Résultats pour "Helena" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

La Brigade Para a beau être petite, notre influence grandit. J'ai gagné le respect des vampires et des loups-garous de Londres et je crois que je sais enfin ce que je fais. Mais j'ignore encore ma véritable nature. Malheureusement, je n'ai pas trop le temps de me poser cette question, j'ai quelques petits soucis à gérer. Déjà, j'essaie d'éviter Lord Horvath, le beau chef vampire aux yeux noirs, qui semble déterminé à approfondir (beaucoup) notre relation. Il y a aussi Devereau Webb, le chef d'un petit gang, et son cadeau mystérieux qui ne m'inspire rien de bon.

Devon, 1938. Kitty Underhay is enjoying a well-deserved rest when her very upset cousin Hattie suddenly bursts in. She sobs that the gentleman she had been seeing, Richard Westonholme, seems to have vanished, taking all of her jewellery with him. As Hattie describes Richard, he sounds eerily familiar, and Kitty and her husband Matt board a ship in hot pursuit–only to find him lying in a lifeboat…dead.

Rencontrez Kitt Hartley, bibliothécaire passionnée, buveuse de thé invétérée et détective à ses heures... Kitt est bibliothécaire à York. Fan de romans policiers, elle aime aussi beaucoup le Lady Grey, son chat Iago et sa meilleure amie Evie, une masseuse aux doigts de fée fan de vintage. Côté cœur, en revanche, c'est plutôt morne plaine. Une vie paisible, donc, jusqu'à ce que l'on retrouve l'ex d'Evie assassiné, un stylo plume planté dans le cœur. Si tout indique que son amie est la coupable, Kitt ne doute pourtant pas de son innocence.

Set in neon-drenched Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1987, just two years after a plane carrying four mafia-affiliated law-firm partners exploded over the Atlantic along with the cushy lives of their once wealthy wives.

London, 1942. Miss Jane Treen is at her desk in Whitehall sipping a strong coffee when she receives an urgent message about her colleague, codebreaker Arthur Cilento. He’s in danger in Devon, and Jane needs to get there sharpish. But before her bags are properly unpacked, the local teashop owner in Arthur’s village is found lying amidst the scones and teacakes… and she’s dead.

Devon, 1937. Kitty Underhay is enjoying a crisp winter morning walk with her best friend, Alice, and her fiancé, Robert, who have recently bought the mysterious Midwinter Farm. The previous owner vanished one night, his dinner still on the table and the front door left wide open. But as work is carried out on the farm, a body is found in the grounds. How was the man murdered—and who is responsible?

England, 1941. When Jane Treen is summoned to her boss’s office at the end of a long day, she smooths down her tweed skirt and makes them both another strong pot of coffee. Brigadier Remmington-Blythe slides a folded copy of the evening newspaper towards her, with one small article circled in red ink. A body has been found on an English beach in the little seaside town where she grew up, and he wants her to investigate. Jane is used to managing secret agents and spies, but she is now part of The Secret Detective Agency, England’s answer to solving the most mysterious murders.

The girl emerged from the woods, barely alive. Her story was beyond belief. But it was true. Every dreadful word of it. Days later, another desperate escapee is found - and a pattern is emerging. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then faced with a terrible choice: Kill or be killed. Would you rather lose your life or lose your mind? Eeny Meeny is an electrifying debut, with the nerve-shredding intensity of Saw and Along Came a Spider.

London, 1941. Miss Jane Treen is faced with another mysterious disappearance within her Secret Detective Agency’s team. Tabitha Moore, a government typist, was on her way to meet Jane with vital information about some secret codes. But she didn’t turn up for work and has seemingly vanished without trace. Then Jane and her colleague, handsome codebreaker Arthur Cilento, receive a call: a body has been found, and it matches Tabitha’s description…

På en strand uden for Göteborg finder man en plasticsæk med parterede dele af en mandekrop. Det eneste spor politiet har at gå efter er en speciel, asiatisk udseende tatovering på ligets brystkasse. Efterforskningen af det brutale mord fører Irene Huss til København, hvis rå og barske sider den pæne svenske kriminalinspektør får et par chokerende smagsprøver på. Irene trækkes ind i en fremmed og brutal verden af vold, sex og løgn, der udgør den fuldstændige modsætning til hendes trygge dagligliv med mand, hund og teenagedøtre.

Begleite Kriminalkommissarin Helena Hansen durch ihre spannenden Fälle in Augsburg - präsentiert in einem packenden Audiobook-Sammelband von Ulrike Vögl, bestehend aus Nackabatsch mit Todesfolge, Mordsplatschari und Net ganz bacha. Von Nord nach Süd versetzt, versucht die Hamburgerin Helena sich nicht nur an die Sprachbarriere zu gewöhnen, sondern auch einen Mord zu lösen. Mit jeder weiteren Geschichte gerät sie tiefer in das Web der Ermittlungen - eine ermordete Leiche im Riesenrad und ein mysteriöser Todesfall stören die Ruhe ihrer neuen Heimat.

Helen Binney projected a powerful image as the former governor's wife, and she's not about to let a little thing like illness force into doing anything less now. While her pushy nieces think she's at death's door, her handsome lawyer friend thinks she's a hot magnet for trouble...and her new gal-pals think she's a brilliant amateur detective! When those new gals give her an interesting project, Helen can't refuse proving her usefulness to the nay-sayers in her life.

June 1933. Independent, young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. But when several rooms are broken into and searched, including Kitty’s own, she quickly realizes that something out of the ordinary is afoot at the hotel. Soon, rumors are flying in the cozy town that someone is on the hunt for a stolen ruby. A ruby that Kitty’s mother may well have possessed when she herself went missing during the Great War.

At home in Devon, Kitty is attending a ball at the very grand Markham Hall. With celebrations in full swing and everyone kitted out in their glad rags, Kitty and Matt enjoy the champagne. But the next morning, the party feels well and truly over when Kitty stumbles across a body while out walking her dog, Bertie. The maid, Agnes, is dead, and everyone at Markham Hall is a suspect…

Paris, 1937. Kitty Underhay, with a croissant in hand and her handsome husband Matt by her side, is soaking up the delightfully Parisian charms of the French capital. Kitty attends a fashion show where she is enamoured by the dazzling gowns, but the afternoon takes a very sour turn when one of the models, Simone Belliste, is found dead with a pair of razor sharp tailoring scissors nearby.

When her boss, James Langton, is almost fatally injured while pursuing a ruthless gang, Detective Anna Travis must put her own career on hold as she nurses him through his intense frustration and desperation to bring his would-be murderer to justice. Then Anna is assigned to a different case...

Un jour de fin d'été, sur une plage des Cornouailles, Olivia, trois ans, disparaît. Effondrés, ses parents Maggie et Colin attendent en vain que l'Océan leur restitue le corps de l'enfant. Quelques semaines plus tard, non loin de là, c'est la rentrée des classes pour Hailey, cinq ans. Jennifer s'en fait une fierté mais depuis quelque temps, sa petite fille est distante et craintive, si bien que Jennifer se laisse parfois déborder par la nervosité. D'autant que son mari est absent, qu'elle affronte seule une nouvelle grossesse, et que certaines bribes de son passé lui reviennent comme enveloppées de brouillard.

Winter, 1936. Kitty receives an unexpected telegram just before Christmas saying that her father in New York is seriously ill. She and her husband Matt swiftly set out for America and, after a fraught ocean crossing, they arrive to discover he is much improved. Kitty decides to make the most of her visit by taking in the sights and attending a costume party thrown by her father’s friend, Mrs Dangerfield.

England, 1936. On a clear autumn day, Kitty and her mischievous spaniel Bertie take a drive to a nearby village. After a long walk in the rolling country hills and lunch in a pretty tearoom, what could be nicer than to buy a couple of bottles of local cider for her husband—and partner-in-crime solving—Matt? Instead, she finds a body in the orchard… Kitty is shocked to discover Titus Blake dead, crushed by his own cider press.

Under the Mediterranean sun, a drama begins in a café in Málaga. For Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter, but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier, a stranger to the deadly world of espionage, must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent. Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape, he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust …