Showing results for "May" in Women Sleuths

With a cheating boyfriend, a thankless career in waitressing, and her BA in English going to waste, Mira James jumps at the chance for a fresh start in rural Battle Lake, Minnesota. Right away she lands a job as a librarian, snags another as an on-call reporter for the weekly newspaper, and is swept off her feet by Jeff Wilson, a handsome archaeologist unearthing the town’s storied history. Moving here might be the best decision Mira’s ever made. Until she finds Jeff’s body between the library’s reference stacks.

In Charm Cove, Maine, spring means blooming flowers, thawed snow, and just a hint of everyday magic. Moira Wicked is embracing it all—her powers, her future, and her recent engagement to Liam. Life is finally settling down. Until it starts raining daisies. One minute, the town looks like a picture-perfect coastal getaway. The next, it's drowning in daisies—falling from the sky, sprouting from rooftops, carpeting lawns, and turning every surface into a floral explosion. Pretty? Sure. Magical menace? Definitely.

A skilled mechanic, Fliss Makepeace chafes under the suffocating expectations of her family and society. Ordered to abandon her beloved engines for a 'woman's job' and pressured into a brutal marriage with the menacing Jake, Fliss feels trapped. But as the drums of war beat louder, she vows to serve King and Country rather than surrender to a life of quiet torment. Joining the ATS offers Fliss not just a uniform, but freedom. Yet, a chance encounter with the formidable Major Stapleton propels her into an even deeper secret...

May Death Sleep is the third book in the hit series about Detective Inspector Maria Wern. A murder, and a suicide leads DI Maria Wern into the world of renowned IVF-clinic Cheiron and its owner Per Göthe - a man with an impeccable history. How is he involved in the grisly murder? As Maria...

A crime of passion strikes close to home when Gemma and her best friend, Hazel Cavendish, travel to Scotland, a land of mists and fine whiskey, of hidden pasts and dangerous secrets, or so Gemma discovers when an unexpected meeting with Hazel's old flame yields shocking—and mortal—consequences. Hazel is the logical suspect, but Gemma knows nothing is simple in this place of secrets and long-seething hatreds.

Ein mysteriöses Versteck im Kloster Frauenchiemsee. Bei Abbrucharbeiten im Kloster Frauenchiemsee wird ein geheimer Raum entdeckt, in dem eine Million D‑Mark versteckt sind. Schnell kann die Verbindung zu einer alten Entführung mit Lösegeldforderung hergestellt werden. Doch vom Opfer fehlt bis heute jede Spur. Schwester Althea kann das Ermitteln nicht lassen – und kommt einem Täter auf die Schliche, mit dem keiner gerechnet hat.

Ein Blitz zerstört die vorweihnachtliche Ruhe auf der Chiemseeinsel: In der gespaltenen Klostereiche wird eine mumifizierte Frauenleiche aus der Zeit der Hexenverfolgung entdeckt. Kurz darauf wird eine junge Novizin ermordet aufgefunden, gefesselt wie für eine Hexenprobe. Schwester Althea macht sich auf der Insel und im Klosterarchiv auf Spurensuche, ahnt aber bald, dass keineswegs düstere Mächte am Werk sind. Im Gegenteil: Der Täter ist durchaus irdisch - und für neugierige Nonnen höchst gefährlich.

Ist das Vergangene jemals wirklich vergangen? Das fragt sich Schwester Althea vom Kloster Frauenchiemsee, als ein Sturm einen alten Überseekoffer mit zwei Skeletten anspült. Althea hat das ermordetet Liebespaar gekannt- in einer Zeit, die sie lieber vergessen würde.. Aber sehr schnell wir aus dem jahrzehntealten Fall ein hochaktueller, denn der See birgt eine weitere Leiche - und diese Frau ist noch nicht lange tot. Schwester Althea nutzt das Sommerfest des Klosters für ihre Nachforschungen und ahnt nicht, wie sehr sie den Mörder damit in Unruhe versetzt.

Moira Wicked is back home for good. She's settling in to help run Persnickety Potions & Gifts, her family's store. Even though she's loath to admit it, she's a bit relieved to be home. Here in Charm Cove, there's nothing unusual about the last name Wicked and it's more uncommon to encounter someone who isn't a witch, rather than the other way around. Just when Moira thinks life might be quieting down, there's a spate of burglaries around town. It's no accident that the homes and businesses being targeted belong to witches. Once again, the oh-so-charming Charm Cove is all atwitter.

The holidays are upon Charm Cove and Moira Wicked is up to her eyeballs in magic as she manages Persnickety Potions & Gifts for her family. One evening after a busy day, she assumes she must be way too tipsy from her wine when she hears a commotion down at the beach by her home. Nope. Not too tipsy from wine. Lo and behold, a boat was dashed against the rocky coastline in the darkness. That's enough news by itself, but even worse, the three passengers who were believed to have been on the boat have vanished into thin air. So has the man who runs the lighthouse.

Deep in the heart of winter, all is quiet in Charm Cove. Or so Moira Wicked likes to think. The charming town in Maine is blanketed with snow, and magic is murmuring under the surface, but nothing is amiss. Until it's time for maple sugaring season. One of the earliest signs of spring is when the maple trees are ready to tap for sap, which becomes maple sugar, and syrup, and more. Once the first few trees are tapped, Charm Cove residents start reporting missing buckets of maple sap. At first, it's only a few and then it's almost all of them.

Nothing is ever as it seems, at least not in Charm Cove, Maine. Moira Wicked moves away in the hopes she can escape her fate, or destiny, or something along those lines. She yearns to lead a normal life. A few years away teaches her one glaring lesson. It's incredibly difficult to be normal when your first name means destiny, your last name is Wicked, and you do come from a family legendary for its witchy ways.

When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.

Kommissarin Irmi Mangold ärgert sich: Warum hat sie sich nur von ihrer Nachbarin zu dieser albernen Schrothkur in Oberstaufen überreden lassen...

A relative newcomer to Lily Dale, the quirky New York lakeside village populated by spiritual mediums, young widow Bella Jordan doesn’t have time to believe in supernatural entities. She has enough to tackle, what with running Valley View guesthouse, wrangling her seven-year-old son Max and their growing army of pets, and dealing with her lovable but meddlesome neighbors.

In the quirky, picturesque lakeside community of Lily Dale, where the residents can talk to the dead, young widow Bella Jordan is the lone skeptic among believers. She doesn't believe in ghosts…but after a year in the village, she would admit that her new friends do sometimes seem to know impossible things. Still, when a Black stranger dressed in old-fashioned clothing arrives unexpectedly at Bella's guesthouse at midnight on Juneteenth, only to vanish the next day as if he'd never existed, Bella's sure there has to be a logical explanation.

After attending a family wedding in Chicago, young widow Bella Jordan is returning to the guesthouse she runs in Lily Dale—the quirky upstate New York lakeside village famous for its spiritual mediums—when she catches a glimpse of the impossible at the airport: her late husband Sam. A former science teacher, Bella is grounded in facts and logic. She doesn't believe in ghosts. But even when she's back home with the competing distractions of her quirky guests, small son Max, resident pet cats and a very unexpected litter of puppies, Bella can't find a good explanation for what she's seen.

Band 1 – Tod auf der Piste: Diesen Sonntag hat sich die Garmischer Kommissarin Irmi Mangold eigentlich anders vorgestellt. Sie ist gerade im Wald beim Holzfällen, als sie ein dringender Anruf erreicht – auf der Kandahar-Piste ist ein Toter gefunden worden. Besonders skurril ist die Kleidung des Mannes, ein Skianzug mit einer WM-Startnummer von 1978. Bald steht seine Identität fest: Ernst Buchwieser war Sportlehrer am Klosterinternat Ettal und eckte mit seinen unkonventionellen Ansichten fast überall an.

Der Generationenkonflikt wird mörderisch! Im Garten einer leicht heruntergekommenen Villa, die gerade umgebaut werden soll, wird ein junger Mann gefunden: erschossen. Wurde er Opfer jener Diebesbande, die seit einiger Zeit in der Gegend knappe Baustoffe stiehlt, wie jene, die er in dieser Nacht bewachen wollte? Galt der Schuss eigentlich seiner Mutter, einer korrekten Lehrerin, die Drohungen per Mail und SMS von erbosten Eltern erhalten hat? Oder ist der Schlagabtausch, der im Internet höchst polemisch zwischen dem jungen Mann und seinem Vater tobt, in der realen Welt eskaliert.

Still ruht der See? Nur für die Toten... Die Emotionen schlagen hohe Wellen in Irmi Mangolds neuem Fall. Ihre Ermittlungen führen sie zwischen die Fronten von Freizeit-Wassersportlern und Berufsfischern, von Anwohnern und Ausflüglern, von Naturschützern und Erholungssuchenden. Eine Frau wird auf ihrem SUP-Board mitten im Starnberger See gefunden - ermordet mit einem Fünfzack. Die Tote war in der Region vielen als übergriffige Frau bekannt, die als Locationscoutin für einen Filmdreh die schönsten Orte suchte.