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When Kat Holloway is blamed when a guest mysteriously takes ill after eating one of her meals, she sets out to prove she had nothing to do with the gentleman’s sickness. She discovers a whole host of people who might wish to do away with the man, and she and her friends begin to hunt for the would-be killer. Simultaneously tasked with crafting the perfect Christmas feast, including the pièce de résistance, the Christmas plum pudding, Kat frantically works to finish all, fearing she’ll have to choose between stopping a murderer and cherishing her precious Christmas moments with her daughter.

Главные герои романа «Танго с Пандорой» – военные разведчики на протяжении долгих лет передававшие в Москву ценнейшую информацию, полученную из секретных источников. Все они оказались в военной разведке благодаря одному из ее основателей - Яну Карловичу Берзину, которому удалось практически невозможное: за короткое время он создал мощнейшую разведывательную службу с резидентурами по всему миру, серьезно повысившими обороноспособность страны.

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. For no one doubts that the guard's untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that tart-tongued Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody, whose...

Frances Lunn grew up running free on Assateague Island, a place made famous by wild horses, white-sand beaches, and whispers of lost treasure. Years later, she transformed that childhood into a best-selling memoir, until her sister Maeve publicly dismantled it, calling the story a fabrication and leaving Frances in personal and professional ruin.

Człowiek tak naprawdę nie zna samego siebie… Jest rok 1903. W mroku piwnicy przy ulicy Tschepiner we Wrocławiu znalezione zostaje ciało radnego. Podejrzenie pada na radcę kryminalnego, jednego z najlepszych policjantów w Prezydium Policji. Julian Reisky, by ratować swoje dobre imię, musi opuścić Wrocław. Na miejsce banicji wybiera Kraków, miasto swojego dzieciństwa. Tu podejmuje się śledztwa dla Heleny Modrzejewskiej, a prosta sprawa kradzieży zamienia się w niebezpieczną grę.

New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author Laurie R. King returns to the 1920s of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, but then sets off into fabulous new worlds in this dynamic collection of thirteen suspense, crime, and speculative fiction stories, some beloved and others brand-new...

There's more than one violent storm brewing at St. Ann's hospital in the legendary Mignon Eberhart's first book.Nothing prepared nurse Sarah Keate for the murder of a wealthy patient in his hospital bed during a fierce thunderstorm. Was the killer's motive the theft of the very expensive radium...

Betreten Sie das viktorianische London des Jahres 1897: Entdecken Sie Liebe und Intrigen mit der historischen Mystery-Serie „Tabitha & Wolf“, in der Mysterium auf Romantik mit einer Prise Humor trifft. Tabitha war es gewohnt, ein sozialer Paria zu sein. Könnte sich ihr Ansehen in der...

En des temps reculés, une charrette bien gardée s'élance sur une route pavée traversant une forêt, mais elle est interrompue dans sa course par des brigands aux intentions peu louables…

Wien, 1531: Die türkische Belagerung ist vorüber, und doch kommt die Stadt nicht zur Ruhe. Der Mathematiker Sebastian Grün wird beauftragt, eine Reihe rätselhafter Todesfälle aufzuklären, tatkräftig unterstützt von seiner Freundin, der Winzertochter Fanny Roth. Alle Morde weisen auf Verbindungen zu den osmanischen Belagerern hin und versetzen die Bürger Wiens in Angst und Schrecken.

When Matt Moreno’s close friend, Blake Brady, accepted an internship in Utah, some of his new associates were cagey about their private lives. But then again, the world had just changed. In the late 1970s, folks in Utah—who had once felt safe—found new anxiety in things as simple as walking alone in their own neighborhoods. For good reason. The serial killer Ted Bundy had come to Utah, brutally killing girls and women, and as the newspapers of the day put it, he had stolen everyone’s innocence. There was a new, sinister tint on everything.

En julio de 1843, Grace Marks, de dieciséis años, es declarada cómplice de participar en los asesinatos de Thomas Kinnear y de Nancy Montgomery, y condenada finalmente a cadena perpetua. Por su parte, Grace insiste en que no recuerda nada de lo sucedido. Años más tarde, un grupo de reformistas y espiritistas que pretende obtener el indulto de la muchacha contrata al doctor Simon Jordan, una eminencia en el floreciente campo de la psicopatía.

Margaret Spencer has vanished without a trace. With time slipping through their fingers, the newest members of the Antiquarian Order must unravel the secrets of the past if they hope to bring her home.

Both a delightful murder mystery and a comic novel, fired by love and obsession and filled with memorable characters, Hunting Season is a captivating novel from Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series. Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigàta, the...

A blade in the dark. A death in the third act. A royal secret that could shake the throne. London. 1889. When the Duke of Steele invites Lady Rosalynd to share his box at the Royal Opera House for a performance of Rigoletto, neither expects the evening to end in blood. But as the doomed Gilda breathes her last onstage, a killer slips into the adjacent box and one of London's most ruthless industrialists falls to a stiletto blade. Both Rosalynd and Steele witness the shadowy figure flee, yet can do nothing to stop the crime.

February 1913. Lady Hardcastle and her diminutive but brave lady’s maid, Flo, have been invited by their friend JB McIntyre to spend the weekend at his recently renovated Tudor fort on a remote island off the Devonshire coast. But the holiday quickly turns sinister when first a number of valuable jewels go missing—and then a fellow guest is murdered with a most unusual weapon.

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious...

The international bestseller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The Name of the Rose The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is...

The author of the “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman) Wolf and the Watchman series presents a new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country’s most infamous murder mysteries. 1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are...

New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other’s opinions in all things. So when he tells her they’re moving to a fancy home on Fifth Avenue—and that he’s running for the sheriff of New York—Molly is left reeling.