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New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming...

Shrewd bankers, astute politicians, godfathers of the Renaissance, glittering dukes... how history remembers Florence's most notorious family. But the Medici and their bloody path to power was built on murder, intrigue and conspiracies that stretched across three centuries. Florence, 1429...

Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence’s mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened and why. Was it poison or just ill luck?

Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colorful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch’s Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween. But things take a macabre turn when the first night’s screening ends with a mysterious murder, and the second night with another. One by one the actors turn up dead in ways that eerily echo their film.

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself.

Detective Stephen Lavender's wife and children are spending a glorious summer in the picturesque village of Ealing. When the vicar's wife is poisoned, Lavender is asked to review the case. He soon realizes something rotten is festering at the heart of this rural idyll. Convinced the wrong man has been arrested and the killer is still at large, Lavender is also disturbed to discover someone is sending the local gentry vile letters containing outrageous accusations. Could the same hand that drips such poison from their quill also have administered that fatal dose of arsenic?

The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending the World War I peace negotiations, and the action shifts east to Tokyo, where a team assembled at Max's behest anxiously awaits his arrival on the docks. Max had arrived in Paris soon after the end of the Great War to investigate the suspicious death of his father, a British diplomat named Sir Henry, and is soon plunged into a treacherous game of cat and mouse with the people behind his father's death.

Brought to you by Penguin. In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knew by reputation...

It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds herself happily settled into a sleepy hamlet in the interior of British Columbia surrounded by a suitably eclectic cast of small-town characters, she feels like she may finally be able to put her past to rest. But then a body is discovered, the victim of murder, and although she works alongside the town's Inspectors Darling and Ames to discover who might have possibly have motivation to kill, she unknowingly casts doubt on herself.

Fred Wood, einer der aussichtsreichsten und energischsten Studenten an der Universität, möchte Lord Haderley um die Hand seiner einzigen Tochter bitten. Ein lautstarker Streit entsteht und Fred Wood verlässt wutentbrannt das Anwesen. Gleich darauf findet sich Dr. Rowing bei dem Lord ein. Lord Haderley wird von schlimmen Krämpfen geplagt. Schnell schlussfolgert der Arzt eine Vergiftung und verabreicht den Lord ein Gegengift. Wenige Minuten später ist der Lord tot.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

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...

The Desert Keeps Its Secrets. In the silent of Nevada desert, where the wind moves like a whisper across endless sand and dry lake beds, there exists a place that officially did not exist for decades. A place erased from maps. A place denied, dismissed, and quietly protected. That place is Area 51.

Young Jacob Fletcher, whilst unsure of his parentage, did know that as an apprentice he couldn't legally be seized by the press gang. But this particular gang couldn't actually read the rules. And didn't care anyway. Which was how he found himself risking life, limb and sea sickness on board His Majesty's frigate Phiandra, about to do battle with what looked like half the French fleet.