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Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colorful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch’s Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween. But things take a macabre turn when the first night’s screening ends with a mysterious murder, and the second night with another. One by one the actors turn up dead in ways that eerily echo their film.

A murdered poet. An unlikely alliance. A reputation some will kill to protect. London, 1859. Lady Larkspur Everly's Bloomsbury salon is a haven for radical thinkers, sharp-tongued widows, and the occasional pompous fool brave enough to walk through her door. But after a poet is struck dead on a London street after reading a verse that names the sins of powerful men, Lark knows it was no accident. The Marquis of Everthorne has his own reasons for wanting the truth.

Tabitha and Wolf should be relishing the quiet joys of new parenthood when yet another investigation calls them away. Lady Arlene Archibald approaches Wolf with a troubling request. An elderly stranger from Grenada has arrived in England with letters from her grandfather, once a wealthy...

Als Modedesignerin für Londons Elite hatte sie ein feines Gespür für Details und einen Hang zur Dramatik. Doch an ihrem kaltblütigen Mord ist nichts Stilvolles. Da die gesellschaftliche Hochsaison kurz bevorsteht, lassen sich die Frauen in Cleos Familie bei der gefragtesten Schneiderin der...

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 politician George Dashing has returned from foreign parts and is setting hearts aflutter.

Skandale, Geheimnisse und pikante Fotos kommen ans Licht, als die Ehefrau eines Politikers ermordet wird. Entwirren Sie mit Cleo und ihren Freunden das Lügengeflecht und entlarven Sie den Täter. Als Harry Armitage einen Fall von Ehebruch an Cleo abtritt, glauben beide, dass dies in einer...

A Victorian historical mystery with paranormal intrigue, featuring London's most tenacious private detective, a missing heiress, a ransom note signed by the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack, and a secret courtship that refuses to stay out of the investigation. Private detective Matilda Wren's latest...

A dead trainer. A drugged Thoroughbred. In the high-stakes world of Victorian horse racing, the truth lives under the skin... Newmarket Heath, 1887. To the public, the fatal gallop of legendary trainer Henry Ashmore was a tragic accident. A horse spooked by a drainage ditch, an aging rider losing his seat. Case closed. But Henry’s daughter, Nell Ashmore, doesn't read the public form book; she reads the horse. With a ledger behind her eyes and a unique, ancestral gift for reading an animal’s pulse by touch, Nell examines the four-year-old colt Domine's Pride.

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.

A remote manor in the English countryside. Thick fog. And a missing lord. Can a cleverly unconventional reporter use her investigative talents to catch a killer? England, 1921. When journalist Lady Felicity Quick arrives at Langton Manor to find her guaranteed-to-be-dull interview with Lord...

A bookclub historical crime novel for fans of Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters and Alis Hawkins. Bass Rock, Edinburgh, late 1600s On a cruel and windswept volcanic island, where only the toughest survive, a fragile society is about to be put to the ultimate test. Life on...

A registry clerk discovers that dozens of people have been assigned to a demolished address that no longer exists. As Claire Moreau follows the trail through archives, parish ledgers, and decades-old corrections, she uncovers a hidden system designed to move people through official records without leaving a trace. Pursued by investigators and trapped inside a growing conspiracy of paperwork and identity, Claire must decide whether the truth is worth destroying the institutions built to conceal it.

1891. At dawn on the Boulevard Montmartre, the body of a barefoot young woman wearing a lavish red dress is found brutally murdered. That same day, a single red shoe is delivered to the Elzévir Bookshop, owned by amateur sleuth Victor Legris. Victor and his team of booksellers feel compelled to...

When Eliza Grey holds the antique moonstone ring she found on the beach beneath Rosecliff Manor, she knows the ring has a story. Unsure if she’s ready to tackle another ghostly mystery so soon, Eliza chooses to focus on her latest assignment for The Coventry Gazette —a feature article on the O’Cleary family and the Chateau de Paradis, Coventry’s very own Gilded Age mansion. Ghosts of the past beckon...

Some trees witness a boundary. One has witnessed a murder. Robledal is a town built from timber, cattle, and careful forgetting. Its old quicksilver works are cold, its sawmill runs on creek water, and its land records look clean enough to satisfy any court. Then Abner Cole is found dead in the mill flume. The law sees a drunken accident. Silas Thorne sees the wrong body in the wrong water, a sealed bottle that was never opened, and a dead man’s notebook filled with a warning no honest surveyor can ignore: the witness oaks are too young. The corners have been moved.

Asesinatos rituales. Magia y chamanismo. Dos mujeres separadas por dieciséis mil años y unidas por las pinturas rupestres de Altamira. Los cadáveres de varios arqueólogos han sido encontrados en el interior de cuevas brutalmente mutilados. Las pinturas rupestres de esas cavernas han sido destruidas, y los sucesos tienen desconcertadas a las autoridades.

63 vor Christus, eine Zeit des Friedens und des Wohlstands: Die Legionen der mächtigen Römischen Republik haben alle Feinde in die Knie gezwungen. Doch auf den Straßen Roms fließt das Blut. Während die Obrigkeit wegsieht, führt Decius Caecilius Metellus der Jüngere, Hauptmann der Vigiles, einen einsamen Kampf gegen die grassierende Gewalt. Als ein Silberwechsler und ein Bauunternehmer ermordet aufgefunden werden, erkennt Metellus die bedrohlichen Vorzeichen einer großangelegten Verschwörung – einer Verschwörung, die ihre Wurzeln im Zentrum der Macht selbst hat.

Estamos nos anos 1970, às vésperas de um feriado, quando o detetive Adam McAnnis se junta a um velho amigo para aproveitar o fim de semana prolongado no West Heart, um clube exclusivo e tranquilo em meio à natureza. Nesse primeiro momento, você talvez não desconfie das intenções dele, mas, em um livro de mistério, nada acontece por acaso.

“Il tramonto della Germania di Weimar in un grande romanzo criminale" Frankfurter Allgemeine Berlino, 1929. Nella capitale tedesca covano tutte le tensioni, le angosce e le deliranti ambizioni di un paese uscito a pezzi dalla guerra. Rivendicazioni operaie, complotti ultrareazionari, lotte...

From #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham, “the reigning queen of Canadian historical fiction” (Kristen Harmel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a dazzling novel set at an elegant hotel in Toronto in 1929 about a young chambermaid, a handsome waiter, and a murder that will...