Ergebnis für "Ring" in Internationale 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.

Former Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) sniper Patrick Featherstone has been hired as the head security consultant for the Tokyo Olympics based on his success in thwarting a plot to foment a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.

When English accountant Daniel Elliott dies in a car accident one rainy night, his widow, Grace, is overcome with grief... and panic. Daniel was controlling and their marriage loveless, but he always took care of the sheltered Grace. Or so she thought. She soon discovers Daniel kept secrets: an alias, mob ties, a list of numbers, a mysterious beach house in Florida... and a girlfriend who looks like Grace. Swallowing her fear, she flies to Miami to claim the house Daniel left her. But the price of her curiosity is peril.

A sinister organization has burst out of nowhere, their roots forged in old Russia, but with a modernized ideology and global aspirations. Violence and destruction are unleashed, plunging the world into disarray and revealing powerful connections. Those in the intelligence community scramble to catch up, as some of their own were unveiled as sympathizers.

Do fairies exist? Maybe they do—maybe they don't. But few people in Ireland would risk upsetting them. Airport runways have been re-routed and building projects cancelled for fear of angering the 'little people'. Even in 1990, the year this mystery unfolds, superstition still abounds in the idyllic country town of Erin's Glen. And when a body turns up in the local fairy ring, suspicion falls on the supernatural folk.

L’amicizia fra Manfredi e Mariolina si trasforma in un vero e proprio duo investigativo, volto a far luce su uno strano delitto nel quartiere Bottegaccia di Catania. Manfredi era un brillante poliziotto ma ha lasciato il lavoro quando il destino gli ha tolto ciò che di più prezioso aveva. Mariolina invece, rimasta per sempre promessa sposa, ha solo sfiorato una felicità che non ha fatto in tempo ad afferrare. I due adesso cercano di capire chi possa avere ucciso Momar, il senegalese che vendeva cd in via Etnea. Ad aiutarli, l’ex collega e amico di Manfredi, l’ispettore Nicola Romano.

Barrachois overlooks the cold, watery edge of the world. It’s a small city crooked by necessity, but an oddly safe place–joyous, even. Until two little kids witness the death of the limping man. With an unerring eye for period atmosphere, crime fiction writer D.E. Ring builds a layered, mesmeric portrait of a town thriving in the years after WW2. It's pragmatic and unconcerned about its crooked tendencies. It's a smuggler's paradise, and the Mafia has long been involved.

Una banda di rapinatori, in giro per l'Europa, assalta le gioiellerie più prestigiose assicurandosi bottini milionari. Da Pamplona a Parigi, da Biarritz a Ginevra, in breve tempo, grazie alle loro operazioni spregiudicate, diventano la bestia nera delle polizie europee; la stampa li elogia e li rende degli autentici eroi ribattezzandoli Pink Panthers, le "pantere rosa", dopo che ad Amsterdam viene ritrovato un diamante blu dentro un tubetto di crema come nel famoso film interpretato da Peter Sellers.