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Ein Schriftsteller wird mit seiner Vergangenheit auf mystische Art konfrontiert: Eine Wiedergängerin und ihre Tochter tauchen in seinen Träumen auf und geben ihm Hinweise auf verschiedene Morde in seiner Heimatstadt. Er reist zu seinen Wurzeln und beginnt zu ermitteln. Dabei stößt er auf Todesfälle, die anscheinend mit der Stasi und getarnter Fluchthilfe zu tun haben. Doch dann geschehen weitere Morde und alles deutet auf Rache!

Holmes und Watson erreichen Genf, wo sie im luxuriösen Hotel Beau-Rivage übernachten. Als sie am nächsten Morgen einen Spaziergang auf der Promenade am Seeufer unternehmen, kommt es zu einem überaus gefährlichen Zwischenfall.

Auf der Insel Malta setzt sich Watson mit der entscheidenden Frage auseinander, ob die Überführung der Gebeine des Heiligen Nikolaus von Anatolien nach Italien seinerzeit eine Rettungstat oder Grabräuberei war. Holmes widmet sich unterdessen einer gänzlich anderen Spur.

Falsely accused of a heinous crime, Connie Maxwell flees Cornwall, desperate for a fresh start. With the support of Oliver Fox, she begins to carve out a new, independent life—and even dares to hope for love. But her fragile new world is shattered when she becomes entangled in yet a further murder investigation.

Award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has reimagined the great German composer and keyboard virtuoso Johann Sebastian Bach as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Keith Richards in this imaginative new historical mystery. During a visit to the German city of Kassel to inspect the church’s newly constructed pipe organ, (based on an actual event in his life) Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his cousin and personal secretary Elias Bach (who serves as Dr. Watson to Bach’s Sherlock) discover that the pastor of the church may have murdered his young wife.

En junio de 1922, cuando la histórica situación de pobreza y abandono de Las Hurdes está en el centro de la opinión pública española por la inminente visita a la comarca del rey Alfonso XIII, una niña pequeña es secuestrada y asesinada en el monte de La Corderina, cerca de la aldea hurdana de Cambroncino. Para evitar que el rey cancele su visita y con ello se pierdan las inversiones que seguirían a esta, tan necesarias para mejorar la vida de los hurdanos y terminar con la Leyenda Negra de la comarca, las autoridades deciden dar carpetazo a la investigación del crimen.

Primera Guerra Mundial. Mientras las principales ciudades europeas se desangran en el conflicto, Barcelona es una de las grandes perlas del Mediterráneo. A pesar de su condición de territorio neutral, nadie ignora que en la costa hay puertos donde proveerse ilegalmente de combustible y víveres, con el beneplácito de las autoridades locales, y que en el cabo de Ixent llegan submarinos alemanes donde se cuecen todo tipo de intereses y conflictos con servicios secretos, agentes dobles y espías de ambos bandos.

ظن الجميع أن حادث سقوط اميلي أرونديل على كرة من المطاط تركت على السلالم قد تسبب فيه كلبها ولكنها كلما فكرت في سقوطها أكثر زاد اقتناعها بأن أحد أقاربها كان يحاول أن يقتلها، في السابع عشر من شهر ابريل كتبت شكوكها في خطاب وأرسلته الى المحقق هيركيول بوارو، الغريب في الأمر أنه لم يتلق الخطاب حتى الثامن والعشرين من شهر يونيو.. بعد وفاة اميلي بالفعل.

Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion. In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious judge uses his trademark expertise to unravel the mysteries of the nobleman, a shattered vase, and a dead bondmaid. Along the way he encounters a woman who fights with loaded sleeves, a nearly drowned courtesan, and an elaborate trap set for a murderer.

Mit der Bahn fahren Holmes und Watson weiter nach Süden. Unterwegs erörtern sie Hintergründe und Hypothesen zum Diebstahl, zu möglichen Motiven und zum potenziellen Täterkreis. In der Zwischenzeit wurde in Wien die Innenstadt abgeriegelt.

Im Hafen des britischen Stützpunktes Gibraltar legt die HMS Minotaurus zu einem Zwischenaufenthalt an. Holmes und Watson nützen die Gelegenheit, um an Land zu gehen und den berühmten Felsen zu besteigen. Dabei kommt es zu einem unangenehmen Zwischenfall.

The medical profession’s faith in electric shock therapies for treating female nervous conditions is shaken after a patient dies while connected to one such device. Harry Armitage is hired by the doctor arrested for her murder, and he invites Cleo to help him uncover the truth. After all, the doctor is the same one who tried—and failed—to treat Cleo’s aunt. As they dig deeper, it becomes apparent the doctor has failed other patients too, and those patients’ loved ones want revenge.

Захватывающий криминальный роман эпохи джаза об Артуре Барри, "величайшем воре драгоценностей, который когда-либо жил". Он очаровал всех, от Рокфеллеров до членов королевской семьи, планируя и осуществляя самые дерзкие и прибыльные ограбления 1920-х годов. За семь лет Принц воров украл бриллиантов, жемчуга и драгоценных камней на общую сумму почти 60 миллионов долларов. А еще это история любви. Единственной любви на всю жизнь.

In the final years of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem, in a vault, hidden deep beneath the Temple Mount, Baron Gregory De L'Ombre has made an astonishing discovery. Imprisoned within the vault are twelve monstrous abominations, created by one of King Solomon's wives as an ultimate act of revenge. The secrets of the vault will ensure Gregory's absolute power and forever enslave the Outremer—the Holy Land. No man dares stand against him. But the Djinn is no mere man. A creature of smoke and shadow... a living legend... only the Djinn grasps the full scope of the baron's plans.

Jack Brogan earned his nickname 'Blood' on the icy shores of the Falkland Islands, a name forged in a conflict he'd rather forget. Now, in the quiet cathedral city of Norwich, 1987, he's just a Detective Constable hoping for a peaceful life. But peace is a luxury a serial killer won't allow. A shadow is stalking the streets, leaving a trail of bodies and a chilling calling card: a perfectly sharpened piece of flint. Each victim is a mystery. Each shard of stone, a silent accusation.

Holmes und Watson fahren an Bord eines niederländischen Schiffs über die Nordsee nach Rotterdam. Das stürmische Dezemberwetter wird dabei zu einer Herausforderung und bringt erhebliche Gefahren mit sich.

Prudence Davies is one of Ellison Jones's least favorite people on earth. She's vindictive. She's mean. And the two share a twisted history. Or, they did. When Prudence is murdered after a very public spat, Ellison finds herself a murder suspect. Worse, the investigating officer has it in for Ellison's homicide detective husband.

Fully fledged Pinkerton agent Rose Gallagher has just caught her first solo case. Stolen jewels and suspicious deaths in a building on Pearl Street with supernatural markings in the wall are right up her alley. But without her partner, Thomas—whose abrupt departure still hurts her bruised heart—Rose fears she might not be up to the challenge. Especially when the investigation takes a deadly turn . . .

The author of the “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman) Wolf and the Watchman series presents a new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country’s most infamous murder mysteries. 1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are...

Anne Loveday, a surgeon's daughter, is determined to live a single, useful life. To escape her matchmaking stepmother, she accepts an invitation from an old friend to return to Painswick, the place where she and her sister spent many happy summers until that last, fateful year. Soon after arriving, Anne is asked to serve as sickroom nurse to Lady Celia, who forbade her nephew to marry Anne's sister years before. Pushing aside resentments, Anne moves into Painswick Court, a shadowy old house rumored to be haunted.