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.

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.

When Yvette Dubois's husband inherits a remote chateau, she reluctantly leaves Lyon behind – only for Armand to abandon her there to manage the vineyard alone. Everything changes the day she hears a mysterious knocking in the library. Behind a tapestry, she discovers a hidden tunnel – along with two frightened orphans. Yvette vows to continue the important work, wanting to honour the legacy. But Armand insists their safety depends on appeasing the occupiers.

BREAKING NEWS - URSHALL UNITED FC OWNER DIES AT DREW CASTLE! Details are sketchy at this stage, but it is believed businessman Ben Rhodes (38) was found dead in his bathroom at the king’s Scottish home by his twin brother Max, where the pair were guests at a shooting party hosted by Lord...

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Winter 1934. Kitty Underhay is enjoying a night off from wedding planning as she attends a charity ball at the home of Lady Eliza Foxley. She’s excited to see her father, roguish Edgar Underhay, who is also a guest in the house. But the evening of cocktails and waltzing turns into a dance macabre when Edgar finds their lively, fun-loving hostess dead, strangled by her own silk stocking.

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.

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.

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.” —Peng Shepherd “Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.” —Ms, Magazine A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in...

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?

Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. The picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry has been rocked by a series of burglaries, with dark suspicions over who is responsible. A discovery at the scene of the crime in the home of Bunburry's favourite senior citizens, Liz and Marge, leads amateur sleuth Alfie to fear the worst. He decides that this time, the matter should be left to the proper authorities.

Kitty Underhay hopes for plain sailing as she caters a 21st birthday party for the chief constable’s daughter aboard a luxury paddle steamer. So her heart sinks when she learns that the man her fiancé Matthew has been tailing on orders from Whitehall, Gunther Freiburg, is aboard. And she’s even more horrified when she steps below deck to discover Gunther, dead in the engine room. One of the chief constable’s party must be responsible for his demise, but who, and why?