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Des sorcières, des gangsters, et une vendetta à Vegas... Comment cela pourrait-il mal tourner ?Faites vos jeux...Une Petite Enquête Surnaturelle Des Sorcières de WestwickDécidément, Cendrine West n'a jamais de répit. Pourtant, ça s'annonçait bien : elle allait décrocher un nouveau travail, et ça se passait plutôt avec le sexy shérif de sa ville, l'agréable Tyler Gates... Et voilà que tout d'un coup, sa renégate de Tante Pearl la kidnappe, bien décidée à venger l'assassinat de l'une de ses amies. Tout le monde part à Vegas... Mais pas pour de bonnes raisons.Rocco Racatelli est un baron du crime de Vegas, costaud comme tout, et surtout le prochain nom sur la liste. Dame Chance ne lui a pas souri du tout, et lui aussi cherche la revanche. La Tante Pearl est un peu trop enthousiaste à l'idée de l'aider, et son Projet Vegas Vendetta bascule très vite à la guerre de gang sans merci. Tandis que nos sorcières se retrouvent plongées dans le monde de la pègre, les corps s'empilent de plus en plus, et les secrets ne mettent que trop de temps à se révéler !En plus, il n'y a pas que la chaleur de Las Vegas qui soit écrasante... Rocco, quant à lui, a bien l'intention de s'attirer les tendresses de Cen. Mais elle n'a d'yeux que pour l'homme qu'elle a laissé à Westwick Corners. Tout ce qu'elle a à faire, c'est résoudre un meurtre, dépasser en magie sa criminelle de tante, et dévoiler les dessous de cette affaire criminelle. Comment est-ce que tout ça pourrait mal tourner, hein ?Quand le crime organisé rencontre la magie désorganisée, tout va de travers ! Et en même temps que les cadavres s'accumulent, il devient de plus en plus évident qu'il faudra autre chose à Cen qu'un mirage en plein désert pour arranger les choses.Les livres de cette série peuvent être lus dans n'importe quel ordre.Au sujet des Petites Enquêtes Surnaturelles Des Sorcières de WestwickWestwick Corners est loin d'être une petite ville normale. Ou d'être une ville fantôme normale, d'ailleurs. C'est l'endroit rêvé où disparaissent les gens qui ne veulent pas attirer trop d'attention sur eux, et c'est aussi parfait pour que les sorcières pratiquent leur magie sans problèmes. Cette combinaison occasionne des enquêtes fort intéressantes et très humoristiques, où nos sorcières sont toujours de la partie?!Entre Ruby et ses essais de cuisine, Cendrine et ses enquêtes d'amatrice, et l'école de magie de Pearl, tout le monde cherche à trouver l'ingrédient miracle qui apportera gloire et fortune aux sorcières et redorera le blason de Westwick Corners. Elles sont perpétuellement en quête de nouvelles affaires en espérant qu'elles fonctionneront, comme l'Auberge de Westwick Corners, le Witching Post Bar et Grill... Ou, bien sûr, l'École de Charmes de Pearl, où les sorcières vont déchiffrer des énigmes, lier des sortilèges, et créer leurs propres mystères. C'est juste dommage qu'elles soient sans arrêt perturbées parce qu'il y a continuellement des choses étranges dans l'ombre de Wes

Vinci, perdi o pareggia...Un mistero delle streghe di WestwickCendrine West non ha un momento di tregua. Sta per avere un nuovo lavoro e le cose con il bello sceriffo Tyler Gates si mettono per il meglio. Ma tutto cambia all'improvviso quando viene rapita da zia Pearl, strega ribelle votata anima e corpo a vendicare la morte premature di un'amica. È Las Vegas o la fine... per tutti i motivi sbagliati. Rocco Racatelli è un fusto e una figura chiave di Vegas- e anche il prossimo bersaglio della mafia. La signora Buonasorte gli ha fatto tirare una mano perdente e lui vuole vendicarsi. Zia Pearl è anche troppo ansiosa di aiutare e il progetto Vegas Vendetta rapidamente si gonfia trasformandosi in una caotica guerra per il territorio tra mafiosi. Intanto che le streghe vengono scaraventate nel mondo perduto della Città del Peccato, i corpi si ammucchiano e i segreti vengono alla luce. Non è solo il calore di Las Vegas che brucia... Rocco fa di tutto per conquistare il cuore di Cen. Ma lei desidera solo l'uomo che ha lasciato a Westwick Corners. Tutto quello che deve fare è risolvere il mistero di un omicidio, superare le magia della bizzosa zia e sconfiggere la mafia di Las Vegas. Cosa potrebbe andare male? Quando il crimine organizzato incontra la magia disorganizzata, tutto può succedere! Mentre aumentano i cadaveri, è evidente che a Cen serve più di un miracolo per sistemare le cose."...Un affascinante chicca soprannaturale. Se vi piacciono i misteri familiari, adorerete Cendrine West e la sua stravagante famiglia di streghe!"Se vi piacciono i gialli familiari intrisi di una buona dose di umorismo e soprannaturale, impazzirete per questa storia!

A Westwick Witches Cozy Paranormal Mystery NovelBE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR...Dead billionaires are not good for business! That's what Aunt Pearl complains to Cen when a dead body is found in the cozy family inn at Westwick Corners.Still, it's not Cen's problem. She lives an ordinary life away from her witch-ful family for a reason. She got her ordinary fiancé and her ordinary job as a journalist using no magic whatsoever, and no inconvenient local murder is going to change her comfortable existence.Even if the entire town is now accusing Aunt Pearl of murdering her guest. Even if her fiancé is acting weird and talking about seeing ghosts. Even if the town's sexy new sheriff, Tyler Gates, treats her like the most hexing of all the witches...If you love funny cozy mysteries infused with a dose of the supernatural, you'll love this paranormal witch cozy! For fans of Leighann Dobbs, Angie Fox, Deanna Chase and Lynn Cahoon."...A bewitching, supernatural treat. If you love witch cozy mysteries you'll love Cendrine West and her wacky witch family!"

Come, bebe, y envenénate...Cendrine West está ilusionada con la acogedora cena de Nochebuena cuando estalla una tormenta, trayendo consigo a varios comensales inesperados. Pero las brujas ebrias y la magia son la receta perfecta para el desastre, sobre todo cuando uno de los invitados muere. Las dotes detectivescas de Cen sacan a la luz un montón de problemas más hondos que el saco de Santa Claus y todos son sospechosos, incluido su atractivo novio, el sheriff.¿Es un accidente mortal provocado por una bruja borracha o algo aún más siniestro? El asesinato entra en el menú y solo la magia será capaz de revelar la verdad en este emocionante y alocado relato navideño.Los misterios de las brujas de Westwick sono para amantes de la diversión y los libros de misterio con toques sobrenaturales. Si todavía no te has leído los tres primeros títulos de la colección (Caza de brujas, La bruja de la suerte y Bruja y famosa, puedes conseguirlos en un pack por un precio especial.Un cruce entre Embruajda y Miss MarpleCinco estrellas para la perfecta combinación entre magia, muérdago y asesinatoUn fascinante relato sobrenatural. Si te gustan los misterios te encantarán Cendrine West y su peculiar familiaUno de los mejores libros de misterio que he leído en mucho tiempo. Un imaginativo misterio detectivesco que combina la novela policíaca de Agatha Christie con un libro de fantasía de Harry Potter, ¡magia para adultos!

MÉFIEZ-VOUS DE VOS RÊVES... Une Petite Enquête Surnaturelle Des Sorcières de WestwickLes millionnaires morts, ce n'est pas terrible pour le business ! Voilà la complainte qu'adresse la Tante Pearl à Cen quand un cadavre est découvert dans le petit hôtel familial de Westwick Corners. Et pourtant, pour Cen, ce ne sont pas ses oignons. Elle vit une vie ordinaire à l'écart de sa famille surnaturelle pour une bonne raison. Elle a réussi à trouver un fiancé et un job tout à fait ordinaires sans user de magie, et aucun meurtre local inopportun n'est de taille à changer cette existence si confortable. Même si la ville toute entière accuse maintenant la Tante Pearl d'avoir assassiné son hôte. Même si son fiancé se comporte étrangement et dit voir des fantômes. Même si le nouveau shérif sexy de la ville, Tyler Gates, la traite comme la plus ensorcelante de toutes les sorcières...Si vous aimez les petits romans policiers infusés avec de bonnes doses d'humour et de surnaturel, vous adorerez celui-ci et ses sorcières ! Les livres de cette série sont des ¿uvres à part et peuvent être lus dans n'importe quel ordre.

A mountain biker dead in a frozen ditch. This was not what dog trainer Tamsin Kernick had in mind when she climbed the majestic Malvern Hills to enjoy the New Year's Eve fireworks.She would much rather head home to a warming hot chocolate and the last of the Christmas cake. But the trouble is that once Tamsin's curiosity is aroused, she can't leave well alone.So Tamsin wheels out her quirky band of investigators from her favourite coffee shop to get in the saddle and crack the crime. Once again her dogs have to rescue their intrepid owner from dangerous scrapes, putting the brakes on the killer almost single-pawed.Barks, Bikes, and Bodies! is the fourth book in the growing Tamsin Kernick English Cozy Mystery series. If you like the crunch of snow under your boots, the beauty of the magnificent Malvern Hills, the speed and excitement of a hillside bike race, and dogs dashing to the rescue, you'll love this latest captivating story from Lucy Emblem.Buy Barks, Bikes, and Bodies! now and race through this mystery along with the bikers and the barkers!

Riches to rags. ... Controlling to chaos. ... But murder ... seriously?After her ex-husband leaves her high and dry, former socialite Doreen Montgomery's chance at a new life comes in the form of her grandmother, Nan's, dilapidated old house in picturesque Kelowna ... and the added job of caring for the animals Nan couldn't take into assisted living with her: Thaddeus, the loquacious African gray parrot with a ripe vocabulary, and his buddy, Goliath, a monster-size cat with an equally monstrous attitude.It's the new start Doreen and her beloved basset hound, Mugs, desperately need. But, just as things start to look up for Doreen, Goliath the cat and Mugs the dog find a human finger in Nan's overrun garden.And not just a finger. Once the police start digging, the rest of the body turns up and turns out to be connected to an old unsolved crime.With her grandmother as the prime suspect, Doreen soon finds herself stumbling over clues and getting on Corporal Mack Moreau's last nerve, as she does her best to prove her beloved Nan innocent of murder.

'A little bit Margery Allingham with hints of Mitford, definite tones of Eva Ibbotson and as delightful as I Capture the Castle, D is for Death is an instant classic. I loved it so much' MARIAN KEYES<BR>'I absolutely loved D is for Death - mischievous and Mitford-esque and tender' ALEX HAY<BR><BR>1935. Dora'son the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage. But unluckily for her, Dora's fiance is more persistent than most and follows.<BR><BR>As Dora alights at Paddington station, she is immediately forced to run from the loathsome Charles Silk-Butters. She ducks into the London Library to hide and it is there, surrounded by books, where she should feel most safe, that Dora Wildwood stumbles across her first dead body.<BR><BR>Having been thrown into the middle of a murder scene, it's now impossible to walk away. Indeed, Dora's certain she will prove an invaluable help to the gruff Detective Inspector Fox who swiftly arrives on the scene. For as everyone knows, it's the woman in the room who always sees more than anyone else: and no one more so than Dora herself...<BR><BR>D is for Death heralds the launch of a brilliant historical crime series that marries the quality of Dorothy L. Sayers with the ingenuity of Janice Hallett - and in Dora Wildwood introduces a character with the spark and gusto of Enola Holmes and the detective skill of Miss Marple.<BR><BR>*** Readers already love Dora Wildwood! ***<BR><BR>'Witty, beautifully plotted and full of memorable characters. I for one can't wait to see what Dora does next. Highly recommended'<BR><BR>'The start of a new historical mystery series with a delightful protagonist, a deftly drawn cast and a well imagined backdrop'<BR><BR> 'Oh my god this book! I want to inhale it. I want to live in it. I want to buy the rest of the series and read them all one after the other while feasting on peppermint creams'<BR><BR> 'Absolutely delicious, a mash up of so many of my favourite things, with a heroine who has gone straight to the top of my list of favourite sleuths'¿¿¿¿¿<BR><BR>*** And so do your favourite writers! ***<BR><BR>'A charming and authentic ode to Golden Age crime fiction and to books in general. In a genre replete with world-weary cynicism, Dora Wildwood makes for an endearingly optimistic feminist sleuth' CHRIS BROOKMYRE<BR>'A glorious, stylish story of passion, poison and peril' LUCY DIAMOND<BR>'What a world, what a plot, what a cast - a masterpiece!' VERONICA HENRY

The forecast for Christmas in Sevier Oak, Tennessee is rain with a high chance of a humbug. But Garnet Stone won't let the gloomy weather ruin her first holiday with new boyfriend, Leo Voss, including a storm cloud named Drake.Leo's grandpa doesn't approve of his grandson dating his bookstore's rival. During an author signing at Voss-of-Books, Garnet attends to support Leo and hopes to demonstrate her worth to Drake. What should be a straightforward plan crumbles. Author Yasmin Starr is a shameless flirt and sets her sights on Leo. Shortly into the signing, Yasmin takes a break - and goes missing.Garnet helps with the search, only to find Leo standing over Yasmin's body on the rooftop. While the police turn to him as their primary suspect, Garnet strives to prove he's not the culprit.Yasmin made plenty of enemies in her brief visit to Sevier Oak and the suspects list is as long as a tangled strand of Christmas bulbs. Can Garnet bring the real killer to justice?This is the large print edition of Up On the Bookshop, the Body Fell, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

Huckleberry Flynn is a memoir from the perspective of a young border collie who spends his life with friends between a smallholding and his home in Newquay, Cornwall. Flynn recalls chapters of his life and shares stories about adventures and ordeals he has witnessed, been part of or heard about from his friends. He delivers his story with humour, diplomacy, empathy and true feelings. This book is Flynn's true story about the hurdles that he and his friends have faced over the first four eventful years of his life.