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The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel–written within the framework of historical reality–about Casanova’s fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escaped from the dreaded cells of Venice’s most...

By the three-time winner of the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction: an unforgettable thriller set on post-WWII Iwo Jima In 1947, two years after the surrender of Japan, an American contingent is sent to the devastated island of Iwo Jima. Led by newly-appointed Consul...

THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the Great War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting they form an extraordinary bond that neither privilege nor prejudice...

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

Утром 22 июня 1941 года молодой лётчик летит на биплане У-2 к границе, чтобы передать приказ командующего Западным военным округом генерала Павлова. Это война? Или провокация? Ответа нет, связь потеряна, этим утром никто ничего не знает. Рушатся военные планы, совершают внезапный поворот человеческие жизни.

She came west to escape a scandal. She never expected to find love—or danger. After scandal forces Clarissa Whiting to flee Boston society, she travels to the Arizona Territory with her camera and a determination to start over. In the frontier town of Old Town, she meets Homer McNellis, a rugged rancher determined to protect his land from a powerful railroad baron. When Clarissa discovers evidence that the desert's hidden springs could determine the future of the entire territory, she and Homer become targets of men willing to threaten, deceive, and kill to control the land.

AN ARTIFACT THAT PROMISES WORLD PEACE… BUT AT WHAT COST? Deep within Cambodia's Angkor Wat, a millennia-old secret is waiting to be unleashed —one powerful enough to build empires and now poised to destroy the world.

Na het overlijden van haar ouders moet het vissersmeisje Julie voor haar jongere broers en zusje zorgen. Samen proberen ze stand te houden in een bestaan dat wordt getekend door armoede en ontbering. In oktober wordt de kuststad ingenomen door het Duitse leger. De bewoners kreunen onder bombardementen, voedseltekorten en de strenge hand van de bezetter. Om tijdens die harde oorlogsjaren te overleven, wordt Julie een alsjeblieftmeisje: gedwongen om als prostituee te werken voor de Duitse soldaten.

I died a fortnight ago this coming Thursday. It was a terrifically unpleasant experience—being murdered, I mean to say. Raven Helen Allan has always been haunted by witchcraft. Since the death of her beloved mother, she has soothed herself by speaking words into spells—a proclivity enhanced...

Inspired by the true story of a secret mission taken during World War II, Gunner is the atmospheric, exciting start of a suspenseful new thriller series. March 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines in France. Keeping the pain in his leg at...

From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker longlisted author Belinda Bauer comes this sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years. How do you find something that doesnt exist? 1926. On the cliffs of...

The legendary figure of notorious seventeenth-century Italian poisoner Giulia Tofanathought to be the first female serial killer in historyis brought to life in this feminist retelling. Palermo 1632:Giulia is thirteen when she learns her mother's greatest secret: Teofania makes an undetectable...

*Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023* 'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' – Abir Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the...

le Carr shows his customary mastery in the detailsfrom Jonathan's self-lacerating momentum to the intricacies of interagency turf warsand reveals once again why nobody writes espionage fiction with his kind of authority. Kirkus Reviews In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an...

In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Rome Escape Line. When an unidentified airman falls from the sky, The Choir is plunged into lethal danger, and the survival of the...

This gripping and emotionally riveting tale is a dark and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz, where one little girl is forced to face head-on the prejudices of the Midwest in the late nineteenth century. Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes...

a splendid book [le Carr] is a perfect spy novelist. The New York Times The most autobiographical of John le Carrs works, A Perfect Spy follows two narratives: the manhunt for the double agent Magnus Pym, and the makings of the man in questiontold in his own words. Referred to as le Carrs best...

The best spy novel of all time Publishers Weekly Its the early 1960s, and the newly built Berlin Wall looms large. British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, caught in its shadow, feels the chill all too keenly: the preceding years have seen nearly every member of his Berlin spy network either...

After an unremarkable interview, Circus agent George Smiley determines the subject of a standard security checka civil servant in the Foreign Office named Samuel Fennanposes no threat, nor presents any reason for suspicion of espionage. Hours later, Samuel Fennan is found dead by suicide...