Estate Mystery

When your day starts with a man stuck to the top of a sailboat mast, things have to get better, don’t they? When real estate tycoon Bucky Bloom is found stuck to the end of a sailboat mast, a land war erupts in Pineapple Port.

He can’t have me, even though he thinks I’ll give in to him again. Not this time. This time, I’m here to keep my distance, even as the lines between us start to blur. He is Carter Ross—the enigmatic, infuriating man I spent one unforgettable night with before I knew he’d be my new boss. As dangerous as he is captivating, now he’s the one pursuing me—his gaze a promise, his touch a dare. To him, I’m a temptation he refuses to resist. To me, he’s a mistake I can’t afford to make twice. Because that was the past… Today is a fresh start—a new job at a secluded estate. A chance to start over.

Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father's newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than a match for one another's brilliance and ambition.

Brought to you by Penguin. Every family has a secret. The mega-rich Pallanders are used to luxury – a castle in the Scottish Highlands, a villa in Tuscany, a billion-dollar fortune and an island in the Caribbean – but their perfect life is about to be shattered. Every father has a favourite...

The first book in The County Guides to Murder Series. The County Guides to Murder are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England. The books are an odyssey through England and its history. In each county, the protagonists – Stephen Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his...

Lights! Camera! Reed! That's right - Reed Ferguson, the intrepid hero of This Doesn't Happen in the Movies, is back. A mysterious death. A brother searching for the truth. A devious ex-wife. Real estate shenanigans. More danger for Reed than a film noir plot.

Beth never had a settled home as a child, but that’s all behind her now. She’s fine. Great. Settled in her single life. Until friends start peeling away, moving on to careers and family, leaving her feeling impatient and angry. When she bumps into Jason at a party, she spots the opportunity for her own fresh start - to turn her back on a reckless life of drinking and missed deadlines. She can build a new life, too...can’t she? When she discovers that Jason has the opportunity to house-sit a new build out of town, she glimpses her chance.

Charmain Bynoe, a council housing officer for the London borough of Southwark, inspired the nation when she appeared on the TV series Council House Britain. Now, in The Estate, she shines a light on the challenges faced by so many of our citizens and provides heartwarming and inspirational...

From the author of ‘The Music of the Primes’ and ‘Finding Moonshine’ comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved – and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths. Every time we download a song from Itunes, take a flight across the...

Bari, 1992. Nel pieno di una sanguinosa guerra tra clan, arriva la notizia del rapimento di un bambino, il figlio di un boss. È un punto di non ritorno. La lunga confessione di un pentito non basterà a fare chiarezza. Per risolvere il caso toccherà a Pietro Fenoglio, maresciallo dei carabinieri sabaudo trapiantato in Puglia, addentrarsi in quella zona grigia dove è più difficile distinguere ciò che è giusto da ciò che è sbagliato.

This audiobook includes two riveting haunted house mysteries: The Haunting of Whitecrest Estate and The Haunting of Abram Mansion. Mystery and horror surround the long-abandoned Whitecrest Estate, seemingly forgotten by the town. When Peyton and Benjamin Fletcher inherit the dilapidated Abram Mansion, they just want to get rid of it.

Sibilla è annegata in uno stagno limaccioso durante l'estate del 1984. Assieme a lei c'era Luce, la sua migliore amica, che ha fornito una testimonianza che non ha mai convinto gli inquirenti. Vent'anni dopo, nei pressi di quello stagno, due uomini vengono brutalmente uccisi in un casale abbandonato. A segnalare il delitto e guidare il rinvenimento dei cadaveri è una ragazza che si presenta alla polizia proprio con il nome di Sibilla. E il casale in cui si è consumata la strage è quello in cui un tempo aveva abitato Luce.

Estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon combines business with pleasure as she plans a sale at the exquisite beach home of the Gardner family. But the romantic getaway weekend with her husband is shattered when the body of a teenage boy washes up on the sand. The death soon proves to be more than an unpleasant distraction from Audrey’s work. Sophia, the troubled young woman who lives next door to the Gardners, is wracked with guilt over the death of her friend.

What lies buried in a hoarder's house - precious treasure or ghastly secrets? One moment of misguided generosity throws estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon's life into turmoil. She loses a client's money, cripples her budding romance, and witnesses a murder. Strapped for cash, she accepts a questionable project: clearing out the home of a mentally ill hoarder who may have hidden valuable Civil War letters.

The world thinks that Jacob Shepherd can speak to the dead. He can’t. For years, he has gotten by through deception and intuition. When hired to clear a country estate of angry spirits, Jacob sees it as a great opportunity for a much-needed getaway with his six-year old daughter Grace. But relaxation turns to terror as Jacob and Grace are pulled into a web of lies, betrayal, murder, and very angry ghosts.

Growing up, it was only Gretchen and her mother, and their closeness strengthened an unbreakable bond. But after Gretchen’s mother tragically passes, she learns of the family her mother left behind at Redwood Ranch. Desperate to learn more about her mother’s past, Gretchen visits her estranged family only to discover the harsh truth of why her mother left in the first place.

Step into the forgotten and abandoned house atop the bluff in a small town and uncover the unsolved murder, cursed paranormal activity, and heart-stopping secrets within. Can you solve the mystery before it's too late? Find out in this gripping haunted house thriller.

When Ginger’s father died, his family secrets were buried with him. But when Ginger receives a mysterious envelope informing her that she is the sole heir of a vast fortune on her father’s side, she jumps at the opportunity to meet her long-lost family. As Ginger uncovers the truth of her father’s past, she’ll understand why he never spoke about his childhood and how some secrets should remain buried.

It's been three years since a local college girl went missing, leaving a trail of theories about what really happened at the Morgan Estate.

Mystery and heartbreak await estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon when she accepts a lucrative new job in a posh New Jersey town. Eager to settle their mother's estate and close the door on their elegant family home, the Eskew children hire Audrey to run an estate sale as their mother lies dying, tended by a home health aide. Every day Audrey works in the house, she discovers another valuable artwork and another family secret.