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Aristide Leonides é um empresário milionário e proprietário de uma mansão conhecida por sua arquitetura peculiar. Nela, reside junto à esposa — cinquenta anos mais nova —, à irmã da falecida ex-esposa, aos netos, aos filhos e às noras — todos sustentados com o dinheiro do...

Spring, 1892. A series of anarchist bombings have struck terror across Paris. In the chaos, the city's beloved Elzévir bookshop suffers a break-in: but the thief runs away with only a worthless decorative goblet. Then, the aristocratic Englishwoman who entrusted it to the bookshop is murdered...

The map is wrong. The mountain made it that way. And somebody used it to kill a man. Silas Thorne measures the world for a living. His partner Linus reads the men who own it. Together they take the commissions other surveyors won't touch—the plats that don't close, the claims that move overnight, the boundaries drawn by men with a reason to be off by a degree.

London, 1774. Charlotte is a renowned London actress who has the world at her feet. Until one day she disappears, never to be seen again. London, Present Day. Hazel has the job she has always dreamed of: writing plays in an iconic theatre in London. But when a secret room is discovered, and a ghostly presence begins to haunt the theatre, she finds herself drawn into the centuries-old mystery. Piecing together the clues from fragments of memory and madness, Hazel must find out the truth or be driven mad by it... A gothic novella of tragedy, loss, and ghosts on the London stage.

It's May 1935, and while the rest of England is decked in red, white and blue for the King's silver jubilee, the detective agency in Birmingham's Needless Alley remains unpatriotically down at heel. With the bailiffs at their door, private enquiry agents William Garrett and Phyll Hall are...

Westchester County, NY, February 1934. Seeking a fresh start, Clara Dawson accepts a position at Sablehurst Manor, assisting her writer friend Vincent as he documents the estate’s infamous haunting. Ten years earlier, a young woman drowned in the manor’s pond, and now her presence is said to linger on the property. Her death was ruled an accident. But in the months leading up to it, rumors spread through the town of a darkness within her, and some even whispered of demonic possession.

Där Gamla Stan möter Whitechapel Här befinner sig detektivkonstapel Emanuel Liljefelt i sin jakt efter såväl huvudstadens mördare som nästa karriärsteg. Drivhjulen i Sveriges industrialisering har precis börjat rotera. Människor söker sig till Stockholm från landsbygden för att...

I det moderna samhällets framväxt krockar vetenskap och vidskepelse när det sker märkliga mord i en liten engelsk by på 1880-talet. Ateisten Christopher följer motvilligt med när hans far prosten skickas av kyrkan för att undersöka om dödsfallen har en övernaturlig orsak. Christopher...

August 1942. Crofter's Green's favorite sleuths are headed for the Kent coast—where one of Britain's strangest wartime secrets lies hidden behind shuttered boarding houses and blacked-out promenades. Off the cliffs of Folkestone, just twenty-one miles from enemy territory, a mysterious "ghost fleet" rides at anchor: a flotilla of ships built from wood and canvas, designed to convince Hitler that invasion may come at any moment.

'Your lives are in danger... leave the hotel before it is too late...' When newlyweds Clarice and Cliff Thorley arrive in the little French town of Tourville-sur-Mer for their honeymoon, the last thing they expect to find is the corpse of a wanted jewel thief in their hotel room. Nor do they expect to find a stolen diamond necklace worth over half a million Francs hidden in their luggage. Somebody wants to get hold of that necklace very much. So much, that they are willing to kill for it.

Claude Monet captured light on the canvas in a way that changed art forever. But his own life held dark secrets. In 1914, on the eve of World War I, Claude Monet is going blind and has given up painting. His daughter-in-law, Blanche, painter herself, has come to care for Claude after the death...

In this next enthralling mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily chases down a killer in India along the misty banks of the sacred river Narmada. 1908: Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves, along with an eccentric group of English tourists, are vacationing in India at...

A new beginning. An old enemy. A perilous choice. 'With so many stories untold, The Watchmaker's War is a unique and wonderful telling of one of them: how after liberation peace doesn't automatically follow, particularly peace of mind for those who witnessed and experienced so much evil. To be...

From the bestselling author of The Frozen River comes an enthralling historical mystery that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson’s fifty-year battle to be recognised as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian grand duchess or the thief of another woman’s legacy?...

A gripping, moving story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by bestseller Tania Blanchard, inspired by a true story 'An exciting, inspiring tale of the women who quite literally changed the world ... Stunning' NATASHA LESTER 'A beautiful tale of courage and resilience from a born...

From the author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community. Now a New York Times bestseller with a million copies sold, written by...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ""Each author captures Christie—and Marple—perfectly, while also displaying just a bit of her own unique touch. . . . This new and entertaining collection by some of our favorite writers will hook a new group of readers to the formidable Miss Marple."" — Rhys Bowen...

It is the year of our Lord 1363. And in the cathedral city of York people are dying in mysterious circumstances. But there seems to be a common thread - the herbal remedies dispensed by Nicholas Wilton, Master Apothecary. The first victim is an anonymous pilgrim. But when a highborn nobleman dies after taking the same potion the authorities decide to act. Dispatched to York, in disguise, to unravel the mystery, Owen Archer, former Captain of Archers, apprentices himself to the Apothecary.

From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin comes an explosive and richly imagined thriller set in the early days of the Cold War. SOME SECRETS SHOULD NEVER BE TOLD Moscow, 1961: With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's international prestige is at an all-time high. And the most...

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! "Boldly conceived and richly realized…an emotional and powerful tale." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris...