Showing results by author "Chris McGeorge" in Crime Fiction

During a violent snowstorm, the Royal Family gather at Balmoral Castle for a traditional Christmas. As per King Eric's wishes, almost all of the servants have been dismissed. The large castle is inhabited by only eight people—King Eric, his wife Princess Marjorie, his brother Prince David, his two daughters Princesses Emeline and Maud, Maud's husband Thomas Crockley, Maud's sons Princes Matthew and Martin, the royal chef Jonathan Alleyne, and head of security Tony Speck.

In 2016, six students and a dog on a barge trip entered Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in England. Six students went in, and two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared on the other side with only one of the students, unconscious, and the dog. The case of the Standedge Six was largely kept from the national media. The police investigation concluded that the only remaining student, Matthew, killed his friends, hid the bodies on the boat and returned later to move them to an undisclosed location. Matthew is in prison...but he maintains he is innocent.

Shirley Steadman, a 70-year-old living in a small town in the North East of England, loves her volunteer work at the local hospital radio. She likes giving back to the community, and even more so, she likes getting out of the house. Haunted by the presence of her son, a reluctant Royal Navy officer who was lost at sea, and still in the shadow of her long-dead abusive husband, she doesn't like being alone much. One day, at the radio station, she is playing around with the equipment and finds a frequency that was never there before.

Cara Lockhart has just commenced a life sentence in HMP North Fern - the newest maximum-security women's prison in the country. She was convicted of a crime she is adamant she didn't commit. One morning she wakes up to find her cellmate murdered - shot in the head with a gun that is missing. The door was locked all night, which makes Cara the only suspect. But that was just the beginning.

At 11 years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of his maths teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. Twenty-five years later... Morgan Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in an unfamiliar hotel room, with five strangers waking up around him. In the bathroom - a corpse. One of the people in the room is the killer, and Sheppard has three hours to solve the murder. If he doesn't find the killer, they all die.

Kannst du der Zukunft entkommen? Rätselhaft, raffiniert und hochspannend: In dem neuen Thriller "Escape Time" hört Shirley Steadman einen Radiosender, der die Zukunft vorhersagt - und einen Mord ankündigt. Es beginnt ein verzweifelter Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Shirley Steadman kann kaum glauben, was sie da im Radio hört: lokale Nachrichten, harmlose Unfälle - aber das Datum ist das von morgen! Erst denkt die 70-Jährige noch, dem Piratensender, den sie zufällig entdeckt hat, sei ein Fehler unterlaufen. Doch am nächsten Tag ereignet sich alles exakt wie gemeldet.

Agatha Christie meets Edgar Wallace! Ein winterliches Dinner im Kreis der Familie, ein toter König - und die brennende Frage: Wer war es? Wer Mystery-Rätselkrimispannung à la "The Glass Onion" und absurd-komische, aber hochintelligente cosy crime-Krimis liebt, liegt beim humorvollen Krimi "Ein Fall von Majestätsvergiftung" absolut richtig. Der königliche Koch Jonathan Alleyne im eingeschneiten Balmoral Castle den Mord an seinem König aufklären. An Weihnachten besteht der britische König Eric darauf, dass nur seine Familie bei ihm auf Balmoral Castle bleibt; das Personal wird bis auf den Koch nach Hause geschickt.