Ergebnis für "killer" in Hobbydetektive

Millbrook House senior editor Keiran Chandler has spent years curating the best voices in crime lit, but when an unsolicited manuscript is handed to him at the Noir at the Shore mystery conference, truth collides with fiction. I Know What You Did is more than just another slush pile submission—it’s a direct threat.

Es sollte ein erholsamer Urlaub im süßen, sonnigen Cape Cod werden – nur Taylor Bassey und ihr geliebter Bruder –, aber eine Leiche in ihrem gemieteten Haus bringt ihre Pläne durcheinander. Myles Sumner ist nur da, um einen Job zu erledigen, nicht um eine Amateurdetektivin zu babysitten. Sie ist stur, lenkt ihn ab und kann sich nicht aus der Schusslinie halten. Bevor Myles noch tiefer in diese gefährliche Anziehungskraft gezogen werden kann, muss er den Mord aufklären und sich wieder auf den Weg machen.

Die Bankangestellte Viktoria Specht wird im Homeoffice erschlagen. Während der Untersuchung des Tatorts fallen merkwürdige Details auf: Ein wütender Kakadu, der immer wieder "Litschi" ruft, ein vereinsamtes und verwirrtes Chinchilla, sowie die Tatsache, dass Viktoria an diesem Tag mehrere unerwartete Besucher hatte. Kommissar Schiemann und die Tierflüsterin Kira Mauerfuchs folgen den Hinweisen von Spechts Tieren und erleben eine Überraschung. Dabei ist Kira abgelenkt, denn am selben Tag deckt sie neue Untaten der Pharmafirma auf, die sie für den Tod ihrer Mutter verantwortlich macht.

Die wortkarge Außenseiterin Alicia Petersen arbeitet in einer exklusiven Klinik am Starnberger See. Ihrem tristen Dasein entflieht sie durch Tagträume von der Nordseeinsel ihrer Kindheit sowie durch die Freundschaft mit Miriam Morgenroth – einer betagten und vermögenden Patientin. Als Miriam spurlos verschwindet, glaubt nur Alicia an ein Verbrechen. Sie bittet Hauptkommissar Chris Winkler, der sich von einer Chemotherapie erholt, um Hilfe. Ihre Suche nach Miriam führt die beiden in eine Welt aus Verrat, Hass und Mord, dessen Motive bis weit zurück in eine entsetzliche Vergangenheit reichen.

Ari Wilburn can’t forget what she did. One terrible decision. One tragic event. One sister dead. Now years later, she’s barely holding her life together—until a cryptic clue surfaces that makes her question everything she believed happened. Then she meets Tina, a desperate mother searching for her missing daughter. Tina believes her own father took the child. There’s just one problem: He’s dead.

Although Tina Alvarez escaped a trafficking ring, her newborn daughter wasn’t so lucky. Sold on the black market, the baby vanished without a trace. Most people would’ve given up, but Tina never stopped searching. When Ari Wilburn offers to help, it sounds easy enough: Find the child. It should be simple. It isn’t. Because the deeper Ari digs, the more twisted the threat becomes. People connected to the case are turning up dead. And the clues point to one disturbing truth: This isn’t just about a missing child—it’s about Ari. Her past. Her secrets. And a killer who is watching. Waiting.

It's the end of a long day at the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. Fiona, Daisy, and Partial Sue, the three retired ladies who volunteer there, are ready to lock up for the night. The ladies watch aghast as a clapped-out ice-cream van lurches up to their door—with Daisy's daughter Bella behind the wheel! Newly divorced Bella has only just gotten rid of her rotten husband. Now, she's bought herself a van—and a whole world of trouble.

Folge 26: Die Fans der Band Queen schweben in tödlicher Gefahr! Denn der "Queen-Killer" ist zurück, der vor einigen Jahren mehrere Anhänger der Rockband getötet hat und nie gefasst wurde. Jetzt treibt der Mörder wieder sein Unwesen und sendet Drohbriefe an die Fangemeinde. Als einer der Musikliebhaber ermordet aufgefunden wird, macht sich Panik breit. Wer von ihnen wird als Nächstes in Gras beißen? Andrew Davies, ein großer Queen-Fan aus Earlsraven, bekommt ebenfalls einen Brief und bittet Nathalie und Louise um Hilfe.

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod—just me and my beloved brother—but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.

Beim Joggen stößt Polizeihistorikerin Maria Just auf einen Lieferwagen, in dem sich ein nackter Toter befindet. Ihm wurden beide Hände abgetrennt. Alles deutet auf einen Mord des organisierten Verbrechens hin. Während die Ermittler Mikael Dirk und Frederik Dahlin zunächst im Dunkeln tappen, kämpft Maria um ihre Zukunft im Polizeimuseum. Da kommt ihr der Cold Case einer ungelösten Kindesentführung gerade recht: 1986 verschwand der neun Monate alte Anton auf einer Anti-Atomkraft-Demo aus seinem Kinderwagen.

Someone is killing cozy mystery detectives! Charlottes friend Tilly dies and leaves her a cryptic message about the Cozy Mystery Killeran assassin who has a grudge against amateur detectives. She's left more clues hidden inside tea cosies stashed all over Pineapple Port, which is good, because someone has robbed her home, leaving Charlotte with few leads. While Charlotte and Declan follow the clues to find the killer, Mariska and Darla work to surprise them with upgrades to the couples new detective agency office.

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Juno is feeling ready – at last – to start dating again, after losing her husband some years ago. She is sure she can make time from being a Village Detective, indeed it might help distract her from her crush on hunky (but far-too-young!) pub landlord – Mil. So she’s signed up to an exclusive new dating app and cannot wait. But when one of the founding investors in that same dating app drops dead in front of fellow Village Detective Phoebe in a nearby hotel, Juno knows she’ll have to put her love life on hold.

Narrated by Rory Kinnear The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick...

London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift. Jane Ambrose's ties to Princess Charlotte, the only child of the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, panic the palace, which moves quickly to shut down any investigation into the death of the talented pianist. But Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife Hero refuse to allow Jane's murderer to escape justice.

IT'S THE MOST MURDEROUS TIME OF THE YEAR… Puzzle compiler and former Christmas sceptic Edie O’Sullivan returns in the newest seasonal mystery from bestselling author and ‘Queen of the Christmas Mystery’ Alexandra Benedict. When Edie O’Sullivan wins a two-day Christmas break in a hotel...

Actor, alcoholic and amateur sleuth Charles Paris returns in another quintet of humorous theatrical thrillers. All Charles asks for is a nice juicy part in a successful play - but wherever he appears on the bill, murder and mystery always play a starring role.

Late revenge on Louise! The cook at the "Black Feather" inherits five painted portraits and is faced with a mystery: all the portraits show Dr Desmond van Gelder - a criminal she put behind bars as a young agent. Louise is horrified when she realises that van Gelder is now free - and that he has taken a hostage! She has just ten days to decipher the riddles hidden in the portraits and save the young woman he is holding captive... In the middle of it all: the "Black Feather".

The new laugh-out-loud serial killer thriller from L.M. Chilton, author of Don't Swipe Right and Everyone in the Group Chat Dies. The nation watched them fall in love. Now someone's watching them die. Hazel and Marc were paired together on a revolutionary new reality TV show Love Synced, in...

In South London, England, a serial killer appears to be on the loose. Victims have been cruelly slain, bodies are piling high and fear grips the community. But the victims aren’t humans - they’re domestic cats, cute little kitties! The killings spark a relentless investigation by animal rescue group SNARL, led by the formidable Boudicca Rising, her partner Tony and rock musician Rob. Acclaimed journalist Nancy Miller - who helped track down the infamous Golden State Killer - journeys from the US to help the amateur sleuths crack the case.