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It's May 1643, and the Royalist cause is reeling. In the bloody aftermath of Sourton Down, Captain Stryker and his men are retreating across the wild borderlands of Dartmoor – fighting just to survive. Then Stryker captures a Parliamentarian ammunition wagon from under the nose of ruthless...

A year ago, twenty-first-century detective Mallory found herself in 1869 Edinburgh, in the body of Catriona Mitchell, a housemaid working for Dr. Duncan Gray, pioneer in forensic science. Shortly after she arrived, she made the unfortunate acquaintance of Catriona’s former criminal mentor, Davina, an entanglement that nearly got Mallory killed. Now she’s about to meet Davina again.

Las leyes que vigilaban el tráfico ilegal de antigüedades precolombinas y restos arqueológicos no eran excesivamente severas en Colombia a principios del siglo XX, así que no es extraño que Jaime Mercader, sin demasiados escrúpulos para rozar la ilegalidad, intentase sacar provecho de ello uniéndose al próspero negocio de su padre. Lo que no podía imaginar es que el descubrimiento de una curiosa piedra inca los llevase a vivir una de las más extrañas aventuras de su vida.

A swashbuckling triumph of storytelling, Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island. John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, his charisma...

Soon to be a new Netflix drama series starring Mia McKenna-Bruce “It’s odd, isn’t it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?” In the sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, Superintendent Battle must solve a practical joke gone horribly wrong. Gerald Wade is among the many...

Continuing the epic historical adventure series from Richard Cullen, featuring The Black Lion. Perfect for the fans of Bernard Cornwell, Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden. For one knight, there is no rest. Northern France, 1225AD. Peace reigns across the kingdom. With no wars left to fight, ambitious...

From New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry, writing with William Nikkel, comes a new Luke Daniels adventure. Magellan Billet agent Luke Daniels has been called to Washington, D.C., by his uncle, former president, now U.S. Senator, Danny Daniels. Something bad is brewing. Senator...

There will be people on your heels wherever you go in this territory unless you make your way out west and vanish . . . In the blistering heat of 1880s Colorado, Madigan Conner went running from her loveless marriage and towards her freedom. But her husband Dallas Lancaster is a notorious outlaw...

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...

In 1577 England, Abraham Fleming, a disgraced Cambridge scholar, travels to the fog-shrouded village of Bungay to prove the existence of a mythological beast known as the Black Shuck. He collides with Edward Tanner, a cynical spy for the Crown, and Samuel, a haunted member of a secret order, who are investigating the same string of brutal, seemingly supernatural killings.

When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding—and whether it's part of a plot against the king. They soon learn it is not the first bloodless boy to have been discovered.

Le roi et Colbert sont forcés de faire appel aux inspecteurs Torsac et Laruche pour mettre un terme à une épidémie de morts inexpliquées. Quitte à ce que ceux-ci empiètent sur le territoire de la police de Versailles... Savent-ils qu'ils viennent de lancer la première « guerre des...

Lemuria: an annual event when householders in Ancient Rome drive the spirits of the dead from their homes by shouting 'Ghosts of our fathers and ancestors be gone!' and clanging metal pots with sticks and utensils. Flavia Albia and her husband Tiberius Manlius have lived in their house for less...

A burned-out American dropout turned rising star, he plays the clubs under the name VESPER and composes with the help of MUSES, a superintelligent AI that finishes his hooks before he can think them. Then, one night in the small hours, the machine tells him something no machine should know: that Napoleon Bonaparte begged with his dying breath to be buried on the banks of the Seine, that he lies instead in the wrong grave a mile from the water, and that the Emperor will never rest until someone carries him home to the river.

He knelt. He wrote. And then—silence. For two thousand years, one moment in the New Testament has defied explanation: what did Jesus write in the dust when He saved a woman from stoning? Not the disciples. Not the Gospels. Not the Church itself. Father Ryan Latham, a modern-day priest, has found something impossible—an ancient, authenticated eyewitness manuscript that may finally point toward the answer. But the discovery is only the beginning.

When medical journalist Theo Croft arrives in Scotland to film a documentary on the tuberculosis pandemic, he soon finds himself in the sleepy village of Salen, where nineteenth century inhabitants mistook the disease for vampirism. As Theo and his film crew slowly unravel the truth behind the...

SOLA Jennifer Lavender fue una niña solitaria. Siempre se sintió en segundo lugar y ansiaba desesperadamente el amor de sus padres. Cuando se entera de que fue adoptada, todo encaja. Pero su sueño de encontrar a su verdadera familia nunca podrá cumplirse: su madre murió sola al dar a luz...

Belfast, 1991. The Troubles In a city built on secrets, knowing who someone really is can mean the difference between life and death. As the Troubles grind on, fear and suspicion stalk every street. Informers linger in the shadows. Behind closed doors, collusion thrives as loyalty and violence collide. Detective Harry Burnard and his ragtag unit of misfits, rejects and damaged souls in The Squad have survived bombs, betrayals, biscuits and one another. In There Are No Happy Endings, one final case lands on their desk.

A forgotten correspondence. An obscure pirate. A race no one saw coming. Some discoveries rewrite history. Some discoveries rewrite lives. Some do both. Paul Anderson is a restless history PhD student facing the prospect of a bland, but safe, academic career. When he uncovers lost correspondence...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3:14 in the morning. Evolutionary biologist Thomas Wren is staring at a watch that should not exist. It arrived without a return address. Engraved inside the case: C.D. H.M.S. Beagle. 1831. The teeth of its escape wheel have...