Ergebnis für "Life Blood" in Weibliche Detektive

Tony Hetheridge is stepping into a new career - private detective. As a chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard, he spent years presiding over the “Toff Squad”, handling murders that intersected with the rich and powerful. Now that mantle passes to his wife Kate, while Tony is free to pick and choose his cases.

An evil being has been sealed away for centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, waiting patiently for his chance to rise again. Now, the seals and spells that imprisoned him chipped away from his discoverers, he has reached forth to claim the minds and souls of Toronto’s unsuspecting citizens. For Henry Fitzroy, it begins with terrifying images of the sun, a marker of death for a vampire. Fearing for his sanity, he turns to his sometimes-lover, private investigator Vicki Taylor, for help.

V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem - after 25 years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried - she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix of big business and chemical corruption that may become a toxic shock....

Ein Serienmörder im Techno-Underground der 90er-Jahre. '"Mi preferas morti." Berlin 1997. Ein Serientäter, der an den Tatorten kryptische Botschaften hinterlässt, hält die Stadt in Atem. Ein Phantom, nicht greifbar. Eine Kommissarin, die tief in den Berliner Underground und die Technoszene eintauchen muss, um den Mörder zu finden. Dabei verliert sie sich in dieser ihr fremden und doch seltsam vertrauten hedonistischen Welt, wird mit ihren Dämonen und ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontiert und kommt dem Täter nahe, ohne es zu wissen.