Ergebnis für "Lydia" in Weibliche Detektive

Tatort Rüvgen In der Nähe des Kap Arkonas taucht die nackte Leiche einer Unbekannten auf und stellt die Polizei vor eine Reihe von Fragen. Wer ist die Tote? Wie ist sie an den verlassenen Strand gelangt? War es Mord? Ist sie das Opfer eines Sexualverbrechers? Als Sonderermittlerin Lydia Westphal am Tatort eintrifft und die Tote in Augenschein nimmt, fällt ihr auf, dass sie die Frau nur zwei Tage zuvor im Ostseebad Glowe gesehen hat... Sie beschließt sofort, den kleinen Küstenort aufzusuchen. Doch sie ahnt nicht, dass sie sich damit in Lebensgefahr begibt...

Mord auf Rügen! Interne Ermittlungen gegen Polizeibeamte! Sassnitz, Rügen. Die Leiche des zwanzigjährigen Kellners Benjamin W. taucht eines Morgens am Fuß des Kreidefelsens auf. Als die herbeigerufene Kripo das Haus des Opfers durchsucht, kommt es zu einem schwerwiegenden Zwischenfall. Steckt mehr als nur Fahrlässigkeit dahinter? Sind hier Polizeibeamte gar in ein Verbrechen verstrickt? Nur kurze Zeit später bringt der Tod eines Verdächtigen in seiner Zelle das Fass zum Überlaufen - und weckt das Interesse von Lydia Westphal.

Mord im Hafen von Wiek. Rügen. In einer regnerischen Nacht kehrt der bekannte Influencer Erol in eine Kneipe am Wieker Hafen ein und gerät dort in einen handfesten Streit mit einem Gast namens Hendrick Wittke. Obwohl der örtliche Polizeichef rechtzeitig hinzukommt und eine Eskalation verhindern kann, treibt Wittkes Leiche am nächsten Morgen im Hafenbecken. Erste Indizien belasten Erol schwer. Der Mörder scheint festzustehen... Im Zuge der anschließenden Ermittlungen stößt Lydia Westphal nicht nur auf Ungereimtheiten in der Beweislage, sondern auch auf unerbittliche Widerstände bei den Ortsansässigen.

Lydia Westphal 10. Kap Arkona. Nach einem Herbststurm watet Mad Petersen auf der Suche nach Bernstein durch das seichte Wasser der Ostsee... Und stolpert plötzlich über die Einzelteile einer zerstückelten Leiche. Als Lydia Westphal an den Tatort kommt und die sterblichen Überreste erblickt, zuckt sie vor Schreck zusammen. Hat sie das Gesicht des Toten nicht erst kürzlich auf einem Foto ihrer Tochter gesehen? Während Lydia und ihr Team noch im Dunkeln tappen, taucht die nächste Leiche auf.

Scotland, 1912: When Maud and Daisy travel to Clachan Castle on the Isle of Mull to investigate the theft of a valuable statuette, at first the case seems straightforward. But when their prime suspect, bad-tempered fellow guest Mr Tremain, is found dead in his bed, the detective duo realise the castle is under attack… At first, it appears the murder is impossible. All the doors and windows to the room were locked from the inside, and there was no way for the killer to escape.

New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be - can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death.

Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot is invited to her friend’s hotel on the Isle of Skye, she is looking forward to a holiday. But all thoughts of relaxing vanish when she discovers the body of a strangled woman in a church. The police believe the widow’s death was a robbery gone wrong, as a pendant was stolen from the scene. But Poppy is sure it’s murder. Ignoring the police’s warnings to keep her nose out, she enlists her friend Inspector MacKenzie, and her loyal Labrador, Major, to unpick the case.

With River Valley Hospital in the midst of negotiations to avert a nurses' strike, a wealthy benefactor is set to give a large donation in honor of the Chief of Emergency Medicine: Dr. Elliott Chin, the brother of private investigator Lydia Chin.

Asian American private investigator Lydia Chin knows New York City's Chinatown, its people, and its ways as no outsider ever could. It's a city within a city, a rich melange of smells, sounds, dark shops, and close-knit families - a world all its own. And in all of Chinatown, there is no one like Lydia, who has a nose for trouble, a disapproving Chinese mother, and a partner named Bill Smith who's been living above a bar for 16 years. Hired to find some precious stolen porcelain, Lydia follows a trail of clues from highbrow art dealers into a world of Chinese gangs.

Manhattan, 1850. Born out of wedlock to a wealthy socialite and a nameless immigrant, Cora Lee can mingle with the rich just as easily as she can slip unnoticed into the slums and graveyards of the city. As the only female resurrectionist in New York, she’s carved out a niche procuring bodies afflicted with the strangest of anomalies. Anatomists will pay exorbitant sums for such specimens—dissecting and displaying them for the eager public. Cora’s specialty is not only profitable, it’s a means to keep a finger on the pulse of those searching for her. She’s the girl born with two hearts....

In January, New York City inaugurates its first female mayor. In April, her son disappears. Called in by the mayor’s chief aide—a former girlfriend of private investigator Bill Smith’s—to find the missing fifteen-year-old, Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, are told the boy has run away. Neither the press nor the NYPD know that he’s missing, and the mayor wants him back before a headstrong child turns into a political catastrophe. But as Bill and Lydia investigate, they turn up more questions than answers.

The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, into a storm of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and New York City real estate scandal. Choi has left the Tong headquarters building to his niece, who hires Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building is at the center of a tug-of-war between Chinatown preservation interests - including Lydia’s brother, Tim - and a real estate developer who’s desperate to get his hands on it.

The childhood murder of Lydia Strong’s mother has turned her into a woman obsessed with bringing brutal killers to justice. The reclusive, best-selling true-crime writer and investigative consultant has made a life out of chasing monsters. And her powerful intuitions rarely fail her. When three adults - loners, drifters - go missing, no one seems to notice except for Lydia. Enlisting the help of her friend, former FBI agent Jeffrey Mark, Lydia starts an investigation of her own.

The Most Southern Place on Earth: That's what they call the Mississippi Delta. It's not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, New York City, ever thought she'd have reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didn't know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippi - and that Lydia has to rush down south and get him out - Lydia finds herself rolling down Highway 61 with Bill Smith, her partner, behind the wheel.

The present: His daughter, fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, finds herself on the trail of that same cargo when skeletal remains are found near an excavation site in the Texas desert. She’s also dealing with the aftermath of a massacre that claimed the lives of all the workers at a intelligence company on her watch. These two cases are connected by a long buried secret, one that men have killed and died to protect. Caitlin and her outlaw lover Cort Wesley Masters must prove themselves to be as strong as steel to overcome a bloody tide that has been rising for centuries.