Showing results for "Maya" in Mystery

Maya and Kamakshi suffer at the behest of tantrics. Their friend Ranbeer, a filmmaker, starts work on an investigative documentary to expose those who misuse occult practices. Unknowingly, they embark onto a trail of the biggest undiscovered secret of ancient India's esoteric practices, taking them to hotbeds of occult practices - Banaras, Kamakhya and even Yana, where they witness eerie Aghori rituals, mystical sanyasis and tantric sex. Soon, a series of uncanny threats emerge, from severed heads of endangered species to the abduction of those who help the trio.

After all these years, Maya and Sandra have mixed feelings about seeing their high school classmates, but in one sense the evening promises to be something of a red carpet event. A shy wallflower in school, Alyssa Turner has blossomed into an Oscar-nominated actress—and she's coming to the reunion. To their surprise, before the event, Alyssa contacts Maya and Sandra. She's going to be playing a private eye and would like to hear about their experiences. When they meet, she confides she was bullied in school by cheerleader Tawny Bryce and her mean girls clique.

As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift. And so, when the phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James Herriot, the country's most sensational case falls into her lap.

James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, she uncovers a possible link to a second case.

The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective. A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy...

The monsoon has started and as Bombay grapples with rain-induced chaos, a new case arrives at Malabar House. A man has been found frozen in the foothills of the Himalayas, near the town of Dehra Dun, his face crushed. The case is handed to the unflappable Inspector Persis Wadia and the man is christened 'The Ice Man' by the national media. Who is he? How long has he been there? Why was he killed?

A political rally ends in tragedy when Persis kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate India's divisive Home Minister, a man calling for war with neighbouring Pakistan. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down his co-conspirators, Persis is given a second case when the burned body of an unidentified white man is found on a Bombay beach. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life, as all around him the country tears itself apart as a prelude to war...

Drafted as chaperones, Maya Kendrick and PTA president Sandra Wallage are accompanying the SoPo High seniors to the nation's capital—much to the embarrassment of Maya's daughter Vanessa and Sandra's son Ryan. Now both moms are about to find out which is harder—shepherding unruly high schoolers or solving a murder. The last sight they expected to see on this trip is a female intern who works for Sandra's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Senator Stephen Wallage, in a fatally compromising position.

In der Schlossruine von Borgholm auf Öland wird eine tote Journalistin entdeckt. Das Opfer arbeitete an einer brisanten Story über schwedische Familien, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg Verbindung zum Deutschen Reich hatten. Maya und Pär reisen in das Hafenstädtchen Kalmar, um vor Ort zu ermitteln. Kurz darauf findet man die Leiche einer jungen Frau auf einem Schrottplatz. Maya entdeckt eine Verbindung zu dem Mädchen, das in ihrer Kindheit aus der Schule verschwand. Ihr bisher persönlichster Fall führt sie in ihre eigene Vergangenheit und in die Untiefen des Rechtsextremismus' auf dem Land.

El Caso COLMENARES forma parte del imaginario colectivo. En él se puede trazar la radiografía de un país: la impunidad de la justicia, el poder del dinero, la intolerancia, el esvío de la ley, la trampa, la mentira, y sobre todo las más grandes pasiones. En la Novela El Enigma COLMENARES...

One of Amazon’s Best Books of 2022 So Far! “Gloriously recommended.” —Historical Novel Society A gripping and compelling novel based on the true story of fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who will stop at nothing to prove that a woman’s place is on the front page. In 1887 New...

Gina "Tinkerbell" Miyoko is not your typical private eye. Armed with a baby blue Magnum, a Harley blessed with Holy Water by her dramatically disposed mother, and a Japanese mingei tucked in her pocket (a good luck charm from her Sherlock Holmes-obsessed father), Tink spends her time sniffing out delinquent dads in the San Francisco Bay area and honing her detective skills. But when her best friend, Rose, an undercover agent, discovers there’s a stalker on her tail, she hires Tink as a bodyguard.

While private investigator Maya Kendrick is still mentoring her new partner, PTA president Sandra Wallage, in the detective game, the two women don't need incredible powers of deduction to know their marriages are on the rocks. With Maya's ex-cop husband in prison and Sandra's senator spouse separated from her, both find themselves investigating the dating scene. Until Diego Sanchez turns up dead.

Someone is trying to turn Portland High into a school for scandal with a gossipy website called Dirty Laundry. The latest target of ruinous rumors is newly elected PTA President Sandra Wallage. After a heated meeting with outraged parents, Sandra runs into fellow school mom and Private Investigator Maya Kendrick, who's discovered the person behind the website. But when the women storm into the venomous gossip columnist's office they find a lifeless body - along with a confession.

Kriminalinspektorin Maya Topelius nimmt im Hochsommer an einem Yoga-Retreat auf einer Insel ohne Leitungswasser und Strom teil. Währenddessen wird ein Mann von seiner Tochter am Strand gefunden. Zunächst wirkt es, als sei er ertrunken, dann stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass er erstochen wurde. Die Insel wird abgeriegelt, und Maya ermittelt verdeckt unter den Teilnehmern des Retreats und den Inselbewohnern. Als ein zweiter Mord passiert, kippt die Stimmung zwischen den Traditionalisten und den Retreat-Teilnehmenden, jeder beschuldigt jeden.

Eine schwedische Ermittlerin mit deutschen Wurzeln, ihre Freundin am Abgrund und ein Fall, bei dem nichts ist, wie es scheint. Die Kriminalinspektorin Maya Topelius wird zusammen mit ihrem Partner Pär Stenqvist in die verschneiten Wälder Nordschwedens gerufen, wo ein bekannter Umweltaktivist erschossen wurde. In Östersund treffen sie auf eine Mauer des Schweigens, die örtlichen Polizisten wollen nicht mit ihnen zusammenarbeiten. Während Maya mit Pär im Lobby-Dickicht der Forstindustrie ermittelt, wird ihre Freundin Sanna in Stockholm Opfer eines Übergriffs.

Gilbert Gilbertson, an inept magic clown whose biggest gigs are kids' birthday parties, suddenly develops skills in sleight-of-hand and stage illusions that confound expert magicians. He also begins affecting people in strange ways, as well as winning staggering amounts of money in Las Vegas, which he donates to the Catholic Church. Enter a far-right fringe group within the Catholic Church, convinced that Gilbert is working legitimate miracles - miracles they believe will convince Catholics to return to more conservative ways.

Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts. The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception. When journalist Tuva Moodyson reads this news alert she knows she must join the search. If this teenager is found, she will be able to communicate with him in a way no one else can. Esseberg lies on the other side of a mountain tunnel: there is only one way in and one way out. When the tunnel closes at night, the residents are left to fend for themselves.

One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who's really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik? Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man's eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to trend as local people stock up on ammunition. Tuva Moodyson, deaf reporter at the local paper, has a fortnight to investigate the deaths before she starts her new job in the south. A blizzard moves in. Residents, already terrified, feel increasingly cut off. Tuva must go deep inside the Grimberg factory to stop the killer before she leaves town for good.

Kommissarin Diana Brandt übernimmt den Mordfall an einem ranghohen Mitarbeiter des Berliner Verkehrsministeriums. Schon bald sieht sie sich mit der kalabrischen Mafia, der 'Ndrangheta, konfrontiert, denn der Tote ließ sich auf ein gefährliches Geschäft ein: Er organisierte illegale Transporte nach Süditalien.