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Imprisoned in Damascus, Dragonetz suffers the mind games inflicted by his anonymous enemies as he is forced to remember the traumatic events of the crusade two years earlier. His military prowess is as valuable and dangerous to the balance of power as the priceless Torah he has to deliver to Jerusalem, and the key players want Dragonetz riding with them—or dead. Instead of remaining safely at home, Estela is desperate to rescue Dragonetz at all costs. She sets out for the Holy Land, never realizing that the person she thinks will be her knight's savior might actually be his doom.

Autumn, 1942. Rule breaker OSS Agent Conor Thorn is assigned a mission to help the Allied war effort when a key Swedish cryptographer stationed in England goes missing. Thorn is determined to find him before critical information falls into enemy hands, but when his MI6 colleague vanishes trailing the code-breaker to Stockholm, Thorn is plunged yet again into a sinister Nazi conspiracy. Can Thorn stop prized secrets from triggering more wartime carnage?

There might be a war on, but that doesn't stop Georgina Garrett running her business with an iron fist. No one said running the Battersea gang was going to be easy, but her unflinchable nature makes Georgina unstoppable. With a role that requires a ruthless ability to seek revenge and pay out crippling punishments, Georgina's enemies are growing in number. With a target on her back, Georgina knows she must do everything to protect her family. But, with the loss of someone closest to her, can Georgina rise up from the ashes or allow a usurper take her crown?

Wide Is the Gate followed the 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning Dragon’s Teeth and introduces Lanny as a secret double agent fighting the Nazis as a supporter of the resistance in Germany. Lanny is living in England with his wife of almost five years, Irma Barnes, the twenty-three-million-dollar heiress. But Lanny is conflicted continuously in his heart and soul for the workers and social justice. He attempts to commit to Irma, to “behave” himself and lead a normal aristocratic life.

2013. Frankie Gray has come to the island for the summer, hoping for one last shot at reconnecting with her teenage daughter, Izzy, before starting a job as a deputy sheriff. They are staying with her mother, Diana, at The Fairmile Inn, soon to be a boutique hotel, but when an elderly nun is found dead in suspicious circumstances, and then a tiny skeleton is discovered in the grounds of the house, Frankie is desperate for answers.

Una aventura vertiginosa que mezcla el sabor más auténtico de los clásicos de Verne con la ficción especulativa más avanzada. Estamos en París, a una semana de la Exposición Universal. La Torre Eiffel está a punto de ser inaugurada, pero algo más se mueve en la ciudad: acaba de llegar un circo de autómatas dirigido por un personaje tan misterioso como siniestro. Nuestro héroe, Fabien, hijo de un relojero, investigará su procedencia junto con Madeleine, su mejor amiga.

Este nuevo misterio histórico y truculento de Juan Ramón Biedma se adentra en las cloacas de la realeza a principio del siglo XX. Un detective recibe el encargo de localizar unas tempranas películas snuff en las que podrían estar implicadas las altas esferas españolas. En su búsqueda, recorrerá la Sevilla y el Madrid de los años 20 hasta adentrarse en los secretos más oscuros de nuestro país.

Ein dunkles Geheimnis der Habsburger. Ein verloren geglaubter Schatz. Eine atemlose Jagd in die Vergangenheit. Der Thriller "Der Stein des Schicksals" führt Tom Wagner und Hellen de Mey in die dunkle Vergangenheit der Habsburger und zu einem Schatz, der seit langer Zeit verschollen scheint. Durch halb Europa geht die atemlose Jagd und die Überraschung am Ende bleibt nicht aus: Eine Verschwörung, die in den letzten Tagen des ersten Weltkriegs ihren Anfang nahm, reicht bis in die heutige Zeit!

«Pero ¿quién demonios es esa mujer?» era la pregunta más escuchada en los despachos de la CIA. ¿Quién movía los hilos del espionaje mundial, frustraba operaciones de inteligencia, retorcía voluntades, mudaba de piel, encabezaba misiones imposibles, descubría secretos de Estado y dibujaba en el tablero de la Guerra Fría la amenaza de una Tercera Guerra Mundial?

Dos historias narradas en paralelo, la primera trascurre en la judería de Valencia de finales del siglo XIV, dónde unos niños se tropiezan por causalidad con una sociedad secreta. Todos los personajes existieron en su época y todos los hechos narrados se corresponden con la realidad histórica. La segunda historia es protagonizada por un grupo de amigos en la Valencia actual, que deben resolver un misterio centenario.

Er soll in Danzig ein Morddezernat aufbauen. Sie hat in Wien bei Sigmund Freud studiert und gelernt, dass Träume eine eigene Bildersprache besitzen, deren Symbole entschlüsselt werden können. Zwei mysteriöse Todesfälle führen den Berliner Kommissar Peter Jordan und die junge, selbstbewusste Ärztin Nina Norge im Danzig der späten zwanziger Jahre zusammen. Gemeinsam versuchen sie, dem Täter auf die Spur zu kommen—er mit den neuesten Erkenntnissen moderner Kriminalistik und sie mit Hilfe der Traumdeutung ihres Lehrmeisters Sigmund Freud.

It is AD 60. The hard-won province of Britannia is a thorn in the side of the Roman Empire, its tribes swift to anger and relentless in their bloody harassment of the Roman military. Far from being a peaceful northern enclave, Britannia is a seething mass of bitter rebels and unlikely alliances against the common enemy. Corruption amongst greedy officials diverts resources from the locals who need them. For the military, it's a never-ending fight to maintain a fragile peace.

London, 1628. Nicolaes de Pelgrom, assassin and devoted servant of George Villiers, will do whatever his master asks of him—even if that means enduring the perilous voyage to the Indies to exact a grieving widow's revenge. Making that same journey is Jeronimus Cornelisz, a conniving apothecary determined to escape the backstreets of Amsterdam and become rich beyond imagination. Hired by a criminal mastermind to escort precious cargo to the Indies, he will kill anyone who stands in his way.

It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate for redemption from her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country.

London, 1953. Harry Towers is a recently retired, and even more recently widowed, British intelligence officer. After a night spent drinking away his sorrows, he is awakened by a phone call with chilling news. His estranged son Sean has gone missing in Tehran after writing a damning article about government officials in the opium trade. Harry springs to action, eager to reunite with his son. When he arrives in Tehran, a city roiling on the brink of a historic coup, Harry joins forces with Sean’s Iranian girlfriend Shahnaz—seemingly the only other person interested in finding him.

As the people of Annecy in the French Alps meet the Gestapo’s brutality with surprising resistance, a teen-aged girl cannot rest until she solves the mystery of a death in her family. Aurelie watches as her father places a shrouded body on the north side of the roof of the family home. It’s winter, under a Nazi-declared state of siege, and they must wait until the spring thaw for the burial. But who died? And why is no one speaking to her anymore? Aurelie cannot rest until she discovers the truth and fights to prevent the same terrible fate from happening to her best friend.

What started as a routine investigation of three small-time criminals with seemingly little in common exploded into a conspiracy of nation-toppling proportions. Walt is a hardened NYPD detective assigned to a case that takes him from the seedy underbelly of Harlem to the weird and haunted world of 1950s Haiti. True crime writer Paul Merlino (author of Homicides in Harlem) brings to light the true story of a series of murders that connected politicians, the mob, and even intelligence agencies that threatened the very ecosystem of the delicately poised Caribbean life.

The Maze Genealogy Investigators are on the trail of a cold case, following another message from the medium Claire Lewis. A disturbing discovery at a ruined country house and the unearthing of family papers provide the missing clues to the fate of police detective William McRoberts who disappeared without trace in the 1870s. Maggie and Nick travel to Liverpool and North Wales to see if they can crack open the case and finally be able to tell the McRoberts family what happened to their ancestor.

On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth. The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction. A reckoning beyond Eve’s imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong. And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered.

1803. The Napoleonic Wars. A Royal Navy warship is ordered to pursue an enemy frigate to the icy waters far south in the Indian Ocean. There, it must capture the enemy ship and retrieve a mysterious sea chest, contents unknown, failure not permitted. For the determined young captain and his eager crew, this already dangerous mission turns into a battle with a mysterious vessel that appears not in the sea, but unbelievably, impossibly, in the sky above. But nothing could prepare the crew for what lay beyond the 50th latitude of south.