Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Women Sleuths

Für Anya geht ein Traum in Erfüllung: Sie erhält das verlockende Angebot, uralte und streng geheime Manuskripte an der renommierten St. Andrew's University in Schottland zu entschlüsseln. Doch kaum angekommen, spürt sie, dass hinter den vergilbten Seiten mehr lauert als vergessene Worte. Die Schriften bergen Geheimnisse, die mächtige Gegnerinnen um jeden Preis im Dunkeln halten wollen.

Storlien, Nordschweden: Ein Wintersturm weckt schlimme Erinnerungen. Vor 28 Jahren erschütterte ein schockierendes Verbrechen das kleine Bergdorf an der norwegischen Grenze. Ein Vater und zwei Kinder wurden in ihrem Haus ermordet, während die Mutter spurlos verschwand. Die Lokalreporterin Vera Bergström untersucht den ungelösten Fall und kommt Schritt für Schritt hinter die schreckliche Wahrheit, was in jener schicksalhaften Nacht wirklich geschehen ist. Und einem Mörder auf die Spur, der immer noch äußerst gefährlich ist…

In the follow-up to A Novel Murder, mystery author Jane Hepburn is back and determined to keep her sleuthing skills in the pages of her novels. That is, until she’s invited to a prestigious literary party in London—where the gathering of glamorous attendees may be hiding a killer. Jane...

An exhilarating thriller set against a 250-mile foot race in the Sahara Desert, where more than one ultramarathoner will be running for their lives Seven years ago, Adri left the running world after a major scandal. She leveled an explosive, and as it turns out career-ending, accusation at one...

An opera singer uncovers the dark secrets of her cruel and alluring understudy when a murder disrupts her disciplined world. "The first time my understudy tried to kill me was on the day we met. We got off on the wrong foot, Yolanda and I, and while most of that was due to Yolanda being a very...

“A beautiful novel, suffused with fondness and wit. . . . A real triumph!” —Alexander McCall Smith Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. She takes great...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER London provides fabulously deadly opportunities for a fledgling inspector in the twisty follow-up to Julia Seales’s bestselling debut, A Most Agreeable Murder, hailed by People as a “delightful cocktail . . . of wit, hilarity, and suspense!” After achieving her...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve in this heartwarming novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest. “[Molly is] the most interesting (and endearing) main character in a long time.”—Stephen King, on The Maid...

David Lagercrantz's detective duo, Rekke and Vargas, returns in a new installment of the internationally best-selling series that began with Dark Music (“A classic mystery . . . One Holmes himself would have loved to solve” —The Independent). Dead women should not show up in photos...

Tarot card reader extraordinaire Katie True gets embroiled in another local murder when her best friend becomes the prime suspect in this exciting mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Play the Fool. “A delicious blend of suspense and madcap humor.”—Library Journal, starred review...

The fourth book in the Shady Hollow mystery series sees Vera embroiled in a case involving star-crossed lovers whose affair may have turned deadly. It's spring in Shady Hollow, and romance is in the air. Even reporter Vera Vixen is caught up in the season as her relationship with new police...

Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James arrives in Paris in 1938 eager to make a fresh start, but little does she know the trouble that awaits her... Charlie James is chasing her first big scoop as correspondent for British-based newspaper The Times, and she needs to prove to her boss that...

From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman’s unraveling during the Blitz—a story of World War II intrigue, love, and danger “[A] thrilling novel…atmospheric and memorable.” —Emma Donoghue, best-selling author of Haven It is 1940 and...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series, Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. The Pentecost & Parker series "takes gritty 40s noir, shakes it...

In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, lest she—and her country—suffer a dastardly...

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, an exhilarating new thriller from the best-selling author of The Girl in the Spider’s Web—a murder investigation in which two unlikely allies race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy. Professor Hans Rekke is a world...

In this page-turning sequel to Stalking Susan, TV reporter Riley Spartz pursues a curious story of a bride left at the altar and finds herself caught in a dangerous missing-person case. When Riley Spartz sees a want ad reading “Wedding Dress for Sale: Never Worn,” her news instincts tell her...

One man, three wives, the perfect murder. A scintillating novel of betrayal and conspiracy. Picasso Lane is twelve years old when her father, Oliver, is murdered at their summer beach house. Her mother, Diana, is the primary suspect—until the police discover his second wife, and then his third...

An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive Noa P. Singleton never spoke a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ended with a jury finding her guilty of first-degree murder. Ten years later...

In her seventh captivating adventure, Jane Austen finds her crime-solving mettle put to the test in a confounding case of intrigue, murder, and high treason. Among the haunted ruins of an ancient abbey, Jane is drawn into a shadow world of dangerous secrets and traitorous hearts where not only...