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Der Vorteil, wenn man im Strudel von Kleideranproben und Hochzeitsvorbereitungen gefangen ist: Charlotte Sloane hat kaum Zeit für irgendwelche Bedenken. Als bei einem Symposium in den Royal Botanic Gardens ein Botaniker zusammenbricht, haben Sloane und Wrexford jedoch ganz andere Sorgen. Denn die Spuren von weißem Pulver in der Nähe des Mundes offenbaren die dunkle Wahrheit – der Botaniker wurde ermordet. Sloane und Wrexford werden in die Ermittlungen hineingezogen und erfahren, dass das Opfer an einer bedeutenden medizinischen Entdeckung beteiligt war.

'Action packed and highly atmospheric’ MARK SANDERSON, THE TIMES From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Turnglass. Perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Stuart Turton. A dazzling, puzzle-box mystery of secrets, power and hidden truths 1804, Isle of Ray, Essex. Lysander Rose has...

She spent three Seasons learning to see the people no one counts. Now the dead have started to notice. Lady Cordelia Vane is a dowerless earl's daughter and a connoisseur of being overlooked. From the shadow of the third column she catalogues every debt, cut, and secret in the ballroom—and not one soul catalogues her back. Then Felix Carrow, the richest catch of the Season, slips out of the supper room and turns up dead. Poison, the physician decides. Misadventure, society agrees. Case closed.

In a village steeped in secrets, one woman's past is the key to solving a murder. Olivia Redmond thought she'd left danger behind in blitzed-out London. But the quiet Cotswold village of Chipping Ford offers little refuge—especially when a local gossip turns up dead. With a baby to care for and the villagers turning frosty, Olivia's only ally is a young bobby overwhelmed by his first murder case. As a former newspaper reporter and covert asset for Britain's intelligence chief, Olivia knows how to uncover the truth.

The dead cannot challenge the records left behind. Nora Veil can. London, 1903. For eleven years, hospital almoner Nora Veil has protected the modest property of patients who die without family advocates. Her work is quiet, exacting, and largely unnoticed—the careful administration of savings accounts, personal effects, unpaid bills, and the final instructions of people whose lives might otherwise disappear into institutional paperwork. Then the file of Agnes Tully reaches her desk. A solicitor’s reference number was assigned before the hospital officially released the estate.

London, 1889. When Lady Rosalynd and the Duke of Steele's investigative partnership draws the censorious notice of Victorian society, Queen Victoria herself cautions them to keep their distance, lest they be forced into a marriage neither of them wants. But distance becomes impossible when Scotland Yard arrives at Rosehaven House with alarming news. A body has been found near Kew Gardens, and a pistol belonging to Rosalynd’s brother lies at the scene. With her brother's life and reputation at stake, she has no choice but to seek the help of the man she has vowed to avoid.

In 1816, village healer and midwife Rosina de Winter is accused of witchcraft by the local vicar, Godfrey Winslow. Locked in the village blindhouse until she can be transported to the nearest town to stand trial, Rosina seems doomed —until she vanishes without a trace. That same night, Winslow is found hanging inside his own church, the doors locked from within, his death seemingly a suicide. But what happened to Rosina? And what could have driven a man of God to take his own life in a sacred place, risking not only scandal but the possibility of eternal damnation?

Una scia di sangue attraversa Milano e il tempo, unendo epoche lontane in un unico enigma irrisolto. Gaia Virgili, profiler di talento all’Europol, torna a Milano, dove si è formata professionalmente, per indagare su un caso di pluriomicidio. Nel silenzio irreale del lockdown emergono i...

In this next enthralling mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily chases down a killer in India along the misty banks of the sacred river Narmada. 1908: Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves, along with an eccentric group of English tourists, are vacationing in India at...

A Victorian country-house murder mystery introducing Isabella Hartwell, a Gilded Age American heiress whose sharp mind, sharper tongue, and taste for adventure place her at the centre of a deadly aristocratic scandal. Isabella Hartwell has crossed the Atlantic for reasons entirely unrelated to...

The brand new Miss Marple novel from Lucy Foley, the No.1 bestselling author of The Guest List and The Midnight Feast. The perfect Christmas read this winter. ‘As continuation novels go, this one – the first to feature Miss Marple – is top-notch. [Foley] is an excellent writer’ The Times...

Wales, 1866: Als mittellose Schülerin im Rutherford Mädcheninternat bleibt der 18-jährigen Lizzy nicht viel, außer ihrer Phantasie und einem Talent fürs Lügen. Besonders ihre Schauergeschichte von einem geisterhaften, mörderischen Mönch, der in der alten Abtei sein Unwesen treiben soll, hat es ihren Mitschülerinnen angetan. Bis Lizzys Hirngespinst tatsächlich jemand zum Opfer fällt. Der Tod sucht Hazel Hill heim und plötzlich verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge, zwischen Verbündeten und Feinden und vielleicht sogar zwischen Opfer und Täter.

A wedding in Idyllwild is threatened when visions of the future are clouded by secrets of the past. Loveda Brown is a bridesmaid in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, but with the wedding only three days away, a guest drops face first into the chicken salad. Is it misdiagnosis or murder? Between a fortune teller, a nosy newspaper reporter, four physicians, and an overbearing aunty, Loveda wanders a maze of deceit to uncover the killer before the bride pays the ultimate price for a secret in the groom’s past.

La trágica muerte de Carlos Gardel paraliza a la Argentina de 1935. El Pibe Rivarola, cínico e incisivo periodista porteño, debe investigar una serie de insólitos suicidios entre sus fanáticos, adentrándose en una peligrosa trama de impunidad policial y corrupción empresarial donde...

Jungärztin Fanny Goldmann verbringt ihre Zeit am liebsten in der gerichtlichen Medizin, trotz der Geringschätzung ihrer männlichen Kollegen. Immer wieder wird dabei ihr kriminalistischer Spürsinn geweckt. In vier spannenden Fällen taucht Fanny ein in die mal glamouröse, mal düstere Welt des späthabsburgischen Wien und gerät nicht selten selbst in tödliche Gefahr.

When invited to a charity event at Stonehaven Hall, Ginger and Basil expect an evening of champagne and high society. Instead, they find themselves at a small and tricky dinner party. By midnight, the heir lies dead in a dusty rarely used manor room. The assumption is accidental death, but Ginger sees what they miss: odd formation of ash patterns on the hearth, lipstick marks on a discarded cigarette, a widow’s lack of grief. It points to foul play, but who stands to gain from the heir’s silence?

Niendorf / Timmendorfer Strand 1965: Ein Spaziergang am Niendorfer Hafen endet mit einem Schock. Polizist Friedrich Stüben findet eine Leiche. Daneben liegt Mikkel Johannsen, ebenfalls Polizist, bewusstlos. Die Tatwaffe in Reichweite. Mikkel wird festgenommen. Die Umstände sprechen gegen ihn. Erst Hans, sein Freund und Rechtsanwalt, schafft es, ihn aus der Zelle zu holen.

Spring, 1892. A series of anarchist bombings have struck terror across Paris. In the chaos, the city's beloved Elzévir bookshop suffers a break-in: but the thief runs away with only a worthless decorative goblet. Then, the aristocratic Englishwoman who entrusted it to the bookshop is murdered...

A bloodstained room, a missing woman, a passionate affair gone wrong. As London basks in September sunshine, the city is abuzz with exciting news. There is a new detective in London, dazzling society with spectacular deductive skills and giving Sherlock Holmes a run for his money. Radical...

Paris, 1889. Sous les lumières étincelantes de la capitale qui se prépare à célébrer son Exposition universelle, l'ombre rôde. Une ombre qui tue… et dévore les âmes. À l'I.S.F., les Investigations Surnaturelles Françaises, deux enquêteurs aux tempéraments aussi contradictoires que complémentaires sont dépêchés sur l'affaire : Louise de Stalles, succube aristocrate au charme incendiaire et au tempérament explosif, et Paul Deschanelles, nécromancien élégant, dandy jusqu'au bout de sa canne… mais incapable de regarder un cadavre sans pâlir.