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In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club, poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields, are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World.

His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground are legendary throughout London. He solves cases with the able assistance of his close friend and confidant. And, one day, he will become the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Meet Professor James Moriarty - consulting criminal.

Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church, and the country is waking up to savage new laws. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent to investigate the monasteries. At the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell's commissioner, Robin Singleton, has been found dead. And Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of reform, has been sent by Cromwell into an atmosphere of treachery and death to investigate.

Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes’ friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. Rumors fly. Had Inspector Treadles killed the men because they had opposed his wife’s initiatives at every turn? Had he killed in a fit of jealous rage because he suspected Mrs. Treadles of harboring deeper feelings for one of the men? To make matters worse, he refuses to speak on his own behalf, despite the overwhelming evidence against him.

Between 1940-41, in Berlin, nine women are killed during the blackouts. One of these is a young girl. Her face is covered in snow and it looks as if she is smiling. This murder differs from the others and detective Johann Braunmann is ordered to solve it. However, he quickly senses that he is not meant to solve this case–or at least not to solve it quickly and for reasons he can't figure out. Something is very wrong–or somebody at the highest echelons of power is involved.

Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau.

A bestselling book, an exhibit featuring the Hill-Billies of Heaven Holler, and a brutal murder turn the excitement of 1904 World's Fair into a nightmare for the people of Daybreak. Country and city collide when Charlotte Turner's son Adam turns their sleepy Ozarks village of Daybreak into a tourist attraction with his bestselling novel The Hill-Billies of Heaven Holler.

Prag 1910. Kisch ermittelt in seinem ersten Fall. Prag ist in Aufruhr. Der Weltuntergang steht bevor. Im Mai 1910 soll die Erde den Schweif des Halley'schen Kometen kreuzen - ein jeder blickt zum Himmel, und die Verbrecher auf Erden haben leichtes Spiel. Egon Erwin Kisch, berühmt-berüchtigter Reporter der "Bohemia", ermittelt auf eigene Faust in seinem ersten Fall. Er lässt sich sogar als Schwerverbrecher ins Gefängnis sperren, um mit dem Kopf der Prager Unterwelt Portwein zu trinken.

Private investigator Matilda Wren's new client is a woman seeking evidence to divorce her husband. She is also the former fiancée of her last client—and dear friend—Lord Ravenhurst. Though he has enthusiastically offered to aid Tilda with future investigations, she can't very well accept his help in this matter. Especially when her client's husband is murdered, and Ravenhurst is a suspect.

Centrada en uno de los episodios más cruentos y olvidados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en Los indignos —nominada al Premio de los Libreros de Noruega (2022)— Roy Jacobsen (autor finalista del Man Booker International Prize) revela los rostros de los niños que perdieron su inocencia durante la guerra, obligados a comportarse como adultos en un mundo sin esperanza. Oslo, 1942. Carl, Olav y Roar crecieron juntos en el mismo edificio de departamentos al este de la ciudad. Apenas transitan la pubertad, pero sus vidas están lejos de ser juegos y travesuras.

A haunted soldier. Missing men. Deadly secrets. 1919: The Great War may be over, but for Major Eric Grey, the battle is far from finished. Scarred in body and mind, he finds himself in a secluded convalescent home for soldiers with devastating facial injuries. Nightmares plague him, memories torment him, and the eerie hush of the estate offers little comfort. Men begin to vanish, their disappearances shrouded in silence. Determined to uncover the truth, Eric is thrust into a world of whispers, deception, and the hidden dangers of his own traumatized mind.

"The Mist of Oblivion" is a gripping supernatural horror story set amidst the bloody backdrop of World War I's Gallipoli campaign. Private Henry Jameson, a young British soldier, finds himself thrust into a nightmarish world where a mysterious, reality-altering mist consumes the battlefield and unravels the very fabric of existence. As Henry and his fellow soldiers, Corporal Whitaker and Private Booker, navigate the treacherous landscape of shifting timelines and cosmic horrors, they uncover a sinister plot that threatens to destroy not only their world but the entire multiverse.

Mathilde Voss wird von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt – in seinem 3. Fall muss Felix Blom alle Register ziehen, um seiner Geschäftspartnerin zu helfen und den wahren Täter zur Strecke zu bringen! Berlin 1879: Ein Mordfall sorgt für Getuschel in der Hauptstadt. Eine Prostituierte wurde ermordet aufgefunden. Wenig später erhält Detektivin Mathilde Voss eine Nachricht: Ich weiß, wer der Mörder ist. Wir sind in Gefahr. Lotte. Als Mathilde bei Lotte eintrifft, ahnt sie nicht, in welch missliche Lage sie sich bringt: Denn auch Lotte wurde ermordet und Mathilde selbst gerät unter Verdacht.

1886 wird die Millionenmetropole Chicago, deren Bevölkerung zu einem Drittel aus deutschen Einwanderern besteht, zum Schauplatz des ersten Bombenanschlags in der Geschichte der USA. Die Brüder Jack und Bob Hunhoff, zwei ehemalige Polizisten aus Chicago, die jetzt im Dakota-Gebiet leben, kehren an ihre alte Wirkungsstätte zurück, um durch eigene Ermittlungen die Freilassung ihres Freundes Andreas Brenner zu erreichen, der nach dem Anschlag verhaftet wurde.

Luxor, Dezember 1922. Carl Falkenburg, angehender Ägyptologe aus Deutschland, darf im Tal der Könige gemeinsam mit Howard Carter am unversehrten Grab des Pharao Tutanchamun arbeiten. Doch schon wenige Wochen später stirbt der Finanzier der Ausgrabung einen rätselhaften Tod. Rasch ist vom Fluch des Pharao die Rede. Obendrein beäugen offizielle Stellen die Arbeit mit Argwohn. Nicht jeder möchte, dass das Ausgrabungsteam seine Arbeit vollenden kann ... Das erste Spin-off zur erfolgreichen Geheimakte-Serie!

Lady Vivienne Harlowe doesn't fear much, and delves into life's experiences head on. But for years she's been plagued by the unsolved murders of her parents and the strange disappearance of other family members. Now, in the face of a new tragedy, she vows to follow every twist and turn until she's solved the dark deeds at Mablethorpe Castle.

Birds of a Feather finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another adventure in London. It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress’s old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman’s mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.

It’s January of 1704, and Matthew Corbett continues his mission to Italy, accompanied by Hudson Greathouse and former enemy Professor Fell. They seek Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro. Legend claims the mirror can be used to summon demons from beyond. But fate has other plans for Matthew as their ship is disabled by a pod of whales, and they seek refuge on a secluded island. The islanders welcome them with a massive feast, but all is not what it seems.

The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California—and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities within their walls. And now, just as the turmoil seems buried and the Estate prepares to move into a new future, construction work unearths a grim relic of the estate's history: a skull, hidden away some fifty years ago.

St. Paul, Minnesota. October 1, 1917. High above the city, a renowned local financier named Artemis Dodge lies facedown on the floor of his armored penthouse sanctuary, a single bullet hole in his head. Thirty stories up, in the city’s tallest building, and not a shred of evidence or sign pointing to anyone having broken into the wealthy man’s fortress. It is - to all appearances - an impossible crime.

London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a highly paid prostitute, at which point they cease to care entirely. But Caro has motives of her own for wanting to see justice done and so sets out to solve the crime herself.

This is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep. When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. Surely it won't take long to shine light on this unlikely case of what would seem to be strigoi? Or, as they are known in the West...vampires.

Ghost Station is a tense thriller about espionage, cryptography, and paranoia, set in the earliest days of the Berlin Wall. Can Reed trust Longshore? His boss? His lover? Can he find the truth behind the lies - or will Berlin become ground zero for a world-ending war?

December 1703 finds Berry Grigsby living as Mary Lynn Nash in a small English village where she has fallen victim to Professor Fell's involuntary drug experiments. Her mind is quickly deteriorating under the drug’s influence, and the only way to save her is a potion book that was stolen in an attack on the village orchestrated by a mysterious madman going by the name Cardinal Black. Matthew Corbett has volunteered to travel with Julian Devane, a self-proclaimed "fool and bad man" in the employ of Professor Fell, to hunt down the potion book.

A new breed of evil has come to old New York. The horribly mutilated body of a young male prostitute turns up in the East River in 1896. Reporter John Moore and his mentor Laszlo Kreizler decide to investigate.

September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe’s country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may have a more sinister explanation...

As the city of Minneapolis prepares for a visit from President William McKinley, someone else prepares for murder. On the day before the visit, a union activist is found hanged, naked, outside a ruined mansion. A placard around his neck reads "THE SECRET ALLIANCE HAS SPOKEN." Who is the alliance? What does it want? How was the victim involved with the city's corrupt mayor? And why did he possess a photograph of a prominent citizen in a compromising position?

Sherlock Holmes is bored between cases at 221B Baker Street. So when King Oskar II of Sweden - who has heard of the discovery of the Kensington Runestone by a farmer in Minnesota - asks to engage his services, Holmes jumps at the chance to decipher the runes and determine whether the find is real or a hoax. With Dr. John H. Watson by his side, faithfully recording every detail, Holmes makes his way to Minnesota for a third time.

The year is 1896, and the magnificent winter carnival is under way in St. Paul, Minnesota, when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city's most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man has disappeared on the eve of his wedding - and his fiancée suspiciously discards her wedding dress. After a grisly discovery in the carnival's ice palace leads to a flurry of clues, Holmes is on the case.

Seltsames geht in den Kreisen der Diplomatie vor. Aus unerfindlichen Gründen buhlen die Gemahlinnen der Botschafter um die Gunst des sonst so nervösen und tollpatschigen russischen Botschafters Krosny. Als dann auch noch die Ehefrau des britischen Staatssekretärs Musgrave Papiere aus dem Tresor ihres Mannes entwenden will,. wird das Agententeam Jenna Steel und Ron Peak eingeschaltet. Wie hängt alles zusammen und welches Spiel spielen die Russen darin? Mit dem Charme der 60er agieren die beiden britischen Agenten als eingespieltes Team mit Intelligenz, Schlagkraft und viel Wortwitz.