Ergebnis für "Gothic" in Hobbydetektive

A murdered librarian. A missing manuscript. An obvious suspect. Gabriel Ward KC returns in the third installment in the cozy British mystery series The Trials of Gabriel Ward. The librarian's dead body lies in a pool of lamplight on his desk. A priceless medieval document has been stolen from...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor, read by Andrew Scott and Asa Butterfield. None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when...

An Earphones Award Winner! Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery by #1 New York Times...

AN ELLE BEST MYSTERY OF THE YEAR "I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." —Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal All is calm, all is bright . . . until reluctant sleuth barrister Gabriel Ward is tasked with finding the culprit of yet another grisly crime in the...

Brought to you by Penguin. In Jacknife, Louisiana, menace comes not only from the lurking 'gators, but from the secrets harboured by everyone in town... From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a compelling, utterly immersive thriller The Labasques aren’t like other families. Living in a...

** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** The unputdownable new thriller from the 'queen of the one-sit read' and No.1 bestselling author of Everyone Here is Lying Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill. The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes...

Brought to you by Penguin. Dark academia meets horror in this gripping fantasy series which is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo's NINTH HOUSE. HELL IS EMPTY AND ALL THE DEVILS ARE AT RAVENSWOOD ACADEMY . . . Mourning the sudden death of her sister, Andy Emmerson knows she must come to terms...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of The Cloisters comes this electrifying thriller about an affluent family whose annual retreat to Italy is shattered when a decades-old murder resurfaces . . . think The Talented Mr Ripley meets Succession meets The White Lotus . . . On the...

Im Jahr 1845 stehen einer alleinstehenden jungen Frau nicht viele Möglichkeiten offen, ihr Leben zu bestreiten: Entweder sie heiratet oder sie geht in Stellung. Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters geht es Anna nicht anders. Doch das Schicksal scheint es gut mit ihr zu meinen, denn es führt sie nach London zu Iseuld und Caradoc Arscott, die sie wie eine Freundin in ihre Familie aufnehmen. Anna wäre glücklich, wären da nicht diese Träume. Nacht für Nacht träumt sie von König Artus, der Iseulds jüngerem Bruder, den sie nicht ausstehen kann, bis aufs Haar gleicht.

This program includes three recipes. Multiple award–winning author Gigi Pandian is one of the best locked room mystery writers working today. Her newest heroine, Tempest Raj, returns in The Raven Thief, where sliding bookcases, trick tables, and hidden reading nooks hide something much more...

The Bookbinder’s Code, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

"Mollo-Christensen's expressive performance captures every nuance as she varies her voice and cadence for each quirky character."—AudioFile With a colorful cast of characters and a cellar full of wine, anything can happen—from murder to a second chance at love—in Jenny Elder Moke's half...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEXT BOOK IN THE ADDICTIVE DARK ACADEMIA SERIES WHICH WILL TAKE YOU INTO A WORLD OF MYSTERIOUS MURDERS AND DANGEROUS DEMONS . . . LURKING IN DARK CORRIDORS, HIDDEN IN TOMES OF OLD, SPIRITS ARE GROWING RESTLESS, AND HELL IS ONCE AGAIN, OPENED . . . A year after the...

Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award winner Jennifer K. Breedlove brings coastal Maine to life in Murder Will Out, a lighter, modern gothic mystery that's as atmospheric as it is heart-warming. "[Narrator Gail] Shalan vividly portrays the island’s many characters...

In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled in danger when her friend, a controversial entrepreneur, goes missing. When her daughter Lotte was born, Dani had welcomed the chance to be a stay-at-home mother. To be good at something...

A chilling and atmospheric thriller perfect for fans of The Silent Companions and The Strangers Diaries. 1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes stitched closed. The police direct their...

A weekend escape. A body in the water. And nowhere to run when the storm closes in. Mal Peck’s peaceful bridge weekend at an idyllic Cornish island hotel takes a deadly turn when the young bride of a fellow guest is found drowned. Her plans shattered, Mal is pulled into a spiralling puzzle, one that turns darker still when another body surfaces. As a savage storm cuts the island off from the mainland, Mal teams up with her friend Jacques Pellofey to hunt a killer.

Idyllic Avril Island, owned by the Bennett family, is where their hundred-year-old cottage sat nestled in acres of forest. Forty-year-old June Bennett believed that the island had been sold after the summer of her father's disappearance when she was only 12 years old. It's months after the shocking death of her older sister, May, in a fatal car accident that June finds out that the cottage was never sold. Avril Island is still owned by the Bennett family, and now it's hers. Still reeling from the grief of losing her sister, June travels back to Avril Island in search of answers.  

When a mysterious figure shows up in the photograph an architect takes of the derelict Seabrink Hotel, ghostly encounters and murder are unleashed. Aubrey Spencer loves photographing classic old buildings and abandoned places that hold old secrets. The Hotel Seabrink, perched overlooking the sea...