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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Prague Nights by Benjamin Black, read by Sean Barrett. 'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in...

In The Chase Clive Cussler introduces a historical hero- Isaac Bell. 1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody clue to a fortune lost for over forty years . . . 1906: For two years banks across the western United...

Crime, corruption and murder in the back alleys of New York . . . a vicious organisation is terrorising the city and only one man can stop them. Isaac Bell is back in this action-packed historical blockbuster from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler The Black Hand Strikes 1906, New York City...

Heartstone is C. J. Sansom's fifth spellbinding mystery in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series, for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory. 'When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has a serious rival' - Sunday Times ‘Sansom has the trick of...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Cutthroat by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, read by Scott Brick. The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to...

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a...

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime...

It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal.

Nachdem Audrey Rose ihren ersten Fall gelöst hat, hat sie keine andere Wahl, als aus London zu fliehen. Zusammen mit dem arroganten, aber charmanten Thomas Cresswell reist sie nach Rumänien, um dort eine der besten Schulen für Gerichtsmedizin in Europa zu besuchen. Doch in den düsteren Hallen der Schule geschehen blutige Morde, und die Leichen werden ohne einen Tropfen Blut im Körper aufgefunden. Schnell stellt sich die Frage: Ist es ein Nachahmungstäter oder ist Vlad, der Pfähler, der berühmte Graf Dracula, wieder auferstanden? Audreys Ermittlungen lassen ihre schlimmsten Ängste wahr werden.

In 1982, Tobi Sloan is sent to live with her grandparents while her mama tries to get clean. Things on the farm aren't so bad, though. That is, until Tobi meets a boy named Riley, who shares thrilling tales about their quiet little town. He tells her of the Union Hill Bride, who murdered her husband and still wanders the countryside. And there’s the mysterious creature who lives beneath the bridge, feeding on passersby.

Шестнадцатый век. По Италии прокатывается череда трагических происшествий: в разгар семейного торжества совершает самоубийство знатный оккультист, целая семья сожжена вместе с собственным домом, в замке провинциального аристократа жестоко истреблены все обитатели. По слухам, во всех этих несчастьях замешан загадочный чернокнижник, обладатель древнего магического артефакта, способного управлять человеческой душой и рассудком.

Révélation ou apocalypse ? Depuis l'aube de l'humanité, la Citadelle, fort du nord de la Turquie, abrite des communautés de moines, dont l'ordre des Sancti, les " soutanes vertes ". Après avoir été initié à leurs mystérieux sacrements, un jeune moine s'échappe du monastère pour se jeter du haut de la montagne. La scène est filmée par un touriste et projetée sur les chaînes de télévision du monde entier. C'est le début d'une lutte à mort entre la communauté des Sancti et celle des Mala, pour qui l'heure de la prophétie a sonné.

Am 21. Januar 1968 stürzt nahe der Thule-Air-Base der US-Luftwaffe an der Nordwestküste Grönlands ein B-52 Bomber ab. An Bord: vier scharfe Wasserstoffbomben. Es kommt zu Explosionen, aber das Schlimmste bleibt der Welt erspart: zur nuklearen Kettenreaktion kommt es nicht. Doch Schnee und Eis werden in großem Umkreis atomar verseucht. Man schafft Hunderte dänische Arbeiter heran, die ohne ausreichende Schutzkleidung das strahlende Eis beseitigen sollen. Viele erkranken anschließend. Ob alle Bomben vollständig geborgen werden konnten, ist bis heute nicht hundertprozentig sicher.

On Christmas Eve, 1984, two Mexican veterinarian dropouts broke into the Museo Nacional del Antropologia. They stole over one hundred ancient Mayan treasures found in the tomb of K’inich Janaab’ Pakal, a discovery that rivals Tutankhamun in beauty, wealth, and cultural significance. The burglary became known as the El Robo del Siglo: The Theft of the Century.

Cowardice in a legionary carries a heavy punishment: the sentence of decimation—to live or die at the whim of the gods with the unlucky ones clubbed to death by their fellow soldiers. Ursus, the man killed in Quintus's group, lays a heavy charge on the youth, asking him to look after the remaining men and to take care of his family back in Rome.

Rachel and Talia Fontenot are sisters born into brutal, rural poverty of southeastern Louisiana in the 1960s. Raised with one another until tragic circumstances intervene and they are separated. Talia disappearing into a life of drugs and petty crime, Rachel fleeing to New Orleans. It is now present day and Talia has been missing for many years. Rachel in New Orleans is living what appears to be the perfect life, but underneath she is struggling with constant anxiety, prescription drug abuse and tremendous grief over the loss of her missing sister.

État de Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, 29 ans, est docker. Intelligent, loyal et réservé, il n'a jamais vraiment trouvé sa place au sein du clan des Irlandais qui règne sur une partie de la ville. Son rêve : fuir loin de cet endroit où il n'a pas d'avenir. Mais lorsque Paulie Moretti, mafieux d'une famille italienne jusque-là amie, s'affiche avec sa nouvelle conquête, Hélène de Troie des temps modernes, Danny se retrouve mêlé à une guerre sans merci à laquelle il ne peut échapper.

When the woodcutter's only daughter is murdered, the bailiff tries to arrest Bertwoin the Plowman, who flees to a master alchemist and his professional virgin, Flowia, for help. Bertwoin must find the brutal killer while the grieving woodcutter, the relentless bailiff, and righteous monks pursue him. His search for clues takes him to the corpse room inside an abbey, to a torture pit near the Devil’s Doorstep, and to the accursed home of a heretic priest.

Key Murphy is a freak, a prodigy. He has visions so real he’s diagnosed with PTSD. Key learns that his visions might be caused by a mutated gene which allows him to experience the memories of an ancestor. Key also has a family link to The Book of Kells. Pages from the book were stolen in Ireland in the distant past. Those pages are believed to contain a fundamental secret of Christendom.

It’s a sunny, lazy day in autumn. A new bronze plaque, with the names of Barrachois’ Second World War dead, is being mounted on the side of the city cenotaph. A chain gives way; the heavy plaque swings wildly and strikes the cenotaph, piercing its stone wall. Standing inside the monument is a mummified corpse, dressed in a lawyer’s gown. Inside the pockets of the victim are newspaper clippings, clues the murderer has left twenty years earlier. Why?

Zürich, im Oktober 1919: Die junge Witwe Josephine, deren soeben verstorbener Mann eine "Auskunftsstelle für vermisste Personen" betrieben hat, in dem auch sie tätig war, steht vor dem Nichts. Als sie am Abend nach der Beerdigung im verwaisten Büro überlegt, dieses aufzulösen, stürmt eine Frau herein und beauftragt sie mit der Suche nach ihrer verschwundenen Freundin. Diese ist Tänzerin im Cabaret Voltaire, der Wiege der DADA-Bewegung, wo auch die Auftraggeberin als Künstlerin arbeitet. Eigentlich will Josephine den Auftrag ablehnen.

AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR A tightly plotted page-turner ripped from the headlines of history, as three very different women must work together to stop a killer and save the truest home they've ever known. Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life. “I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective I’ve...

A dazzling collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories, which sees the detective solving fiendish crimes, many involving methods beloved of Victorian murderers, poison by arsenic or cyanide, or even by venomous arachnids and reptiles. The colourful cast of characters includes villains bent on vengeance, traitorous revolutionaries, unfaithful and greedy wives wishing to rid themselves of their husbands, unfaithful and greedy husbands ditto, gullible widows, charming seducers, and captivating con artists out to fleece the innocent.

En el crudo diciembre de 1905, Enrique Maldonado, propietario de las tierras del municipio salamantino de Boada y cacique local, aparece brutalmente apuñalado en las afueras del pueblo. Los vecinos son los principales sospechosos de haberle dado muerte y Unamuno, que escribió un artículo incendiario para denunciar las condiciones de vida de los campesinos boadenses, decide investigar el crimen con la ayuda de Manuel Rivera, abogado defensor de los detenidos, y Teresa Maragall, una misteriosa anarquista.

Tras su precipitado matrimonio con Octave de Fonneuve, Aldara, refugiada de la Guerra Civil, llega al Domaine de Clair de Lune, una imponente bodega de Borgoña. Cuando estalla la guerra en Francia, su marido cae prisionero y la deja sola frente a los recelos de su suegro, el acoso de su cuñado y la ocupación alemana.

Welcome to the Jungle—The Curse of Clark, Texas is a true-crime thriller based on real, actual events. While certain characters, names, incidents, locations, and dialogue have been fictionalized for dramatic effect—what has not been fictionalized is that in 1980-something, tragedy struck one of the most affluent high-schools in the state of Texas. Was Tom C. Clark High School in San Antonio, Texas cursed?

Em 1770, a invenção da máquina de fiar inaugura uma nova era na indústria da tecelagem. Na Inglaterra, um governo despótico está determinado a fazer do país um poderoso império comercial. No entanto, ao mesmo tempo que a capacidade de produção se multiplica, os perigosos equipamentos recém-inventados tornam alguns empregos obsoletos e destroem famílias.

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in war-torn Germany. The war is over. But there are still secrets to be found amidst the ashes . . . Hamburg, 1946 The war is over, and Germany is in ruins. Posted to an Allied-run Hamburg, reporter Georgie Young...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb...