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Generationen lasen begeistert die Abenteuer der beiden Weltenbummler Rolf Torring und Hans Warren. Was aber geschah mit unseren Helden in der Zwischenzeit? Wenn es nun die Möglichkeit gibt, eine Fortsetzung der Erlebnisse nach dem letzten VK-Heft 445 zu lesen, so wird der Leser möglicherweise die Frage nach der Herkunft stellen. Hans Warren und Rolf Torring wissen nicht mehr, wem sie trauen können – werden sie von einem uralten ägyptischen Gott verfolgt?

Rebecka lebt weit entfernt von ihrer Familie in Stockholm; zu ihrer Mutter hat sie schon lange keinen Kontakt mehr. Als ihre Großmutter Anna ins Krankenhaus kommt, beschließt Rebecka, die ohnehin eine Auszeit braucht, für ein paar Tage in die südschwedische Heimat zu fahren.

Can a fresh new start protect them from an old enemy? Freshly settled in France to protect their growing family, Neve and Hugo yearn for a life free from the dangers they faced in London. However, fate has other plans in store… When Hugo receives a mysterious summons, he is thrust into the...

Nurse Gemma Bell and her new husband, Inspector Sebastian Bell, are visiting his family in Suffolk when a neighbor discovers the brutal murder of a young girl, high on Devil’s Ridge. Left alone to examine the body while Sebastian breaks the devastating news to the girl’s father, Viscount Ravenel, Gemma finds disturbing wounds that suggest calculated ritual, not random violence. And before long, whispers from the village reach her of Pagan sacrifice and ancient blood offerings.

The Last of the Greatest Generation captures the disruptive, uncertain times during WWII, as seen through the eyes of the last living WWII veteran. "Papa John" is nearing the end of his life and has been harboring painful wartime secrets for many years. A fateful meeting with a damaged journalist turns the veteran and his granddaughter's life upside down, with shocking reverberations. Told in two timelines, this novel is a fast-paced mystery that embraces generational romance, patriotism, the horrors of war, and the race to find hidden truths that will impact Japan and the United States.

Nur wenige Meilen von Mydworth entfernt liegt das abgelegene Chilton House - ein Rückzugsort für Londons exzentrische Künstler, die dort den Sommer mit Malerei, Diskussionen und rauschenden Festen verbringen. Doch als nach einer Wohltätigkeitsauktion einer von ihnen tot im Fluss gefunden wird, ist es vorbei mit der Bohème-Romantik. Die Polizei tippt auf einen Unfall im Rausch. Doch Kat und Harry haben ihre Zweifel - und stoßen bald auf ein kunstvoll gewebtes Netz aus Lügen.

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is head of one of New York's wealthiest dynasties. When Mulholland gets wind of a hostile biography planned, he commissions his journalist son-in-law John Glass to pen the official line. To help with the job, Glass hires a beady-eyed researcher - 'the lemur'. But the next day, the Lemur is found dead, shot through the eye with a Beretta. What is the secret he knew, had he told anyone else, and why are the police suddenly asking Glass a lot of questions?

Wien, 1880: Die Stadt verändert sich in rasendem Tempo, Mietenwucher und Arbeiterelend greifen um sich. Der Mord an der Nobelprostituierten Fanni Matzner zwingt den Wiener Polizeipräsidenten Marx zum Einsatz eines geheimen Sonderermittlers.

Que fait une fille de médecin quand le père de son ami est gravement malade? Elle met son propre père – et elle-même – dans un carrosse, à destination de la Normandie, pour leur venir en aide, bien sûr! C'est ainsi que Joséphine se met en route pour Arranges, fief de la famille de Jérôme, sans se douter que ce voyage ne va pas du tout tourner comme elle l'imaginait. Car le château des Faulcon de Montessand compte un locataire inattendu: un fantôme, que l'on accuse bientôt de meurtre! Pour la demoiselle et le mousquetaire, à l'esprit rationnel, c'en est trop.

After Leo and Jasper are summoned to the reading of a last will and testament for a woman they do not know, they are stunned to receive not only a joint bequest, but also a bidding from the grave: to find out if the woman's young son fell to his death a dozen years ago . . . or if he was, as she...

Britannien, 43 n. Chr. Die Adler Roms haben gelandet, doch der wahre Krieg um die Insel hat gerade erst begonnen. An der blutigen Grenze des Imperiums kämpfen der junge Tribun Gaius Julius Maximus und der wettergegerbte Zenturio Brutus Seite an Seite. Ihre Mission: das eroberte Land für Rom zu sichern. Doch während der charismatische Keltenführer Caratacus im Verborgenen eine gewaltige Armee sammelt, lauert ein noch heimtückischerer Feind in den eigenen Reihen der römischen Legion.

For Detective Constable Faye Smith, London is not as safe as it seems. The criminal underworld is gaining strength, enjoying a lively existence below the surface. Then two bodies are found in the war-time shelters, a man and a woman. Faye, keen to unravel the mystery of the double murder, finds herself tangled up in crimes that stretch far beyond a simple killing. Faye and Ellie must face their toughest case yet as their lives change, irrevocably, for the future.

'Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times The fifth book in the iconic John Shakespeare series, beloved by thousands of readers, from true master of historical fiction, Rory Clements. ------------------------------------------------------- 'Sixteenth-century...

The stunning final story in the one-of-a-kind mystery series, the last mission in the iconic career of John Shakespeare, Queen's Spy. ------------------------------------------------------- 'Sixteenth-century London comes alive in all its tawdriness' Daily Mail 'Beautifully done . . . alive and...

Civil unrest sweeps the mountains of Jalisco, displacing Mexico's elite. Under the cover of darkness, Catalina steals away from her vast ranch with her two daughters. Stuffed into their saddlebags, the precious jewels of the Hernandez-Castañeda family fortune begin their journey across time and legend. Over one hundred years later, in the United States, Sophie's marriage takes its dying breath after she catches Adam cheating. The demise of her marriage shakes her to the core, and she hopes it isn't too late to build the stable family of her dreams.

Elizabeth Bates must use everything she knows about the art of the con to stop a fellow scammer in his tracks in this first-ever thrilling crossover in the Victoria Thompson universe, featuring characters from her bestselling Gaslight Mysteries. Famed former police detective turned private...

Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory in Aston on a wet Monday morning in late November 1944. Greeted by his enthusiastic sergeant, O’Rourke, Sam Mason finds himself plunged into a challenging investigation to discover how Harry Armstrong met his death in a vat containing BB Sauce – a scene that threatens to put him off BB Sauce on his bacon sandwiches for the rest of his life.

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series. 'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times South Devon is returning to its usual calm after the summer tourist season when DI Wesley Peterson and his team...

¿Y si un retrato escondiera los secretos de toda una familia… y de un siglo entero? Viena, 1910. Gustav Klimt pinta el enigmático Retrato de una dama, una obra que esconde más de lo que revela. Décadas más tarde, el cuadro desaparece misteriosamente y reaparece en 2019, oculto en los jardines de un museo italiano. ¿Quién es esa mujer de mirada hipnótica? ¿Por qué fue retocado? ¿Qué historia oculta?