Ergebnis für "Rise and Fall" in Krimis

They climbed up from the streets of Glasgow to the top of the world. Now these Hollywood icons are heading for a fall. Three stars, three tales of struggle and success. Now they’re discovering that in Hollywood, happy endings don’t last for ever. Sometimes they’re just the calm before the storm.

Mysteries have a way of following Fannie Miller, so when she makes it into the finals of the Tuscarawas County Baking Contest and contestants start disappearing, she calls on her old friend Foster Bates, a retired cop and part-time private investigator. Could it be that other finalists—like the couple on verge of divorce who need the prize money. . .or the three Beiler sisters, always in a huddle whispering—are somehow responsible for these disappearances, thinning out the competition?

In the tradition of Sam Spade, Phillip Marlow, and Travis Magee, The Fall and Rise of Cain is a modern-day mystery thriller. Retired in disgrace, Houston police detective Richard Cain left the department when a brutal ambush crippled him and killed his partner. Two years after the gunfight that broke his body and spirit, he is called back to the town that turned its back on him. He must know who was responsible for his shattered life and lost friend.

Berlin, 1919: Die Nachkriegszeit und deren Verbrechen schreiben Geschichte. Der legendäre Berliner Kriminalrat Ernst Gennat herrscht mit strenger Hand im Polizeipräsidium am Alexanderplatz. Ein junger, angehender Kriminalist macht sich auf den Weg in die Hauptstadt, um von dem Besten zu lernen. Sein Name: Franz Wilhelm Darkowitsch. Zugleich muss Gennat einen komplizierten Fall lösen: Wer erschoss am Weihnachtsabend den jungen, schönen Leutnant?