Result for "Vera" in Historical

Der kleinen Hanno Dietz schlägt sich mit seiner Mutter im Hamburg der Nachkriegsjahre durch. Steine klopfen, Altmetall suchen, Schwarzhandel - das ist sein Alltag. Eines Tages entdeckt er in den Trümmern eine Tote - und etwas abseits einen etwa dreijährigen Jungen, der erstaunlich gut gekleidet ist. Das Kind spricht kein Wort, Verwandte sind nicht auffindbar. Und so wächst das Findelkind bei den Dietzens auf.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Martha Frisch ermittelt – und wie! Ostfriesland, 1958: Martha Frisch ist Witwe, eine patente Mittfünfzigerin und ihrer Zeit voraus. In ihrer Heißmangelstube in Leer kriegt sie allerhand Klatsch und Tratsch mit. Als eine treue Kundin, die junge Edelprostituierte Vera Malottke, tot in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden wird, zerreißt sich die ganze Stadt das Maul über das frivole Frauenzimmer. Die Polizei zeigt wenig Einsatz und legt sich schnell auf den Täter fest: einen alten Freund der Toten, der gerade aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde.

Mord und Medizin im historischen Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1850. Obwohl die Stadt an der Spitze der modernen Medizin steht, scheinen die Heilmittel der Ärzte wirkungslos. Überall sterben Menschen. Selbst dem geschätzten Dr. James Simpson wird die Schuld für den fragwürdigen Tod eines seiner Patienten zugeschoben. Sein Schützling Will Raven und das ehemalige Hausmädchen Sarah Fisher sind entschlossen, Simpsons Namen reinzuwaschen.

Die amerikanische Kolonie im Dresden des 19. Jahrhunderts: Zu den reichen Amerikanern gehört auch Florence de Meli. Sie ist der umschwärmte Mittelpunkt der High Society. Doch ihr Ehemann tobt vor Eifersucht. Er schmiedet ein Komplott und lässt sie für verrückt erklären. Florence landet in der Irrenanstalt. Doch sie kämpft für ihre Kinder und Gerechtigkeit. Ihre abenteuerliche Reise führt sie quer durch Europa bis nach New York. Eine Scheidungsschlacht beginnt.

The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her...

A registry clerk discovers that dozens of people have been assigned to a demolished address that no longer exists. As Claire Moreau follows the trail through archives, parish ledgers, and decades-old corrections, she uncovers a hidden system designed to move people through official records without leaving a trace. Pursued by investigators and trapped inside a growing conspiracy of paperwork and identity, Claire must decide whether the truth is worth destroying the institutions built to conceal it.

A glimpse into the legendary age of chivalry, on a rollicking journey through a magical Arthurian landscape. Much has already been told of the Knights of The Round Table; but what of the women behind the legends? In Chapman's exciting retelling of The Red Knight, we meet Lynett, a young noble woman, and unwilling bride of the Round Table Knight, Gaheris. When her sister Leonie is held captive by the malevolent Red Knight, Lynett is forced on a perilous journey to find King Arthur and plead for his help.

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

An einem sonnigen Wintermorgen 1875 herrscht großer Andrang im Hafen von Bremerhaven. Gleich wird die "Mosel" ablegen. Ihr Ziel: New York. Plötzlich zerreißt ein Knall die Luft. Menschen, Tiere, ganze Fuhrwerke werden durch die Luft geschleudert. Eine Dynamit-Explosion mit vielen Toten und Verletzten. Die "Thomas-Katastrophe" macht weltweit Schlagzeilen. Beim Begräbnis stehen sich zwei Frauen gegenüber. Die eine hat gerade fast ihre gesamte Familie verloren. Die andere ist die Ehefrau des "Dynamit-Teufels".

Another mystery awaits Vera and Tolliver in British East Africa. Justin Tolliver and his tribal lieutenant Kwai Libazo are still smarting from the dreadful events that ended their work on the police force a year ago. Justin and his wife, Vera, are establishing their farm in Ngong. Kwai and his baby daughter are living on the property, but tension still exists between the two men. One beautiful Sunday morning, a passing stranger discovers a dead body on the road that leads to their home. A Kukuyu man has been shot in the back.

Justin Tolliver is on the brink of an enormous change. The younger son of an English peer - that is, the son with no money and no prospects - he had joined the police force in British East Africa, full of dreams of bringing his majesty's justice to a dark and savage world. But it's 1913, and with his faith in the British government in tatters, Justin is opting instead for life as an African farmer and a newly minted family-man. It is his wife, Vera, who has helped him put aside images of darkness and come to see Africa, instead, as all but lit from within.

The fifth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series by “the reigning mistress of murder”(Time), P.D. James, is now available on CD. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father...

Thorpeness, 1973. Wrongly exiled from London, Judge Neville Hanmer sought solace and a quiet life on the Suffolk coast. But then a face from the past unexpectedly resurfaces and he turns to The Anglian Detective Agency for help. Laurel, Frank, and the rest of the team are busier than ever trying to solve the mysterious theft of rare plants from Yoxford Hall Gardens. But when Judge Hanmer doesn't show for their meeting, they find themselves embroiled in yet another case.

Tra le dune di Venezia, una coppia in cerca di intimità ritrova un cadavere. È il 1943, la Seconda Guerra Mondiale non accenna a finire, e in Italia il Fascismo sta iniziando a crollare. In questa torrida estate, il maresciallo Russo dovrà indagare sulla morte dell'uomo ritrovato tra le dune, riconosciuto come Ludovico Ferri, ricco borghese molto noto in città. In questo giallo storico, l'orrore della Guerra rifletterà altri segreti che si nascondono tra i canali di Venezia.