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Ein Prozess wie ein Todesurteil – und nur ein einziger Mann könnte die Wahrheit retten. Erleben Sie einen historischen Krimi voller Spannung, düsterer Atmosphäre und gnadenloser Machtspiele im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Prag im Jahr 1633: General Holk leitet ein Tribunal gegen Offiziere, die in der blutigen Schlacht von Lützen ihre Pflicht vernachlässigt haben sollen. Doch unter den Angeklagten gibt es Zweifel an der Schuld – und nur ein einziger Zeuge könnte sie entlasten: Leutnant Haunsberger.

Bien décidée à oublier Jérôme de Faulcon de Montessand, Joséphine noie sa frustration dans le travail. La voici plus active que jamais, aidant au soin des malades de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, en compagnie de Francine. Bien sûr, le sort en décide autrement. Voilà que le chirurgien de l'hôpital est découvert étranglé dans son bureau ! De son côté, Jérôme trouve une occupation inattendue quand le corps d'un homme est repêché dans la Seine. Ni une, ni deux : le mousquetaire entraîne son ami, Geoffrey de Sept-Vans, sur la trace de l'assassin.

Miriam Voss knows how to read a book. Not the story inside it —the paper, the ink, the history it carries. So when a minor Kelmscott pamphlet lands on her stand at a rare book fair, she knows exactly what she’s looking at. Or she thinks she does. A name on the subscriber list catches someone’s attention. A provenance researcher starts asking questions. A rival dealer makes a quiet offer —before the truth has time to surface. Because something was removed from this book. Carefully. Deliberately. And the paper still remembers.

Zonenrandgebiet 1974 – ein düsteres Dorfgeheimnis, eine verhängnisvolle Liebschaft und die erste große Liebe. Eine tiefe Schuld, auch wenn wir sie nicht bewusst auf uns laden, verfolgt uns ein Leben lang. Wenn wir sie endlich tilgen wollen, machen wir es oft nur noch schlimmer. So ergeht es Fritz Tiedemann. Fritz bewegt sich zwischen den Welten. Als Einziger aus seinem Dorf geht er aufs Gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel und macht sich damit selbst zum Außenseiter.

England, 14th century. The brutal double murder of Lady Vivienne Harlowe’s parents has haunted her for seven years. When a new series of killings terrorizes Mablethorpe—each body marked by a white goose feather and a gold florin—Vivienne fears the murderer who destroyed her family has returned.

A Compass for the DeadBook 2 in the Thorne & Linus: Cartographic Mysteries SeriesA dead lighthouse keeper. A village with too much French wine. And a harbor where the charts lie. Surveyor Silas Thorne has followed his missing father's trail from the gold camps of the High Sierras to a fog-bound fishing village on the Mendocino coast. His commission is to map a new coastal road. His real purpose is to understand why a brass marker stamped with his father's initials bears a bearing that points to Sentinel Point — a place where the lighthouse burns true and the ships still die.

A young man died, consumed by fire. There was no evidence of crime, but suspicions persist. Julian Courtauld had raised hackles, not that he cared. Rich, confident and handsome, he saw a glittering future for himself. He was a budding playwright, he had girls swooning at his feet despite just becoming engaged to a dazzling heiress. And then the fire ended it all. Five years later a parcel arrives on Miss Busby's doorstep. The anonymous letter begs for her help.

Father Brown (Chesterton's sharp-witted detective priest) and Flambeau (the reformed master-thief and Brown's constant companion) are on a little vacation in Norfolk, invited to visit the mysterious Prince Saradine. It doesn't go well. Sure, Flambeau gets some good fishing in, but there's also a duel with rapiers, a couple of murders, a hanging, a case of mistaken identity, an awkward family reunion, and a gang of surly Sicilians.

"The Hammer of God," readers are surprised to learn from Father Brown that the murderer is not a violent madman but rather a very respected member of the community. The Reverend Wilfred Bohun could no longer stand the scandalous behavior of his alcoholic brother Norman, who blasphemed God and humiliated the Reverend Bohun in the eyes of his parishioners. Chesterton states that Wilfred and Norman Bohun belong to an old noble family whose descendants are now mostly "drunkards and dandy degenerates." Rumor has it that there has been "a whisper of insanity" in the Bohun family.

This bundle includes The Thief of Blackfriars Lane, The Bride of Blackfriars Lane, and The Sleuth of Blackfriars Lane.

A missing heir. An out of sorts duchess. A Season in High Society that just became far more interesting… London, 1891. With the gossip broadsheet The Society Page speculating that her husband is getting far too cosy with their female neighbor back at his country estate, Alice, Duchess of...

When the celebrated biographer of the infamous pirate Blackheart takes a suite at the Mayfair Hotel to live out his final months, Goliath the porter is desperate to ask the one question that has haunted treasure hunters for decades: Where is the loot buried? Forbidden to disturb a guest, he instead visits the man writing the author’s own life story, only to discover him dead at his desk. Accused of the crime, Goliath turns to Cleo and Harry to clear his name.

Victorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime, from the USA Today bestselling author of Down a Dark River. She’s stolen gems, purses, and hearts—but can she steal her life back...

Nachdem er brutal niedergestochen und zum Sterben zurückgelassen wurde, erkämpft sich Hadrian Becket, Earl of Ravenhurst, seine Gesundheit zurück, um dann allerdings festzustellen, dass er mit der verstörenden Gabe verflucht ist, für ihn unerklärbare Visionen zu erleben. Aus Furcht, den Verstand zu verlieren, muss er diese ärgerliche Gabe geheim halten. Als diese sich jedoch bei der Verfolgung seines versuchten Mörders als nützlich erweist, bleibt ihm keine andere Wahl, als diese neu gewonnene Kraft zu akzeptieren.

A London season is the last thing bright, beautiful Emmaline Devereux wants. Her grandfather knows he is dying and insists that she find herself a husband and secure her future. The only husband Emmaline would consider is her friend’s dark and imposing brother. But Emmaline has a past that, if revealed, will undoubtedly bring disgrace to her and those with whom she associates. Dare she risk pursuing her heart’s desire? Lucius, Earl of Avondale, with a secret of his own, has sworn to not marry until he is forty but fate brings Emmaline to his door.

In May, 1899, a hundred and fifty unassuming envelopes are delivered to households across the city. Most of them will be picked up by butlers and carried on silver trays to their recipients. All of them contain invitations to the wedding of Lady Eleanor Serrs to Mr. Ryce Penn.

The Latitude of Lies: Thorne & Linus Cartographic Mysteries, Book 1In a town built on a fifteen-degree lie, the truth is the most dangerous thing you can measure. Silas Thorne is a man of precise measurements and hard angles. As a licensed surveyor, he knows that while people lie, the land never does. When he’s hired to verify a high-stakes mining claim in the remote Sierra Nevada boomtown of Promise Creek, he expects a routine audit of quartz veins and property lines. Instead, he finds a town whose very geometry is an impossibility.

A humorous cozy mystery starring the world’s most famous detective, and his cat. Volume 3 Cat Watson may need to break a few eggs to crack this case. The Mystery of the Missing Watch should be a simple case for Sherlock Holmes and his trusty feline detecting companion to solve. Alas, when John is hauled off to jail as a murderer, it escalates into a truly baffling business. A series of seemingly random incidents hamper the detective’s efforts to exonerate John. Why is Mrs. Hudson behaving so peculiarly? Will she evict him from his beloved home?

May 1939. When Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin are invited to a black-tie civic awards ceremony at the Town Hall, they expect to be met with the usual boring speeches and toe-curling sycophancy, but when the recipient of the night's 'Businessman Of The Year Award', Nelson Kelly, is found stabbed to death after being called from the stage to answer the telephone, the evening begins to liven up. Nelson's company has just won a lucrative contract to build a new armaments factory and many of the town's elite, having backed a rival bidder, aren't happy at missing out.

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, the unnamed narrator, undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris.