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Harry Fox is after the man who ripped his family apart. How can he get his revenge? By tempting the man with a relic he can't refuse. But fate intervenes when an earthquake reveals the tomb of a Thracian king. A tantalizing missive in the tomb pulls Harry away from his quest for revenge and launches him on a perilous chase to uncover the truth behind this Thracian mystery. Except Harry isn't the only person racing through the past. Harry follows a treacherous path across ancient Thrace as a mysterious adversary closes in.

"Qui c'è in ballo un untore, senza dubbio. Ma se ho capito bene non diffonde la peste a casaccio, eh? Ne prende di mira uno e protegge gli altri. È Dio, maneggia il flagello di Dio. E in quanto Dio, sceglie quelli da chiamare a sé". Di notte, sulle porte delle case di Parigi, appaiono strani numeri neri. All'altro capo della città, intanto, vengono recapitate incomprensibili missive che parlano di malattia e di morte. Solo il commissario Adamsberg intuisce che tra i due fatti esiste un legame.

When two strangers find themselves sitting next to each other on a cross-country flight, neither realize that the identities of their seat mate aren’t exactly what they are saying. In a taut and tension-filled thriller, a cat and mouse game ensues with each person trying to stay one step ahead of the other until there comes a final, inevitable showdown and all is revealed. A perfect vacation listen that is a pause-resister from beginning to end. The Audible version is a masterpiece voiced by British actress Poppy Damon.

What if the past refuses to stay buried? What if spirits from a century-old tragedy still haunt the aisles of your local Walmart? Could you handle the truth behind the creepy laughter and cries ringing during the night? Galveston Haunted Walmart is a gripping account of author Denise Sandoval's experiences while working at a Walmart, which was built over the tragic grounds of St. Mary's Orphan's Asylum in Galveston, Texas. In this book, she uncovers the eerie and unsettling events that continue to plague this modern-day store, more than a century after the deadly storm of 1900.

In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in. And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever: Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He's working for them. Because when a German trader is the next to die, the authorities decide it's innocent civilians who will pay the price - unless Eddie can find the killer in time.

Hedoné House, a luxurious sanatorium for the creative elite dedicated to the groundbreaking treatment of tuberculosis. As the doctor’s new wife, Agnes Templeton has pledged her life to a house of fever. Her husband’s methods are unusual. There are whisperings about past patients and even a cure. Hedoné’s secrets draw Agnes in, revealing truths she could never anticipate, and soon she is caught between a past she is desperate to escape and a future she may forever regret.

In the spirit of Stephen King, the natural becomes supernatural in Isla Chillido—a true tale of terror. Isla Chillido is a luxury Caribbean island resort that is largely populated during the summer season by the grown children of uber-rich parents who feel entitled, empowered, and carefree to a fault. Their only parameters in life seem to be an abject worry of being ridiculed by their peers or appearing “uncool” at any moment in time. These pretentious young adults fear nothing and no one until…until they are faced with a horror beyond imagination.

Des millions de lecteurs captivés : le chef-d'œuvre du thriller historique ! Sud de la France, printemps 1790: la Révolution menace les biens des monastères et des couvents. À l'abbaye de Montglane, la mère supérieure charge deux jeunes novices d'une mission urgente : mettre à l'abri des pillages les pièces d'un mystérieux jeu d'échecs. Beaucoup parmi les grands d'Europe veulent en effet s'en emparer : Talleyrand, Robespierre, Bonaparte ou encore Catherine II de Russie.

BKA-Hauptkommissar Philipp Gerber ermittelt vor dem Hintergrund eines der wichtigsten Ereignisse der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte: dem Mauerbau. August 1961. Auf dem Frankfurter Flughafen vereitelt BKA-Hauptkommissar Philipp Gerber in letzter Sekunde ein Attentat auf General Hiram C. Anderson, seinen ehemaligen Chef beim US-Militärgeheimdienst. Offiziell ist Anderson nach Deutschland zurückgekehrt, um mit seiner Tochter June durch das Land zu reisen, doch er verfolgt auch andere, politische Pläne. Und er will Philipp vor einem möglichen Doppelagenten und Landesverräter warnen.

himself threatened from all sides. First, his secret plans are stolen, then his son is kidnapped by a vengeful enemy from his past. At the same time, Dee’s wife, Jane, is sent by Queen Elizabeth I to console her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, whom court advisors are determined to try for treason. But Jane suspects her assignment is much more than a visit from a sympathetic cousin.

UNE INTRIGUE QUI MULTIPLIE LES PIÈGES ET LES FAUX-SEMBLANTS. Mademoiselle Henriette, une jeune fille qui vit dans le plus grand dénuement, est sauvée in extrémis du suicide par son voisin brocanteur, le père Ravinet. Alors qu'il s'apitoie sur le sort de la malheureuse, son attention est attirée par deux lettres laissées sur la commode. Elles sont, selon les instructions d'Henriette, à porter après son décès au Comte de la Ville-Handry et à Maxime de Brévan.

In 1933 Cuba, a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds. An IRA sharpshooter, driven by vengeance and a relentless mission, has Winston Churchill in his crosshairs. But just as the assassin is about to strike, Churchill's tenacious bodyguard, Walter Thompson, intervenes, forcing the killer into the shadows. Years later, amid the fiery rain of the German Blitz on London, Thompson locks eyes with a ghost from Havana—the very same assassin. But now, the stakes are higher.

Gerusalemme, assedio babilonese del 586 a.C. Il profeta Geremia porta in salvo l'Arca dell'Alleanza e la nasconde nel monte Horeb. Dopo di che, sconvolto da un'incredibile scoperta, scompare nel nulla... Medio Oriente, II millennio d.C. Mentre lo scontro fra i terroristi palestinesi e il Mossad israeliano infuria, l'egittologo William Blake si trova davanti alla tomba di un faraone nel deserto Paran, migliaia di chilometri lontano dal Nilo. Nella sua mente si fa strada un'ipotesi che potrebbe far crollare i più sottili equilibri del mondo.

Los Angeles, 1916: Photographer Bill Ogden has opened a portrait studio in the seedy noir world of early Hollywood, where he is joined by his granddaughter, Flavia—a woman in need of a fresh start after bludgeoning her abusive husband to death in Wichita. Though his business is mainly legit, Bill finds himself brushing up against the “blue movie” porn industry growing in the shadows of the motion picture mainstream. When a series of grisly murders take place across the city, Bill and his capable granddaughter are pulled into events as tricky and tangled as anything this side of The Big Sleep.

1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word gets out that she has a child, and speculation on who the father might be, Ismay has to make a terrible choice to protect her son. The Deacon family disappears, but there are rumors of a fair-haired, unsmiling ghost of a boy haunting the halls of Havencross.

Welcome to Florence, 1517. Sharp-witted seventeen-year-old con-woman Rosa Cellini has plans for the Pope and the Medicis - and, more specifically, the mountain of indulgence money they've been extorting from the people of Tuscany. To pull off the Renaissance's greatest robbery, she'll recruit a team of capable misfits: Sarra the tinkerer, Khalid the fighter, and Giacomo, the irrepressible master of disguise. To top it all off, and to smooth their entrance into the fortress-like Palazzo Medici, Rosa even enlists the reluctant help of famed artist and local misanthrope, Michelangelo.

When former US Navy specialists Carter Hunt and Jayden Takada join forces with acclaimed archaeologist Dr. Madison Chambers, they expect a routine transfer of artifacts from a desert excavation site to a city museum. Instead, they plunge into the shadows of a vast black market antiquities operation. But there's more at stake than just preserving history: a radical Taliban faction seeks fragments of the fabled True Cross of Jesus, believing that uniting them will bestow unparalleled might.

Anno Domini 1626. Uno spirito malvagio si aggira per l’ex capitale estense. Molti lo credono il malach ah-mavet, l’angelo della morte. Di sicuro è un assassino spietato, che profana i corpi delle vittime per compiere un rituale arcano. L’incarico di fermarlo è affidato all’inquisitore Girolamo Svampa, che il Sant’Uffizio, stanco della sua condotta ribelle, vuole allontanare da Roma. Ma non saranno solo gli omicidi a tenere occupato lo Svampa. Perché nella vicenda si inserirà anche Margherita Basile, ammaliante donna d’intrigo della corte papalina, e il suo intervento risulterà quanto mai decisivo.

Alessandria d’Egitto, 112 dopo Cristo. Il ritrovamento del corpo senza testa del governatore romano Servio Simile spinge l’imperatore Traiano a inviare con urgenza dall’Urbe il suo fidato amico e compagno d’armi Gaio Ticio Massimo. Mentre l’Egitto centrale brucia nella rivolta, nell’oscurità dei vicoli di Alessandria esseri soprannaturali compiono la loro sanguinaria vendetta. Per liberare il fido Sosia dai contrabbandieri che lo hanno rapito, Massimo e il centurione Decio si imbarcheranno, in compagnia di una donna bellissima e misteriosa, in un viaggio sul Nilo che li porterà verso la guerra.

Winter 1946. One cold dark night, as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war life, a young nurse goes missing from the South London Hospital for Women & Children. Her body is discovered hours later behind a locked door. Two women from the hospital join forces to investigate the case. Determined not to return to the futures laid out for them before the war, the unlikely sleuths must face their own demons and dilemmas as they pursue - The Midnight Man.