Showing results for "Paul Henry" in Mystery

Im Regensburger Bezirksklinikum wird ein Patient in seinem Bett bestialisch ermordet. Für Hauptkommissar Köstlbacher, der seit einiger Zeit selbst ambulant Patient beim Prof. Dr. Neumann ist, wird der Fall in mehrfacher Hinsicht zum Albtraum. Ein weiterer Mord geschieht. Detaillierte Zeugenaussagen lassen hoffen. Doch dann kommt alles ganz anders.

Like millions of Americans, Dr. John VanDuyne is stunned to watch President Tom Winston announce his plans to legalize narcotics in a radical bid to destroy the power of the drug cartels. Especially since, as Winston’s personal physician and a government health spokesman, VanDuyne might have expected some prior warning. And now he’s going to be right in the firing line when the uproar begins. For President Winston, his daring plan could turn out to be political suicide. For VanDuvne, it’s going to be much worse than that.

Eine Abiturientin des Regensburger Albrecht-Altdorfer-Gymnasiums wird tot im schulnahen Villapark aufgefunden. Die vom Kriminalhauptkommissar Köstlbacher umgehend eingeleiteten Ermittlungen geraten ins Stocken im breit gefächerten Morast menschlicher Abgründe. Gerade, als nach Wochen endlich Licht in den Fall zu kommen scheint, geschieht ein zweiter Mord.
Nie vorher geht dem Köstlbacher ein Fall so sehr an die Nieren, wie dieser. Schuld daran trägt eine unerwartete Verknüpfung der Ereignisse mit seiner eigenen Familie.

Die zentrale Figur ist Monika Steingeister, deren Lebensgeschichte vom 10jährigen Mädchen, Einzelkind aus gut situiertem Hause, bis hin zur Studentin und Teilzeitprostituierten glücklicherweise im realen Leben eher die Ausnahme sein mag, aber dennoch gut nachzuvollziehen ist. Seitenhiebe, insbesondere auf Politiker und Lehrer und, wenn man so will, exemplarisch reduziert, das gesamte Establishment, stehen für die scheinbar ungeplante Absicht des Autors, profane, kritische Beobachtungen in eine kriminalistische Story zu verpacken und sie dem Leser dadurch subtil "unterzujubeln".

Das Training einer Triathletin endet im Guggenberger See tödlich. Im Parkhaus am Petersweg kommt es zu einem brutalen Mord. Fast alle Personen, die in den Fokus der Ermittlungen des Hauptkommissars Edmund Köstlbacher und seines Teams geraten, scheinen etwas mit der Regensburger Tanzschule DANCEIMPERIAL zu tun zu haben. Hängt das Geschehen mit einem Autounfall mit Todesfolge zusammen, der vor Jahren geschah? Wie sehr ist die Schwester der Staatsanwältin in den Fall verwickelt?

For the first time in one unforgettable collection, Skin and Bones features eight gripping original short stories in the bestselling Mike Bowditch series—including one brand new, never-before-published story—from Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron.

Paul Robertson's debut novel The Heir garnered critical praise as a "Grisham-like tale of intrigue and murder" ( Booklist). Told from five diverse viewpoints, Road to Nowhere spins gripping suspense into a mysterious whodunit as a small mountain town wrangles over a road that could change its future forever.

The winter around Cheyenne Wyoming that year was devastating killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses and starting to feel a little crazy himself. Everything he owned was dying before his eyes and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. His dreams of a settled life were as dead as everything else.

When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery—a dead baby buried in a shallow grave. Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed to have died four years earlier after she disappeared from a group rafting trip. As Bowditch assists the reopened investigation, he begins to suspect that some of his neighbors aren’t who they seem to be.

On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake. When they arrive at the scene, their spotlight reveals a gruesome sight: a severed arm floating just beneath the surface. As day breaks, the warden dive team recovers not one but two naked corpses: a dismembered man and the married woman with whom he was having an affair. Mike begins to suspect the swimmers' deaths were not a senseless accident but a coldly calculated murder.

A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, and they are shocked by the atmosphere of tension they encounter when they come ashore. The biologists are being threatened and stalked by a mysterious boatman who they suspect is trespassing on the refuge late at night.

The disappearance of Mike Bowditch’s beloved mentor reveals an ominous connection to a 15-year-old cold case in One Last Lie, the new thriller from best-selling Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron.

A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, the case seems open and shut. But as soon as he arrives on remote Maquoit Island he discovers mysteries piling up one on top of the other. The hunter now claims he didn’t fire the fatal shot and the ballistic evidence proves he’s telling the truth. Bowditch begins to suspect the secretive community might be covering up the identity of whoever killed Ariel Evans.

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch finds himself in a life-or-death chase in this next thriller in the bestselling mystery series by Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron, Dead by Dawn. Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen...

Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch already has a troubling mystery on his hands: finding the archer who mortally wounded Maine’s only wild wolf. Then he learns his best friend, Billy Cronk, has been released from prison after heroically defending a female guard from a stabbing. Mike comes to believe the assault was orchestrated by a wider criminal conspiracy. When the conspirators pursue Billy's wife and children to a “safe" cabin in the woods, Mike rushes to their defense only to find himself outnumbered, outgunned - and maybe out of options.

When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness—the most remote stretch along the entire Appalachian Trail—Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the desperate search to find them. Hope turns to despair after two unidentified corpses are discovered—their bones picked clean by coyotes. Do the bodies belong to the missing hikers? And were they killed by the increasingly aggressive wild dogs? Soon, all of Maine is gripped with the fear of killer coyotes. But Bowditch has his doubts.

"[Narrator Henry] Leyva and [author Paul] Doiron are a great combination offering a fast-paced thrill ride." —AudioFile on Almost Midnight Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar...

In this original short story in the Mike Bowditch mystery series from bestselling author Paul Doiron, Mike is drawn into the story of a gruesome case from his mentor Charley Steven’s past. Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch accompanies his old friend and mentor, retired bush pilot Charley Stevens...

This program is read by series narrator, Henry Leyva. In “Snakebit," an original short story from bestselling author Paul Doiron, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch must hunt down a killer who uses the unlikeliest of murder weapons: rattlesnakes. When a teenager arrives at a Maine hospital with a...

In Skin and Bones, an original short story in the Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series, the killing of a bald eagle unearths ties to a tragic case from mentor Charley Steven’s past. When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch discovers a bullet-ridden bald eagle in the Maine woods, he is...