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Er singt ein Lied für dich, doch vorher musst du sterben! Gegenwart: Als Kriminalkommissar Oliver Bergmann zu einem Doppelmord gerufen wird, bietet sich ihm ein schreckliches Bild. Ein Ehepaar wurde brutal ermordet. Es scheint sich nicht um einen Raubmord zu handeln, denn offenbar hat der Täter nichts aus dem Haus entwendet. Ganz im Gegenteil, er hat etwas für Oliver zurückgelassen. Neben der Toten steht ein Lautsprecher, aus dem ein bekanntes Kinderlied erklingt. Ein jahrhundertealtes Wiegenlied, das Oliver zu einem schrecklichen Geheimnis in der Vergangenheit führt.

No final do século XIX, o sertanejo Tonho Pólvora compra a fazenda Alvorada, no interior de Minas Gerais. Com trabalho duro e falando a língua da terra, ele faz o lugar prosperar e se torna uma das lideranças da região. Na mesma época, em São Paulo, o jovem contador José Antônio dá um golpe na empresa onde trabalha e se lança, em fuga, para o interior do país, atrás de um lugar seguro para se estabelecer.

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.

London, 1716. Justice Geoffrey Dumont has been found dead at the base of St Paul’s cathedral, and a young male sex-worker, Sam Yates, has been taken into custody for the murder. Yates denies all charges, claiming he had received a message to meet the judge at the exact time of death. The young man is a friend of courtesan Belle St Clair, and she asks Flynt to investigate. As Sam endures the horrors of Newgate prison, they must do everything in their power to uncover the truth and save an innocent life, before the bodies begin to pile up.

England, 1618. At his manor of Thirldon, ex-Justice Belstrang - still at loggerheads with his old rival Justice Standish—receives devastating news: King James intends to purchase the estate for his favourite, the Marquis of Buckingham—and Belstrang must comply. In the ensuing turmoil, while his son-in-law George petitions the King on his behalf, Belstrang receives a plea from a dying friend, Sir Richard Mountford, to visit him at Foxhill Manor. To take his mind off his troubles Belstrang goes—and discovers things are not so simple.

Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old, is searching for a mysterious middle-aged aghori (Shiva devotee), Om Shastri, who was traced more than 200 years ago before he was captured and transported to a high-tech facility on an isolated Indian island. When the aghori was drugged and hypnotized for...

Almost a decade after finding himself working for a shadowy government department, ex-Detective John Gallagher is sent on a task that will become his most testing yet. Armed only with a two inch revolver, 12 bullets, some cryptic clues, and a sense of humour, his mission is to assist a high ranking East German foreign intelligence operative to defect to the West.

E se il famoso proverbio comunemente attribuito a Niccolò Machiavelli “il fine giustifica i mezzi” gli fosse stato in realtà suggerito da un altro ‘grande’ del suo tempo, Leonardo Da Vinci? E se quest’ultimo fosse addirittura la mente dietro l’idea che porterà poi al compimento de ‘Il Principe’? Cosa ci fanno i due più importanti ‘uomini universali’ del Rinascimento ad Urbino, ad indagare insieme, come compagni di vecchia data, su un crimine dagli intenti raffinati?

Will Britain take him in... or mark him as its enemy? Faustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British mother, a captive sold among the spoils after Claudius’ invasion. When both parents die within a month of each other, he sells the family farm and enlists, joining legendary general Agricola’s campaign to conquer the entirety of the British Isles. But Faustus will have to contend with more than ferocious British warriors and whip-cracking elements. For the bonds of blood can weigh heavy on one’s soul. The call of his mother’s true people.

Une enquête criminelle à rebondissements dans le Paris de 1800 qui bruisse de la rumeur de la mort de Bonaparte à Marengo, propice aux intrigues des puissants, Talleyrand et Fouché en tête. Tableau des mœurs politiques sous le Consulat autant que roman criminel à rebondissements, 1800. La Main de sang se déroule pendant les trois jours de juin 1800 durant lesquels Paris est resté sans nouvelles de Bonaparte en pleine bataille incertaine de Marengo.

Alt er på spil i PESTSKIBET. Hæsblæsende action du ikke kan slippe, før sidste side er vendt. En ung nazisoldat gør en usædvanlig opdagelse, da han under 2. verdenskrig i en gletsjer finder det mest legendariske skib nogensinde. 60 år senere er Juan Cabrillo og hans agenttrænede mandskab på det tophemmelige militærskib Oregon på vej mod deres mest ekstraordinære mission til dato. De støder på et krydstogtskib, hvor alle passagerer på nær én er døde. Cabrillo beslutter sig for at grave dybere ned i mysteriet og støder på en mystisk og magtfuld kult, som har uhyggelige planer for menneskeheden.

In the depths of winter at an ancient German castle, high up in the mountains, a noble is found dead under mysterious circumstances. Back at Rourell, Arnau is taking on the responsibilities of a full Templar Knight. But when he is tasked with returning Brother LUtolf's papers to settle a legal dispute between his family and the Order, Arnau is unexpectedly drawn into the killing at the castle. Here he enters a dark game of knives and double-crosses.

Will Flemyng, originally trained as a spy, is now British ambassador to Washington. Meanwhile, his older brother Mungo is recuperating from a heart attack in their beloved Scottish highland family home, and Abel, the youngest of the three, has died mysteriously in America. Abel's unexplained death sets in motion an unstoppable chain of events, beginning with an unexpected glimpse of a face at his funeral. Soon Will finds himself on a dangerous journey into his clandestine past, from conflict in Ireland to the long shadows of the Cold War.

Quan a Roma arriben veus de l'existència d'una fera terrible al nord d'Àfrica, el cèlebre orador Ciceró, Pare de la Pàtria, decideix enviar-hi el seu fill rebel. Si aconsegueix capturar la bèstia potser recuperi l'estima del seu pare. En ple desert, però, el jove Marc Tuli Ciceró i els seus companys d'expedició s'hauran d'enfrontar a un perill inimaginable. Un enemic que pot acabar amb la ciutat fundada per Ròmul i Rem... i amb l'existència mateixa tal com l'han conegut els humans a la superfície de la Terra.

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.

O jovem Humphrey van Weyden é salvo de um náufrago pela escuna Ghost. Porém, ele logo compreende que seu pesadelo está apenas começando: o capitão Wolf Larsen o obriga a integrar a tripulação de seu navio! A bordo, ele vivencia a árdua rotina dos marujos e a tirania imposta pelo capitão.

Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she’s inherited from generations of women before her—an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing but the devil at work. Mary’s benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary’s patients is found murdered, his body carved with strange symbols.

Former FBI profiler Adrian West is in Rome for a history conference when she learns that her friend and colleague, Dr. Sebastian Rossi, has been abducted.

Gefährliche Experimente. Hamburg 1907. Im Hafenkrankhaus begegnet der Bakteriologe Carl-Jakob Melcher einem Schulfreund. Ludolf Harberg ist sehr angeschlagen durch die Schlafkrankheit. In seinen wachen Momenten erzählt er von seinen Erlebnissen in Ostafrika - von den Experimenten, die er mit dem Mediziner Robert Koch an Einheimischen unternommen hat. Bevor er Genaueres erzählen kann, stirbt Harberg. Für die Ärzte eine Folge seiner Krankheit, doch Carl-Jacob glaubt an Mord und beginnt zu ermitteln, ohne zu ahnen, dass es nicht der einzige Todesfall in seiner Nähe bleiben wird.