German Detectives

Experience the first episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audiobook is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.

"Fred Berman brings the team to life. His well-paced delivery allows the story's laugh-out-loud humor to shine, particularly the dry one-liners and wisecracks from Corey and Andy...Berman's narration, along with the fun and engaging mystery, results in a thoroughly enjoyable listen." --...

Porthpella, ein kleiner Küstenort in Cornwall. Seit dem Tod ihres Mannes lebt Ally Bright allein in ihrem hübschen, abgelegenen Cottage. Eines Nachts klopft ein verzweifelter Mann an ihre Tür, doch bevor sie richtig reagieren kann, ist er schon wieder weg – und wird am nächsten Morgen am Fuß der Klippen gefunden. Ally ist überzeugt, dass es kein Selbstmordversuch war, eine Gewissheit, die sie mit dem jungen ehemaligen Polizisten Jayden Weston teilt, der mit seiner hochschwangeren Frau gerade erst nach Porthpella gezogen ist.

Three days in the mountains. No satellite signal. No sign of life. When Gemma Hartley’s pager sounds before dawn — MISSING PERSON, 72 HOURS OVERDUE — she and her legendary German Shepherd Kira are in the truck within twelve minutes. That’s what they do. That’s what they are. But what Gemma expects to be a routine search becomes something else entirely when Kira finds Alexis Mercer’s body at the base of Devil’s Ledge — and the evidence points not to accident, but to murder. Fresh from Minneapolis and still carrying the grief of a SAR operation gone wrong, Gemma came to Elk ...

Warren Haskell is behind bars. Marco has proposed. Spring has arrived in Elk Creek. Everything should finally feel like enough. When a social media influencer with 2.3 million followers disappears on the Colorado Trail, Gemma and a visibly aging Kira are called to search the same high country that started it all. But what looks like a missing hiker becomes something far more sinister, the influencer had a follower who wasn’t content to just watch, who had been tracking her route across the state for months, who saw her public posts as an invitation. The Jade Brown case forces Gemma to ...

Russell Vaughn told his wife he was in Denver on business. His car turned up at a trailhead with keys in the ignition. And Russell Vaughn hasn’t been seen in forty-eight hours. Autumn has settled over Elk Creek in layers, aspen gold and mountain frost, the deep blue of skies that seem to go on forever, the first dusting of snow on the highest peaks. It is Gemma and Marco’s first autumn as a married couple. It is also Kate Soren and Scout’s first real case. Russell Vaughn was a respected Elk Creek businessman. He was also, as the investigation quickly reveals, running a very careful ...

A thirteen-year-old secret is buried in the Colorado mountains. A K-9 handler and her aging German Shepherd are about to dig it up. When skeletal remains surface on a remote trail outside Elk Creek, newlywed SAR handler Gemma Hartley-Reyes and her veteran air-scent dog Kira are pulled into a cold case that no one in town wanted reopened. As Gemma trains a new recruit and navigates married life, the investigation uncovers a web of silence stretching back over a decade. Someone in Elk Creek knows exactly what happened. And they're watching Gemma get closer. Perfect for fans of Margaret ...

December, 1898. The Berlin–Breslau express does not arrive in Silesia. When the train derails in a blizzard near the village of Niederwald, Dr John Watson finds himself doing what he has always done in catastrophe: working. Fourteen survivors. A makeshift hospital in a village hall. No relief train for two days. And somewhere in the wreckage, Sherlock Holmes — collecting evidence from the snow before anyone else understands there is evidence to collect. Among the survivors is Dr Emil Hartmann of Berlin, medico-legal chemist, student of Europe's foremost criminologists, and the man who ...

Rachel Morgan must take up the mantle of a high-powered CEO—all the while navigating dangerous power plays between the vampires and the elven elite—in the next exhilarating Hollows novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. For witch-born demon Rachel Morgan, life has become good in...

»Lust kann töten. Doch was geschieht, wenn sie zur Strafe wird? « Dr. Mara Levin ist Polizeipsychologin und wird immer dann hinzugezogen, wenn Ermittlungen ins Stocken geraten und Täter nicht nur Spuren, sondern ganze Identitäten verwischen. Sie arbeitet dort, wo andere keinen Zugang mehr finden, in der Psyche von Serienmördern, in den Abgründen sexueller Vergewaltiger und moralischer Selbstrechtfertigung.

A supremely disturbing thriller set in the ruins of the Third Reich by an internationally acclaimed master of historical suspense. Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him...

The Case of The Dead Dowager A fancy ladies luncheon at a posh Richmond restaurant goes south when one of the ladies collapses on the table. Can Mic and K9 Angel solve the case? When Countess Dottie Borghase's friend, Camilla Rothrock, collapses at a lunch gathering of old friends, the Countess's only concern is to dial 911 for help. But Camilla's subsequent death has authorities buzzing about international safety, national security, and terrorism, because her son is decorated U.S. Army four-star General, Stuart Rothrock. As other restaurant patrons in Richmond meet similar fates, Michaela,...

‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father...

Colorado Trail Days brings the whole town together. Someone in the crowd has been hiding in plain sight for twenty-six years. The annual celebration has transformed Elk Creek into a carnival — food vendors, parade floats, and thousands of hikers who’ve made their way through these mountains all summer. Gemma is working the SAR booth with Kira at her feet when the case cracks open: new evidence places Warren Haskell at the scene the night Brianna Hartley vanished, and for the first time, there’s enough to push. But Warren Haskell is not the kind of man who falls easily. He built this ...

Experience the fifth episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audiobook is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow. When a loyal family dog comes upon a human ear in its feeding dish one morning, the police is notified immediately, but due to a sudden change in staff, the investigation proceeds only haltingly.

Eigentlich ist der Fall abgeschlossen: Vor fünf Jahren wurde die Schülerin Andie Bell von ihrem Freund Sal Singh ermordet. Die Polizei ist sich sicher, dass es so war. Die ganze Stadt ist sich sicher. Alle - außer Pippa. Für ein Schulprojekt will sie den Fall noch einmal aufrollen. Bewaffnet mit ihrem Laptop, einer Diktiergerät-App und viel Mut beginnt Pippa, Fragen zu stellen. Doch bald merkt sie, dass nicht alle wollen, dass die dunklen Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit gelüftet werden ..

Experience the fourth episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audio book is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The riveting second novel in the acclaimed Spanish writer's detective trilogy. “There is no one writing in English like this. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Sunday Times (London) The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days...

‘The Silk Code had me absolutely hooked… A great storyline full of bravery, trust, love, survival, betrayal and determination.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Based on the true story of ‘Englandspiel’, one woman must race against the clock to uncover a traitor, even if it means...

Als Dr. Watson dem Begräbnis eines Kollegen beiwohnt, wird er von einem Fremden angesprochen, der sich als Anwalt Gabriel Utterson vorstellt. Dieser bittet ihn und Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe in einer seltsamen Angelegenheit: Sein Freund und Klient, Dr. Henry Jekyll, steht offenbar unter dem verderblichen Einfluss eines gewissen Edward Hyde, der zudem für den Mord an einem Parlamentsabgeordneten verantwortlich sein dürfte.