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When veteran archivist Maren Voss receives a posthumous memory certification from a former colleague, she makes a decision that violates everything she believes in. Opening the sealed record reveals evidence of a decades-old fraud hidden deep within the foundations of the Archive, the institution entrusted with preserving the certified memories of an entire society. Three months later, a second submission appears from a living woman whose account describes the exact same event from the exact same perspective.

Londres, 1841. Un mystérieux paquet livré dans l'ombre. Un fonctionnaire retrouvé mort. Une invention qui pourrait changer le monde. Ou le détruire... Ashton, agent secret britannique aux multiples visages, plonge au cœur d'une affaire qui menace l'équilibre de l'ordre mondial. Les découvertes révolutionnaires de Michael Faraday sur l'électricité attisent toutes les convoitises et pourraient, entre de mauvaises mains, se transformer en arme dévastatrice.

Award-winning novelist Val McDermid and Geographer Royal Professor Jo Sharp bring Scotland’s greatest historical catastrophe vividly to life. The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future. It took place on the other...

Charlotte Blood is about to discover the dark side of obsession in this gripping mystery. Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley. A team of archaeologists claim to have found the tomb of the original warrior Queen of the Britons – Boudica. It's the story of the century and investigative journalist...

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series. South Devon is returning to its usual calm after the summer tourist season when DI Wesley Peterson and his team receive a disturbing call. A mummified body has been discovered...

FELIX LEITER – JAMES BOND'S TRUSTED FRIEND AND ALLY – TAKES CENTER STAGE IN A BRAND NEW ADVENTURE BY LEGENDARY BOND NOVELIST, RAYMOND BENSON. It is 1952. Felix has lost his job at the CIA and finds himself working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job...

Cypress Run is a historical mystery set in post-Reconstruction Florida, blending frontier justice, found family, slow-burn romance—and yes, alligators. Tom Bracken was a good detective in Chicago. Good enough to know that if you're going to make enemies, you should do it spectacularly well or not at all. Which is how, in the winter of 1883, he finds himself exiled to Cypress Run, Florida: a swamp-soaked frontier town where the alligators outnumber the citizens, the politics are deadlier than the wildlife, and the only woman worth talking to spends most of her time calling him an idiot.

For Larry "Buddy" Torrence, childhood ended in 1965 after his best friend, Daniel, killed himself. They were seventh-grade classmates at a newly integrated school in redneck southeast Texas. Buddy's been a brooding loner since then, unable to stop blaming himself because he alone knows something chilling about Daniel's death and how he was able to take his own life. It's a stunning secret that he dared not tell anyone back then—not his parents, not the beautiful young psychologist he's infatuated with, and certainly not the police and school authorities investigating this perplexing case.

The tenth story in The Innocence of Father Brown is entitled "The Eye of Apollo." At the beginning of this short story, Flambeau has just opened his detective agency in a new building located near Westminster Abbey. The other tenants in the building are a religious charlatan named Kalon, who claims to be "the New Priest of Apollo," and two sisters, who are typists. Flambeau and Father Brown instinctively distrust Kalon, who has installed a huge eye of Apollo outside his office.

Betreten Sie das viktorianische London des Jahres 1897: Entdecken Sie Liebe und Intrigen mit der historischen Mystery-Serie „Tabitha & Wolf“, in der Mysterium auf Romantik mit einer Prise Humor trifft. Tabitha war es gewohnt, ein sozialer Paria zu sein. Könnte sich ihr Ansehen in der...

New York City, 1925. A night of high-stakes gambling at the Empire Club ends in gunfire and Jack Crawford is found at the center of the carnage—covered in blood, gun in hand. The club's ruthless owner offers Jack an ultimatum: find the real shooters within five days, or die for their crimes...

The diaries of Samuel Pepys have enthralled readers for centuries with their audacious wit, gripping detail, and racy assignations. Pepys stopped writing at the age of 36. Or did he? Named one of the best historical fiction books of the year by the Sunday Times, this action-packed historical...

Lady detectives Marjorie Swallow and Mrs Jameson enjoy a trip to a smart clifftop hotel for a very English seaside holiday… until a mysterious Italian woman appears, anxious to speak to Mrs Jameson. But Mrs Jameson definitely doesn’t want to talk to her. When a corpse is discovered on the beach, every guest becomes a suspect, including our detective duo. What does Mrs Jameson know, and why doesn’t she want to investigate this murder? As Marjorie is drawn deeper into the mystery, she learns fast: trust no-one. Secrets from the past come back to haunt Mrs Jameson.

London, 1817: a city glittering with wealth and rotting with secrets. In the uneasy years after the Napoleonic Wars—before fingerprints, detectives, or organized policing—one man bears the burden of justice alone. Captain Winter, once a decorated soldier and now Whitehall's "special emissary," moves easily between the capital's extremes: the stately parlors where power is traded behind fans and smiles, and the shadowed alleys where danger has no name.

London, 1813. Lord Spencer Seaton kehrt gebrochen und verletzt aus dem Krieg zurück. Er hat alles verloren: seinen Titel, seine Liebe und sich selbst. Sein einziges Ziel ist Rache. Nichts kann ihn aufhalten. Nicht einmal die hinreißende Nichte seines Feindes, Miss Joanna Digby. Er will nichts für das kurvige Mauerblümchen fühlen, sein Herz nicht mehr öffnen, niemanden an sich heranlassen. Doch mit ihr fühlt er sich lebendig, stark. Akzeptiert.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'THE UNPICKING' When whispers of abuse at Arrol's department store reach Mabel, a determined policewoman, she knows she must act. Enlisting the help of Johnnie, a cunning thief, and Beatrice, a savvy businesswoman, they embark on a perilous journey to uncover the truth. Set...

"I had read enough mystery stories to know that girls who went out to meet strangers at night never came to a good end..." Stirling, 1877. Lillias Gilfillan, a recently orphaned girl of sixteen, falls in love and elopes with a man who sees her as wealthy and naïve: 'a little boat without its...

Will Cupid’s bow bring these two together or will his past keep them apart? Charles, twin brother to the Duke of Hightower, has spent his life hidden from his siblings. Considered mad by some, Charles has a mind unlike most others. Unfortunate circumstances lead to Charles being reintroduced...

1889. As crowds rush to climb the newly unveiled Eiffel Tower, a young governess is borne up to its highest platform in the mayhem. Suddenly a scream rings out and onlookers turn away from the balcony - to find her dead. In the days that follow death strikes again and again across the city...

June 1944. When a Wehrmacht war crimes investigator and his escort are killed in an ambush, it looks like an opportunistic act of revenge by the Polish Resistance. But Jan Kalisz of the Warsaw Kripo, investigator and Polish double-agent, has his doubts. Fortunately, with the Red Army only a few hundred kilometres from the city, Kalisz’s boss, Hauptsturmführer Hoth, finds his faith in the Führer waning, and allows an investigation.