Ergebnis für "Lisa" in Historische Krimis

Florence Galabert ist wütend! Kurz entschlossen reist Florence in die malerische Kleinstadt Lisieux und gerät dort mitten in eine Demonstration gegen die geplante Bebauung einer historischen Ausgrabungsstätte. Dabei lernt sie den attraktiven Lehrer Alexandre Dubois kennen. Auf der Suche nach dem Verfasser der sonderbaren Schriftstücke kommt Florence einem Verbrechen auf die Spur, das die Beteiligten bis ins Heute verfolgt und sie selbst in große Gefahr bringt.

“An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge.”—Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of...

Someone is snatching priceless jewels right off the necks of British aristocrats. With his intimate access to the parlors and bedrooms of Regency London, the Richmond Thief strikes again and again. The Bow Street Runners, the city's only detectives, seem powerless to stop him. Enter Althea, lady scientist. As the young widow of a country gentleman, Lady Althea Trent is introduced to the upper-class social scene as yet another pretty face. But her own scientific inquiries and an invitation to act as an agent of Bow Street propel her into the hunt for the Richmond Thief.

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas delivers a scintillating tale of an unconventional beauty who finds passion with the spy who can’t resist her. A woman who defies her time Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man—why not...

Miss Lane is puzzled by Jasper Jesperson's interest in what seems a very minor theft - possibly even a prank - from the storerooms at the British Museum. But London in the 1890s is rife with secret organisations, cults and individuals eager to acquire some of the legendary magic of ancient Egypt. The deeper the two detectives dig, the more hidden crimes they uncover, and the higher the death toll mounts. And at the centre of it all is the 'Mystery Mummy' recently acquired by the museum. Are the deaths and madness truly caused by a mummy's curse? Or is there a living villain to be apprehended?

Blackmail and extortion in 1950s Hollywood – can Lily uncover the truth? 1950s Hollywood has a strict code of 'morality' and will stop at nothing to protect the reputation of its stars. But gossip columns start to reveal hidden secrets of some of the great and good of Tinsel Town. Then a young starlet is found murdered. When a producer is found dead a few weeks later, Lily starts to connect the targets of the gossip column with the victims. As she investigates, she uncovers a brutal web of deceit, blackmail and murder...

Two women, a mysterious map, and a family secret spanning hundreds of years ... A stunning art history thriller set around the life, times, and feuds of the artist Peter Paul Rubens. 'An inspired blend of history and suspense ... This wonderful debut novel will inhabit your dreams' Dominic Smith...

"Vater ist tot!" Zutiefst verstört starrt Lizzie Borden ihren Vater an, der blutüberströmt auf dem Sofa liegt. Auch ihre Stiefmutter wird tot aufgefunden - ebenfalls hingerichtet mit einer Axt. Eindeutige Spuren sind an jenem schicksalhaften Morgen des 4. August 1892 kaum auszumachen, dafür häufen sich die Fragen. Denn während die Nachbarn in Fall River, Massachusetts, nicht begreifen, wie einer so angesehenen Familie etwas derart Grausames zustoßen kann, erzählen diejenigen, die den Bordens wirklich nahestehen, eine ganz andere Geschichte.

Under the Greek shimmering sea, deep dark secrets lie just beneath the surface... 1960. Shy eighteen-year-old Jean is resigned to yet another long empty summer stretching out before her, working for her father at the stables and dreaming of a life so different from her own. Until one day...

On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner’s reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet’s final hours through the eyes of those closest to her and the last people to see her alive.

After an accidental bump to the head, Lily finds herself in Hollywood, 1949. Like a dream come true, she is rubbing shoulders with the great and good of Tinseltown. Including Honey Black. Horrified, Lily realises that the actress has only two weeks left to live before she will be murdered. Could this be why she has found herself in 1949? To find the killer and stop them in their tracks?

Beaumont, Texas, en décembre 1973. À la veille de Noël, Delpha Wade est engagée par Ruby McClung pour découvrir l'identité de la personne qui empoisonne à petit feu sa jumelle, Emerald, incarcérée dans la prison pour femmes de Gatesville. Avec son patron, le cajun Tom Phelan, Delpha accepte de replonger dans les mauvais souvenirs de son incarcération pour venir en aide aux sœurs McClung. Qui en veut à cette pauvre Ruby ? Qui serait assez fou pour mener une vengeance à l'arsenic depuis une prison ?

Lily Jones is thrilled to find herself in the 1950s. She misses her 21st century life but has a blossoming romance with her musician friend Louis and her dream job working on a movie set. The lead actress Kitty Fox is a rising star, yet Lily recalls that after this movie she goes missing, her disappearance an unsolved mystery that barely makes a ripple in Hollywood history. But as Lily begins to understand the brutal studio system of Hollywood in the 1950s, she wonders if there might be something sinister at play behind Kitty's vanishing.

Lily Jones can't forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the friends she made there – especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection. Back in 2020, life isn't going so well, and Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis's ex-girlfriend, was brutally murdered in 1953. Lily is compelled to go back to the 1950s and try to save Evelyn's life, but this time it isn't just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but with The Mob.

Den 11-årige Olive ved instinktivt, at hendes stedfar ikke har gode intentioner med de to søstre fra Choctaw-stammen, der er blevet anbragt i deres hjem. Da den ældste pige forsvinder, flygter Olive ud i skoven med den seksårige Nessa. Sammen drager de ud på en farefuld rejse til de barske Winding Stair Mountains for at finde hjælp, og undervejs møder de andre børn, der også har søgt tilflugt i skovene. Da parkbetjenten Valerie begynder på sit nye job ved Horsethief Trail National Park, drømmer hun om et stille liv med sin søn.

When Lady Althea accompanies her sister-in-law, Jane, to a house party at Ranleigh, she hopes it will be a welcome return to peace and tranquility. Long walks and lazy days are the things Althea needs to advance her scientific studies and to decide whether or not to give up her freedom and marry the handsome and enigmatic Duke of Norwich. However, when she finds the body of a guest in the ornamental pond, she is thrown into yet another mystery. In her search for the truth, she must unmask Napoleonic spies, dig up long buried secrets, and forge new breakthroughs in forensic science.

The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau riche - they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con job, he takes a risk that forces him back to the city he loved and left behind: Paris. There he assembles his team of con artists for their final and most ambitious theft, one that will enable them to leave the game forever: the Mona Lisa.

The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire’s hangmen’s guild - prestigious for dishonourable hangmen at least. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead. At first the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides, but when Kuisl notices that each woman possesses a matching amulet, suspicions arise that someone is murdering them.

From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by five hundred years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—with unintended consequences. France, 1939 At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed at...

Oxford, England, 1922. Headstrong crime reporter Lillie Mead is planning her impending wedding. But when her spy fiancé disappears while she’s investigating a suspicious poisoning death, she fears her happily-ever-after will turn tragic. And when she travels to London to get help identifying the toxin, the chemist she consults is shot dead before her eyes.