Ergebnis für "Das Tor" in Historische Krimis

Die Erfolgsserie um die Armenapothekerin Serafina aus Freiburg geht weiter. Februar 1418: Die Menschen leiden unter der beißenden Kälte. Erschreckend nah heulen des Nachts die ausgehungerten Wölfe und reißen die ersten Schafe. Dann fällt ihnen in dem Dörfchen Würi, gleich vor der Stadt, der junge Müllerssohn Jörgelin zum Opfer. Zum Schock gesellen sich Spukgeschichten über Werwölfe. Man hängt zur Abschreckung sogar einen Wolf an den Galgen. Das Töten geht weiter.

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Rebecka lebt weit entfernt von ihrer Familie in Stockholm; zu ihrer Mutter hat sie schon lange keinen Kontakt mehr. Als ihre Großmutter Anna ins Krankenhaus kommt, beschließt Rebecka, die ohnehin eine Auszeit braucht, für ein paar Tage in die südschwedische Heimat zu fahren.

Knives Out meets The Binding in this historical romp full of magic, queer romance and adventure. A Restless Truth by Freya Marske is the thrilling follow-up to A Marvellous Light. 'It's the lesbian locked-room murder mystery of my dreams. Beyond delightful!' - Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten...

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In this Gaslight Mystery from the national best-selling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of 19th-century New York City....

Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope’s Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine’s nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl’s mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has been murdered. Though her death leaves Sarah’s claim to Catherine unchallenged, her sense of justice compels her to work with Malloy to find the killer.

Frank and Sarah Malloy are enjoying married life and looking to make their family official by adopting Catherine, the child Sarah rescued and has been raising as her daughter. The newlyweds soon discover Parnell Vaughn, an actor and Catherine's legal father, is looking to fatten his pockets by insisting on a financial settlement to relinquish his parental rights. When Frank returns with money and finds Vaughn beaten to death, all evidence points to Frank as the culprit.

In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where the son of family friends has died unexpectedly. The father believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter. They soon learn that not everyone wants to know more about Charles' death, and they also discover that they are in the company of a very present danger.

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Berkeley Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a former presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family.

"Moreira displays his many years of dramatic training and extensive theatrical experience as he animates characters as diverse as low-life thugs, the upper-class Bainbridge women, and even Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Tim Campbell and Suzanne Toren ably narrate the court deposition sequences. This...