Resultados para "Miles" en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

When the body of Callie Davies, the beautiful charismatic Instagram star of Wildflowers, WA, is discovered beneath a bridge, her friend, Sloane Sheppard, makes a decision. No matter what it takes, or how many painful secrets she uncovers, Sloane is going to get to the bottom of what happened to her friend.

Mila Haase ist mit ihren 26 Jahren noch ein ziemlicher Kindskopf und versucht verzweifelt, das Drama, welches ihr im Alter von 6 Jahren zugestoßen ist, zu verdrängen. Ihre Lieblingsbeschäftigung besteht aus "One-Night-Stands". Mila kennt keine Grenzen und niemand wagt es ihr welche zu setzen. Nur vor echten Gefühlen fürchtet sie sich. Aus Langeweile und weil sie "Monk" und "The Mentalist" liebt, hat sie eine Ausbildung zur Privatdetektivin absolviert. "Mila löst jeden Fall" ist ihr Leitsatz. Naiv und vollkommen unvorbereitet spaziert sie in ihren ersten Fall: der "Date Killer".

It's March 2020 in Birmingham, Alabama, but Maggie Baxter and her cousin Francis Pinkston are facing problems even bigger than the quarantine. While navigating her home health job, along with shutdowns, face masks, and toilet paper shortages, Maggie stumbles upon a dead man-snipped in the bud with his own set of monogrammed scissors!

Two cousins, Derek and Nigel Burtell, famously detest one another. Derek Burtell stands to inherit £50,000 under the will of his grandfather at age 25—unless his drug-taking and dissolute lifestyle kill him first, in which case Nigel inherits instead. Dismayed by the latter possibility, Derek's many creditors insure his life with the vast Indescribable Insurance company, and Derek is advised to take a river trip for his health; and curiously it is Nigel whom he chooses to accompany him.

A desperate letter from her best friend sends Lady Jane rushing from her cozy Cornwall home to the remote reaches of Northumberland. Alison's frantic plea for help hints that something sinister is going on in the gloomy halls of Winton Park, so Jane braves the misty moors in the dead of winter to get to her pregnant and bedridden friend.

Peter Bannerman, veterinarian and amateur detective, deserves a summer vacation. Peter and his family head to a remote fishing lodge in northern Manitoba for a canoeing trip with his champion sniffer dog, Pippin. But a series of incidents color their plans. The lodge’s sled team of huskies has been poisoned and, at the same time, a floatplane crashes into the lake, killing the pilot and both passengers. While Peter works to save the huskies, it is discovered that the plane crash wasn’t an accident. It was murder.

It’s springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an ancient Viking artifact. Soon after, people around are horrified by a series of animal mutilations. This sets Peter, and his talented sniffer dog, Pippin, on the hunt for answers. Peter begins to suspect a link between the Viking artifact, the mutilations, and a shadowy group of white supremacists.

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

Peter is an odd duck, obsessed with logic and measurable facts, an obsession he puts to good use in his veterinary practice. When a murder is connected to the swine barn explosion and his friend Tom becomes the prime suspect, Peter feels compelled to put his reasoning skills, and his dog Pippin’s remarkable nose, to use to help clear him. The situation darkens with a second murder and a series of break-ins, including at Peter’s house and clinic, but Peter has a hard time knowing when he is out of his depth, despite warnings from his brother-in-law Kevin, an RCMP officer.

As quirky as McGill's residents can be, they usually welcome society's oddballs and outcasts into the community with open arms. But the three members of the Lone White Wolf Pack are a different story. The ignorant gang is widely believed to have orchestrated several hate crimes in the area. When the small group's irredeemable leader, Billy Ray Sonner, is found dead in an abandoned motel, most assume it was the result of an accidental overdose. Only Stella and the sheriff have witnessed the crime scene in person, and the smell of cyanide means something more disturbing.

Stella Reid and her grandkids are loving Halloween, until they stumble across a skull that unearths a mystery that reaches back decades and has personal ties to Stella.

A fatal accident during a Duluth blizzard is declared suspicious by Homicide Lieutenant Ernie Gramm in order to keep his people from having to do storm duty. The cops soon realize the made-up murder is the real thing. The motive may be revenge for an incident fifteen years earlier, but police consultant Milo Rathkey isn’t so sure. One thing everyone knows, freezing rain in Duluth in January can be deadly.

Ten years ago, beloved teacher Rebecca Hale and her teenage son were murdered in their Adirondack home. The case went cold, leaving the small town of High Peaks scarred and silent. Now, a popular true-crime podcast has arrived to dig into the mystery and force buried truths to the surface. But when charismatic host Pierce Landry vanishes and his burned-out van is discovered deep in the wilderness, the investigation takes a deadly new turn.

Sally is mad at him and Hermione, his feisty antique dealer friend, has gone missing. Other than that, life is good for Miles O'Malley as he splits his time between New York City and the small upstate town that has become his second home. Oh, except that a guy is after him because he thinks he's fooling around with his girlfriend. Then he finds a dead body in his cabin. Yeah, life is real good....

When a woman Clark Thomas has never seen before sits down across from him in his bookstore, she gives him an invitation to dinner . . . and murder. He takes the beautiful stranger up on her offer. Her father is the host. He is a retired Hollywood music composer and lover of puzzles. What Clark doesn’t know is that someone wants the host dead, and the host wants Clark to figure out who before it’s too late.

Kurz vor Karneval: Im Kottenforst bei Bonn wird eine verbrannte Leiche gefunden, daneben ein zurückgelassener Koffer. Kommissarin Melly Papen und Streifenpolizist Heinz Heckenbusch ermitteln: Es handelt sich um Lea Wilkens, die junge, hübsche Tochter eines örtlichen Landwirts. Also wieder ein Fall für Landwirtschaftskontrolleur Mombert Graf Gryn von Frenz! Bald stellt sich heraus, dass Lea im Internet alle Hüllen fallenließ - live vor der Kamera. Hat einer ihrer Zuschauer sie umgebracht? War jemand eifersüchtig? Mombert, Melly und Heinz ermitteln ...

Spätsommer, Erntezeit im Rheinland: Ein junger Landwirt wird gewaltsam aus seinem Traktor gezerrt. Kurze Zeit später findet man seine Leiche am sogenannten Siebenschuss, einer alten Landmarke mit Hasenrelief - versehen mit einer Ohrmarke für Schweine.

Mombert Graf Gryn von Frenz, schwarzes Schaf seiner adeligen Familie und von Beruf Landwirtschaftskontrolleur, will eigentlich mit Verbrechen und Ermittlungen nichts mehr am Hut haben. Doch dann wird im Kottenforst bei Bonn die Leiche einer Frau gefunden - und schnell gibt es einen Verdächtigen: Magnus Preuss, der Hausmeister eines nahegelegenen Tagungszentrums. Mombert kennt den Verdächtigen, da der nebenbei einen kleinen Bauernhof betreibt. Auf keinen Fall hat dieser sanftmütige Mann einen Mord begangen! Davon kann Mombert auch den gemütlichen Dorfpolizisten Heinz Heckenbusch überzeugen.

Mombert Gryn zu Frenz ist das schwarze Schaf seiner Familie. Obwohl als Sohn eines altehrwürdigen rheinischen Adelsgeschlechts geboren, arbeitet er als Agrarkontrolleur beim Landwirtschaftsamt Meckenheim. Ganz zum Leidwesen seiner Familie lebt er zudem in einem Bauwagen in der Nähe des Kottenforst. In diesem Wald stolpert Mombert auch mitten hinein in seinen ersten Mordfall, als auf einer Lichtung ein Bauer tot aufgefunden wird - angeblich vom Blitz erschlagen. Mombert merkt schnell, dass an der Sache etwas faul ist, und so begibt er sich heimlich auf Spurensuche.

Instant New York Times Bestseller “Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can’t-put-it-down entertainment.” — Stephen King The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family...