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A missing shipment of weapons for China and the murder of an aspiring scientist kickstart a madcap dash through the world of seances, prizefighting, cutting-edge technology, Holmesian cameos, and many disguises. London, 1924. Judge Cheng Gao Shang has been sent by Sun Yat Sen’s government to...

Amateur sleuth Charles Lenox investigates the murder of a Parliament member, moving through the glamorous high society of Victorian London in the next novel from acclaimed author Charles Finch. In the spring of 1881, Lenox is caught up in the whirl of London life when his brother arrives to tell...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1890. London wird von einer Serie grausamer Morde heimgesucht. Zwischen den Opfern existiert keine Beziehung. Die einzige Gemeinsamkeit ist der Fundort der Leichen – nämlich das Themseufer. Scotland Yard ist ratlos und bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe. Wird es Holmes und Dr. Watson gelingen, den Mörder zu überführen, bevor dieser erneut zuschlägt?

Agatha Christie's cherished housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, not only keeps the celebrated author's home running smoothly, but she has also proven herself an accomplished sleuth. So when a murderer brings mayhem to a wedding, in this USA Today bestselling series' latest installment, she's on hand...

“An exciting . . . riveting tale of one woman's stand against empire.” —Anna Rasche, bestselling author of The Stone Witch of Florence A case of missing noble women and a determined young warrior who sets out to bring them home in this new and exciting ancient historical set just before...

Brought to you by Penguin. *A perfect cozy mystery to curl up with this Christmas* A luxury party sets sail on New Year's Day. But festivities will take a deadly turn… New Year’s Day 1939. The luxurious ocean liner The Midnight Star is partway through its voyage from London to New York. On...

Brought to you by Penguin. The irresistible sequel to The Murder at World's End, where beloved detective duo, Stockingham & Pike, must catch a killer in a city teetering on chaos. London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension. When a policeman is found...

Sarah Waters meets The Terror in this twisty, chilling historical polar gothic for fans of Michelle Paver and Emma Stonex. 'True Gothic: twisty, unreliable, and full of forbidden joys ... a brilliantly queer, brilliantly playful successor to The Terror' NATASHA PULLEY, bestselling author of THE...

Berlin, 1942. Clara Vine, the Anglo-German actress, is working undercover in Germany as an agent of British intelligence. During a hiatus in the filming of Goebbels’ latest propaganda film, the Sinking of the Titanic, she is covertly approached and asked to track down an errant British spy...

As an assistant in a busy London morgue, Leonora Spencer is accustomed to death. But she is astonished when a woman who has been declared dead and delivered to an undertaker is discovered to still be very much alive. Even more revolting is the scheme Leo and Detective Inspector Jasper Reid...

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as being dragged into a spy mission isn't going to stop them! Sparks fly when an old friend comes to town . . . London...

In this festive whodunit, set in a cozy snowed-in country-house, an innocent mystery game goes horribly wrong, leaving the real-life couple who invented the game Clue to solve a real murder. "A perfect Christmas crime story." —Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of the Dr. Ruth Galloway series...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dinner for Vampires, Bethany Joy Lenz, comes a romantic psychological suspense set in Victorian-era London amidst the Jack the Ripper murders. 1880s London. Cora Wexford is alone at thirty-eight, with secrets that drove her to flee life in America...

In 1904 Chicago, where secrets cling as thickly as the soot on every windowsill, Jo earns her living by photographing the dead. The work is quiet and cloistered, allowing her to hide from a past that haunts her: the grief over her husband’s mysterious death, a spiraling addiction, and the guilt she carries over the things she’s done to survive.

It is an hour of desperate need for St. Frideswide's. Thrust into financial ruin by the incompetence and corruption of their former prioress, the nuns have become trapped under the thumb of Abbott Gilberd as he pries into every possible corner of the priory's life. In an effort to escape their desperate straits, Dame Frevisse is forced to journey to London in order to seek both a new prioress and financial aid for her beleaguered sisters.

From the bestselling author of The Vanishing of Margaret Small and The Lost Past of Billy McQueen comes The Librarian's Secret - a sweeping and compulsive dual-timeline mystery about the secrets that bind us and the courage required to face the truth. Perfect for fans of Laura Pearson, Evie...

It's 1966 and Queen Elizabeth II is touring the Caribbean aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. Her schedule is measured in ten-minute increments for five weeks, and nothing can afford to go wrong. But something does. Early in the trip, the Queen's new diary secretary, Pamela Sinclair, is found dead...

Fjärde delen i Sekelskiftesmorden Stockholm, juni 1899. Staden ligger i lummig försommargrönska och snart ska alla folkskoleelever gå på efterlängtad ferie. Men ledighet med lek och bad väntar inte för alla barn, många är de som i stället förväntas arbeta för att bidra till...

Stockholm, Silvester 1895/96: In der klirrenden Kälte der Neujahrsnacht entdeckt die junge Näherin Hildur die Leiche einer Frau im Hinterhof ihres Mietshauses – neben ihr ein toter Fötus. Die Tote ist Emma Josefina, gerade einmal 16 Jahre alt und Dienstmädchen im Haushalt des angesehenen Bauherrn Johan Henrik Creutz. Hildur kann das grausame Bild der jungen Toten nicht vergessen. Gemeinsam mit drei Mitbewohnerinnen – der wohlhabenden Witwe Olga, deren Dienstmädchen Edit und der scharfsinnigen Vollwaise Fredrika – beginnt sie, Fragen zu stellen, die niemand hören will.

Stockholm, Silvester 1895/96: In der klirrenden Kälte der Neujahrsnacht entdeckt die junge Näherin Hildur die Leiche einer Frau im Hinterhof ihres Mietshauses – neben ihr ein toter Fötus. Die Tote ist Emma Josefina, gerade einmal 16 Jahre alt und Dienstmädchen im Haushalt des angesehenen Bauherrn Johan Henrik Creutz. Hildur kann das grausame Bild der jungen Toten nicht vergessen. Gemeinsam mit drei Mitbewohnerinnen – der wohlhabenden Witwe Olga, deren Dienstmädchen Edit und der scharfsinnigen Vollwaise Fredrika – beginnt sie, Fragen zu stellen, die niemand hören will.