Showing results for "Sin" in Amateur Sleuths

Four years ago, Cody Savage was accused of his wife’s vicious murder. Now, he’s returned to his hometown to find the truth and bring the killer to justice. But amid the hunt, Cody becomes the prey of the Sin Eater. To find his wife’s killer, Cody will need to evade the Sin Eater and learn to trust his new psychic powers. As the body count rises, an unlikely ally will join Cody to face the vicious killer. However, not everything is as it seems, and not everyone is who they claim to be. When the ugly truth is finally revealed, it’s obvious that Cain Lake’s secrets are just beginning to surface.

As a high-level consultant at an investment firm, Cash Kristiansen is used to the isolation of big-city corporate life—and the growing distance from family. So when his estranged aunt makes a series of desperate calls, urging him to return to Salt Cliff Isle, he reluctantly agrees to visit. But what was supposed to be a short family visit quickly spirals into a dark mystery when Cash arrives to find the island shaken by a brutal death.

After Wanda Frawley’s tragic suicide, rare-book expert Brooklyn Wainwright makes an intriguing discovery in one of Wanda’s old books: A copy of Pride and Prejudice contains a very interesting letter addressed to the deceased’s spouse. In it, Wanda’s sister professes her love for Wanda’s husband. Soon, additional pieces of correspondence are discovered between the covers of other Jane Austen titles, each hinting at sordid secrets - and, perhaps, murder.

Aníbal Guerrero, un joven atormentado por la desaparición de su hermana adolescente dos años atrás, unirá fuerzas para encontrarla con su amiga de la infancia, Julia Herrera, una brillante informática. Sus descubrimientos ayudarán al inspector Montemayor a avanzar en una investigación que le tenía frustrado, desembocando en la persecución de un asesino en serie que opera a lo largo de la península y que utiliza internet para difundir un macabro mensaje. Por otro lado, la misteriosa Diana se somete voluntariamente a tortura pero... ¿con qué objetivo?

When a Delaware real estate mogul is murdered, Reverend Candice Miller is called to minister to the grieving family. She quickly realizes that the killer has adopted the symbolism of sin eating, a Victorian-era religious ritual, as a calling card. Newspaper journalist Brian Wilder wants the scoop on the killing, including the meaning behind the mysterious loaf of bread left with the corpse. Is it the work of a religious fanatic, or something more sinister?

International wine consultant Sarah McKee comes home from an extended business trip to discover her elderly friend Landon Harris has died unexpectedly. Heart attack? Sarah doesn't buy it. Something had been troubling Landon. He had called her numerous times when she was in Europe and sent a letter, asking her to undertake a search for him. And now he's dead. Sarah suspects foul play. But when she starts asking questions, Landon's son, Jean-Paul, warns her to quit interfering, Landon's loyal assistant is fired, and an inquest reveals the chilling truth.

Not a day goes by that Father Luis Chavez isn't haunted by the cold-blooded slaying of his brother, Nicolas. But as the years pass and the case remains unsolved, there looks to be no end to his torment. When Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Story discovers a possible link between a murdered prosecutor and Nicolas's death several years before, the priest investigates, uncovering an international money-laundering scheme tying American banks to Mexican cartels.

On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester’s church, convinced he has murdered his wife. Sidney and his wife Hildegard go for a shooting weekend in the country and find their hostess has a sinister burn on her neck. Sidney’s friend Amanda receives poison pen letters when at last she appears to be approaching matrimony. A firm of removal men 'accidentally' drop a Steinway piano on a musician’s head outside a Cambridge college.

It’s a beautiful summer, and Abigail is starting to feel more at home in her new hometown when her new friend’s sister is found dead in the local Blooms and More flower shop. When Abigail’s friend approaches her with a plea to help solve the murder case and bring justice for her sister, Abigail puts on her amateur sleuth hat and dives in to help.

Father Brown (Chesterton's sharp-witted detective priest) and Flambeau (the reformed master-thief and Brown's constant companion) are on a little vacation in Norfolk, invited to visit the mysterious Prince Saradine. It doesn't go well. Sure, Flambeau gets some good fishing in, but there's also a duel with rapiers, a couple murders, a hanging, a case of mistaken identity, an awkward family reunion, and a gang of surly Sicilians.