Resultados para "Historia de Mujeres" en Procedimientos policiales

Genova, 1968. Maria Viani, universitaria fuori sede, scopre che Elisabetta, la sua bellissima coinquilina, è scomparsa. L’aiuteranno nel difficile compito di ritrovarla l’ispettore Sergio Cantini, vecchia conoscenza di Maria, e il fratello della ragazza. L’impresa, però, si rivelerà più difficile di quanto possano immaginare. Maria Teresa Valle, nata a Varazze (SV), risiede attualmente a Genova. Giallista di successo, ha pubblicato con Fratelli Frilli Editori numerosi romanzi, tra cui le due serie di successo con protagonisti Maria Viani e Damiano Flexi Gerardi, soprannominato il Becchino.

Detective Helen Carter is called to a crime scene: a barmaid, Tina French, has been strangled. Murdered on her way home from work to look after her sick son. Meanwhile, Moira McKenzie leaves her lover's townhouse and gets home to find her abusive husband, Reggie, washing blood from his hands. Later, in their garden shed, she finds incriminating photos, keepsakes and newspaper cuttings about old murder cases. When the police are called to their home, they find a pool of blood and a shattered glass table, but no sign of Moira.

1940. It's been a month since rector's daughter Billie Harkness left her rural village to make a fresh start in the northern city of Hull. Now she has a new home and an exciting new job as one of only two female police constables in the whole city. But Hull still feels like a foreign country, and some people are less than impressed by the idea of a woman doing a "man's job". But determined to do her bit for the war effort, Billie throws herself into her work. The chance to prove her worth comes during a search for a missing air raid shelter inspector, when Billie makes a shocking discovery.

Summer descends over the picturesque King’s Cove as Darling and Lane’s mutual affection blossoms. But their respite from solving crime is cut short when a British government official arrives in Nelson to compel Darling to return to England for questioning about the death of a rear gunner under his command in 1943. In Darling’s absence, Ames oversees the investigation into the suspicious death of a local elderly woman and uncovers a painful betrayal inflicted 40 years earlier.

It’s early spring of 1947 in idyllic King’s Cove, and the Hughes ladies, mère et filles, are gardening and sorting through the jars of food that have been put up for the winter. But while cleaning up after the roof of their root cellar has caved in slightly, they are horrified to discover a small skeletal hand embedded in the mess. Panicked, they call Lane Winslow, the ex-British secret service agent, and, not without some misgivings about the state of their tense relationship, Lane calls Inspector Darling.

Sequel to international best seller Block 46 and next in the award-winning Roy & Castells series. Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some 10 years earlier and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman's body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims.

When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. The killing only magnifies Temple's ongoing troubles: a formidable opponent in the upcoming election, the repugnant burden of enforcing farm foreclosures, and his wife's lingering grief over the loss of their eight-year-old son. As the sheriff and his young deputy investigate the murder, their suspicions focus on a teenager, Carmine, serving with the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Hamburg 1929: Ein Kind ist verschwunden. Verzweifelt bittet die wohlhabende Signe von Arnsberg die Polizei um Hilfe bei der Suche nach ihrer Tochter, die nach einem Spaziergang mit ihrer Kinderfrau nicht ins Hotel Atlantic zurückgekehrt ist. Doch die Männer der Kripo nehmen sie nicht für voll - denn es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass Signe hysterisch bei der Hamburger Kriminalpolizei auftaucht. Nur Paula Haydorn glaubt der Frau. Seit einem Jahr ist sie als eine der ersten weiblichen Beamtinnen im Polizeidienst.