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Un comté de France, en ce début du XIVe siècle, où l'Inquisition fait rage. Un médecin condamné à la Question pour avoir pratiqué des accouchements sans douleur. Une pierre rouge qui a fait couler beaucoup de sang et dont il faut percer le mystère. Des menaces sourdes. Une peur tenace. Et si les ennemis du mire s'en prenaient à Héluise, sa fille, son élève et sa confidente ? Et puis la cabale, et puis l'exil intérieur, et puis la fuite. Héluise contrainte de courir le pays.

Rentrant de captivité en 1918, Aldo Morosini, d'antique noblesse vénitienne, découvre que sa mère a été assassinée ; que dans son palais sur le Grand Canal, un joyau historique, l'Étoile bleue, appartenant à sa famille maternelle a été volé et qu'il n'a plus aucun espoir de retrouver la femme qu'il aime. Cependant, pour éviter à la dépouille de sa mère l'injure de l'autopsie et la curiosité malsaine des journaux, il ne prévient pas la police et décide rechercher lui-même le voleur meurtrier.

Lorsque le prince Aldo Morosini, expert en pierres anciennes, rencontra Simon Aronov, surnommé le boiteux de Varsovie, il ne s'attendait pas à la mission que ce mystérieux personnage lui confierait : retrouver les quatre pierres manquantes du pectoral du Grand Prêtre du Temple de Jérusalem, une plaque en or où s'enchâssaient douze pierres précieuses. Or, une tradition veut qu'Israël ne retrouve sa terre ancestrale que lorsque le pectoral reconstitué pourra y revenir.

Après la mort de son époux, Sylvie de Fontsomme s'était bien juré de ne jamais revoir François de Beaufort et de vivre loin des frasques de la Cour. C'est sur les terres familiales qu'elle élève désormais sa fille Marie et son petit Philippe, dont la naissance doit rester secrète. Mais que ses espoirs étaient vains ! Le jeune roi Louis XIV exige son retour à la Cour où il lui sera impossible de ne pas croiser la route de François qu'elle n'a jamais cessé d'aimer.

1925. Tout semble si déréglé qu'une prédiction qui annonce la fin des temps au solstice d'hiver se fait de plus en plus entendre. Pour Martial de la Boissière, cette fin des temps correspond plutôt au naufrage d'un voilier au large de l'île de Bréhat.

49 v. Chr., am Golf von Neapel genießt Decius Caecilius Metellus die Gastfreundschaft eines reichen Freundes...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 55 vor Christus. Während die römischen Legionen an allen Fronten siegen, wird die Stadt Rom durch innere Machtkämpfe erschüttert. Crassus, Mitglied des Triumvirats und reichster Mann der Hauptstadt, versucht sich durch Bestechung der Caecilier die Unterstützung seiner ehrgeizigen Pläne zu sichern. Doch Decius Caecilius Metellus lehnt die Bestechung ab. Ein noch erbitterterer Gegner ist der Volkstribun Ateius, der die römischen Plebs gegen den geplanten Partherfeldzug aufwiegelt.

Italien im Jahre 1478: Während der Ostermesse im Dom zu Florenz wird bei einem Attentat auf die Medici der jüngere Bruder Giuliano getötet. Sein Bruder Lorenzo, der seit einiger Zeit mit dem Papst um die Vorherrschaft um einige italienische Republiken streitet, überlebt - und eröffnet eine gnadenlose Jagd auf die vermutlich Schuldigen: die rivalisierende Sippe der Pazzi, ebenfalls ein altes florentinisches Geschlecht.

In turn-of-the-century New York City, Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less complicated, less exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently, thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, whom she'd like to avoid completely. But when Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the Tombs, the notorious city jail, he begs Molly to help prove he was framed, and after everything they've been through, she cannot turn him down.

With Molly Murphy’s wedding to NYPD Captain Daniel Sullivan quickly approaching, the Irish P.I. heads to the Westchester County countryside,where Daniel’s mother can counsel her on a bride’s proper place. Surprisingly, Molly seems to be agreeing with her future mother-in-law’s advice. Molly promises to leave her detective work behind and settle down after becoming Daniel’s wife…but she isn’t married yet. So when she gets word of a possible case, Molly sneaks back into the city to squeeze in a little more sleuthing before the wedding bells can ring.

It's late 1942; World War II is still raging. Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, a small town jammed with people sent there by the conflict. On the outskirts is an Italian PoW camp. Tyler's job is both to keep the peace and to enforce wartime regulations. Then a troubled old man goes missing in a winter storm. The next day his body is discovered in a secret hideout supposedly known to very few. It soon becomes clear that a crime has been committed, and there is no shortage of suspects.

November 1416: Die ehemalige Begine Serafina heiratet endlich ihre große Liebe, den Stadtarzt Achaz. Sie bleibt der Schwesternsammlung aber nach wie vor verbunden. Die plagen seit kurzem große Sorgen: Ein Basler Wanderprediger hetzt gegen die freien Schwestern auf, an ihren Häusern prangen schon Wandschmierereien. Und dann der Schock: Eine Lämmlein-Schwester wird in einer Gasse erschlagen aufgefunden. Die Situation spitzt sich zu, als Catharina, die Meisterin der Beginen, schwer verletzt von ihrer Reise nach Konstanz zurückgebracht wird, wo sie den Bischof als Fürsprecher gewinnen wollte.

On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, Colbeck realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weapon.

The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon the disagreement is all but forgotten...until the following morning’s newspaper headlines reveal that the Englishman has been murdered.

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?

With his own boat, the motor yacht Sea Fox, former naval officer Philip Vivian had hoped to earn a living free from the petty restrictions of everyday life, close to the sea he loved. Now, however, his dream is threatened by financial difficulties. So when a profitable, if legally dubious, proposition is put to him by an old naval comrade in arms, Vivian is willing to listen. But what starts out as a harmless adventure soon turns into something altogether more sinister.

Sequel to international best seller Block 46 and next in the award-winning Roy & Castells series. Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some 10 years earlier and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman's body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims.

Berlin, 1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin’s underworld. The American gangster Abraham Goldstein is in residence at the Hotel Excelsior. As a favour to the FBI, the police put him under surveillance, with Detective Gereon Rath on the job. As Rath grows bored and takes on a private case for his seedy pal Johann Marlow, he soon finds himself in the middle of a Berlin street war. Meanwhile Rath’s on-off girlfriend, Charly, lets a young woman she is interrogating escape, and soon her investigations cross Rath’s from the other side.

A tragic case of arson sends Sarah into hiding to escape the terrible fate of her family. She works as a common laborer, and is safe for 13 years, until she receives an ominous note. Despite her disguise, the killer has caught up with her, and she is once again in danger from a man determined to silence all echoes from the past. William, an inquiry agent, is consumed with curiosity when he meets Sarah and hears about her case. And one look into her gray eyes has him hooked.

As a young duke, all Nathaniel wants is to be left alone. So when he meets Charlotte, an outspoken American heiress, he is suspicious of her indifference. Too many women have sought - and failed - to catch him. However, Charlotte is unimpressed by his title. She has no interest in English dukes. All she wants is to leave dreary England and travel to the sunny sands of Egypt to see the grand pyramids. Unfortunately, a debutante seeking to entrap Nathaniel gets murdered.