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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.

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!

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.

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.

England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief’s life… is death. 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...

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.

So lange wir nichts anderes wissen, so lange war das ein Wolf! In der bayerischen Provinz will man 1932 noch nichts von dem wissen, was in München vor sich geht. Hier nehmen die Bürger die Dinge noch selbst in die Hand. Als bestialische Morde das Dorf erschüttern, gilt es für den Bürgermeister und seinen Gemeinderat, die Gräueltaten schnellstmöglich aufzuklären. Während man zunächst vermutet, dass ein Wolf im nahen Wald sein Unwesen treibt, verdichten sich bald die Gerüchte, dass es sich um einen menschlichen Täter handeln muss.

Imagine if your grandfather had shared with you a so unbelievable story, and you find yourself unexpectedly inherited a four-thousand-year-old magical ring. What if you were told that this ring had the near unlimited power to grant you the ability to travel anywhere on Earth and also travel to any time in history. And what if you had unexpectedly in addition you found out at the same time, that you just inherited this ring from your grandfather, and on his death bed he reveals to you the magic of the ring that he is gifting now to you.

Sur une île au large de Cherbourg, un vieil homme et une jeune fille vivent isolés, entourés de serviteurs et de gardes du corps, à l'abri de tout reflet ; en aucun cas Hazel ne doit voir son propre visage. Engagée pour soigner la jeune fille, Françoise, une infirmière, va découvrir les étranges mystères qui unissent ces deux personnages. Elle saura pourquoi Hazel se résigne, nuit après nuit, aux caresses du vieillard.

Duke Boleslav, brother to Wenceslas, reveals to his young son his own life's dreadful tale, and why this boy must dedicate his life to his father's salvation. Pagan priests vie with one another and with the growing power of Christianity. Prague is a trading center with an important slave market, a thriving iron industry, and is a crossroads of far-reaching trade routes. It is growing in wealth, yet threatened by jealous enemies and forces, both external and within its borders.