Résultats pour "Hell" dans Fiction historique

Matt found a way to erase his past regrets. He was an average guy who was pissing and moaning his way toward retirement. Like many people before him, he often wished things had gone differently for him. Be careful what you wish for!

"Stay the hell out of Fort Worth." Those were the last words uttered by a dying man who was the boomtown's most recent sheriff. Rail-thin and half starved, desperate cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice. Instead, Jess not only enters Fort Worth, he becomes the new sheriff, inheriting the body-riddled little slice of heaven called Hell's Half Acre, the wide-open, deadliest piece of real estate on the American frontier.

Im August 1881 wird Kriminalrat Gustav Heller in die Villa von Adele Blumfeld gerufen, um den plötzlichen Tod eines Teilnehmers der gerade stattgefundenen Séance aufzuklären. Heller glaubt keine Sekunde an Geister oder die übersinnlichen Kräfte der exzentrischen Gastgeberin. Doch das morbide Haus und vor allem das stumme und mit Narben übersäte junge Dienstmädchen scheinen ein Geheimnis zu hüten, dem der Kriminalrat auf den Grund gehen will. Nach weiteren mysteriösen Todesfällen beschließt Heller, selbst an einer Geisterbeschwörung teilzunehmen….

Gustav Heller, Kriminalrat der Königlichen Polizei in Dresden, reitet an einem Sommertag im Jahre 1879 die Elbe entlang, als ein plötzlicher Knall die Stille zerreißt. Auf dem Fluss ist der Kessel eines Frachtdampfers explodiert, Tote und Verletzte treiben im Wasser. Beherzt zieht Heller einen Schwerverletzten an Land. Wenig später führt ihn ein diffiziler Fall von Sabotage, Erpressung und Mord wieder an die Elbe: Zwei Dampfschiffreedereien kämpfen erbittert um die königliche Schifffahrtslizenz und schrecken auch nicht vor drastischen Mitteln zurück. Doch Hellers hartnäckige Nachforschungen erregen den Unwillen seines Vorgesetzten.

Hell - part mystery, part domestic meditation, part horror story - is a brilliantly eerie novel in which three households coexist in a single restless vision: a dollhouse; a dysfunctional family in 1950s Philadelphia; and the cottage home of Edwina Moss, a 19th-century expert on domestic management. While the inhabitants of the dollhouse are powerless to shape their destiny, the four members of the Philadelphia family dedicate themselves to mutual vigilance. Edwina Moss concedes domestic control to the imagination and, finally, to the spirit of Antonin Careme.

To start their new life together, Jamie Pratt and his young bride join a westward wagon train bound for the Rocky Mountains. They get as far as Helena when their unscrupulous wagon master deserts them, leaving them as good as dead in a godforsaken, blood-scorched land. The other settlers agree to set stakes where they are, but Jamie and his bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep into Sioux territory. They never come out the other side.

Miss Cecily Findlay practices proper etiquette, dances the waltz flawlessly, wears clothes of the latest fashion, and is a beauty in her own right. Even so, she'd never be received by the ton if not for her enormous dowry...which has attracted Flavion Nottingham, a spoiled and entitled earl. This so-called gentleman has beggared his estate and sees Cecily as the answer to all his problems. Most dastardly of all, he doesn't care if he shatters her dreams while executing his devious scheme.

I 1521 blev Christian II's datter, Christine, født og kort efter overladt til slægtninge ved det nederlandske hof. "Christine" er historien om en royal kvinde i en periode i historien, hvor kvinder havde magt, som det aldrig var set før. Placeret midt i det europæiske spil om magterne og...

Dresda, 1947: a due anni dalla fine della guerra la città è una terra desolata e piena di macerie sotto occupazione sovietica. Nel gelido inverno, la vita è dominata dalla carenza di alloggi, dalla fame e dalle malattie. Il commissario capo Max Heller viene chiamato sulla scena di un crimine nel quartiere Neustadt dalla neonata polizia popolare. Ma prima che possa avviare le indagini, il corpo del soldato dell'Armata Rossa pugnalato a morte viene portato via dai militari. Ciò che resta è una pozza di sangue rappreso e uno zaino contenente la testa mozzata di un uomo.

Dresda, novembre 1944: un brutale assassino terrorizza una città dilaniata dalla guerra. La popolazione geme sotto i bombardamenti, costretta a terribili privazioni, e gli allarmi bomba sono l'unica certezza nella vita di tutti i giorni. L'ispettore investigativo Max Heller viene convocato sulla scena di un crimine e si trova di fronte al corpo selvaggiamente martoriato di una donna, un'infermiera del vicino ospedale. Ben presto, le voci cominciano a girare: è il Demone, il killer che di notte si aggira tra le rovine.

Wenn man zwischen einer Grippe und der Behandlung durch die Großhexe Ophelia wählen muss, verliert die Hölle ihren Schrecken. Das jedenfalls ist Trulys Eindruck.

Dresden, 18. Juni 1953, ein Tag nach dem blutig niedergeschlagenen Arbeiteraufstand in der DDR: Max Heller wird zu einem Todesfall in einem Betrieb für Wärmeisolierungen gerufen. Dem dortigen Betriebsleiter wurden brutal die Atemwege mit Isolierwolle verstopft. Unter Mordverdacht gerät eine ehemalige Angestellte, die von sich selbst behauptet, eine frühere KZ-Aufseherin und jetzt Spionin für den Westen zu sein. Doch Heller glaubt ihr nicht. Zumal alle Angestellten des kleinen Betriebes hartnäckig die Aussage verweigern.

Running for your life is never easy. Doing it at age 16, after losing your family, your friends, and your home, with three-quarters of a priceless emerald parure sewn into the sleeves of a battered old Army greatcoat and your beloved city in flames behind you, is harder still. Why did I do it? Because I had no choice. The Red Army was knocking at Dresden’s door, and the Jewish family hiding in our cellars had been marked for transportation to the camps.

Schießereien, Auftragsmorde, organisierte Kriminalität: Die Rockerszene ist auch in Deutschland aggressiver und gefährlicher geworden. Was in den Sechzigerjahren mit einzelnen Chartern der Hells Angels begann, ist längst eine eigene Welt aus rivalisierenden Gruppen, die nicht nur im Dauerkonflikt mit der Polizei und den Behörden stehen, sondern auch mit der Konkurrenz. Ende der Neunziger veränderte sich die Szene stark.

Michael Park is everything a family and school would want: Excellent student, phenomenal athlete, straight laced, and tries to never get into trouble. However, at the peak of the Vietnam War, he is also the son of Korean immigrants and is accused of being a Chinese communist everyday, all the while trying to break free from traditional Korean family expectations so he can forge his own path.

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with a blazingly sexy, unapologetically feminist new series, Hell’s Belles, beginning with a bold, bombshell of a heroine, able to dispose of a scoundrel—or seduce one—in a single night. After years of living as London’s brightest...

Lawrence Shaw still has the reputation as the fastest gun alive. But since the death of his beloved Rosa, his shots have come out of a bottle. Then a friend gets Shaw a job helping a widow with her ranch, and Fast Larry sees the glimmer of a second chance. Unfortunately the Barrows Brothers Gang...

Hell on the Yellowstone follows Levi Cutter, a drifting cowboy who arrives in Miles City, Montana, during a rising conflict between powerful cattleman Orrin Blackwell and the rustler leader Colter Vance. When Levi rescues Clara Blackwell from a runaway carriage, he unexpectedly becomes entangled in the valley’s escalating violence and political tension.

The Marines called it Starvation Island. The Imperial Japanese Army called it the Island of Death. The battle for Guadalcanal, which began in August 1942 and took six months to complete, saw the 1st Marine Division effectively cut off and under constant siege with few supplies. Marked by hunger, disease, massed nighttime bayonet charges by the enemy, and constant shelling and bombing, the campaign proved a turning point in the war.

The greatest Western writers of the twenty-first century return to Fort Misery—where the lowliest dregs of the U. S. ARMY defend the driest patch of lawless desert against the gnarliest killers in the wild, wild West. Sometimes it takes a bad man with gun to stop another bad man with a gun...