Ergebnis für "Rebecca" in Traditionelle Krimis

Tatort Sylt: Die malerische Nordseeinsel Sylt wird von einem dramatischen Todesfall erschüttert. Hauptkommissarin Nele Petersen, frisch von der Ostsee an die Nordsee gewechselt, soll den Tod des renommierten Schriftstellers Johannes Falkenberg aufklären. Doch was zunächst wie ein tragischer Selbstmord wirkt, entpuppt sich bald als Teil eines dunklen Geheimnisses, das mit einem lange zurückliegenden ungelösten Mordfall zusammenzuhängen scheint.

Mabel Clarence ist sich sicher: Noch vor ein paar Minuten lag in der Bibliothek des Herrenhauses eine kostümierte tote Frau - erdrosselt mit einem Strick. Doch nun ist sie verschwunden, ohne jede Spur. Und wo keine Leiche, da keine Ermittlungen. Glauben schenkt der älteren Besucherin aus London nur ein kauziger Tierarzt. Also stellt Mabel in bester Miss-Marple-Manier eigene Nachforschungen an und versinkt immer tiefer im undurchsichtigen Sumpf der Vergangenheit - bis sie selbst in die Schusslinie des Mörders gerät...

Tatort Sylt: Nach einer gewaltigen Sturmflut werden an der abgelegenen Nordwestküste Sylts die Ruinen eines mittelalterlichen Dorfs freigelegt, das seit Jahrhunderten unter wandernden Dünen verborgen lag. Die Archäologin Dr. Lena Feldhusen und ihr Team entdecken mysteriöse Schriftzeichen, die auf alte Wikinger-Handelsrouten und ein verborgenes Artefakt hinweisen — aber auch vor einem tödlichen Fluch warnen.

Für Anya geht ein Traum in Erfüllung: Sie erhält das verlockende Angebot, uralte und streng geheime Manuskripte an der renommierten St. Andrew's University in Schottland zu entschlüsseln. Doch kaum angekommen, spürt sie, dass hinter den vergilbten Seiten mehr lauert als vergessene Worte. Die Schriften bergen Geheimnisse, die mächtige Gegnerinnen um jeden Preis im Dunkeln halten wollen. Schon bald gerät Anya in ein gefährliches Netz aus Intrigen, Macht und Verrat.

Thea Osborne and her trusty spaniel, Hepzie, have been asked by the Montgomerys to look after their house in Blockley while they take a much-needed holiday. Their elderly mother, Granny Gardner, shouldn't be any trouble - although she is slightly forgetful. Thea's got far more to worry about when a body is discovered in the house next door.

Nestled in the hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret. When Joel Jennison is found slaughtered in the same field where his brother’s corpse had lain ten weeks previously, a whole community falls under suspicion. Was it a family feud? An act of revenge?

Thea Osborne sets off to Frampton Mansell with confidence. Despite her first disastrous house-sitting venture, which drew her into a murder investigation, Thea, and her spaniel Hepzibah, are sure of a wonderful stay at the relaxed country estate of the Philipses. But it seems that she’s jinxed. Busying herself with her duties, she finds a body hanging from the rafters of one of the barns. Detective Superintendent Phil Hollis oversees the subsequent investigation and is more than a little surprised to find Thea once again at the scene.

Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to be nearer her parents. But her peace is shattered when, at a wedding, the bride's brother is found brutally murdered. As the florist of the wedding and one of the last people to talk to Mark Baxter alive, Simmy gradually becomes involved with the relatives. When events take another sinister turn, Simmy finds herself at the heart of a murder investigation.

In this book, a range of contemporary authors explore 'what happens next' when the Great Detective confronts mysteries which question reason. A summons from Irene Adler’s daughter; a chance encounter with one of Houdini’s fraud investigators; the enigma of Dr John Silence. Mysterious events at Mary Morstan’s old school, and a threat to Queen Victoria. The return of the German agent Von Bork, somewhat changed, and a desperate hunt for a killer through the alleys of London with none other than Professor Van Helsing.

A social media shaming. A killer with a message. A deadly combination. When the body of a man is left in the city centre set up as a realistic police crime scene, DI Hannah Robbins is forced to enter a world that can break a person, a case and a reputation. Social media platforms light up, and Hannah is pitted against the raging online monster and a killer who has already lost everything. Can she catch the killer and put him behind bars, or will she become part of his sadistic game?

Can’t find her. Can’t catch him. Can’t trust anyone. The first in a gripping new Sheffield-set crime series starring Detective Claudia Nunn. Detective Claudia Nunn’s colleague DS Dominic Harrison has been leading the case against a dangerous serial killer, who hunts his victims using a...

From the author of the Edgar-nominated Invisible City comes another timely thriller that illuminates society’s darkest corners. Told in part through the eyes of a jittery eyewitness and the massacre’s sole survivor, Julia Dahl's Conviction examines the power—and cost—of community...

On the evening of July 13, 1863, two men, Samuel White from Washington and Lemuel Phillips from Buffalo, each received a mysterious letter marked 'personal', which he destroyed after reading. The letters are a summons to visit New York to attend to some unknown business. The two men, now living lives of privilege and respectability, are linked by a nefarious deed committed twelve years earlier when they were prospectors struggling to survive. Has the moment arrived when the heavy hand of retribution will finally fall upon them?

“Wright’s style is lyrical and lucid. Her characters are rich psychological portraits.” -The Montreal Gazette “From first page to final sentence, Strangers Among Us holds the reader to the story.” -The Globe and Mail From the doyenne of detective novels and the inspiration for the...

An enigmatic jewelry case, holding human remains, arrives at the cottage of Sherlock Holmes, enticing him from his retirement refuge in the Sussex Downs. Holmes sets out on the trail of the murderer taunting him, joining forces with one of his former Baker Street irregulars, Tessa Wiggins. The two find themselves battling forces arising from a time before England was a country - when the Celts were fighting for survival. Though set in 1919, The Celtic Phoenix is steeped in the enigmatic culture of the ancient Celts who reigned over much of Europe 3,000 years ago.

Amy is stuck in a rut. After graduating, she never left her temporary job at the motorway service station. Daily visits from a mysterious woman are the highlight of her days. Until one day, when the mystery woman vanishes. Amy investigates the disappearance and makes a shocking discovery. Suddenly, she's being framed, and no-nonsense Claudia McAllister is being sent to arrest her. Will Amy's unique approach to evading capture prove successful?

Rinehart's The Man in Lower Ten, the first American detective novel to make the best seller list, follows the investigation of the murder of a man in a sleeping car on a train. In this fast-paced thriller, the investigating detective builds up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people---only one of whom can be guilty.