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Dreifacher Thrill - Die Zons-Thriller-Reihe: Band 1 bis 3 jetzt im Sammelband als Hörbuch. "Der Puzzlemörder von Zons" (Band 1): Zons 1495: Eine junge Frau wird geschändet und verstümmelt aufgefunden. Offensichtlich war sie Opfer des Rituals eines perversen Mörders geworden. Bastian Mühlenberg von der Zonser Stadtwache ist geschockt von der Brutalität des Täters und verfolgt seine Spur – nicht ahnend, dass auch er bereits in den Fokus des Puzzlemörders geraten ist...Gegenwart: Die Journalismus-Studentin Emily kann ihr Glück kaum fassen!

Vom Bau bis zum Fall der Berliner Mauer - das Finale der großen deutsch-deutschen Romantrilogie. 1989. Ria hat ihre große Liebe geheiratet und sich als Spionin zur Ruhe gesetzt. Ihre Tochter Annie allerdings ist Teil einer kirchlichen Basisgruppe und will die Wahlfälschung der DDR auffliegen lassen. Da wendet sich ein alter Weggefährte vom BND mit einer Warnung an Ria: Die Stasi will den Aktivisten eine Falle stellen. Um ihre Tochter zu retten, lässt sich Ria unter einer Tarnidentität in das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit einschleusen.

Vom Bau bis zum Fall der Berliner Mauer - das Finale der großen deutsch-deutschen Romantrilogie. 1989. Ria hat ihre große Liebe geheiratet und sich als Spionin zur Ruhe gesetzt. Ihre Tochter Annie allerdings ist Teil einer kirchlichen Basisgruppe und will die Wahlfälschung der DDR auffliegen lassen. Da wendet sich ein alter Weggefährte vom BND mit einer Warnung an Ria: Die Stasi will den Aktivisten eine Falle stellen. Um ihre Tochter zu retten, lässt sich Ria unter einer Tarnidentität in das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit einschleusen.

Repubblica di Weimar, luglio 1932. Gereon Rath, commissario della polizia di Berlino si trova di fronte a un enigma. Un uomo giace morto nel montacarichi del locale Haus Vaterland, il più importante ‘tempio del piacere' della città, che ospita, tra le varie cose, il più grande caffè al mondo. Il mistero si infittisce ancora di più perché la causa della morte sembra essere per annegamento. L'omicidio, avvenuto a Potsdamer Platz, sembra riconducibile a una serie di delitti che porteranno Rath a est, verso la Polonia.

Nell'arco di quattordici racconti a tema investigativo, tinti di screziature noir e ambientazioni storiche estremamente variegate, Riccardo Parigi e Massimo Sozzi ci accompagnano lungo un sentiero misterioso che – in rigorosissimo ordine cronologico – ci porta dalla Toscana settecentesca di "Delitto in agrodolce" fino all'aula di un moderno liceo classico in "Lo stoico perfetto".

England, 1617 Susanna Cobbett, teenage daughter of a powerful Worcester landowner, is found dead in a gloomy woodland pond which has an evil reputation as the Witching Pool. The girl is said to have drowned herself, driven to madness by a local widow named Agnes Mason, who is arrested on a charge of witchcraft. If found guilty, she will hang at the next Assizes. But Justice Belstrang, shrewd ex-magistrate and sceptic, does not believe a word of it. And when Agnes's family beg him to help, he finds himself caught up in an ever-darkening mystery.

1715. Jonas Flynt, ex-soldier and reluctant member of the Company of Rogues, a shady intelligence group run by ruthless spymaster Nathaniel Charters, is ordered to recover a missing document. Its contents could prove devastating in the wrong hands. On her deathbed, the late Queen Anne may have promised the nation to her half-brother James, the Old Pretender, rather than the new king, George I. But the will has been lost. It may decide the fate of the nation.

In einer Sommernacht des Jahres 1941 beobachtet die 18-jährige Sofieke, wie ein Fallschirmagent in den besetzten Niederlanden landet. Der Student Gerhard soll für die Engländer spionieren. Er wird jedoch sofort festgenommen. Gerhard entgeht der Hinrichtung nur, indem er sich zum Schein bereiterklärt, als Doppelagent für die deutsche Spionageabwehr zu arbeiten. Arthur Seyß-Inquart, der mächtigste Nazi in den Niederlanden, ist Gerhards Nennonkel. Seine fröhlich-naive Tochter Dorli zeigt ihm den Palast, in dem sie jetzt wohnt.

Dezember 1948: Wer war Minna Schaade? Als Kriminalkommissar Heinrich Klemmer die grausam zugerichtete Leiche der Medizinerin im Berliner Tiergarten zum ersten Mal erblickt, erkennt er sofort: Ein gewöhnlicher Raubmord war das nicht. Bei seinen Ermittlungen in den Ruinen der Stadt gerät der junge Westpolizist schon bald in ein Netz aus Intrigen – und ins Visier des sowjetischen Geheimdienstes. Heinrichs Vorstöße werden immer leichtsinniger, er ermittelt im Ostsektor und damit auf verbotenem Terrain.

As in The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore tells the tale of another ill-fated ship on Anson’s expedition round the world – the Wager. Parted from her squadron in the fearful storms off Cape Horn, the Wager struggles on alone up the ironbound coast of Chile, before she is driven onto rocks and sinks. The survivors include Jack Byron, a midshipman, and his eccentric protégé Toby, an alarmingly naive surgeon’s mate with a single-minded devotion to zoology.

1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark injuries to her face and her mind, and a man who has recently arrived from America, spend the night together. As the night progresses, the couple discover that their past lives were once entwined in ways they hadn't realised, and that they are linked by a shared past; the eviction of Greenyards, Strathcarron in 1854.

Tim Mason’s gripping new novel finds Inspector Charles Field hunting a ruthless serial killer who is terrorizing Florence Nightingale and her nurses in Crimea in 1855. But when the main suspect turns up dead, Field determines the case is closed. Or is it? Twelve years later in London, amidst the turmoil surrounding the expansion of voting rights, Field discovers a woman’s body, mouth covered by the killer’s signature embroidered rose. Did Field suspect the wrong man before, or is he dealing with a copycat?

Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscow's secret police. But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he is immediately suspicious. Forbidden to travel with his family and trapped on the other side of the world, Leo watches helplessly as events in New York unfold and those closest to his heart are pulled into a web of political conspiracy and betrayal-one that will end in tragedy.

New York, 1800. Three brutal murders. One impossible killer. The police have fingered David Stirling for the crimes, but Lord Muc—feared gang leader in the Five Points—doesn't believe a word of it, and sets out to prove the young man's innocence.

"Когда я начинал трилогию «Христос и Антихрист», мне казалось, что существуют две правды: христианство—правда о небе, и язычество—правда о земле, и в будущем соединении этих двух правд—полнота религиозной истины. Но, кончая, я уже знал, что соединение Христа с Антихристом—кощунственная ложь; я знал, что обе правды—о небе и о земле—уже соединены во Христе Иисусе… Но теперь я также знаю, что мне надо было пройти эту ложь до конца, чтобы увидеть истину."

In a city where belief means everything, putting your faith in the wrong person can get you killed. Two Arkana agents are sent to Jerusalem on a standard artifact retrieval mission. What could possibly go wrong? Absolutely everything.

Giappone, agosto 1946: la Tokyo dell'immediato dopoguerra è una città infestata dai parassiti, piagata dalle epidemie, dissanguata dalla violenza, dalla miseria materiale e immorale e dalla corruzione. Una città occupata da un esercito invasore che agli occhi degli abitanti è simbolo di una bruciante umiliazione e che è destinato a peggiorare ulteriormente le loro condizioni ai limiti della sopravvivenza. Una città modellata a immagine di un girone infernale nella quale si muove uno spietato serial killer.

Corre el año 1892. Argentina es una nación joven, pero se encuentra entre las más pujantes y desarrolladas del mundo. Dos misteriosos agentes de la policía federal llegan al pueblo de Quequén, en la costa atlántica, para ayudar a resolver un crimen. Dos niños han sido degollados y su madre, viva, aunque en estado catatónico, es la única testigo del hecho.

Inside the jar are several scrolls written by the Essenes 2,000 years earlier, before the Great Jewish Revolt, including one legendary scroll engraved on silver that speaks of what may be the great Lost Treasures of Solomon buried around Jerusalem—consistent with the predictions of the fabled Copper Scroll discovered in 1947 near the Dead Sea.

England 1616. Robert Belstrang, ex-magistrate bored with country life, comes to London to investigate the strange disappearance of Thomas Jessop, son of a poor Catholic neighbor. He locates the youth in Bedlam asylum, silent and starving himself. When he tries to free Jessop, he is warned off the case by a politic lawyer, Anstis. Soon after, Belstrang finds himself drugged, robbed and falsely imprisoned. Once released Belstrang persists in his investigation, but he is thwarted at every turn: unseen forces are at work who seemingly want Thomas Jessop to die.