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LA, 1946. Private eyes Katherine "Kit" Comfort and Henry Richman, operators of the struggling Comfort & Company detective agency, have their hands full when a simple missing person case turns into a deadly clash with traitors and killers. While trying to locate a wayward army doctor, notorious ex-cop Henry and his ambitious young partner Kit become entangled with both a Nazi underground and the government agents who are stalking them.

AudioFile Earphones Award Winner As she did with The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code, Saskia Maarleveld’s nuanced narration brings to life every character in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse in New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn’s haunting and powerful story of female friendships and...

Rome, once mighty, lies in ruins. The city swarms with suffering and degradation, her citizens living in the shadow of the ruthless Borgia family. Only one man can free the people from the Borgia tyranny - Ezio Auditore, the master assassin.

Ezio's quest will test him to his limits. Cesare Borgia, a man more villainous and dangerous than his father, the Pope, will not rest until he has conquered Italy. And in such treacherous times, conspiracy is everywhere - even within the ranks of the Brotherhood itself.

London 1893, Gordon Wigfield, ein ehrbarer Goldschmied und Damenfreund wurde in seiner Werkstatt auf bestialische Weise ermordet. Chief Inspector Donald Sutherland Swanson nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Doch es bleibt nicht bei einer Leiche. Die Nachforschungen führen Swanson schließlich in die höchsten Kreise der Gesellschaft. Welche Rolle spielen Oscar Wilde und sein Geliebter Lord Douglas? Und was weiß Arthur Conan Doyle?

A razor-sharp, mind-bendingly clever whodunnit from award-winning playwright and actor, Toby Schmitz. Everyone is in peril. Everyone is a suspect. It’s 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing, New York-bound, with a full manifest of passengers. When a dead...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER now in a 7 1/2 anniversary edition with new work from Stuart Turton outlining how he wrote one of the most mind-bending mysteries of all time. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race to find a killer, with an...

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.

La misteriosa reliquia que la restauradora de arte Marta Arbide entregó al Vaticano ha sido robada. Cuando recibe la noticia de que debe ser ella quien encabece la investigación para recuperarla, siente que la aventura y el misterio que la pusieron al límite en La luz invisible no han hecho más que comenzar. Y así es: el mismo día que Marta llega a Roma para comenzar sus pesquisas, el Papa es asesinado.

Ein Papyrus aus der Zeit Kleopatras beschreibt den Tod der Königin – und verrät nebenbei, wo Alexander der Große begraben liegt. In einem Grab, das seit über zweitausend Jahren als verschollen gilt und angeblich einen unschätzbaren Schatz birgt. Elizabeth Harker schickt das Team von...

Ein Schwert, das seit 1945 verschollen ist. Ein Auftraggeber, der alles dafür zahlt. Und eine Spur, die schon vor Jahrhunderten mit Blut gelegt wurde. Das PROJECT steht nicht länger unter dem Schutz des Präsidenten. Elizabeth Harker und ihr Team arbeiten heute als exklusiver Beratungsdienst...

Łódź 1967. W oczach tych, którzy znają Zenobię, jest ona kochającą matką, przykładną żoną i wspaniałą szefową. Czy to możliwe, że kiedyś jej otoczenie miało o niej jak najgorszą opinię? Nowy, młody współpracownik w fabryce włókienniczej wydaje się Zenobii znajomy, lecz kobieta nie potrafi sobie przypomnieć, gdzie i kiedy mogła go poznać.

Latem 1941 roku Niemcy zajmują dawne województwo stanisławowskie. Rodzina Szymańskich zostaje rozbita. Uznana za winną zdrady i spiskowania z wrogiem Łucja znajduje się na zesłaniu w ZSRR, Aldona pnie się w górę w hierarchii partii bolszewickiej, Konstancja zaś walczy o przetrwanie w getcie w Stanisławowie.

Wartime secrets. A modern killer. In Pamplona, you can’t outrun the past. In this pulse-pounding sequel to the award-winning Born of Bombs and Bullets, FBI psychologist Aaron Thornton returns to Europe to help British and Spanish authorities stop a terror attack. An informant has learned...

Sometimes, marriage is the best place to hide a secret When young Londoner Cleo Clark impetuously agrees to marry wealthy American widower, Lewis Martindale III, she finds herself transported to his mansion on Long Island's Gold Coast. Thrust into New York's glittering high society, Cleo becomes...

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...

Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort.

When a guest is murdered at her star-studded party, a woman becomes the prime suspect…again. To clear her name, she must finally confront what happened thirty years ago—the unsolved murder that made her a tabloid sensation and the famous friends who may have framed her—in this twisty...

He’s ex-Special Forces. They’re movie star elite. There is just one mission – save D-Day Dover, 1943. Suffering from undiagnosed battle fatigue, Chief Inspector Alex Sutherland is sent by Scotland Yard to find a killer. He unearths a world of black marketeering, clandestine tunnels and...

It's October 21st, 1888, in the city of London. Three men plan to rob a jewelry store. Tum, Lionel, and Tiny Tim. The goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible and get safely back to the hideout in Whitechapel. Between them they have one lockpick, one crutch, and almost no relevant...

Arthur Brown has killed for money, survived every gunfight, and earned a reputation as the fastest gun in the West.Then he falls in love with the daughter of the man he's been hired to destroy.Daniel Jacobs wants Jed McBride's ranch—and he's willing to pay Arthur to drive the stubborn rancher...