Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

Chloe leaps from the frying pan into the fire when she arrives for a meeting with Digger, one of Josh's friends and a rival chef, and discovers a dead body instead. Digger died of smoke inhalation from a blaze that started in his kitchen. Unable to believe that an executive chef would allow a grease fire to get so out of control, Chloe starts an unofficial search for the murderer.

After months between gigs, Chloe Carter's dishy boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, has just landed his dream job: executive chef at Simmer, Boston's soon-to-be hottest new restaurant. As Josh preps for a New Year's Eve grand opening, Chloe, on winter break from grad school, hooks him up with Food for Thought, an annual charity fundraiser.

A former fashion photographer encounters murder and corruption in New Orleans. It's too hot to sleep. It's too hot to be up. This is New Orleans in the summer. And as dawn breaks on a sweltering July morning, André Derain awakens to a scream from his courtyard as a man is stabbed just below his window. Acting on impulse, Derain leaps out the window in the buff and chases the attacker down the alleyway, but the man with the knife gets away. By the time Derain returns to the courtyard, the victim has died.

It's a beautiful day in Greenwich Village, and for once Bedford Green is selling paintings. Business is booming, and this gossip columnist turned art dealer owes it all to his invaluable assistant, Sloane - who goes and spoils the fun by announcing that she's leaving on safari. Sloane is a Midwestern girl and has never laid eyes on any animal more exotic than a house cat, but she can't resist her uncle Dixon's invitation to visit Kenya to hobnob with everyone from the department-store king of Chicago to the prince of Wales.

Halfway between the United States and the Soviet Union, Iceland is one of the most strategic points in the Cold War and home to a NATO squadron that could wipe Moscow off the map in an instant. It's about to become the unwitting host for the most daring operation in military history. On the remote coast of this frostbound island, the Soviets are building a laser powerful enough to bring the United States to its knees.

Having an executive chef boyfriend guarantees Chloe Carter the best table at Simmer, Boston's hottest new restaurant, any night of the week. But the Back Bay foodie's incredible comped dinners are usually enjoyed without Josh, whose pressure-cooker job has taken over his life. The same can't be said of Leandra, the pretty blond Simmer server whose body was just found in a seafood delivery truck. The truck belongs to Owen, the fiancé of Chloe's best friend, Adrianna. And Owen has no alibi for the night Leandra was strangled with her apron strings and dumped in his truck.

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.