Résultats pour "Angelique" dans Détectives amateurs

After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be Louise Collange, a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take charge of a very special case. Her mother, a former ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, died last year after falling from her balcony, and Louise has a hunch she was pushed. Though hesitant at first, Mathias agrees to help her, sending them both headfirst into a deadly chain of events.

The Fallen Angels Book Club has only two requirements: the members must love books and have a white-collar criminal record. Hollis Morgan fits the bill. Left holding the bag in an insurance-fraud scheme concocted by her now ex-husband, she served her time and is trying to rebuild her life. All she wants is for the court to pardon her conviction so she can return to law school.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, THE 10TH DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERY - CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF RUTH 'My favourite current crime series' Val McDermid Dr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He's discovered...

It's the night of 12th November 2019. The worst flooding in 50 years hits the city of Venice. 85 per cent of La Serenissima is underwater. Gale force winds roar across the lagoon and along the narrow streets. And the body of Dr Jennifer Whiteread—a young British art historian, specialising in the depiction of angels in Venetian painting—is found floating in a flooded antique bookshop on the Street of the Assassins. As the local police struggle to restore order to a city on its knees, Nathan Sutherland sets out into the dark streets in an attempt to discover the truth.

In the small, quiet town where he lives alone, Everett Harrington has spent the last ten years haunted by the loss of his daughter, Rose. Her death was ruled an accident, but Everett has never been able to shake the feeling that there was more to the story—something dark and sinister hidden beneath the surface. On the anniversary of her death, a mysterious package arrives, containing the journals of a scientist whose revelations point to a chilling conspiracy involving illegal drug trials from a powerful pharmaceutical company.

Lucie Montgomery attends a Thanksgiving weekend party for friends and neighbors at Hawthorne Castle, an honest-to-goodness castle owned by the Avery family, the last great newspaper dynasty in America and owner of the Washington Tribune. During the party, Prescott Avery, the 95-year-old family patriarch offers to pay Lucie any price for a cache of 200-year-old Madeira that her great-great-uncle discovered hidden in the US Capitol in the 1920s. By the end of the party Lucie and her fiancé discover Prescott’s body lying in his wine cellar. Is one of the guests a murderer?

Mercy Allcutt's imagination is more exciting than her job as secretary to P.I. Ernie Templeton. As usual, she has nothing to do except gaze out the office window overlooking Pasadena and imagine the plots of stories she plans to write someday. Generally, when she watches the alley behind the Figueroa Building, she needs to imagine someone being strangled, but today was different. She calls the police to report the murder, but the corpse is gone before she hangs up the phone.

Tensions are rising in the run up to the island event of the year—the Vik Show. Not only has the secret recipe for Mrs Hay's peppermint slices been stolen, but someone has had the bad manners to leave a dead body in the distillery. And what does any of this have to do with the disappearance of Elsie the librarian? A perfect storm of past secrets and political conspiracy is brewing, and it's up to the local weight-loss group, Losers Club, to save the day.

A serial killer has resurfaced. Or is it a copycat killer in the north country woods this time around? The two grown children of the previous serial killer victim, and married park ranger, from Echoes of the Past return to battle the apparent cause of the suitcase killing spree, but appearances may be deceiving.

Zara Riddle signs up for a patch of land in the Wisteria Community Gardens. She's hoping for a bumper crop of pumpkins, but grows a dancing skeleton instead. That's not going to work in a pie. Soon she finds out that the only place more magical than Wisteria is the subterranean city below, the network of tunnels known as The Wilds.

Hollis Morgan married young to flee an unloving family and ended up in prison, paying the price for her charming husband’s embezzlement. After finally obtaining a California judicial pardon, Hollis has climbed the ladder from paralegal to probate attorney at a respected law firm in the Bay Area.

Der Himmel ist blau, Blut ist rot - die Walli ermittelt, denn der Apotheker ist tot. Der Fischlinger Ludwig ist tot! So viel Aufregung im sonst allzu beschaulichen Burglbach im Allgäu, das ist für Walli Schimmel eine willkommene Abwechslung. Also stürzt sich die exzentrische Rentnerin in die Ermittlungen - sehr zum Missfallen von Wolfi, ihrem leicht phlegmatischen Polizistensohn. Der glaubt nämlich zunächst an einen ganz natürlichen Tod: zu viel Schweinshaxe, zu wenig Bewegung. Doch Walli bleibt hartnäckig und stößt bald schon auf eine Spur.

Rescue Alaska is a small town in northern Alaska where visitors come to hike and ski. Harmony Carson is a lifelong resident who volunteers as a member of the local search and rescue team. Harmony has a unique gift which she often considers a curse. She is able to 'see' the individuals she is meant to help rescue, and more often than not she can feel their fear and their pain as well. Book 1 a longtime local sends an old friend a letter with a photo stating that if he should turn up dead at some point in the near future, the man in the photo is the one who killed him.

Penny and Jim are fair scunnered. Their wedding cruise is meant to be a dream come true—so why do their guests look ready to mutiny? Maybe it’s the surprise destination. Maybe it’s the storm trapping them at sea. Or maybe it’s the dead body that turns up before the cake’s even been cut. With Sergeant Wilson too seasick to investigate, it’s up to Losers Club to unmask the killer. But as excitement builds about a display of ancient Crown Jewels, believed lost for centuries, they discover that none of their fellow passengers are what they seem—although one of them looks awfully familiar.

The Fountain of Youth is a myth, isn't it? Kristi needs a break, somewhere away from the waters of Bimini, and George has the perfect location. George can't think of a better way to pass the time and relax than a little trip to Florida following the trail of the infamous and treacherous conquistador, Ponce De Leon.

En el corazón del edificio Parnaso, una mujer aparece ardiendo sin fuego. Su cuerpo, consumido por completo, se convierte en el centro de un enigma que desafía toda lógica. A partir de este hallazgo, comienza una investigación tan delirante como precisa, conducida por Patricia Olea, una detective marcada por un pasado brutal y una mente entrenada para detectar lo imposible. Pero Patricia no está sola. La acompaña el profesor Fuenmayor, un criminólogo tan excéntrico como brillante, cuya obsesión con los límites de la materia y la conciencia...

Shelby decides to clean out the second floor of the building which had been used by the previous owner as a storage area. While clearing out the large dusty space, she finds a stack of boxes with so much dust on them that she is certain that they'd been there for decades. Shelby opens to boxes and finds items left behind from the owner of the garment factory that had utilized the space half a century ago. During the course of sifting through the old treasures, Shelby finds a journal that appeared to have been left behind by a man who lived in the area in the 1960s and '70s.