Ergebnis für "De experimenten" in Krimis

Privatermittler Foss, Spezialist für extraterrestrische Phänomene, läuft eine Katze zu. Nicht zufällig, wie es scheint, denn das Tier trägt eine verborgene Botschaft bei sich: den Grundriss einer Anlage unter dem Teufelsberg. Eine Area 51 in Berlin? Oder dient sie militärischen Experimenten zur Wetterbeeinflussung? Foss wird zur Zielscheibe mysteriöser Mächte, als er der Wahrheit zu nahe kommt.

Buenos Aires, 1950. Privatdetektiv Bernie Gunther soll für Peróns Geheimpolizei die vermisste Fabienne von Bader ausfindig machen. Bei seiner Suche nach dem fünfzehnjährigen Mädchen stößt er in der Wüste auf ein verlassenes Lager, das seine schlimmsten Befürchtungen weckt. Immer mehr gerät Gunther unter Druck, denn nicht nur die Perónistas sind hinter dem Mädchen her. Zu welchem Schatz ist Fabienne der Schlüssel? Und welche Rolle spielt die schöne Jüdin Anna? Bald steht Gunther im Fadenkreuz der verschiedensten Mächte.

Bei der Weltausstellung 1851 in London kommt es zu einem dramatischen Vorfall, der vor der Öffentlichkeit vertuscht wird. Vierzig Jahre später werden Sherlock Holmes und Doktor Watson von einer Klientin beauftragt, ihren verschwundenen Mann zu suchen. Das Ehepaar war damals auf der Weltausstellung und weiß um die Ereignisse im Kristallpalast. In einem mysteriösen kleinen Dorf entdecken die beiden Detektive das düsterste Geheimnis des Empires.

Auf der Thor-Brücke, unweit des Anwesens der wohlhabenden Familie Gibson, wird eines Morgens die Leiche von Maria Gibson gefunden. Sie starb an einem Kopfschuss. Für die Polizei ist die Gouvernante Grace Dunbar die Täterin. Tatsächlich ist die Beweislast erdrückend: Nicht nur wurde bei ihr die passende Pistole gefunden, auch waren die beiden Frauen zum Tatzeitpunkt auf der Brücke verabredet. Als der Witwer Neil Gibson nun Sherlock Holmes darum bittet, Grace Dunbars Unschuld zu beweisen, scheint auch noch das Motiv klar: Der Goldmagnat hatte ein Verhältnis mit dem Kindermädchen.

Der Klimawandel hat den Norden Europas entvölkert. In Jokkmokk, einer der wenigen bewohnten Enklaven, soll die Stockholmer Kommissarin Selma Fredriksson einen Mord aufklären. Der samische Polizist Aslak Järvi unterstützt sie dabei, ohne zu ahnen, dass Selma ganz andere Ziele verfolgt.

'Chilling, inventive, horribly plausible and brilliantly addictive.' - C. J. Tudor, author of The Gathering 'The books of John Marrs have become a quiet phenomenon . . . Thoughtful, well written . . . and alarming' - Daily Mail Some families are virtually perfect . . . The world's population is...

Hitler is dead. A new threat is born . . . The brand new blockbuster from 'the master of the wartime thriller' (FT) Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying...

After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning...

When Dr. Tom More (of Love in the Ruins) is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred and where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. Upon arriving, he notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual...

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure, Yamashita's Gold, worth billions. 1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast...

In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for 14 days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment. What begins innocently enough, however, morphs into a nightmare.

A Washington psychiatrist is killed in a hit-and-run on the street in front of his office. Suspicion quickly focuses on one of the doctor's patients, and Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend her. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink to a highly secret CIA mind-control project.

Polisen Johan Lind kallas till ett ensligt hus vid en sjö där en man hittas strypt under märkliga omständigheter. När en okänd symbol kopplad till det hemlighetsfulla "Projekt Noll" dyker upp på brottsplatsen, inser Johan snabbt att detta inte är ett vanligt mord. Tillsammans med den...

Jake Mercer’s life is spiraling out of control. As a criminal profiler and one of the senior homicide investigators in the Oakland Police Department, he’s spent the last twenty-five years getting inside the heads of killers and trying to understand the way they think. He’s the best at what he does, but constantly playing in the minds of madmen carries a heavy price, leaving Jake an out of shape, alcoholic loner suspended from active duty.

What if one single discovery changed everything? Your faith, who you thought you were, and the course of human history?

Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery! This collection consists of novelettes and short stories from Queen's many escapades.

Fast-paced, high-octane thriller featuring globe-trotting chemical engineer Dr Jaq Silver. Jaq Silver can’t catch a break. After escaping almost certain death at the hands of her old chemical industry employers, she soon finds herself up to her neck in even hotter water. Deep in debt, she...

Meet Jarrem Lee, Ghost Hunter (or as he prefers to call it, a psychical detective). With the help of college student Arthur Bennett, he embarks on a series of spine tingling and exciting adventures in the world of the dead. Episode 1: "The Tollington Hall case" - Sir Frederick Carmichael asks Lee to visit Tollington Hall, where a ghost haunts the attic each night. Episode 2: "The Ancient Burial Barrow" - A demon is trying to escape from a grave discovered during an archaeological dig. Episode 03: "Lord Wentworths Statue" - A collector becomes obsessed with a strange statue that becomes more life-like each day.

A plane en route from London to New York City has disappeared out of the sky. This breaking news dominates every TV channel, every social media platform, and every waking hour of the Metropolitan Police and US Homeland Security. The love of DCI Kate Daniels' life was on that aircraft, but she has no authority to investigate. This major disaster is outside of her jurisdiction, and she's ordered to walk away. But Kate can't let it lie....

The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.