Ergebnis für "؟؟؟" in Internationale Krimis

"When I say, therefore, that [my brother] has better powers of observation than I...I am speaking the exact and literal truth." (Sherlock Holmes) This story occurs when Mycroft, an athletic Cambridge graduate, assists the secretary of state. He becomes embroiled in a mystery in Trinidad based on actual history. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a huge Holmesian, seven feet two inches tall, basketball's all-time leading scorer, and a US cultural ambassador. Anna Waterhouse is a professional screenwriter and script consultant.

Impulsado por una serie de acontecimientos que él interpreta como señales —la muerte de su perro, la infidelidad de su mujer, un sueño—, el protagonista de esta novela decide dejarlo todo e irse a Nueva York, con el vago designio de iniciar algunos estudios o, simplemente, a esperar algo que haga cambiar su vida. El hallazgo casual de un libro escrito por Manuel Dalmau, un español emigrado a Estados Unidos a principios de los años veinte, le proporciona el primer indicio de cuál era la verdadera finalidad de su viaje.

Paris, 1922. The marriage between the Auclair and Picard families is the talk of the town. June can’t wait to attend the engagement party with her friends, Nate and Jack. But Nate has an ulterior motive: he’s there to stop the wedding. Before he can complete his task, he’s stabbed in the chest with Jack’s knife. Jack is arrested, but June knows he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Im brandneuen Band der erfolgreichen Gardasee-Krimireihe steht die Familie Pitti vor einem scheinbar unlösbaren Rätsel, das in die pompöse Villa Feltrinelli und tief in die dunkle Vergangenheit Italiens führt. In der Redaktion der soeben neu aufgestellten Seezeitung Messaggero del Garda wird die Leiche eines unbekannten Mannes gefunden. Erschossen. Es stellt sich heraus: Der Unbekannte war Gast im besten Haus am Westufer in Gargnano: der Villa Feltrinelli.

On a culinary tour of the British Isles, a retired detective and a failed police dog intend to taste the smoked fish that made the town famous …… but when the first person they meet turns up dead a few hours later in an apparent suicide neither one of them believes, both man and dog must accept they’ve stumbled into another mystery. All too soon, they wish they hadn’t poked their noses in because what they have uncovered could be truly sinister.

Visiting a small Lancashire town to learn their culinary secrets, a retired detective and his former police dog dream of delicious dishes …… what they get is the dead body of a famous TV chef. Instantly plunged into a mystery that threatens to test their limits, Rex and Albert must stay one step ahead of the killer. However, it seems that everyone around them had a motive for wanting the TV chef to meet an untimely end. With no end of suspects, who can they turn to for help? Everyone around them could be the killer and it quickly becomes clear that someone does not want this mystery solved.

Life in modern Tokyo is a blast for Rei Shimura, a young Japanese-American woman who enjoys busy days as an antiques dealer and steamy nights with a devoted new boyfriend. But things come to a standstill when Rei overpays for a rare old chest of drawers for a wealthy client, the owner of a famous Zen temple in Kamakura. The exquisite tansu turns out to be a fake: the worst deal Rei has ever made. When the temple family turns on Rei - and the con man who sold the tansu is murdered - she realizes she's opened a Pandora's box of deception and death.

Thirty years ago, the people of Guildford were haunted by a figure who crept into children’s bedrooms and watched them sleep. When he left, he left behind a single party balloon. And then he vanished. The visits stopped. Now it’s happening again. Has The Bogeyman returned or is a copycat terrorising a new generation of victims? With pressure mounting and panic rising, DI Stephanie Broadbent must untangle the past to stop a predator stalking the present. But what she finds may bring her closer to home than she ever expected…

Une jeune prostituée, sauvagement assassinée à l'arme blanche et marquée au fer rouge, est découverte près de la gare de l'Est, à Paris. Ses recherches le conduisent à l'est du pays, à Villerupt, petite ville trifrontalière entre la France, la Belgique et le Luxembourg. Dès son arrivée, l'enquête prend une dimension bien plus vaste et complexe. Lorsque Marie, son amour de jeunesse, pharmacienne sans histoires, est retrouvée morte peu après, Lebon ne peut s'empêcher de faire de cette enquête une affaire personnelle.

A bold and electrifying expansion of John le Carré’s literary universe, where—for the first time—George Smiley crosses the Atlantic into the perilous world of Cold War America It's 1965, and the world lives on a knife edge. After the nuclear standoff in Cuba, and with Vietnam even now...

היא עדיין רווקה בת 30, כפי שהיתה לפני עשרים שנה בדיוק. היא עדיין גרה בבאר שבע וכותבת במקומון, עונדת עגילי פלסטיק זולים, מדשדשת ברגליה הגדולות מזירת פשע אחת לאחרת, מסתבכת בתעלומות בלשיות שאיש לא הטיל עליה לחקור. מתחת לחזותה הגמלונית והאטומה-לכאורה מסתתר מוח חד וחריף, שממשיך להפתיע את עמיתיה ויריביה. ואחרי ששת רבי-המכר שכתבה עליה שולמית לפיד - אין ספק שליזי בדיחי היא האנטי-גיבורה הכובשת ביותר בספרות הבלש העברית.

Arran went missing in Edinburgh twenty years ago. The last time his parents saw him he was withdrawn and on edge where he’d once been happy and carefree. Still searching for their son, they turn to their last hope, true crime podcaster Cal Lovett. Cal begins looking for answers but is distracted by his sister’s murder trial. He’s so close to getting the justice Margot deserves. Can he finally leave the past—and Margot—behind? As Cal unearths disturbing evidence about Arran’s fate, he suspects the young man’s close-knit group of university friends are keeping secrets to protect each other.

"Aber die Mundwinkel der tausend Jahre alten Maske der Dogon kräuselten sich befriedigt, während aus ihren hohlen Augen geschossene unsichtbare Giftpfeile die Münchner Luxusmeile durchbohrten." Stefan hat Deutschland schon vor Jahrzehnten den Rücken gekehrt und lebt als Schreiner in Mali, er fühlt sich nahezu heimisch in Bamako unter seinen malischen Freunden. Für einen der reichsten Männer der Stadt eine Küche anzufertigen, scheint ihm ein lukrativer Auftrag, doch dann begegnet er dessen Frau und verliebt sich auf der Stelle - was Folgen hat!

Lewis Milken is a dying man who has one last wish: to find out what happened to his sister nearly 40 years ago. Emma Milken supposedly died of tuberculosis while working as a governess in Spain. But Lewis believes there is more to the story. Part-time fixer Chance Yang has troubles of his own. His relationship with girlfriend Catherine Roxborough is on the rocks. But when his flamboyant former boss, Felipe Kazama, sends Lewis his way, Chance heads straight from London to Spain to search for the answers Lewis seeks.

In Paris, there were simply too many beautiful women hiding too many secrets, and this case was becoming too personal and too intriguing for Mrs. Duchesney to solve on her own. There was only one name on the engraved invitation: Louie Arnaud Bertrand, making it perfectly clear that Mrs. Duchesney was not welcome at Chateau de Robinesque-Roussel. Investigating the very delicate nature of this mystery would become her sleuthing partner Louie's first solo assignment.

Carl Logan was the perfect agent. A loner with no real friends or family, he was trained to deal with any situation with cold efficiency, devoid of emotion. But Logan isn't the man he used to be or the asset he once was. Five months ago his life changed forever when he was captured, tortured and left for dead by Youssef Selim, one of the world's most violent terrorists. When Selim mysteriously reappears in Paris, linked to the kidnapping of America's attorney general, Logan smells his chance for revenge.

It starts when reporter Dorian Valentine discovers a horrific secret regarding the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty (a critical peace agreement between the former Soviet Union and the United States): One side is cheating, and even worse - the cheating side holds the ultimate trump card. Brutally trained from birth to live, talk, and think like Americans, Russia has constructed the most dangerous network of secret operatives ever known - created for the ultimate trinity: Intelligence, Espionage, and Warfare.

Elle Anderson waited until he was right on top of her. When he turned to yell for security, she shot her blade across the back of his ankle, cutting his Achilles tendon. The shock robbed him of his voice, and his body went crashing to the ground. She covered his mouth and slit his throat. His body convulsed, making it harder to drag him into the shadows, but she needed to buy herself some time.

After a near fatal attack, Veronica Kilter is taken under the wing of an underground cyber criminal who is known as The Master. He trains her to carry out his elaborate heists, which leaves Veronica living a dangerous double life as an artist by day but a highly trained criminal by night. She accepts the life she leads until she falls in love with a man who makes her question it all.

Ex-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial and left in a coma - but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called “Miracle of Galway”.