Ergebnis für "zweiter weltkrieg" in Internationale Krimis

In Berlin werden in einem alten Bunker aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Leichen einer Familie gefunden. Parallel dazu werden in Norddeutschland Menschen brutal in ihrem Zuhause ermordet, gefesselt an einen Sessel und einer blutenden toten Taube auf dem Schoß.

Isola di Capri, agosto 1939. L'Italia è nella morsa del fascismo, la Seconda guerra mondiale è alle porte. Durante uno scintillante party sotto le stelle, zeppo di aristocratici, ufficiali nazisti e miliardari americani, il celebre scrittore Curzio Malaparte, gran rubacuori ed enfant terrible del fascismo, viene accostato dalla polizia segreta di Mussolini: qualcuno lo accusa dell'omicidio di una giovane poetessa inglese, misteriosamente precipitata da un dirupo quattro anni prima.

Britain stands alone against the forces of Nazi Germany. Livvy Redmond is a young newspaperwoman determined to serve Britain’s spymaster in the face of danger. When she arrives in neutral Lisbon, she discovers a city full of spies, refugees, and the secret police. At an elegant party to meet a double agent, Livvy witnesses him fall to his death from a balcony and must now determine what secrets he wanted to pass her. Further complicating matters, she must guard the man’s young daughter from sinister people trying to kidnap the girl.

The first in a gripping new series of detective novels set at the birth of Stalin’s Russia. It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala – known as the Emerald Eye – was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted. Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he is as good as dead....

Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten. Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is called to the shores of Whale Fjord where the skeletons of a man and a woman have been discovered, both shot with British wartime bullets. Magnus uncovers a web of anger and revenge that stretches back 80 years and forward to a shocking murder in Reykjavík.

When Ottilie Divine, daughter of the legendary Camille Divine, moves into the famous 221B Baker Street, she never expects her first real investigation to land on her doorstep. Her old school friend Delia Wentworth's husband has gone missing from Westminster, and Ottilie feels compelled to help. However, the mystery deepens when she encounters her odd but intriguing new neighbour: Sherlock Holmes.

Zahlreiche Deutsche Wissenschaftler werden von den Alliierten, überwiegend den Amerikanern, außer Landes geschafft. In der neuen Heimat können sie, teilweise völlig unabhängig von ihrer Verwicklung im Nazi-Regime, ungestört ihre Arbeit fortsetzen. 75 Jahre später, wird ein amerikanischer Neuro-Wissenschaftler - Dr. Nathan Sanders - mit Krankheitsbildern konfrontiert, die er bisher in seinem Leben noch nie gesehen hat und stellt Nachforschungen an. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die historischen Ereignisse, so wie sie bisher dargestellt wurden, nicht stimmen können.

In der Gegenwart kommen die Verfolger Doktor Nathan Sanders immer dichter und werden gefährlicher. Zur gleichen Zeit droht in Berlin ein Haus einzustürzen. Die Vorkommnisse 1945 auf dem flüchtenden U-Boot spitzen sich zu. Die Lage der Mannschaft scheint aussichtslos. Ein geheimnisvolles Gerät taucht auf.

A former Legionnaire had been working as an investigative journalist in Paris. He meets a mysterious American, of Jewish and Latino descent, by chance when the latter sails into a quiet fishing village nestled in a remote Andalusian bay in Spain. The yachtsman, also a former French Foreign Legionnaire, explained that he had been working in private security, and he tells a story that dates back to the dark days of Nazi Germany and it at first seems to be fictitious. However, the journalist began to question what he had been told.

La novela relata una intriga sorprendente sobre una serie de asesinatos en plena época nazi, con la figura omnipresente de Heydrich, considerado el heredero de Hitler y muerto en 1942. Klaus Rotter, miembro de las SS y antiguo inspector de policía, es detenido en mayo de 1945 por soldados británicos. Al interrogarlo, descubren que es un elemento importante de los servicios secretos del Tercer Reich e íntimo colaborador en su día de Reinhard Heydrich.

Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft from the American Territory of Guam detect suspicious Chinese naval activity near an abandoned island airbase. Intercepted radio traffic suggests the Chinese are hunting for an Army Air Corps plane that disappeared in 1945. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends Agent Jack Quintana to find out why. Quintana teams up with tipsy British diplomat Thurgood Throckmorton (that’s “Sir Thurgood” to you rabble) on Guam’s seedy “Tumon Strip”.

Der Real-Fiction Thriller geht in die nächste Runde. Die Lesestaffel basiert auf wahren Begebenheiten und anonymen Berichten. Ursprung der Geschichte ist Berlin, am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Ereignisse dort, haben eine gravierende Folge für die Gegenwart. In Berlin hat eine Zeitbombe mit unfassbarem Ausmaß zu ticken begonnen. Eine mörderisch Jagd beginnt und zieht weltweite Kreise...