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Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada - Eagle and Crane - are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas - Japanese immigrants - stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: It is the '50s, and two war heroes have been shot dead. Defending the suspect is deemed hopeless, so the case is handed to a novice. But the novice's superiors didn't count on the tenacity and wit of the young and hungry Horace Rumpole.

The Saint is back - 50 audiobooks are now available starring the debonair classic crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time. In these three early adventures, the Saint's reputation starts to rise, as he tackles thieves, smugglers and killers.

Una fortuna peligrosa es un juego de pasiones encontradas llevado con brío y penetración, así como una aguda recreación de los esplendores y miserias de las altas finanzas. Una obra llamada a sorprender a los admiradores de ese gran novelista que es Ken Follett y que ahora podrás disfrutar en formato audiolibro.

Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions - grief, loss, and anger - that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who’s been living a lie.

Marcus Didius Falco and his friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts & sewers.

When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.

Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau.

Between 1940 - 41, in Berlin, nine women are killed during the blackouts. One of these is a young girl. Her face is covered in snow and it looks as if she is smiling. This murder differs from the others and detective Johann Braunmann is ordered to solve it. However, he quickly senses that he is...

Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker is not just a talented mortician, but a medium for the spirit world and often enjoys the company of her clients before they move on to the next world. When her funeral director brothers, Julius and Ambrose, bring the deceased Mrs. Henriette Tochborn to her workroom, there is much interest as the lady was quite well known for her tragedy—twenty years prior, her child was kidnapped and never found.

Up and coming novelist Jane Austen joins forces with London's most esteemed investigative duo – actress Dora Fitz-Pennington and Dr. Jacob Sandys – to solve the brutal murder of a Russian count and his opera singer wife. The killer took his own life immediately after the crime – but who sent him and why?

Der junge Angus Weaver macht sich nach dem Tod seines Vaters auf die Suche nach seinem verschollenen Bruder Alistair. Angusʼ Bruder ist anders. Kleinwüchsig mit nur einem Arm, fristet er sein Dasein als Ulkfigur in einem Zirkus. Ein uraltes, mysteriöses Wesen gehört zu den Schaustellern und es tötet grausam.

Unter dem Erfurter Domberg wird bei Bauarbeiten eine verborgene Grotte entdeckt. Um eine steinerne Tafel sitzen zwölf Mumien in jahrhundertealten Roben, die alle ein mysteriöses Zeichen tragen: eine Glocke, aus der sich eine Schlange windet. Jonas Wiesenburg wird vom LKA als Fachberater verpflichtet. Er ahnt nicht, dass er dabei einem gefährlichen Geheimnis um die berühmte Glocke Gloriosa und einem perfiden Racheplan auf die Spur kommt.

Louise hat sich mit ihrer kleinen Bar auf St. Pauli ein Stück Freiheit erkämpft. Zeitgleich verschwindet ein junges Mädchen spurlos. Louises Freundin Ella und der Ex-Polizist Paul nehmen die Suche auf, nicht ahnend, dass sie sich damit in tödliche Gefahr begeben. Denn Pauls Bruder, Hamburgs gefürchtetster Verbrecher, zieht im Hintergrund die Fäden. In den Wirren von Liebe, Loyalität und Verrat müssen Louise, Ella und Paul zusammenhalten – ihr Leben und die Zukunft des Viertels stehen auf dem Spiel.

Darkness clung to the early Baker Street morning as Dr Watson opened the front door. The night watchman held out a small slither of paper. Written faintly upon this were just two short words: "Help me." Sherlock Holmes must use all of his remarkable powers of deduction to identify the author of this desperate plea. His investigations lead him and his companion into a murky conspiracy—a sinister secret society plotting a fiendish scheme that could destroy the British economy and bring down the government.

Les femmes, ces grandes oubliées de l’Histoire. Mais comment auraient-elles pu y obtenir leur juste place lorsque seuls les hommes l’écrivaient ? Montluçon, 1816. La jeune Héloïse de la Roche, aristocrate à l’avenir tout tracé, crée le scandale en refusant d’épouser l’homme choisi par sa mère. Après plusieurs années passées au couvent, Héloïse, rebelle et intrépide, s’installe à Paris, où elle découvre une misère qu’elle n’aurait jamais imaginée. Un Paris du début du XIXe siècle, où la population des laissés-pour-compte tente de survivre, où tout s’achète et tout se vend.

When Beth Loveday retreats to a shadowed corner of the Devon coast, she hopes to rebuild her life in peace. But the old timbered shop she buys—Tenpenny House—has other plans. Strange objects hidden in the walls. A book of forgotten remedies. And dreams that feel like memories. In 1660, Susanna Loveday walks the same worn floors. Apprentice to a healer, she’s swept into a deadly game of suspicion and power when whispers of witchcraft begin to spread. As danger closes in, a single choice will echo through time.

In the gritty underbelly of late 1970s New York City, a chilling menace looms. Known only as The Nomad, a deranged serial killer casts a shadow of terror across the bustling streets. With a string of gruesome murders already staining the city's conscience, The Nomad turns his sinister focus on "Bony" Tony Charisma, once the pulsing bass player of The Funk Express. Anthony Martinez, better known as Tony Charisma, finds his life spiraling into a nightmare. The Nomad, driven by unfathomable insanity, brutally takes the life of Tony's girlfriend, shattering his world.

Un très bon polar, qui comblera les attentes des lecteurs du genre. Un style soigné et littéraire, un scénario et une procédure cohérents. Des personnages hauts en couleur qui prennent vie au fil des pages et des rebondissements.

Disguised as a lady-in-waiting, Elspet Balfour has been sent from Orkney to serve the Queen Anna of Denmark, the witch-hunting king's new bride, at court in Edinburgh. For Anna is pregnant and, against her husband's decree, wishes for her highly anticipated baby to remain with her after birth. While Elspet struggles to keep her identity secret in a court that wishes her dead, another woman seeks her aid - Kitty Muirhead, unwed and impoverished, desperate to rid herself of her burdens past and present. The hunt is closing in on the three women.