Resultados para "2" en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

Still reeling from her sister’s unexpected death, artist Emily Harper isn’t convinced Becky’s fall down the grand staircase was an accident. But when a hidden journal resurfaces—along with cryptic notes and eerie visions—Emily begins to suspect her sister was on the verge of uncovering something dangerous. Then a body is discovered at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, and the past crashes into the present. A local historian has been murdered—one who may have known the truth about Becky’s final days.

¿Y si la esencia de un buen whisky fuera el secreto que guardan sus barricas? El patrimonio y la historia escocesas se convierten en un crimen sangriento. Cuando un negocio en ruinas sale a la venta en Campbeltown, que en su día fue la «Capital Mundial del Whisky», Eilidh y su esposa Morag aprovechan la oportunidad para hacerse con él y conver­tirse en las primeras mujeres en dirigir una destilería en Escocia. Sin embargo, en plena celebración descubren algo aterrador: dos cadáveres que parecen haberse conservado perfectamente en dos barricas durante varias décadas.

It's been a little over a year since Shelby started managing Nina's Nimble Needle following her office-romance and career implosion. Next, Shelby is excited to oversee two well-known needlepoint designers who will be participating in the town's first two-week-long arts festival . . . Laura...

Solo hay una cosa peor que el miedo: que este se materialice y dé paso a la realidad más oscura que uno jamás pudo imaginar. Un paquete entregado en una comisaría reabre un capítulo cerrado. Un cadáver carbonizado en la cocina de un crucero. Una clínica clandestina que oculta cadáveres de operaciones fallidas.Tres historias que se entrelazan en la segunda aventura del inspector Álex Cortés. El sargento Cortés emprenderá una búsqueda desesperada del asesino en serie más sanguinario de la historia de Barcelona, atormentado por su sed de venganza tras lo que le hizo a su hermana.

Jen, la escritora de novelas de misterio convertida en detective aficionada, se ha hecho cargo de la gestión de la librería de Riddleton, su pequeña ciudad natal. Pero conseguir que cuadren las cuentas de Lectores Voraces no es nada en comparación con cumplir la fecha de entrega de su nueva novela. Sin embargo, la tarea de eludir las llamadas de su editora pasa a ocupar un segundo plano cuando el jefe de la policía local muere víctima de un presunto envenenamiento. Para resolver el asesinato, Jen debe desempolvar una vez más su sombrero de detective.

When a tourist dies under mysterious circumstances while visiting charming Evansfield, Vermont's July 4th festivities, the local sheriff believes the man's death is due to a freak accident. But Verity Cade, dairy farmer and amateur sleuth, isn't convinced. Ironically, her astute observations not only change the lawman's mind, but they also result in the arrest of her young farmhand. Things look bad for Jason, whose violent argument with the victim was witnessed by half the town.

Madrid, Berta Kerrigan es una escritora de éxito de novelas policiacas que está atravesando el peor momento de su vida. Tras la llegada de Marisa, la asistente enviada por su editora Laura, parece que la escritora comienza a levantar cabeza, pero una pista le informa de que su hija y su esposo puede que no estén muertos. La publicación de su último libro sobre el caso de la niña desaparecida le ha devuelto su fama como escritora. Mientras, en un pueblo cercano se han encontrado los cuerpos de dos adolescentes, una pareja que era la más popular de sus instituto.

The year is rapidly drawing to an end, Hettie the tortoise is hibernating and Agnes, Charlie, Marshall, and the other elderly residents of Sunset Hall are going stir-crazy at home. They’ve had enough of the broken boiler, drafty bedrooms, and Christmas jingles on the radio. And to top it off, another series of murders is rocking the hamlet of Duck End. It seems like every villager and his dog is trying to make up for all of the thwarted murders of the past thirty years.

Da ascoltare tutto d'un fiato, arriva il secondo volume della trilogia dell'avvocato Guerrieri

Amongst the rows of charming, brightly painted cabins, an elderly man's beach hut is set on fire in the middle of the night—while he sleeps inside. By day, Fiona, Sue, and Daisy volunteer at the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop. By night, they investigate crimes. And they're determined to get to the bottom of this murder. Malcolm Crainey was an obsessive beach-comber who lovingly decorated his hut with the treasures he found by the sea. Who'd want to kill a harmless old man?

A pawn-shop robbery- It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second professional sleuthing case. But exposing the culprit of a pawn-shop robbery turns sinister when her investigation takes her to Harrogate - and murder is only one step behind . . . A fatal stabbing- A night...

"Adiós, mundo cruel." El famoso escritor Ian O'Shelley se ha suicidado - o al menos eso parece, con una carta de despedida a su lado. Nathalie, que es una gran admiradora del autor, empieza a investigar el caso más concienzudamente y se da cuenta de que O'Shelley era un hombre de muchos secretos. ¿Podría ser que uno de estos le costara la vida? Mientras tanto, la vida privada de Nathalie se está desmoronando - todo por culpa de su traslado a Earlsraven.

Celebrant Daphne Jones is in the picturesque mountain town of Shady Bend to perform a funeral for community figure Edwina Drinkwater. But when the casket falls open during the service, revealing it's completely empty, Daphne finds herself at the centre of a baffling mystery. And the missing body is only the start of the day's calamities. When the caterer collapses from apparent poisoning, followed by two more suspicious deaths, Daphne is determined to figure out why so many mourners are following Edwina into the afterlife.

Ein Heiratsschwindler und Frauenmörder treibt sein Unwesen in Paris, doch die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln. Erst als eine Frau, die ihm entkommen konnte, behauptet, den Mann an seinem Eau de Toilette wiedererkennen zu können, öffnet sich eine Spur, die für keine Geringere als die Herstellerin von Chanel No 5 von Bedeutung ist: Coco Chanel. Nach der Trennung von ihrem Geliebten Dimitri Romanow und einer kurzen Affäre mit Picasso ist sie zudem einsam. Wird die Hobbydetektivin das nächste Opfer sein?

La vita nei pittoreschi Cotswolds è noiosa e i tentativi di Agatha Raisin di ammaliare James Lacey, il suo affascinante vicino, falliscono uno dopo l’altro. Ma adesso in paese è arrivato un nuovo veterinario, nella cui sala d’aspetto c’è sempre una lunga fila di donne... Un po’ per competizione, un po’ per far ingelosire James, Agatha porta il suo sanissimo gatto a fare una visita e ne esce con un invito a cena. Purtroppo però il bel veterinario muore in seguito a un incidente. Morte accidentale o omicidio?

Derbyshire, dicembre 1924. È un freddo Natale ad Alconbury Hall, la residenza di campagna della nobile famiglia Lennox. Così freddo che nemmeno generose dosi di sherry riescono a riscaldare la mente e il cuore di Lady Millicent Carmichael, mentre detta le sue scandalose memorie alla nuova segretaria. Beatrice però ancora non riesce a cogliere il sottobosco di ten­sioni che attraversa quella conturbante atmosfera natalizia.

The first three books in the Irish Village Mystery series are included in this edition: Murder in an Irish Village, Murder at an Irish Wedding, and Murder in an Irish Churchyard.

With one solved mystery under their wooly belts, the time has come for the sheep of Glennkill to explore Europe. Together with their new shepherdess, Rebecca, they move into their winter quarters in the shadow of a French chateau. But their new home is far from idyllic. A number of the sheep from the previous flock have disappeared, and deer are dying an unnatural death in the forest. The goats from the neighboring pasture have a theory: a werewolf. Could that be real, or just a fantasy?

When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess the journey he is about to embark on. Lizzie's mother, an Italian countess, disappeared thirty years ago, presumed dead. Her father, a famous, some say infamous, music promoter, has just died and now the family home Ca' Scacchi, a leaning palazzo in Dorsoduro, has fallen to her. When her mother vanished so too did a priceless painting, supposedly an erotic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, which has captivated men for generations.

Magic Springs, Idaho, may be a small town, but Mia Malone is living an enchanted life running her own catering business and cooking school. And while she's teaching the locals culinary craft, her grandmother is teaching her witchcraft for the day she inherits the family magical spells that have been passed down for generations. Unfortunately, all that knowledge is not helping Mia or her grandmother in removing the spirit of warlock Dorian Alexander from Mia's cat, Mr. Darcy.