Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

A back-alley murder carries André Derain from the streets of New Orleans to the sun-drenched hell of the Cayman Islands. It's quiet in the Garden District, and André Derain can't sleep. After a lifetime as a fashion photographer in New York and the French Quarter, he needs noise, excitement, action - and he's about to get more than he can handle. A call comes in from the New Orleans homicide department, tipping Derain off to a grisly shooting on Tchoupitoulas Street. He grabs his camera and charges out the door.

Reverend Dodd ist Vikar in einem sonnigen Fischerdorf an der Atlantikküste Cornwalls. Die Abende verbringt er damit, in seinem Lehnsessel Krimis zu schmökern. Gott bewahre!, dass der Schatten eines echten Verbrechens auf seine kleine Seegemeinde fällt. Doch der Frieden des Vikars wird in einer stürmischen Nacht empfindlich gestört, als der unbeliebte Richter Julius Tregarthan tot in seinem Haus aufgefunden wird.

Ein erfolgloser, von Skrupeln geplagter Pastor ist plötzlich fähig, die Menschen mit seinen Predigten zu begeistern. Ursache seiner wundersamen Verwandlung: Der Kirchenmann hat eine Todsünde begangen - Mord! Ein ebenso ungewöhnlicher wie authentischer Kriminalroman, geschrieben vom pastoralen Leiter der Kultur- und Universitätskirche St. Petri zu Lübeck, Dr. theol. Bernd Schwarze. Im Affekt schlägt Pastor Benedikt Theves einem gewalttätigen Ehemann, der ihm ausgerechnet in der Sakristei seiner Kirche ein abscheuliches Video zeigt, das schwere silberne Altarkreuz über den Schädel.

The second in this hilarious cozy mystery series features a woman who is a talent agent for showbiz animals and discovers that she has a talent herself: solving crimes. Kay Powell, theatrical agent to non-human animals, is babysitting - that is, birdsitting - her client, a parrot named Barney, on the set of his new TV show, Dead City. When the show’s charismatic star is shot in his trailer between scenes, the only eyewitness to the crime is - you guessed it - Barney.

Eine ungewöhnliche Heldin auf der Suche nach einer grausamen Wahrheit, rätselhaft, düster, trügerisch. Als Tierpräparatorin Felicitas Booth eine Kiste mit Erinnerungsstücken ihres Vaters entdeckt, gerät ihre Welt ins Wanken. War er doch nicht nur das unschuldige Mordopfer, für das sie ihn jahrzehntelang hielt? Was geschah auf jener Afrikaexpedition, die nur die Hälfte der Teilnehmer überlebte? Felicitas beschließt, sich der Wahrheit zu stellen - ohne zu ahnen, welche Folgen das für ihr Leben hat.

Mit Ende der Urlaubssaison verirren sich nur noch wenige Touristen in die idyllische Landschaft zwischen Ostsee und Schlei. Doch von Ruhe kann für Landarzt Jan Storm keine Rede sein. Beweist der ehemalige Soldat sonst eiserne Nerven, macht ihn die bevorstehende Geburt seines ersten Kindes ungewohnt nervös. Als ein Mädchen in Kontakt mit weißem Phosphor gerät, überschlagen sich in Brodersby die Ereignisse.

Wie an jedem anderen Sonntagmorgen auch verlässt der Verwaltungsbeamte Nikolas Nölting sein Haus in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Er winkt seiner Tochter Lily zu, schwingt sich aufs Fahrrad und fährt zu einer Bäckerei. Dort schießt er plötzlich aus heiterem Himmel um sich. Ein Mensch ist tot, zwei weitere verletzt - und Nikolas Nölting schweigt. Nöltings Anwalt Rocco Eberhardt steht vor einem Rätsel: Welches Motiv könnte der unauffällige Familienvater für eine solche Tat gehabt haben?

The Drama School at Bowmouth College is staging its annual Halloween masquerade, known for being a little unusual. Drama students are known for being mischievous and high-strung, but this year things are a little more serious: Sarah stumbles upon a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, and then events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed.

Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone Mill, Pennsylvania. Corporate success didn't bring true happiness, but Rachel also knows she can never be Amish again. Instead she runs a B&B and tries to help her community in ways they can't help themselves. But now a gruesome discovery has been made on her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture - the body of prominent Englisher businessman Willy O'Day. Aaron refuses to hire a lawyer, trusting his innocence, and his faith, to see him through. Rachel isn't so sure, especially given the long public feud between the two men.

Spring has come to Meg Corey's apple orchard—and it's quickly becoming a killer season. Just as she's getting the hang of managing the two-hundred-year-old orchard she's inherited, the dead body of a local organic farming activist is found in her springhouse. And the only thing that's sprung is a murder accusation - against her...

Despite the wealth of scholarship that pretends to offer proof, archaeologist Donald Gladstone knows there is no solid evidence that a real King Arthur ever existed. When the beguiling Julia Llewellyn, a linguist working on the Oxford English Dictionary, joins Donald on the trail of clues, their fervent enthusiasms, unusual gifts, and unfulfilled yearnings prove a combustible mix. Their impassioned search for truths amid the secret places and half-forgotten legends of the British countryside, must ultimately transform them - and all our understandings of the origins of Arthur.

The new exhibit at the Philadelphia children's museum, Let's Play, isn't meant to be shocking - but when one of the installers is zapped with a fatal electrical charge, it's up to Nell to put her detective skills on display.

When her son's Hasidic babysitter vanishes, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum travels from her havoc-filled home in Los Angeles to a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn. In search of answers. In pursuit of justice. And in desperate need of a big, long nap.

Einmal im Jahr gönnt sich der Koch und Gourmet Xavier Kieffer einen Ausflug nach Italien. Gemeinsam mit seinem Schulfreund, dem Wein- und Ölhändler Alessandro Colao, fährt er in die Toskana, unternimmt Weinproben und fährt einige Tage darauf mit einem Laster voller Wein und Öl zurück nach Luxemburg.Diesmal geht der Trip allerdings gehörig schief. Sein Freund versetzt ihn und Kieffer findet heraus, dass Alessandro bereits Tage zuvor ohne ihn nach Italien aufgebrochen ist - und seither hat niemand etwas von ihm gehört.

Amateur sleuth Sloan Krause returns in The Pint of No Return, another delightful cozy by Ellie Alexander - this time investigating a movie star who's murdered not long after arriving in Leavenworth, Wash., to film his latest project. No other festival compares to Oktoberfest in Leavenworth, Washington. The whole town is buzzing with excitement over this year’s activities and eagerly awaiting Nitro’s latest offering, Cherrywizen, made with locally sourced cherries. But local brewmaster Sloan Krause is tapped out.

When an undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees prostitute Lizzie Hardwicke trade Ma Farley’s Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress the theatre on Drury Lane, it becomes clear quite quickly - what goes on in the wings is much more intriguing than the theatrics being played out onstage.... Soon Lizzie is once again thrown together with the handsome Inspector Will Davenport when a high profile investor is brutally hanged at centre stage and Lizzie discovers the body.

In the tradition of Philippa Gregorys smart, transporting fiction comes this tale of dark suspense, love, and betrayal, featuring two star-crossed sisters, one lost and the other searching.Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raised by a father who treated her as if she were his son. While her beautiful and reckless sister, May, pushes the limits of propriety in their small English town, Hannah harbors her own secret: their father has given her an education forbidden to women.

In the newest mystery from the national best-selling author of Murder in Merino, the sleuthing skills of Izzy Chambers Perry and the Seaside Knitters are tested as death mars the beginning of the school year....

Late summer blooms in beautiful Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and while a harvest thrives, Izzy Chambers Perry and the other Seaside Knitters will need to cast on their sleuthing skills to save a local farm. Unfortunately, finding a killer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack....

Though they share a manor house, the Paradines are not close, and their patriarch does nothing to discourage the petty jealousies that divide wealthy families. A cold figure, James Paradine prefers work to his relations, but on New Year's Eve he convenes the household. Valuable plans have been stolen from his office, and only one person could be to blame. He knows the culprit's name and gives the thief until midnight to come forward.