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Carolyn Kirby's stunning debut takes the reader on a heart-breaking journey through Victorian Birmingham and questions where we first learn violence: from our scars or from our hearts. Birmingham, 1885. Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the...

England, 1919: Verity Kent's grief over the loss of her husband pierces anew when she receives a cryptic letter, suggesting her beloved Sidney may have committed treason before his untimely death. Lured to Umbersea Island to attend the engagement party of one of Sidney's fellow officers, Verity...

17 September 1944: The allies launch the largest airborne offensive in history, delivering 36,000 troops by parachute and glider to the Dutch / German Border. In nine days’ time, half of them will be casualties of war. Among their number is Theo Trickey, a young paratrooper so dreadfully...

World War II is over and former German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has returned to Berlin, having been hired back onto Berlin’s police force. When a man is found slain, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation. It seems a serial killer is on the loose, and matters only...

When German intelligence officer Captain Reinhardt is reassigned to a new branch of the military police, his position separates him from the allies he has made. This includes a circle of fellow dissenting Germans who formed a resistance cell against the Nazis. Reinhardt witnesses a massacre of...

London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing - and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone. Out on the streets, something nastier is stirring: London's prostitutes are being murdered, their bodies left mutilated to...

For Kay, living on her husband Bror's country estate, the Nazi invasion is a time of uncertainty. Bror is desperate to preserve the legacy of his home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy; Kay cannot do the same. She is lured by British Intelligence into a world of resistance. Tasked...

When a mysterious puppet show arrives in Bishop's Lacey, death is not far behind... a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall reaches back to an earlier crime that has cast a shadow over the village for years. Flavia's investigations test her powers of...

Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses"—and in Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere.

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady’s maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame?

Raymond Bannister is a wealthy man living a secure life. He is found slashed down in a dirty alleyway, in a part of town he had no reason to be in. The crime and the crimescene are inexplicable to Chief Inspector Lestrade, and he seeks the help of his new consultant detective, Mr. Sherlock...

Como un Philip Marlowe de la Edad Media, Gonzalo de Berceo, poeta y copista, se empeña en encontrar al asesino de un monje en el monasterio de Silos. «Divertida y gozosa... Uno de los libros del año. Dudo mucho que vaya a venir algo mejor.» Alberto Olmos, El Confidencial «Un verdadero y...

York, 1371. William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, has made many enemies since York knight Sir Ranulf Pagnell died imprisoned in France while Wykeham negotiated his ransom. After escorting Sir Ranulf's body back to the city, Wykeham realises that his own life is in grave danger.

Set in 1915 against the atmospheric backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, "Land of Salt and Ash: Rosaura the Heiress of Silence" is a gripping historical mystery thriller. When Rosaura Valenzuela returns to the remote, sun-bleached village of San Jacinto del Desierto to settle a family inheritance, she expects a simple administrative task. Instead, she is confronted by a haunting environment filled with buried secrets, eerie voices, and locked rooms. As she navigates the deep shadows of her family's past, Rosaura uncovers a dangerous truth that permanently alters her destiny.

More than a million dollars in government bonds have vanished from a locked bank vault—and the only visible clue is a tiny disk of steel. New York lawyer Lawrence Duncan is drawn into the mystery after receiving an urgent telephone call from wealthy real estate dealer Martin Anderson. George...

Patricia Peacock ist überglücklich, das Erbe ihres lang verschollenen Vaters antreten zu können - befreit es sie doch von ihrer ungeliebten Anstellung als Gesellschaftsdame bei Lady Blanford. In Kairo muss sie allerdings feststellen, dass der Verstorbene ihr nicht nur seinen Besitz samt Hausangestellten und der treudoofen Dogge Sir Tiny hinterlassen hat, sondern auch noch jede Menge Auflagen, um das Erbe überhaupt erst antreten zu können.

DCI Lilian Wyles is confronted by a troubling case, one that only the four queens of crime can help solve—even amidst the ongoing war efforts. Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh are back in the follow-up novel to The Four Queens of Crime. 1941, London. When...

Eleanor Hartwell has spent fourteen years reading other people's households. When she accepts a governess position at Ashgrove, a quiet estate in Wiltshire, she quickly discovers that the previous governess did not leave willingly—no matter what the family claims.

A haunted castle. A deadly secret. And a duchess who can speak to the dead. When Lenora Fletcher arrives at Blackmoore Castle, she's tasked with uncovering the truth behind a scandal no one wants exposed: The former Duchess's death. Officially, it was ruled a suicide. But the spirits of Blackmoore tell a very different story.

When Abigail returns to her great-grandmother's mysterious Louisiana estate, she expects peace, not whispers in the dark and secrets buried for generations. As strange visions, hidden passageways, and long-forgotten journals begin to surface, Abby uncovers a tragic love story tied to her family's past. With her children caught in the center of unexplained events and a dangerous presence growing stronger, she must unravel the truth before history repeats itself.