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Findet die Oblatenbäckerin Burgl ihr Glück? Das mitreißende Finale der Saga von Ada Caine 1896: Burgl ist der Neuanfang in Karlsbad geglückt: Die Oblatenbäckerei floriert und Burgl erwartet ihr erstes Kind. Durch die Schwangerschaft braucht sie dringend eine weitere Hilfskraft. Doch in Karlsbad verschwinden plötzlich junge Frauen, auch das Mädchen, das bei Burgl einspringen wollte. Schließlich arbeitet die Gouvernante Hanna mit, die auf eine Anstellung bei einer Gräfin wartet. Als Burgl erfährt, dass es diese nicht gibt, wird sie misstrauisch.

Dawn Hildegard’s dream is to become a doctor, but for a woman in the 1920s, this is no easy task. When her best friend Rose is kidnapped by “The Dollmaker,” a crazed serial killer who creates “art” from his victim’s bodies, she drops everything to find her. With the help of a handsome new acquaintance and his mysterious brother, Dawn investigates the fascinating case: Women found dead at the scene—their limbs skillfully removed, only to later be found stitched back together, suspended in doll-like positions throughout town in a grotesque display.

December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January is looking forward to a peaceful holiday with his family. But the arrival of an old friend brings unexpected news—and unexpected danger. Persephone Jondrette has found Arithmus: a Sudanese man with extraordinary mental abilities who January last saw in France, nearly fifteen years ago, during a ghost-hunting expedition to a haunted chateau. January and his friends survived the experience . . . but Arithmus's benefactor, the British explorer Deverel Wishart, did not.

Als der Brief seines Onkels, des Grafen von Rothenburg, eintrifft, denkt Jakob von Enkirch, dass er das große Los gezogen hat. Der Graf hat kürzlich seinen Sohn und Erben verloren und bietet Jakob ein Treffen an, um ihn eventuell als neuen Erben für die Grafschaft einzusetzen. Jakob macht sich mit seinem Bruder Benjamin auf den Weg, aber auch andere Menschen haben ihre – zum Teil finsteren – Pläne, nach dem Erbe zu greifen, und so kommt es immer wieder zu merkwürdigen Unfällen.

Im Vatikan des Jahres 1507 wartet man mit Ungeduld auf den heiligen Vater Papst Julius II. Der wird einem jungen Künstler einen sehr aufwendigen Auftrag erteilen, aber das ist nicht alles. - Im Kairo des Jahres 1904 macht sich Adam zusammen mit seinen Begleitern, dem Bühnenkünstler Houdini und dem Direktor des Ägyptischen Museums Marcel Dourgnon zu dem Händler und Kaufmann Fritz Hess auf, um eine gefährliche Expedition jetzt zu wagen. - Und im Wardenclyffe Tower des Jahres 1903 spitzt sich das Experiment von Nikola Tesla dramatisch zu.

Am einsamen Strand der Nordseeinsel werden PDDDAVD und sein treuer Assistent und Chronist Hutchinson Hatch von einer strengen Dame in Schwarz gekidnappt und im Meer ausgesetzt. Unversehens sind die beiden in eine politische Intrige von höchster Brisanz verwickelt. Bis heute ist sie ein streng gehütetes Geheimnis geblieben, die sensationelle Affäre um den deutschen Kaiser Wilhelm II., die sich im Jahre 1904 auf der ostfriesischen Insel Norderney zugetragen hat.

The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to the heavenly Bow Valley. Among the latter is the poacher Herbie Wishart, who arrived on a one-way ticket and has reinvented himself as a trail guide and teller of tall tales. Herbie becomes outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prominent Washington, D.C., archaeologist. Rumours say that the findings of the secrecy-shrouded Hodgson expedition, as it comes to be known, could overturn all previous knowledge about early life forms.

When the World's End Investigation Bureau receives an anxious visit from a trio of elderly siblings, Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham realise that the Fetterplaces are keeping back the heart of the matter. Ancient bones have been uncovered in their garden, and they believe they know whose they are. Felix returns by night. . .and discovers that the Fetterplace siblings have good reason for their fear. Unconscious and gravely injured, Felix is brought back to Lily's door by concerned strangers.

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When a beggar at her door turns out to be a high born lady, Margaret learns of a family destroyed by the Norman invasion. She resolves to help the woman find her missing daughter—abducted and enslaved by a local mormaer. When the mormaer’s daughter is found murdered, the foreigners quickly become scapegoats. Can Margaret save her displaced countrywomen’s lives, while navigating her new role as queen in a foreign court?

1945, Berlin: In the last days of the war SS Major Jürgen Strasser is summoned to the Führerbunker for one last, desperate mission. Present Day: Antiques dealer, and ex IRA assassin, Patrick Deveraux is caught up in a race to find the answers to a decades-old puzzle. As the body count rises in Berlin, the Obersalzburg, Rothenburg and Hamburg, Patrick enlists the help of a Hamburg Dominatrix and an ex-GSG9, North Sea fishing boat skipper to find the truth.

Januar 1872, Ballsaison in Wien: keine gute Zeit für junge Gräfinnen, die sich nicht verheiraten lassen wollen. Freiherr von Sothen hat mit dem Verkauf von Lotterielosen sein Geschäft gemacht und viele Leute arm. Pech für den gierigen Freiherrn, Glück für Oberinspektor Janek Pokorny, denn wenn ein Mord in bester Gesellschaft geschieht, ist die junge Gräfin Aurelia von Kolowitz nicht weit.

Professional ballerina Thea Ross’s world shatters when her screen-legend father commits suicide, leaving behind a shocking confession to a decades-old murder. Determined to uncover the truth, Thea teams up with a relentless journalist, following a trail of clues that leads her back to the glittering yet treacherous world of 1930s Hollywood. There, she discovers the story of Lorelei Davies, a struggling actress willing to endure anything for her family’s sake.

Aurelia von Kolowitz ist jung, klug und mit den gesellschaftlichen Konventionen ihrer Zeit alles andere als einverstanden. Wie tief die moralischen Abgründe hinter den Barockfassaden der Donaumetropole wirklich sind, muss sie erfahren, als sie eines Abends die Leiche eines ermordeten Offiziers in einer Kutsche findet – und eine unschuldige Frau im Gefängnis landet. Kurz darauf wird Aurelia zu einer Séance der berühmten Madame Moreau eingeladen. Die Gastgeberin, Emilia Zobel, ist die Schwester des Verstorbenen und hofft, Kontakt mit ihrem toten Bruder aufnehmen zu können.

When a mission of critical importance arises, Lord Lynsley, the enigmatic head of Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Extraordinary Young Ladies, is forced to take on the assignment himself. But when things take an unexpected turn, he has has no choice but to ask for help from a former agent whose injury during a botched mission ten years ago forced her to retire from the elite unit of unconventional lady spies.

In the spring of 1826, ex-soldier Gregory Hardiman is settling in to civilian life as an ostler and university constable in Cambridge. When an undergraduate is found hanged in his rooms at St Clement’s College, the Master asks Gregory to find out what could have driven the seemingly happy young man to take such a drastic step. A second death at the same college suggests something altogether more sinister, and Gregory sets out to discover whether a love of illegal gambling on horse races could lie at the heart of the tragedies.

Cracovia, 1895. In una fredda mattina di aprile, sulle sponde della Vistola viene ritrovato il corpo di una giovane donna. I capelli sciolti, l'abbigliamento composto e una macchia di sangue scuro sulla camicetta chiara rendono la ricostruzione degli accadimenti più complessa rispetto alle comuni morti violente che si registrano di solito in quel quartiere periferico e poco raccomandabile della città. La vittima è Karolina Szulcówna, fino al giorno prima domestica irreprensibile nel Palazzo del Pavone.

Lady Eleanor Swift is at Buckingham Palace to see her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Seldon, knighted. Brimming with pride, all she can hope is that Gladstone the bulldog behaves himself in front of the king. But the happy day is overshadowed when Dilly Dalrymple, a royal guard, collapses. The head of the royal police asks Eleanor and Hugh to investigate the murder–unofficially. This is her first clue that there’s more to the story....

Evil is masquerading in the halls of Parliament, and Sir Bertrand Thorndike is tasked with investigating from the inside. With his new position as a member of the House of Commons, he has access to the power brokers of English government. His tactic is to listen and learn, careful not to reveal his true motives, and he’s quickly inducted into the mysterious Theban Club.

Inez Stannert has reinvented herself—again. Fleeing the comfort and wealth of her East Coast upbringing, she became a saloon owner and card sharp in the rough silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, always favoring the unconventional path—a difficult road for a woman in the late 1800s. Then the teenaged daughter of a local prostitute is orphaned by her mother's murder, and Inez steps up to raise the troubled girl as her own.