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Britannien, 43 n. Chr. Die Adler Roms haben gelandet, doch der wahre Krieg um die Insel hat gerade erst begonnen. An der blutigen Grenze des Imperiums kämpfen der junge Tribun Gaius Julius Maximus und der wettergegerbte Zenturio Brutus Seite an Seite. Ihre Mission: das eroberte Land für Rom zu sichern. Doch während der charismatische Keltenführer Caratacus im Verborgenen eine gewaltige Armee sammelt, lauert ein noch heimtückischerer Feind in den eigenen Reihen der römischen Legion.

2023. Die 85-jährige Inge Sundermann folgt widerwillig einer Einladung zum Klassentreffen in die Lüneburger Heide. Mit dem Ort ihrer Kindheit verbindet sich eine furchtbare Schuld, die sie einst im Kindesalter auf sich geladen und tief in sich vergraben hat. 1946. Die 8-jährige Inge findet auf dem Weg zum Geigenunterricht im Wald die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Die idyllische Lüneburger Heide wird zum Schauplatz für Kriegsverbrechen, deren Täter noch Jahrzehnte später unentdeckt in ihren Familien leben.

January 1901. Abigail and Daniel Wilson, often lauded as "The Museum Detectives," are on their way to the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza. Their explorations of the pyramid, including the Robbers' Tunnel, take a very sinister turn when they come upon the dead body of a man who has been brutally garrotted. Investigations by the local police reveal him to be Simeon McGruder, a wealthy American who is financing an excavation of the pyramids.

Four full-cast stories of suspense from the creator of Dr Gideon Fell The master of the ‘impossible crime’ novel, American author John Dickson Carr was renowned for his Golden Age detective stories featuring the eccentric genius Dr Gideon Fell. This collection brings together four of his...

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Wolf Worm is going to burrow straight into your brain' – Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of The Library at Hellebore Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, an original gothic masterpiece from Sunday...

Malta, 1880. A quarantine island. A killer among them. When British civil servant Laurence Buchanan is found floating in Quarantine Harbor, Malta, it is first thought to be an accident. But new evidence quickly reveals a much darker story and Detective Inspector McQueen, an Edinburgh policeman...

Her identity is false, but her love for the earl is all too real—and so is the danger that engulfs them both . . . Gypsy fortune-teller Mademoiselle Magda has taken London by storm with her uncanny predictions—and only Lord Kerrigan suspects that she is not what she claims to be. And he is...

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly...

Murder in Canton takes place in the year 680, as Judge Dee, recently promoted to lord chief justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor. With the help of his trusted lieutenants Chiao Tai and Tao Gan, and that of a clever blind girl who collects crickets, Dee solves a complex puzzle of political intrigue and murder through the three separate subplots "the vanished censor," "the Smaragdine dancer," and "the Golden Bell."

Die Geschichte spielt in der Zeit nach der Französischen Revolution, 1815 bis 1838. Napoleons Stern ist untergegangen, und die Restauration unter den Königen Ludwig XVIII. und Karl X. hat sich durchgesetzt. Dann folgt die Julirevolution von 1830, durch die der „Bürgerkönig" Louis-Philippe I. auf den Thron kommt.

Moriarty triumphiert, da es ihm gelungen ist, Irene Adler, Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes mit einem Sender auszustatten, mit dessen Hilfe er stets über den Aufenthaltsort der Sonderermittler der Krone informiert ist. Die drei Ermittler, die nicht ansatzweise ahnen, in welcher Gefahr sie schweben, versuchen indessen immer noch herauszufinden, aus welchem Grund die Mitglieder des Zirkels die Brandanschläge verübt haben.

Civil unrest sweeps the mountains of Jalisco, displacing Mexico's elite. Under the cover of darkness, Catalina steals away from her vast ranch with her two daughters. Stuffed into their saddlebags, the precious jewels of the Hernandez-Castañeda family fortune begin their journey across time and legend. Over one hundred years later, in the United States, Sophie's marriage takes its dying breath after she catches Adam cheating. The demise of her marriage shakes her to the core, and she hopes it isn't too late to build the stable family of her dreams.

Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory in Aston on a wet Monday morning in late November 1944. Greeted by his enthusiastic sergeant, O’Rourke, Sam Mason finds himself plunged into a challenging investigation to discover how Harry Armstrong met his death in a vat containing BB Sauce – a scene that threatens to put him off BB Sauce on his bacon sandwiches for the rest of his life.

Hampshire, inverno del 1798. Il Natale è alle porte, ma alla canonica di Steventon l'allegria sembra rimasta intrappolata nel gelo. Con i fratelli lontani e troppe serate davanti al camino, Jane Austen teme che le feste si riducano a un infinito susseguirsi di tè, sbadigli e canti stonati. Finché non inciampa in uno scheletro ben nascosto in cantina. Altro che tombola di famiglia: finalmente qualcosa di davvero interessante!

Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot is invited to Glasgow University to celebrate a scholarship she generously established, she’s excited to return to her old stomping grounds. But the delightful champagne reception is interrupted by screams when a body plunges from the tower to the ground below… While everyone exclaims at the tragic death of the young student, Poppy is instantly suspicious. Just moments before the body fell, tutor Mary Christie told her a student died falling from the very same tower eighteen years ago.

New York, Sommer 1908: Die Stadt wird von einer Typhus-Epidemie heimgesucht und Molly Murphy Sullivan macht sich mit den Kindern auf den Weg nach Norden, um den Sommer bei ihrer Schwiegermutter in Westchester County zu verbringen. Obwohl ihre Schwiegermutter eine überraschend gute Gastgeberin ist, langweilt sich Molly schnell. Als Sid und Gus sie zu sich einladen, ergreift Molly die Chance, bei ihnen in einer Künstlerkolonie zu wohnen.

London, August 1759. Lizzie Hardwicke, society harlot and occasional investigator for the magistrate, is shaken by an encounter with her estranged brother during a riotous evening hosted by the notorious Devil's Brotherhood. Beyond the opulence of this Mayfair party, a streetwalker is found strangled on the doorstep of a well-known moral campaigner, her cheek branded with the letter V.

During a hospital visit, Lady Violet Thorn overhears a young woman accusing a married couple of her parents' murder and stealing their home, Maccabee House. From body parts scattered around town igniting rumours about a cannibal to a sex worker found brutalised, macabre events soon unfold culminating in Violet receiving a mannequin, resembling herself, stabbed through the heart. With the town of Montford in meltdown, Violet knows that the answers wait at Maccabee House, which lies in the shadow of the old tannery. But with the killer's sights firmly on her, can she make it out alive?

¿Y si un retrato escondiera los secretos de toda una familia… y de un siglo entero? Viena, 1910. Gustav Klimt pinta el enigmático Retrato de una dama, una obra que esconde más de lo que revela. Décadas más tarde, el cuadro desaparece misteriosamente y reaparece en 2019, oculto en los jardines de un museo italiano. ¿Quién es esa mujer de mirada hipnótica? ¿Por qué fue retocado? ¿Qué historia oculta?

En las profundidades de las ruinas de Derinkuyu, la legendaria ciudad subterránea situada en el corazón de Capadocia, el arqueólogo David Birch descubre un artefacto de bronce cubierto de inscripciones griegas y dotado de mecanismos increíblemente avanzados para su época. Mientras descifran los orígenes del artefacto, tropiezan con la asombrosa leyenda de la Máquina del Destino, un dispositivo poderoso oculto al mundo, ligado a los secretos de los dioses y capaz de vislumbrar el porvenir de los días.