Títulos en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

The forgotten children of London are going missing, apparently being sold by their own families. Can she save them before it's too late... Flora Maguire's life is perfect - a beautiful home in Belgravia teeming with servants, a loving husband, and new baby Arthur to enjoy. But when she is invited to tour St Philomena's Children's Hospital in deprived Southwark, she gets a harsh insight into the darker side of Edwardian London. Shocked by the conditions people are living in, she soon uncovers a scandal with a dark heart.

As Halloween approaches in the Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow, Sophie Sayers, new to the village, is suspicious of the fierce new vicar and his ban on the villagers' seasonal celebrations. Especially when he plans to replace them with a traditional Guy Fawkes' Night party, and invites everyone to bring a guy (scarecrow) to burn on his giant bonfire. Sophie thinks the vicar's not the only one with dark secrets to hide.

1903 London is bustling and glamorous. With troubling secrets simmering and worrying signs of war Flora Maguire must solve a deadly mystery which leads right to the heart of the corridors of power. Flora Maguire has escaped the country to enjoy some time in fashionable Knightsbridge, London. Extravagant shops, exuberant theatres and decadent restaurants mean 1903's London is a thrilling adventure, but there are dark secrets threatening from the continent.

Flora has trodden the path of amateur sleuth before, but with so much at stake, this time it's personal. 1905 London is a heady mix of unimaginable wealth and simmering political tensions, and with war looming Flora Maguire wants to keep her family safe. So when her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, she's determined not to leave the investigation to the police. Slowly the body of the victim found stabbed on a train bound for Paddington starts giving up its secrets, and Flora and her husband Bunny become mired in a murky world of spies, communists and fraudsters.

After solving a murder and getting her organic farm ready to overwinter, Shiloh Bellamy still expects the next few months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer's association. Well, she could've if the owner wasn't found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby. Once again, Shiloh gets tangled up in the investigation when the police ignore an entire crop of suspects to blame one of her friends.

Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio Fabrizi, a disgruntled fellow bakery owner who does not want any competition. On opening day, he comes into the bakery threatening to shut them down. Fed up, Lyndsay takes him to task in front of what seems to be the whole neighborhood. So when Claudio turns up dead a day later—murdered—Lyndsay is unfortunately the prime suspect.

Benvenuto a Santa Caterina - a picturesque village in the heart of Tuscany where the bells of the local Abbey ring loud and clear across the idyllic rolling green hillsides. But wait, it's noon in the Abbey of Santa Caterina - and Sister Isabella is puzzled by the silence - why are the bells not ringing? As Isabella ponders this mystery, she makes a horrific discovery: Sister Raffaella is lying lifeless in the cloister.

When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Venice during carnival, stabbed by a stiletto blade, the Venetian police are eager to have the case solved and cleared up within a day—murder is bad for tourism! The police recruit the help of retired archivist, Arnold Clover. Godolphin had hired his services on arriving in Venice to help sort through some historical papers of note. These dusty documents may contain previously unknown information about the assassination of the murderer, Lorenzino de' Medici, 500 years previously.

To søskende i plejefamilie forsvinder ganske uforklarligt med få ugers mellemrum, og politiet har ingen spor at gå efter. Eftersøgningen tager dog en overraskende drejning, da fotos af børnene sammen med en fremmed kvinde dukker op online. Mysteriet vokser, da kvinden identificeres som den 29-årige Kajsa, som straks derefter bliver fundet død. Hvad er der sket med Kajsa, og hvorfor er hun fotograferet sammen med børnene? Psykoterapeut Siri Bergman får til opgave at se nærmere på sagen og udarbejde en gerningsmandsprofil sammen med sine kolleger i politiet.

Præcis midnat bliver Neil Griffon kidnappet fra sit hjem af ukendte gerningsmænd. Da han efter flere timer vågner op, bliver han tvunget til at samarbejde - hans fars uvurderlige væddeløbsheste mister livet hvis han nægter. Tilbage i stalden kan Neil ikke afsløre omstændighederne for nogen. Men han bukker ikke så let under. Han må slå forbryderne i deres eget spil.

Miss Marple er Agatha Christies amatørdetektiv, hvis evner altid undervurderes, fordi hun udadtil bare ligner en sød og lettere påtrængende gammel dame. Miss Marple optræder i 12 af Agatha Christies romaner og adskillige noveller, og det er hendes nysgerrighed og menneskekundskaber, der som regel resulterer i opklaringen af selv de mest indviklede sager – altid til politiets store forbavselse.

Dybt inde i skoven ligger Axelsons, en velanset kostskole, hvor traditioner og loyalitet vægtes højt. Da to af Axelsons elever bliver fundet brutalt myrdet på skolens område, bliver Ida Rossi, en lokal kriminalreporter, sendt ud for at lave en dybdegående reportage om stedet. Hun har imidlertid ikke fortalt sin chef, at hun selv er tidligere elev på skolen. Da hun ankommer, bliver hun mødt af mistænksomhed og tavshed og en ledelse, der virker mere interesseret i at værne om skolens traditionsrige ry end at få sandheden frem.

Ivy, Mateo og Cal var engang tætte, men nu er Carlton High og en virkelig dårlig start på dagen det eneste, de har til fælles. Topkarakter-eleven Ivy har tabt valget til elevrådet, hjerteknuseren Mateo er udbrændt, fordi han dobbeltjobber, efter at familiens virksomhed gik konkurs, og outsideren Cal er lige blevet brændt af ... igen. Så da de tre tidligere venner mødes uden for skolen, beslutter de sig for at tage en pjækkedag sammen og køre ind til byen. Men da de falder over liget af en af deres skolekammerater, ændrer deres dag sig fra kedelig til dødelig.

Liget af en ung smuk danserinde bliver fundet i biblioteket på familien Barrys gods. Mrs. Barry, der frygter, at sagen er forbundet med hendes mands utroskab, beder sin veninde miss Marple om hjælp, og sammen giver de sig til at undersøge det hotel, hvor den unge pige arbejdede som danserinde. Det viser sig, at en yderst velhavende ældre mand havde i sinde at adoptere den unge pige og derved skrive hende ind i sit testamente, hvilket hans to forgældede biologiske børn naturligvis var ganske utilfredse med.

En sommerdag bliver en antikvitetshandler fundet myrdet i sit hjem. Hans hjerte ligger udskåret i en antik sølvskål som et grotesk stilleben. Psykoterapeut Siri Bergman involveres i den makabre sag, da hun hjælper politiet med at udarbejde gerningsmandsprofiler. Samtidig kæmper hun med at forstå de dramatiske begivenheder, der førte til lukningen af hendes klinik. Flere brutale mord ryster Stockholm, og sporene går langt tilbage i tiden. Det, der først så ud til at være en gal mands værk, vokser hurtigt til noget betydeligt mere skræmmende.

Abbey has barely arrived in the quaint, quiet town of Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody—as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn’t much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff’s office seizes Abbey’s car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender.

När Bo Larsson och Gorm Willer från Örebro Dagblad stiger in i ett mörkt rum på Stora Hotellet, får de sitt livs chock. Framför dem sitter Erik Gustaf Geijer, mannen de ska intervjua, tillbakalutad i en fåtölj. Men det är något som inte stämmer. I mannens hjärta sitter nämligen en pennkniv. Erik Gustaf Geijer är död. Mordet på hotellet blir genast stadens stora snackis. Offret var diamanthandlare, på rundresa för att visa upp Silvias Stjärna. Nu är det dyrbara smycket spårlöst försvunnet.

Benvenuto a Santa Caterina! I denna idylliska by i hjärtat av Toscana bor ordenssystern Isabella. Och när hon inte arbetar eller ber, jo men då löser hon mord. I "Kloster, mord och dolce vita" får du ta del av de två första böckerna om Isabella, Toscanas egen detektivnunna! "Lunchfallet": I lilla Santa Caterina går dagarna långsamt fram för ordenssystern Isabella, vars dagar mest består av arbete och bön. Men när hon hittar syster Raffaela livlös inne på klostergården så blir det genast liv i den sömniga lilla staden.

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions?