Showing results for "Véra" in Crime Fiction

Una mattina estiva del 1920 la giovane Lucy perde il padre improvvisamente ritrovandosi sola e disperata, senza speranze. È uno sconosciuto a risvegliarla dal torpore che il lutto le ha causato: il legame con Everard Wemyss, quarantenne rimasto vedovo da poco, è immediato, e la condivisa sofferenza per la recente perdita dà origine a una confortante intimità. Ma il matrimonio con Wemyss sarà diverso da come Lucy aveva sognato: le mura di casa diverranno quelle di una tetra prigione dove i giorni sono scanditi da rituali irrazionali.

Vier Freundinnen. Ein Luxusresort. Zwei Wochen All-inclusive – und ein Urlaub, der zum Albtraum wird. Luise, Mo, Valerie und Patricia starten perfekt in ihren Traumurlaub. Doch das Paradies trügt. Erst verschwindet eine Urlauberin, dann ist plötzlich Valerie weg und Luise begreift: Hier geht es um Leben und Tod. Hinter den Kulissen des scheinbar perfekten Ferienresorts verbirgt sich ein tödliches Geheimnis.

Andrea e Katia sono due giovani dalle vite profondamente differenti. Lei, bella, intelligente, di buona famiglia, avviata a una brillante carriera da avvocato, abituata a ottenere sempre ciò che desidera; lui, imponente, sportivo, affascinante come la notte, ma senza genitori, e dunque costretto a badare a se stesso sin da quando aveva cinque anni. E poi, un pesante passato alle spalle e un difficile segreto che Andrea non può rivelare.

England, 1914. Die Welt ist von Konflikten gezeichnet. Der verletzte Captain Hastings wird ins Anwesen Styles Court eingeladen, um sich von seinen körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu erholen. Styles ist ein prachtvolles Landhaus und Heimat seines Kindheitsfreundes. Für Hastings ein Ort der Ruhe … glaubt er. Doch an den heißen Sommertagen braut sich etwas Finsteres zusammen.

The collected BBC Radio 4 crime dramas featuring Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor Like his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he's a movie buff, Coleman is no film star - he's a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his...

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and adoring as a kitten. A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can’t believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a kitten with claws of steel a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard.

With what Graham Greene once called her "devilish cunning," Vera Caspary offers one of her most suspenseful thrillers in this tale of love, jealousy, guilt, and hate. When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife nineteen years his junior, he can't imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasized suspicions, making his impending suicide look like murder.

Thorpeness, 1973. Wrongly exiled from London, Judge Neville Hanmer sought solace and a quiet life on the Suffolk coast. But then a face from the past unexpectedly resurfaces and he turns to The Anglian Detective Agency for help. Laurel, Frank, and the rest of the team are busier than ever trying to solve the mysterious theft of rare plants from Yoxford Hall Gardens. But when Judge Hanmer doesn't show for their meeting, they find themselves embroiled in yet another case.

Aldeburgh, 1972. The local community is devastated by the accidental death of a local fisherman. Another tragedy to add to the recent murders of three young women. Soon, Laurel Bowman, Frank Diamond and the rest of the Anglian Detective Agency are pulled in to investigate another complex and dangerous case. But one of them is convinced that the fisherman's death is not an accident and they'll do anything to prove it. Even risk breaking up the agency.

At Rooks Wood Farm, Rosalind Breen's twin sons grieve her death. Daniel shoulders the burdens of running the farm and caring for his brother, Caleb, who's shunned for his strange appearance. Meanwhile, Minsmere Bird Reserve is suffering a spate of vandalism and senior partners of the Anglican Detective Agency, Frank Diamond and Laurel Bowman, are enlisted to find the culprits. But shortly after taking the case, Laurel discovers the body of a young man dumped in one of the meres and the detectives are caught up in a murder enquiry.

Someone knows what happened . . . Vera Morris brings us the second thrilling instalment in her much-loved Anglian Detective Agency Series. Someone knows what happened . . . 1971. David was thirteen when he went missing two years ago. It's now up to Laurel Bowman and Frank Diamond, partners in...

You can run but you can't hide . . . The first instalment in Vera Morris's much-loved Anglian Detective Agency Series. Laurel Bowman has started a new life as a teacher on the isolated Suffolk coast while she tries to get over the murder of her sister. But it seems she cannot escape from death...

But the tides … They were turning. The wheels of life were whirring. And time? It waited for no man. If the truth could destroy you, would you choose to know it? 'The emotion and shock of this book had me in tears more than once' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review DC Vinny Robson has spent his...

Un joven descubre el cadáver de una chica debajo de una gruesa capa de hielo en un parque del sur de Londres. La inspectora jefe Erika Foster será la encargada de dirigir la investigación del caso, mientras lucha contra sus propios demonios personales. Cuando Erika comienza a indagar en el pasado de la víctima, todo parece apuntar a que su asesinato está conectado con el homicidio de otras tres mujeres que han sido encontradas también bajo las aguas heladas de otros lagos en Londres.

From New York Times bestselling author Elle Cosimano, comes Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank—a hilarious short story diving into Finlay Donovan's partner-in-crime Vero's past. Anyone can spot a window of opportunity, but not everyone can manage to fall straight through one. Veronica Ruiz is on...

Il rione Sanità è un’isola. Un lungo ponte lo divide dal resto di Napoli. Qui, i vivi e i defunti convivono da secoli e non vi è posto, più di questo, in cui morte e vita siano così strettamente intrecciate. Ed è qui che, dopo quarant’anni, due fratelli si rincontrano. Raffaele, dato in adozione giovanissimo alla morte della madre, ci torna come parroco della basilica di Santa Ma - ria alla Sanità. Peppino, invece, è il boss del quartiere. Due uomini che non potrebbero essere più diversi l’uno dall’altro.

Ein Haus in einem alten Geisterdorf in Italien, ein Traum, der zum Albtraum wird ... Ein Haus in Italien für einen Euro: Für die deutsche Architektin Tilda ist die verfallene Villa auf Sardinien ein Glücksgriff. Sie will alle Brücken hinter sich abbrechen und stürzt sich in die Renovierung. Doch die vermeintliche Idylle des verwinkelten Ortes trügt. Ist das Geisterdorf wirklich so verlassen, wie es den Anschein hat? Sonntags läuten die Glocken, und Unbekannte behaupten, ein Fluch liege auf Tildas Haus.

Wenn der Bullerbü-Urlaub zum Albtraum wird: Der neue Thriller der Meisterin der Gänsehaut-Atmosphäre. Spätestens nach dem ersten Twist werden Sie dieses Hörbuch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen können! Als Henrik und Nora mit ihrem fünfjährigen Sohn Fynn ins schwedische Västernorrland fahren, erwarten sie einen idyllischen Urlaub. Doch bereits bei ihrer Ankunft spüren sie, dass die verlassene Ferienhütte etwas Bedrohliches umgibt. Der Eindruck bestätigt sich, als im angrenzenden Wald ein jahrzehntealtes Kinderskelett gefunden wird. Dann verschwindet Fynn.

In Wahrheit ist ein Wald nicht still. Er ist voller Geräusche und aus dem Stoff, aus dem Albträume sind. Ein abgelegenes Dorf hoch oben in den Wäldern, fernab der Zivilisation. Ein Ort, wie geschaffen als Versteck – oder als Gefängnis. Hoch in den Bergen liegt die Siedlung Jakobsleiter, abgeschieden von der modernen Welt. Hier gelten die Regeln der Natur – rau, erbarmungslos, aber verlässlich. Das denkt zumindest Jesse. Ihm und den anderen Kindern von Jakobsleiter wurde eingetrichtert, dass alles Böse unten in der Stadt wohnt.