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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.

Lovers and loyalties are tested when scandals come to light. Memoirist Professor Gavin Nash and his friend Oscar Barratt travel to the picturesque shores of Italy’s Lake Como in search of a rare book said to contain the spell for a magical tattoo. It’s been hidden for centuries in the...

“Mentink is at her peak.” –Korina Moss, Agatha Award-winning author of the Cheese Shop Mysteries series In this witty historical murder mystery set in a San Francisco hotel, an unlikely trio of amateur sleuths must uncover a killer before another guest checks out for good. This first book...

Sins of the father... A chilling message on a note delivered to the Prince of Wales. A prank, a cruel joke, or a threat against the royal family? With only that note for a clue, Brodie and Mikaela are asked to find who is behind that message. But there is little to go on, only that note and the...

Es ist ein heißer Sommer, als Dora nach vielen Jahrzehnten in ihren Heimatort Hausen zurückkehrt. Stundenlang wandert sie durch die fremdvertrauten Straßen – zu ihrem Elternhaus, aber auch zu dem Fachwerkhaus, in dem einst ihre beste Freundin wohnte. Als sie entdeckt, dass vor diesem Haus Stolpersteine verlegt wurden, ist Dora fassungslos. Denn dort liegen nur vier Steine, doch sie weiß genau, dass es fünf sein müssten: Der ihrer ehemals besten Freundin Fanny fehlt.

Originally published in 1929, DETECTIVE DUFF UNRAVELS IT gathers eight short stories by Harvey O'Higgins featuring the titular detective doing what no literary detective had done previously—namely, using psychology to solve cases. This novel approach helped the book take its place as a major...

Like a moth transforming into a butterfly, Lady Harriet must shed her past insecurities to reveal the grace and confidence within. After Lady Harriet’s less-than-ideal debut into society, her parents decide it would be best for her to spend some time with her cousin and his wife. They hope...

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

Set against the backdrop of post-WWII Oxford University, The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies is the irresistible debut from Kate Westbury that seamlessly layers mystery, romance, and a dash of academia to introduce the Crown’s newest undercover operatives. Oxford, England, 1951 - The...

To solve a double murder in Cuba, US Army Captain Billy Boyle will need to build unlikely alliances with Havana’s underworld and British intelligence, including Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming, whose naval wartime service would later inspire the James Bond novels. This installment of James R...

Benjamin Luna never expected to inherit anything. Least of all, a nine-hundred-year-old secret that men have killed for nine centuries to keep. Behind a fortune built on blood lies a truth that could shake the foundations of faith, history, and power itself. The men hunting him have kept that silence since the Crusades. To survive, he’ll have to finish what his family spent nine centuries hiding. A gripping historical thriller of mystery, betrayal, and relentless suspense. What would you do if you inherited one of history’s greatest secrets?

En 1648, deux personnes traversent l’Atlantique afin de retrouver Émile de Villars dont on est sans nouvelles depuis quinze ans. Ni l’une ni l’autre ne savent qu’il n’est plus l’homme qu’ils ont connu et qu’il est prisonnier d’une tribu iroquoise. Au même moment, l’ex-jésuite parvient à fuir ses ravisseurs. Sans l’aide de quiconque, parcourt des forêts sauvages dans le but de rejoindre sa femme et ses enfants. À son grand malheur, plus les jours, les semaines et les mois s’écoulent, plus ses forces s’étiolent et plus son moral décline, sans compter qu’il a le curieux sentiment d’être suivi.

একজন ডিটেক্টিভের কাছে আমরা মনে মনে বেশ নায়কোচিত গুণাবলীর প্রত্যাশা রাখি। শখের গোয়েন্দা ইন্দ্রনাথ রুদ্র-ও দামী...

ডিটেক্টিভ ইন্দ্রনাথ রুদ্র ভীষণ আকর্ষণীয় বলিষ্ঠ সুদর্শন পুরুষ। ইটালিয়ান ভাস্কর্যের সঙ্গে যেন তারই মুখের...

Fans of time travel willing to revel in a different type of plot concept will ultimately discover that this romantic historical murder mystery ventures into a fresh sort of realism, subject to its own exotic rules of existence.

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - new season out now! London, 1946. Much of the capital, and indeed the country, remains beset by rationing and bomb damage. But for some there are other, more immediate concerns: crimes of a serious and sometimes deadly nature...

Bloomsbury presents Gallows Court by Martin Edwards, read by Helen MacFarlane. ‘A true master of British crime writing’ RICHARD OSMAN A superb Golden Age mystery packed with twists, from the winner of the Diamond Dagger 2020 LONDON, 1930 The night is sooty, sulphurous, and malign. A spate of...

WAS WÄRE, WENN DIE TITANIC NIE EINEN EISBERG GERAMMT HÄTTE? Am 15. April 1912 ging die "unsinkbare" Titanic unter und riss 1.500 Menschen mit sich. Was aber, wenn dieser Untergang kein Unfall war? Schnitt in die Gegenwart: Senator Everett Van Wick überlebt dank eines Arztes aus einer Kleinstadt ein Attentat. Doch nun weiß der Arzt zu viel und wird selbst zur Zielscheibe. Stichwort EDEN BLACK. Was als einfache Rettungsaktion beginnt, wird bald zu einer Verschwörung mit hohem Risiko, die vom zurückgezogenen Vater des Senators angeführt wird.