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Dall’autore della fortunata saga Blackwater, un altro romanzo impossibile da interrompere. Alla fine del XIX secolo, nel cuore del famigerato Triangolo Nero, una ricca famiglia cerca di affermarsi pretendendo di liberare la città dalla corruzione. Gli Stallworth, guidati con pugno di ferro dal loro patriarca, l’influente e implacabile giudice James Stallworth, coadiuvato dal figlio Edward, predicatore dai sermoni incendiari, e dal genero Duncan Phair, giovane avvocato dalla carriera promettente, hanno un piano impeccabile: estirpare il male annientando una famiglia di corrotti e criminali: gli Shanks.

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...

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.

Northmont, Connecticut, seemed to be haunted by ghosts, ghouls, and impossibilities, until Dr. Sam Hawthorne explained the seemingly impossible. All But Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam's most extraordinary cases solved between 1936 and 1940, including a newly murdered corpse in a sealed tomb in a cemetery; a body in a scarecrow; jug that turns water into wine—poisoned wine; a disappearance from a swimming pool; a baby who becomes a child's doll on the way to being baptized; an unfound door; a room that appears and vanishes; And eight other ingenious problems for Dr. Sam.

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.

Parigi, autunno 1913. Nubi di tempesta gravano sull'Europa; i dissidi politici tra Est e Ovest rischiano di degenerare in un apocalittico conflitto armato. In realtà una guerra è già in corso; la stanno combattendo misteriose entità per il possesso del "Manoscritto di Voynich", un testo esoterico che nessuno finora è riuscito a decifrare.

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.

When the woodcutter's only daughter is murdered, the bailiff tries to arrest Bertwoin the Plowman, who flees to a master alchemist and his professional virgin, Flowia, for help. Bertwoin must find the brutal killer while the grieving woodcutter, the relentless bailiff, and righteous monks pursue him. His search for clues takes him to the corpse room inside an abbey, to a torture pit near the Devil’s Doorstep, and to the accursed home of a heretic priest.

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.

Am 21. Januar 1968 stürzt nahe der Thule-Air-Base der US-Luftwaffe an der Nordwestküste Grönlands ein B-52 Bomber ab. An Bord: vier scharfe Wasserstoffbomben. Es kommt zu Explosionen, aber das Schlimmste bleibt der Welt erspart: zur nuklearen Kettenreaktion kommt es nicht. Doch Schnee und Eis...

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

On Christmas Eve, 1984, two Mexican veterinarian dropouts broke into the Museo Nacional del Antropologia. They stole over one hundred ancient Mayan treasures found in the tomb of K’inich Janaab’ Pakal, a discovery that rivals Tutankhamun in beauty, wealth, and cultural significance. The burglary became known as the El Robo del Siglo: The Theft of the Century.

Cowardice in a legionary carries a heavy punishment: the sentence of decimation—to live or die at the whim of the gods with the unlucky ones clubbed to death by their fellow soldiers. Ursus, the man killed in Quintus's group, lays a heavy charge on the youth, asking him to look after the remaining men and to take care of his family back in Rome.

Rachel and Talia Fontenot are sisters born into brutal, rural poverty of southeastern Louisiana in the 1960s. Raised with one another until tragic circumstances intervene and they are separated. Talia disappearing into a life of drugs and petty crime, Rachel fleeing to New Orleans. It is now present day and Talia has been missing for many years. Rachel in New Orleans is living what appears to be the perfect life, but underneath she is struggling with constant anxiety, prescription drug abuse and tremendous grief over the loss of her missing sister.

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?