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Simon and Elizabeth return in book four of the Out of Time series. Simon and Elizabeth's plans for their honeymoon are interrupted when they discover a list of unfinished business hidden in Simon’s grandfather’s journal. Picking up where Grandfather Sebastian left off, Simon and Elizabeth, along with Jack Wells, travel to glamorous 1933 Hollywood to save the life of movie star Alan Grant. But the Golden Age of Hollywood is more than parties and premieres. Behind the bright lights and bigger-than-life contracts, shadows lurk and no one is what they seem.

Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.

Investigative duo, Dora Fitz-Pennington and Dr Jacob Sandys, have escaped London and headed north to the Lakes, both needing time away from danger after their two most recent cases. Death, unfortunately, hasn’t got the message that it isn’t welcome to join them. Now, as William Wordsworth’s opus goes missing, and disappearances and a murder follow in quick succession, Dora and Jacob are forced to abandon their holiday and use their unique skills to track down a reckless killer intent on destroying the Romantic poets and all they stand for…

Everyone at the party had a secret. Someone killed to keep theirs. London, 1922. Draper’s daughter Marjorie Swallow is 24, independent, and determined to live life to the full. A secretarial post with enigmatic American detective Mrs Jameson looks just the ticket. And soon she’s in the thick of it. When the bohemian party they attend ends in murder, there is no shortage of suspects. Half of Bloomsbury wanted Mrs Norris dead – but who wielded the knife? Was it the handsome but troubled artist? The vivacious young actress? Or even the aristocratic lady novelist?

Melody Chesterton is off on her next Continental Caper. Having left her brother, Rat, with no choice but to take her with him on his next assignment for Britain's Secret Service Bureau, Melody should be excited about travelling to Morocco. However, that was before she found out that the handsome, charming Conte Alessandro Foscari would accompany them. Melody is still licking her wounds after her realization that Alessandro's flirtation had been nothing more than a ploy to keep an eye on her brother. Or was it?

Gerade noch rechtzeitig gelingt es Dupin, Poe und den anderen Ermittlern einen gewaltigen Anschlag des "Kults des goldenen Kalbs" zu verhindern. Kurz darauf machen sie eine schockierende Entdeckung im Schlupfwinkel der Unheimlichen. Haben die Kultanhänger tatsächlich allesamt gemeinsam Selbstmord begangen? Verstörend ruhige Wochen folgen, doch Dupin traut dem scheinbaren Frieden nicht. Die winterliche Feiertagssaison naht, aber damit auch die Rückkehr des Kults? Tatkräftig versuchen Poe und Dupin Beweise für die anstehende Bedrohung zu finden, bevor alles zu spät ist.

Der Tag des Finales naht! Wayne McLair, noch immer verletzt und geschwächt, rüstet sich für seinen bisher größten Coup. Wie auch sein Team, das in ganz Dublin verstreut ist. Eine dramatische Wendung gefährdet jedoch den großen Plan und die Bühne wird für den Dieb zur Richterbank! McLair und auch Quinn sehen sich Mächten gegenüber, gegen die sie nichts auszurichten vermögen. Ist dies das Ende von Team McLair? Ist dies des Meisters größte Schmach?

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the terrible conflict. Then the household is struck by a series of gruesome murders. Can anyone solve the mystery of these baffling slayings before the Omari line is extinguished entirely? To do so, and unravel the killer's fiendish plot, they will have to delve into the family's past, where a dark and deadly secret has been festering for decades...

Selby is a bank clerk by day and a denizen of London’s homosexual underworld by night. He yearns for a more glamorous life and is delighted to receive an invitation to the birthday of the rich banker Sir Lionel Duker. At the party Sir Lionel’s wife is murdered and it doesn’t take long for Selby to realise everyone has a motive–himself included. His love of other men makes him a criminal and Lady Duker had worked this out moments before she was strangled, so Selby must keep his secrets close to his chest as he tries to solve the murder.

A dark secret from her past has come back to haunt Barbara Hollis. When Deputy Elwood finds out the truth about her, Barbara flees Cobbsville, returning to the city where all her troubles began. Going undercover, she tries to catch the one person who can prove her innocence and restore her reputation—but tracking down answers won't be easy when pursuing a dangerous villain who will stop at nothing.

Frances and George are enjoying some well-deserved leisure time in Paris when an old acquaintance from London, Alicia Stoke-Whitney, seeks Frances’s help to investigate a personal matter. Alicia’s daughter is being courted by Carlson Deaver, a wealthy American shadowed by a very suspicious tragedy. Less than a year ago, Carlson’s wife, a former actress, was murdered, her body discovered in one of the more dubious quartiers in Paris. Though authorities guess it was a robbery gone wrong, no one was ever brought to justice.

Another mystery awaits Vera and Tolliver in British East Africa. Justin Tolliver and his tribal lieutenant Kwai Libazo are still smarting from the dreadful events that ended their work on the police force a year ago. Justin and his wife, Vera, are establishing their farm in Ngong. Kwai and his baby daughter are living on the property, but tension still exists between the two men. One beautiful Sunday morning, a passing stranger discovers a dead body on the road that leads to their home. A Kukuyu man has been shot in the back.

The life of genealogist Ellie McLellan is about to be forever transformed by an upcoming journey. Brimming with both anticipation and anxiety, she takes her first flight to Scotland to meet Quinn's family. Her nerves are heightened by the fact that she will be meeting her newly discovered aunt for the first time. And at a cozy family reunion hosted by a newfound cousin, she is welcomed to her mother's side of the family with warmth, and the sharing of stories. In the midst of joy and connection, a surprising revelation about Ellie's fiancé brings them even closer.

A través de un relato en primera persona que sorprende a cada página, el autor emprende una increíble búsqueda tras los símbolos que estos enigmáticos caballeros dejaron hace siglos en iglesias y monumentos. Un viaje repleto de giros inesperados durante el que podrás descubrir las huellas del Santo Grial en España, claves escondidas en el Camino de Santiago y multitud de revelaciones que podrían llevarnos a reescribir la Historia.

In this gripping and atmospheric tale, Sarah Chen, a dedicated historian and photographer, embarks on a haunting journey to uncover the untold stories of the soldiers who fought and died at the Battle of Gettysburg. As she delves deeper into the mysteries of the past, Sarah finds herself inexplicably drawn to the ghostly figure of Private Eli Thompson, a young Confederate soldier whose tragic story becomes inextricably linked to her own.

Able seaman Humphrey Wilkes is dead, shot between the eyes by the murderer known as the Plague Doctor. When Samuel Pepys’s naval colleague, Robert Drake, finds a black cross daubed on his door, it marks him out as the next victim. Pepys dispatches his inquisitors, Abby Harcourt and Jacob Standish, to the docks. Can they unmask the killer and save Drake’s life before he strikes again?

London, 1865. Caroline Courtwood wird in der Nähe des Traitor's Gate erwürgt aufgefunden. Inspektor Stockworth und Sergeant Bennett ermitteln in diesem Fall. Da Stockworths Ehefrau Charlotte sich, wie die Tote, in der Greenland´s Armenschule engagiert hat, stellt sie eigene Nachforschungen an.

In the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location. As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder interrupts filming on set - and it's an ingenious one. Can Daniel solve the mystery with help from his sidekick Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo - even when things are so sticky between them?

Nur mit knapper Not sind Adam Salton und Nathaniel de Salis der unbarmherzigen Arabella March nach Indien entkommen. In Bombay treffen sie auf eine alte Bekannte Nathaniels - Helena Blavatsky, die Begründerin der Theosophischen Gesellschaft. Die geheimnisvolle Frau und Nathaniel scheint ein Geheimnis zu einen - das Wissen um den Heiligen Speer -, das Adam nach wie vor verschlossen bleibt. Als sich aber in den geheimen Tunneln der Parsen ein schwerwiegender Unfall ereignet, ist es an Adam, das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Ihm bleibt nur noch wenig Zeit - doch die Zeit ist nur ein Gefäß ...

Sarah berichtet aus ihrem vergangenen Leben. Sie schildert, wie das Nichts das Alles verschluckte und wie der Weg sie schließlich zum Institut Aware geführt hat. Im Chicago des Jahres 1893 findet der Handlungsreisende Winfield Lovecraft in "the castle" eine Bleibe für die Nacht, die er allerdings nie vergessen, nie ganz überwinden wird.