Showing results for "the fell" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

At dusk on a November evening in 2020, a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week quarantine period, but she just can’t take it anymore - the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know. But Kate’s neighbour Alice sees her leaving, and Matt, Kate’s son, soon realizes she’s missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk - a breath of open air - falls and badly injures herself.

Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That's the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . But Vicky's body is never found.

Twenty years earlier, a set of female eighteen-year-old twins went missing in the Bay Area. There were no news reports or national coverage. The original investigators had barely touched the case, and like so many other cases of missing teens, were quickly labeled runaways, and the file sat on the shelf. Baffled by the lack of attention for the sisters, Martina insists it will be Hirsch and the Cold Case Squad’s next case.

Summer can be murder out on the sun-scorched Yorkshire Fells. When the body of eighteen-year-old Tyler Prasad is found up on lonely Skye Moss, Detectives Leo Donovan and Shan Young are called in to investigate. Tyler lies dead in a bone-dry ditch. His handsome face shattered in a brutal attack that leaves Donovan and Young baffled. They dig into Tyler’s deepest secrets, following a twisty trail that leads straight to Patefield Grange, a luxury country-house retreat across the moors.

A beautiful young law student dies on the concrete below her third-story window in chilly Dunedin. It's clear enough how she died. What isn't is why—or who's involved. Plenty of people had a reason to hate Ashleigh, with her straight As and perfect looks. She'd fallen out with her flatmates, and her boyfriend Xander was having second thoughts about their future together. And then there are the weird messages . . .

The peace of Kielder Water is shattered when tourists open a barrel they found floating in the reservoir at dawn. Detectives Stone and Oliver are called to examine the skeletal remains inside. The tourists are eliminated from the investigation, but that same day a second body is discovered - this one with skin. Have the police let the killer leave the scene? While Stone investigates the remains, Oliver travels to Iceland to gather evidence and track down the tourists who have fled. Someone will do anything to protect the secrets of the past.

Ein wunderbar hintergründiger Krimi von Heinrich Steinfest. Ein Kartäusermönch soll im 18. Jahrhundert die Rezeptur für ein geheimnisvolles Wunderwasser erfunden haben - 4711 Echt Kölnisch Wasser. Als in Wien ein kleines Rollfläschchen mit dem Destillat auftaucht, beginnt eine weltweite Jagd nach dem Flakon: Seinem Inhalt werden übersinnliche Kräfte nachgesagt, wer es trinkt, erreicht ewiges Leben. Ausgerechnet der norwegische Botschafter muss als erster sterben, und Cheng, der einarmige Detektiv, kehrt zurück nach Wien.

Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again. Autumn 1930. Journalist Nell Fagan knows there's only one person who can get to the bottom of this mystery: Rachael Savernake. But someone wants Nell dead, and soon, while investigating a series of recent deaths at Blackstone Sanatorium, she's missing entirely. Looking for answers, Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell, with its eerie moor, deadly waters and sinister tower.

Alex Fokas, a young and ambitious journalist, is surprised when a book by an obscure author is sent to her in the post. Falling by Avery Lewis is a thriller about a woman who is murdered by being pushed off a cliff. Along with the book, Alex is sent a newspaper article about Avery's recent death by accidental drowning. She fell from the same cliff as the character in her book and her body still hasn't been found. Intrigued and disturbed, Alex travels to Cornwall to research the story for an article.

After receiving a letter from a trusted family friend and mentor, Asher, shield mage and scribe of the king, travels with his team to the picturesque city of Cloudfall. He is joined by the ever-inquisitive goblin She, the magically talented Etta, and his brother Colin, a knight in training. As they travel, they will encounter manifestations of lost and forgotten evils, and will either live or die by the decisions they make. Can they stop the corruption, or will they be too late?

Mysteröse Ereignisse. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes zieht Merrily Watkins mit ihrer Tochter in den kleinen Ort Ledwardine im Westen Englands, um die dortige Pfarrstelle zu übernehmen. Die ländliche Idylle wird jedoch bald gestört: Bei einer nächtlichen Feier ereignet sich ein skurriler Todesfall und ein Skandalautor will in der Kirche ein Stück über den Tod eines Geistlichen aufführen, der vor Urzeiten als Hexer verfolgt wurde. Kurz darauf werden Merrily und ihre Tochter im Pfarrhaus von düsteren Visionen heimgesucht. Und dann verschwindet plötzlich ein Mädchen.