Ergebnis für "Helena" in Historische Krimis

London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon. A woman has been found dead in a lake in a place where she shouldn’t have been. Jane needs to gather the clues and find the killer before someone else from the agency gets hurt… Shy and handsome code-breaker Arthur Cilento is bewildered by the arrival of the efficient Miss Treen and her cat Marmaduke.

June 1933. Independent, young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. But when several rooms are broken into and searched, including Kitty’s own, she quickly realizes that something out of the ordinary is afoot at the hotel. Soon, rumors are flying in the cozy town that someone is on the hunt for a stolen ruby. A ruby that Kitty’s mother may well have possessed when she herself went missing during the Great War.

London, 1941. Miss Jane Treen is faced with another mysterious disappearance within her Secret Detective Agency’s team. Tabitha Moore, a government typist, was on her way to meet Jane with vital information about some secret codes. But she didn’t turn up for work and has seemingly vanished without trace. Then Jane and her colleague, handsome codebreaker Arthur Cilento, receive a call: a body has been found, and it matches Tabitha’s description…

November 1933. Amateur sleuth-cum-dutiful granddaughter Kitty Underhay stifles a sigh of boredom as she attends the annual Hoteliers' Association Dinner and Dance on behalf of her grandmother, the proprietress of the Dolphin Hotel. She hopes the company of ex-army captain Matthew Bryant will enliven the otherwise dull evening. That is, until bullish and overbearing local councilor Harold Everton drops dead into his bowl of consommé.

Late summer 1933. After a quarrel with too-plucky-for-her-own-good amateur sleuth Kitty Underhay, dashing ex-army captain Matthew Bryant is nursing his wounds, and a tumbler of brandy, when there’s a heavy knock at the door and he finds himself arrested for murder. The body of aspiring actress Pearl Bright has been found, strangled with one of Matt’s own bootlaces, and the evidence seems to be stacked against him. The local constabulary might have locked Matt up, but before they can throw away the key, Kitty hears the news and hies to his aid, determined to prove his innocence.

ie in der Zeit reisende Bibliothekarin Shona McMonagle findet sich im Frankreich des Fin-de-Siècle wieder. Diesmal verschlägt es sie in das abgelegene Bergdorf San-Soleil, das so tief in einem Tal liegt, dass dort nie die Sonne scheint. Seit einiger Zeit verschwinden hier Menschen in den dunklen Wäldern. Treibt ein Mörder sein Unwesen in dieser Region? Shona beginnt zu ermitteln und dabei stellen sich ihr weitere Fragen.

Unterschätzen Sie niemals eine Bibliothekarin... Shona McMonagle ist auf einer Mission: Die resolute schottische Bibliothekarin hat die ehrenvolle Aufgabe, in der Zeit zurückzureisen und den Lauf der Geschichte zu verändern. Im Moskau des 19. Jahrhunderts soll Shona die schüchterne, aber sehr wohlhabende, Waise Lidia Ivanovna mit Sasha zusammenbringen - einem hinreißenden jungen Mann mit ungeklärter Herkunft. Doch irgendetwas stimmt hier nicht... Denn ständig sterben Menschen auf seltsame Art und Weise.

Kitty Underhay is looking forward to a week of long lunches and wedding planning with her husband-to-be, Captain Matthew Bryant. But the plan is derailed when he is called on to collect a former comrade-in-arms, arriving on the 15:50 from Paddington. As the train bearing Simon Travers pulls up to the platform, a piercing scream rises over the screech of its brakes. Travers is dead in his seat, a dagger in his heart. Only a few individuals had access to Travers’s compartment, and Kitty must find out which of these seemingly benign passengers is, in fact, a cross-country killer.

Winter, 1933. Kitty Underhay is enjoying a restorative break from sleuthing on a visit to her family at Enderley Hall. The only thing marring her peace - aside from the uncomfortable sensation she has of being watched - is the obvious history between her beau, ex-army captain Matthew Bryant and another guest, the beautiful Juliet Vanderstafen. So, when the parish clerk is found dead on her front doorstep, Kitty leaps at the chance of distraction.

Sussex, 1881. Lady Helena Scott-De Quincy's marriage to Sir Justin Whitcombe, three years before, gave new purpose to a life almost destroyed by the death of Lady Helena's first love. After all, shouldn't the preoccupations of a wife and hostess be sufficient to fulfill any aristocratic female's dreams? Such a shame their union wasn't blessed by children...but Lady Helena is content with her quiet country life until Sir Justin is found dead in the river overlooked by their grand baroque mansion.

La repentina muerte de un residente en la apacible residencia de ancianos Ömheten despierta las sospechas del expolicía Tore Lindahl. Algo no encaja: una figura sombría en el bosque, indicios de encubrimiento... La muerte de Viking Holbach podría ser algo más que natural. Veronika Wiklund, una joven periodista en busca de su gran oportunidad, se une a Tore para investigar. Juntos descubren una trama criminal que se remonta a los años oscuros de la guerra.

A gripping historical cozy mystery featuring a fragile young widow who discovers she is stronger than she thinks, an unlikely partnership, and enough suspects to keep you guessing until the final page from the author of the hugely popular Dodo Dorchester, Percy Pontefract, and Saffron Weald...

1846, Cornualles. El frío arrecia en la localidad portuaria de Nighthill, y da comienzo uno de los inviernos más largos de su historia. Lady Blackburn, la sofisticada mujer que habita en la mansión de la colina, rescata a un vagabundo manco de las calles y le da cobijo. Al caer la noche, ambos se reúnen en el salón de la casa y se preparan para enfrentarse a la historia que los marcó años atrás y que habían enterrado en lo más profundo de la memoria. Un viaje sin retorno del que nadie saldrá indemne.

Cuando en 1924, Helena Lennox se presenta con sus padres en Nápoles por una colaboración arqueológica con las excavaciones pompeyanas, una desconocida le entrega un amuleto de protección con una advertencia: "La ciudad no es segura, los ángeles ya no velan por nosotros". Durante los siguientes días, los Lennox se codean con una princesa solitaria, un pariente inesperado y un viejo amigo perseguido por la mala suerte mientras el cerco de los crímenes que están atemorizando a la población se estrecha a su alrededor.

What is an independent woman to do in a world where marrying means losing everything? Pregnant, widowed and rejected by her family, Helena Andrews moves to Redway Acres, where she raises her daughter and trains horses. She befriends an old widower in a ramshackle cottage, the family from the grand estate of Eastease, and their friend Colonel Nathaniel Ackley, second son of the Earl of Aysthill.