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Connecticut, 1833. A year after Chester Cranberry’s unsolved murder, the town that he founded continues to suspect that his wife, Elcira, ended his life. With insufficient evidence to bring her to trial, and little effort to find another suspect, the town gossip labels her “The Widow Murderess.” But Elcira has seven children to feed, ranging in age from three to nine, and her nanny, Deborah, a freed slave, is pregnant with her husband’s illegitimate child. All eyes are on these two women, expecting them to fail to keep the farm and the family together.

Dr. Lydia Weston undertakes to clear the name of a woman surgeon embroiled in an ever-deepening medical scandal, set against the backdrop of the 1876 World’s Fair, in the riveting next book from the author of Murder by Degrees. The year is 1876 and the World’s Fair has come to Philadelphia...

"Smart material, fresh characters, intricate plot, a thumping success!"—New York Herald Tribune Hardy is a small-time diamond salesman and ex-cop who knows private deals mean trouble. Against his better judgment he decides to help a rich acquaintance find a special diamond for his wife. Saul...

The "Archival Mystery" Beneath the moss-draped cedars of the Kitsap Peninsula, something is waking up. When archivist Amaya Freeman is called to a crumbling Scandia farmhouse, she expects to find dusty records of Norwegian pioneers. Instead, she discovers a hidden cedar chest containing the journals of Dr. Soren Nilsen—a man who vanished in 1947 while tracking a shadow he called Chief Kitsap’s "Red Medicine." From the historic docks of Poulsbo to the rugged Hoh River, Nilsen’s records reveal a terrifying truth: the earth isn’t just soil and stone; it is a sentient ledger.

India und Matt glaubten, sie müssten nur Chronos finden, um all ihre Probleme zu lösen. Doch der Uhrenmagier wirft ebenso viele Fragen auf, wie er beantwortet, und bringt noch dazu Schwierigkeiten mit. Um Matts magische Taschenuhr zu reparieren, brauchen sie das Tagebuch eines vor Jahrzehnten ermordeten Arztmagiers. Die Suche danach führt zu einem schmutzigen Geheimnis, in das zwei von Londons Handwerksgilden verwickelt sind. Als alte und neue Gegner auftauchen und ans Licht kommt, was lange verborgen war, müssen Matt und India besser zusammenarbeiten denn je.

In the midst of the Great Depression, a Los Angeles detective lands a case that seems too good to be true. But his client is connected to a big-budget motion picture, "The Blood Red Sphinx" and the odd mystic behind the production. Can one man make a stand against a web of Hollywood intrigues, or is the world doomed by rising shadows?

How can the mysterious disappearance of Anne Flint in 1816 and the drowning of a young girl in a chalk stream so long ago possibly affect the life of schoolteacher Harry Flint some two centuries later? Having left his job and with a failed marriage behind him, Harry begins to research his...

The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. In Istanbul at a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of...

The weathered remains of Eleanor Gray are found on a Scottish mountainside, and her mother, the domineering Lady Maude Gray, requires delicate treatment. This is a case that will lead Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard to Scotland, where his harrowing journey to find the truth will drag him...

Between 1940 - 41, in Berlin, nine women are killed during the blackouts. One of these is a young girl. Her face is covered in snow and it looks as if she is smiling. This murder differs from the others and detective Johann Braunmann is ordered to solve it. However, he quickly senses that he is...

Featuring a special introduction read by the author, David Baldacci, and read by a full cast, including Stewart Crank, Alexandra Boulton, John Lee, Nicola Delgado, Matthew Lloyd Davies, and Joe Pitts. 'A beautiful read that will linger long in the memory' – Kate Quinn During one of the...

When the dowager receives an unexpected invitation from Queen Victoria herself to attend a grand concert at the Royal Albert Hall, she suspects there’s more at stake than music. A foreign dignitary’s sudden death soon confirms it. Confined to bed after a health scare, a very pregnant Tabitha...

SHERLOCK HOLMES WORKS BESIDE THE GREAT LADY DETECTIVES OF THE VICTORIAN ERA! There was a rich plethora of female sleuths in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, solving mysteries throughout the world at the same time as Sherlock Holmes. Imagine if these sleuths worked together to fight crime and stop master criminals! See Sherlock Holmes partner with Loveday Brooke, Judith Lee, Kitty Winters, Lois Cayley, Ruth the Betrayer and many, many more in FOURTEEN ALL-NEW ADVENTURES!! Edited and with an introduction by Derrick Belanger, BSI.

High-ranking members of England’s socialist movement suspect that Karl Marx’s daughter “Tussy” may be in danger, but can give Holmes no reason as to what kind of danger, or why. Weeks later, Tussy is found dead, an apparent suicide. But why would she bother to change her clothes after drinking cyanide? Why would she leave on her muddy shoes? What happened to the glass and the envelope by her side? Past sins, scandalous relations and smouldering vengeance will all be revealed as Sherlock Holmes unravels the mystery of the Revolutionary’s Daughter!

A twelve-year land war. Two dead lovers. And a map that's been lying longer than anyone's been fighting. California, 1879. When surveyor Silas Thorne is commissioned to draw the definitive boundary between two feuding ranching families in the San Joaquin Valley, the assignment looks straight forward: one meridian line, eight hundred acres of disputed ground, and a territorial judge who wants the matter settled. Then two young lovers from the rival families turn up dead on the disputed strip, and nothing about the valley is what the records claim. A crime measured in inches.

A fiendish, twisty London-set mystery, based on real-life unsolved crime, that sees Holmes and Watson trawl the shabby districts of the East End as they try to uncover who is snatching girls from the streets, and why. It is 15 February 1890, and Doctor Watson receives a summons from his old...

Ottobre 1933. L'LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin proveniente dalla Germania viaggia in direzione di Rio de Janeiro. Se non fosse per un misterioso omicidio che avviene nel cuore della notte. A bordo c'è un funzionario della Kriminalpolizei berlinese, Bruno Brückner, membro del partito nazista in viaggio per una vacanza, che prende in mano le indagini.

A fatal fall. A duchess determined to uncover the truth. And absolutely no time for tea. Fenshire, 1891. It was meant to be a birthday celebration in the country—cucumber sandwiches, polite conversation, and maybe a waltz or two. But when the Duke of Stortford is found dead at the foot of the...

Ghosts from the past have the nasty habit of refusing to stay buried. Returning from an extended stay in Scotland, life for Mikaela and Brodie picks up right back where it left off. Brodie is immediately tasked with a new case for the Agency, while Mikaela must attend a reception for the release...

"The magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in the select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik's skilled hands, comes vividly alive again." —Allen J. Hubin, The New York Times Book Review...