Resultados para "E A Johnson" en Detectives tradicionales

Eustacia Rose ist Professorin der Botanik. Ihr Spezialgebiet: Pflanzentoxikologie. Sie lebt allein in London—nur ihre umfangreiche Giftpflanzensammlung leistet ihr Gesellschaft. Diese hegt und pflegt sie mit akribischer Sorgfalt. Ihr Leben ist ruhig, ihr Tagesablauf ändert sich nie. Bis sie eines Tages einen Schrei hört und die Versuchung, dem nachzugehen, unwiderstehlich ist. Durch ihr Fernrohr wird Eustacia in das Leben ihrer außergewöhnlich schönen Nachbarin Simone hineingezogen.

For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as nothing more than an unfortunate accident. It's more difficult, however, to explain away the strangled corpse of a man found inside a locked room, surrounded by rare and obscure erotica.

A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Now the basis for a major motion picture Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice...

When P.J. Whistler leaves her Appalachian village of Victoria, New Brunswick in the summer of 1969 to visit her godson's family in south-western Ontario, she isn't prepared for her keen observational skills to be in demand for solving a murder. But when her godson, homicide consultant Inspector Philip Steele, and his mother Lary, who is now running their family farm, the "JUST (e)STATE", as one of the first therapeutic riding schools in North America, ask P.J. to help with the investigation of a young man who fell to his death from a railway trestle, she is happy to oblige.

Murder has come once more to the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of "almost handsome" Detective Simon Grave and his "nearly invisible" partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt, who investigate a locked-room mystery with a significant twist: the prime suspects are in the locked room, not the victim, a logic-defying situation that challenges the team at every turn.

Lorsque Mari Baroja est empoisonnée à la maison de retraite de Durant, Wyoming, le shérif Walt Longmire se trouve embarqué dans une enquête qui le ramène cinquante ans en arrière. Il se plonge alors dans le passé mystérieux de cette femme et dans celui de son mentor, le shérif Lucian Connally à la poigne légendaire. Tandis que l'histoire douloureuse de la victime trouve peu à peu une résonance dans le présent, d'autres meurtres se mettent sur le chemin des deux shérifs.

Still mourning the recent events that changed their lives, the remaining survivors search for the strength to move on. But, the storms of the past often linger. When a new wolf attacks and an FBI Agent starts snooping around, they will have to put aside their pain to protect the people that matter most. Between old friends and new foes, they must stop at nothing to find the justice they seek before the spirit of Blue Ridge is lost forever.

The consequences of Renaldo’s death reverberate through Gabriella’s life. As his mother seeks answers, she learns just how far she is willing to go to get revenge for her son’s murder. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Gabriella, Cattle Cop Frankfort Corbin is on the case. After meeting Siriano in prison, Frank is tasked with uncovering what happened to Renaldo in order to destroy the organization he built. Frank quickly becomes ensnared in events that exceed his original mission.

When the head of a hovercycle club inexplicably calls in news of his own murder, Detective Simon Grave and his team are drawn in to Crab Cove's hovercycle underworld, a world of loyalty, betrayal, greed, and-yes-irony. As if murder weren't enough, the bombing of an election debate stage has the mayor pressing for a quick resolution to both crimes. It becomes increasingly clear that the crimes are connected, and that the solution will require the unraveling of an elaborate criminal scheme-and more.

While working his winery's acreage, Zack is shocked to discover a complete skeleton buried in the ground, undisturbed for decades. Suddenly, the police are taking an interest, too, and Zack could be in trouble. The bones of Charles Hanson, father of notorious femme fatale, Clara Hanson, are thought to be linked to a man named Red Dawg, a miner believed to be responsible for the start of the Oregon State Gold Rush in 1850.

*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.* Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles...