Scotland Thriller

London im Jahre 1829 - ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme - doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren... Folge 8 - Hochverrat! Die Leitung von Scotland Yard und der Sprecher des Unterhauses sind sich einig, wer Lord Underbatton umgebracht haben soll. Währenddessen jagen Cluskey und Winterhorn den wahren Mörder. Cluskey ist sich sicher: Der Täter erhält Hilfe vom Yard!

London im Jahre 1829 - ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme - doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren... Folge 6 - Der Fluch des Museums. Spuk im Museum: In einer Depesche berichtet der Direktor des Yorkshire-Museums von ungewöhnlichen Vorkommnissen, körperlosen Gestalten und grauenhaften Geräuschen aus dem Gemäuer. Er ist überzeugt: Ein Fluch liegt auf den Exponaten!

Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit her Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at Oxford station where the train terminates, to greet them. Only they never arrive. All the passengers alight but the two women are nowhere to be seen. The train is searched and the coachman swears he saw them board onto first class, but they seem to have vanished into thin air. The Railway Detective must unravel the mystifying web of their disappearance before Imogen and Rhoda vanish into oblivion for good.

St. Andrews, Scotland: Renovation works on the famous Old Course golf course uncovers the remains of a body in a shallow grave—two bullet holes in the skull. DNA confirms the victim as Rab Shepherd, the missing brother of Scotland's late crime patriarch, Jock Shepherd. But Rab pulled out of the family business over twenty years ago, and moved to Australia where he allegedly lived an honest and wealthy life. This body confirms otherwise. Why was Rab killed? And who would risk killing him, knowing he was big Jock's brother?

A fist-fight by an open grave leads Dorothy to investigate the possibility of a faked death, while a young woman's obsession with Hannah threatens her relationship with Indy and puts them both in mortal danger. An elderly man claims he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife, while ghosts of another kind come back to haunt Jenny from the grave...pushing her to breaking point. As the Skelfs struggle with increasingly unnerving cases and chilling danger lurks close to home, it becomes clear that grief, in all its forms, can be deadly.

As the station prepares to close down for good, DI Georgie Strachan is running out of time to find out what is really going on in Burrowhead and put a stop to it. A deadly drug appears in the small Scottish village, best consumed with the blood of a freshly slaughtered animal. But what does this have to do with the deaths and suicides? And who is responsible for supplying it?

The arrest of a Finnish contract killer and the subsequent murder of an Edinburgh reporter seem unconnected—until a ghost from the past appears in the investigation. The horrors of past misdeeds in Northern Ireland, contract killers, military secrets and organised-crime feuds collide on the streets of Edinburgh and the Irish Republic, drawing Detective Grace Macallan into brutal score-settling on Dublin's streets and a life-or-death race against time.

State prosecutor Chastity Riley runs off to Glasgow. For one, there is that letter, written by a lawyer, that lures her to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather. And secondly, her life in Hamburg has arrived at a sad impasse. In the rough Scottish city, she meets Tom, who knows the key that unlocks the Rileys’ family secret. She never dared confront the painful truths about herself, but some whisky and a few ghosts help her to do just that.

"Alla fine, tutto sembra ricondursi al denaro", riflette lapidario Thomas Lynley di fronte all'indagine che lo ha portato in Cumbria, un incarico strettamente confidenziale affidatogli da Sir David Hillier. A chiamare in causa Scotland Yard è Bernard Fairclough, baronetto di recente nomina e ricco industriale, convinto che la morte per annegamento di suo nipote Ian, archiviata dal coroner come accidentale, sia stata in realtà un omicidio. Affiancato da Deborah e Simon St. James, che lo seguono in incognito, Lynley si ritrova a frugare tra gli scheletri nell'armadio di molte.

London im Jahre 1829 - ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme - doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren ... Folge 7 - Die Kunst des Mordens Ein gerissener Mörder verhöhnt die Polizei mit einer grausigen Inszenierung mitten im Palace of Westminster. Das Opfer: Ein hochrangiges Regierungsmitglied!

Graham Cluskey ermittelt im Fall des Massakers am englischen Königshof. Wer auch immer für die Tat verantwortlich ist: Er zieht im Hintergrund die Fäden und vernichtet alle Spuren. Endlich liefert der persische Alchimist Mahmud ibn Arabi den entscheidenden Hinweis: Opium! Doch erst ein schrecklicher Vorfall stößt Cluskey auf Londons Unterwelt, eine Welt dunkler Rituale und geheimer Kultstätten... und auf einen Plan, der viel perfider ist, als Cluskey je befürchtet hat!

Buckingham Palace im April 1829: Das festliche Bankett König Georgs IV. wurde zum Schauplatz eines grausamen Massakers. Die überlebenden Augenzeugen berichten, die Adligen seien mit einem Mal aufs Brutalste aufeinander losgegangen. Wer oder was hat diese Raserei ausgelöst?

Mystery 1: Pascal Tourret Private Detective - When Madame Duclos employs Pascale Tourret to help her to save her daughter from a life of crime, the investigation takes Pascale from his home in the Lot region of France to the busy streets of Paris. DETECTIVE 2: The European Quest to Find a Murderer - The Thief of Time - The hunt continues for the killer of young girls through different European countries. With children being discovered being smuggled into the United Kingdom, Patrick Jobin leaves his native France to help in the apprehension of the murderer.

Isherwood is the new boy in town, a well-known British detective brought into the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide squad to help get better results. Although Charley doesn't like the idea, he has no choice but to put up with it. Isherwood shows the squad what a difference observation makes to how a potential crime scene is viewed when asked to help by a member of the public who is worried for the safety of her sister.

This collection features two mysteries. In the first, Madame Duclos employs Pascale Tourret to help her save her daughter from a life of crime, and the investigation takes Pascale from his home in the Lot region of France to the busy streets of Paris. There, he encounters Maurice Gautier, who is producing bad methamphetamine that is killing college kids. In the second mystery, an old flame asks for Tourret's help to find out who has stolen this year's batch of Chateau Trepagnier Beaujolais Nouveau wine, and what he finds isn't what he expects.

When a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is found dead on the site of the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie led his forces to a rout seared into Scottish memory, Rebecca Connolly takes up the case for the Chronicle. A controversial film about the rebellion and battle is being shot nearby, and it has drawn the ire of the right-wing nationalist movement Spirit of the Gael. Is there some link between the murder—the weapon used to impale the man leaves no doubt it was murder—and Spirit of the Gael or the shadowy militant group New Dawn?