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England, 1940: Farmer John Cook finds his train stopped at gunpoint by men posing as Home Guard officers. As Cook confronts them, two men escape into the surrounding trees, carrying mysterious suitcases. Lady Margaret is tasked with deploying Land Girls to local farms to aid the war effort. But...

À Narbonne, un chasseur de trésors est retrouvé assassiné chez lui, le crâne fracassé. La veille, il avait confié à Pierre Cavaignac et Marjolaine Karadec, archéologues et francs-maçons, un extraordinaire rouleau de cuivre gravé en araméen et en grec ancien. Cavaignac et Karadec...

Wanneer Dr. Molly Whitcomb naar Colorado verhuist, verbergt ze een geheim dat de reputatie van de Sheriff op het spel zet en de rust in Timber Ridge bedreigt. Deel 2 van 3.

Blut verlangt nach Blut. Und Rache kennt kein Gesetz. Britannien, 46 n. Chr. Eine Gruppe Rebellen treibt ihr Unwesen im Nordosten des Landes und überfällt die römischen Nachschublinien. Maximus und Brutus sollen dem ein Ende setzen, doch die Jagd fordert einen unvorstellbar hohen Preis. Ein grausamer Schlag trifft die Legion ins Herz und verwandelt ihren besten Krieger in eine Bestie.

Philadelphia, 1778. The British are watching, the French have arrived, and freedom is still a rumor. Claire Valois-widowed, fluent, almost invisible-steps ashore with a sewing basket and a deadlier cargo: messages written in lemon ink, meant for General Washington's spies and Rochambeau's officers. Her nerve and quiet brilliance pull her through candlelit taverns, Loyalist parlors, and river crossings where one wrong glance can end a war-or a life. Shadowing her is Captain Edward Ashford, a British dragoon who prides himself on restraint and never misses a seam.

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...

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.

Le commissaire impérial Antoine de Barjac et l'illusionniste Louis Comte sont envoyés dans les Combrailles pour enquêter sur la mystérieuse disparition de nombreux conscrits, sur fond de légendes locales terrifiantes. Au cœur de cette région reculée, ils devront affronter des forces maléfiques et une menace invisible susceptible d'ébranler les fondements de l'Empire.

They built something the world had never seen. Then the world came for them. Hold on for Dear Life is the story about three friends who set out to fix the global financial system and nearly destroyed themselves in the process. Set in 2017, it details the peak of the ICO crypto world. HODL is the crypto world's term for holding on through the crash. It is a novel about idealism tested by success, about the specific cost of visibility, and about what you choose to hold when everything else falls away.

Klim Rogov, a celebrated radio anchorman, never imagined he’d be treated like royalty in the Soviet Union when he arrived in 1927. But his assignment as a United Press correspondent in Moscow gives him access to the country’s most dangerous and powerful circles. Klim isn’t here for the champagne and privilege that ordinary Russians can only dream of. He’s here for Nina, his wife, who was kidnapped by Bolshevik agents. Every day in Moscow is a tightrope walk: one wrong word, one wrong look, and he could be branded a spy, condemned in a show trial, and lose Nina forever.

The Wild Ruins, a new Hemlock Press book, full description to follow when available...

History buried the truth. She's about to unearth it. When a forgotten ship's log is discovered in a dusty attic on Long Island, law student Katelynn Kittle stumbles into a mystery three centuries in the making. The journal—filled with strange symbols, brittle maps, and an undecipherable cipher—pulls her into the orbit of cryptologists Mia Hamilton and Dr. Adler Kein, whose work once exposed the secrets of the Custodes Veritatis.

Fl. 1700The tides of fate demand blood. Sybil's entire life was spent scraping the bottom of the barrel, sneaking scraps, and making do with what little money her brother Walter could smuggle back to London from Nassau. But as time passes and the last delivery from her brother becomes more distant, she soon realizes that she might finally be on her own. With nowhere left to go she ventures out across the ocean, desperately hoping to retrace her brother's footsteps.