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For more than a century, a crooked fence has divided the Davidson and O'Connell ranches across the Texas prairie. No one questions it. No one remembers why it bends where it does. And no one talks about the stories that once surrounded it.

Dashing showman Richard Ratcliffe is set to return to the stage at the famous Shakespeare Memorial theatre. But when priceless items belonging to Shakespeare himself go missing from the theatre’s collection, Eleanor knows someone has gone off-book… Then the beautiful old theatre is set on fire. The gang are horror-struck, and while racing to help, Eleanor’s loyal butler Clifford discovers an act of foul play: Ratcliffe, the show’s leading man, is dead inside from a blow to the head.

হিমি মিত্র রায়ের আরেকটি অনবদ্য ক্রাইম থ্রিলার 'অরণ্যে অন্তরীণ'! রেশমি বসু-র কাছে এলো আরেকটি অনুভূত রহস্যময় কেস!...

Rosalind is newly, happily engaged to ex–Bow Street officer Adam Harkness, but lunching with the new fiancée of her old love is still discomfiting. Yet, Clara Kinsdale needs her help, and Rosalind is not one to turn away a lady in distress. It seems Clara's father, Sir Anthony Kinsdale, has...

November 1920. Dublin, Ireland. Verity's efforts to foil a contemptible plot by the traitorous Lord Ardmore and save countless lives—as well as the British government's reputation—has exposed her to detrimental scrutiny, bringing her contact with the Irish rebels to light. Crushingly, she...

Catherine Lloyd presents Book 5 in the Miss Morton Mysteries...

Dramatische Ereignisse in der Familie Hansen. Ein brutaler Mord erschüttert die Familie Hansen. Eduard, der sich inzwischen immer tiefer in illegale Geschäfte vertieft hat, sinnt auf Rache und will auf eigene Faust für Gerechtigkeit sorgen.

After Leo and Jasper are summoned to the reading of a last will and testament for a woman they do not know, they are stunned to receive not only a joint bequest, but also a bidding from the grave: to find out if the woman's young son fell to his death a dozen years ago . . . or if he was, as she...

August 1903. Emma and her husband Derrick are among the men in white tie and tails and the women wearing white gowns from the House of Worth at Tessie Oelrichs’s Bal Blanc, or White Ball, at Rosecliff, her grand cottage on Bellevue Avenue. There to cover the event of the season is young Ethan...

A murdered poet. An unlikely alliance. A reputation some will kill to protect. London, 1859. Lady Larkspur Everly's Bloomsbury salon is a haven for radical thinkers, sharp-tongued widows, and the occasional pompous fool brave enough to walk through her door. But after a poet is struck dead on a London street after reading a verse that names the sins of powerful men, Lark knows it was no accident. The Marquis of Everthorne has his own reasons for wanting the truth.

Eine schockierende Nachricht erschüttert das idyllische, sommerliche Wien: Ein Unbekannter hat in der weltberühmten Kaisergruft mehrere Geiseln genommen. Sarah Pauli, Journalistin beim Wiener Boten, befürchtet Schlimmes, als sie vor Ort berichtet. Und ihr Gefühl trügt sie nicht. Der Täter erschießt ohne erkennbaren Grund zwei Menschen, dann sich selbst.

December, 1145. Hamelin Isenmongere, trader in iron and charcoal from Gloucester, is considered by many to be the most popular man in Worcester. Why then is he found on the quayside near his warehouse with his head beaten in? As the winter bites, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll...

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.

A dead trainer. A drugged Thoroughbred. In the high-stakes world of Victorian horse racing, the truth lives under the skin... Newmarket Heath, 1887. To the public, the fatal gallop of legendary trainer Henry Ashmore was a tragic accident. A horse spooked by a drainage ditch, an aging rider losing his seat. Case closed. But Henry’s daughter, Nell Ashmore, doesn't read the public form book; she reads the horse. With a ledger behind her eyes and a unique, ancestral gift for reading an animal’s pulse by touch, Nell examines the four-year-old colt Domine's Pride.

A remote manor in the English countryside. Thick fog. And a missing lord. Can a cleverly unconventional reporter use her investigative talents to catch a killer? England, 1921. When journalist Lady Felicity Quick arrives at Langton Manor to find her guaranteed-to-be-dull interview with Lord...

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly...

A registry clerk discovers that dozens of people have been assigned to a demolished address that no longer exists. As Claire Moreau follows the trail through archives, parish ledgers, and decades-old corrections, she uncovers a hidden system designed to move people through official records without leaving a trace. Pursued by investigators and trapped inside a growing conspiracy of paperwork and identity, Claire must decide whether the truth is worth destroying the institutions built to conceal it.

When Eliza Grey holds the antique moonstone ring she found on the beach beneath Rosecliff Manor, she knows the ring has a story. Unsure if she’s ready to tackle another ghostly mystery so soon, Eliza chooses to focus on her latest assignment for The Coventry Gazette —a feature article on the O’Cleary family and the Chateau de Paradis, Coventry’s very own Gilded Age mansion. Ghosts of the past beckon...

Some trees witness a boundary. One has witnessed a murder. Robledal is a town built from timber, cattle, and careful forgetting. Its old quicksilver works are cold, its sawmill runs on creek water, and its land records look clean enough to satisfy any court. Then Abner Cole is found dead in the mill flume. The law sees a drunken accident. Silas Thorne sees the wrong body in the wrong water, a sealed bottle that was never opened, and a dead man’s notebook filled with a warning no honest surveyor can ignore: the witness oaks are too young. The corners have been moved.

Asesinatos rituales. Magia y chamanismo. Dos mujeres separadas por dieciséis mil años y unidas por las pinturas rupestres de Altamira. Los cadáveres de varios arqueólogos han sido encontrados en el interior de cuevas brutalmente mutilados. Las pinturas rupestres de esas cavernas han sido destruidas, y los sucesos tienen desconcertadas a las autoridades.