Ergebnis für "Max" in Weibliche Detektive

Der Mörder geht nach einem perfiden Plan vor: Detailgetreu stellt er die Morde einer Bestseller-Trilogie nach. Und die sind äußerst brutal und erinnern an mittelalterliche Foltermethoden. Die Opfer - allesamt Frauen. Ist ein Fan der Trilogie durchgedreht? Kommissarin Jessica Niemi und ihr Team ermitteln unter Hochdruck, doch der Mörder ist ihnen immer einen Schritt voraus. Die Ermittler tappen im Dunkeln, bis ihnen klar wird, dass die Opfer Jessica Niemi erschreckend ähnlich sehen.

Mit allen Weihwassern gewaschen. Die Jugendliebe Maria im Kloster, ganz Altötting bevölkert mit Pilgern und der alte Wirt Bichler ermordet in der Kirchenbank: Die Rückkehr in seinen Heimatort hat sich Kommissar Max Kramer beschaulicher vorgestellt. Seine Ermittlungen beginnen zäh, doch Maria kennt sich aus mit dem Neid, den Lügen und Intrigen hinter dem katholischen Anstrich und unterstützt ihn tatkräftig. Ungünstig nur, dass dabei das alte Feuer zwischen den beiden erneut entfacht.

Kommissarin Jessica Niemi gerät in eine Auseinandersetzung, wird handgreiflich und prompt von einem Passanten gefilmt. Das Video geht viral und sie wird beurlaubt. Um Abstand zu gewinnen, fährt Jessica auf die zwischen Finnland und Schweden gelegenen Åland-Inseln. Dort trifft sie auf eine Gruppe älterer Menschen, die als Kinder während des Krieges fliehen mussten und hier auf der Insel in einem Waisenhaus lebten. Nun treffen sie sich wieder. Als einer der Alten tot aufgefunden wird, beginnt Jessica zu ermitteln.

Zetterberg, ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, wird in seinem Haus in Helsinki tot aufgefunden. Er hatte zuvor harte Maßnahmen und Entlassungen angekündigt und sich so unzählige Feinde gemacht. Das Mordmotiv scheint klar, als Jusuf die Ermittlungen übernimmt. Der findet jedoch heraus, dass Zetterberg noch ganz andere Feinde hatte. Auf einem Foto, das man in seinem Haus findet, sind neben dem Ermordeten zwei Männer zu sehen, deren Gesichter vom Täter ausgekratzt wurden.

Helsinki 2020: Zwei erfolgreiche Blogger sind spurlos verschwunden. Kurz darauf wird deren Tod in den sozialen Medien gemeldet. Ein geschmackloser PR-Gag? Als eine junge Frau, gekleidet wie ein Manga-Mädchen, am Strand tot angespült wird, vermutet die Kriminalpolizei einen Zusammenhang. Jessica Niemi übernimmt die Ermittlungen, und sie kommt schon bald einem skrupellosen Netzwerk auf die Spur, das offenbar Mädchen an Manga-Fetischisten vermittelt. Zum Sex - und zum Töten.

Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never attempted is the mystery from her own past. Her mother abandoned her when she was nine, sending her periodic postcards, but never returning to reclaim her daughter. Seven years after the postcards stop coming, Martha Revere is declared legally dead, with no sign of what may have happened to her. Until now. With a single clue - that her mother’s car disappeared 16 years ago in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay - Max drops everything to finally seek the truth.

Investigative journalist Maxine "Max" Revere is covering the high-profile New York City trial of serial killer Adam Bachman, and Max is excited when she's granted a rare interview with him. She has a lot to ask him, and she's also hoping to find out if Bachman knows anything about a couple who's been missing since the week before his arrest. But her time with him doesn't go quite as planned.

The next in the hot, new series featuring Max Holt and Jamie Swift, filled with even more fast-paced action, crazy characters, steamy sex, suspense, and nonstop hilarity. This time Beaumont, South Carolina, is going to hell in a handbasket. It all starts when Jamie decides to increase revenues for her newspaper by starting a personal ads section. Suddenly, the town gets "all sexed up." A trashy lingerie shop opens. The bakery starts making pornographic pastries. Everyone gets the idea that sex sells.

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics - at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as "poets": adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.

Over a span of 20 years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence? That's the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son's recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D.A. won't talk to her - they think they have the right woman. Instead, Max turns her attention to three similar cold cases. If she can solve them, she might be able to help her friend.

Der Mörder geht nach einem perfiden Plan vor: Detailgetreu stellt er die Morde einer Bestseller-Trilogie nach. Und die sind äußerst brutal und erinnern an mittelalterliche Foltermethoden. Die Opfer - allesamt Frauen. Ist ein Fan der Trilogie durchgedreht? Kommissarin Jessica Niemi und ihr Team ermitteln unter Hochdruck, doch der Mörder ist ihnen immer einen Schritt voraus. Die Ermittler tappen im Dunkeln, bis ihnen klar wird, dass die Opfer Jessica Niemi erschreckend ähnlich sehen.

In Climatized, Max is hired by the wife of a prominent senator to determine the cause of his untimely death. It leads her to discover that three world-renowned scientists had been killed days before they were scheduled to testify before the late senator's investigative committee. Meanwhile, a fourth scientist has gone missing. Max determined he is the key to unearthing the motives behind the deaths. Following the many twists and turns, Max and her associate, Jackson Monroe uncover a powerful organization responsible for the killings.

Teenaged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff, and few people cared...except her mentally challenged 18-year-old stepbrother, Tommy. He loved her in spite of her cruelty. He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is falling apart. After a year, the police still have no answers: Ivy could have jumped, she could have been pushed, or it could have been an accident. With too many suspects and not enough evidence, the investigation has grown cold.

As the ’70s draw to a close in San Francisco, things do not bode well for the city—or for ex-con PI Colleen Hayes, whose daughter Pam, in a tragic turn of events, has lost her baby. Pam leaves San Francisco, and Colleen, who moved there to reunite with her, starts to wonder what she’s doing in the Bay Area. Meanwhile, a serial killer given the name “Night Candy” is targeting sex workers, both male and female. The situation doesn’t improve when Colleen’s friend and ally—SFPD Inspector Owens—is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, who was found burned in a fire.

Dr. Duncan Lathram is a brilliant plastic surgeon who recently invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. His unparalleled artistry in the operating room is the salvation of all the biggest power players in Washington, DC, whenever they need to be TV ready. Lathram appears to have it all, but something isn’t right....

Hedonistic socialite turned undercover detective and poster girl for the war effort, Fancy Anders is back to solve another case. The Hollywood Canteen has just opened as a refuge and nightclub to give enlisted men some nights they will never forget as they prepare to head into war. With Hollywood elite cooking food and tending bar, with beautiful young actresses and starlets serving as hostesses and dance partners, the Canteen is a wonderland indeed. But when a young hostess dies in a car accident, the entire club—and possibly the entire American military service—is in jeopardy.

For all the Kellings' quirks, no other family in Boston is more adept at throwing a wedding. So when Max Bittersohn's wife, Sarah Kelling, offers to organize his nephew's nuptials, Max is smart enough to stay out of her way. But when the art-fraud investigator stumbles onto a family mystery, he is drawn into something far more serious than the question of who will catch the bouquet. Stolen years earlier, the priceless Kelling jewels were last seen in Amsterdam, so how did they end up among the wedding gifts?

When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn - the savviest art detectives of the Boston upper crust. Nabbing the crooks was easy, but finding the missing paintings has proven trickier. Years later, the collection's prized Titian is still lost, and the new director, loudmouthed cattle baron Elwyn Fleesom Turbot, is getting impatient.

If she weren't so fabulous, the Countess Lydia Ouspenska might be considered a gangster's moll. The last time she met Max Bittersohn, Boston's famed art-fraud investigator, she was forging minute Byzantine masterpieces to make ends meet. But when Max bumps into her on the Common, the Countess is back on her feet. She has taken up with Bartolo Arbalest, a master forger currently masquerading as an art restorer. And as Bittersohn knows all too well, even the most genteel fraudster cannot be trusted.

Though a few years past 60, Sarah Kelling's aunt Emma is as vigorous as a girl of 22. She sings, she dances, and when the local fire department needs a fundraising boost, she's happy to jump out a window for charity. This summer, she decamps to Maine, to beat the heat at an island retreat for artists and great thinkers. There are writers, painters, a psychic, and a historian, and their company promises to be great fun - until a few of them go treasure-crazy.