Ergebnis für "Ring" in Historische Krimis

Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she’s not housemaid Catriona Mitchell—even though Mallory is in Catriona’s body—and Mallory is now officially an undertaker’s assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows… the latest of which is Gray’s oldest sister. Poison is said to be a woman’s weapon, though Mallory has to wonder if it’s as simple as that.

When a long-lost member of the Lion Clan, Itagawa Mosu, seemingly returns from the dead to claim the hand of his betrothed, it's up to Daidoji Shin to determine the truth of this miraculous reappearance. The Lion reluctantly permit Shin's involvement, even if they have to let him plan the wedding as part of his investigation . . . Shin must navigate dangerous political waters to discover if Mosu really is the man he claims to be, or is he a cleverly disguised imposter? It will take all of Shin's charm, wit, and flair to find out before the wedding begins.

Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France. Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied with...

Winter Reeves is an aristocratic Patriot forced to hide her heart amid the Loyalists of the City of New York. She has learned to keep her ears open so she can pass information on British movements to Robbie Townsend, her childhood friend, and his spy ring. Bennet Lane returns to New York from his Yale professorship with one goal: to find General Washington's spy hidden among the ranks of the elite. Both believers...and both committed to a separate cause. Will their faith in God lead them to a shared destiny or lives lived apart?

Newly engaged, Clive and Henrietta now begin the difficult task of meeting each other’s family. “Difficult” because Clive has neglected to tell Henrietta that he is in fact the heir to the Howard estate and fortune, and Henrietta has just discovered that her mother has been hiding secrets about her past as well. When Clive brings Henrietta to the family estate to meet his parents, they are less than enthused about his impoverished intended.

Leonidas is coerced into a dice game at his local popina, with a stranger who turns out to not be such a stranger after all. His presence puts all around him in danger, and Leonidas struggles to keep the man’s identity secret.

In the pretty little town of Sibley, NY, the court has adjourned for lunch, and Judge Evans and some of the leading lawyers of the district stand outside the courthouse discussing the limitations of the criminal classes. A stranger describes to them just how a man might commit a murder and avoid detection - and only minutes later, the widow Clemmens is discovered struck down in her parlor by an unknown hand in circumstances eerily similar to those described by the stranger.

DCI Monkia Paniatowski has seen dozens of murder victims in her time, but nothing could have prepared her for the corpse in the woods. It is not so much that the man’s throat has been slashed that shocks her, nor even the way he is naked – it is the way he has been carefully posed. Paniatowski has been assigned a new sergeant, who she does not entirely trust. Worse yet, an old enemy from the secret service announces he will be monitoring her every move.

Amanda Parrish loves the Christmas season in her small Idaho mountain town, but December 1920 is testing even her legendary patience. Her music shop is overflowing with holiday shoppers, her beloved niece Molly is getting married in two weeks, and her cat Moxie seems determined to sabotage every carefully arranged display.

Jimmy and Sandy Urquhart are exhausted new parents, juggling work while trying to enjoy their baby boy on a particularly beautiful summer morning. The explosion that morning was heard for miles. Everything stopped. The blast was meant to conceal a murder–a truly senseless death that confounds Jimmy and his team. But the tragedy does not stop there.

Cornwall, 1939. The wealthy silversmiths, the Cossentines, are poisoned at dinner: only the youngest son and daughter survive. Maurice inherits everything. Celeste, with a history of psychosis, flees, taking with her a unique silver ring and assuming a new identity. She trains as a nurse but lives in fear of being recognised. When a wounded soldier captures her heart, she yearns to confess. But dare she trust even Danny with her secret?

La serie completa delle indagini del tormentato commissario Damiano Flexi Gerardi, detto il Becchino. Tre omicidi dai contorni misteriosi nella Genova degli anni Cinquanta da ascoltare tutti d'un fiato! Maria Teresa Valle, nata a Varazze (SV), risiede attualmente a Genova. Giallista di successo, ha pubblicato con Fratelli Frilli Editori numerosi romanzi, tra cui le due serie di successo con protagonisti Maria Viani e Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato il Becchino.

La mattina del 21 settembre 1953 Genova si sveglia sommersa da acqua e fango... Il torrente Bisagno è uscito dagli argini, e, impigliati tra i detriti, due cadaveri stanno per essere recuperati dai vigili del fuoco. Le operazioni di recupero vengono sospese e viene chiamato sul posto il commissario Marino De Luca, che chiede l’aiuto del collega e amico Damiano Flexi Gerardi (meglio conosciuto con il soprannome di "Becchino"). Si apre così l’indagine più delicata e difficile della loro carriera.

Newlyweds Jimmy Urquhart and Sandy (Notepad) MacDonald head to New York for a Manhattan honeymoon. The new Mrs. Urquhart knows the city very well, perhaps too well. Her surprising friendships with some notable people re-awakens some of Jimmy's concern about her past, but Notepad makes it clear she will not talk about it.

1865 - Marietta Hughes never wanted to be a spy, but the family legacy of espionage is thrust upon her as the War Between the States rolls on. Unknown to her, the Knights of the Golden Circle - a Confederate secret society bent on destroying the Union her brother died for - has been meeting in a hidden lair beneath her home. Faced with the secrets of her late husband and his brother, whom she thought she could trust with anything, Marietta's world tilts out of control. Can she right it by protecting a Union agent infiltrating the KGC?

Treachery causes Gwyneth Fairchild's world to crumble. The daughter of a British general, she barely saves her life by fleeing London aboard a ship to America. Her goal is to find refuge with the Lane family in Maryland, having been told by her father she could implicitly trust Winter and Bennet Lane, even though their nations are once again at war. After meeting their son, Thad, she wonders how safe she truly is when she discovers that the Lanes trade in a dangerous commodity - espionage.

Tra le dune di Venezia, una coppia in cerca di intimità ritrova un cadavere. È il 1943, la Seconda Guerra Mondiale non accenna a finire, e in Italia il Fascismo sta iniziando a crollare. In questa torrida estate, il maresciallo Russo dovrà indagare sulla morte dell'uomo ritrovato tra le dune, riconosciuto come Ludovico Ferri, ricco borghese molto noto in città. In questo giallo storico, l'orrore della Guerra rifletterà altri segreti che si nascondono tra i canali di Venezia.

Con una sorprendente commistione fra thriller storico e romanzo giallo, Parigi e Sozzi propongono una storia che ha davvero dell'eccezionale, i cui fili si dipanano fra il Seicento e i primi del Novecento. Nella Firenze del 1904 il commissario Ulisse Bellandi e il vicecommissario Alessandro Nocentini indagano rispettivamente sull'omicidio di una spia e di una marchesa.

Nel loro secondo romanzo, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 2003, Riccardo Parigi e Massimo Sozzi ricorrono alla stessa tipologia di intreccio che aveva reso celebre "Il caso Appiani" (1999): tessere le fila di un unico grande mistero, sospeso fra due epoche diverse e lontane fra loro. Così, i fatti del movimentato 1969 senese, costellato d'importanti manifestazioni di dissenso politico, sono segretamente legati a una vicenda accaduta nel 1799.

Silvio, giovane studente torinese, si perde in uno dei tanti mercatini dell'usato in cui è solito avventurarsi. Su una bancarella trova un oggetto che cattura subito la sua attenzione. All'apparenza sembrerebbe un frammento di un piatto medievale. Controllando, scoprirà che proviene dall’abbazia di Lucedio, nel vercellese. Decide così di comprarlo e di regalarlo alla sua ragazza, dedita proprio in quel periodo alla stesura di una tesi universitaria sull’abbazia piemontese.