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Van Bibber ist ein "man about town" - ein Mann, der das Stadtleben kennt. Als die Dame seines Herzens ihn versetzt, geht er kurzerhand zu einem Boxkampf, um dann ziellos durch die Straßen zu flanieren - wohlgemerkt, kurz vor Sonnenaufgang. Verdächtige Geräusche an der Tür eines Gebäudes erwecken sein Interesse, und so lernt Van Bibber einen ganz besonderen Einbrecher kennen.

On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Into the vacuum—before a new democracy had time to put down roots—surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or “roof”—protection for the privately owned businesses sprouting across the country.

The pandemic killed her husband and turned her idyllic life upside down. The discovery of an old crime and the need for some cash propel Anh Santos to solve a mystery. Mask up, grab some hand sanitizer, and get ready for an adventure to solve a crime that time has forgotten.

Following an exorcism gone wrong, Chief Commissioner Muhammad finds evidence of alchemy, debauchery, religious excess, and murder at a lonely hillside villa outside the city of Algiers leased to a British baron and his naturalist wife in the year 1794. On his first case since his appointment to high office by the mercurial Dey of Algiers, Muhammad’s investigation is thwarted by his inexperience, crafty Arab tribesmen, scheming European women and greedy sea captains.

Дав слово княгине оберегать Сашеньку, Александр отправляется с девочкой в Москву. Благополучно передав ее с рук на руки, он находит себе помощников из бывших царских офицеров, так как хочет проверить один исторический факт, о котором в свое время он узнал из интернета. Успешно завершив дело, Александр решает навестить девочку, как вдруг неожиданно узнает, что ее похитили. Он привык держать слово и доводить свои дела до конца, и никогда не стоит за ценой, когда надо расчистить дорогу к цели. Берегитесь, господа-товарищи, кто не спрятался, я не виноват!

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Navidad de 1943. Clarice y sus compañeros de la División OpenMind reciben un mensaje decodificado, que ha sido interceptado a la Ahnenerbe, la asociación ocultista nazi. En él informan a sus superiores de que han derribado un avión americano sobre los bosques de Bélgica y han conseguido acabar con una enemiga a la que identifican como “la princesa lectora”. El sexto sentido de Clarice le hace pensar que con ese nombre pueden estar refiriéndose a Sally, su mejor amiga en el Pentágono, que destacaba por sus capacidades para leer las mentes ajenas.

After a drugs bust goes wrong, Deputy Sheriff Garrett Nelson is left with a limp and, unfit for active police service, accepts a job at a Florida penitentiary on an old Spanish mission. The prison's chapel, a working bell tower, is now an execution chamber. But after a terrible mistake leads to an escape and manhunt through the Everglades, Nelson must decide whether his first duty is to the law or to himself? And could doing the right thing mean taking an innocent man to the bell tower?

In 1718, the notorious pirate Blackbeard was captured and killed. But he left no trace of the immense riches he’d plundered during his years pillaging the high seas. In 1938, antique dealers Rick and Rose Sinclair discover what appears to be a map of an uncharted island sketched in Blackbeard’s hand. With the help of Virginia, a pirate expert, they deem the map authentic, and the most likely place for Blackbeard to have hidden his treasure.

Согласно древней легенде, когда Эа, отец богов, потерял возлюбленную супругу, он заплакал кровавыми слезами. И там, где они падали на землю, появлялись дети его, великие боги. Но одна слеза превратилась в камень, а на месте ее падения возник великий Вавилон. На протяжении тридцати веков потомки гордых вавилонян хранили от посторонних глаз Слезу Бога, ведь в этом камне было заключено древнее могущество, и тот, кто овладеет им – овладеет все миром. В наши дни случай сводит вместе питерскую переводчицу Юлию и бизнесмена Ивана, несправедливо обвиненного в убийстве в жены.

Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them. The problem is, he has vanished. Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – still recovering from a duel with death upon the frozen Thames, is tasked with finding him. The trail takes him from the dark slums of London to a quiet village in the north of England, where all is not as it seems.

Step right up and come aboard the Mary Celeste, the most famous ghost ship in history, during our famous voyage across the Atlantic. When the captain appears to be losing his mind, First Mate Richardson must risk insubordination to safely deliver the ship to the distant port of Genoa. However, his problems don’t end there because he must also overcome storms, disease, a dangerous cargo and a mutinous crew who’re disappearing one by one.

Based on true crimes, The Specimen is a mesmerizing story about one woman’s search for truth and vengeance in the darkest of places—where the deadliest secrets lie hidden in plain sight on a freshly dusted shelf.

Septiembre, 1907. Movido por los celos, el joven traductor ruso Nikolái Naumov dispara contra el conde Kamarowski en su palacio de Venecia al saber que contraerá matrimonio con la mujer que ama en secreto. Cuando el conde muere, la investigación policial apunta a su prometida, la condesa Tarnowska, como instigadora del crimen pasional junto con otro de sus amantes, el abogado Donato Prilukov.

1944. Paul Brandt, a German soldier, returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners. When Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realises that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.

'Full of tension, urgency, atmosphere and feeling - this is Riley Sager at his very best' LEE CHILD THE BRAND NEW HEART-STOPPING THRILLER FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR On July 15, 1994, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend Billy fell asleep together in their quiet New Jersey cul...

This is the first of the Anne of Athelhampton trilogy, which is inspired by true historical events and characters from England's Dorsetshire in the 1500s. It is written by Giles Keating, who lives in Athelhampton's Tudor rooms just as Anne did five hundred years ago and who welcomes visitors to see the secret passages that she discovered, and the symbols in stone that she searched out to solve the Riddle.

En avril 1957, lors de la première visite officielle d'Elizabeth II à Paris, une série d'événements laisse à penser à un sabotage. Au même moment, deux morts atroces ont lieu à proximité de Buckingham Palace. Lorsque l'un de ses proches est impliqué dans l'affaire, la reine mène l'enquête depuis Balmoral avec l'aide de sa secrétaire particulière adjointe, Joan McGraw.

As the ’70s draw to a close in San Francisco, things do not bode well for the city—or for ex-con PI Colleen Hayes, whose daughter Pam, in a tragic turn of events, has lost her baby. Pam leaves San Francisco, and Colleen, who moved there to reunite with her, starts to wonder what she’s doing in the Bay Area. Meanwhile, a serial killer given the name “Night Candy” is targeting sex workers, both male and female. The situation doesn’t improve when Colleen’s friend and ally—SFPD Inspector Owens—is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, who was found burned in a fire.

Julius Quintus Quirinius and his cohort sail to the mysterious land of Britannia. They have been sent on a mission to scout out the savage country and battle the local tribesman to pave the way for their emperor.

But before they can land, a violent storm scatters their ships, separating Quintus, newly promoted to Decanus, from some of his comrades. In seeking them, he encounters Britons who may be friend or foe.

Er lauert in der Dunkelheit … Der packende Historienroman Der Teufel von Straßburg von Bestseller-Autorin Heidrun Hurst jetzt als Hörbuch bei dotbooks. Seine Opfer sind jung, wehrlos und vollkommen allein ... Straßburg, 1348: Ein grausamer Mörder treibt in der Stadt sein Unwesen, aber niemand schert sich darum, denn er tötet nur namenlose Kinder der Gasse. Als die Klosterschülerin Adelheid von den Morden erfährt, beschließt sie, auf eigene Faust zu handeln – einem Leben in Armut und Elend ist sie selbst nur knapp entronnen.