Ergebnis für "Rom" in Weibliche Detektive

Als Audrey Kepler das verlassene Thornwood House im ländlichen Queensland erbt, ergreift sie sofort die Chance, ihrem hektischen Leben in Melbourne zu entkommen und einen Neustart zu wagen. In einem Hinterzimmer des alten Hauses entdeckt sie die verblasste Fotografie eines gutaussehenden Mannes. Wie sie bald herausfindet, handelt es sich um Samuel Riordan, den vormaligen Bewohner von Thornwood House. Schon bald erfährt sie, dass Samuel beschuldigt wurde, kurz nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem Krieg eine junge Frau ermordet zu haben, was sie nicht glauben will. Als sie immer tiefer in Samuels Geschichte eintaucht, hat sie die böse Ahnung, dass der Mörder von damals noch lebt. Und dann droht sich ihr Verdacht auf gefährliche Weise zu bestätigen.

Am Tiberufer wird die Leiche des anscheinend unbescholtenen Bankinspektors Gianpiero Puccio gefunden. Vor seinem Tod hat er noch versucht, Kontakt mit der Polizei aufzunehmen. Warum musste er sterben? Ein Fall für Leda Giallo, die liebenswerte und eigenwillige Kommissarin, die eine große Schwäche für kulinarische Genüsse hat. Bei ihren Ermittlungen stößt sie in ein echtes Wespennest von kriminellen Machenschaften. Denn die Spuren laufen auf mehr als eine seltsame Verbindung zwischen der Banca di Credito und dem Vatikan zu.

'Who can resist a smart, resourceful and independent Regency heroine? Prepare to fall head over heels' Good Housekeeping 'Told with zip and humour…most enjoyable' Historical Novel Society 'The Regency as we've never seen it before!' Emma Orchard, author of A Duke of One's Own 1812 Deep below...

Riley Thorn and her hot tattooed private investigator boyfriend are all moved in to their new fixer-upper. Not only do they finally have their own place they also haven’t found any new dead bodies on the premises. Yep. It looks like summer is over, and so is Riley’s bad luck. Or is it? While Nick gives up sleeping and showering to obsess over the cold case that still haunts him, his business partner Mrs. Penny is calling the investigative shots. It’s every bit as bad as you can imagine.

Four novella-length stories written to illuminate Lindsey Davis's unparalleled output of the last 30 years, with an introduction written and narrated by the author. Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective...

Italy might seem like a long way to go to hide after a disastrous date. But when sexy uberhacker Slash (no, that's not his real name) asks me to go with him to Rome on an investigation, the timing is sort of perfect. My messed-up love life becomes the least of my worries, though, after the dead body, the near-kidnapping and the discovery of a top secret encrypted file that even I can't hack.

When an old man is brutally murdered, his son asks Olivia Streete to help find the killer. As she digs deeper in to the old man’s life, she discovers connections to crimes stretching back twenty years and involving some of the most powerful men in Rome and the Vatican. She starts untangle a complex web of lies and deceit from the past, but the guilty are even more powerful now, and they set out to stop her uncovering the truth.

"Mollo-Christensen's expressive performance captures every nuance as she varies her voice and cadence for each quirky character."—AudioFile With a colorful cast of characters and a cellar full of wine, anything can happen—from murder to a second chance at love—in Jenny Elder Moke's half...

Remi Finch has spent the better part of her adult life avoiding family—especially her sisters. They just don’t click. Besides, her unconventional upbringing and major anxiety have convinced Remi that she can’t build a relationship with anyone. Period. When her parents plan a family reunion camping trip to celebrate their anniversary, Remi’s willing to reconnect, if only because she doesn’t have a choice. But then a dead body turns up at their campsite, and their sisterly bonding kicks into high gear.

Alice Chen doesn’t believe in true love, but she does believe in cold, hard cash. Buckling under the weight of student debt and her mother’s medical bills, Alice will do anything to make bank–even star on Dawn Tay’s Inferno, the hot new reality TV show designed to push couples to their breaking point. The show is Alice’s chance to sip cocktails on the beach and win a cash prize of a million dollars. But when her fiancé cheats on her with another contestant, Alice is faced with a choice.

A laugh-out-loud rom-com wrapped in a whodunit, this high-seas adventure proves that sometimes the best love stories start with a little murder. Penelope Mae Dupont has one superpower: keeping her cool. Which is essential when you're the personal assistant to renowned mystery author Hugh Griffin...

Hobnobbing with Seattle's elite on a super-yacht, Juliette Winters is about to land the deal of the century - if she doesn't get arrested first. She Doesn't Have A Clue author Jenny Elder Moke returns with another riotous mystery rom-com that delights in rich people behaving badly. Juliette...

A charming, edgy mystery about a young woman who unexpectedly inherits the best little motel in Texas – replete with a feisty set of golden working girls, a poisoned priest, and a sleepy hometown thrown into chaos. After a childhood spent combing the dive bars of Sarsaparilla Falls to collect...

Compulsive, gripping and dark, NEVER BE BROKEN is the stunning new novel in the Marnie Rome series, for fans of Peter James, Mark Billingham, and Val McDermid 'Deeply contemporary, painfully real, heartbreakingly good' Mick Herron 'DI Marnie Rome is a three-dimensional character of an emotional...

The winter cold is biting, and a series of assaults is pulling DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake out into the frosty, mean streets of London far more than they'd like. The attacks seem random, but when Marnie's family home is ransacked, there are signs that the burglary can have been committed only by a child - and someone who knows all about her. It will take a prison visit to her foster brother, Stephen, to help Marnie see the connections - and to force both her and Noah to face the truth about the creeping, chilling reaches of a troubled upbringing.

Waikiki, Hawaii. Golden sunshine. Waving palm trees. Sparkling blue water. Private eye Ava Rome's calling is to protect the defenseless. She takes on the cases of Jenny Mordan, a working girl who is being harassed by a police detective, and Cassie Sands, a teenager who is mixed up with a marijuana grower. Norman Traxler did 10 years in San Quentin nurturing his hatred of Ava Rome, the young MP who took him down for assaulting a prostitute.