Ergebnis für "Sophie" in Internationale Krimis

Wer die Totenruhe stört, riskiert sein Leben ... Der fünfte Fall für Kommissar Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg! Doppelmord an der Porte de la Chapelle in Paris. Bei den Opfern handelt es sich um zwei Kleinkriminelle, denen mit einem Skalpell die Kehle durchgeschnitten wurde. Weil die Gegend für ihre Drogenszene bekannt ist, hat das Rauschgiftdezernat den Fall an sich genommen. Doch die Kollegen haben ihre Rechnung ohne Kommissar Adamsberg gemacht. Was keiner außer ihm gesehen hat: Die Toten haben Erde unter den Fingernägeln, die von dem Friedhof stammt, auf dem kürzlich ein Grab unerlaubt aufgebrochen wurde.

Internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah and the world’s favorite detective Hercule Poirot return in this follow-up to The Monogram Murders, the national bestseller hailed by the Washington Post as “literary magic...

L’Enfant aux cailloux, roman à suspense multi-primé, a été traduit et diffusé dans tous les pays de langue anglaise. Sophie Loubière, grande voix du polar français, a reçu le prix Landerneau polar en 2020. Elsa Préau est une retraitée bien ordinaire. De ces vieilles dames trop seules et qui s'ennuient tellement - surtout le dimanche - qu'elles finissent par observer ce qui se passe chez leurs voisins. Elsa, justement, connaît tout des habitudes de la famille qui vient de s'installer à côté de chez elle.

London, June 1759. When a charmless civil servant takes his own life, few are interested in his death. But Lizzie Hardwicke, who plies her trade in the brothels of London whilst also working as an undercover sleuth for the magistrate, can see no reason why a man who had everything to look forward to would wish to end his life.

In a beautiful Belgravia house, Dowager Countess Georgiana intends to celebrate her son's birthday—delightful festivities are planned. Lord Stokely has a different agenda for the occasion, one concerning governance, politics, and the seizing of power. Burgoyne's Agency has yet a third and very dangerous design for the evening—the toppling of Britain's foremost charismatic personality and most photogenic peer—Stokely. Outside of Belgravia, Britain is in a turbulent state.

When freelance photojournalist Sophie Medina finds Brother Kevin Boyle, a Franciscan friar and controversial environmentalist, dead in the magnificent gardens of a Washington, DC, monastery, she is sure her friend was murdered. Shortly before he died, Kevin told Sophie he was being stalked, possibly because he uncovered a botanic discovery potentially worth millions of dollars. Left with few clues to his secret, Sophie is determined to figure out who killed him.

Durch Zufall wird Nick Naughty Auftragskiller, und er merkt schnell, dass er dafür eine richtige Begabung hat. Seine Arbeit macht ihm Spaß und bringt auch noch die nötige Kohle, um in New York, der schönsten Stadt der Welt, leben zu können.

Solo is a former cop who ran away from a dark past in France to start his life over again in Bamako, Mali, as a PI. An ordinary case turns out to be not so ordinary. The drug mule gets her throat slit. The French lawyer is too beautiful and too well informed. The cocaine is too plentiful. This is hard-boiled noir with a modern twist set in West Africa.

Marion Spicer spends her days examining auction catalogues and searching for stolen works of art. All this changes when she inherits a prestigious collection of pre-Columbian art from a father she never knew; she must face the merciless microcosm of Paris art auctions and galleries, with its sharks, schemes, fences, traps, scams, and attacks. Her quest draws her into a world where people will kill for a love of beauty.

Panic strikes at the highest levels of the French government when the former president is found hanging from the rafters in his home right after a terrorist attack at the airport. Is it suicide or assassination? Freelance operative John Spencer Larivière, his karate-trained partner, Victoire, and their computer-genius sidekick, Luc, must find out what he was hiding. Quickly the investigation turns into a globe-spanning confrontation in a world of high-frequency trading where manipulation and corruption reign.

Tout semble étrange depuis le retour de Luc Melville à Paris : personne n'est venu l'accueillir à l'aéroport, personne n'a répondu à ses appels téléphoniques, personne ne semble savoir où se trouve son frère. Comment retrouver sa piste dans le fracas et le mystère qui entourent sa disparition ? Et quelle est donc cette ombre de cauchemar qui rôde et murmure à ses côtés ?

A little old lady turns vigilante on the streets of London in this gritty, witty crime thriller. Gloria Jones has had enough. She's sixty-five, approaching retirement, and nearing the end of her tether. When someone flings away a gun in her local park, it ends up in Gloria's hands and changes...

Plenty of retirees have hobbies; Gloria's just happens to be murderous . . . An entertaining new crime thriller by the author of Bang Bang, You're Dead. At this stage of her life, Gloria Jones just wants peace, quiet, and as little stress as possible. But her habit of helping others in need is...

Ever since her sister, Anya, was murdered in Sotogrande, a playground for the rich, Natasha's life has gone off the rails. After three months of poring over the details of what happened, Natasha travels to the scene of the crime where she hopes to unravel the truth—about her sister's death and life. With no job, how did Anya end up in a multimillion-Euro apartment in one of the most exclusive areas on the continent? The police have no suspect. Publicly, they claim the killing was likely gang-related. But their key person of interest, a local with links to organized crime, is also now dead.