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C.S. Harris’ best-selling Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries transport listeners back to the elegance and courtly drama of Regency England. When a wealthy diamond merchant turns up dead, Sebastian sets out to prove the innocence of the man accused - his former lover Kat’s husband. A missing gem seems to be the key, but as Sebastian traces its origins, he discovers unsettling ties to black magic.

On May 20, 1967, a peaceful prospecting trip turned into a terrifying, real-life encounter. Stefan Michalak was burned by a mysterious, metallic craft that left him with permanent scars and a medical mystery that haunts investigators to this day. Discover the chilling forensic evidence of the...

Lady Edith Black harbors a secret past as a master criminal in this tale of love, crime, and adventure, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave you stunned.Rescued from the slums of Victorian London, Edie finds herself ensnared in a web of crime orchestrated by Mrs. Hill, the mastermind behind...

Louisa Delafield survived the abduction. The panic attacks remind her every day, and she knows that her past will never truly release her. But it won't hinder her commitment to defending the powerless. Traveling through the Wild West, she must confront her fears and fight a ruthless procurer to...

1940. London is ablaze...and so is the mystery. As bombs rain down over the capital in the Blitz, a woman is found dead in the ruins, a delicate locket hidden beneath her. Inside: the photograph of a soldier...and a coded message only one person can crack. In a city gripped by fear and fractured...

"The Sittaford Mystery" by Agatha Christie is a classic whodunit set in the remote Dartmoor village of Sittaford during a harsh winter. During a séance at Sittaford House, a spirit message eerily predicts that Captain Trevelyan has been murdered. Major Burnaby braves a snowstorm to check on...

Una novela gótica y lorquiana que convierte un crimen real de la guerra civil en una historia de brujas. «La mejor escritora española contemporánea», Édouard Louis. «Una fantasía mágica, violenta y mitológica que ilumina el eterno fantasma español: la guerra civil», Babelia, El País...

A dying challenge. A blood‑stained name. A mystery that refuses to stay buried. London is no stranger to scandal, but when journalist Theodolphus Burke summons author and amateur sleuth Mikaela Forsythe with an urgent note—only to be found bleeding to death outside a pub—the case becomes...

London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman’s corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan, one of the only senior inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous autumn left the division in ruins. Reluctantly, Corravan abandons his ongoing case, a search for the missing wife of a shipping magnate, handing it over to his young colleague, Mr. Stiles. 

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplaces of Cairo. 

At the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gil Cunningham sees not only the woman who is going to be murdered, but her murderer as well. Gil is a recently qualified lawyer whose family still expect him to enter the priesthood. When he finds the body of a young woman in the new building at Glasgow Cathedral he is asked to investigate, and identifies the corpse as the runaway wife of cruel, unpleasant nobleman John Semphill. With the help of Maistre Pierre, the French master-mason, Gil must ask questions and seek a murderer in the heart of the city.

Irland im 7. Jahrhundert: Die Reliquien des heiligen Ailbe, für das Königreich Muman von Bedeutung, sind aus dem Kloster Imleach verschwunden...

Recette pour le cocktail San-Antonio à la poilade pour trois personnes : Prenez une île perdue au milieu du Pacifique. Placez-y des monarques et autres capitaines d'industrie. Rajoutez à un rythme effréné plusieurs tentatives d'enlèvement, des attentats et autres tentatives de meurtres. Recouvrez le tout d'un zeste de San Antonio et d'une bonne couche de Bérurier. Rajoutez en vrac un débouche-toilettes, un sous-marin atomique, un scientifique fou et une énorme dose d'humour !

Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts. But the siblings’ quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs. 

Oxford, 1883. Young men are being found bound, gagged, and hooded at the gates of their colleges in the small hours. Basil Rice, Jesus College fellow, is asked by the senior proctor to investigate. But investigating matters of sexual purity is dangerous, as it lays Basil open to unwelcome scrutiny of his own private life. Meanwhile, the University Vice Chancellor's Court has wrongly imprisoned a young shopgirl from the town, and she seeks the services of Non Vaughan, a young academic and budding journalist, to clear her name.

Another delightful entry into the beloved Fentons series. This time a novella featuring all your favorite characters mixed up in a truly Gothic mystery complete with villains, rescued beauties, treasure and a secret society of terrible aspirations. Baron Balfour, a great giant of a man, and his new wife, who used to be Euphemia Fleet, a put-upon companion, are on their honeymoon in France when the baroness spots a villainous looking individual, just like her idea of a character from a Gothic novel. He is in the company of a frightened young beauty and Euphemia decides to rescue her.

Flappers meet gangsters in the hottest jazz club in Soho. Step back into the roaring twenties with a captivating mystery set in 1920s London. When a night of jazz and dancing with the American ambassador’s niece ends in tragedy, apprentice detective Marjorie Swallow is thrust into a world of shady cocaine deals and opium dens. To discover the truth, she goes undercover as a dance hostess at the notorious Harlequin club and confronts the menacing Armstrong brothers. The quest for answers takes unexpected turns, with secrets lurking in the shadows of Soho and closer to home.

Murder and family secrets, a touch of romance and deeply-felt revenge – with the twist of all twists – make up the perfect audiobook, One Good Deed, from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. 'One of his finest books. Great character, great story, great portrait of...

THE MOST ORIGINAL, META MURDER MYSTERY OF 2025, PERFECT FOR FANS OF STUART TURTON, ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND AGATHA CHRISTIE! THIRTEEN GUESTS. THIRTEEN SUSPECTS. AN IMPOSSIBLE MURDER. A MYSTERY YOU MUST SOLVE - OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES... What if a Great Detective reinvestigated the most famous...

In his extensive series featuring the detecting feats of Decius Caecilius Metellus the younger, set in the Rome of 70 BC, Roberts achieves a very believable modern feeling with his well-researched description of the stories' background. This seventh episode, however, combines a familiar view of the demands office-seeking makes on a candidate with a situation that is impossibly bizarre to us today. An entire city, versed in literature, music, and the other arts, ruled democratically, for its time, is thrown into panic by an enraged man's curse.