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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...

When war changes the world, her courage stands strong Rosie Gallagher has always dreamed of being a conductress on Edinburgh’s trams, and when WW2 calls the men away, she finally gets her chance. Rosie finds friendship among her fellow clippies as they settle into their new jobs, even as they...

In 1577 England, Abraham Fleming, a disgraced Cambridge scholar, travels to the fog-shrouded village of Bungay to prove the existence of a mythological beast known as the Black Shuck. He collides with Edward Tanner, a cynical spy for the Crown, and Samuel, a haunted member of a secret order, who are investigating the same string of brutal, seemingly supernatural killings.

When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding—and whether it's part of a plot against the king. They soon learn it is not the first bloodless boy to have been discovered.

Le roi et Colbert sont forcés de faire appel aux inspecteurs Torsac et Laruche pour mettre un terme à une épidémie de morts inexpliquées. Quitte à ce que ceux-ci empiètent sur le territoire de la police de Versailles... Savent-ils qu'ils viennent de lancer la première « guerre des...

"You will be hooked from the first chapter and enjoy every line . . . a superb novel." —Sunday Express Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory, a hopeless war is being fought. The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling...

The seventh novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series—the inspiration for the Disney+ original series Shardlake! Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos... The king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of...

Lemuria: an annual event when householders in Ancient Rome drive the spirits of the dead from their homes by shouting 'Ghosts of our fathers and ancestors be gone!' and clanging metal pots with sticks and utensils. Flavia Albia and her husband Tiberius Manlius have lived in their house for less...

A burned-out American dropout turned rising star, he plays the clubs under the name VESPER and composes with the help of MUSES, a superintelligent AI that finishes his hooks before he can think them. Then, one night in the small hours, the machine tells him something no machine should know: that Napoleon Bonaparte begged with his dying breath to be buried on the banks of the Seine, that he lies instead in the wrong grave a mile from the water, and that the Emperor will never rest until someone carries him home to the river.

He knelt. He wrote. And then—silence. For two thousand years, one moment in the New Testament has defied explanation: what did Jesus write in the dust when He saved a woman from stoning? Not the disciples. Not the Gospels. Not the Church itself. Father Ryan Latham, a modern-day priest, has found something impossible—an ancient, authenticated eyewitness manuscript that may finally point toward the answer. But the discovery is only the beginning.

When medical journalist Theo Croft arrives in Scotland to film a documentary on the tuberculosis pandemic, he soon finds himself in the sleepy village of Salen, where nineteenth century inhabitants mistook the disease for vampirism. As Theo and his film crew slowly unravel the truth behind the...

Belfast, 1991. The Troubles In a city built on secrets, knowing who someone really is can mean the difference between life and death. As the Troubles grind on, fear and suspicion stalk every street. Informers linger in the shadows. Behind closed doors, collusion thrives as loyalty and violence collide. Detective Harry Burnard and his ragtag unit of misfits, rejects and damaged souls in The Squad have survived bombs, betrayals, biscuits and one another. In There Are No Happy Endings, one final case lands on their desk.

A forgotten correspondence. An obscure pirate. A race no one saw coming. Some discoveries rewrite history. Some discoveries rewrite lives. Some do both. Paul Anderson is a restless history PhD student facing the prospect of a bland, but safe, academic career.

Fins on series capaç d'arribar per venjar la teva família? Quan l'any 1871 la intrèpida i arruïnada Philomela Drax rep una carta del seu avi en què li confessa que tem per la seva vida a causa d'una família sense escrúpols, els Slape, no dubta a acudir a ajudar-lo. Comença aleshores una persecució desenfrenada, des dels carrers polsegosos d'un poble de Nova Jersey fins a les voreres resplendents de Saratoga, passant pels molls de Nova York.

His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground are legendary throughout London. He solves cases with the able assistance of his close friend and confidant. And, one day, he will become the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Meet Professor James Moriarty - consulting criminal.

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.

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece. A MASON WITH A DREAM 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his...

A murdered heiress. Missing jewels. A killer hidden among the passengers. When wealthy American heiress Flossie Halliday boards the Plymouth Express carrying a fortune in precious jewels, she expects nothing more than an ordinary journey. Instead, her body is discovered concealed beneath a train...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY BY THE NEW YORK TIMES WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE On November 22, 1963, three...

Narrated by Samantha Bond Don’t miss Magpie Murders on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery! ""A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers."" —Janet Maslin, New York Times New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best...