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Akari is Outlander meets Farewell to Manzanar from New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. Applied quantum physicist Akari Sato is working late at Los Alamos National Laboratory one night when she hears commotion from her lab. She finds intruders dressed in dated clothing rifling...

A gripping 1930s-set whodunnit and love letter to Golden Age crime, this sequel to A Queer Case features amateur sleuth Selby Bigge, who must solve a murder at Lady Malcolm’s Servants’ Ball in London’s Royal Albert Hall. Perfect for fans of Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey novels. London...

These women have been through hell - but it isn't over yet. Bestselling Australian author Darry Fraser's latest historical novel will have you on the edge of your seat. In 1894, at the loneliest pub on the Murray River, four women are hiding from the truth - and it's threatening to find them...

England, 1940: Farmer John Cook finds his train stopped at gunpoint by men posing as Home Guard officers. As Cook confronts them, two men escape into the surrounding trees, carrying mysterious suitcases. Lady Margaret is tasked with deploying Land Girls to local farms to aid the war effort. But...

In einem New Yorker Museum taucht eine uralte Schriftrolle auf. Selena Connor wird zur Entschlüsselung der Inschrift hinzugezogen – und stößt auf Hinweise zu jenem legendären Schatz, den König Salomon zur Errichtung des ersten jüdischen Tempels zusammentrug. Irgendwo in der Wüste...

It's May 1935, and while the rest of England is decked in red, white and blue for the King's silver jubilee, the detective agency in Birmingham's Needless Alley remains unpatriotically down at heel. With the bailiffs at their door, private enquiry agents William Garrett and Phyll Hall are...

Bloomsbury presents The Last Handmaid by Clare Whitfield, read by Gemma Lawrence. There's more than one way to feed her hunger. 'An evocative and unsettling tale ... Chilling and thought-provoking' ANNA MAZZOLA, author of The Clockwork Girl 'Richly-drawn and atmospheric.... Whitfield is a...

Nick Harkaway's bestselling take on George Smiley is back, and this time the iconic spy is on the trail of a traitor right at the top of American intelligence… It is 1965, and the world lives on a knife edge. After the nuclear standoff in Cuba, and with Vietnam even now becoming a major...

Brought to you by Penguin. Inspector Frank Grasby returns in a gripping new murder mystery, from the bestselling author of Murder at Holly House. As the snow falls, the hunt for a killer begins... Frank Grasby’s father, the Reverend Cyril Grasby, is getting married at Rowntree Hall on...

A fiendish seasonal mystery in which Holmes and Watson must discover the connections between a series of Christmas-themed murders in London. For fans of Gareth Rubin’s Holmes and Moriarty. In the week before Christmas, Dr Watson convinces an unwilling Sherlock Holmes to accompany him into the...

A courageous young woman struggles to rise above her dirt-poor beginnings and outsmart a Nazi threat on U.S. soil during WWII in this thrilling Southern tale of bravery, love, and forgiveness. Sedalia, North Carolina, 1943. While war rages overseas, Laurette Lowe faces a more personal battle...

“William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun.”—Mick Herron “One of my favorite authors—he never disappoints.”—Kate Atkinson From the internationally bestselling author, the third literary thriller starring beloved...

A nun’s corpse leads beloved amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce to uncover decades-old secrets in this charming final novel in the New York Times bestselling series. “I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective I’ve ever read, full of realism, self-confidence, and...

***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MOLLY BELLE WRIGHT, MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES*** A nun’s corpse leads intrepid amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce to uncover decades-old secrets in this final instalment of the much beloved, New York Times bestselling series. “I...

Patrick Kittrick has wagered everything on two hundred acres of raw Australian bush. He has bled for every cleared acre and every planted row. Now his neighbour, Mervyn Craddock, means to take it from him. When asking fails, Craddock reaches for darker methods, and behind him stands Louis Proctor, a man who fled England one step ahead of a murder charge.

A wall to divide a country and spur it on to war! Felix Appius Julianus is brought to Britain in the wake of the disastrous loss of the Ninth Legion Hispana, to command its replacement, the Sixth Legion Victrix. Centurion Valerius Silvanus, posted to the doomed Ninth and arriving only in time to...

Set in the shadowy underbelly of 1950s Hollywood, BLACK MADONNA follows Lana Vesper, an iconic horror hostess bound to an ancient and malevolent deity, and Evan Cross, a rebellious actor drawn into the occult secrets of Tinseltown. As their bond deepens, Lana’s curse threatens to destroy them...

Maomao wurde aus ihrem Dienst im Inneren Palast entlassen. Nun soll sie als Angestellte dem Eunuchen Jinshi mit ihren Fähigkeiten direkt zur Seite stehen. Doch in der von Politik bestimmten Welt des Äußeren Palasts warten nicht nur zahlreiche Rätsel auf sie, die gelöst werden wollen, sondern auch so manche Hinterlist. Maomaos neues Leben als Detektivin am Hofe beginnt …

Matt Drakes Team zerfällt. Der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten wird entführt. Amerika und die Welt sitzen vor ihren Bildschirmen und starren ungläubig auf die Bilder: Washington DC wird angegriffen. Der Blutkönig ist zurück! Die Nacht war noch nie so dunkel, der Morgen noch nie so fern...

A wall to divide a country and spur it on to war! Felix Appius Julianus is brought to Britain in the wake of the disastrous loss of the Ninth Legion Hispana, to command its replacement, the Sixth Legion Victrix. Centurion Valerius Silvanus, posted to the doomed Ninth and arriving only in time to...