Ergebnis für "Salt" in Weibliche Detektive

When Janessa "Nessa" Douglas inherits her grandmother's house in Mystic Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, she intends to sell it and never look back. The locals still whisper about her grandmother, Elspeth, who wrote strange fairytales about women who kept dangerous secrets. When a college intern named Ivy Camden vanishes while studying those same folktales, Nessa's plans are pulled out to sea. Ivy's research hints that Elspeth's most infamous story, The Salt Widow, was not born of myth but of murder.

Ein General wird erschossen – und die clevere Ermittlerin Iris Woodmore stößt auf ein tödliches Geheimnis im beschaulichen Waldenmere … Der zweite Band der spannenden Cosy Crime-Reihe im England der 1920er Jahre Hampshire, 1921. Die junge Reporterin Iris Woodmore will ihren Heimatort...

Ein ungelöster Todesfall. Eine verschwundene Zeugin. Und eine Wahrheit, die niemals ans Licht kommen sollte … Der Auftakt der spannenden Cosy Crime-Reihe im England der 1920er Jahre London, 1920. Die junge Reporterin Iris Woodmore sorgt für Aufsehen, als sie über eine historische Wahl...

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed. On the day of Alec Salter’s fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English...

October “Toby” Daye is finally doing all right. She’s settling into her new role as the Countess of Goldengreen; she’s actually dating again; she’s even agreed to take on Quentin as her official squire. Life is looking up all around - and that inevitably means it’s time for things to take a turn for the worse. Someone has kidnapped the sons of Duchess Dianda Lorden, regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Toby must not only find the missing boys, but also prove that the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction.

A haunting and evocative mystery set on a remote Scottish island. Grief-stricken and on the verge of a breakdown, Luda Managan and her two teenage children try to make a home for themselves on a collection of harsh and haunted Scottish islands. Luda, a photographer, is mesmerised by the...

She always went too far. DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Murder is different here, among the fens and stark beaches. She was the one who found the killers. The man drowned in the slurry pit had been herded there like an animal. He was North African, like many of the fruit pickers that work the fields. The more Cupidi discovers, the more she wants to ask - but these people are suspicious of questions. 

The new Hunter & Chase Mystery from the New York Times #1 Bestseller Welcome to the first book in a brand new rural crime series by bestseller Jack Gatland! "Suffolk's marshes keep their dead – until the tide turns..." One body, one bullet, and a family that's run the Suffolk coast for...

When Izzy discovers the body of a teenage runaway under her conservatory, she knows that someone in this village buried a very dark secret. Who is the girl? How was she able to vanish in a place like Seahouses? And why was her grave filled with salt?

American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police, Milly tries to get him released. But his arrest reveals both painful secrets about her marriage and hard truths about the Soviet state she has been working to serve. Disillusioned and pulled toward the front lines of a captivating new conflict, Milly must find a way to do the right thing for her husband, her conscience, and her heart.

Detective Alex Morrow discovers that the darkest secrets never stay buried as she investigates the criminal underbelly of a seemingly tranquil seaside town. For reasons she can't quite explain, Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance footage of Roxanna Fuentecilla -- a gorgeous Spanish...

Miffed that vacation plans with her chronically absent boyfriend Jenks Jenkins have gone awry, she accepts a job in Baja. So what if she and her friend Jan are spectacularly unqualified to take her yacht on a thousand mile cruise in the eastern Pacific Ocean in the middle of hurricane season? Hiring a handsome, if somewhat fishy captain for the trip might keep them off the rocks, but probably won t do the same for her future with Jenks.

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman's nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor and unbridled beauty who once tied many a man's heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he's thrown into the deep end of the investigation.