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From the superb Jeffrey Archer, The Prodigal Daughter is the magnificent story of love and politics. It is the enthralling sequel to the global phenomenon Kane and Abel, described by The Times as a 'classic novel of modern literature'. Hers was the ultimate ambition . . . The titanic battle...

The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author City of Vengeance is an explosive debut novel in an historical thriller series by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence. 'An impressive and immersive debut set in a beautifully realized sixteenth-century Florence' – Antonia...

Immersed in the underbelly of the theatre world in the gritty streets of Sydney in 1973, this addictive debut will have you wondering just how dangerous ambition – and love – can be. It’s opening night. The stage is set, the houselights have dimmed and the handsome male lead is waiting...

Robert Langdon, experto en simbología, recibe una llamada en mitad de la noche: el conservador del museo del Louvre ha sido asesinado en extrañas circunstancias, y junto a su cadáver ha aparecido un desconcertante mensaje cifrado. Al profundizar en la investigación, Langdom descubre que las...

Robert Langdon, experto en simbología, es convocado a un centro de investigación suizo para analizar un misterioso signo marcado a fuego en el pecho de un físico asesinado. Allí, Langdon descubre el resurgimiento de una antigua hermandad secreta: los illuminati, que han emergido de las...

El profesor de simbología en Harvard Robert Langdon despierta en un hospital a media noche. Desorientado y con una herida en la cabeza, no recuerda nada de las últimas treinta y seis horas, incluyendo como llegó allí o el origen de ese macabro objeto que los médicos han descubierto entre...

Spring 1915: World War One rages across Europe. Amidst this bloodbath of nations, where one man’s flag is another man’s shroud, a British spy is asked to do the impossible: seduce and betray the woman he loves, again. Only this time betrayal is a two-way street. Jack McColl, a spy for His...

THE END OF THE WORLD IS HERE Unlocking the secret of the Seven Ancient Wonders was only the beginning... After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's rampaging New York Times bestseller, 7 Deadly Wonders, supersoldier Jack West Jr. and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they...

The novel that reintroduced the Napoleon of crime to the Victorian underworld Once again, the game is afoot … What really happened in Switzerland between Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in 1891? And why is Holmes, now in London at 221B Baker Street, curiously uncooperative with Scotland Yard's...

Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he had ever wished for: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything was about to change. It begins with the appearance...

The seventh novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series—the inspiration for the Disney+ original series Shardlake! Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos... The king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of...

The throne is never safe...especially in Rome AD 60. Rome stands at the height of its power – glittering with wealth, drowning in intrigue. On Palatine Hill, Nero Claudius Caesar rules as Emperor, a young man adored for his beauty and brilliance, feared for his temper, intoxicated by his own...

Cuando los dioses callan y los reyes mueren, la historia la escriben los que sobreviven. Un thriller lleno de conspiración, pasión y peligro. Aristóteles es el filósofo más prestigioso de Grecia y el maestro de Alejandro Magno, el conquistador invencible que ha sometido todas las ciudades...

1859. The village of Nomaton, Michigan. After a reclusive childhood within the dank walls of Haggard House, Adam Bolton, at the age of eleven, is finally allowed to attend the village school, providing he obeys his mother, Sarai's, injunction. Against all outward influence, he must: “Keep to the straight and narrow.” An easy bidding, until Adam meets Penny, his bright-eyed, bright-spirited classmate. Frightened of the consequences their friendship threatens, Adam builds another Haggard House—only this one in his mind—and keeps Penny there, safe from his zealot mother; safe from himself.

Raised within a cosseted circle of British ex-pats in Florence, Iris shocked her family and friends when she married Antonio. Despite the protests of both families, they found a crumbling villa on a windy Tuscan hilltop, called La Foce, and they poured themselves into the house and the land--and...

'An exquisite and riotously written mystery, digging through the illusionary glamour and earthy seediness of the interwar British film industry. Drunken actors and beggared aristocrats, con artists and cults, and long-buried family secrets. Nothing is what it seems and nobody is who they appear...

Una lettera ingiallita dal tempo scivola in una cassetta della posta: sono passati cinquant'anni da quando è stata spedita. È il 1992, e quel messaggio inatteso riporta tutto indietro, a un mondo oscurato dalle tende nere del Blitz londinese e ai segreti inconfessabili sepolti tra le mura di Milderhurst Castle. Per Edie Burchill, quella busta non è soltanto posta smarrita: è la chiave per scardinare il passato enigmatico di sua madre e scoprire una verità rimasta ostinatamente nascosta per mezzo secolo.

Akari is Outlander meets Farewell to Manzanar from New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. Applied quantum physicist Akari Sato is working late at Los Alamos National Laboratory one night when she hears commotion from her lab. She finds intruders dressed in dated clothing rifling...

'Your lives are in danger... leave the hotel before it is too late...' When newlyweds Clarice and Cliff Thorley arrive in the little French town of Tourville-sur-Mer for their honeymoon, the last thing they expect to find is the corpse of a wanted jewel thief in their hotel room. Nor do they expect to find a stolen diamond necklace worth over half a million Francs hidden in their luggage. Somebody wants to get hold of that necklace very much. So much, that they are willing to kill for it.

Vor 50.000 Jahren war der Mensch noch ein Neuankömmling in den Wäldern Europas – ohne scharfe Klauen, ohne Reißzähne und mit nur primitiven Speeren aus Holz. Als Ugh-lomi und Eudena auf einem schmalen Felsvorsprung Unterschlupf suchen und das erste Feuer entfachen, lockt der heiße Rauch den unerschrockenen Koloss an. Der Höhlenbär kennt keine Furcht, selbst Mammuts weichen ihm aus. Doch er ahnt nicht, dass der Mensch ein neues Werkzeug erfunden hat: die erste Steinaxt. Und dass Erfindungsgeist am Ende mächtiger ist als Muskeln und Klauen...