Ergebnis für "Bliss" in Krimis

Nothing much happens in Myrtle Grove, Oklahoma. So when prominent businessman Harry Kerr is discovered face down in his pool shortly after dawn, the breakfast crowd in Jesse Camden's tearoom is buzzing. Recognizing the name, Jesse hurries to her friend Vivian Windsor, Myrtle Grove's resident oil heiress. Vivian is the great-aunt to Bliss Kerr, widow of the deceased and soon-to-be prime suspect in his suspicious death.  

A picture is worth a thousand words … but the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received in the mail gives rise to a thousand questions instead. At first glance it appears to be the famous portrait of Frau Schliemann adorned in the gold of Troy. But closer study reveals the picture to be contemporary—which is odd since Vicky knows the Trojan gold vanished sometime around the end of World War Two. And if she needed further proof that something here is terribly amiss, a quick look at the blood-stained envelope the photo arrived in should do the trick.

Edgar Wallace löst jedes Rätsel! Das glaubt zumindest Chefinspektor Bliss von Scotland Yard. Immer wieder sind es die Romane des englischen Kriminalschriftstellers, die ihm wertvolle Tipps bei der Aufklärung seiner Fälle liefern. So auch im Fall des schwarzen Armbrustschützen. Diese sagenumwobene Gestalt geht auf dem ehrwürdigen Landsitz Caxton Manor um. Immer wieder werden Familienmitglieder attackiert. Am Ort der Tat werden seltsame Erpresserschreiben gefunden.

Event organizer Megan Fallon is gearing up for a concert in honor of the oldest tree in the county: the ancient village oak on Bliss Bay's village green. What she's not gearing up for, though, is stumbling over the dead body of Bliss Bay's most unpopular villager, under the oak tree's sprawling boughs. With a murder investigation underway, a mystery that has everyone looking like a suspect, and a cat that needs a new home, there's also the small matter of the theft of forty-eight garden gnomes to get to the bottom of.

On a spring night, a lone nightingale starts to sing in the boughs of the old village oak tree and a local psychic predicts that it will sing every night until a village mystery is solved . . . As if the excitement surrounding Megan and Jack's forthcoming nuptials isn't enough, a TV antiques show arrives in Bliss Bay to film an episode on the village green, and a trinket Des bought years ago in a junk shop for pennies turns out to be worth thousands . . . and a magnet for trouble.

Eine Dschunke erscheint auf der Themse. Mary Ann Bliss und andere Mädchen verschwinden. Ein Fall, der Kommissar Hunter vom Yard noch viel mehr Kopfzerbrechen bereiten würde, gäbe es nicht Xaver und Yvonne, Inhaber der Detektei XY.

Event organizer Megan Fallon needs to find a killer before the biggest night of the year in Bliss Bay village: a charity dinner and auction to raise funds for local children's charities. After all, there's nothing like a murderer on the loose to put a dampener on the party spirit. With her Uncle Des in tow, the two intrepid amateur sleuths set out to identify the perpetrator. They could be onto something after a mysterious rocking horse offers up a clue to the identity of the murderer.

The bestselling author of the stunning DI Bliss crime series is back – this time with a thrilling prequel novella. A double life – a single truth. Fresh out of uniform, DC Jimmy Bliss finds himself at the centre of an undercover sting. Enlisted by a crew of villains to crack a safe, he fears...

Awards, networking… and murder. At this wedding conference, the competition is deadly. Leah Jordan is over the moon when The Wedded Bliss is nominated for a prestigious award. She and her best friend, Chelsea, head to a luxury hotel for the conference of a lifetime, eager to soak up sessions, make connections, and have a little fun. But the celebration doesn’t last. An old acquaintance of Leah’s late aunt suddenly reappears, and before Leah can reconnect, tragedy strikes. One of the attendees is murdered, and the family friend quickly becomes the police’s prime suspect.

From the author of the bestselling DI Bliss crime series comes another gripping police procedural thriller that will have readers hooked from the stunning first page to the very last. When DI Bliss prevents fifteen-year-old Molly from jumping from a hotel roof, he has no idea their paths will...

When human remains are unearthed in a flyover support, an antique chisel buried into the skull, Bliss and the Major Crime team recall an unsolved case from the previous year. The tools used as weapons in both murders suggest a Masonic connection. But are they looking for the same killer, or is...

It’s been a while since Miss Molly Gertrude Grey and Dora Brightside had a mystery to solve, and it is beginning to eat at Molly Gertrude. The elderly amateur sleuth is bored and begging for something to get her detective teeth into. The answer to Molly's prayers come sailing in when they are asked to plan the wedding of the son of wealthy scientist Mace Brick on a paradise island in the Indian ocean.  

DI Jimmy Bliss continues in another gripping crime novel. DI Bliss and his team absorb two new cases which don’t initially present as major crimes. But who is the man who stepped in front of an express train? Did he willingly commit suicide or was he coerced? And what, if any, connection is...

Hoch Racheengel is a former star pilot who has made mistakes and is now paying for them. He gets a chance to repay an act of kindness by finding the people responsible for the rape and murder of the young woman who helped him when he needed help the most. But was her murder just a random act of piracy, or is it the tip of the iceberg of something far more sinister? He finds that he has a talent for balancing the scales of justice with his own hands, but his thirst for vengeance sometimes makes him straddle the line between right and wrong.