Résultats pour "The Moor" dans Policier

When a 10-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet. The circus has rolled into Newcastle upon Tyne, bringing with it a troupe of daring acrobats, magicians and jugglers - and one of them is a killer. Ryan and his team must break through their closed ranks to uncover a secret which has lain buried for eight years, before the killer strikes again - this time, to silence the only living witness....

The redcoat forces of King George II have defeated the Highland rebels led by Bonnie Prince Charlie. Now Government troops are free to plunder and punish the locals. To avoid court martial, Captain Shawwood is ordered to lead a band of troops and map-makers to chart the most isolated and mysterious landscape of the Highlands – the mighty Rannoch Moor. But the Moor is home to more than just bog and heather, it's a place of shadows and secrets. Before long, their expedition comes face to face with uncanny forces far greater than anything they have fought before.

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that’s the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valérie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance. Richard remains a dazed passenger in the case until things become really serious and someone murders Ava Gardner, one of his beloved hen...and you don’t mess with a fellow’s hens!

Saint-Sauver, home to Richard Ainsworth and Valérie d’Orçay’s detective agency, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its town twinning with Anglethorp Spa in Lincolnshire. Events are planned, a huge brocante, street parties and the centrepiece, an exhibition boules tournament between the two towns and a team of international boules all-stars.

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Vallée de Follet. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really, that’s the way he likes it. Until scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver when its famous restaurant is downgraded from three Michelin stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock, and the leading goat cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurization tanks. Or does he? Valérie d’Orçay, who staying at the B&B while house-hunting in the area, isn’t convinced that it’s a suicide.

On a windswept moor, a child emerges from the mist with a story no one wants to believe. The farmer who finds her assumes she’s simply lost. But when she utters a chilling phrase—“We went to see the old ones”—he realises something is terribly wrong. As Detective Evan Warlow battles his own demons, he and the team are pulled into a case of ritualistic secrets, long-buried crimes, and the whispers of something darker lurking in the mist.

Father Michael Dominic is called to France for an unusual assignment. A 14th-century bishop was found in a crypt buried under the burnt remnants of Notre-Dame—but he’s wearing the ring of a cardinal, and two parchment scrolls had been hidden in his garment sleeve. Who was this 700-year-old custodian of carefully guarded secrets?

Richard Ainsworth's French B&B has been taken over by a production company shooting a historical film at the Château de Valençay. But everything grinds to a halt with the sudden passing of an actor under suspicious circumstances.

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about. Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder. Even more surprisingly, it's the murder of a former fiancé, turned brother-in-law. None of which the stubborn old woman denies.

As their bond grows and their powers evolve, The Unfortunates will face rogue memories, buried loops, and a predator hiding behind a friendly smile. To survive, they'll need more than bathroom humor and trauma—they’ll need each other.

Richard Ainsworth is preparing for the Christmas of his dreams: quiet, no guests at his French B&B and his favourite films on the TV. None of which seems on the cards when his rural peace is shattered by the unexpected arrival of a familiar face. Valérie d’Orçay has hotfooted it from Paris with her chihuahua in tow and an invitation to a Christmas themed murder mystery game.

Aufgrund persönlicher Differenzen in die Cold Case Unit in Niedersachsen versetzt, wird Kriminalhauptkommissar Montag zusammen mit der jungen Polizistin Effi Lu zu einem grausigen Fund im Toten Moor gerufen: Ein Angler, kaltblütig durch einen Kopfschuss ermordet. Als Montag und Effi Lu immer tiefer in ein Netz aus Schweigen, Vertuschung und alten Schuldverstrickungen geraten, wird der Fall zur tödlichen Bedrohung.

Der Kriminologe Martin Knight genießt in der Fachwelt hohes Ansehen, ist Familienvater und gut situiert. Er ist regelmäßig zu Gast in den Medien und als scharfzüngiger Kritiker des britischen Justizsystems der Polizei ein Dorn im Auge.

Seventy-eight year old Eula Moore is kidnapped on the first day of her vacation in the Texas Hill Country town of Magnolia Bluff. Knocked out by ether, she is transported to a cabin deep in the forest. Eula is determined to escape, even though she is miles from any town. But escape she does, and when she reports the kidnapping to the police, the detective notes she was not hurt, she did escape, and no ransom was paid. He says, “No harm; no foul."

Bei einem Spaziergang in einem nahe gelegenen Naturschutzgebiet findet June die Leiche eines Mannes. In der Tasche des Toten findet die Polizei zwei Seiten aus einem antiquarischen Buch über giftige Pflanzen in Großbritannien. Bei den Ermittlungen stellt sich heraus, dass der Tote selbst in einem Mordfall verdächtigt wurde: Er soll seine Frau mit einer einheimischen Giftpflanze getötet haben.

Eine Serie von Morden – und ein rätselhafter Cold Case … Ein neuer Fall für Ermittler Roland Benito von der dänischen Queen of Crime! Zwei Jungen machen im dänischen Jütland einen grausamen Fund: Eine Frauenleiche im Moor, aufgedunsen und mit leeren Augenhöhlen. Die gerichtsmedizinischen Untersuchungen ergeben, dass der Mord über zwanzig Jahre zurückliegt. Während Kriminalkommissar Roland Benito die Ermittlungen aufnimmt, erhält die Journalistin Anne Larsen einen anonymen Hinweis, der umgehend ihr Interesse an der Geschichte weckt.

In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband - and of a hound with a single glowing eye.

Dichte Nebelschwaden hängen über der Marsch, als die 18-jährigen Zwillinge Nike und Jana von einem ihrer Ausflüge ins Moor nicht zurückkehren. Als plötzlich verstörende Bilder von Jana auf ihrem TikTok-Kanal auftauchen, beginnt Kommissarin Malia Gold unter Hochdruck zu ermitteln. Mit jedem Schritt sinkt sie tiefer in den Sumpf aus Lügen und Geheimnissen, die die verschworene Gemeinde zusammenhalten.

Ein Küstendorf, das schweigt. Eine Wahrheit, die niemand hören will. Noch immer hat das eisige Winterwetter das beschauliche Örtchen Whitby voll im Griff. DCI Bolton erwartet die Ankunft eines neuen Sergeants, als er zu einem Tatort gerufen wird. Dort, im dichten Nebel, wird die verkohlte Leiche eines Mannes gefunden – ein Ortsansässiger, tief verstrickt in die Schattenseiten von Glücksspiel und Rotlichtmilieu. Ausgerechnet an dem Tag trifft er auf seine neue Kollegin, Samantha Fox, die das Präsidium mit ihren ungewöhnlichen Ermittlungsmethoden auf den Kopf stellt.

When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d’instruction Mattiew Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation. But when Lombard’s young niece appears, the inquiry changes course. Suddenly immersed in another world – one of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and the violent forgotten underbelly of society – Lombard begins to make unexpected connections.