Ergebnis für "Kim" in Weibliche Detektive

Morgan Winters wants an ordinary life: A job at a bookstore, an apartment she can barely afford, and a healthy amount of existential dread. Her brother (AKA "The Ruiner") ruins that when he shows up on her bedroom windowsill, transformed into a talking cat. He claims it's due to a date gone horribly wrong, but Morgan's not buying it. Still, when he begs her to take him to a witch who can change him back into a human, she reluctantly agrees. Family is family. When they arrive in Hollowbeck—a suspiciously small and suspiciously magical town—they find the witch. Only she's dead.

Detective Kim Stone knows from the moment she looks down on Ashley Reynolds that this is no ordinary crime. No one has a bad word to say about this loving wife and mother. So why did someone murder her, and wait to make sure she was dead? Ashley was a social worker, and some claimed she tore families apart. But her husband is also acting strangely, planning to take their daughter and leave town. Did the threat to her come from home or work?

When disaster strikes the Circus Salmagundi on their way to Nanaimo, Miss Rose Ivy finds herself stuck on a listless ship with a most unlikely crew. They must wait for help to arrive, but they’re safely moored by an uninhabited island. What could go wrong? Then a strange, half-starved stowaway climbs aboard, raving that his missing wife has been kidnapped by a cult of fanatics. He insists: they need to flee! But the engines are dead and there’s no way to escape. Rose needs to use her cunning to buy time, but where has the missing woman gone? Is she a prisoner?

The Hollowbeck Midwinter Festival is the event of the season—complete with flying pigs, snow monster fights, and a free bar that no one should trust after the third round. The centerpiece? A lavish masked ball featuring Alaric's famously enchanting (and possibly cursed) masks. Morgan Winters isn't one for fancy dresses or mysterious strangers, but as Hollowbeck's unofficial town witch, she's expected to show up, mask up, and smile. At least the canapés are good—and Alaric's assistant Finn isn't bad either.

I’m Rhea Morven, rookie Merlin agent, walking magical anomaly, and proud owner of a cursed bloodline no one trusts. My first case dumps me in Gallows Gate, a hidden town full of secrets, politics, and creatures that bite. The assignment? Find three missing paranormals before the town tears itself apart. The twist? They’re not just anyone. They’re the children of the ruling council.

Blendend helles Licht und Meeresrauschen, sanftes Gläserklingen: Mittsommer auf einer Schäreninsel. Während Astrids Vater, der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Olof Helander, seine Gäste unterhält, schwankt sie zwischen Scham und Langeweile. Da nähert sich lautlos ein Schatten von der offenen See. Innerhalb von Sekunden wird die ganze Festgesellschaft ausgelöscht. Wie durch ein Wunder überlebt das Mädchen. Aber jetzt ist sie allein. Und in Gefahr.

When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover it’s claimed the lives of two teenage children and their parents. But this tragedy is not quite as it seems. Each body is marked by a gunshot wound, and the mother, Helen Daynes, is holding the gun. The case sparks painful childhood memories for Kim, who suffered at the hands of her own abusive mother, but it just makes her more determined to uncover the truth. As Kim untangles Helen’s past, she finds a history of clinical depression. But did it drive Helen to murder her loved ones?

When a traveling carnival arrives in Hollowbeck, it promises magic and mayhem. It's also an opportunity for Morgan to find someone who can transform her brother, Ruiner, back into a human—he's a little tired of being a talking cat, and she's a little tired of cleaning his litter box. Things look promising until the curtains rise on rehearsal night to reveal Ruiner sitting on the lifeless body of the wizard who promised to help him.

When Poppy goes from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks, the idea of spending her golden years as the biggest charity case in Palm Springs renders her speechless. With no real skills and nothing left to lose, Poppy uses her obsession with true crime shows to start a career as a private eye....

Morgan and her ex-husband broke up on bad terms. But when he sends her a cryptic message, Morgan knows that whatever trouble he's in, it's likely her fault. Over Ruiner's protests, she ventures beyond Hollowbeck's borders to find him. But instead of finding him, she finds a dead body. Then she finds the Oubliette, an exclusive gambling club in the town of Darrowdale, which is a mirror image of Hollowbeck—only with a decidedly more dangerous population.

Als het gruwelijk toegetakelde lichaam van een man wordt gevonden, komt rechercheur Kim Stone er met een schok achter dat ze het slachtoffer kent: het is dokter Cordell, de man die ook betrokken was bij een eerdere zaak rond de dood van een schoolmeisje. Maar hoewel zijn verleden misschien niet brandschoon is, lijkt er geen enkele reden om hem dood te wensen.

All'alba di un buio e freddo giorno d'inverno, la detective Kim Stone scende dalla moto e fa il suo ingresso nella stazione di polizia di Halesowen, pronta a incontrare per la prima volta la squadra che le hanno assegnato. Poco dopo viene ritrovato il cadavere di un giovane mutilato e decapitato, e Kim e i suoi si precipitano sul posto. È l'inizio della loro prima indagine. Stacey Wood, entrata a far parte del gruppo come esperta informatica, scopre un'inquietante somiglianza con un omicidio recente e si convince che tra le due morti ci sia un legame.

Sent en aften, da kirkeklokkerne har ringet for sidste gang, bliver Sandra Deakin fundet, kold og livløs og dækket af knivstik, på en tilgroet kirkegård. Kriminalkommissær Kim Stone skynder sig til gerningsstedet, hvor overfaldets voldsomhed overbeviser hende om, at drabet var dybt personligt. Da Kims team graver i Sandras liv, opdager de, at hun mente, at hun kunne kommunikere med de døde. Kim indser, at hun må åbne sit sind for alle muligheder, hvis hun skal have en chance for at opklare sagen.

Da kriminalkommissær Kim Stone skynder sig hen til gerningsstedet, er der ikke noget lig, der venter på hende: Paramedicinerne forsøger desperat at redde offerets liv. Den afdøde mand, Eric Gould, virker helt almindelig, indtil teamet graver i hans fortid. Som drenge var begge ofre en del af en gruppe på seks, som pralede med deres forfærdelige forbrydelser. Er der nogen, som er i gang med endelig at få hævn … eller tror vedkommende, at mændene stadig er farlige?

Da en 19-årig dreng, Jamie Mills, bliver fundet hængt i et træ i en lokal park, bliver hans død erklæret et selvmord. Kriminalkommissær Kim Stones mavefornemmelse siger hende, at der er noget galt. I forsøget på at opklare denne foruroligende sag følger Kim spor, der fører hende ind bag de gamle victorianske mure på klinikken, som drives af familien Gardner. Så bliver liget af en ung kvinde fundet. Hun er blevet kvalt, og hendes død er også iscenesat, så det ligner et selvmord.

When Detective Kim Stone races to the crime scene, there is no body waiting for her: The paramedics are desperately trying to save the victim’s life. But there is something very strange about the way the man was found, his arms raised above his head, his legs spread apart. When he dies on the way to the hospital, Kim is certain she’s on the hunt for a killer…but all evidence at the scene has been destroyed.

Baton. Light. Chocolate. Duck. This is not DS Adams' usual kit. This is not DS Adams' usual case. She doesn't think it's anyone's usual case, not with the vanishing children and the looming bridge and the hungry river. Not with the snap-snap-snap. But six kids are missing, and she's not going to let there be a seventh. Not on her watch. And she knows how to handle human monsters, after all. How different can this really be?

Het eerste deel van de spannende en zeer verslavende Kim Stone-serie. Voor de fans van M.J. Arlidge en Robert Bryndza. Vijf mensen staan rondom een ondiep graf. Ze hebben om de beurt gegraven. Een graf voor een volwassene zou nog langer hebben geduurd. Het slachtoffer was onschuldig, maar ze hadden geen keus. Hun geheimen moesten bewaard blijven, ten koste van alles. Een gewurgde schooldirectrice blijkt slechts het begin van een reeks gruwelijke moorden die de inwoners van Black Country doet huiveren.

Detective Kim Brady must find the killer of Mariano Avila, beloved community activist and immigration lawyer in Brooklyn. The only eyewitness, Amara, a fifteen-year-old undocumented escapee from a human trafficking ring, has described the killer as wearing a police uniform. Kim discovers the details of the murder match those of a cold case from several months earlier. Saddled with a partner who is an unqualified rookie cop forced on her unit by a local state senator with mayoral aspirations, Kim's investigation is micromanaged from above.

When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people. While...