Ergebnis für "Simon" in Privatdetektive

Spurlos verschwunden. Klara Golders erster bezahlter Auftrag als Detektivin führt sie inkognito in die Villa der Unternehmerfamilie Meiners, deren Putzfrau Nathalie spurlos verschwunden ist. Sie tritt ihre Nachfolge an und findet heraus, dass die junge Frau eine Entlassungswelle in der Möbelfabrik verhindern wollte. Wurde ihr das zum Verhängnis? Klara setzt alles daran, Nathalie zu finden und deren geheimen Plan fortzuführen. Dabei bekommt sie Unterstützung von Fee, der 15-jährigen, eigenwilligen Tochter des Hauses.

Überglücklich und frisch verliebt nimmt Klara einen neuen Fall an. Im Hotel Charlotte treibt ein Dieb sein Unwesen, den sie diskret überführen soll. Als Zimmermädchen eingeschleust, stolpert sie prompt über die Leiche eines amerikanischen Kinostars. Verschwiegenheit ist gefordert, Fingerspitzengefühl von Nöten und Klaras Neugier unaufhaltbar. Hinter dem Rücken der Polizei beginnt sie mit ihren eigenen Mordermittlungen. Wie so oft springt Klara von einem Fettnäpfchen ins nächste und landet plötzlich vor einer laufenden Kamera und einem Millionenpublikum.

When a prominent landowner goes missing, private investigator Atticus Priest is drawn into a web of secrets that stretch from the rolling fields of Wiltshire to the darkest corners of the past. The ancient estate of Brookmere—seat of the once-mighty Ainsley family—is crumbling, its future threatened by inheritance disputes, hidden debts, and buried scandal.

Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside. I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth, asking me to find her runaway teenage daughter, I didn't say no.

Klara ist schockiert, denn Philippe ist immer noch verheiratet. Doch Stine will die Scheidung von ihm, weil sie ihren neuen Lebenspartner, einen Warenhausbesitzer, heiraten möchte. Aus Angst, dass die neue Ehe genau wie die mit Philippe scheitern könnte, bittet sie ihren Noch-Mann um seine Meinung über ihren Zukünftigen. Dieser geht amüsiert auf ihren Wunsch ein und reist inkognito zusammen mit Klara zu Stine, um den Warenhausbesitzer unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Doch die Reise verläuft anders als erwartet, denn im vorweihnachtlichen Trubel wird die Marktfrau tot im Warenhaus aufgefunden.

Ganz in der Nähe der Baker-Street 221 B, dem Wohnsitz von Sherlock Holmes und seinem treuen Chronisten Dr. Watson, befindet sich das Wachsfigurenkabinett Madame Tussauds. Die Erben der berühmten Wachsbildnerin plagen ernste Probleme, denn das originale Fallbeil, mit dem die französische Königin Marie Antoinette enthauptet wurde, ist aus der Ausstellung entwendet worden...

On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy. At first it seems like an open and shut case: a murder suicide committed by Ralph's volatile brother Cameron. Then new evidence makes Mack suspect the man who reported the crime is in fact the perpetrator. But Mack isn't the only one with a stake in the case.

Private investigator Atticus Priest is employed by a disgruntled ex-husband to dig up dirt on his estranged wife. But when she goes missing after swimming in the River Avon, Atticus uncovers a conspiracy between five lifelong friends that goes back years. The friends did something when they were younger that they're not proud of. It's something that would land them in a world of trouble if it ever came to light. Something they've been trying to bury ever since. But Atticus finds one secret and then the next.

Private investigator Dan Armstrong can't believe his luck when he's invited to the luxury villa of none other than Alice Graceland, movie legend and queen of the silver screen. Alice isn't looking to bankroll Dan's writing, but instead she wants him to play host at a murder mystery evening with a glamorous (but suspiciously tense) collection of Hollywood royalty. It should be a meeting of old friends - but just how friendly are they? As the murder mystery evening takes a sinister turn, Dan and Oscar find themselves navigating more than the city's canals to find the truth.

The Organization has dispatched Ishmael and his partner Penny to Coronach House on the shores of Loch Ness, where the secretive but highly influential Baphamet Group are holding their annual meeting. The Organization believes an imposter has infiltrated the Group, and they have instructed Ishmael to root him - or her - out. It's not Ishmael's only mission. The first agent sent by the Organization has been found dead in her room, murdered in a horribly gruesome manner. Ishmael must also discover who killed Jennifer Rifkin, his fellow agent - and why.

Set high on top of Widows Hill, Harrow House has remained empty for years. Now, on behalf of a prospective buyer, Ishmael and Penny are spending a night there in order to investigate the rumors of strange lights, mysterious voices, and unexplained disappearances, and establish whether the house is really haunted. What really happened at Harrow House all those years ago? Joined by a celebrity psychic, a professional ghost hunter, a local historian, and a newspaper reporter, it becomes clear each member of "Team Ghost" has their own pet theory as to the cause of the alleged haunting.

But when a video is sent to the local newspaper showing the deceased man engaging in a compromising act with a minor, Atticus realizes that there's much more to this case than he initially thought. Is it blackmail? Suicide? Or murder? Two more bodies are found and two more videos are sent to the press. Atticus and his former colleague, detective chief inspector Mackenzie Jones, race against time to identify the culprit before he can strike again.

From the #1 New York Times bestsellng author of Seeing Red comes a "scorching...action-filled" (Publishers Weekly) tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge, and reversal. When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a star detective in the Charleston PD, she...

Life as a private investigator in the suburbs of Florence isn’t always as glamourous as Dan Armstrong imagined it to be, until he is asked to investigate a recent spate of violent attacks on a Hollywood movie set in Florence. The star of the show, movie-star royalty Selena Gardner, fears her life is in imminent danger. As Dan investigates, he discovers secrets and scandals are rife within the cast and crew. But with no actual murder, Dan believes these attacks could simply be warnings to someone…until the first body is found.

Ostern 1903: In den Armenvierteln von London werden französische Prostituierte gekreuzigt aufgefunden. In der Kleidung der Leichen entdeckt man mysteriöse Nachrichten. Scotland Yard steht vor einem Rätsel. Zur Klärung der Mordserie wird Sherlock Holmes vom König direkt beauftragt.

A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity. In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells...

The “consistently high-quality” (Booklist) Charlie Parker series continues with a white-knuckled new thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a...

Um hotel no meio do nada parece o destino perfeito para um investigador descansar e se afastar do trabalho. Até que um caso macabro acontece. No auge do verão canadense, o inspetor Gamache e sua esposa comemoram o aniversário de casamento no Manoir Bellechasse, um hotel luxuoso em meio à natureza, não muito longe do vilarejo de Three Pines. Só que os dois não estão sozinhos: a família Finney, tão rica quanto complicada, também se reuniu lá para uma ocasião especial. Para surpresa dos Gamaches, chegam ainda mais dois convidados para o evento, conhecidos do casal.

“Freya and Aunt Carole, everyone’s favorite antique-hunting, mystery-solving duo, return in a sequel that somehow manages to be even more captivating than their first adventure” (Tom Ryan, USA TODAY bestselling author) as they are on the hunt for a dangerous criminal aboard a cruise ship...

A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence to train the army, so why have bodies been buried in the graveyard since the church was closed?