Ergebnis für "Pain" in Weibliche Detektive

Verlassene Liebhaber, betrügerische Ehegatten, verräterische Geschäftspartner … All das ist das Brot und die Butter, mit denen dieses dysfunktionale Ermittlerteam seine Rechnungen bezahlt. Leider holt die Vergangenheit einen von ihnen ein. Vergeltung mit einem großen V ist ebenso selten wie gefährlich und zahlt sich nicht aus. Aber das ist es, was sie beide wollen. Welche Wahl haben sie, wenn ein FBI-Agent ihnen verspricht, sie zu seinen persönlichen Marionetten zu machen, wenn sie sich nicht auf sein Spiel einlassen?

Diejenigen, die ihre Partner getötet haben, werden sich wünschen, dass sie nie geboren worden wären. Pain ist ein verbrannter Ex-Söldner. Agony ist eine verbrannte Ex-Polizistin. Gemeinsam könnten sie es herausfinden. Das einzige Problem? Sie können sich nicht ausstehen. Vertrauen, so scheint es, ist nicht leicht zwischen einem Söldner und einer Ex-Polizistin. Was könnte es für sie noch schlimmer machen? Er mag es nicht, Waffen zu benutzen. Werden Pain und Agony den Kriminellen ausweichen können, die versuchen, sie auszuschalten, und sich dabei nicht gegenseitig umbringen?

Pain und Agony haben ihre neue Partnerschaft als ›investigative Problemlöser‹ kaum gefestigt, als SISTER auftaucht und Chaos verbreitet. Das dysfunktionale Duo ist wieder am Ball und beschuldigt sich ständig gegenseitig. Aber können sie einen Mord, eine Kindesentführung und eine Angelegenheit der nationalen Sicherheit aufklären – und das alles innerhalb einer Woche?

Kalina Greystone’s return home to Ellesworth, MA, to take over the family's comic book shop brings back old friends and even older secrets. The death of her great-aunt Agatha in plain sight at the annual Solstice Fair pushes her to snoop where she doesn't belong—much to the chagrin of former high school sweetheart, Detective Christian Harper. As Kalina digs into her great aunt's past, she uncovers a dark truth that Agatha and her closest friends were hoping to take to the grave. A truth the killer wants revealed.

Under the Great British Baking Contest tent, the competition's heating up to be crowned best baker in all of Britain. For amateur baker Poppy Wilkinson, there are mysteries, secrets, and lies, even murders to solve. As a fledgling witch, Poppy's having enough trouble controlling her sponge cake, never mind trying to control her powers. Besides solving crime, Poppy's also trying to uncover the mystery surrounding her own background. Will she discover who she really is before she gets sent home? Or worse?

After the recent revelation about Pain's former partner, the big guy's been AWOL in search of answers. Agony is not the type to mope about. She has kept the ship afloat, trusting that when Pain's found the answers, he needs he'll be back. When Pain does come back, he arrives only he can . . . in a maelstrom of gunfire, screams, and callouts to emergency services. Agony and Pain need to sort out the issues months of distance and time have created, and they need to do it quickly.

One is Paul Offenbach, a sadistic crime boss with a life-threatening bullet wound. The other is his hostage, Dr. Stuart Collier, now faced with a harrowing ethical quandary. Mile by mile, as a calculated battle of wills and wits plays out, the killer plots his next move. So does the doctor, sworn to do no harm but desperate to escape.

One big day. Even bigger secrets… –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Louise’s wedding day at the isolated, idyllic Grantham Hall in rural Wales is supposed to be the best of her life, but her daily battle with chronic pain and paranoia provide a...

Cheryl Beth Wilson, a nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital, finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctor's husband, a surgeon, and now she is a "person of interest" if not an outright suspect. But someone other than the police is also watching Cheryl Beth.

The elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the enduring of it. Syd Spicer, ex-SAS trooper, has found himself back in the regiment - this time as its chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in or out of uniform. Faced with a case which would normally be passed discreetly to Hereford diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins, Spicer is forced, for security reasons, to try and handle it himself - and is coming close to a breakdown.

Rhydsbury House, an artists’ retreat in rural Shropshire, is home to the eccentric painter Alistair Blair. Its tranquillity shatters when the new maid, Rosie Blackthorne, discovers Blair’s wife garrotted in his white room. Suspicion falls on Blair and his estranged brother, recently returned after six years abroad. Fresh from solving the Montgomery Canal murder, Inspector Isabelle Cannon is called in. But as inconsistencies emerge, she soon discovers the truth hidden in Rhydsbury House is far darker than it first appears.

A new amateur sleuth is on the case in the first book of this cozy mystery novella series. When Kalina Greystone returns home to the small town of Ellesworth, MA, in the wake of her father's passing to take over the family's comic book shop, she never expects to reconnect with her old flame, Detective Christian Harper. But when elderly Mrs. Davies winds up murdered at the annual Solstice Fair, Kalina can't help but get swept up in his investigation and solving the case.

Since joining the family matchmaking business run by her eccentric and psychic Grandma Zelda, Gladie is always looking for love. But when an unbearable toothache knocks her out of commission and into the dentist's chair, she prays only for relief. No such luck. Emerging from an anesthetic haze, Gladie awakes to find that not only is her tooth still throbbing, but her dentist is dead - and the lead suspect in the murder, office receptionist Belinda, just so happens to be Gladie's first real client.

August 27, 1982. Near Upton Waters, a stagnant stretch of the Montgomery Canal yields a grim discovery: the naked, strangled body of a woman, caged in an upturned shopping trolley. New Year’s Eve, 1990. Inspector Isabelle Cannon, transferred to Upton Waters Police Station as part of a disciplinary action, is handed the cold case by Sergeant Williams to keep her out of his way. Reluctant to invest in a case nearly a decade old, Isabelle’s curiosity is stirred when she learns the victim was never identified. Who was she? Why was she murdered? And could the killer still be living in Upton Waters?