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A heart-wrenching dual narrative novel about love and sisterhood, in a stunning series following four sisters and the long-held mysteries of their family – for fans of Kate Morton, Delia Owens and Lucinda Riley. In the depths of Norway, fifteen-year-old Tana Harkness vanishes. Did she come to...

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

Many others in the village have said that they would like to see the colonel dead, but a number of people have a more specific interest in his death: the colonel’s young wife, Anne; her lover, the artist Lawrence Redding; Archer, a local man given a harsh sentence by the colonel for poaching. Even the colonel’s daughter, Lettice, desperate for money, says, “If only father would be decent and die, I’d be all right.” These complexities lead to any number of dead ends for investigators. The only one able to see through the blinds and obscurities is Miss Marple, an elderly but sharp-eyed spinster.

二人の「きたさん」が事件に翻弄されつつ成長していく物語で、著者が「生涯、書き続けたい」と願う捕物帖。 舞台は江戸深川。一人目の「きたさん」こと北一は、亡くなった岡っ引き・千吉親分の本業だった文庫(本や小間物を入れる箱)売りで生計を立てている。

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

Love is deadly Adrian Carthallow, a dramatic and talented artist, is no stranger to controversy. But this time it’s not his paintings that have provoked a blaze of publicity — it’s the fact that his career has been suddenly terminated by a bullet to the head. Not only that, but his wife...

'There was a history in this house, secrets he hadn't even got close to scratching the surface of' Something peculiar is going on at The Lloyd Estate. The enormous house and its vast grounds are rarely seen by outsiders. Only Audrey Lloyd the cantankerous elderly owner and only daughter to the...

Inspired by the true story of Jamaica’s first serial killer. Jamaica, 1772. Caribbean jewel, or a killer's playground? On the island of Jamaica, people have started disappearing without trace. Have they run away, trying to start new lives in the British colony under assumed names, or is...

A forgotten painting. A buried family secret. And a brilliant young woman determined to uncover the truth. Australia, 1906: Orphan Jane Piper is nine years old when philanthropist siblings Michael and Elizabeth Quinn take her into their home to further her schooling. The Quinns are no strangers...

With the University preparing for Michaelmas term in 1827, Cambridge is alive with promises of fortunes to be made. University constable Gregory Hardiman has neither the appetite nor the funds to invest, but many others are tempted by the gleam of Bolivian silver. On patrol one evening Gregory is called to a violent incident at an inn, and before long his enquiries lead him to several of the town’s best-known figures–including the Master of St Clement’s College.

When love and money collide, will a wintry house party lead to murder or matrimony? Haro Emison, thrust into his new role as Earl of Anglesford, discovers that his late father has left the family teetering on the edge of financial ruin. Intent on rescuing the estate, Haro abandons his long-held interest in his second cousin Eda and searches instead for a wealthy heiress. But when pride and jealousy cause his plan to spiral out of control, he begins to wonder if he has made a dreadful mistake. Eda Swanycke is enjoying her first season in London when her debut comes to a crashing halt.

Dashing showman Richard Ratcliffe is set to return to the stage at the famous Shakespeare Memorial theatre. But when priceless items belonging to Shakespeare himself go missing from the theatre’s collection, Eleanor knows someone has gone off-book… Then the beautiful old theatre is set on fire. The gang are horror-struck, and while racing to help, Eleanor’s loyal butler Clifford discovers an act of foul play: Ratcliffe, the show’s leading man, is dead inside from a blow to the head.

Is something wrong at the Halstead ranch? Lake Wood can't shake the feeling that trouble is in the wind for his pretty neighbor, Jane Halstead. First her uncle didn't show when he promised, and now suspicious strangers are lurking about her ranch. But is the trouble purely in his own imagination? Or is there real cause for concern? When odd happenings, jarring revelations, and convenient accidents pile up, Lake enlists the help of his family and friends to get to the bottom of things. But can they find the truth in time to foil the plot? And what more can Lake do to protect the girl he loves?

Paris, novembre 1930. Le corps d'une jeune femme est retrouvé dans la Seine, atrocement mutilé. Rapidement, la presse la surnomme « Le Camélia rouge » car on a reconnu son visage émergeant d'une fleur aux reflets sanguins sur une réclame hypnotique, placardée sur les colonnes Morris dans la capitale. Les pistes du commissaire Paul Varenne semblent converger vers un puissant industriel parfumeur aux liaisons politiques troubles. Le policier est plongé au cœur d'un univers où luxe et corruption se côtoient, et où mille secrets demeurent enfouis.

1910. A young misfit throws himself under the wheels of a steam train and a young woman is disowned by her wealthy family. 2016. One autumn night, Chris crashes his bike on a wooded trail, only to have an encounter he can’t explain. Now, after a lost century of pain and intrigue, can the uneasy ghosts of the past at last be laid to rest? Switching between the heady days of the Industrial Revolution in South Wales and the present, this short story weaves together history and folklore in a ghostly tale that starts and ends in the very real White Cross Inn of Groeswen.

A Regency set cozy mystery featuring an intrepid heroine, a charming Cotswold village, a host of quirky characters, a handsome but reserved carpenter, an attractive but suspicious constable, and a baby goat or two! Lady Lisette Birtwhistle is feeling bereft and very much alone after ending her betrothal, then losing her brother, the Duke of Winbury, to an unexpected illness. The duke knew his sister well, however, and has inexplicably left her the leases on nearly the entirety of Lockstone Hollow, a village near one of the ducal estates.

Ein einziger Befehl hat alles zerstört. An den blutigen Grenzen Britanniens hat Tribun Gaius Julius Maximus einen Fehler begangen – und der Preis dafür war das Leben der Familie seines besten Freundes. Nun ist Lucius Junius Brutus, einst der gefeiertste Krieger seiner Legion, nur noch eine leere Hülle. Getrieben von Schuld, unternimmt Maximus eine waghalsige Reise von den nebligen Küsten des Imperiums zurück ins Herz der Macht: nach Rom.

The war is over, and Major John Hartman has left active duty. He and Sergeant Margie Bywater have gotten married and are looking forward to the next stage of life, come what may. But rest doesn't come easily to heroes when Colonel Spivey, formerly of the OSS and now CIA, appears unannounced to recruit the newly married couple into America's new cause—the clandestine fight against Communist oppression. A literal wrong turn finds John Hartman on an idyllic suburban street in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. to find a woman covered in blood running frantically his way.

Paris 1890. Lady's maid Denise le Louarn fears the worst when her mistress, Odette de Valois, vanishes from the Père-Lachaise cemetery during a visit to her husband's grave. All alone in the great metropolis, Denise knows just one person she can go to for help: Victor Legris. When the frightened girl turns up at his bookshop and tells him her story, Victor feels there must be a simple explanation for her disappearance. But as he begins to look into the matter, it soon becomes clear that something sinister lies behind events at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.

Sie ist das Licht der Bitterkeit, das personifizierte Vorzeichen des Todes. Er ist Kurier im Dienst einer Abtei, der einst als Waisenkind in die Obhut des Abtes kam. Ihre Verbindung ist genauso rätselhaft wie die Vergangenheit des Boten, die ihn zum Ziel fremder Mächte macht. Eine vertrauliche Nachricht führt Paul in den von Wäldern und Hügeln umringten Ort am Rande des Elsass.