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Eine junge Frau wird tot aufgefunden. Ihr Liebhaber, der Hauptverdächtige, scheint ein perfektes Alibi zu haben. Doch als die Polizei von Lyon nicht mehr weiterweiß, wird Edmond Locard, ein Pionier der forensischen Wissenschaft, hinzugezogen. Gemeinsam mit der scharfsinnigen Journalistin Margaret Harkness wagt er einen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um das entscheidende Indiz zu finden. Basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten, erzählt Bradley Harper eine fesselnde Geschichte über die Anfänge moderner Ermittlungsarbeit und das bahnbrechende „Locard-Prinzip“, das jede Berührung eine Spur hinterlassen lässt.

Three novellas to expand and enrich the world of Victorian Gothic: A Spurned Woman follows a reclusive old woman, tired of life. When she is surprised by a young mother, begging help for her stricken child, the old woman reluctantly agrees to return to the village which once wanted to burn her for witchcraft. Bedlam is set between Victorian Gothic Volumes 2 and 3.

When human remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry in 2018, alongside relics from the First World War, a Detective enlists the help of a local Historian to identify them. On Remembrance Day, the day when the spirits of the fallen return to those who remember them, they uncover a mystery over a century in the making. Dave Baird's thrilling inter-generational tale will take you from the trenches of France and Belgium to rural Gloucestershire in the 1980s and keep you guessing from the first word to the last.

Marriage can be murder. Rosemary Lillywhite can't wait for her brother, Frederick, and her best friend, Vera, to tie the knot. She's over the moon they've finally caved in and admitted their love for one another, but even more than that, she wants them out of her too-crowded townhouse! The long-awaited and excessively lavish country wedding is slated to take place in Pardington in one week's time, and when an ominous warning arrives, Rosemary is relieved she'll be out of harm's way. The only problem is that wherever she goes, murder isn't far behind.

Colonia, 1260. Gerhard Morart sa bene che non potrà mai completare la costruzione della «sua» cattedrale prima di morire. Quello che non sa, purtroppo, è che la morte non tarderà ad arrivare: qualcuno infatti gli tende un agguato e lo fa precipitare da un’impalcatura dell’edificio. Un delitto pianificato sin nei minimi dettagli, che tuttavia ha un singolare testimone: Jacop, un ladruncolo che si trova su un melo lì accanto, intento a rubare i frutti succosi per placare la sua eterna fame.

Es wird behauptet, im Leben eines Menschen gäbe es einige wenige Tage, die sein Leben grundlegend verändern können. Einen solchen erlebt der irische Schriftsteller Oscar Wilde im Frühjahr 1895. Anstelle neuer Ausschweifungen und Ruhm als Autor drohen eine Gefängnisstrafe und der persönliche Ruin. Doch plötzlich tritt ein Fremder an Wilde heran und bietet ihm einen möglichen Ausweg aus seiner schwierigen Situation.

London, 1859. Nurse Gemma Tate boards the American packet ship the Prince Regent to aid Inspector Sebastian Bell in investigating the death of a British aristocrat. But when she sees the crime scene, Gemma realizes that her knowledge of human nature will be just as valuable as her medical training. Lord Anthony Blackstock lies murdered in his cabin, his head locked inside a nightmarish iron cage. His wife has vanished without a trace, and time is running out to find her, dead or alive…

1888 was a busy year for Holmes and Watson. If Dr. Watson is to be believed, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, and The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor all took place in this year (I would also argue that The Valley of Fear is set in the same year — ed.). As if that weren’t enough, 1888 is remembered (albeit infamously) as the year that Jack the Ripper unleashed an autumn of terror on the citizens of London. While there are no Holmes vs. the Ripper stories in this volume, the authors of the later stories have all alluded to the atmosphere of terror permeating Holmes’s London at that time.

London, 1889. Hoping society has moved on from the scandal that once shadowed her, Lady Rosalynd turns her attention to one of her most cherished causes—the Home for Unwed Mothers, a discreet refuge where poor, unmarried women can give birth in safety and dignity. But when one of the young women is found murdered in a dark alley off Trinity Lane, the fragile calm of Rosalynd’s aristocratic life is abruptly shattered. Drawn into the case by a desperate plea, Rosalynd reluctantly turns to the one man she swore to keep at arm’s length—the enigmatic Duke of Steele.

When his uncle is accused of an impossible crime by the wary and weary and ever leery Inspector Wittersham, Anty’s mum sends him to the wilds of Epping Forest to sort out who could have managed to murder the universally disliked taskmaster of a health resort dedicated to the repression and suppression of the best of the seven sins.

Intrigante, enigmática, imposible de abandonar. «Hace ya dos semanas que no sé nada del Inquisidor. Aunque también podría decir que en realidad hace cinco meses, el tiempo que ha transcurrido desde que me lo tropecé por vez primera, que no sé nada de él. Nunca vi su rostro, ni oí su voz. No podría asegurar que es un hombre, ni siquiera que exista, en la forma en que convencionalmente existen las personas. Y sin embargo, haberlo perdido, el solo pensamiento de que así sea, convierte mi existencia convencionalmente irrefutable en algo inerte y sin objeto.

When Loveda Brown arrives in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet theWild West of 1912, she is running from her husband. But when a body turns up the next day, she realizes she might have worse things following her… that cold, clenched fist holds something that forces Loveda to stay in Idyllwild and use all of her wits to stop another murder from happening. Probably her own.

Lido, New York. 1926. Blackmail is an easy game when everyone at the Galliano Club has something to hide. Bootlegger Benny Rotolo has a fresh scheme to seize the Galliano Club and turn the humble neighborhood club into the finest speakeasy north of Manhattan: blackmail. He’ll use the same tactics as the infamous La Mano Nera terror group that preys on successful Italian immigrants. Anonymous letters. Bullets. Fire. Unaware of Benny’s plan, Galliano Club bartender Luca Lombardo is in the spotlight after surviving an attempted murder. What will happen when Luca’s darkest secrets are for sale?

Join the T'ang Dynasty detective Judge Dee on his very first full-length mystery! Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. This book kicked off Robert van Gulik's long-running series and introduced countless listeners to a cozy, clever series and the incredible detective at its center. Listen to this one, and you'll quickly find yourself seeking out the whole series.

Die Geschichte eines mysteriösen Verbrechens in einem westfälischen Dorf des 18. Jahrhunderts ist halb Kriminalerzählung, halb Sozialdrama – atmosphärisch dicht, psychologisch fein gezeichnet und bis heute spannend. Mit meisterhafter Sprache und eindrucksvoller Milieuschilderung beleuchtet Droste-Hülshoff Themen wie Moral, Vorurteil, Schuld und gesellschaftliche Zwänge.

Berlin, 1910. Als eine weibliche Leiche aus der Spree gezogen wird, wird ihr Fall vom zuständigen Rechtsmediziner schnell und nachlässig abgehandelt: Vermutlich hat die bitterarme ledige Mutter schlicht Selbstmord begangen. Ganz anders sieht das die angehende Gerichtsmedizinerin Perdita Menke. Bei ihren Ermittlungen stößt sie bald auf den ebenso geheimnisumwitterten wie charmanten Bestatter Charon Czerny.

The next installment in Anita Davison's thrilling cozy mystery series.

London 1912: Ist der verurteilte Mörder Charles Linkworth in Wahrheit unschuldig? Nach dessen Hinrichtung wird der zuständige Gefängnisarzt von Erscheinungen gepeinigt, die er sich nicht erklären kann. Schnell wird klar, dass der Verbrecher gar nicht so tot ist, wie es den Anschein hatte - und dass er noch eine Rechnung im Diesseits zu begleichen wünscht.

1966: Standing on the rugged Cornish coast, Hallows Abbey can be a lonely place for the boys boarding there. For Theresa, however, it offers an escape from her father's long shadow. 2025: With her own children having just left home, Amanda's emotions are in turmoil when she arrives at the isolated school where her husband is to be Deputy Head. When she learns of the school's tragic history, in which a group of boys went out on a boat trip and disappeared, she becomes obsessed with finding out what happened.

In the first novel of a blazing new American Western saga, two estranged brothers must unite to defend their family’s land from a ruthless banker and his cutthroat gang. Jack Noble built Montana’s Rafter N Ranch with his bare hands, leaving behind a hard-won legacy. Now, his grandsons stand to lose it all. Gabriel “Noble” Bartlett is a notorious gunslinger with a mean streak as wide as the frontier. His brother Daniel is a steady rancher who believes in justice - until justice fails.