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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Cutthroat by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, read by Scott Brick. The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to...

Run, run, girl. In the name of God, run. It's 1141 and freezing cold. Gwil, a battle-hardened mercenary, watches in horror as a little girl with red hair is dragged away by his own men. Caught in the middle of the fight for England she is just one more victim in a winter of atrocities. But a...

In the bestselling tradition of The Da Vinci Code, this is a breath-taking, all-action adventure from the pen of prizewinning author Tom Harper. This page-turner will take through the myths and legends of lost civilisations and into the heart of an ancient mystery...If you like Dan Brown, Clive...

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a...

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime...

It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal.

Key Murphy is a freak, a prodigy. He has visions so real he’s diagnosed with PTSD. Key learns that his visions might be caused by a mutated gene which allows him to experience the memories of an ancestor. Key also has a family link to The Book of Kells. Pages from the book were stolen in Ireland in the distant past. Those pages are believed to contain a fundamental secret of Christendom.

It’s a sunny, lazy day in autumn. A new bronze plaque, with the names of Barrachois’ Second World War dead, is being mounted on the side of the city cenotaph. A chain gives way; the heavy plaque swings wildly and strikes the cenotaph, piercing its stone wall. Standing inside the monument is a mummified corpse, dressed in a lawyer’s gown. Inside the pockets of the victim are newspaper clippings, clues the murderer has left twenty years earlier. Why?

After the publishing my 6th book, I move to New England to seek my next project... What I find is the century and a half old obsession of a the long-deceased spirit of a physician who performs vampire autopsies in the basement of my farmhouse... Who wants me to tell his story in the present. What follows is a collision course of 21st Century technology and loneliness with Victorian superstition and gruesomeness...

The latest in the thrilling and “lively” (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series follows John Dee and his wife working together in an act of espionage that may turn out to be treason. While working on a powerful new weapon for England, the country’s first secret agent John Dee...

'An instant classic' – Daily Mail The ship was doomed before it ever left port. His fate was sealed before he ever stepped on board. From R. L. Graham, Death on the Lusitania is an immersive WW1 historical novel set aboard the ill-fated ocean liner. Welcome on board the Lusitania’s final...

Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he’s headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett’s lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets, which explains why he’s so desperate to find his missing teenage daughter, Lucy.

Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is upended when he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is the interpreter to the Russian President. Together they will try to stop the attack that could paralyse communications and collapse the Western economy.

Im Schatten des Kriegs zieht das Böse durch Berlin. Berlin im Winter 1939. Der Zweite Weltkrieg hat begonnen. Immer weiter schränkt das Nazi-Regime die Freiheit der Bevölkerung ein. Doch in der Hauptstadt wird der sich ankündigende Schrecken der Kriegsjahre von einer tiefgreifenden Angst überschattet. In den kalten Stunden der Verdunkelung, die die diktatorische Regierung zum Schutz gegen Fliegerangriffe ausspricht, zieht ein brutaler Mörder durch die Metropole.

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure, Yamashita's Gold, worth billions. 1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast...

Les portes de l'enfer se referment... La fin d'une trilogie extraordinaire au coeur du XVIIIe siècle suédois, qui a conquis 60 000 lecteurs. Stockholm, 1795. Devant une Révolution qui couve, la famille royale s'enferme dans une paranoïa d'une ampleur inédite. Une traque acharnée se prépare contre tous les opposants au pouvoir en place. La police secrète traque ainsi sans relâche jeune femme, Anna Stina Knapp, qui serait en possession d'une lettre contenant les noms des principaux conspirateurs. Un ancien artilleur, Jean Michael Cardell recherche lui aussi Anna, mais pour la protéger.

W San Francisco Mitzi Fallon zaczyna pracę jako agentka FBI w Wydziale Przestępstw na tle Historycznym, Religijnym i Spraw Niewyjaśnionych. Prowadzi sprawę morderstwa sprzedawcy antyków, któremu skradziono bezcenny celtycki artefakt. Mitzi zostaje wciągnięta w tajemniczą intrygę, która bierze swój początek w zakulisowych posunięciach amerykańskiego rządu i sięga daleko w przeszłość Wielkiej Brytanii, do zdegradowanego niegdyś do postaci mitycznej króla Artura.

In 1982, Tobi Sloan is sent to live with her grandparents while her mama tries to get clean. Things on the farm aren't so bad, though. That is, until Tobi meets a boy named Riley, who shares thrilling tales about their quiet little town. He tells her of the Union Hill Bride, who murdered her husband and still wanders the countryside. And there’s the mysterious creature who lives beneath the bridge, feeding on passersby.

Шестнадцатый век. По Италии прокатывается череда трагических происшествий: в разгар семейного торжества совершает самоубийство знатный оккультист, целая семья сожжена вместе с собственным домом, в замке провинциального аристократа жестоко истреблены все обитатели. По слухам, во всех этих несчастьях замешан загадочный чернокнижник, обладатель древнего магического артефакта, способного управлять человеческой душой и рассудком.

Révélation ou apocalypse ? Depuis l'aube de l'humanité, la Citadelle, fort du nord de la Turquie, abrite des communautés de moines, dont l'ordre des Sancti, les " soutanes vertes ". Après avoir été initié à leurs mystérieux sacrements, un jeune moine s'échappe du monastère pour se jeter du haut de la montagne. La scène est filmée par un touriste et projetée sur les chaînes de télévision du monde entier. C'est le début d'une lutte à mort entre la communauté des Sancti et celle des Mala, pour qui l'heure de la prophétie a sonné.