter weit und breit keine Spur. Gibt es einen Zusammenhang mit der drohenden Übernahme der Firma durch eine Großbrauerei?

It's a beautiful day in Greenwich Village, and for once Bedford Green is selling paintings. Business is booming, and this gossip columnist turned art dealer owes it all to his invaluable assistant, Sloane - who goes and spoils the fun by announcing that she's leaving on safari. Sloane is a Midwestern girl and has never laid eyes on any animal more exotic than a house cat, but she can't resist her uncle Dixon's invitation to visit Kenya to hobnob with everyone from the department-store king of Chicago to the prince of Wales.

Halfway between the United States and the Soviet Union, Iceland is one of the most strategic points in the Cold War and home to a NATO squadron that could wipe Moscow off the map in an instant. It's about to become the unwitting host for the most daring operation in military history. On the remote coast of this frostbound island, the Soviets are building a laser powerful enough to bring the United States to its knees.

A former fashion photographer encounters murder and corruption in New Orleans. It's too hot to sleep. It's too hot to be up. This is New Orleans in the summer. And as dawn breaks on a sweltering July morning, André Derain awakens to a scream from his courtyard as a man is stabbed just below his window. Acting on impulse, Derain leaps out the window in the buff and chases the attacker down the alleyway, but the man with the knife gets away. By the time Derain returns to the courtyard, the victim has died.

A back-alley murder carries André Derain from the streets of New Orleans to the sun-drenched hell of the Cayman Islands. It's quiet in the Garden District, and André Derain can't sleep. After a lifetime as a fashion photographer in New York and the French Quarter, he needs noise, excitement, action - and he's about to get more than he can handle. A call comes in from the New Orleans homicide department, tipping Derain off to a grisly shooting on Tchoupitoulas Street. He grabs his camera and charges out the door.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Case in point: Piper Prescott's former mother-in-law, Melly. Beneath her twin sets and pearls beats the heart of a geek - a geek whose programming changes for the point-of-sale software in Piper's shop have the owners of the program ready to make her an offer she can't refuse.

Studienrat Hubertus Hummel mangelt es nicht an Problemen: Seine Frau ist zu einem schleimigen Anwalt übergelaufen, seine Tochter lässt sich nichts mehr sagen, und dann wird auch noch während des Eishockeyspiels seiner "Wild Wings" ein Kollege erschossen. Schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass der Tote ein schillerndes Privatleben führte. Zusammen mit dem findigen Journalisten Klaus Riesle beginnt Hummel zu ermitteln.

München im Sommer 2006, die Fußballweltmeisterschaft erhitzt die Gemüter. DieAnalystin Valerie Artman geht den Dingen gerne auf den Grund. Deshalb ist sie wohl auch diejenige, die nach einem Wohnungsbrand, bei dem ihre betagte Nachbarin ums Leben kommt, nicht so recht glauben kann, dass der Brand nur ein Unfall war. Während für alle anderen das Sommermärchen zur Realität wird, versucht Val, die Ermittler davon zu überzeugen, dass es sich lohnt, in Richtung Brandstiftung zuermitteln - und agiert bald als selbsternannte verdeckte Ermittlerin.

Der 28. Mai ist der Weltspieltag. David hat sich und seine Freunde zu einem "Live Alternate Reality Game" angemeldet, einem groß angelegten simulierten Kriminalfall. Informationen und Hinweise zur Aufdeckung des Mörders werden in Form von QR Codes übermittelt, die in der ganzen Stadt verteilt sind. Doch die simulierten Szenen sehen nicht nur realistisch aus, sie wirken auch gefährlich. Spätestens als einer von Davids Freunden verschwindet - und dafür ein abgeschnittener Finger auftaucht - ist klar: Dies hier ist kein Spiel mehr.

In Strawberry Yellow, he returns to the strawberry farms of his youth and encounters family intrigue, danger, and murder. The series' most compelling and evocative mystery yet is set in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California, where young Mas first arrived as a Hiroshima survivor in the 1940s. He returns for the funeral of a cousin and quickly gets entangled in the murder of a young woman. Was his cousin murdered, too?

Mas Arai's best friend, Haruo, is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiance goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To solve the mystery and to save Haruo's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heartbreaking memories, and murder.

Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan's blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan's bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead in his office, everyone suspects activist Nan. But she is innocent.

It starts innocently enough. Julie Hayes and her husband have just returned to Manhattan from a month in Paris. Julie looks forward to spending quality time with Jeff, whose career as a journalist takes him away from home for months on end. Now if they could just find the perfect work of art to hang over their mantel. Julie's quest takes her to a trendy SoHo gallery where she meets an itinerant artist named Ralph Abel.

Julie Hayes is finally making it as a reporter - with a column at the New York Dailyunder her own byline - when her husband, Jeff, tells her he has fallen in love with another woman and wants a divorce. Blinded by anger and hurt, she flees their Chelsea apartment. Before the night is over, she will be lying bound and gagged on the floor of a trailer, the victim of a sexual assault by two masked men. Now a tabloid headline herself, Julie tries to help the police search for her assailants. But she is not the same woman anymore.

Julie Hayes has come up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to a globe-trotting journalist, keeping up with her friends from her fortune-telling days, and celebrating a year of gainful employment at the New York Daily. But one of her colleagues is found shot dead in his office - and Julie may have been the last person to see him alive. With a reporter's nose for a scoop, Julie investigates the violent death of one of New York's most infamous - and despised - gossip columnists.

Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn’t be happier. It's that time of year again - time for the annual Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs and sassy sauces. Among the locals vying for the grand prize are Becca Dapkins and Maybelle Humphries.