Ergebnis für "The House Of The Vampire" in Krimis

Quinn Callahan befindet sich in einer schweren Midlife-Crisis. Beruflich steckt sie in einer Sackgasse, die sie nirgendwo hinführt, aber damit hat sie sich abgefunden. Sie ist fünfundvierzig und geschieden. Ihr Mann hat sie für ihre beste Freundin verlassen–wie klischeehaft! Doch eigentlich war alles in Ordnung–bis Quinn, eine praktizierende Hexe, eine grundlegende Regel bricht, und ihr langweiliges Leben auf den Kopf gestellt wird.

When the body of a young woman is exhumed from unconsecrated ground—her remains marked by signs of a deviant burial—Jason and Daniel are drawn into a case steeped in fear and folklore. Whispers of the occult and tales of vampires, which had recently gripped London society, force them to confront the strange and the supernatural. But the more they uncover about the victim, the more the bizarre precautions taken with her body seem misplaced. Was she truly a vampire, a witch, or merely a tragic figure whose brutal death and macabre burial were meant to stoke fear—or silence the curious?

Harry Dresden ist tot, doch auch noch als Geist setzt er alles daran, seine Freunde und die Bewohner Chicagos zu beschützen. Der 13. dunkle Fall des Harry Dresden. Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, und ich war der mächtigste Magier Chicagos – bis ich ermordet wurde. Dass ich diese Geschichte erzählen kann, liegt daran, dass ich ein Geist bin. Ich schien dazu verdammt zu sein zuzusehen, wie meine Freunde ohne mich den übernatürlichen Gefahren meiner Heimatstadt gegenübertreten mussten. Doch auch für Geister ist Chicago gefährlich, und vielleicht war es ganz gut, dass ich nun ein körperloses Gespenst war.

'This novel stands successfully on its own, its characters fleshed out and in full possession of their idiosyncrasies — all magnificently conveyed by narrator Steve Worsley...He captures perfectly the novel’s dark wit and the region’s pugnacity, bringing a sense of festivity to the police...

Anneliese Vos, 16-year-old daughter of detective Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago. Her father's desperate search revealed nothing. One day, Laura Bakker, a trainee detective, visits to tell him that the daughter of local politician, Katja Prins, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese. Vos is drawn back into the life of a detective, hoping that somewhere will be a clue to his daughter’s fate….

Gibt es Vampire? Sherlock Holmes glaubt nicht daran. Und doch gerät er angesichts der Vorfälle in Sussex ins Wanken. Letztlich aber wird es ihm gelingen, die seltsamen Vorkommnisse logisch zu erklären ... oder doch nicht?

“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.” –People Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race...

Ireland. AD 672. The Feast of Beltaine is approaching, and the seven senior princes of the kingdom of Muman are gathering at Cashel to discuss King Colgú's policies. Just days before the council meets, Brother Conchobhar, the keeper of the sacred sword, is found murdered. Sister Fidelma and her brother, Colgú, fear that the killer had been trying to steal the sword that symbolises the king's authority to rule.

Rue's always known her vampire boyfriend's fears have always been that his past deeds would come back to haunt him and hurt her. When someone from Luke's past insists he return to his ancestral home, Ruby Mae insists on returning with him. While in Italy, she finds out just how much the death of his long-lost sister is affecting his whole family, and she makes it her mission to solve her murder. But when her own life gets threatened as she gets closer, will Ruby be able to find out the truth before she becomes the next victim?

Cameron Winter was born with the ability to recreate detailed crime scenes in his imagination and dissect the motives and encounters that produced them. And after reading a puzzling news story about a wealthy family killed in a small town in the Chicago suburbs, he can't resist the chance to apply this deductive power in the pursuit of justice for the victims. Three members of the family, along with their live-in nanny, were pulled from their burning mansion, already dead from gunshot wounds. The only survivor is a young boy whose memory of the event raises more questions than answers.

For decades the Moore Asylum was home to the forgotten children of Brooklyn Bay. But ever since a scandal forced its closure, the abandoned building has cast an imposing shadow. Until now - when an elderly man is found dead, his body strapped to an ancient gurney. Detective Lucy Harwin, still reeling from a previous case that ended in the devastating murder of a mother and her child, finds herself on the trail of a killer ruthlessly fixated on avenging the asylum's wrongs.

Paranormal Investigator Ian McDermott has come to the small coastal river city of Astoria, Oregon, to investigate a rash of recent slayings, that in their wake, have left the banks of the Columbia River littered with horrifically mutilated, completely exsanguinated rotting corpses. All leads point to the new waterfront nightclub, aptly named: The Morgue - devilishly devised by its unabashedly flamboyant owner, Vladimir Drago Salizzar (a self-proclaimed vampiric creature of the night), to attract Gothic types and presumed vampire role-playing raving revelers.