Ergebnis für "Sand" in Historische Krimis

Eine kriminalistische Spurensuche in der Zeit der Tempelritter. In einer Bar trifft Casaubon die esoterischen Lektoren Belbo und Diotallevi. Gibt es heute noch Geheimbünde? Existiert ein großer Plan der Tempelritter zur Erringung der Weltherrschaft? Der Diskurs über die Weltgeschichte mündet in ein wahnwitziges Spiel zwischen Metaphysik und Wirklichkeit... Umberto Eco, Jahrgang 1932, gelang mit "Das Foucaultsche Pendel" der weltweit erfolgreiche Nachfolger seines Bestsellers "Der Name der Rose": eine detektivisch-kriminalistische Spurensuche in der Geistesgeschichte des Abendlandes.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The daughter of a powerful tycoon escapes to a glamorous artists’ retreat—where dark secrets and dangerous temptations await—in this gripping Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea. “Enthralling . . . While history...

April 1897. Auf dem Brocken wird ein verbotenes Ritual vorbereitet – und etwas hört zu. Als eine junge Schottin spurlos verschwindet, wendet sich Karl May an Sherlock Holmes. Die Spur führt in den Harz – an einen Ort, an dem Mythen nicht vergangen sind.

Caroline Verlaine knows something is wrong. Her sister has gone missing, and no one can tell her why. The only option is to go where Roma was last seen—an estate with a deadly history. The Stacy family has lived off the Dover coast for generations, carefully navigating the treacherous quick sands nearby. But the sands aren't Caroline's biggest threat. Everyone here has a secret, especially the enigmatic young heir Napier Stacy. No matter where Caroline turns, the ground she walks is dangerous.

Ten full-cast BBC Radio thrillers by Berkely Mather Berkely Mather (real name John Evan Weston-Davies) was a British author who wrote sixteen novels ranging from historical adventures to espionage fiction. A prolific writer for television and radio, he contributed scripts to TV series including...

It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow-moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. 

Ein Mann steht vor Gericht. Er soll einen Tabakhändler erschlagen und eine Frau schwer verletzt haben. Kriminalrat Ernst Gennat ermittelt zusammen mit Franz Wilhelm Darkowitsch. Im Verhör kann der Verdächtige ein lückenloses Alibi aufweisen. Überhaupt scheint er auf jede Frage eine Antwort parat zu haben. Der Täter? Oder hat der berühmte Kriminalrat Ernst Gennat diesmal den Falschen?

The Body Under The Sands is a highly original murder mystery set in the years after the First World War in the fictional northern seaside town of Birtleby. Two soldiers recently returned from the Great War are spending their summer larking about, chasing girls, drinking, smoking, and forlornly...

Barney Dwyer is a gentle giant who has yet to find a place in the world. Capturing two notorious outlaws has made a hero of him, so much so that rancher Robert Parmelee offers him a job on his ranch to put a stop to persistent rustling. Taking the job promises an income sufficient for Barney to marry his sweetheart. But this promise for the future falls into jeopardy when the outlaws escape, determined to kill Barney.

A cursed kingdom. A princess marked for sacrifice. A fallen dragon-slayer with nothing to lose. When Princess Selene's name is drawn from the lottery drum on the night of the full moon, she doesn't run—she hunts. Teaming up with George, a legendary warrior haunted by his past, she journeys through a twisted nightmare forest to confront the ancient dragon that has feasted on her kingdom's maidens for centuries.

Lambda Award Winner Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder...

When Verity Easton travels from England to Egypt with her father – a professor at the British Museum – she is thrust into a dazzling world of tombs, legends, curses, and ancient secrets. Her father has been tasked with uncovering the final resting place of Nefertiti, and for the first time in her life, Verity feels deeply connected to her late Egyptian mother and her ancestral past.

In 1952, Jean Clarke arrives in a smog-drenched London to assist her brother, Harry, whose pregnant wife Phyllis has gone missing. The siblings have been estranged and, unbeknownst to Harry, Jean's offer of help hides a deeper secret: Jean had fled her marriage. Harry's search through the smog leads to an old acquaintance: a young man of sexually ambiguous nature. Harry might be more responsible for Phyllis's disappearance than he would like to admit.

Anna and Ingrid have survived World War II. Now they must live through the Berlin airlifts. Evocative and unforgettable, CHILD OF THE RUINS is set during the Berlin air lifts of 1948 and written by one of the most brilliant writers of historical fiction in the UK. People are disappearing. I...