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Da Tyskland invaderer Polen i 1939, befinder Marta og hendes spejdertrop sig på et meget prekært sted, tæt på grænsen, og det eneste hendes far kan finde på, er at sørge for at hun straks bliver bragt i sikkerhed i et kloster langt fra Warszawa. Hvad faderen naturligvis ikke havde drømt om, er, at intet sted i Polen er sikkert, og da slet ikke for datteren af en officer. Der går ikke mange måneder, før Hitlers nye "ven", Stalin, begynder at sende potentielle modstandere i arbejdslejr, og kan man ikke få fat i officeren, må man nøjes med datteren.

Antes de El hedor de la verdad, hubo una historia. Una historia en la que la lucha entre el bien y el mal comenzó a tomar forma y dejó una cicatriz imposible de borrar. Es ahí donde nació la grieta en el alma de Néstor. La herida que lo empujó, paso a paso, hacia el camino de los asesinos en serie.

John le Carré meets Robert Harris, with this business-and-moral-dilemma dimension of a corporate geopolitical thriller. ★★★★★ “An exciting novel that feels like a genre of its own – entertaining, thought-provoking, and beautifully written. I was hooked from page one.” August...

Desoto, Georgia is a quiet, out of-the-way place — a town where nothing of real significance ever seems to happen. At least not until a local farm boy has an unlikely encounter with a Russian spy. With the Cuban Missile Crisis looming, seventeen-year-old Haskell Hand is going through a rough patch. He’s grieving the death of his mother and contending with his father’s ever-worsening alcohol addiction. And if that weren’t enough, he’s embroiled in a feud with his twin brother, a disabled recluse known for his caustic personality and uncanny intellect.

An exciting reissue of Rupert Holmes’s sophomore mystery novel, Swing—hailed as “imaginative, smart, and impressively elaborate” (The New York Times)—irresistibly repackaged in the vein of his breakout bestseller, Murder Your Employer. Jazz saxophonist and arranger Ray Sherwood...

Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a post-war world. Now a Scotland Yard detective, Rutledge is called upon to probe a murder in the...

The weathered remains of Eleanor Gray are found on a Scottish mountainside, and her mother, the domineering Lady Maude Gray, requires delicate treatment. This is a case that will lead Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard to Scotland, where his harrowing journey to find the truth will drag him...

The New York Times best-selling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense.

Ghost Station is a tense thriller about espionage, cryptography, and paranoia, set in the earliest days of the Berlin Wall. Can Reed trust Longshore? His boss? His lover? Can he find the truth behind the lies - or will Berlin become ground zero for a world-ending war?

The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver", is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long absent. His comrade-in-arms Hudson Greathouse has an increasing sense the young friend he thinks of as a son must have met with some unexpected peril.

The year is 1703. The place: The Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional 'problem solver,' has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: Escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation.

The Providence Rider is the fourth installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter with notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter. When an unexplained series of explosions rocks his Manhattan neighborhood, Matthew finds himself forced to confront a new and unexpected problem. Someone is trying - and trying very hard - to get his attention.

It is still the War of 1812 and Jack Aubrey - with his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin - has set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them.

“Beautifully written—menace drips from every page.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author A “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep! A trio of mismatched mercenaries—Micah Shughrue...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain, commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of his early days.... A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek islands. All his old skills of seamanship - and luck when fighting against odds - come triumphantly into their own as the story concludes with some fierce and thrilling action.

'This is right up there with the best of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor' – Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks...

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.

Historische Kurz-Krimis Mord und Diebstahl - ja schon ... Aber damals waren die Verhältnisse ganz anders als heute. Oder doch nicht? 1072 in Cornwall rettet die junge Caitlin ihr Erbe vor den normannischen Eroberern. 1795 bestraft in Paris der Gendarm Michel eigenhändig einen betrügerischen...

On the wild west coast of Ireland, a neolithic burial chamber is uncovered. Inside, and perfectly preserved, is the image of a fabled Nemean lion and its cub drinking from a bubbling fountain of pure fire. The image matched the one found on an ancient scroll that warned of a Celtic Prophecy. It foretold of an approaching disaster of unimaginable scale hurtling toward the modern world… Sam Reilly needs to solve the Celtic Prophecy and find the fabled Nemean Lions, whose secret may be the only thing that can save his life.