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Ein verschwundener Politiker, eine erschütternde Mordserie und ein Ermittler, für den alles auf dem Spiel steht ... Wien 1923. Die Stadt taumelt zwischen Elend und Hoffnung. Inmitten dieser zerrissenen Welt verschwindet der Politiker und einstige Unterweltboss Veit Kolja spurlos. Für...

Die junge Fotografin Larissa Wood glaubt, endlich das Leben gefunden zu haben, von dem sie immer geträumt hat. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann Ernest reist sie im Auftrag des Reiseunternehmers Thomas Cook nach Ägypten, um die weltberühmten Tempel und Pyramiden zu fotografieren. Als Ernest spurlos in der Wüste verschwindet, bleibt Larissa allein zurück. Zwischen Hoffnung und Verzweiflung fasst sie einen mutigen Entschluss: Sie wird ihren Mann suchen – selbst wenn sie dafür den Gefahren der Wüste, uralten Geheimnissen und ihrem eigenen Schicksal entgegentreten muss.

A murdered clerk. A body at Waterloo. A letter with a deadly secret. London, 1889. In the gloomy Dead Letter Office at St Martin’s Le Grand, young clerk Andrew Peverell spends his days sorting through letters that never found their intended reader. When three anonymous notes cross his desk –...

Both a delightful murder mystery and a comic novel, fired by love and obsession and filled with memorable characters, Hunting Season is a captivating novel from Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series. Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigàta, the...

*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 board, an elite group of...

Knives Out meets Sherlock in the must-read historical murder mystery from the Times bestselling author of The Murder at World's End, for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Tom Hindle and Janice Hallett. London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension. When a policeman is...

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...

In post-WWII Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school and becomes tangled in a web that stretches from the halls of diplomacy to the city's underworld. Paris, 1949. It's been five years since the war ended. The City of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“Fans of historical fiction will thrill to this dark tale.” —Publishers Weekly 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...

June 1887. Dublin is sweltering in an extraordinary heatwave as Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee approaches. Political tensions are rising, the Land War is raging, and Dublin Castle is determined to prevent nationalist unrest from spilling into violence. Then the mutilated bodies of a man and a young boy are discovered in Phoenix Park... Detective Sergeant Joe Swallow of the Dublin Metropolitan Police's elite G Division is called in to investigate.

A forgotten voyage. A forbidden name. A secret that crosses oceans. 1938. Shy nineteen-year-old, Nora O'Brien, leaves behind her life in rural Ireland and boards a ship bound for Australia - carrying little more than a valise and a secret. On board she meets glamorous and unconventional Flo, and...

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...

En barnemorder er på fri fod i Brighton, og kriminalkommissær Stephens tager hul på sin karrieres hidtil sværeste sag. Brighton 1951. Julen nærmer sig, da to forsvundne børn findes myrdet. Ligene er begravet i sneen, omgivet af slik i en morbid efterligning af et gammelt eventyr, og...

Fjärde delen i Sekelskiftesmorden Stockholm, juni 1899. Staden ligger i lummig försommargrönska och snart går folkskoleeleverna på efterlängtad ferie. Men lek och bad väntar inte för alla, många är de barn som i stället måste arbeta för att bidra till familjens skrala kassa –...

A Victorian sleuth Isabella Hartwell, a Gilded Age American heiress whose sharp mind, sharper tongue, and taste for adventure place her at the centre of a deadly aristocratic scandal, returns in her second adventure. London society is still deciding what to make of Isabella Hartwell. She is...