Ergebnis für "Victoria" in Weibliche Detektive

Withering and waspish, Ursula Smart (not her real name) gate-crashes her mother's book club at an isolated country house for a long weekend retreat. Much to Mother's chagrin. Joining them are Mother's best friend, Mirabelle, Aunts Charlotte and Less, and Bridget with her dog, Mr. Bojangles. It doesn't matter that they've read Gone Girl three times this year already, this retreat is their chance to escape bustling suburbia. But someone has other ideas. A body is found in the grounds.

Ella Ademonde has crafted a perfect life as a criminal podcaster and socialite. When a cryptic letter is left on her pillow during her engagement party, Ella knows who sent it. Or, at least, she thinks she does. As the torment escalates, Ella realises that despite thinking she understands the rules of this twisted game, her stalker is playing their own version. Meanwhile, her stalker is driven by a jealousy and a perverted sense of justice.

The devastating Phryne Fisher is under fire again in her fourth mystery. A very young man with muddied hair, a pierced ear and a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's arms. But sadly it's not another scene of glorious seduction – this time it's death. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, beautifully dressed in loose trousers, a cream silk shirt and a red-fox fur has just had her windscreen shot out inches in front of her divine nose.

Like most women, Elizabeth Miles assumes many roles; unlike most, hers have made her a woman on the run. Living on the edge of society, Elizabeth uses her guile to relieve so-called respectable men of their ill-gotten gains. But brutal and greedy entrepreneur Oscar Thornton is out for blood. He's lost a great deal of money and is not going to forgive a woman for outwitting him. With his thugs hot on her trail, Elizabeth seizes the moment to blend in with a group of women who have an agenda of their own.

FBI agent Victoria Heslin came to Black Ridge Ski Resort for a peaceful getaway with her fiancé. But a snowstorm triggers a massive avalanche that blocks the only access road, trapping them on the mountain. Their isolation turns deadly when ski patrol finds a body on the slopes, and Victoria discovers the death is no accident. The killer is among them, and Victoria’s investigation threatens to expose secrets someone will do anything to protect.

The first original novel inspired by the hit MASTERPIECE Mystery! series Miss Scarlet and the Duke. At the height of Victorian "Egyptian Mummymania," when illusion and obsession captivate London society, a discovery defies all reason—the body of a recently murdered woman found inside a...

Nestled in the historic waterfront town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Chapters Bed-and-Breakfast is a reader's paradise. Built in 1770, the newly renovated inn hosts a roster of special events celebrating books, genres, and authors. It's the perfect literary retreat - until a rare-book dealer turns up dead in the carriage house during a celebration of Golden Age mystery author Josephine Tey. The victim's daughter points the finger at 42-year-old widow and former schoolteacher Charlotte Reed, who inherited the B&B from her great-aunt Isabella.

A sleuthing library director is on the case when a patron drops dead in the tenth installment of Victoria Gilbert's critically acclaimed Blue Ridge Library mysteries. When a stranger falls over dead in the Taylorsford Public Library, clutching a crumpled piece of paper inscribed only with the...

Elizabeth Bates must use everything she knows about the art of the con to stop a fellow scammer in his tracks in this first-ever thrilling crossover in the Victoria Thompson universe, featuring characters from her bestselling Gaslight Mysteries. Famed former police detective turned private...

When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks detective sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the task, but he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes.

Im Zug zur Weltausstellung in Paris verschwindet der britische Erfinder Louis Le Prince spurlos, und mit ihm ein völlig neuartiger Filmprojektionsapparat. Sehr bald fällt der Verdacht auf Thomas Edison, der an einem konkurrierenden Apparat arbeitet. Für die Ermittlungen in Frankreich stellt Mycroft Holmes Irene Adler vorübergehend einen landeskundigen Begleiter zur Seite: Phileas Foggs treuen Diener Passepartout.

Der neunte Fall für Oda Wagner und Christine Cordes. In Wilhelmshaven verbrennt ein Psychiater in seiner Praxis, auf Wangerooge wird der Inselarzt tot auf dem Friedhof gefunden, und auf Norderney liegt ein Pneumologe erstochen im Strandkorb. Zunächst scheint die Spur ins Drogenmilieu zu führen. Doch dann müssen Oda Wagner und Christine Cordes erkennen, dass ihnen der Täter näher ist, als ihnen lieb sein kann.

Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chaffing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival - the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace, and her acerbic, vicious tongue keeps everyone at bay. Everyone, that is, except knockabout Iowa girl King, who is undaunted and unimpressed and gives as good as she gets.

When the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill summon Sarah Brandt to examine their teenage daughter, their worst fear is confirmed: she is with child. The pregnancy is a mystery, however, as the young woman - mentally still a child herself - is never left on her own and denies that any man has ever hurt her. It's a delicate situation, one which casts suspicion on those close to the Lintons, including their beloved minister, the Reverend Oliver Upchurch.

When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Sarah disagrees. So does the woman's own mother, an Irishwoman who spreads the story that the girl was murdered by her Italian in-laws, the Ruoccos - an accusation that inflames tensions between the two immigrant groups.

Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope’s Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine’s nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl’s mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has been murdered. Though her death leaves Sarah’s claim to Catherine unchallenged, her sense of justice compels her to work with Malloy to find the killer.

In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where the son of family friends has died unexpectedly. The father believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter. They soon...

Irene Adler wird von Mycroft Holmes nach Wien geschickt, wo sie einen Mann namens Hans Gruber treffen soll. Doch als sie seine Wohnung erreicht, liegt der Mann tot auf der Straße. Gruber war einer Geheimorganisation auf der Spur, die offenbar eine große Sache plant. Irene macht die Bekanntschaft mit dem Schauspieler Franz, dem Freund des Toten, der sie fortan bei ihren Ermittlungen unterstützt. Doch bald darauf geraten sie zwischen die Fronten der Polizei und der Mörder, die ihnen auf den Fersen sind. Die Spuren führen schließlich zum Prater.

Detective Inspector Jo Shaw is bored, desk-bound, and absolutely not supposed to answer the phone call that sends her to a body in an empty house. Thrown in at the deep end after an injury that almost killed her, she’s determined to prove she’s fit to work. And while a case full of unclear motives and multiple suspects isn’t quite what the doctor ordered, being back in a relationship with her favorite doctor certainly won’t hurt. When the investigation takes a chilling turn and the Serious Crime Team struggles to connect the dots, Jo asks Isla Munro to help her follow the slenderest of leads.

I fled Spirit Falls as soon as I was old enough, and the Darkwind council was happy to see me go. But it's been 20 years, and they are short on hunters in their supernatural war. So when they offer my son a place in their ranks, I portal myself to the council chambers in anger.