Historiske krimier

Bestselling author Patricia Rice offers the next book in her Regency historical mystery series...Wycliffe Manor, a magnet for murder... On a long-delayed errand to remote Wycliffe Manor, ex-Lieutenant Jack de Sackville stumbles across the murdered body of London dandy, Basil Culpepper, in the hedgerow, a long way from his usual haunts. To Jack's dismay, he discovers the earl's daughter Culpepper ruined hiding in Wycliffe's kitchen. Disguised as a lowly cook, Lady Elspeth Villiers may have liked to shoot Culpepper for ruining her life, but she dropped out of sight for more immediate reasons than an old scandal-her wealth has become the focus of greedy men. The arrival of Jack, the man she's adored since childhood, along with Culpepper's corpse, mean her hiding place is no longer safe. But once Lady Elsa reveals herself to the unconventional inhabitants of Wycliffe Manor, they become the protective family she has never known. Outraged to learn the beautiful woman he once loved and lost has become a target of greed, Jack joins the investigation into Culpepper's death. With a murderer on the loose, the amateur sleuths must unravel a deadly tangle of kidnappers and counterfeiters or the Manor's eccentric inhabitants will be in as much danger as their cook.

CAUTION: This book contains violence, drugs, and sex. Some disturbing scenes are described. Under no circumstances should it be given to minors.This turbulent fantasy adventure takes the reader back in time and is based in part on true events that occurred between 1618 and 1680. The process of "kolken" is what gave this fateful place its name. In the Hexenkolk, women accused of witchcraft were buried in a linen sack. If the woman died during this violent act, it was considered proof that she was a witch and deserved to die. If she was pulled from the water alive, the evidence was even clearer. She must have been a witch, for a normal woman would not have survived such torture. With this overwhelming verdict, she was burned at the stake, where she met her agonizing end. In the novel, Elizabeth of the Palatinate (1618 - 1680) leads a lonely fight against patriarchy and for women's freedom. As in the novel "Cicadas Code" and the story "Plan Eden 2021", the reader will find in "Hexenkolk" some of the protagonists and thus the spiritual, unique magic.Story:New York, August 21, 2019: For the citizens of the city it is a day like any other, they have no idea that a catastrophe awaits them. A mysterious scientist claims to know what's behind it. He is convinced that a woman who was convicted of witchcraft almost 400 years ago has cast a curse that is still working today. Is he right? Or is a more sinister force at work? These two questions remain unanswered until he embarks on a journey through time with a group of chosen people to unravel the mystery. The story shows the cruelties of the late Middle Ages, as well as the romantic glorification of that era. But it also shows the effects of superstition and the consequences of religious fanaticism. Sex and violence are as much a part of it as hope, comfort, and confidence. Good and evil are two sides of the same coin. This story is not for the faint hearted.

Traducción de la novela alemana "Der Code der Zikaden" de Thomas H. Huber. También en este libro el lector experimenta TENSION, MISTICA, AMOR Y AVENTURA. La lectura ideal para los veraneantes de Creta.ADVERTENCIA: Este libro contiene violencia, drogas y sexo. Se describen algunas escenas perturbadoras. En ningún caso debe entregarse a menores.Esta turbulenta aventura fantástica transporta al lector a tiempos pasados y se basa en parte en hechos reales del periodo comprendido entre 1618 y 1680. El procedimiento de "Kolkens" dio nombre a este fatídico lugar. En el "Hexenkolk", las mujeres que habían sido acusadas previamente de brujería eran enterradas en un saco de lino. Si la mujer moría en este acto violento, se consideraba una prueba de que era una bruja que merecía morir. Si la sacaban viva del agua, la prueba era aún más clara. Sin duda debía de ser una bruja, ya que una mujer normal no habría sobrevivido a semejante tortura. Con este veredicto abrumador, fue quemada en la hoguera, donde encontró su agonizante final. En la novela, Isabel del Palatinado (1618 - 1680) lidera una solitaria lucha contra el patriarcado y por la libertad de la mujer. Al igual que en la novela "El código de las cigarras" y en el relato "Plan Edén 2021", el lector volverá a encontrar en "Hexenkolk" a unos protagonistas y, con ello, el hechizo mágico, espiritual y único.Relato:Nueva York, 21 de agosto de 2019: Para los ciudadanos de la ciudad es un día como otro cualquiera, no tienen ni idea de que les espera una catástrofe. Un misterioso científico asegura saber qué hay detrás. Está convencido de que una mujer que fue condenada por brujería hace casi 400 años ha lanzado una maldición que se supone que tiene su efecto en la actualidad. ¿Será cierta su corazonada? ¿O está actuando una fuerza más siniestra? Estas dos preguntas quedan sin respuesta hasta que se embarca en un viaje a través del tiempo con un grupo de elegidos para desentrañar el misterio. La historia muestra las crueldades de la Baja Edad Media, así como la glorificación romántica de esta época. Pero también muestra los efectos de la superstición y las consecuencias del fanatismo religioso. El sexo y la violencia están tan presentes como la esperanza, el consuelo y la confianza. El bien y el mal son dos caras de la misma moneda. Esta historia no es para pusilánimes.www.thomas-h-huber.de

"Anya Marleigh is a singer and sitar player in Queen Charlotte s court. She is left a fortune by Dowager Countess Budleigh, one of her elderly clients who used to hire her for musical evenings. But there is a condition attached. Anya must marry before her next birthday if she wants to see any of the fortune. The executor of the will is an insufferably conceited man who must consent to her marriage--if he doesn t give his consent, the fortune reverts to him. But Damian Ashton is only part of the problem. The Budleigh family see Anya as a usurper. They believe the fortune is rightfully theirs, and they will do all in their power--including accusing Anya of murder and Damian of some dubious and criminal dealings--to get their hands on the fortune."--

Pulled back from the brink by strangers and bound by gratitude, Robert is drawn into the search for a young Calvinist pastor imprisoned in Mainz. But Robert isn't just any soldier fighting in the early years of the Thirty Years War. He's also an English priest.Facing darkness and corruption, Robert and his new friends travel across Germany, calling on the courts of dukes, princes and a dowager queen, and seeking aid for the outnumbered defenders of the Palatinate. How can an Austrian priest, a reformed pastor, and a disillusioned Anglican sow the seeds of reconciliation in a Christian church at war with itself? And has an assassin targeted Robert?Called into Service is the first book of the Robert Curtis Mysteries, a series exploring politics, religion, and stories of faith, mercy, justice, and love.

Les South Regent Mansions bénéficient de tout le confort moderne… meurtre compris. Londres, février 1924. Détective discrète de la haute société, Olive Belgrave est ravie de son nouvel appartement à South Regent Mansions, où elle s'est liée d'amitié avec plusieurs résidents. Parmi eux, Minerva, une femme active moderne, l'auteure d'une bande dessinée publiée par un journal londonien, avec une jeune garçonne en personnage principal. Minerva fait appel à Olive après avoir aperçu quelque chose de très déconcertant : un cadavre. Du moins, c'est ce que Minerva pense avoir vu, mais il n'y a pas le moindre cadavre dans la résidence impeccable, et les habitants reprennent le cours de leur vie. Minerva aurait-elle des visions ? Est-elle folle ? À moins qu'il n'y ait une explication plus sinistre encore… Pour aider Minerva à retrouver sa tranquillité d'esprit, Olive mène l'enquête sur ses voisins, dont : une starlette de l'aristocratie, un comptable friand de gadgets, une matrone fouineuse et une institutrice reconvertie dans le bridge. Olive découvre des rivalités, des liaisons secrètes et des jalousies cachées. Avec l'aide de l'élégant Jasper, Olive va devoir apprendre quel secret vaut la peine d'en venir au meurtre. Si vous aimez les polars élaborés, les personnages pleins de charme et les romans au ton léger, vous adorerez le septième tome de la série Une lady mène l'enquête, Meurtre à Regent Street, par Sara Rosett, auteure de best-sellers au classement de USA Today.

In this dead city, the vultures are circling...Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of a dark journey for Garda detective Stefan Gillespie as he makes his way through war-ravaged Europe to the German capital. He carries secret instructions for the Irish ambassador, who is clinging on in the growing chaos - even though it's time to get out. Bombs fall and bodies fill the streets. People starve. The true horrors of Nazi terror are everywhere now... and the Russians are coming. As Stefan searches for an Irishman trapped in Berlin who has betrayed his country and his friends, who cares if people are murdered along the way? And Stefan has to ask himself if saving one life matters in this devastation. And if it does, is it worth him risking his own?QUOTES TO COME

A deathbed promise. An impossible task. Will saving a loved one mean losing everything? New York, 1872. Sadie McGillicuddy's word is her bond. Swearing to her dying mother to always protect her willful sister, she's soon tested when her beautiful younger sibling runs off into the night. Jumping on a San Francisco train in hot pursuit, the resourceful young woman evades a gangland enforcer's unwanted attention with the help of a handsome stranger. Count Dolphie Westerhoven's future feels uncertain. Grieving a father who just left him penniless, the lone-wolf Austrian is traveling to San Francisco when an intriguing passenger slips into his private carriage. Quick to offer her protection at his aunt's house, he fears there's more to her story when her sister falls into a mob boss's clutches and Sadie is delivered a warning - a severed hand. With her sister refusing to leave the mob boss's clutches, Sadie despairs of getting them both out with their lives intact. And Dolphie is shocked when his mesmerizing new friend gives him the slip and appears to defect to the gang boss's side, causing him to question if she's been conning him all along. Can they set things right before they're both caught in an outlaw's trap in this U.S. murder mystery series?

A lady's maid is getting too big for her britches. But does that justify murder?Everybody in town agrees: Arabella Parnell thinks far too highly of herself. She worked her way up to lady's maid for one of Arrojo's finest families, personal friends of the mayor. She attends parties given by the lady of the house as if she were the guest of honor. She writes letters to the daughter of her wealthy former employer as if they were comrades. She flirts with some of the most prominent men in the county.So the Arrojo police are hardly surprised when they find her dead among the shrubbery in a wealthy bachelor's conservatory.And yet, amateur sleuth and suffragist Adele Gossling can't help but wonder: Who was Arabella Parnell really? Was she just a servant with arrogant manners and too much self-assurance? Or was she the victim of the pride and passions of powerful men, one of whom did her in? With a hair comb, a brooch, and a candlestick to go on, can Adele solve this case?Read how Adele and her psychic friend Nin unravel a shocking and twisted case inspired by a real-life, early 20th-century unsolved crime!Enjoy the sixth book of this series featuring the sleuth with, as one reviewer puts it, "a wonderful mixture of sassiness and sensitivity."~~~Don't forget to check out the other books in the Adele Gossling Mysteries!

She's a resilient Irish actress, battling to feed her family. He's a wealthy heir, in hiding after shooting a man in self defence.When illness and a prospective lynching freeze them in a hostile stalemate, she must lean on all of her street smarts to save him.But will it be at the cost of her heart and happiness?1872 San Francisco: Rosie Kelly's heart's desire is to become a star on stage so she can support her ailing sister back in New York. When she falls from a horse and is dropped from the show, the charmer she's categorised as a naïve rich boy arranges doctors for her crippled sister without her knowledge.Alejandro de Vile was targeted in a home invasion that bewilders him, because he has no quarrel with anyone. But he's certain Spanish pretty boy Dionisio Garcia wasn't involved, and he can't understand why Rosie's playing up to the flamboyant Romeo.However, with his life at stake, Alex must rely on Rosie's street-smarts and resourcefulness to navigate the treacherous world of the "Paris Of The West," where power lies in the hands of the ruthless Bram Gordon and his henchman, the ambitious Garcia.As Rosie and Alejandro race against time to expose a conspiracy, they deny a budding romance between them, fraught as they are with misunderstandings and conflicting loyalties. Together, they must confront their own fears and insecurities while battling the dangerous forces that threaten to tear them apart.Rosie's proud spirit tells her Alex's opinion doesn't matter, as long as she can unravel the tangled web of murder, bribery, and fake documents and repay her debt to him for her sister's care.Confronting murder, an attempted abduction, historical lies and bitterness, she races to uncover seeds of destruction sown a generation ago while ignoring her savage hurt inside, while ignoring her savage hurt inside.Will these lovers-in-denial win through, face their fears and admit the truth before it's too late?Join Rosie and Alejandro as they embark on a journey filled with twists and turns, where the past and present collide, and the fate of a family legacy hangs in the balance. Rosie's Rebellion is the electrifying third book in the Home At Last trilogy. Immerse yourself in a world of intrigue, danger, and the enduring power of love and loyalty in this captivating page-turner..

True Crime (Wahres Verbrechen) ist eine eigene Gattung der Kriminalliteratur, die ungefähr in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts entstanden ist. Im Gegensatz zur normalen Kriminalliteratur, in der fiktive Verbrechen die Handlung dominieren, werden in True Crime reale Kriminalfälle nacherzählt. Es handelt sich bei True Crime also, im Gegensatz zur klassischen Kriminalliteratur, um Sachliteratur. True Crime widmet sich überwiegend besonderen Verbrechen, wie Mordfällen oder Straftaten, die in der Öffentlichkeit besonderes Aufsehen erregt haben, oder sich durch besonders perfide Vorgangsweise der Täter auszeichnen.Die Mordfälle in diesem Band spielten sich zwischen 1913 und 1935 in Österreich, Deutschland, Ungarn und Rumänien ab und alle haben gemeinsam, dass sie die damalige Bevölkerung in Angst und Schrecken versetzten.

An engaging and creative story filled with tremendous challenges, and of never giving up even in your twilight years.It's 1975, and Misty Menard unexpectedly inherits her father's business in Lake Placid, New York. It never occurred to her that she could wind up as the CEO of a good old-fashioned manufacturing company.After years of working for lawyers, Misty knows a few things about the law. Her favorite young attorney is making a name for himself, helping traditionally owned companies become employee owned, using a little-known, newly-passed law. When he offers to help Misty convert Adirondack Dowel into an ESOP, pro bono, Misty jumps at the chance. The employees are stunned, the management team becomes hostile, and the Board of Directors is concerned. Misfortune quickly follows the business transformation. A big customer files for bankruptcy. A catastrophic ice jam floods the business. Stagflation freezes the economy. A mysterious shrouded foe plots revenge. Misty's family faces a crisis. The Trustee is convinced something fishy is going on, the appraiser keeps lowering the company's value, and the banker demands additional capital infusions. Misty thought she had left her smoking addiction and alcoholism in the past, but when a worker's finger is severed in an industrial accident, Misty relapses.Disasters threaten to doom the troubled company. After surviving two world wars and the Great Depression, it breaks Misty's heart to think that she has destroyed her father's company. All she wants is to cement her father's legacy and take care of the people who built the iconic local business. Can a quirky CEO and her loyal band of dedicated employee owners save an heirloom company from foreclosure, repossession, and bankruptcy?Get your copy of the thrilling If It's the Last Thing I Do now... if it's the last thing you do!*****ADVANCED PRAISE"FIVE STAR BOOK! Readers who enjoy a well-paced, gripping novel should put If It's The Last Thing I Do on top of their reading list. Misty's complex relationships with her family and her own mortality, combined with her efforts as a CEO, turn this novel into a true page-turner." - Chanticleer Reviews