Ergebnis für "Don Une Don" in Historische Krimis

Im Vatikan läuten die Totenglocken: Der Papst ist gestorben, ein neues Konklave muss einberufen werden, die gesamte Welt schaut zu... Doch dann geschieht das Unvorstellbare: Ein Kardinal nach dem anderen lehnt die Wahl zum Oberhaupt der Kirche ab. Allmählich machen sich Zweifel breit, ein dunkles Gerücht wird wispernd weitergetragen: es erzählt von Verrat und Verschwörung.

Geheimnisse, Intrigen und Gefahren im Cosy-Krimi von New York Times Bestseller-Autorin Rhys Bowen! Lady Georgie und ihr Ehemann Darcy erwarten ein neues Familienmitglied. Doch als sie eine Einladung von Georgies bester Freundin Belinda nach Paris erhalten, beschließen sie, vorher nochmal eine kleine Auszeit zu nehmen. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass dieser Ausflug weniger entspannt ist als erwartet. Darcy arbeitet schon wieder an einem neuen Auftrag und Georgie soll für ihn unerkannt etwas bei der Modenschau von Coco Chanel abholen.

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

During the Great Depression, high-profile kidnappings became more and more commonplace. On December 17, 1931, self-made millionaire fashion designer Nell Donnelly becomes the next casualty.

You can't trust a man who's dressed as Mae West, especially not in Mae West's house. One of Hollywood's earliest sex symbols, the whip-smart blonde's star has fallen since the Hays Code cracked down on the racy repartee that made her famous. Her latest project is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, whose only copy is stolen just after she finishes her first draft. Tonight she's having a Mae West party, with every guest a man dressed as her. The thief is among those in drag, and P.I. Toby Peters has come to tear off his wig. He's there as a favor to his brother, a brutal cop who had a fling with West when she first moved to Hollywood.

Spain, 1648. Fifteen-year-old Luis is different than everyone else in the small, sweltering village of Riodelgado - because he can read. Targeted by the local toughs, who make his life a misery, Luis works tirelessly to provide for his ailing mother and young sister. Then, one day, a wandering soldier arrives to the village and everything changes.

The all-female commune was run by a movement that called itself The Angels of Love, but as far as Larry Kent could see, there wasn’t much love around. The place was cut off from the rest of the world by a nine-foot chain link fence, and the perimeter was patrolled 24 hours a day by rifle-wielding guards and vicious attack dogs.