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When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be Fliss, the budding artist Laura had just taken under her wing. Annie is no stranger to murder - after all, she's solved a few cases already. And something about the way Fliss died feels familiar. She's seen a case like this before. Or read about it, rather, in the journals of her long dead Great Aunt Frances, whose close friend was killed in the 1960s in the exact same way: with her heart surgically removed from her chest.

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Sir Augustus Wall, antiquities dealer and amateur sleuth, knows there's more to the crime than it seems. With little to go on but an exotic murder weapon, a map of a desert oasis, and some gilded Greek mummies, he sets out across the Sahara with his assistant Moustafa Ghani and the street urchin Faisal, who is the only person to have seen the killer's face. They soon find themselves in the midst of international intrigue on Egypt's remote border with Libya.

Sir Augustus Wall, a horribly mutilated veteran of the Great War, has left Europe behind to open an antiquities shop in Cairo. But Europe's troubles follow him as a priceless inscription is stolen and those who know its secrets start turning up dead.

Sir Augustus Wall came to Egypt to escape his old life, but when a comrade from the trenches is found murdered in a Cairo hotel, Augustus realizes his past has finally caught up. Now he must discover the reason for the baffling murder, leading him and his friends Moustafa and Faisal on a dangerous hunt for the most sought-after treasure in Egypt.

The most skilled of Merlin's Mauraders, Siena must unmask a traitor lurking among an exclusive club of book collectors. Armed with only her wits, her blades, and her sultry body, she joins the gentlemen at a country house party. But her prime suspect, disgraced ex-army officer Lord Kirtland proves as enigmatic as he is suspicious-and sinfully sensuous.

Late one night a distraught young woman on the run begs Reverend Lucian Shaw for help, claiming she has been kidnapped and held against her will at Ravenswood, a remote and heavily guarded country house. When she is later found dead in suspicious circumstances, Shaw enlists the help of Chief Inspector Ludd of the Suffolk Constabulary to investigate.

Ich stieß auf die Weltkarte in einem Reiseführer aus den 1970er-Jahren, und mir war auf Anhieb bewusst, dass sie dort nicht hineingehörte. Vermutlich hätte ich sie nicht weiter beachtet, wäre da nicht diese Notiz am Rand gewesen. Sechs unheimliche Geschichten entführen den Leser an verschiedene Orte kosmischen Grauens.

Una novela sobre el tiempo y la memoria, como la presentó Pere Gimferrer. El tiempo y la tergiversación —unas veces inconsciente y otras, las más, deliberada— habían distorsionado los trágicos sucesos de 1877, que los habitantes de Mequinensa se transmitían oralmente de generación en generación con un sentimiento de vergüenza y de culpa. Los puntos oscuros, las versiones contradictorias de aquel cruento acto de bandolerismo hacían poco menos que imposible la reconstrucción del mismo.

Frère Cadfael fait partie d'une délégation religieuse qui se rend au Pays de Galles pour ramener à l'abbaye bénédictine de Shrewsbury les reliques de Sainte Winifred. Les tractations avec les Gallois sont difficiles. Pendant le séjour, Rhisiard , leader de l'opposition au transfert, est assassiné. Immédiatement son pauvre serviteur, anglais et amoureux transi de sa fille, est désigné coupable. Ce n'est pas l'avis de frère Cadfael qui va apporter son aide à cet homme malheureux que le destin accable.

London, 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable.' 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.' So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde in a Chelsea drawing room, in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle. The business they are gathered to discuss is none other than the case of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious murderer in England. And thus the three men set out to solve one of the world's most famous mysteries.

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.

Der Richter-Clan wurde immer mächtiger. Er trat vielen auf die Füße, waren doch die Pfründe der Hauptstadt längst verteilt. Aristokraten, Gangster und bestechliche Beamte – alle wollten die Heiler vernichten. Max begab sich auf die Suche nach denjenigen, die ihm bereits einmal nach dem Leben getrachtet hatten.

Im botanischen Garten von Singapur geht ein mörderischer Kopfjäger um - so hat es jedenfalls den Anschein, bis Prof. van Dusen sich auf der Durchreise des Falles annimmt. Durch seine kriminalistischen Fähigkeiten, vor allem auf dem Gebiet der Daktyloskopie, überführt er den wahren Mörder und enthüllt die sensationellen Hintergründe.

Told in a sharp, modern first-person voice, the story follows Evelyn Hart—a brilliant, introverted bookseller with a photographic memory—as she uncovers a hidden letter from her late grandmother. The letter reveals the existence of Elara, a long-lost city buried beneath the ice, and a device called the Heart of the Ancients, an ancient artificial intelligence which contains the knowledge of a forgotten civilization.

A beautiful weaver, the discerning son of the notorious William Tell and a fugitive Templar knight meet in this tale of allegiance, mystery, romance, and perhaps a little medieval magic, set in the magnificent but menacing Alps in the 14th century.

Christmas Eve, 1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London's most famous music hall star, Topsy Tillotson, and its most notorious tabloid newspaper, the Nation's Voice, but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever. Quiet, that is, until a severed hand arrives in the post. While the hand's recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why?

Herbert Levin n'est plus que l'ombre du Grand Nivelli, brillant et célèbre magicien qu'il était avant la guerre. Séparé de sa femme et de son fils, il tente de garder un semblant d'espoir et de survivre dans l'enfer d'Auschwitz. C'est dans ce même camp que Francisco Latino a réussi à se faire engager ; caché derrière son uniforme SS il fait tout pour protéger sa fiancée russe, prisonnière elle aussi. Rien ne lie ces deux hommes, si ce n'est un instinct de survie inébranlable et le besoin de voir la lumière gagner.

Social standing is everything in Regency England--and no one knows better than Miss Caroline Morton, a lady's companion from a disgraced line. But when she has a chance to claim what's rightfully hers, the one obstacle in her way is a dangerous murder mystery . . .

When the corpse of a young man is found entirely drained of blood in a carriage next to Highgate Cemetery, Veronica’s interest is piqued. And then a second victim is found, his death made to look like a suicide, and Veronica and her intrepid beau, Stoker, know the hunt is on. The two men share one link: they were both members of a society so secretive that only a singular mention of it can be found anywhere. Thirsty for more clues, Veronica and Stoker hear that a young Roma boy may know more about their first victim, but the only way to the boy is through an old acquaintance of Stoker’s.