Klaus Timmermann Boeken

Kann ein Todesfall zu natürlich aussehen, um natürlich zu sein?Detective Deb Ralston zweifelt den Herztod ihrer Schwester an: Zu sauber. Dann stößt sie bei zwei weiteren Leichen auf die Spur eines Mörders, der aus Ordnungsliebe keine Spuren hinterlässt. Alle Opfer waren Mitglieder von 'Mensa' dem Club für Menschen mit überdurchschnittlichem IQ. Was immer das Motiv für den Serienkiller ist - irgendwo da draußen muss es einem putzwütigen Mörder geben. Wer weiß, ob er nicht als nächstes bei Deb Ralston aufräumen will.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results. Like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’ no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette’s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds—against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit.

Commissario Achille Peroni wird nach Verona nach Venedig versetzt, wo er sich in der Touristenstadt gelangweilt fühlt. Er bevorzugt skurrile Verbrechen mit Medienaufmerksamkeit. Bei Ermittlungen unter den Gondolieri wegen illegaler Wettaktivitäten stößt er jedoch auf ein gefährliches Abenteuer, das ihn in Schwierigkeiten bringt.