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In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club, poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields, are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World.

William Warwick is eight when he decides to join the police force. Resolute in the face of his prominent QC father’s objections, William graduates in Art History from university and immediately enrols as a constable in the Metropolitan Police. Gaining insight from his first mentor, an experienced, world-weary constable, his keen mind quickly takes him into a role in Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques unit and his first case: the recovery of a Rembrandt stolen from the Fitzmolean Museum.

Hemlock at Vespers is Peter Tremayne's anthology of Celtic mysteries featuring the ever-popular 7th-century super-sleuth Sister Fidelma. Sister Fidelma originally made her debut as one of the decade's most interesting sleuths in short story form. The sharp-witted and astonishingly wise religieuse captured the hearts of many as she successfully tackled the most baffling of crimes in her other role as advocate of the law courts of Ireland, using the ancient Brehon Law system.

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 not meant to solve this case–or at least not to solve it quickly and for reasons he can't figure out. Something is very wrong–or somebody at the highest echelons of power is involved.

Charlie Matters’ life has always been a fight for survival. Orphaned with no prospects, Charlie steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he can enlist in the battle against the Germans. He miraculously emerges unscathed from the Blitz, but there’s no telling when the next bomb will fall, and whether it will be the one to end his life.

Алистер Маклин (1922–1987) — британский писатель, автор 28 остросюжетных романов и приключенческих рассказов, сценарист. Он входил в первую десятку самых продаваемых авторов мира; книги Маклина разошлись тиражом более 150 миллионов экземпляров, по его романам, сценариям и сюжетам было снято 18 фильмов. В 1983 году Университет Глазго присвоил писателю степень доктора литературоведения. С 1941 по 1946 год Маклин служил на флоте, принимал участие в военных операциях и полярных конвоях, что дало ему богатейший материал для творчества и определило тематику его лучших книг.

London, 1907: When the Season's most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. But all is not what it seems, and after a toxic beverage is revealed to be the cause of death, the king himself instructs Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves to unearth the truth.

Schottland, Winter 1900. Am Strand von Skerry wird ein lebloser Junge angeschwemmt. Als der Fischer Joseph ihn ins Dorf trägt, erntet er ungläubige Blicke, denn das Kind ähnelt auf unheimliche Weise dem Sohn der Lehrerin Dorothy, der in einer längst vergangenen Nacht ans Meer ging und nie mehr gesehen wurde. Ausgerechnet Dorothy erklärt sich bereit, das rätselhafte Kind aufzunehmen, bis seine Herkunft geklärt ist.

Christmas Day 1943, Arisaig, Scotland. The body of beautiful, well-connected Polish SOE agent Krystina Kowolska is found in the gardens of the country house where she's been preparing for a vital mission to France. The question is, was she already dead when she was hanged? Two days later, resistance double agent, Investigator Jan Kalisz of the Warsaw Kripo is flown to Britain where Winston Churchill himself tasks him with finding Krystina's killer, before the cracks in Britain's alliance with Poland become fractures.

Her mission: Save the soldier, save the future...even if she loses her heart. It's 2015, and librarian Beryl Blue shelves books in her hometown library. Dull, but after being orphaned and years in foster care, she prefers the mild life. Until a time cop from the future crash lands in her library with an offer Beryl isn't allowed to refuse—she must stop a rogue time traveler from killing a WWII soldier on leave and changing history forever.

The St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavilions that becomes a backdrop for romance, betrayal—and murder. Cousins Grace and Lillie have been best friends since birth, despite Grace’s vastly inferior social status ever since her mother married for love instead of wealth. When Lillie invites Grace to the biggest event of the century—the legendary World’s Fair, also known as “The Ivory City”—Grace hopes her fortunes might be about to change.

Golden-age gadabout Anty Boisjoly, his valet Vickers, the weary and wary Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when what at first seems a simple, unexplainable, locked-stateroom murder twists into a tale of pirate treasure, perilous weather and treacherous endeavours at sea.

Leonora Spencer has an acquaintance with death. Sixteen years ago, only she survived the brutal murder of her family. Now, as an assistant in her uncle's London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also isn't opposed to helping him during postmortems if his skilled hands begin to shake. After a thief breaks into the morgue and steals a locket from a young woman's corpse, Leo is determined to understand why, even if it means going against Detective Inspector Jasper Reid's express orders to keep her nose out of it.

Inspector Sebastian Bell arrives at Paddington station through thick Victorian mist, hoping to reconcile with his estranged brother. Instead, he discovers a young woman’s body in an abandoned trunk, stabbed with a peculiar bone-handled knife. But with no clues to her identity and his new boss dismissing the case, Sebastian’s investigation seems doomed.

London, 1928. Mystery writer and amateur detective Marius Quin is reeling from his friend’s murder in his own home. Forced to stay away from the case, he’s in urgent need of distraction when fate points him towards Felicity Mortimer, a woman imprisoned for poisoning her husband fifteen years earlier. Marius soon becomes convinced of Felicity’s innocence, and when he discovers a key witness with his throat cut, it’s clear that the real killer is still on the loose.

Ein Wildhüter und ein Flüchtlingsjunge auf der Spur eines Mythos Fichtelgebirge, 1630. Die calvinistische Familie des jungen Johann versucht, sich eine neue Existenz in einem entlegenen Dorf aufzubauen. Unterdessen grübelt der Junge über das Schicksal der Kinder des Ortes. Wer oder was hat zwei von ihnen getötet und wohin sind alle anderen verschwunden? War es der legendenumwobene »Wilde Jäger« – ein Wolfsmann, der im dicht bewaldeten Gebirge sein Unwesen treiben soll?

Sherlock Holmes wird von einem Freund aus alten Tagen, dessen Tochter entführt wurde, um Hilfe gebeten. Der englische Detektiv reist nach Hamburg und gerät in ein Abenteuer, das seinen Ursprung offenbar in einer indischen Legende und in der Cholera-Epidemie von 1892 hat.

Lange erwartet: Der neue Band des Blausteintuchs! Von Serotonin. Gelesen von Stefan Kaminski. Madeira, 1436. Seit Jahren lebt die gestrandete Mannschaft um Karge und Anselmo in friedlicher Abgeschiedenheit auf der üppigen Holzinsel Madeira. Doch die Idylle endet abrupt, als ein portugiesisches Schiff unter der Führung von Don Zarco am Horizont auftaucht. Im Auftrag der Krone soll Zarco neue Handelsrouten erschließen. Madeira wird zum begehrten Stützpunkt auf dem Weg zu Gold, Sklaven und Reichtum.

Birds of a Feather finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another adventure in London. It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress’s old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman’s mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.