Showing results for "Nemesis" in Mystery

A DANGEROUS CHASE. A SADISTIC KILLER. DS Lucas Walker is on assignment for the AFP, and it couldn't be more personal. This is his last chance to take down Stefan Markovich - the Vandals leader who tried to have him killed after Walker uncovered his drug operation, and has evaded justice for...

In utter disbelief Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. Recognising in Miss Marple a natural flair for justice, Mr Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing.

In the high summer of AD 77, Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals, it is a relief for him to consider someone else’s misfortunes. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father, Geminus, have disappeared. They had a feud with a bunch of notorious freedmen, the Claudii, who live rough in the pestilential Pontine Marshes, terrorising the neighbourhood.

*DETECTIVE HOLE IS NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* Harry can't trust his own memory. A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours. Someone wants him out of...

Miss Marple, living a quiet life in St Mary Mead, is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Rafiel. Not that they were friends - the old financier was much too irascible and self-centred for friendship - but they had once been allies in solving a series of murders that took place on the tiny...

While secretly researching the bizarre discoveries of Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla many years earlier, physicist Claudine Pommier becomes the victim of a remorseless and cruel murderer who breaks into her Parisian apartment. Is he just a serial killer? Or is there more to her death than the Paris cops believe?

They killed his sister. Now he'll kill them all. Michael Bale is an elite close protection officer. That's why the Met police has given him the toughest job of all: guarding the Minister of Defence at a moment when Chinese-British relations have hit a deadly boiling point. And when Michael's...

"Desidero che facciate delle indagini su un omicidio." Davvero eccentrica la lettera che gli esecutori testamentari del vecchio miliardario Jason Rafiel hanno avuto l'incarico di consegnare a Miss Marple: nel documento infatti non si specifica di quale omicidio si tratti. Sarà compito dell'anziana signora scoprirlo, partecipando a un originale tour di visite alle ville e ai giardini famosi della vecchia Inghilterra.

Mllionæren mr. Rafiel er en gammel bekendt af miss Marple. Kort efter hans død modtager miss Marple et mærkeligt postkort fra ham, hvori han opfordrer hende til at søge retfærdighed og opklare en gammel forbrydelse. Hun vil arve 20.000 pund, hvis det lykkes. Han nævner bare ikke, hvem...

We think of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, but far more seductive is the pairing of Holmes and Professor James Moriarty, 'the Napoleon of crime' - a rivalry unparalleled in the world of crime fiction. Fiercely intelligent and a relentless schemer, Moriarty is the super-villain as megastar.

In the quiet, seemingly idyllic town of Clearwater, Maine, ex-Navy SEAL sniper Anna Gabriel seeks solace from her tumultuous past. Having operated in the shadows of black ops, she yearns for nothing but a peaceful life away from the chaos and violence that once defined her. However, Clearwater harbors secrets darker than anything she has faced on foreign soil. When the town's beloved mayor is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Anna's attempt at a quiet life is shattered.

What do an Internet scam, a conference for mystery writers, and "The Great Sausage Scandal" have in common? They're all connected to the latest adventure of Addy Zhuang, an employee of the real-life bank at 221B Baker Street tasked with answering all of the mail that mystery fans send to Sherlock Holmes. In the sequel to Sherlock's Secretary, Addy, his true crime reporter girlfriend Zabel, and his friends Sanna and Jasper travel to Scotland in order to solve a missing persons case connected to a prop from the classic movie The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

Counterfeiters, spies, murderers...and Isaac Newton must use his brilliant mind to defeat them all in this pair of full-cast historical crime dramas. In Master of the Mint, a new figure of justice is walking the streets of 17th-century London—Isaac Newton, scientific genius. After thirty years as a Cambridge academic, Newton takes up a new post at the Royal Mint in the Tower of London. In Nemesis, Isaac Newton must contend not only with opponents to his currency plans, but also with a French secret agent who is aiding the theft of England's entire supply of silver.

South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome’s wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacan Slave Revolt. Unless they are found...

Ten holidaymakers are bound for Katastrophos, a tiny Greek island steeped in superstition and myth. Ten people whose lives are about to change forever, because one of them is planning a ruthless murder. Detective Inspector Jack Dawes of the Murder Squad is working undercover to prevent it, and takes his wife, Corrie, to the island, ostensibly on a belated honeymoon. Mayhem ensues when a storm destroys the island’s communications, cutting it off from civilisation.

The novel that reintroduced the Napoleon of crime to the Victorian underworld Once again, the game is afoot … What really happened in Switzerland between Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in 1891? And why is Holmes, now in London at 221B Baker Street, curiously uncooperative with Scotland Yard's...

Sandra Meinke, Kriminalkommissarin bei der Hamburger Polizei, hat das Gefühl, auf einem Abstellgleis gelandet zu sein. Ihre aktuelle Aufgabe ist unbefriedigend, ihr Vorgesetzter eine Katastrophe. Dazu kommt, dass niemand ihre Theorie über einen professionellen Kinderhändlerring ernst nimmt. So ermittelt sie in ihrer Freizeit weiter, bis ihr ein folgenschwerer Fehler unterläuft, der sie direkt ins Visier der Verbrecher katapultiert.

A group of women gather at a fertility clinic, where Dr. Margherita Dumas offers a revolutionary treatment for their infertility problems. A year later, each of them gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Thirty years later, a killer begins to wipe out the children born as a result of Dumas’ programme. Detective Inspector Harry Houston is assigned to piece together the case and bring the killer to justice. But with little time and even less clues, can Harry and his team find the link between the past and the deaths of the progeny of Clinique Sobel?

Miss Marple, en av världens mest skarptänkta detektiver, får ett vykort från sin nyligen avlidna vän Jason Rafiel. En gång hjälpte han henne att lösa ett mordfall, men den här gången är det ett vad han vill göra med henne från bortom graven: om hon lyckas knäcka ett av hans mest svårbegripliga mysterier så får hon ärva 20 000 pund. En förmögenhet för en gammal pensionerad spinster - och aldrig tackar man väl nej till att klura på en mordgåta.

What really happens to the 'lost children' of this world, and what really goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Nemesis links a young psychic girl’s vision to a paedophile serial killer’s seven young victims and her efforts to identify the murderer to a young woman police officer before a total mental collapse. The killer remains at large; the horror ceases, but for how long?