Ergebnis für "The Cellar" in Krimis & Thriller

The lost village at Madley Wood, a place where the leaves don’t grow and the birds don’t sing. A place that tells a shocking story… The Cellar of Secrets. An old secret. A new build. A body. One witness. There’s only one person who can unravel a historic puzzle: covert witch, Amanda Cadabra. In such a picture-perfect English village, who would do anything so terrible as murder? And can Amanda Cadabra and her grumpy feline familiar survive a trip to 1940 to find them, before they find her?

Marcus Gove has been all these things. He’s reached the pinnacle of his art and now it’s time for him to take a protégé. Lovely Lucy is perfect for the role, or she will be. Lucy Williams is just like everyone else. She’s had some success as an artist, not so much success in love, but she’s getting by. But soon she’s going to have to become something else if she wants to be a survivor. Ray Lewis’s career isn’t heading anywhere. But he’s a solid detective and he’s determined to find Lucy no matter what the upper brass throw at him.

Something's not quite right about the neighborhood of Woodland Heights. Five years ago six children disappeared in this suburban heaven. When Laura Wagner moves into a house that had been vacant for most of those five years, this something comes alive.

Private Ike Lowery, a Union Infantryman from Illinois, wakes up in a strange place, short on memories, weak from hunger and blood loss from a head wound, and with a broken leg. He discovers that he is the "guest" of a Confederate widow in whose dooryard his squad was ambushed. Ike worries about his sanity due to his memory loss and the constant commentary in his head from a fallen comrade who finds Ike's situation amusing.

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family - though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been "lost" to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth's children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls' doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie raised them as their own. But only Josef knew the truth about Elisabeth's disappearance.... For 27 years, Josef had imprisoned and molested Elisabeth in his man-made basement dungeon.

In einem verlassenen Gebäude in Berlin, einst ein Heim für schwer erziehbare Jugendliche in der ehemaligen DDR, wird die Leiche eines Franzosen entdeckt. Der Fund wird zum ersten Fall für das von Europol ins Leben gerufene Cold-Case-Team um Sophie Steinbach und David Martin, die am Tatort Schockierendes enthüllen: In einem zugemauerten Keller liegen die Überreste zahlreicher Menschen begraben. Sophie, David und ihr Team tauchen in die düstere Vergangenheit des Erziehungsheims ein. Die Spur führt sie zu geheimen Stasi-Akten und unaussprechlichen Grausamkeiten des damaligen Regimes. 

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist. Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years. Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single...

After a South London man is shot and killed at home, his wife swears that the offender had no feet. Even stranger, when a teacher is murdered at a local school, her pupils insist they saw disembodied feet dangling from their classroom ceiling. All across the country, victims claim the assailant was missing a body part, while others stumble upon the severed appendages. It's clear these murders are neither straightforward nor easily explained, which means there are only two people fit to investigate: DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe, who are used to tracking spirits intent on causing mayhem.

Who polices the world of covert operations? Enter the Cellar, the most secret spy organization hiding deep within the United States. Deep in the forests of Kentucky, a girl is held captive. In Oklahoma, a young preschool teacher is murdered in front of her students. In the Panhandle of Florida, a college undergrad is kidnapped from a nightclub. These seemingly unrelated crimes catch the eye of the Cellar, the ultrasecret cell of operatives set up to police all other government agencies.

Local legends speak of a Cadburn daughter who ran off to fight in the Civil War, disguised as a boy, and never came home. Other legends tell of a girl's ghost, in Civil War costume, haunting Cadburn Creek. Three years ago, those rumors mixed with the usual wrangling between the two rival historical societies in Cadburn Township, complicated by the activities of the Spirits of '62, the local Civil War reenactors group, and the bickering between their leader, Steve, and Lyndsy, a history student hoping to make a name for herself, no matter the cost.

Together with Dr. John Watson, he investigates in sinister opium dens and a mysterious moated castle. Along the way, he meets a shady opera singer, an enigmatic gnome, and a derelict abortionist.

The dead don't lie. The living do. When wine consultant Sarah McKee arrives at Belle Vue Winery, the plan is simple: locate a hidden vault, assess its contents, and go home. But nothing at Belle Vue is simple. Not the legends. Not the people. And definitely not the body lying face down in a chamber that should’ve stayed sealed for centuries. There’s no treasure. Only questions. And one cold, brutal fact—Someone at the winery is a killer. Trapped on the estate and cut off from help, Sarah must unravel a web of lies before history repeats itself.

Izzy Blake hasn't seen sunlight in four years. She only eats when she's been good. She only gets to wash when he says so. Izzy has fought to maintain her identity and sanity, clinging to memories of the life she once knew. Her parents, her job, her real name. But it's hard, she's been in the cellar so long. Every day is the same. Dark. Pain. Alone. Until one day the door opens and it's not him. It's a woman. Who clearly has no idea that her boyfriend has Izzy chained up in their wine cellar.

She awakes in a dark place. A young woman with a shattered memory, she knows neither who she is nor how she came to be in this abandoned house. All she possesses is a faint sense that someone is lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Horrifyingly, she is correct. In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver’s shell. The amnesiac flees and finally has a stroke of luck: She meets Maud Silver.

Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive - some for four months - half-naked and chained. They had been tortured, starved, and repeatedly raped. But more grotesque discoveries lay in the kitchen: human limbs frozen, a torso burned to cinders, an empty pot suspiciously scorched....

Cole’s got a new job but fails to show up. Do the series of child murders in San Francisco and Chicago lead to Cole’s disappearance? A new job in a new city doesn’t do you much good if you’re dead. Follow Cole to the City by the Bay to find out just how far he will go to save a child.

The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation. Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess...in a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day.... At six in the morning, she's strangled, not in her room but in the basement locker room.... In all likelihood, that's where the crime was committed.... What was the woman doing in the basement? Who could have lured her down there, and how?

Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boardinghouse, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this ordinary veneer lurked a murderous darkness. On 8th May 1879, the corpse of former resident Matilda Hacker was uncovered in the coal cellar. The investigation that followed stripped bare the shadow-side of Victorian domesticity, throwing the lives of everyone within into an extraordinary maelstrom.

Employing a vigilant, discerning eye on the vicious wiles that the kingdom of darkness bestows upon his oblivious patrons, Solomon—proprietor of the popular local bar, Solomon’s Cellar—sets his sights on fighting an eerie fray. Only this demon slayer and his fierce convictions eventually corner him into a decision he has been disregarding for far too long.

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