Résultats pour "Maria" dans Détectives amateurs

Ils espéraient vivre une semaine de rêve, sous les Tropiques... Mais... Les deux journalistes Colombe Deschamps et Jérôme Bastaro s'envolent pour la Guadeloupe, une semaine en bungalow qui revêt toutes les apparences d'un séjour idyllique, en compagnie d'un petit groupe de touristes. Mais la mort s'invite aux portes du domaine. Insoupçonnable et implacable... Ils n'ont pourtant rien vu venir alors que la solution se trouvait sous leurs yeux... seront-ils confrontés au crime parfait ?

Carlos was walking down the street minding his own business. It's something he tried very hard to do. Minding his own business, that is. That and staying under the radar. But what he saw, he couldn't ignore. A little girl was being dragged toward the open door of a van. The girl resisted. The kidnapper slapped her to the ground.

Eine Mörderin auf der Flucht. Brünhilde Blum wacht eines Tages in einem Albtraum auf. Einer der fünf Menschen, die sie umbringen musste, taucht plötzlich wieder auf. Bei einer Exhumierung auf einem Innsbrucker Friedhof werden in einem Sarg zwei Köpfe und vier Beine gefunden. Nur eine Person kommt als Täterin infrage: die Bestatterin, die die Toten damals eingebettet hat. Blum muss fliehen, und sie muss ihre Kinder zurücklassen.

Spring has come to the abbey, and the community is busily preparing for the May Day weekend and the arrival of Boy Scouts who will hold their annual camp on the abbey grounds. When a Boy Scout named Antoine is sent home in disgrace, Fr. Gabriel accompanies him to his house, which has become the scene of a violent crime. Antoine’s father, Charles, has been found dead, apparently killed during a botched burglary.

Blum ist Bestatterin. Doch plötzlich gerät dieses Leben durch den Unfalltod ihres Mannes, eines Polizisten, aus den Fugen. Blum trauert, will sich aber mit ihrem Schicksal nicht abfinden. Durch Zufall findet sie heraus, dass mehr hinter dem Unfall ihres Mannes steckt, dass fünf einflussreiche Menschen seinen Tod wollten.

Una nuova indagine per Maria Viani, la biologa in pensione appassionata di gialli. Questa volta, un assurdo delitto interrompe l'escursione con il nipotino Walter alla ricerca del lupo appenninico.Nonostante la polizia, grazie a prove schiaccianti, abbia arrestato il presunto assassino, Maria Viani non crede alla sua colpevolezza e inizia una personale indagine parallela. Collaborando con l’avvocato dell’accusato e con l’aiuto del brigadiere Croce, suo buon amico, scava nella vita della vittima alla ricerca dei motivi del suo assassinio. Strappata alla quiete della vita di campagna, Maria risolverà il caso con un finale alla Nero Wolfe.

Maria Viani, biologa in pensione e detective per passione, rispolvera una serie di efferati crimini compiuti 500 anni prima. I colpi di scena si susseguono in quella che si rivelerà la sua indagine più pericolosa. Maria Viani trascorre l'inverno frequentando la biblioteca civica alla ricerca di documenti sulla storia della Repubblica di Genova. In maniera del tutto fortuita le capita tra le mani il verbale di un processo per duplice omicidio, avvenuto nel centro storico nel 1550. Protagonista un ricco artigiano della seta genovese, condannato a morte.

Un nuovo enigma per Maria Viani, ex biologa con il pallino per le storie con delitto. Maria Viani coglie l’occasione di un lungo viaggio in macchina con il marito, per parlargli di un episodio accadutole negli anni Cinquanta, quando era una bambina e abitava nella piccola cittadina di Varazze. Racconta di un’anziana guaritrice che viene trovata morta nella sua cucina. Il fatto è liquidato dai carabinieri come incidente. Ma la piccola Maria non è convinta e, aiutata dal nonno, indaga. Riuscirà a scoprire cosa è successo veramente? E, ai giorni nostri, dove stanno andando Maria e suo marito?

Nonna Maria, “one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen), dodges assassins and hunts for hidden treasure in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra. As Nonna Maria’s longtime pal and sometimes colleague, Captain...

Sposata da poco con Luigi XVI, Maria Antonietta è già annoiata dal suo nuovo ruolo. Merletti e fronzoli non sono certo sufficienti a intrattenerla e a riempire le sue giornate. Quando però viene a sapere del furto dei gioielli della Contessa du Barry, decide di darsi da fare e sviluppare nuove abilità, questa volta come detective. Per il bene della missione, assegna a Rose, una modista, e Léonard, un parrucchiere, l'improbabile ruolo di spie.

Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family's Astoria, Queens catering hall into becoming the borough's premiere party site, and nothing could make her happier—except her boyfriend proposing. There's just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way.

Mein Name ist Nele. Ich fürchte, ich habe meine Schwester getötet. Doch lasst mich von vorne beginnen: Vor einigen Tagen habe ich einen faszinierenden Mann kennengelernt. Severin gefiel mir von der ersten Sekunde an, obwohl ihn eine Aura umgab, von der ich mich bedroht fühlte. Meine Schwester Jella warnte mich gleich vor ihm. Dabei war sie ihm nie begegnet. Oder kannte sie ihn in Wirklichkeit doch? Was verbarg sie vor mir? Ich durchstöberte die Unterlagen unseres Vaters, stieß dabei immer wieder auf Jellas Namen und begriff, dass auch er mir all die Jahre etwas verschwiegen hatte.

In this third title in the Father Gabriel Mystery series, the detective priest is less than pleased to find himself the reluctant guest at a wealthy local family's Christmas party. Only the excellent - and probably black-market - food softens the horror of meeting the odious Victor Gladstone, veteran reporter, ardent anti-clerical, and the only witness to a war-time massacre no one wishes to hear about. When Victor is found dead on the Martin estate the next morning, the apparent victim of an unfortunate accident, Gabriel once again finds himself drawn into the mystery.

The Euganean Hills golf community in northern Italy is a golfer's paradise. With a perpetual smell of freshly cut grass, rolling green plains, and bright blue skies, it seems nothing could go wrong for the tight-knit group that lives there. But the normally laid-back residents are shaken to their cores when one of their own turns up at the club brutally murdered. After discovering his friend's body, investigative journalist Riccardo Ranieri makes it his mission to track down the perpetrator of the heinous crime.

In the second installment of Maria DiRico's new Catering Hall Mystery series, Mia Carina is back in the borough of Queens, in charge of the family catering hall Belle View Banquet Manor, and keeping her nonna company. But some events - like murder at a shower - are not the kind you can schedule....

After her philandering husband's boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she's got a whole new life - including some amateur sleuthing...Mia is starting work at Belle View, her father's catering hall, a popular spot for weddings, office parties, and more. Soon she's planning a bachelor party for a less-than-gentlemanly groom. But it goes awry when the gigantic cake is wheeled in and a deadly surprise is revealed.

Belle View quickly becomes the site of a sea of wanna-be goombahs and phony girlfriends, and some of Mia's friends insist on getting in on the action. The production company owner and his executive producer ex-wife—who's also very minor British royalty—have assembled a motley crew that does as much infighting and backstabbing as the on-screen "talent." Even so, it's a shock when a dead body is found in the pool house of a local mansion rented by the show . . .

A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a different world lurking just...

Mia's busy with a full schedule of events at the family business - among them an over-the-top Nativity-themed first birthday party and a sweet 16 for a teen drama queen. But her personal life is even more challenging. Her estranged mother has returned - and her lifelong friend Jamie has discovered a shocking secret about his past. He's so angry that he starts hanging out with Lorenzo, who claims to be his long-lost brother - even after it becomes clear that Lorenzo's story is as fake as a plastic Christmas tree.

Il 1992, a Genova, non è un anno qualunque. Sono trascorsi esattamente cinquecento anni da quando Cristoforo Colombo – uno dei suoi cittadini più illustri – ha toccato per la prima volta le sponde dell’America. La città è in subbuglio, presa com’è dai preparativi di una grande commemorazione, che attirerà frotte di turisti. Maria Viani è una biologa col pallino per le storie di delitti. Una sera, passeggiando per Capo Santa Chiara, si imbatte in una vecchia villa dall’aspetto decadente ma estremamente affascinante.