検索キーワード： 歴史

'Cooke is known for her ability to craft spellbinding tales filled with dread and terror, but also beauty' Scots Magazine Three women. Seven centuries. One unbreakable blood curse… It began in fire… Paris, 1307. When eleven-year-old Princess Isabella of France watches four men burn at the...

Impossible d'oublier le Dr John Archibald Cuthbert une fois qu'on l'a rencontré. Grand, raffiné, brillant mais tourmenté, ce médecin légiste écossais est le meilleur que Scotland Yard ait jamais connu. Durant l'hiver 1928, deux corps sont retrouvés sous la terre d'un parc londonien. Pour le légiste, chaque découverte dans la salle carrelée de la morgue menace de fissurer le masque du professionnel et de réveiller le soldat traumatisé enfoui en lui.

June 1944: One weather forecast will determine if D-Day succeeds—or becomes history's greatest military disaster. USAAF Captain Andy Lockhart stands at the heart of history's most pivotal operation, providing the meteorological intelligence that will guide Eisenhower's decision to send 150,000...

Sie holen ihn beim Abendessen. Als er aufwacht, liegt er auf Beton, in einer russischen Zelle. Matt Drake hat gerade einen Waffenhändler und dessen nordkoreanische Partner ausgeschaltet. Das SPEAR-Team macht ein paar Tage Pause, ein neues Hauptquartier gibt es noch nicht — und genau in diesem...

Impatient butcher Richard Turpin wants his share of the emerging wealth of the new United Kingdom. After poaching for easy profits, he finds himself on the run and falls in with the vicious Gregory Gang. As his comrades are sent to the gallows, Turpin evades the hangman and becomes the country's most wanted man.

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series - a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic...

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series—a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic...

DIE MATT DRAKE ABENTEUER Weltumspannende Schauplätze, atemlose Action und die größten Rätsel der Menschheit. In Amerika verwandeln sich scheinbar unbescholtene Bürger von einem Moment auf den anderen in gnadenlose Attentäter. Niemand kennt das Muster, niemand weiß, wer als Nächster zur...

Im eisigen Londoner Winter 1683 kreuzen sich die Wege der willensstarken Emma, in die Ehe mit einem Adeligen gezwungen, und der rätselhaften Ruth. Diese sinnt auf Rache, nachdem ihr skrupelloser Mann, ein Spion der Krone, sie töten wollte. Als sich herausstellt, dass beide Ehemänner in eine Verschwörung gegen König Charles II. verstrickt sind, verbünden sich die Frauen, um den Staatsstreich zu verhindern.

THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the Great War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting they form an extraordinary bond that neither privilege nor prejudice...

I died a fortnight ago this coming Thursday. It was a terrifically unpleasant experience—being murdered, I mean to say. Raven Helen Allan has always been haunted by witchcraft. Since the death of her beloved mother, she has soothed herself by speaking words into spells—a proclivity enhanced...

THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the First World War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first meeting they form an extraordinary bond that neither privilege nor...

London, 1882. American agents Henry and Johanna McClellan need the help of the World’s End Bureau to find Bruno Schmidt, a cunning lecturer who cajoled a young American woman called Ava into eloping to Europe. Now Ava’s father wants her back. Though the McClellans have followed the missing pair’s trail to London, they can’t find their way around the busy city without help. PI duo Lily and Felix accept the case and soon discover a promising clue regarding Bruno and Ava’s whereabouts.

It's 1811. Wellington has finally driven Napoleon's armies from Portugal, but the cost has been high. Fearing a French counter-attack, the British must rally their tired men and go on the offensive. Lieutenant Hamish Williams of the 106th Foot relishes the call to action. Spurred on by the...

Año 1563. En agradecimiento por la ayuda divina en la batalla de San Quintín, el rey Felipe II ordena alzar un edificio imponente que refleje la magnitud de su fe y su poder imperial. Una construcción que será a la vez monasterio, palacio y panteón real: San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Todo apunta a que una mano siniestra ronda por los pasillos del futuro monasterio, sembrando el caos entre los trabajadores y dejando una estela de cadáveres a su paso.

An der nordfriesischen Küste vor Husum lebt es sich beschaulich. Die ersten Tage des neuen Jahres pendeln zwischen geschäftigem Treiben und entspannter Gemütlichkeit. Dann jedoch kündigt sich zum pünktlich zum Jubiläum der Januarflut von 1976 wieder eine Sturmflut an. Während die meisten Bewohner der Althaatstinger Marsch mit typisch norddeutscher Gelassenheit abwarten, wird Cafébesitzerin Lene mit jeder Stunde, die die Flut näher rückt, panischer.

THE WALL MAY HAVE FALLEN. BUT THERE ARE STILL NAZIS IN BERLIN. Wannsee, 1942 Fifteen of the most powerful men in the Third Reich meet in secret. Their goal: the implementation of the Final Solution. West Berlin, 1990 Anglo-German journalist Michael Braun makes a living tracking down old Nazis...

The gripping psychological tale of a young doctor who fights to escape an early-1900s Philadelphia asylum―and expose the plot to destroy him. Philadelphia, 1905. A month ago, Owen Townsend was a medical intern primed for success. Now he is locked in Fairmount Lodge, an asylum where the public...

The brand new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyteller Marius Gabriel. Tatra Mountains, Poland, 1942. Tamar Varga joins the Polish Resistance Movement to take whatever revenge she can against the Nazis - having watched in horror as her Roma...

Fins on series capaç d'arribar per venjar la teva família? Quan l'any 1871 la intrèpida i arruïnada Philomela Drax rep una carta del seu avi en què li confessa que tem per la seva vida a causa d'una família sense escrúpols, els Slape, no dubta a acudir a ajudar-lo. Comença aleshores una persecució desenfrenada, des dels carrers polsegosos d'un poble de Nova Jersey fins a les voreres resplendents de Saratoga, passant pels molls de Nova York.