Ergebnis für "The Digital Republic" in Krimis

Alyssa Higgins is new to motherhood, suburban life, and dog ownership. When she takes her puppy to the dog park and learns of a cold case murder involving another young mother, she becomes intrigued. Enlisting the help of a friend from baby music class, Alyssa begins to snoop around her quiet neighborhood. What she discovers shocks her: She's living in a town full of secrets, intrigue, and deception.

On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered?

Who would have thought a book of naughty poems by elves could mean the difference between war and peace? But if stealing the precious volume will keep the Republic and the Empire from tearing out each other's throats, rogue soldier Isafesira de Lochenville - "Loch" to friends and foes alike - is willing to do the dishonest honors.

The origins of the IRON REPUBLIC are somewhat obscure. Its authorship is commonly attributed to Richard Bennett, also known as Richard James Morgan. Of course, other names have become associated with the book, like James M. Schurbarth and Dr. James Cleave Symmes Jr. But ultimately, there is no conclusive evidence that confirms any of these individuals as sole authors or contributors to the Iron Republic.

…If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life… Despite her penchant for weapons and ripe language, Aydan Kelly's resumé reads 'bookkeeper', not 'badass'. She's leaving the city to fulfill her dream of rural tranquility when she gets carjacked by a man who shouldn't exist. When RCMP officer John Kane kills her would-be abductor, Aydan thinks her troubles are over. But Kane's investigation implicates her in an international espionage plot, and criminal charges become the least of her worries when she's targeted by the very spies Kane suspects her of aiding.

Listen to the conversation as you sit in the corner of the snug in Mulligan's pub. The Teacher, The Sergeant, and the Parish Priest, aided by the Barman, are in session, and little of what happens in this Dublin inner city parish will escape their attention.

You are in the capital city of Ireland. Like any city, there are problems. Your job is to find Irish solutions to Irish problems. Your team includes your beautiful Russian assistant Alice and the dangerous ex-army ranger, called the PMC, who has a slightly scrambled brain. Your customers include gangsters, police, business men, politicians, and tailors each with a unique problem.

Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, two young mothers meet violent ends in a large South London house. Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and Dr Robbie MacTavish, together with their friend, clairvoyant Dorothy Plunkett, are drawn into these tragic events, when young November Jones walks into Robbie’s surgery in the late autumn of 1962. What is the mystery surrounding her, and why is a restless spirit trying to communicate through her?

What links the murder of seventeen-year-old Helen Carstairs in 1954 to the murder, over thirty years earlier, of Private Rodney Purbright? The tragic story of two sisters, one pretty, one plain, is key to both murders. The Rowan sisters are bound together by a secret they must keep, and their reclusive behaviour plants suspicion in the minds of their neighbours, who regard them as ‘witches’. Dispensing herbal remedies and keeping a mangy black cat add to their air of mystery and seem to bear out the rumours.

The peaceful, humdrum life of the tiny community at Little Bidwell is shaken to the core by the arrival of several and various visitors. Some have come to appreciate the respite and solitude this secluded and semi-isolated spot offers, but others have a more sinister purpose in mind.

Nolichucky, the house on Burnt Mountain, appears to be a secluded family lake home, forever frozen in the 1930s. But beneath its placid exterior lies a secret history and a mysterious power that profoundly affects young Luke Brooks. After spending a seemingly peaceful weekend there with his father and two teenaged friends, Luke's life is forever changed and he must thereafter confront an unexpected and potentially world-altering destiny.

Chester Bryers knows a secret. He has kept it for decades but now, as he nears his final days, he is finally telling his tale. A tale of what really happened to the lost Franklin Expedition. A tale of cold vengeance, long planned and of the adventurer George Greener, who discovered a terrible truth. It is a truth that must not be known and by breaking his long silence, Bryers’ life may be coming to a swifter and more violent end than he imagined; because some secrets must be kept, and The Thin man is watching.

A collection of short stories from such favorites as Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling are joined by others written anonymously in this anthology which will have you scratching your head and listening just a bit longer to discover the key to the mysteries.

John Ballard is a PI with a condition. One in a million born with a sensitivity. He absorbs the memories of whatever or whoever he touches, whether he wants to or not. He's an outcast - one that's useful to the cops - but it makes for an isolated life. Called in to consult on a gruesome and inexplicably artistic murder, it's clear that only someone with his gift can hope to solve it...but absorbing the memories of the body is going to send John's life spiraling out of control.

The fix is in, and the bodies are piling up. A dead actress, a dead gambler, and that’s for starters. With murder following his every step, determined underachiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his 1980s cozy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub, and his favorite band in the world, the Go-Betweens, everybody the wisecracking Hill meets is in danger.

Responding to her uncle's secretary's call, Kimberly Braun leaves her New York apartment to take an awaiting plane at Kennedy Airport to the United Kingdom to be with her dying uncle. Little does she know this trip will not only change her lifestyle and put her in grave danger, it will also uncover a secret life her uncle hid from her all the years he had raised her from the age of three to the present.

A man who can control shadows is terrorizing the magical community of London. Performing a grand ritual that could rip the very fabric of reality apart. Rafe and Ana are reluctant to investigate, it's definitely not their kinda gig - too apocalyptic for their liking.... But when they discover their connection to the Prince of Darkness, they find themselves pulled in to his scheme whether they like it or not. Because the Shadowmancer is not working alone. Someone is pulling the strings.

A clue to her boyfriend's murder during a study abroad program in Mexico draws Carey back into the mystery that led to his death, forcing her to re-examine her own culpability and the self-delusion that blinded her to the dangers of his world. Ben's missing passport resurfaces, and Carey, now in her late twenties and living with her parents in Indianapolis, learns that her Mexican restaurant co-workers know more than they've said. Past and present collide, bringing the truth into sharp focus.

This detective story set at the World's Fair follows Carl Masters as he is in pursuit of international criminals Greenback Bob and Delbras. Conmen, lost handbags, jewel robberies, an adventuress...not to mention two missing young men and a murder, all come under the detective's eye.

Originally published in 1897, That Affair Next Door is Anna Katherine Green’s eighth book featuring the series detective Ebenezer Gryce and the first to feature the society spinster, Amelia Butterworth. Many consider the nosy Miss Butterworth to be the precursor to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver. The story is told from Miss Butterworth’s perspective as she relates the story of a murdered young woman and how she sets out to unravel the mystery.