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This is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep. When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. Surely it won't take long to shine light on this unlikely case of what would seem to be strigoi? Or, as they are known in the West...vampires. 

A lawman hunts his brother through a killing winter. But what he finds isn’t the man he remembers. It’s the truth. After a deadly stagecoach robbery leaves four men dead, Sheriff Elias Kane tracks the outlaw responsible into the high country—only to discover the fugitive is his estranged brother, Harlan. Stranded by a violent storm and bound together by survival, the two men are forced into an uneasy alliance. But as they descend from the mountain, the conflict shifts—from survival… to something far more dangerous.

December, 1145. Hamelin Isenmongere, trader in iron and charcoal from Gloucester, is considered by many to be the most popular man in Worcester. Why then is he found on the quayside near his warehouse with his head beaten in? As the winter bites, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll...

The sequel to the Wodehouse Prize nominated Murder Most Foul. The second novel by the multi BAFTA, RTS and Emmy awardwinning writer, director and producer of iconic TV shows like Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey. The murder-solving duo are back, famed playwright Will and the sister of...

A country Christmas in Victorian England takes a murderous turn in Agatha and Lefty Award winning author Dianne Freeman’s delightful mystery featuring Frances Hazelton, the former Countess of Harleigh, and her husband, George. Frances and George are looking forward to a Christmas season...

Brought to you by Penguin. Munich, 1931. A young woman is found dead in Adolf Hitler's apartment. The official verdict is suicide. Detective Inspector Thomas Bauer knows it's murder. The victim is Geli Raubal – Hitler's niece, prisoner, and secret shame. Within hours, Bauer's investigation is...

À Narbonne, un chasseur de trésors est retrouvé assassiné chez lui, le crâne fracassé. La veille, il avait confié à Pierre Cavaignac et Marjolaine Karadec, archéologues et francs-maçons, un extraordinaire rouleau de cuivre gravé en araméen et en grec ancien. Cavaignac et Karadec...

Tandis que Paris se prépare à célébrer Noël, Joséphine, elle, savoure ses fiançailles désormais officielles avec le séduisant et noble Jérôme de Faulcon de Montessand. Car à l'église Saint-Étienne, de mystérieux accidents sèment l'effroi. Très vite, la demoiselle soupçonne qu'il ne s'agit pas de simples malheurs, mais d'une main criminelle aux méthodes aussi ingénieuses qu'impitoyables.

For the women in London, the "chance of a lifetime" may prove to be their last. Hidden among the romantic rendezvous and secret messages in The Times of London's Personal Column, a peculiar ad offers one young woman the opportunity of escape: travel, adventure, and a new life—no questions...

To rebuild her life, grieving widow Maya Bishop moves to a cottage she inherited in the Pacific Northwest, next door to a charming new neighbor, Nick. She is looking to regain some peace. But one day Maya finds a painting with a bloodstained frame hidden in a linen chest. On the back of the canvas is a confession—I killed her. I’m sorry. Before she knows it, Maya is drawn into a decades-old mystery.

Two men met at dawn. Only one walked away. Is he a murderer or the next man marked for death? London, 1868. Etty Redgrave will bend rules, reputations, and polite society itself to protect the innocent. This time, justice demands she stand beside the last man she ever wanted to defend. Her childhood nemesis is accused of killing a man on the duelling field, an illegal and dishonourable act shielded by aristocratic privilege. The evidence is damning. The scandal inevitable. Yet something about the death refuses to sit neatly in its box.

In a city haunted by fear, some secrets refuse to stay buried—and it may be safer to forget them. London, 1888. Byron Constantine is a detective with amnesia—his mind is fractured. He lives day-to-day, desperately fighting to hold onto his memories, only for them to slip away as he sleeps. Mira Blayse is determined to uncover the truth behind her parents' deaths. With an artist's eye, she notices what others miss—but her investigations thus far have led nowhere.

A family, their liquor store, and the clash of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments in 1920s St. Paul The Kaner brothers were getting by well enough running Kaner’s Fine Wine and Spirits in St. Paul, Minnesota, until Prohibition took effect in January 1920. With their liquor store...

On his return from South Africa, Charles Knox is invited to spend the weekend at the country home of Sir Neville Strickland, whose beautiful wife Rosamund was once Knox's fiancée. But in the dead of night Sir Neville is murdered. Who did it? As suspicion falls on each of the house guests in turn, Knox finds himself faced with deception and betrayal on all sides, and only the enigmatic Angela Marchmont seems to offer a solution to the mystery. This 1920s whodunit will delight all fans of traditional country house murder stories.

London, 1665. The city is in the grip of plague. Houses are sealed, doors are marked with red crosses, and fear hangs over every street. In the midst of it all, a young draughtsman begins a diary, recording the shadows gathering over a city that seems to be unravelling before his eyes. What begins as a private record of survival soon becomes something more. Amid sickness, grief, and suspicion, he finds an unexpected connection that offers a glimmer of hope. But as the plague loosens its hold, darker forces begin to emerge.

Lost in the mists of the Romney Marsh, Angela Marchmont stumbles upon the body of a woman whose face has been disfigured—presumably to prevent recognition. Who is she, and what was she doing out there in the middle of nowhere? The search for answers will take Angela from a grand stately home to London’s most fashionable—and disreputable—nightclub, and into a murky world of illegal drinking, jazz music and lost souls.

Der Teufel von Straßburg: Seine Opfer sind jung, wehrlos und vollkommen allein. Ein grausamer Kindermörder treibt im Jahr 1348 in Straßburg sein Unwesen. Als die Klosterschülerin Adelheid von den Morden erfährt, ist sie zutiefst schockiert: Selbst dem Schicksal einer solchen Kindheit nur knapp entronnen, fühlt sie sich den Opfern verbunden und beschließt, auf eigene Faust zu handeln.

A festive murder mystery novella featuring Ali Dawson No-one is more surprised than time-travelling detective Ali Dawson when Charles Dickens suddenly turns up on her doorstep a few days before Christmas. The Great Writer is as baffled as she is as to how he got there. Ali takes him in, despite...

Dramatische Ereignisse in der Familie Hansen. Ein brutaler Mord erschüttert die Familie Hansen. Eduard, der sich inzwischen immer tiefer in illegale Geschäfte vertieft hat, sinnt auf Rache und will auf eigene Faust für Gerechtigkeit sorgen.

London 1926. When Kitty Worthington, her husband Robert, and their friends arrive at Langford Hall for the society wedding of the season, something feels wrong before the first champagne cork pops. The groom is drinking too much. The sweet-faced American bride with a steel fortune looks as though she'd rather be anywhere else. And the crumbling Tudor estate draped in roses and lilies can't quite disguise the desperation underneath.