Résultats pour "Jane" dans Détectives amateurs

Épuisée par vingt-cinq ans de jonglage entre vie de couple, famille et boulot, Charlotte, la cinquantaine assumée, décide de quitter Paris et les siens pour aller voir si l'herbe est plus verte ailleurs. Sans rompre complètement les ponts avec Romain, son mari resté à Paris, elle s'installe, seule et sur un coup de tête, au Bourguet, un petit village du Gers. La rénovation de sa nouvelle demeure et son petit chaton occupent cette néorurale, amatrice de bons crus, autant que ses dossiers en télétravail.

Le chocolat, c'est excellent contre les déceptions sentimentales. C'est l'excuse parfaite pour la gourmande Charlotte, car justement, par un merveilleux hasard, Elio Giambone, artiste-chocolatier, vient d'ouvrir une boutique à quelques kilomètres de Bourguet, dans le petit village de Fourcès. Ses créations sont si belles que les clients accourent de toute la région et de bien au-delà pour goûter à ses trésors. Une aubaine pour l'artisan qui profite de cet engouement pour annoncer une grande chasse aux œufs pour le dimanche de Pâques.

It’s autumn and with crisp frosty weather and the leaves as colourful as they've ever been, Olivia and Jago are nestling into their life in Penbartha. Until local resentment about incomers and second home ownership is ignited by what seems to be an increasingly militant action group. A violent death makes the situation even more sinister. Maybe Penbartha isn't the happy place Olivia thought it was? Is the discontent really about second homes or is someone exploiting a well-supported cause in order to pursue a much more personal agenda?

Jane Stuart is a widowed young mother and literary agent with a knack for solving mysteries. Winky, her tortoiseshell cat, has a nose for trouble. In Missing Marlene, they team up to solve the mystery of a missing nanny who may have met with foul play. The last thing a working mom like Jane...

Erin Coleridge's used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England, is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society's monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder with extreme prejudice when president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably, but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target? 

Septembre. Les derniers rayons de soleil caressent les vignes de Gascogne, mais Charlotte est trop occupée pour apprécier le paysage. Le nez dans les bouquins de grammaire et les méthodes de langue, elle démarre une nouvelle carrière ! La voilà professeur d'Allemand dans un institut de Condom, tous les mercredis. Lorsque le prof de FLE est retrouvé mort dans sa salle de classe, une nouvelle enquête commence et les suspects sont légion.

The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. Will Thursday find her happy ending? Swindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final adventure: 'Dark Reading Matter' and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are too...

Charlotte pensait revenir à Fribourg pour une seule chose : enterrer sa mère. Mais au centre pour seniors Bella Vita, un détail cloche : quatre amies, quatre morts par arrêt cardiaque en moins d'un mois. Entre les thés partagés et les petites phrases venimeuses, Charlotte remonte le fil... et déterre un secret enfoui depuis cinquante ans, dont certains préféreraient qu'il le reste.

After playing a TV sleuth for years, Rita Martin retires to the sleepy town of Frantham-on-Sea. Here on the Dorset coast, she runs her own immaculate guest house, and life is blissfully quiet. But then a few doors down, harmless old Mrs. Freer is bludgeoned to death, and Rina can’t help but be drawn into the mystery. Mrs. Freer’s home was ransacked, but this was no ordinary burglary. Who knew the old lady kept a gun stashed under her pillow? And who wanted it badly enough to kill?

Anissa Laurent is a ghost—a master of deception, a woman who has slipped through the cracks of the underworld. Untraceable. Untouchable. Unclaimed. Until me. I made it my life’s mission to find her, drag her back where she belongs, and punish her for her betrayal. I traced every false identity until I found her, but I took my time. I studied the way she breathes, the way she moves, what she loves, and what she hates. She thought she could run. She thought she could hide. She thought she could get away with betraying my family. But I’m not a man who lets go of what’s mine.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Maple Grange es el lugar perfecto para retirarse entre los residentes de Merrywell. Pero cuando una investigación de asesinato se desarrolla en sus terrenos, ¡Violet Brewster debe desempolvar sus habilidades de detective una vez más! Violet...

After achieving her lifelong dream of solving a murder, bringing a killer to justice, and proving she is not, in fact, a morbid creep, Beatrice Steele feels like everything is finally falling into place. She's traded her etiquette-obsessed community of Swampshire for the big city of London...

Lyla Moody loves her sleepy little town of Sweet Mountain, Georgia. She likes her job as a receptionist for her uncle's private investigative firm, her fellow true-crime obsessed Jane Doe members are the friends she's always wanted, and her parents just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. But recently, with her best friend Melanie on vacation and her ex-boyfriend and horrible cousin becoming an item and moving in next door to her, her idyllic life is on the fritz. The cherry on top of it all is finding Carol, a member of the club, dead and shoved into a suitcase.

Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she's already traveled and planted a garden. She's organized her photos, her recipes, and her spices. The statistics suggest she has at least a few more decades ahead of her, so she better find something to do...After Jane helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to spread around her bridge club - and then around all of West Cambridge, Massachusetts - that she's the go-to girl for situations that need discreet fixing. 

Jane Darrowfield is using her retirement years to work as a professional busybody, with most of her business coming from her West Cambridge, Massachusetts, community. This time her client is right next door.... Megan, who's purchased the house next to Jane's, needs some help from her snooping neighbor. Megan's been having blackouts, hearing voices - and feeling like someone's following her. Are these symptoms of an illness - or signs that she's in danger?

Claudia Lin--mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English major--has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency for chronically online New Yorkers who want to know if their prospective partners are telling the truth. Unfortunately, along...

Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls – and that she's just been stealth-recruited...

Murder at the Village Festival, a new HQ Digital book, full description to follow when available...

Hampshire, inverno del 1798. Il Natale è alle porte, ma alla canonica di Steventon l'allegria sembra rimasta intrappolata nel gelo. Con i fratelli lontani e troppe serate davanti al camino, Jane Austen teme che le feste si riducano a un infinito susseguirsi di tè, sbadigli e canti stonati. Finché non inciampa in uno scheletro ben nascosto in cantina. Altro che tombola di famiglia: finalmente qualcosa di davvero interessante!

In der malerischen Stadt Fair Haven, Connecticut, findet Maggie Bell ihre Berufung in der kleinen Buchhandlung. Doch als ihr Chef stirbt, wird ihr Leben von Joshua Whitfield, dessen eigenwilligen Sohn, auf den Kopf gestellt. Sein Plan, einen Teil des Buchladens in ein Café umzuwandeln und Bücher über Vampire und Liebesromane zu verkaufen, entsetzt Maggie. Als ein Elektriker während der Renovierung des Ladens ermordet wird und Joshua der Hauptverdächtige ist, muss Maggie ihre Bedenken beiseiteschieben und versuchen, seine Unschuld zu beweisen.