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Cosa nasconde il sottosuolo di Castel del Monte, l'enigmatico maniero di Federico II, da otto secoli abbarbicato su una collina solitaria nel cuore delle Murge? La notte del 17 luglio 1994 tutto il mondo è davanti al televisore per seguire la finale del campionato mondiale di calcio tra Italia e Brasile, quando Paolo Manfrè, giovane geologo dell'Università di Bari, l'amico fraterno Mauro Petruzzelli, il geofisico americano Robert Trimble e l'archeologa salentina Alessandra Bianco, decidono di esplorare il sottosuolo del castello. Ciò che troveranno sconvolgerà per sempre le loro vite.

Ominous Odyssey is a thriller and a love story. It takes place four years after teenager Amos McCabe escaped from kidnappers. Now, with a degree in archeology and anthropology, he gets an invitation to work at a dig site in Italy south of Rome. Archeologists discovered the bones of nine Neanderthals. The young man can’t wait to learn the secrets of these prehistoric people.

Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the newspaper. With her uncle warning her to keep her detecting activities private, Cleo agrees to meet the blackmailer when they return to London. But when the woman is seen getting on the train but not off, Cleo grows concerned.

In 1784, victory hadn't brought peace, only new shadows. Beneath jubilant celebrations, secret wars thrive as hidden alliances fracture, and coded whispers hint at devastating betrayal. Espionage, intrigue, and forbidden passions entangle a haunted spy. Every move risks exposure, every trust is fragile, and loyalty is a deadly gamble. Peace carries the highest cost, and heroes find themselves lost between honor and survival.

Minutes before twelve on a night in 1943, Detective Dan Brady is summoned to a churchyard where a woman has been found strangled. He soon discounts the theory that the woman was killed during a mugging, and an interview with her widowed husband yields more questions than answers. When a man's body is found on a rocky islet a few days later, Danny connects him to the woman's murder, and soon suspects mob involvement.

1912 yılının Mart ayında Napoli'deki limanda büyük bir okyanus gemisinden yük boşaltılırken tuhaf bir kaza gerçekleşir. Gazeteler bu kazaya kapsamlı şekilde yer verip fantastik biçimde süslü haberlerle duyururlar olayı. Ancak hiçbir şey göründüğü gibi değildir. Evine gitmek üzere gemiye binen bir Avrupalı, herkesten saklanmak için yalnızca geceleri güverteye çıkan bir doktorla karşılaşır ve doktorla soylu bir İngiliz kadın arasındaki esrarengiz sırrın ortağı olur.

AD 652. After surviving dark intrigues at the Merovingian court of Frankia, Beobrand is finally able to undertake the mission his queen set him: to escort a party of pilgrims to the holy city of Rome. But Beobrand's life is never easy. His party includes a scheming novice churchman whose ambition is boundless, and a mysterious envoy from Frankia. Entering the lands of the Langobards, Beobrand discovers unexpected similarities to his native Northumbria in their speech and customs... and their willingness to spill blood.

Lebanon, 2006. The Israel–Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart and the country is on the brink of chaos. The CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist. They turn to young Lebanese-American CIA agent, Analise, who has the perfect plan. However, Analise begins to suspect that Mossad has a motive of its own. She alerts the agency but their response is for her to drop it. Analise is now the target and there is no one she can trust.

In the frigid winter of 1944, amidst the chaos of the Battle of the Bulge, US sniper Caje Cole fights for survival in the encircled town of Bastogne. With Panzer tanks and a deadly enemy sniper on his heels, Cole and his squad are given a high-stakes mission: escorting a captured German officer to headquarters for interrogation. But this is no ordinary prisoner—he's wanted for war crimes by the Americans and considered a traitor by his own countrymen.

From the shadowy corners of the dark web to the historic halls of MIT, Paul Knox, a cyber forensics expert and former Air Force officer, is thrust into a high-stakes battle against a ruthless enemy. As he races to uncover a plot that threatens to plunge America into chaos, Paul must protect his brilliant daughter, Emma, whose cutting-edge research holds the key to the nation's survival.

Winter 1924. When Lady Eleanor Swift unexpectedly finds herself a guest of the reclusive Duke of Auldwyke, she’s determined to enjoy Christmas with all the trimmings at his sprawling manor house. And that includes kisses under the mistletoe and cozying up by the fire with her fiancé, dashing detective Hugh Seldon. Instead, the season of goodwill turns frosty as she finds the Duke’s studious secretary, Mr Porritt, dead in the storeroom. Clasped in his chilly hand is a golden pendant in the shape of a rose.

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.

يواصل الكاتب ابراهيم عيسى نبش التاريخ ويأبى إلّا أن يدخل جوانبه الشائكة فبعد تناوله الفترة المسكوت عنها من التاريخ الإسلامي عقب وفاة الرسول في روايته "رحلة الدّم"...

Internationally bestselling author William Boyd offers his most exhilarating novel yet, following a reluctant spy drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession. Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother’s life. Every night, when sleep finally comes...

A political rally ends in tragedy when Persis kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate India's divisive Home Minister, a man calling for war with neighbouring Pakistan. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down his co-conspirators, Persis is given a second case when the burned body of an unidentified white man is found on a Bombay beach. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life, as all around him the country tears itself apart as a prelude to war...

One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On board are the Governor of Nevada, the daughter of the fort’s commander and a US marshal escorting a notorious outlaw. Between them and safety are the hostile Paiute Indians – and a man who will stop at nothing, not even murder…

«Esta novela quema como el hielo», dijo en su día el propio Charles Baudelaire, y no se equivocó en absoluto, pues en el corazón del relato anida un glaciar, y allí, en la gélida llama de los hielos perpetuos, arde todo: cuerpo, alma y sentimientos. Lo que le otorga a "Las relaciones...

Novela policial e histórica, thriller que emana del resultado de una investigación minuciosa en el Archivo General de la Nación, esta obra no está hecha de la tensión entre un asesino y un detective en busca de las huellas para encarcelarlo. Zigzagueando entre el pasado y el presente, La región crepuscular urde la historia de una periodista que quiere explicar las causas del machismo en México con el conjunto de discursos, muchos ya olvidados, que provocó la ola de feminicidios de los años cuarenta.

It’s Mallory Atkinson’s first Christmas in Scotland. Victorian Scotland, that is. Also, as the twenty-first-century detective learns, Christmas really isn’t a thing in Victorian Scotland. It’s all about Hogmanay. But her boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, treats her to an early gift of tickets to the event of the season: a Charles Dickens reading. There, they bump into Lady Inglis—the lovely widow who has sent Gray sexy letters trying to entice him back to her bed.

The United States uses a terrible new weapon to bring Japan to its knees. Adelaide is devastated, but then, to her surprise, she is given her freedom, and a mission to travel to her shattered homeland, and there, do what she can to aid in its recovery.