Showing results for "Cody" in Mystery

You can't choose your family. Or can you? Meet the Bensons. A pleasant enough couple. They keep themselves to themselves. They wash their car, mow their lawn and pass the time of day with their neighbours. And they have a beautiful little girl called Daisy. There's just one problem. Daisy doesn't belong to the Bensons. They stole her. And now they've decided that Daisy needs a little brother or sister. DS Nathan Cody is about to face his darkest and most terrifying case yet....

Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend's death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand.

Git O'Rourke is from the wrong side of the tracks - even if, in the depressed Rust Belt town of Baxter, it's not always clear where that designation begins. A single mother, she works hard to support her daughter, Charlie, but still finds time to cut loose every once in a while, to go to a local bar, drink martinis, and find a companion for the night. Which is exactly how she ends up in a hotel room with a strange man passed out on heroin and how she comes to possess the bag of money and guns that he left open as he got his fix.

Mystery writer, magician, Sherlockian, and sleuth-at-large: that's Sebastian "Mac" McCabe. This collection introduces the series of light-hearted but mysterious adventures of Mac and his brother-in-law as they uncover small-town secrets to solve murders that would stump the great Holmes himself.

Smoky Barrett gehörte zu den besten FBI-Agenten der USA, bis der Doppelmord an ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter ihr Leben zerstörte. Seitdem ist ihre linke Gesichtshälfte von einer Narbe entstellt. Nichtsdestotrotz ist sie eine brillante Ermittlerin, die perfekt mit Waffen umgehen kann. In "Das Böse in uns" wird eine junge Frau auf einem Flug nach Virginia ermordet, die Besatzung findet Lisas Leiche erst nach der Landung. Die FBI-Agentin Smoky Barrett hat lediglich einen Hinweis: ein silbernes Kreuz mit der Zahl 143 im Körper der Toten. Zählt der Mörder seine Opfer?

Writer-actor-director Peter Gerard's latest film was a smash hit, but some fans of Sherlock Holmes were outraged. Why? Because 221 B Bourbon Street portrayed the beloved detective as a goateed, saxophone-playing Southern American working in 1920s New Orleans!

When Erin, Ohio native Jamie Ellicott returns home as best-selling author James Ivanhoe after a 13-year absence, it’s like the return of the Prodigal Son. His ill and aging father welcomes him with open arms. Ivanhoe’s two brothers, however, are less forgiving. The whole town gets drawn into the family drama when Ivanhoe seeks to march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade under the banner of an anti-technology group called the Ned Ludd Society. That’s a thumb in the collective eye of his siblings, who own a company that makes microcircuits.

The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third-largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world were supposed to produce a weekend of great publicity for tiny St. Benignus College in Erin, Ohio. But when theft and murder come to campus, college Public Relations Director Jeff Cody finds himself knee-deep in Sherlockian suspects, besieged by an aggressive reporter he loves but no longer dates, and competing with his eccentric brother-in-law, Sebastian McCabe, to solve the crimes first.

This is the startling question that Jeff Cody and his wife, Lynda, hear during a wedding reception on the first night of the QueenCon mystery conference in Cincinnati. Not only are the whispered words unnerving, there is no one nearby to have spoken them.

Pages Gone By is more than just the only used book store in Erin, Ohio. It’s also a favorite meeting place for writers and readers. And early one morning, it becomes the scene of a murder, when a body is found in the romance section. As polymath mystery writer Sebastian McCabe and sardonic sidekick Jeff Cody try to unmask the murderer of a friend, they get more help than they need from a talk-show psychologist and a group of would-be mystery writers with more imagination than deductive skills.

Small town controversies can be murder. When a newcomer to Erin, Ohio, proposes to tear down the historic Bijou Theater and erect in its place a boutique hotel, Sebastian McCabe adds “civic activist” to a long resume that already includes magician, mystery writer, professor, and amateur sleuth. With the strategic help of brother-in-law Jeff Cody, Mac launches a far-reaching campaign to “Save the Bijou.”

When popular mystery writer Sebastian McCabe agreed to take part in a literary debate in London, he had no clue that he would wind up as both investigator and suspect in the strangest case of his amateur sleuthing career. Arthur James Phillimore, investment guru to the stars and member of an elite Sherlock Holmes society, steps back into his home to fetch an umbrella one rainy day and is never seen alive again. The mystery is eerily evocative of one of Dr. Watson’s most famous untold tales, the disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore. But this Phillimore soon reappears - dead.

Popular mystery writer Sebastian McCabe is about to conquer a new world with his Sherlock Holmes play 1895. On opening night, however, his Erin, Ohio, theatrical debut as both playwright and actor is upstaged by a murder in the back of the newly renovated theater.

She lives in a utopian town, where nothing bad ever happens. But when officers Zachary Leebow and Annalise Baker are invited to join a new special-task team, the Smoky Mountain Investigative Force, their lives become even more intertwined than before. With everything around them changing and an unnamed body on their hands, they must decipher the clues to their individual cases, before kidnapping turns into murder.

Someone is hacking into hospital databases and holding them for ransom, bringing Britain's healthcare system to its knees. Seal Team Six operator Victoria "Tori" Bennett - fresh off a covert mission in Mexico where she evened the scales of justice by spilling a lot of blood - is sent to weed out the hacker. She figures this mission will be easy enough. It's probably some teenager in his bedroom who will scream the second he sees he's busted, right? Wrong.

Smoky Barrett gehörte zu den besten FBI-Agenten der USA, bis der Doppelmord an ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter ihr Leben zerstörte. Seitdem ist ihre linke Gesichtshälfte von einer Narbe entstellt. Nichtsdestotrotz ist sie eine brillante Ermittlerin, die perfekt mit Waffen umgehen kann. Folge 2 - Im falschen Körper. Die Suche nach dem Serienkiller geht weiter. Smoky entdeckt weitere schreckliche Details, die ein Muster erkennen lassen. Die Spur führt zur katholischen Kirche.

Smoky Barrett gehörte zu den besten FBI-Agenten der USA, bis der Doppelmord an ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter ihr Leben zerstörte. Seitdem ist ihre linke Gesichtshälfte von einer Narbe entstellt. Nichtsdestotrotz ist sie eine brillante Ermittlerin, die perfekt mit Waffen umgehen kann. Folge 4 - Der Prediger. Die Taten des religiösen Serienkillers ziehen weite Kreise. Smoky entdeckt in einer Kirche wichtige Hinweise auf den Wahnsinnigen und gibt alles, um weitere Morde zu verhindern.

Smoky Barrett gehörte zu den besten FBI-Agenten der USA, bis der Doppelmord an ihrem Mann und ihrer Tochter ihr Leben zerstörte. Seitdem ist ihre linke Gesichtshälfte von einer Narbe entstellt. Nichtsdestotrotz ist sie eine brillante Ermittlerin, die perfekt mit Waffen umgehen kann. Folge 1 - Lisas Flug. Smoky Barrett wird nach Virginia beordert. Eine junge Frau wurde während eines Flugs ermordet und der Killer hat einen Hinweis im Körper des Opfers hinterlassen: Alles deutet auf einen religiös motivierten Serienkiller hin.