Ergebnis für "Red" in Hobbydetektive

Ein Pfarrer wird mit durchgeschnittener Kehle in einer Gasse aufgefunden. Ex-Polizistin Anne Steinbach und der Priester Paul Wagner ermitteln: Warum musste der allseits beliebte Seelsorger sterben? Die Jagd nach dem Schuldigen führt sie in die Sektenszene – doch je tiefer sie graben, desto verworrener wird der Fall. Und dann wird es plötzlich persönlich – denn der Killer hat Rache geschworen.

A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still “one of the most fascinating mystery writers today” (Houston Chronicle). One calm night in Twickenham, a...

As bookstore café owner Krissy Hancock worries over her wedding plans, the double murder of rival bakers really takes the cake . . . At Krissy's Death by Coffee bookstore café in Pine Hills, Ohio, she's trying out a new red velvet latte, which she also plans to serve at her wedding along with...

Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey—mysteries...

A Dead End Former TV star Kit Wilder arrives in the affluent, Mayflower-pedigreed town of Westdale hoping for a quiet fresh start. What she finds instead is a skeleton in her house, a murder investigation, and a dangerously charming detective named Romeo Moretti. Armed with instincts borrowed from her old TV role as hotshot detective Ellie Gold, Kit throws herself into the case — if only to get back to renovating her kitchen and avoiding her gin-swilling, razor-tongued mother.

After her parents' deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business, Antiquities & Artifacts Appraised, from the home office in Lilac Grove and a branch in Manhattan. Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in, eccentric Aunt Midge and her Afghan hound, Avery's life is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings, and rare finds. But their world is rocked when Avery learns that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to her parents' demise.

The Federal Bureau of Magic Cozy Mystery books are full-length humorous paranormal cozy mysteries. This collection includes Great Balls of Fury, Fury Godmother, and No Guts, No Fury.

Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live - northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms. She's tough as nails, five feet two inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side. 

Just when Kit Wilder thought she had small-town life figured out, Westdale goes and serves up another body. The victim: Jasmine Tilton — former professional cheerleader, full-time trophy wife, and stepmother to Kit's sweet study buddy Charlotte. The suspect: Charlotte's older sister. The problem: Kit is pretty sure they've got the wrong person.

At twenty-three, former TV star Kit Wilder has officially hit rock bottom. Blacklisted from Hollywood and desperate for a fresh start, she retreats to the picture-perfect town of Westdale — all manicured lawns, old money, and Mayflower pedigrees — to quietly finish her degree and renovate a charming fixer-upper. Simple enough, right?

Barton-Regis is without an heir, the last Lord died, leaving 6 illegitimate off-spring. Only one can inherit, and they must vie for it according to the task of the Talents. But there is more than just sibling rivalry, there's a monster among them, a killer who is as clever as he is insane. Which of them is the imposter, and can Lennox and Swift uncover the culprit before more die at his hands?

Mark Ablett is hosting all his friends at his English country house when he receives a letter from his estranged brother, Robert, announcing Robert's intention to arrive from Australia. Not long after his arrival, Robert turns up dead, his body found with a bullet wound to the head, and Mark is nowhere to be seen. Antony Gillingham and his friend Bill Beverly play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve this whodunnit mystery. This is Milne's only mystery novel.

In Book 1, "Blood Red Mars", while Dalton and the gang are filming at the Mars Research Base in the Arizona desert, a visiting student is found dead under highly mysterious circumstances. Dalton and his crew must investigate if they want to get their movie back on schedule!

Jessica Fletcher’s favorite gin-rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new Clifton Care Partners, a private hospital that’s just opened up shop in town, for a simple procedure - one that leads tragically, and inexplicably, to her death. Seeking justice in her inimitable fashion, Jessica decides to pursue her own investigation of the hospital and its shadowy business dealings. On the trail of what initially appears to be medical malpractice, Jessica digs deeper and learns her friend was actually a victim of something far more sinister.

Who expects to find a corpse in a fairground? Certainly not Clara Fitzgerald, Brighton's first female private detective, who is enjoying some time off when a new case falls straight into her lap. Just exactly whose corpse is sitting propped up in the House of Curios, and why would anyone leave a body on view for everyone to see? Clara has a whole carnival of suspects and very few clues, but the ones she does have suggest she needs to look towards Brighton's seedy underworld for answers, and that may well mean putting her life in danger.

When Chief Fox turns into an animal during a moment of passion—and I mean that literally—I'm desperate to restore him to his human form. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue how to make it happen. It doesn't help that I'm trying to hide my relationship with him. Let's face it, keeping a secret from my family is like walking a tightrope made of vipers. With Deputy Guthrie in charge of law enforcement and the chief unable to do anything except look adorable, my hands are full trying to keep the chief's secret and solve this supernatural puzzle.

Murder Among SupervillainsAs a professor of popular culture in his day job, amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe knows a bit about superheroes, supervillains, and the various graphic novel universes. But that's not much help when murder strikes at the Tri-State Comic Book Expo. Potential suspects number in the thousands, including some A-list Hollywood actors as well as comic book professionals and a collector. It all begins with Erin, Ohio-based artist-writer Parker Williams, creator of the superhero Red Falcon, being accused of plagiarizing the character of his newest supervillain, Queen Bee.

Residents are sneezing and coughing all over town, and it seems like a brutal allergy season is upon us—until someone dies. When Dr.Verity reveals a supernatural cause, I'm on the case, but how do I track a culprit whose only evidence seems to be the infection it leaves behind? In the meantime, neighbors, new and old, bring trouble to Munster Close, and I need to intervene before the wicked witches escalate matters. With the annual cheese festival on the horizon and a stealthy demon on the loose, I know I'll need to set aside my misgivings and use my magic to prevent a catastrophe.

When the golden boy of an elite polo team drops dead from his horse during a high-profile match in Big Horn, Wyoming, the tight-knit world of wealth and privilege fractures. Rumors swirl of underground betting, performance-enhancing drugs, and secrets powerful people will kill to protect.

When two of Westdale's oldest rival families agree to bury the hatchet with a high-profile wedding, it should be the social event of the season. Instead, the mother of the groom turns up dead before the cake is even cut, and the fragile peace between the families threatens to shatter along with the champagne flutes.