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The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver", is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long absent. His comrade-in-arms Hudson Greathouse has an increasing sense the young friend he thinks of as a son must have met with some unexpected peril.

The year is 1703. The place: The Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional 'problem solver,' has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: Escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation.

The Providence Rider is the fourth installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter with notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter. When an unexplained series of explosions rocks his Manhattan neighborhood, Matthew finds himself forced to confront a new and unexpected problem. Someone is trying - and trying very hard - to get his attention.

'This is right up there with the best of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor' – Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks...

Stephen Blake's life goal is to protect people, especially those closest to him, but war in 1914 England doesn't follow any rules. When Blake is informed that a noted German spy may have taken up residence at Havensbrooke Hall--his cousin Lord Astley's estate, which is being used as a convalescent war hospital--he's sent there to uncover the plot. Lady Grace Astley has become a force to be reckoned with while Frederick is out on the war front.

WAS WÄRE, WENN DIE TITANIC NIE EINEN EISBERG GERAMMT HÄTTE? Am 15. April 1912 ging die "unsinkbare" Titanic unter und riss 1.500 Menschen mit sich. Was aber, wenn dieser Untergang kein Unfall war? Schnitt in die Gegenwart: Senator Everett Van Wick überlebt dank eines Arztes aus einer Kleinstadt ein Attentat. Doch nun weiß der Arzt zu viel und wird selbst zur Zielscheibe. Stichwort EDEN BLACK. Was als einfache Rettungsaktion beginnt, wird bald zu einer Verschwörung mit hohem Risiko, die vom zurückgezogenen Vater des Senators angeführt wird.

A gripping 1930s-set whodunnit and love letter to Golden Age crime, this sequel to A Queer Case features amateur sleuth Selby Bigge, who must solve a murder at Lady Malcolm’s Servants’ Ball in London’s Royal Albert Hall. Perfect for fans of Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey novels. London...

Lo único que el exiliado Callejas pretendía era escapar de la exaltación política que se vivía en la Miami tumultuosa de la década de 1960 para largarse a vivir a Ámsterdam, un paraíso cultural para intelectuales bohemios y amantes de la marihuana.

Patrick Kittrick has wagered everything on two hundred acres of raw Australian bush. He has bled for every cleared acre and every planted row. Now his neighbour, Mervyn Craddock, means to take it from him. When asking fails, Craddock reaches for darker methods, and behind him stands Louis Proctor, a man who fled England one step ahead of a murder charge.

It's 1643 and England stands divided: King against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother. For Captain Stryker, scarred veteran of the brutal wars in the low countries, the rights and wrongs of the Royalist cause mean little. Stryker's loyalty is to his band of soldiers —...

Dla Teofila Kłoska świat skończył się we wrześniu 1939 roku. Rzucony w środek wojennego chaosu, szybko uświadamia sobie, że jako żołnierz kampanii wrześniowej walczy nie tylko z najeźdźcami. O wiele groźniejsze od Niemców i Sowietów są zmagania z wewnętrznym wrogiem – strachem, rozpaczą i zwątpieniem.

Dla jednych świat skończył się we wrześniu 1939 roku, dla innych był zaledwie przedsionkiem piekła. Sowiecki reżim zgotował tysiącom ludzi okrutny los – bydlęcymi wagonami wywieziono ich do obozów pracy przymusowej i kołchozów. Jednym z tysięcy zesłanych był Teofil Kłosek. Tam, gdzie przetrwanie to codzienna walka, a zachowanie człowieczeństwa graniczy z niemożliwością, rozpoczyna się kolejny etap jego tułaczki.

A Dashing War Hero Falls in Love with a Penniless Orphan. When Colonel Henry Fitzwilliam arrives at Rosings Park and reconnects with his cousin Anne’s lady companion, Ophelia Hampton, he can hardly believe she is the same person as the unprepossessing eight-year-old he teased as a teenager. Now, despite himself, he is enchanted by the accomplished but penniless orphan. To his dismay, Sir Thomas Wainwright, a landholder in the district, has also shown a marked interest in the young woman.

Bloomsbury presents Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by Cynthia Farrell. The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a...

A bookclub historical crime novel for fans of Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters and Alis Hawkins. Bass Rock, Edinburgh, late 1600s On a cruel and windswept volcanic island, where only the toughest survive, a fragile society is about to be put to the ultimate test. Life on...

The past is gone. Move on or die. The radiation should have killed him. Instead, it gave Alexander Chandler extraordinary abilities—and turned him into the Navy's most valuable asset. For more than eighty years, Alex and his team of "Notables" have fought in every shadow war, every covert mission too dangerous for regular operatives. Now one of their own has gone rogue. Burton Shott is systematically eliminating every Notable on the planet as revenge for decades of personal loss.

In the frozen depths of 1959 Soviet Russia, former OSS operative John Kobczyk is pulled from his quiet life as a baker in Buffalo, NY for one final mission. Posing as a hockey coach in remote Kirov, he finds himself entangled in a deadly game where nothing is as it seems. With the help of a mysterious local baker named Taisiya, John races against time to uncover the truth. But in a world where loyalty can be bought and sold, the price of trust may be higher than he's willing to pay.

One relic. Two global powers. A race against time and in this race, there's no silver medal for second place. Harry Fox doesn’t take sides. He finds relics, sells them, and stays out of trouble. But when Italian agents force him into a search sanctioned by the Pope himself, neutrality is no longer an option. Harry has little choice but to dive headlong into chasing this relic. However, Harry and the Pope are not the only two interested in finding this royal treasure.

An der nordfriesischen Küste vor Husum lebt es sich beschaulich. Die ersten Tage des neuen Jahres pendeln zwischen geschäftigem Treiben und entspannter Gemütlichkeit. Dann jedoch kündigt sich zum pünktlich zum Jubiläum der Januarflut von 1976 wieder eine Sturmflut an. Während die meisten Bewohner der Althaatstinger Marsch mit typisch norddeutscher Gelassenheit abwarten, wird Cafébesitzerin Lene mit jeder Stunde, die die Flut näher rückt, panischer.

The second installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author James Clavell’s Asian Saga, Tai Pan, Part Two contains the second half of the sweeping epic of the founding of Hong Kong. “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also...