Ergebnis für "Dark Game" in Weibliche Detektive

After a scandal forces DI Kelly Porter out of the Met, she returns home to the Lake District. Crimes in the Cumbrian constabulary tend to be minor, but Kelly begins work on a cold case that shocked the local community - the abduction and brutal murder of a 10-year-old girl.

When the body of a woman is discovered by a river in Oak Creek, local police quickly dismiss the case as an accidental death, believing she died in a fishing accident years before, having only now emerged from the riverbed. Brought in from Chicago to help with the case, Detective Charlotte Dawes has worked on more murder investigations than she’d like to remember. A quick examination of the body tells her what local police refuse to see–somebody moved the victim to this remote location after keeping her elsewhere.

Welche Abgründe lauern hinter der Fassade eines Menschen? Dieser Frage muss sich die Mannheimer Hauptkommissarin Jelene Bahl stellen, als sie die Ermittlungen im Mordfall an einer zweifachen Mutter in die Vergangenheit führen. Am selben Tatort wurde fünf Jahre zuvor eine traumatisierte und schwer verletzte Frau aufgefunden, die sich tagelang in der Hand von brutalen Entführern befand – doch der Fall wurde nie aufgeklärt.

Casey Benedict is the globe-trotting star reporter at London paper the Post. Casey is tenacious, fearless, inventive and still in recovery after her last major story jeopardised her life, and all of those she held most dear. Invited to spend the day at the races at the invitation of a former colleague, it is meant to be a chance to relax and recover. But when she sees a man being hunted across the racecourse, a horrified Casey intervenes to save his life – and in doing so finds herself face to face with her next major investigation. Match fixing. Gambling. And murder.