Risultati per "M C Beaton" in Thriller e suspense

Che cosa c'è di più innocuo di una grande festa paesana nel pittoresco scenario dei Cotswolds? Agatha decide di rilassarsi concedendosi una bella grigliata a Winter Parva, presso Carsely. Non può immaginare che sarà il prologo al suo prossimo caso... Gary Beech è un poliziotto dei Cotswolds assai zelante: nessuno riesce a sfuggire alle grinfie del suo libretto delle contravvenzioni. Certo Gary non è amato, ma dal risentimento ad arrivare a ucciderlo, decapitarlo e cuocerlo allo spiedo durante un sagra ce ne passa.

Followers of the series will notice in this volume some personality changes in the odd assortment of retainers who keep the infamous house at 67 Clarges Street, in London’s Mayfair, at the ready for whatever entrepreneur will rent it as a launching pad into the London social season. This time the renters are an unlikely couple, the Goodenoughs, apparently father and daughter; she a great beauty, he silent and mysterious. Their secrets eventually become known to the downstairs troupe, but the indomitable butler Rainberd rallies the support forces.

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series... Death of a Policeman: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more...

Murder in Paradise... When Jane Wetherby offers PC Hamish Macbeth a holiday at her 'Happy Wanderer' health farm on the isle of Eileencraig, he is more than happy to accept. Unfortunately the visit doesn't prove to be the pampering experience he had been hoping for. Windswept Eileencraig is...

Lady Rose Summer, la débutante indocile, jurerait ses grands dieux qu'elle n'est pas jalouse. Après tout, elle sait que ses fiançailles avec le capitaine Harry Cathcart ne sont qu'un stratagème pour empêcher ses parents de l'envoyer aux Indes y trouver un mari. Mais lorsque Dolores Duval, aux formes aussi irrésistibles que son petit accent français, se fait un peu trop remarquer aux côtés de Harry, le sang de Lady Rose ne fait qu'un tour.

Lady Rose Summer est prête à tous les subterfuges pour vivre sa vie comme elle l'entend. En simulant des fiançailles avec le capitaine Harry Cathcart, elle évite d'être envoyée aux Indes afin d'y trouver un bon parti. Pour faire totalement illusion, elle va jusqu'à prendre sous son aile Miss Dolly Tremaine, une jeune débutante, lors d'un bal. Avant de découvrir sa protégée poignardée au fond d'une barque. Il n'en faut pas moins pour réveiller le flair policier de notre rebelle.

Décidément insoumise, Lady Rose refuse de faire comme toutes les jeunes filles de son rang : elle ne se mariera pas ! Pire, elle veut quitter la maison pour gagner sa vie. My god ! Ses parents finissent par céder à ses extravagances, sachant que le détective Harry Cathcart la chaperonne. Mais la vie de femme indépendante n'est pas aussi excitante que Rose l'avait imaginé.

Après "Agatha Raisin" et "Hamish Macbeth", la nouvelle série incontournable de M.C Beaton ! Belle et rebelle, telle est Lady Rose. Après s'être compromise avec les suffragettes, au grand désespoir de ses parents, la jeune fille de bonne famille fait une entrée désastreuse dans la haute société londonienne... Ce qui ne dissuade pas un Sir aux allures distinguées de lui faire les yeux doux. Très louche, selon le père de Lady Rose, qui charge le capitaine Harry Cathcart, aristocrate désargenté, d'en savoir plus sur le prétendant.

In den Cotswolds herrscht Feierstimmung: Agatha Raisins lang ersehnte Hochzeit mit ihrem Nachbarn, dem stets korrekten James Lacey, steht vor der Tür. Doch dann taucht urplötzlich Agathas tot geglaubter Ehemann Jimmy im Standesamt auf. Die aufgebrachte Agatha geht Jimmy an die Gurgel, der gedemütigte James sucht das Weite, die Hochzeit platzt. Als Jimmy am nächsten Tag ermordet im Straßengraben liegt, sind Agatha und James prompt die Hauptverdächtigen.

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series... Death of a Liar: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But...

Are drugs responsible for a sighting of Nessie's long lost relative? Recovering addict Tommy Jarret has just rented a chalet to check out reports of a sea monster near the village of Drim. But when he turns up dead, apparently from a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the...

In dark, wintry Lochdubh, Christmas Cheer is about as welcome as a flat tyre on a deserted road. The Calvinist element in town has always resisted what they view as secular frivolity, so for most of the townsfolk there'll be no carols, feasting, gifts - or even whisky on Christmas Day! And for...

The unconventional Hamish Macbeth finds that his own impetuousness places him at the center of a murder investigation. Death accompanies a tattooed stranger to a tiny Highland town... Everyone in Lochdubh knows about the Macho Man - a mean bully claiming to be a professional wrestler and...

Returning from holiday Hamish becomes unaccountably worried - it's as if he senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over Lochdubh. He soon learns that there is a newcomer to the village, a woman called Catriona Beldame, and that the villagers have decided she is a witch. At first Hamish is charmed...

Truth is stranger than fiction... Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective...

Trouble is afoot in the remote Scottish fishing village of Stoyre, where the inhabitants are acting kind of... fishy. On a routine visit, Hamish Macbeth finds the pub empty, the church unexpectedly full, and the very air permeated with fear. Then an explosion levels a holiday cottage which the...

No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' Mail on Sunday Amazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside: the most famous of all Lochdubh, remotely nestling in the Highlands, is perfectly anonymous... until well-known TV reporter Crystal French races into town in...

A sudden outbreak of maliciousness strikes the town of Lochdubh in the form of a rash of poison pen letters. Things turn deadly when the local postmistress is found hanged in her room... with a vicious note beneath her dangling feet. Though his superiors call it suicide, PC Hamish Macbeth...

The third Hamish Macbeth crime mystery, from internationally bestselling author M.C.Beaton The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or - more accurately - has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remains of the murdered victim are his...

The second Hamish Macbeth crime mystery, from internationally bestselling author M.C.Beaton When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted. . . except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. Yet the affairs of his heart will have to...