When Cora is murdered, the remark she made the previous day at her brother's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. She had been heard questioning if he was murdered. In desperation, the solicitor turns to Poirot to solve the mystery.

The silent, snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquillity. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent, a black notes sounds. A boy's body washes up near the city's Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water, almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to report him missing.

David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant until someone killed him in the hallway of his million-plus-pound house. The odd thing was that none of his many girlfriends seemed to know where David worked or exactely what he did. Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery.

New Yorker Clare Cosi has found success with her coffeehouse, the Village Blend. Now her daughter is immersing herself in the foodie culture at one of the city's hottest French restaurants - and getting pretty intimate with the married chef.

Now that she's been knitting up a storm with the help of her new friends at House of Lambspun, Kelly can't imagine ever leaving Fort Connor, Colorado. But there's trouble in her adopted hometown - Vickie Claymore is found dead.

When the police arrive at the Amish farmstead in Painters Mill they can't imagine the horror that awaits them. An entire family slaughtered: the men shot, the young women tortured and killed.

Sophie Mae accepted Barr's marriage proposal, but when her mother finds a cryptic suicide note her brother wrote two decades earlier, Sophie Mae makes a trip to her old hometown to help unravel the mystery.

Late at night a van is being driven erratically. The driver is questioned by the police. A woman on the street after an evening's drinking never makes it home. A suspect, an arrest, a confession. A case done and dusted?

Hired to protect beautiful but neurotic actress Clarissa Lisle from a spate of poison pen letters, Cordelia Gray is unprepared for a case as deadly as it is mysterious.