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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...

When young Tyballis discovers her husband has been arrested for murder, she is delighted. As a young orphan coerced to marry her abusive neighbor, she was horribly used. Now is her chance to be rid of him for good and find the confidence she never had. When Tyballis joins forces with the motley network of Andrew’s informers and thieves, they are lured into the dark and dangerous world of medieval London’s political intrigue and back alley slums.

After almost a year of marriage, amateur sleuths Lord William and Lady Amy have put aside their investigating skills to prepare for their first child. It would be an easy thing, except dead bodies are once again popping up.

1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement cottage. The local police are satisfied that it’s a suicide. The victim, a young man, recently suffered a disappointment in love, and Beachy Head is notorious as a place where the desperate and depressed leap to their deaths. Holmes, however, suspects murder. As he and Watson investigate, they uncover a conspiracy with shocking ramifications.

Stockholm, Silvester 1895/96: In der klirrenden Kälte der Neujahrsnacht entdeckt die junge Näherin Hildur die Leiche einer Frau im Hinterhof ihres Mietshauses – neben ihr ein toter Fötus. Die Tote ist Emma Josefina, gerade einmal 16 Jahre alt und Dienstmädchen im Haushalt des angesehenen Bauherrn Johan Henrik Creutz. Hildur kann das grausame Bild der jungen Toten nicht vergessen. Gemeinsam mit drei Mitbewohnerinnen – der wohlhabenden Witwe Olga, deren Dienstmädchen Edit und der scharfsinnigen Vollwaise Fredrika – beginnt sie, Fragen zu stellen, die niemand hören will.

Orlando Forbes und Star d'Aplièse sind alte Freunde und führen gemeinsam eine Buchhandlung in Kent. An einem verschneiten Winterabend taucht ein mysteriöser Unbekannter auf und bittet sie, eines der raren Exemplare der Erstauflage von Charles Dickens »Weihnachtsgeschichte« ausfindig zu machen. Wenig später entdeckt Orlando ein Päckchen im Briefkasten – es enthält das Buch eines vergessenen Autors, einen alten Brief, der an ein Pfarrhaus adressiert ist, und einen Schlüssel.

Palm Sunday brings spring to Crofter’s Green—and a deadly secret. When a postal van crashes outside the Cozy Cup, Dorothy agrees to hold a registered parcel for the shaken driver. Minutes later, the parcel vanishes—and the postman is found murdered. The only clues are an address in London and a faint cipher that points back to St Mary’s Church. As Alice, Blake, Harry, and Evie follow the trail, the Homefront Sleuths uncover a chilling wartime plot that could leave the village in ruins.

When Dylan Stone disappeared in 1983, he left behind a worn journal and an impossible mystery. Eighteen-year-old Dylan Stone and his best friend Bull Eastland set out on the adventure of a lifetime—a summer backpacking trip through Europe with nothing but a guitar, a journal, and Eurail passes. But a chance encounter with a desperate professor on a ferry to France changes everything. She entrusts Dylan with an envelope containing an old skeleton key and a cryptic poem —secrets tied to the long-lost Irish Crown Jewels, stolen in 1907 and never recovered.

Jericho College is closed for the summer break. But professor Carla James is busy teaching a short course to a small group of archaeology enthusiasts. Keen to get involved with local history, the newcomers become fixated on the century-old grave of Meg Woodthorpe. Killed for being a witch. A single stone sits on the burial site supposedly to prevent her rising again. And excavations reveal she may have. Meg's body is no longer there. She has been replaced by a modern victim. With no one missing, Carla must work out who this is and where Meg has gone.

Goslar im Jahr 1368: Ein gnadenloser Serientäter dezimiert eine Adelsfamilie. Der ehemalige Ordensritter Jan von Granitweiler ist ein Mann mit einer eigenen Vergangenheit und einem scharfen Verstand, der sich nicht von den Wirren des mittelalterlichen Aberglaubens beirren lässt. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn tief in die Geheimnisse der Goslarer Gesellschaft, wo alte Wunden und ungesühnte Sünden neu aufbrechen.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shogun meets Sherlock Holmes! Over 24 million copies have been sold of this beloved samurai adventure It has been half a year since Akiyama Daijiro became a samurai; half a year since he left his father Kohei – once the most skilled swordsman in the land – to set...

It's 1892, and Amelia and her now-husband Radcliffe Emerson have settled down in Victorian England after their escapade in Egypt. They're raising their young son Ramses and everything seems normal–until they are approached by a damsel in distress. Lady Baskerville's husband, Sir Henry, has died after uncovering what might be a royal tomb in Luxor. Despite rumors of a curse haunting all those involved with the dig, Amelia and Radcliffe proceed to Egypt and realize that Sir Henry did not die a natural death.

Hadrian Becket, the Earl of Ravenhurst, has always scorned the supernatural—until a head injury left him with the unnerving ability to see visions through touch. Though he loathes the curse, it's proven invaluable in solving murder investigations alongside Miss Matilda Wren. When Hadrian's mother hires Tilda to investigate a medium who claims she can contact her late son, Tilda and Hadrian are drawn into a deadly game. Mediums across London are falling victim to the "Levitation Killer," and the murderer's chilling focus soon shifts to them both.

Welcome to Wilde City, 1924—a crane on top of every skyscraper, a party in every club, a romance on every dance floor, a shooting every night, a broken heart on every street corner and a dirty secret behind every window with the curtain drawn. It’s the kinda town that keeps Buck Baxter, private detective, in business. For despite his fondness for a cold gin and a pipe stuffed with cannabis, Buck is the best gumshoe in Wilde City. Why? Because he has rules: never make friends, never make enemies, and never ever fall in love.

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

Als Rena spurlos verschwindet, macht sich ihre beste Freundin Tilla auf die Suche. Doch schnell merkt sie: Nichts von dem, was Rena über sich erzählt hat, ist wahr. Je verzweifelter Tilla in ihrer Heimatstadt Halle nach Rena sucht, umso klarer treten die Abgründe der noch jungen DDR hervor. Als sich die brodelnde Unzufriedenheit in der Bevölkerung schließlich im Volksaufstand des 17. Juni entlädt, muss Tilla sich entscheiden, wie weit sie gehen will – für die Wahrheit, für ihre Freundin und für die Frage, woran sie wirklich glaubt.

Everyone knows who killed Maggie Schneider. But why? On the morning of March 14, 1958, breeder Maggie Schneider, the Poultry Queen of Lipan County, is shot and killed while feeding her prize-winning, White Holland turkeys on her farm in south central Texas. Everyone knows who did it, but finding the killer isn’t so easy. The search uncovers a troubled family history of insanity, accidental deaths, and suicides.

The Ashcombe Ladies’ Society have worked tirelessly to prepare the most anticipated event of the season. Much publicised, the Christmas fair is drawing visitors from neighbouring towns, and for the very first time it will be held in Ashcombe Hall’s grand pavilion. Lady Ellen is determined the day will be nothing short of perfect. But the festivities turn sinister when Mrs Mott, the vicar’s wife, suddenly collapses at the foot of the glittering tree. Only moments earlier she had been making her rounds, sampling delicacies from the stalls.

A double murder confounds everyone in this mystery--but not the beloved detective Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath...

*PREORDER NOW* The latest instalment in the Sunday Times bestselling Ali Dawson Mysteries sees Ali investigating the case of a boy who vanished twenty-seven years ago and finding herself in the past once again - only this time she's in the middle of the Blitz of 1940 Praise for the Ali Dawson...