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Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance. . . .

Cassie Woods has been assigned her first big article after the success of her first two investigations. She dives in, eager to prove herself as a journalist in the male-dominated world of 1880s New York City. Her relationship with the handsome but infuriating Detective O'Neill seems promising, but when she discovers that O'Neill is investigating her father for corruption, she must choose whom to side with and whom to protect. Will she be able to solve both cases and save her family's reputation?

When master sleuth Lord Edgington is called to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s wife at a beauty spot in the countryside, things go badly from the outset. A bloody and abandoned car hints at a dark fate for the missing woman, and when her husband forbids the detectives from entering his property, there is only one conclusion to draw.

In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has ever seen: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost completely preserved. The body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests: archaeologists desperate to study the bog, those who want to profit from the land's resources, a group of neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place.

Two women, a Sabbath breacher and a flirt, are forced to publicly repent in church for their sins. Isolated and fearful, surrounded by ice and darkness, the two women grow ever closer. Now Florrie must try to escape - whatever it takes. But when she turns to Eliza for support, she realizes nothing is as it seems in this strange and hostile land.

It is the summer of 1880, and DI Sam McQueen has been called away from the gray, damp streets of Edinburgh to investigate a case on the oppressively hot Mediterranean island of Malta. The local police chief is distinctly unwelcoming toward the interloper—but has no choice in the matter, since Admiral Collingwood's wealthy widow insists that her husband's fatal fall from the roof of their villa was no accident.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings, Styrkar, loyal housecarl to the fallen King Harold, journeys to Ireland in search of the dead king's exiled sons. When a plot to murder Harold's widow and infant son is uncovered, duty pulls him in a different direction. Fleeing back to England with the dowager and child, Styrkar's loyalties are tested as he's forced into an uneasy alliance with his old comrade Eadnoth, now sworn to William the Conqueror. When the sons of Harold return to reclaim their birthright, Styrkar must choose: stand with his blood brother or his brothers-in-arms?

Malgré un temps exécrable, une belle cérémonie pour l'investiture du nouveau gouverneur de la Tour de Londres. Poste envié, en dépit du caractère sinistre de cette ancienne prison où furent suppliciés tant d'hommes et de femmes. Une belle cérémonie gâchée par un spectre qui brandit une tête tranchée.

December, 1923. Ruby Vaughn is looking forward to a quiet, relaxing trip to Oxford in the week before Christmas with her octogenarian housemate and colleague Mr Owen. Far away from the arcane, unusual—and occasionally illegal—books that seem to always get her into trouble. The most she expects to do is attend a handful of his antiquarian society meetings. But when the body of disgraced scholar Julius Harker is amongst his exhibition of Egyptian antiquities looted by Napoleon, panic spreads throughout the cobbled streets of Oxford.

The highly-anticipated fifth title in Colleen Cambridge's Phyllida Bright Mystery series.

July, 1941. When Evie Harris vanishes after visiting her late fiancé's parents, the Homefront Sleuths of Crofter's Green vow to find her. But their investigation takes a bizarre turn when Nigel's police superiors send him to nearby Clarion Castle. There, the first under-butler has just taken his final bow in the castle's wine cellar. Could there be a connection with Evie's disappearance? Or with a hush-hush VIP visit to the castle?

When cook Kat Holloway and the kitchen staff maintain the empty Mayfair house while the family resides in the country, Lord Clifford, Lady Cynthia’s confidence-trickster father arrives in London and asks Kat and Daniel McAdam for help. Lord Clifford might be accused of murder but won't go to the police because his involvement with the victim will implicate him in another crime.

Herbst 1906: Der Funker Charlie Ingram wird tot im Funkraum des Ozeandampfers URANUS aufgefunden. Bei ihm der erste Offizier Harald Tennel. Die Tatwaffe: ein Messer, das Tennel gehört. Der Fall scheint klar. Kapitän Dyle vertraut seinem langjährigen Weggefährten und will ihm helfen, seine Unschuld zu beweisen. Er kontaktiert DIE DENKMASCHINE.

Isabella, l'amata figlia di Shasa Courtney, gode di tutte le libertà che la Londra degli anni Sessanta può offrire. E quando conosce un uomo affascinante e bellissimo, che le fa una corte spietata, non ha dubbi: perché resistergli? Ma quell'uomo non è un semplice ammiratore: è Ramon de Santiago y Machado, una spia del KGB nota come Volpe dorata, e la sua missione è reclutarla come agente segreto e carpirle preziose informazioni sugli affari segreti di suo padre.

In Newton geschehen merkwürdige Dinge: Vögel fallen tot vom Himmel, Gegenstände und Tiere verschwinden und alle Gemälde der renommierten Malerin Liz Bennett wurden des Nachts schwarz übermalt! Als auch noch der selbstgefällige Mr. Darcy einen schweren Unfall erleidet, weil jemand die Bremsen seines Wagens manipuliert hat, beginnt Pater Brown auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. In letzter Minute kann er einen weiteren Einwohner Newtons davor bewahren, an einer Vergiftung zu sterben. Wie hängen all diese Geschehnisse bloß zusammen?

Civil war is ripping England apart. Families are divided, emotions run high. Whether on the bleakness of the moors or in snug, wood-panelled rooms, danger lurks. A body is found, its mouth pierced with thorns. The Justice of the Peace, a godly man, is certain that witchcraft is involved. Only his assistant, former cavalryman John Carne, looks for reason where others see demons and witches.

Chief Inspector Soobramania is called when three bodies are discovered in the space of twenty-four hours, with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to Jack the Ripper’s victims. Initial suspicion centres on an English Duke visiting Hyderabad and his friend, a powerful Deccani noble and the angry stepson of one of the dead. In the face of political pressure, Soob must ally with his rival in the British Residency Police, Inspector Wilberforce, to unearth the culprit.

When lawlessness sweeps across Sun Dog County, Sheriff Brick Davidson faces his toughest challenge yet. A string of daring robberies, a wrecked stagecoach, and mounting political pressure threaten to derail his re-election—and his control of the frontier town he’s sworn to protect.

Can Vita Carew expose the truth behind a ruthless doctor and his lethal assistant, save an injured man, and escape unscathed with time to resume her vacation studying?

Братьев из Монтаны Густава и Отто Амлингмайеров, более известных как Старый Рыжий и Верзила Рыжий, жизнь не балует: все их родичи погибли, а им самим приходится браться за самую тяжелую работу ради пары долларов, которых едва хватает на пропитание. Но однажды безрадостное существование двух ковбоев озаряет свет: они знакомятся с рассказами о Шерлоке Холмсе.