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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...

Like its predecessor, Death on the Pearl River, this thrilling murder mystery promises to "deliver a multitude of pleasures!" (The New York Times). Ben Canaan is riding high on the recent string of cases he has solved successfully on the payroll of Her Majesty's Executive. Then a notorious crime...

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...

Yorkshire, December 1941. Polly Hope and her friend Freddie Fairbank are looking forward to visiting Westerby Abbey—a vast, stone-dark manor on the Yorkshire moors—to see if it will be suitable to use in the war effort. With snow expected, the house is cold enough to freeze the bones but there will be plenty of space for soldiers. That is, if they can convince the family to give up their home...

For Everett Summers, a shell-shocked veteran of the Great War, New York is a disorienting city. Especially when he secures a job as an assistant in renowned magician Harry Houdini’s Ghost Detective Agency. Raging against the new religion of spiritualism being heralded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini aims to expose the charlatans bilking gullible fools who believe in the unbelievable. But since returning from the battlefield, Everett can’t shake his own ghosts.

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.

The Bookbinder’s Code, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

THE DELICIOUSLY DARK VICTORIAN MURDER MYSTERY PERFECT FOR GIFTING THIS CHRISTMAS A Christmas party. Two dead bodies. A mystery that no one can solve. It is December 1884, and we have a murder to solve. Inventor and millionaire Sir Russell Morgan has invited his friends and investors to celebrate...

Joachim Vernau ist ganz oben in der Berliner Gesellschaft angekommen. Er steht kurz davor, in die wohlhabende und einflussreiche Familie der von Zernikows einzuheiraten, nicht ahnend, dass ihre Ehrbarkeit nicht viel mehr als Fassade ist. Als eine ukrainische Frau auftaucht und behauptet, die von Zernikows hätten im Zweiten Weltkrieg eine Zwangsarbeiterin beschäftigt, lässt das Familienoberhaupt sie kurzerhand hinauswerfen. Wenig später wird sie tot aus dem Landwehrkanal geborgen.

Once-close brothers, Fulk and Odo, now find themselves on very different paths - separated by past tragedies and Odo's growing religious fanaticism. While Odo descends into ruthless zealotry, believing himself God's chosen leader and abusing his stolen wife Sybille, Fulk struggles to hold onto his humanity amid the carnage of war. But the fractured pilgrim army must continue their Holy crusade, marching from the triumphant siege of Nicaea to the towering, commanding walls of Jerusalem.

The first in a new mystery series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes’s mother and her lady’s-maid-turned-investigative-partner. ‘Some problems simply merit solving, Mrs Hudson’ Heartbroken, widowed, and penniless, Katherine Hudson never intended to become a lady’s maid; especially not to...

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...

“I’ve loved every one of Susanna Kearsley’s books!” —Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author Step into a world of unforgettable mystery and heart-wrenching emotion—where a decades-old murder, a brave journalist, and the echoes of WWII converge in an irresistible...

‘The Arcane Society of New York holds close the fortune you seek’ A disgraced socialite who had fled to California is found barefoot in a snowy New York alleyway. There is no sign of how she got there, and she is too traumatised to speak. The only clue is a note found scribbled in the Bible...

From the bestselling author of The Vanishing of Margaret Small and The Lost Past of Billy McQueen comes The Librarian's Secret - a sweeping and compulsive dual-timeline mystery about the secrets that bind us and the courage required to face the truth. Perfect for fans of Laura Pearson, Evie...

When Maeve Morgan arrives in the quiet Scottish town of Strathfulton to take possession of her unexpected inheritance, she expects challenges—restoring the crumbling estate, gaining the trust of her wary staff, and settling into the role of Countess. What she doesn’t expect is to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

The masquerade ball should have been an evening of harmless intrigue. Instead, on the dark roads of Hounslow Heath, highwaymen attack Miss Leah Crauford's carriage. Leah escapes, but her dearest friend, Miss Susanna Talbot, is not so fortunate.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. W Krakowie, gdzie historia rzuca długie cienie, a przeszłość nigdy nie umiera, dochodzi do zbrodni. Nie jest to jednak zwykłe zabójstwo. Ofiara pozostawiona jest jak eksponat w makabrycznej instalacji artystycznej, a każdy detal to starannie...

Germany, 1947. Roxi has survived what should have broken her. Then a lost talisman resurfaces. It can only mean one thing: the man who destroyed her family is alive. As she tracks him through a shattered country determined to look the other way, Roxy is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. In a time when perpetrators hide behind new identities and survivors are told to stay silent, her search for justice could cost her everything. A gripping novel in the German Wife series about the aftermath of the Holocaust, the cost of silence and a woman who refuses to be a victim ever again.

Bloomsbury presents this Unabridged version of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale, read by Jessica Ball. FROM BRITAIN’S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND...