Risultati per "Le cure della casa" in Poliziesco

Dopo l’abbandono del marito James – che l’ha lasciata per entrare in monastero – Agatha Raisin ha toccato il fondo della tristezza e non si preoccupa neppure di quello che gli altri pensano di lei, quando la vedono senza trucco, infagottata in informi camicioni e con indosso le – prima aborrite – scarpe ortopediche. Ma c’è una luce in fondo al tunnel e ha pure un nome: Tristan Delon. È il nuovo curato di Carseley ed è a dir poco affascinante: capelli biondi, grandi occhi azzurri, bocca perfetta, fisico atletico… In più, dimostra un sincero interesse proprio per Agatha.

Chi ha ucciso Germaine sfondandole il cranio a colpi di martello e perché ha gettato nella Mosa il corpo solo tre giorni dopo? Siamo a Givet, paesino francese al confine con il Belgio dove Germaine, giovane ragazza madre, era scomparsa misteriosamente in una mattina di gennaio. La gente del paese è convinta che i colpevoli siano i fiamminghi e così Maigret, per capire il perché di questi sospetti, ne frequenta la casa. È proprio così che trova colpevole e movente grazie al suo imbattibile intuito.

When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance writer Theda Krakow suspects it’s accidental. But Violet, Theda’s shelter-owning rock-music buddy, claims the cats’ kibble was poisoned. When Theda starts looking at politics at the city shelter, she finds a number of people who could have happily committed the heinous crime.

The town is gripped by a big freeze, and blizzard after blizzard has engulfed the feline community, leaving shops and businesses snowbound. Hettie Bagshot and her sidekick, Tilly Jenkins, have found sanctuary by their fireside but soon they are bucketed into a terrifying nightmare, called to investigate the disappearance of the town's kittens as - one by one - they are taken in the snow. Who are the strange cats living in Wither-Fork Woods?

K-9 search and rescue handler Jamie Flint and her team - both human and canine - are called in when a group vanishes during a dogsledding expedition for battered women in the Mahoosuc Mountains of Maine. When it's learned a rogue gunman was involved in the disappearance, authorities look to the abusive partners of the women now lost for answers. Meanwhile, a voice from Jamie's past begins to haunt her, echoing the words of the shooter now in pursuit of a target Jamie alone can save.

The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn't be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead, Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan's life. This gentle creature, malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye infection, had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous.

Back in Pickax, Jim Qwilleran expects to resume a quiet life, but the people and animals of Pickax have other ideas. A noisy cardinal wakes him every morning, nosy neighbors drop by uninvited, and the Siamese cats—Koko and Yum Yum—misbehave, even sneezing on guests. As if they weren't bad enough, Qwill's long-time companion, Polly Duncan, acts as though she is in love—with another man. Worst of all, Qwill finds a body in his apple orchard. When his friend, Dennis Hough, becomes the chief suspect, Qwill embarks on a crusade to clear Hough's name and win back Polly's heart.

Soon after banker Willard Carmichael and his young bride arrive in Pickax, a string of petty burglaries follow. Then Willard meets his demise—an apparent victim of a mugging—and the banker's home restoration project goes to the widow's cousin. Though the clues are as elusive as a cat burglar, the suspicious Qwill and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are determined to catch a thief—and a killer.