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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A woman survives an attack on a lonely road. The man who assaulted her has a grotesque face and no name. By morning, he is released. Months later, the bodies begin to appear . . . France, 1894. Across the rural south-east, women and shepherd children...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WINNER OF THE SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR What if the only choice you have is no choice at all… Humberto Barbetti is unwilling secretary to the Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo. Mercurial, capricious and ruthless to the core, Trujillo has...

Praise for The Imperial Alchemist “Wang fuses authentic history with genuine momentum—Georgia Lee is a heroine worth following, and this is a confident, fast-moving debut.” —Gary McAvoy, bestselling author of the Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers Some discoveries rewrite history. Others...

'This novel's spell lingers long after it has been cast' Lucy Rose, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamb 'Expect depravity, wickedness, and the shining light of female solidarity' Joanna Miller, bestselling author of The Eights 'Lush, clever and packed with intrigue, this is a totally...

Bloomsbury presents Medici ~ Ascendancy by Matteo Strukul, read by Saul Reichlin. Florence, 1429 Giovanni de' Medici is dead. A lifetime of shrewd investment, strategic alliance and sly manipulation saw Giovanni climb from mere money-lender to the top echelon of Florentine society. But success...

Two sisters. One village desperate for a witch. A truth no record will ever keep. East Anglia, 1645. Civil war has left the villages cold, hungry, and afraid. When a farmer's cow falls sick after a quarrel with a poor widow, suspicion spreads quickly. Someone must be blamed. Someone must be...

Bloomsbury presents The Canary Keeper by Clare Carson, read by Sarah Cullum. 'Historical fiction at its very best' ELLY GRIFFITHS. A Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month. They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of...

Eine Wikinger-Kriegerin und ein versklavter Medicus im Kampf auf Leben und Tod. Dänemark im Jahr 862. Für die junge Wikingerin Gunhild nimmt das große Opferfest am Königshof eine dramatische Wendung: Nach dem abendlichen Festmahl wird der Sohn eines mächtigen Jarls mit durchschnittener Kehle aufgefunden. Daneben liegt Gunhilds Bruder, schlafend, blutverschmiert, die Tatwaffe neben sich. War er der Mörder?

När Ebba Beckman kämpar med sina studier i Göteborg gör hon en märklig upptäckt på vinden i farföräldrarnas hus – en upptäckt som förändrar allt. Plötsligt dras hon in i en historia som varit begravd i familjen i decennier. En gammal inskription leder henne tillbaka till farfar Thore, frukthandlaren som under kriget påstås ha levt ett dubbelliv. Var han en kollaboratör med kopplingar till tyskarna – eller en hjälte inom den norska motståndsrörelsen? Ju mer Ebba gräver i familjens förflutna, desto fler frågor väcks om lojalitet, skuld och svek.

”… enkelt och följsamt språk som är smakfullt anpassat efter tiden den utspelar sig i. Karaktärerna är konsekventa och trovärdiga.” Helhetsbetyg: 4. BTJ Stockholm 1898. Liket av en sjuårig pojke flyter upp i Riddarholmskanalen. Ingen saknar honom, ingen vet vem han är. Ellen Bergman, som med hjälp av före detta ligaflickan Rakel driver Damernas juridikbyrå, börjar intressera sig för pojkens tragiska öde. Samtidigt gräver detektivkonstapel Johan Rådig i fallet trots att hans överordnade, den djupt korrupte kommissarie Berg, säger åt honom att avsluta ärendet.

Some ghosts wear boots. Some just whistle.Guatemala, 1977. Private Diego Morales didn't volunteer for the jungle — nobody in Second Platoon did. But the Petén doesn't care whose idea it was. It swallows roads, swallows silence, and, if the old stories are true, it sends something ahead of the...

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La vicenda di un eccidio di neri, di «negri», durante la Guerra di Secessione. A raccontarla in modo fluviale, trascinante, inarrestabile, l'unico testimone sopravvissuto, Dick Stanton, soldato dell'esercito del Sud, stanato e pungolato in fin di vita da una giovane studentessa che vuole ricostruire la verità. Verità storica e romanzesca, perché Barbero inventa una voce indimenticabile, comica e inaffidabile, logorroica e irritante, dolente e angosciosa, che trascina il lettore in quegli abissi che ancora una volta si sono riaperti.

A basement prison. A city ruled by ancient shadows. And a family hunted by Jimmy Hoffa’s mafia. Detroit, 1962. When ER nurse Georgia Owens vanishes on her way to work, it’s just another disappearance in a city that knows how to forget. But Georgia wasn’t supposed to disappear. The...

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.

London, 1945. The capital is the backdrop for many struggling with demons unleashed by the recent World War. Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the story of a group of squatters, including an ill demobbed soldier, who have set up camp in the Belgravia mansion of her former in-laws Lord and Lady Julian...

In 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew: "Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony.” Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks. What Kathryn doesn’t know...is that her new husband is really James “Bluebeard” Watson, a notorious West Coast serial killer who catfished and married 22 women, murdering 10.

Es 1943 y la neutralidad de Suecia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial está bajo presión. Laura Dahlgren, la brillante y joven mano derecha del negociador jefe del gobierno está al tanto de estas tensiones. Sin embargo, cuando la mejor amiga de Laura de la época universitaria, Britta, es descubierta asesinada a sangre fría, Laura está decidida a encontrar al asesino.

Carrying out wartime patrols from Malta with the famous "Fighting Tenth" Submarine Flotilla, HM Submarine Rugged has orders to disrupt Axis supply convoys. Deep in enemy waters, Rugged encounters deadly mines, depth-charges, and torpedoes! Hunted down by the remorseless destroyers of the Trapani First Eleven, the crew of Rugged, fast running out of oxygen and slowly poisoned by carbon dioxide, must call on every ounce of their reserve if they are to evade the enemy and escape with their lives.

'Brilliantly evoked' SUNDAY TIMES Discover the first medieval adventure in the action-packed Chivalry series! Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden. September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward...