Showing results for "Requiem" in Mystery

Cuando Wanda Stroud, una bibliotecaria jubilada, vuela de regreso a Los Ángeles desde Ciudad de México, ve algo inquietante en el ordenador portátil del pasajero que tiene delante. Al día siguiente, Wanda había quedado con una amiga para tomar café, pero no apareció, algo muy inusual en ella. El periodista Ray Wyatt investiga la desaparición mientras se aferra a la esperanza de que su hijo, Danny, todavía esté vivo.

The rugged hills and dales have finally found their way into DCI Harry Grimm’s heart. Having accepted a permanent position, he’s concentrating on building his team and keeping them focused on solving cases with painstaking police work. But he’s pulled into a classical vocalist’s world of dark secrets when the superstar chorist is brutally killed. With the body discovered gruesomely suspended from a church tower, Grimm and his cops are confronted by walls daubed in satanic symbols.

With dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi's Requiem, featuring her neighbor Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina. But when all that emerges from the doomed diva's vocal chords is a dying gasp, Daisy soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries.

Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia's ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can't understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can't work out why she even cares.

When the body of troubled teenager Elodie Duncan is pulled from the river in Abbeyford, the case is at first assumed to be a straightforward suicide. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is shocked to discover that she'd met the victim the night before her death, introduced by Kate's younger brother Jay. As the case develops, it becomes clear that Elodie was murdered.

New Orleans Requiem is written in Donaldson's unique style: A hard-hitting, punchy, action-packed prose that’s dripping with a folksy, decidedly southern, sense of irony. Add in Donaldson's brilliant first-hand knowledge of forensics and the sultry flavor of New Orleans, and the result is first class forensic procedural within an irresistibly delectable mystery.

"Only in Bologna" reads the headline in the Carlino after a professor of music is apparently murdered leaving the opera. But what looks like an open-and-shut case begins to fall apart when English detective Daniel Leicester is tasked with getting the accused man off, and a trail that begins among Bologna's close-knit classical music community leads him to suspect there may be a serial killer at large in the oldest university in the world. And as Bologna trembles with aftershocks following a recent earthquake, the city begins to give up her secrets.

On a cold February morning, ME Olivia Remington-Thorpe's severely beaten and bleeding husband stumbles onto Sheriff Elizabeth Benoit's retreat. Before slipping into unconsciousness, he begs her to find Olivia. Hours later, Deputy Detective Lila Dayne discovers a mysterious boneyard with dark secrets. The timing is catastrophic. Still reeling from the horrific events of the past autumn, the deputies of Eckardt County are spread thin, and tempers are short. Elizabeth's relationship with her lead investigator is sour. Still worse, her ex-husband moved back to Iowa with a devilish deal.

At last, Charlie and Helen Louise's wedding is only a month away. They're busy preparing for the big day, and the last thing Charlie needs is a new mystery to solve. Enter Tara Martin, a shy, peculiar woman who has recently started working part-time at Helen Louise's bistro and helping Charlie in the archive.

Le front de la Somme, automne 1916. Alors que les soldats succombent par milliers dans les tranchées, la mort frappe de façon plus singulière ailleurs mais avec tout autant de cruauté... C'est d'abord une chanteuse célèbre d'avant guerre, la Dame blanche, soupçonnée d'espionnage et sommairement exécutée par des justiciers improvisés. C'est ensuite Albert Saulx, un as de l'aviation française, retrouvé mystérieusement poignardé par une baïonnette allemande, au retour d'une mission aérienne, des roses rouges répandues dans le cockpit de son appareil.

“Terrific entertainment . . . A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout.”—Dean Koontz The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private...

Au début des années 1900, la France est en proie à d'étranges phénomènes. A Paris, des momies disparaissent des musées, des médiums succombent à des morts mystérieuses, et les rumeurs les plus folles courent les cercles occultes.

Eric Delarue, poco piú di cinquant'anni, origini francesi, bello, istrionico, di successo, sposato con una donna ricca: un po' per sfotterlo, un po' per invidia, gli operai della fabbrica di cui era il responsabile lo chiamavano Julio, come Julio Iglesias di cui aveva l'irresistibile sorriso. Chi poteva odiare uno così al punto da sparargli sulla porta di casa?

On ne choisit pas sa famille mais le diable a choisi son clan. Alors que Grégoire et Erwan traquent la vérité jusqu'à Lontano, au cœur des ténèbres africaines, Loïc et Gaëlle affrontent un nouveau tueur à Florence et à Paris. Sans le savoir, ils ont tous rendez-vous avec le même ennemi : l'Homme-Clou n'a pas dit son dernier mot. Chez les Morvan, tous les chemins mènent en enfer.

Il commissario Enzo Fellini, già protagonista di "Giallo veneziano" (2019), è incaricato dal questore Badalamenti di un nuovo, delicatissimo caso. In una gondola, infatti, è stato ritrovato il cadavere di Gudrun Kessler, una soprano tedesca stabilitasi da tempo nella città lagunare. Scontrandosi con l'ossessione del questore per l'opinione pubblica, oltre che con un imprevisto flirt, Fellini si immerge in un'indagine che ben presto assume toni decisamente allarmanti: chi è il Superuomo (come l'assassino stesso ama firmarsi)?

Eigentlich möchte der Sanktus das Eröffnungswochenende im Bier-Wellnesshotel "Holledauer Hof" mit seiner Familie genießen, doch dann taucht eine Leiche im Pool auf - um kurz darauf wieder spurlos zu verschwinden. Alfred Sanktjohanser, der den Toten entdeckt hat, macht sich gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Graffiti auf die Suche nach Leiche und Mörder. Alle geladenen Ehrengäste scheinen ein Motiv zu haben und das Weißbier, das der Sanktus als Eröffnungssud in der hauseigenen Brauerei brauen muss, wird zum Totensud.

After the death of his mother, young Alwin of Whittaker leaves the only home he has ever known to seek answers about his unknown father through a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. On the journey, Alwin falls in with a band of violent and marauding soldiers and is witness to their terrible crimes. When Alwin later joins up with a group of pilgrims, he must hide his identity...but he is not the only one with secrets to keep. Rosamund, a young woman travelling the same path, has much to conceal too.

Eiskalte Spannung aus Finnland - Arto Ratamo ermittelt. Kaltblütig wird der deutsche EU-Kommissar Walter Reinhart in Helsinki erschossen. Die finnische Sicherheitspolizei aktiviert ihre besten Köpfe, um das brutale Attentat aufzuklären, dem in schneller Abfolge weitere folgen. An vorderster Front kämpfen Arto Ratamo und Riita Kuurma, privat wie beruflich ein Paar. Der alleinerziehende Vater und Ex-Wissenschaftler hat Mut und einen siebten Sinn; Riita verfügt über die nötige Beharrlichkeit, um die Mörder ausfindig zu machen.

Grégoire Morvan, graue Eminenz des französischen Innenministeriums, hütet dunkle Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit in Zaire. Dort hatte er in den Siebzigerjahren einen bestialischen Killer zu Fall gebracht. Doch jener "Nagelmann", der seine Opfer einem grausamen Ritual folgend mit Nägeln und Spiegelscherben gespickt zurückließ, scheint einen mysteriösen Nachfolger zu haben. Als eine Serie ähnlich gearteter Anschläge Morvans gesamte Familie bedroht, begibt sich Sohn Erwan, Pariser Polizeikommissar, im Alleingang in den Kongo, um die wahre Geschichte seines Vaters zu ergründen.

Del ganador del premio L’H confidencial, nos llega Habana réquiem, un thriller policiaco que nos arrastra por las calles de La Habana Vieja. Cuba se tensa en medio del panorama de recesión y el Estado intenta maniobrar con un falso aperturismo económico, pero la mentalidad insular ha...