検索キーワード： "Chris McGeorge" 犯罪スリラー

Agatha Christie meets Edgar Wallace! Ein winterliches Dinner im Kreis der Familie, ein toter König - und die brennende Frage: Wer war es? Wer Mystery-Rätselkrimispannung à la "The Glass Onion" und absurd-komische, aber hochintelligente cosy crime-Krimis liebt, liegt beim humorvollen Krimi "Ein Fall von Majestätsvergiftung" absolut richtig. Der königliche Koch Jonathan Alleyne im eingeschneiten Balmoral Castle den Mord an seinem König aufklären. An Weihnachten besteht der britische König Eric darauf, dass nur seine Familie bei ihm auf Balmoral Castle bleibt; das Personal wird bis auf den Koch nach Hause geschickt.

At 11 years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. The publicity surrounding the case laid the foundation for his reputation as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. He parlayed that fame into a gig as TV’s “resident detective,” solving the more typical tawdry daytime talk show mysteries. Until, that is, Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in a hotel room. Around him, five strangers are slowly waking up, as well. Soon they discover a corpse in the bathtub and Sheppard is challenged to put his deductive skills to the test.

Kannst du der Zukunft entkommen? Rätselhaft, raffiniert und hochspannend: In dem neuen Thriller "Escape Time" hört Shirley Steadman einen Radiosender, der die Zukunft vorhersagt - und einen Mord ankündigt. Es beginnt ein verzweifelter Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Shirley Steadman kann kaum glauben, was sie da im Radio hört: lokale Nachrichten, harmlose Unfälle - aber das Datum ist das von morgen! Erst denkt die 70-Jährige noch, dem Piratensender, den sie zufällig entdeckt hat, sei ein Fehler unterlaufen. Doch am nächsten Tag ereignet sich alles exakt wie gemeldet.

In 2016, six students and a dog on a barge trip entered Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in England. Six students went in, and two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared on the other side with only one of the students, unconscious, and the dog. The case of the Standedge Six was largely kept from the national media. The police investigation concluded that the only remaining student, Matthew, killed his friends, hid the bodies on the boat and returned later to move them to an undisclosed location. Matthew is in prison...but he maintains he is innocent.

Six students went into a tunnel on a private boat. Two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared at the other end of the tunnel carrying only one of the students, Matthew. He had been knocked unconscious and has no memory of what took place in the tunnel. The police suspect he killed his friends, hid the bodies and later moved them to an undisclosed location. But sitting in a cell awaiting trial, Matthew maintains his innocence.

Cara Lockhart has just commenced a life sentence in HMP North Fern - the newest maximum-security women's prison in the country. She was convicted of a crime she is adamant she didn't commit. One morning she wakes up to find her cellmate murdered - shot in the head with a gun that is missing. The door was locked all night, which makes Cara the only suspect. But that was just the beginning.

Shirley Steadman, a 70-year-old living in a small town in the North East of England, loves her volunteer work at the local hospital radio. She likes giving back to the community, and even more so, she likes getting out of the house. Haunted by the presence of her son, a reluctant Royal Navy officer who was lost at sea, and still in the shadow of her long-dead abusive husband, she doesn't like being alone much. One day, at the radio station, she is playing around with the equipment and finds a frequency that was never there before.