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Private investigator Matilda Wren is posing as the wife of Inspector William Maxwell from the City of London Police to infiltrate a burial club scheme. Maxwell is a skilled detective, but he isn't Hadrian—her usual ally and the man she trusts most. When the club's administrator is murdered, Tilda needs Hadrian's expertise, notably his uncanny ability to glimpse others' memories.

Kommissar Oppenheimer ist untergetaucht und muss sich mit Schwarzmarktgeschäften über Wasser halten. Als dabei ein brutaler Mord geschieht, wird seine Unterstützerin Hilde verhaftet, denn der Tote ist ihr Ehemann, SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Hauser. Zwar sind die beiden seit Jahren getrennt, doch Hilde als Regimegegnerin hätte ein Motiv: Der skrupellose Mediziner Hauser war KZ-Lagerarzt im Osten und hat dort Versuche an Menschen durchgeführt.

Lasciate Parigi, Verne è giunto tra le alture della Vandea, in un clima di rivolta imminente, per indagare su due morti misteriose. Molte sono le voci sui presunti assassini: spie di Luigi Filippo, oppure sostenitori della duchessa di Berry, aspirante al trono di Francia; messaggeri del diavolo che solcherebbero i mari su imbarcazioni avvolte nella nebbia, oppure adoratori di culti arcani che lanciano maledizioni.

Mahayoddha Kalki: Sword of Shiva is an epic fantasy novel by Kevin Missal that takes readers on a thrilling adventure through ancient India. This audiobook is the third in the Mahayoddha Kalki series and features gripping action, compelling characters, and a richly imagined world.

It's 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama-harrowing and provocative-slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her husband hours after their wedding and thrusts the revolver into the blowhole of a beached whale.

It is Spring 1871 when Lizzie Ross accompanies her formidable Aunt Parry on a restorative trip to the south coast. Lizzie's husband, Ben, is kept busy at Scotland Yard and urges his wife to stay out of harm's way.

White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues. "An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of...

A gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century England and centered on the highly secretive cult of Saint Thomas Becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being...

An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike" (Sarah McCarry). In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival...

A bored socialite becomes a cunning amateur sleuth in this wildly entertaining, Agatha Christie¬inspired mystery of murder and mayhem set in nineteenth-century Poland“An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.”—Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate and author of the Man Booker International...

The fifth book in the Magic Men series, Now You See Them is a wild mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s. The new decade is going well for Edgar Stephens and his good friend the magician...

S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth’s palace and steeped in period atmospherics and the strange workings of the occult. It is the year of the Great Conjunction, when the two most powerful planets, Jupiter and Saturn, align—an astrologi­cal...

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for...

Back in 1956, a cargo plane left a small airport outside Los Angeles and flew straight into a raging storm, never to be seen again. Sixty some years later, retired military assassin and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches sight of something as he and his fiancé Savannah are flying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That tiny plane and its mysterious cargo have finally been found.

1926: Harriet Stone, a liberated, educated Black woman, and Lovey, the orphaned, biracial, 12-year-old she is bound to protect are Harlem-bound, embarking on a new, hopefully less traumatic, chapter in their lives. They have been invited to move from Connecticut by Harriet’s cousin, Junetta Plum, who runs a boarding house for independent-minded single women. It’s a bold move since Harriet has never met Junetta, but the fatalities of the Spanish flu and other tragedies have already forced her and Lovey to face their worst fears.

I foråret 1897 realiserer selskabsdamen Fredrika Nilsdotter sin drøm og åbner sit eget detektivbureau under et mandligt alias. Da den berømte teaterdirektør Georg Valentin pludselig styrter i døden fra Katarinahissen, indser Fredrika, at det højt profilerede mord kan være den mulighed, hun har ventet på for at bevise sit værd. For at gøre det har hun brug for hjælp fra sine fortrolige i den mærkværdige kvartet: enken Olga, syersken Hildur og tjenestepigen Edit.

Eine junge Frau wird tot aufgefunden. Ihr Liebhaber, der Hauptverdächtige, scheint ein perfektes Alibi zu haben. Doch als die Polizei von Lyon nicht mehr weiterweiß, wird Edmond Locard, ein Pionier der forensischen Wissenschaft, hinzugezogen. Gemeinsam mit der scharfsinnigen Journalistin Margaret Harkness wagt er einen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um das entscheidende Indiz zu finden. Basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten, erzählt Bradley Harper eine fesselnde Geschichte über die Anfänge moderner Ermittlungsarbeit und das bahnbrechende „Locard-Prinzip“, das jede Berührung eine Spur hinterlassen lässt.

Three novellas to expand and enrich the world of Victorian Gothic: A Spurned Woman follows a reclusive old woman, tired of life. When she is surprised by a young mother, begging help for her stricken child, the old woman reluctantly agrees to return to the village which once wanted to burn her for witchcraft. Bedlam is set between Victorian Gothic Volumes 2 and 3.

Legendary mystery writer Dashiell Hammett only wrote one novel about detective Sam Spade: The Maltese Falcon, the most famous private eye story ever told. But the case was never really solved—the priceless golden, bejeweled bird that men and women had been dying to possess turned out to be a fake.

When human remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry in 2018, alongside relics from the First World War, a Detective enlists the help of a local Historian to identify them. On Remembrance Day, the day when the spirits of the fallen return to those who remember them, they uncover a mystery over a century in the making. Dave Baird's thrilling inter-generational tale will take you from the trenches of France and Belgium to rural Gloucestershire in the 1980s and keep you guessing from the first word to the last.