Showing results for "Flood" in Crime Fiction

When Daniela Cain returns to her small hometown after seven years’ absence, she finds that flooding has left the village all but deserted. She’s there to collect something she left in her childhood home, then she plans to leave. But upon entering the old house she discovers her younger sister’s body half-submerged in the water. As Daniela tries to work out what happened to Auryn, she uncovers dark secrets from her childhood as one of four sisters in the household, when the Cain’s and another local family begin to turn on each other with devastating results.

The flood waters are rising. And so is the body count… Police officer Fiona MacLeish has been ordered to step back from her role in Police Scotland. Haunted by the murder of her parents, she’s dangerously close to breaking point: and is back in her remote childhood home nestled in a valley on the Scottish border. But there’s a terrifying storm coming…

In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman. A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs...

In 1940s London, Hercule Poirot is cornered by the club bore and learns of a mysterious death - one which sets him off on one of his most intriguing cases. When Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Cloade's relatives are desperate to...

A violent death by crucifixion near a remote north-west station has Detective Inspector Dan Clement and his Broome police officers disturbed and baffled. Other local incidents—the theft of explosives from a Halls Creek mine site, social justice protests at an abattoir, a break-in at a child-health care clinic—seem mundane by comparison. But as Clement starts to make troubling connections between each crime, he finds himself caught in a terrifying race.

"A near-Shakespearean snarl, a mad, seven-day action crucible set in the West Virginia wild...The Poison Flood is an ambitious saga, cockamamie and passionate. Through Hollis, Farmer produces a pocket Hillbilly manifesto."--Atlanta Journal Constitution A captivating, gritty, and tender story of...

Detective Jack Knox is faced with a troubling case when a woman’s body is found on a beach near Edinburgh. Police match her to missing persons, because her personal effects have been swept out to sea. When she is finally identified, the victim’s last known movements are investigated. She was courted by a man who proves elusive, having evaded surveillance cameras. He has covered his tracks well. Was this her killer?

Eine gutbürgerliche Nachbarschaft in Oslo: Auf offener Straße bricht Erling zusammen und stirbt. Allein im großen gemeinsamen Haus sitzt Evy, seine Frau, mit der er seit fünfundvierzig Jahren verheiratet war. Irgendetwas – das wird ihr immer klarer – stimmt nicht mit dem Tod ihres Mannes. Gegenstände verschwinden aus dem Haus, die drei erwachsenen Kinder verbergen Dinge vor ihr, und die Kellertür, die immer verschlossen ist, steht plötzlich offen. Nach vielen Jahren taucht ein alter Freund aus Erlings Jugend auf, und teilt Evy Unglaubliches mit. Wer wollte Erling schaden?

Who is behind the mysterious advert reading ‘Wife available – what offers?’ What prompted a ‘third girl’ to suddenly pack her bags and leave her flatshare? And when a newly married couple’s honeymoon period comes to an abrupt end, is the wedding dress to blame? Conceived by respected...

En Kastanjesvingen, un vecindario silencioso a un paso del tumulto de la ciudad habitado por doctores, artistas y gente del mundo de la televisión, nunca pasa nada, es el tipo de lugar que todos querrían para sus hijos. Allí vive Rikke, en uno de los cuatro espaciosos pisos del complejo, con su familia: su marido Asmund y sus hijos Emma y Lukas. Sus vidas son tranquilas, armoniosas, perfectas.