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Take one of the crowning musical geniuses of mid-nineteenth century Europe; surround him with enemies, some of whom are fiercely jealous of his talent, others in love with his beautiful wife (a musical genius in her own right); add several scoundrels including a seller of stolen jewels and a kleptomaniac music critic who ends up murdered under highly mysterious circumstances and there you have the world of Robert and Clara Schumann in the Germany of the 1850s, as told by the narrator, Dsseldorfs top detective, Inspector Hermann Preiss.

1942, New Zealand. Edith’s been locked away for a long time. She was just five years old when she was sent to Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. Fifteen years later, she has few memories of her life before the asylum, but longs for one beyond it. When she survives a devastating fire that destroys her ward, Edith is questioned by the police and a young doctor, Declan Harris. Intrigued by his beautiful patient, Declan begins to doubt the official reasons for her incarceration. Is she truly mad - or could the impossible stories she told as a child actually be true?

"C.D.Major books make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up" Kate Riordan author of The Heatwave In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to...

Mitten in der Ballsaison erschüttert ein Giftmord Londons High Society. Lucy Harrington und Robert Kurland ermitteln erneut im Regency England. Voller Vorfreude verlassen die Pfarrerstöchter Lucy und Anna Harrington ihr beschauliches Heimatdorf Kurland St. Mary, um der aufregenden Londoner Ballsaison beizuwohnen. Zur selben Zeit befindet sich auch Major Robert Kurland in London, wo er für seine Heldentaten im Krieg zum Baron geadelt werden soll. Doch der Wirbel von Bällen und formellen Dinnern wird überschattet von dem plötzlichen Tod der Witwe Countess of Broughton.

Der hagere Detektiv des Übersinnlichen, Flaxman Low, wird an das Krankenbett von Anne Hillman gerufen. Die einst sanftmütige Frau hat sich in eine rasende Furie verwandelt: Sie speit grüne Galle, spricht im Zustand der Xenoglossie mit markerschütternden, fremden Stimmen und legt eine übermenschliche Kraft an den Tag. Während die Kirche und der fanatische Pfarrer Tredgold unbarmherzig auf einen brutalen Exorzismus drängen, vermutet Flaxman Low eine weitaus banalere – und zugleich schrecklichere – Wahrheit hinter dem Spuk.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, written and read by Sara Collins. They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done? 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy...