Ergebnis für "Romans" in Cosy Crime

Als die junge Apothekerin Adelina das Zunfthaus besucht, entdeckt sie die schwer zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Frau. Nur eine kurze Zeit später hört sie, dass der Verlobte der Toten, ein Zunftmeister, verschwunden ist. Es wird zunächst von einer Tat aus Eifersucht ausgegangen, doch kurz darauf wird er ebenfalls tot aufgefunden. Doch Adelina hat weitaus persönlichere Probleme im Kopf, als diesen Fall - bis plötzlich Münzen bei ihr auftauchen. Diese entstammen dem Bestechungsgeld der Patrizier, was zur Folge hat, dass Adelina in Verdacht gerät die Stadt Köln verraten zu haben!

Etwas Unglaubliches ist passiert! Aus einem Beinhaus wurden doch tatsächlich Schädel und Knochen gestohlen. Die Kölner Bürger sind über diesen gottlosen Frevel empört. Nur kurze Zeit später wird im Hinterhof von Adelina eine schwangere Frau getötet. Medicus Neklas Burka, der Ehemann der Apothekerin, wird direkt verdächtigt, da geglaubt wird, er habe die Schwangere für seine Experimente missbraucht. Adelina setzt es sich in den Kopf seine Unschuld zu beweisen. Aber als sie kurz darauf Schädel und Knochen in einem geheimen Raum in ihrem eigenen Keller entdeckt, kommt auch ihr Zweifel.

In ihrem kleinen Lokal in Kyoto bieten der pensionierte Kommissar Nagare Kamogawa und seine Tochter Koishi einen besonderen Service an: Zu ihnen kommen Gäste, die ein bestimmtes Gericht aus ihrer Vergangenheit suchen, das sie seitdem nie wieder gegessen haben–und oft auch, um Frieden und Trost zu finden. Ein Mann möchte wissen, warum sein Vater ihm immer denselben schlichten Imbiss für die Schule zubereitete, und eine junge Frau will ihrem Verlobten endlich von ihrer ärmlichen Kindheit erzählen und ihm dazu das Reisgericht servieren.

Rex and Dora face their most difficult puzzle yet. First, they have to uncover the real identity of the victim. Only then can they determine who had the motive to kill. But in the Eternal City, the past and present are intertwined. Old flames return, past grudges re-emerge, and regrets bring consequences. Before the case ends, they'll have to answer a riddle. What is more important—solving the case or saving the life of a friend?

Im Anwesen von Lady Huntington spukt es. Millie und Eliza ermitteln als Haushaltshilfen getarnt. Der Geist stellt sich rasch als irdisches Wesen heraus, stößt die Detektivinnen aber auf ein neues Rätsel: Eine Mutter ist verschwunden. Eine geheimnisvolle Spieluhr enthält wertvolle Hinweise, die spannende Suche enthüllt eine dramatische Liebesgeschichte.

Teuflisch amüsant: Erpressung und Mord statt Mutter-Sohn-Sonntage mit Schwarzwälder Kirsch. Bernhard Stöckle, angesehener Controller beim Schwarzwälder Gas- und E-Werk, hat mit zwei Handicaps zu kämpfen: Zum einen ist da Herr Wunderdinger, sein sexistischer und „niveauloser“ Chef, der im Büroalltag des harmoniebedürftigen Verwaltungsangestellten nur bedingt zum Wohlfühlen beiträgt. Zum anderen engt ihn seine aufbrausende Mutter ganz schön ein: Sie hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, Bernhard seit seiner frühesten Jugend von der Außenwelt abzuschirmen, insbesondere, wenn es um Frauen geht.

Wenn Monsieur Anatole die gewitzte Detektivin Phryne Fisher in sein Restaurant einlädt, ist von vorherein klar, dass er ihr nicht nur seine köstliche Zwiebelsuppe vorsetzen wird, sondern auch einen Fall für sie hat: Seine Verlobte ist verschwunden, und Phryne soll herausfinden, wer sie entführt hat. Phrynes Cleverness ist gefragt. Alle Spuren führen nach Paris - und Phryne zurück in ihre eigene Vergangenheit zwischen Spanischer Grippe, Rive Gauche und großen Gefühlen.

Nothing is simple when you're 35th in line for the British crown, least of all marriage. But with love on their side and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her beau, Darcy O'Mara, hope to bypass a few royal rules....

Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope’s Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine’s nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl’s mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has been murdered. Though her death leaves Sarah’s claim to Catherine unchallenged, her sense of justice compels her to work with Malloy to find the killer.

Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and her New York City P.I. business are in the midst of a sweeping influenza epidemic and a fight for women’s suffrage that lands her in jail. Her betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, finds her, but he hardly has time to bail her out, what with Chinese gangs battling for control of a thriving opium trade. The only consolation Molly can take from her vexing afternoon in the clink is that it made her some new friends among the Vassar suffragists - and brought her a pair of new cases.

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself.

Venice, 1954. Rosy Gilchrist thinks luck may be on her side. Her boss at the British Museum has chosen her to travel to Venice to track down a rare edition of Horace's Odes for their collection. Things soon take a drastic downward spiral. A wealthy recluse offers a million-pound reward for anyone who can find the treasure. Soon Rosy finds herself in a race against time as her rivals will do anything for money. Even murder.

Irish immigrant and private detective Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to see world-famous illusionist Harry Houdini. But before he can even take the stage, the opening act goes horribly wrong—and the sensational Signor Scarpelli’s lovely assistant is sawed in half. In the aftermath, Scarpelli accuses Houdini of tampering with his equipment. Who else but the so-called Handcuff King could have got a hold of his trunk of tricks, which he keeps under lock and key?

January 1954. Mists cover the hills around Selchester. Someone at the research facility known as the Atomic is leaking secrets to Soviet Russia, and when nuclear scientist Bruno Rothesay goes missing, the British Intelligence Services are convinced he's the mole. Hugo Hawksworth isn't so sure. Then a body turns up, and Hugo's instincts are proven correct. But if Rothesay wasn't selling secrets to the Soviets, who is?

There's a new man in charge at Bow Street Magistrates' Court and all is not well. His ambition is to split up Lavender and Woods—and to add to Lavender's woes, someone is leaking exaggerated stories about his investigations to The Times. Lavender is tasked with solving the theft of an aristocrat's precious jewels, while Woods is instructed to track down a libeler. But after a series of vicious murders and surprising coincidences, they discover that these apparently unconnected crimes have more in common than they could ever have imagined.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.

In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Nearly 30 years later, Hugo's estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father's funeral. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. In it is a startling revelation.

Georgina Drake is thrilled to photograph the ancient mosaic uncovered at Little Wenborough Manor. But her excitement turns to shock when she finds the lead archaeologist dead on the floor. Instead of ancient secrets, Georgina is soon caught up in a very modern murder. Comforting the other distressed archaeologists, Georgina discovers this isn't the first time tragedy has struck this site. Over a century ago a young Victorian scholar vanished without trace during the original dig, leaving behind a devastated fiancée and a trail of unanswered questions.

Career diplomat Alec Halsey has been elevated to a marquessate he doesn't want. His lover has decided she won't marry him after all. What's more, the suspicion that he murdered his brother still lingers in London drawing rooms. So returning to London after seven months' seclusion may have been a mistake.

With Molly Murphy’s wedding to NYPD Captain Daniel Sullivan quickly approaching, the Irish P.I. heads to the Westchester County countryside,where Daniel’s mother can counsel her on a bride’s proper place. Surprisingly, Molly seems to be agreeing with her future mother-in-law’s advice. Molly promises to leave her detective work behind and settle down after becoming Daniel’s wife…but she isn’t married yet. So when she gets word of a possible case, Molly sneaks back into the city to squeeze in a little more sleuthing before the wedding bells can ring.