Résultats pour "The Grimmer" dans Fiction criminelle

Christmas in Wensleydale is just around the corner, and a beautiful blanket of snow covers the fells. But then a blizzard hits, and everyone knows that a white Christmas in the Dales spells danger for farmers and remote communities. In the town of Hawes there is little festive cheer as the snow closes in, the Christmas fair is cancelled, and the generator goes missing from the market hall. Then the local food bank is broken into.

Als im Bayrischen Wald die schrecklich zugerichtete Leiche des kleinen Benedikt Richter entdeckt wird, sendet das LKA München Hauptkommissarin Katja Strömer in die Region, um den Mord an dem Jungen aufzuklären. Vor langer Zeit verließ die Kommissarin gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter die Gegend um Altschönau und schwor sich damals, nie wieder einen Fuß in die winzige Gemeinde zu setzen. Ein Blick auf das Foto des toten Kindes reicht allerdings aus, um Katja in die Vergangenheit zu katapultieren, denn der Killer, der Benedikt umgebracht hat, scheint derselbe zu sein, der vor langer Zeit neun Kinder tötete und bestialisch verstümmelte.

Tensions run high in the Dales when dark secrets are exposed. Can Harry and his team uncover the malicious mind intent on making sure bad deeds never go unpunished?

ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE . . . DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime stories, the...

Harry Grimm views change with a wary eye. But as the usually steadfast boss struggles with upheavals among his team, he answers a call about a suspiciously abandoned camper. And he soon discovers its owners are a newlywed couple whose lottery winnings have earned them an obsessive stalker.

Harry Grimm is starting to feel like a local–almost. But when his quiet happiness is interrupted by a confused 80-year-old detectorist claiming to have seen Medieval knights fighting in a nearby ruined castle, the chief inspector is forced to investigate the bizarre claims. However, his focus is soon split to a second case when a teen and her boyfriend disappear without a trace.

DCI Harry Grimm smells trouble brewing. As the chief inspector and his team prepare for a harsh winter storm, a call comes in from an old pal that a remote PI training session in the Dales he is attending has abruptly ended in a suspicious death. And while the gruff detective struggles through a blizzard to reach the crime scene, the residents of a nearby house come to a fatal end.

Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm has the keys to hope. Excited but nervous over claiming his new house, he’s tying himself even tighter to his adopted community. But he can’t contain his horrified surprise when a mutilated corpse in the lounge makes him the owner of a gruesome crime scene.

DCI Harry Grimm is still grappling with the Yorkshire Dales custom of eating cheese with cake. But the seasoned big-city cop has more than enough experience getting pulled out of bed in the middle of the night for the grisliest crimes. So the gruesome early-hour discovery of a woman’s savaged remains on the bleakly beautiful terrain has the detective keen to slam an ugly killer behind bars. But when the prime suspect goes missing and Grimm reworks the scene, he fears he sees signs of meticulous military planning and a culprit with a long list of victims.

North Yorkshire, England. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is reluctantly easing into life in the dales. As he gradually acclimatizes to the slower pace of the countryside while he awaits a return to the city, he’s called out to inspect a farmer’s crushed body. And despite the doctor on site declaring it a tragic mishap, the seasoned police officer rolls up his sleeves when evidence points to foul play. With a mysterious clue the only connection and the not-so-quiet village in self-imposed lockdown, the city-bred cop hunts for a link lethal enough to lead to murder.

DCI Harry Grimm is settling into the rhythms of Yorkshire. It’s easy to keep dodging discussions about the future when he’s called to a crime scene with a body that’s missing both hands. Identifying the victim as a city property developer who moved to the countryside, Grimm links him to a recent meeting about the affordable housing crisis. And learning the deceased man had angered too many locals to count, the determined detective and his team labor to eliminate an endless list of suspects.

Detective Harry Grimm can’t catch a break. When his much-needed vacation is interrupted by a call reporting a decomposed corpse, he races home to examine the gruesome remains. Learning the young woman was tortured, he’s stunned when the peaceful countryside site explodes, destroying evidence and causing more death. Uncovering clues from the victim’s car, Grimm struggles to keep up with a cunning killer when he discovers yet another body.

Detective Harry Grimm is reaching another milestone in the Dales. As he completes the purchase of his new house, his plans for moving in are disrupted when a trespasser falls into a grisly calculated trap and bleeds out. Tracking back to a recent violent confrontation in a local pub, Grimm and his team assemble a long list of suspects. But when a principal lead disappears in a potentially murderous payback, he fears it’s the start of an all-out slaughter across his idyllic countryside.

Detective Harry Grimm is a worried man. When a group of vigilante locals start patrolling the Dales in response to a recent spate of crimes, he is forced to warn them off. Things only get more complicated when he is called out to multiple crime scenes—each with plenty of blood but no bodies. Very soon, though, body parts start turning up. Delivered in a way that echoes a local poem and an old-but-grisly village ceremony. Faced with the bloody evidence in front of him, Grimm soon realizes that his worst fears have come true: someone has already taken the law into their own hands.

Ein besonderer Kriminalfall für die Ermittlerin Alina Grimm von Bestsellerautor Alexander Hartung. In ihrer neuen Rolle als Privatermittlerin erhält Alina Grimm Post von einem Journalisten. Doch als sie mit dem Mann in Kontakt treten will, teilt man ihr mit, er habe in der Nacht zuvor Selbstmord begangen. Außer einem Zeitungsartikel mit einem darauf notierten Datum hat sie keinerlei Hinweise, warum er sie um Hilfe bitten wollte. Während ihrer Recherche stößt sie zunächst auf einen Fall, bei dem ein stadtbekannter Krimineller und zwei Passanten durch eine Explosion ums Leben gekommen sind.

DCI Harry Grimm is weary of humanity’s evil. Dragged to the middle of nowhere during the darkest of hours, he’s enraged by grisly evidence of a horrific illegal dog fight. And when the mutilated remains turn out to be a gamekeeper’s stolen pet, the gritty detective senses he has a solid lead after learning of a long-running feud. Immediately putting his team on the case, Grimm worries the stakes may be escalating when the animal’s owner is beaten and left for dead.

Zwei Tote und eine satte Portion Wut im hohen Norden. Kuddl Möller war bekannt wie ein bunter Hund. Als der Leiter des Flensburger Shanty-Chors „De lustigen Mannslüüd“ tot aufgefunden wird, ist der Schock zunächst groß. Doch schnell wird klar, dass Kuddl alles andere als ein unbeschriebenes Blatt war. Kurz darauf taucht dann auch noch die Leiche eines weiteren Flensburger Urgesteins auf. Zufall? Oder steckt mehr dahinter? Die Ermittler Anne Anders und Hendryk Larsson übernehmen den Fall und stoßen auf ein Netz aus Betrug, Rache und Wut.

Spätsommer in Südschweden: Eine junge Frau wird vor dem Astrid-Lindgren-Freizeitpark in Vimmerby tot aufgefunden. Wer hat die hübsche und bei allen beliebte Imbissbesitzerin kaltblütig mit einem Pfeil erschossen? Der Polizeichef der Stadt, Marten Henriksson, nimmt zusammen mit seiner Kollegin und Ex-Frau Lena Wallin die Ermittlungen auf. Eine erste Spur führt zum Klärwerk, mit dessen Geschäftsführung die Tote seit Wochen in einem erbitterten Streit lag. Doch reicht das als Mordmotiv?

Jedes Opfer trägt seine Signatur–und die ist blutig. Als eine brutal zugerichtete Frauenleiche in den dunklen Gassen des Hamburger Hafens gefunden wird, übernehmen Tabea Kurz und Frank Schünemann den Fall. Die abgeschmirgelte Haut des Opfers ist nicht das Einzige, was das Team erschüttert. Auch eine abgeschnittene Locke, die der Täter der toten Frau in die Hände gelegt hat, gibt den Ermittlern Rätsel auf. Ist die Locke der Liebesbeweis eines kranken Einzeltäters? Oder die Visitenkarte eines Serienkillers, der sein Werk gerade erst begonnen hat?

When a tenement block erupts in flames on Langdon Rise, six lives are lost—including a disgraced MP under investigation for corruption. To DCI Naomi Cresswell, the blaze is anything but random. The survivors are terrified. The evidence is vanishing. And scrawled into a soot-stained wall is a symbol Naomi thought she’d left behind in childhood nightmares. As she digs deeper into the ashes, whispers of a rogue police unit—the Grey Watchmen—begin to surface. Disbanded. Denied. Buried. But not forgotten.