Ergebnis für "Walter Scott" in Krimis & Thriller

Nichtstun ist keine Option. Die zehnjährige Lara ist gerade erst mit ihrer Mutter nach Köln gezogen, da freundet sie sich mit dem Imbissbudenbesitzer Walter an. Doch kurz darauf verschwindet sie bei einem Ausflug mit ihrer Mutter im Park. Walters Freunde Brandt und Aydin von der Kölner Kripo setzen alle Hebel in Bewegung, um das Mädchen zu finden. Gleichzeitig macht sich Walter allein auf die Suche, denn er fühlt sich für Lara und ihre Mutter verantwortlich. Warum sind die beiden so überstürzt von Hannover nach Köln gezogen? Welches Geheimnis verbirgt Laras Mutter?

Glaubenthal: Umgeben von ausgedehnten Wäldern liegt es in einer sanften, von wildromantischen Schluchten durchzogenen Hügellandschaft. Doch der schöne Schein trügt - dieses Dorf hat es in sich. Das bekommt auch Hannelore Huber auf der Beerdigung ihres Mannes zu spüren. Groß war die Vorfreude auf ein beschauliches Leben in Harmonie: endlich Witwe. Nun aber muss sie auf ihre alten Tage auch noch Ermittlerin werden. Denn im Sarg ruht, wie sich zeigt, nicht ihr Ehegatte, sondern die falsche Leiche.

It’s a ticket to paradise. Flight 868 has nonstop service to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Over a dozen tipsy passengers are off to a destination wedding. A team of high school baseball players is headed to a tournament. The plane is packed with people eager to escape their lives, and others who can’t wait to return to their beloved home. But sweet anticipation turns to terror when a lightning strike short-circuits the avionics and plunges the plane into darkness.

Set in the 12th century, during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, Ivanhoe tells of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric’s ward. Cedric intends Rowena for the oafish Athelstane, and banishes his son. 'The love of battle is the food upon which we live – the...

Doppelganger is a riveting futuristic thriller where artificial intelligence make reality so fractured it is nearly impossible to know what is true and what isn’t. It explores the clash between machines and human passion, evil, love, trust and time. Even after the last seconds you’ll wonder what is real and what isn’t.

Jane “Jinx” Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tries to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiancé, who has since disappeared—together with Jinx's best friend Meg Harris . . . But when Jinx wakes from her coma, she can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. With the help of Dr Alan Protheroe of the Nightingale Clinic, she slowly begins to piece together the fragments of the last few weeks. Then the memories begin to surface . . . memories of utter desperation and absolute terror.

1939: Claire Calais is broke and twenty-two years old. She has just figured out her lover is a saboteur. Homeless and penniless, she is suddenly immersed in the world of the international spy.

The original collection of these stories, published in 1994 in England, did not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" because it was considered "too shocking." It was later added to the first American edition.

A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MOTHERING SUNDAY AND LAST ORDERS, and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, The Light of Day is both a gripping crime story and a remarkable love story. On a cold but dazzling November morning George Webb, a...

The Adventure of the Gloria Scott appeared in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story is unusual in that it is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson. It is the very first case in which Holmes applied his powers of deduction to solve a case. Up till that time he had treated his deductive powers as a hobby.