Ergebnis für "Cleopatra und Frankenstein" in Krimis

With the social season just around the corner, the women in Cleo’s family are having new outfits made by the most sought-after designer in the city. Madame Poitiers is bold, self-absorbed, and not French, despite her claims. When Cleo stumbles on her dead body in the salon, she is in a unique position to gather clues and speak to witnesses. But she doesn’t expect to find Harry Armitage’s business card in Madame’s possession. What is the alluring private detective’s connection to the victim? And why is he avoiding Cleo?

Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the newspaper. With her uncle warning her to keep her detecting activities private, Cleo agrees to meet the blackmailer when they return to London. But when the woman is seen getting on the train but not off, Cleo grows concerned.

Als der Priester der Sankt-Nicholas-Kirche in Alexandria tot aufgefunden wird, herrscht nicht nur in der Gemeinde heller Aufruhr: Alles deutet auf Mord hin. Doch wer oder was steckt dahinter – die Mafia, ein Familienstreit oder doch der erfolgshungrige Archäologe, der in den Gotteshäusern der Stadt etwas zu suchen scheint und vielen ein Dorn im Auge ist? Die junge Kommissarin Theodora Costanda wird mit dem Fall betraut und stößt auch durch ihre Außenseiterrolle – als Frau, als Angehörige der griechischen Minderheit, als Christin – bei ihren Ermittlungen auf eine Mauer des Schweigens.

They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Helios - once Frankenstein - can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way.