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Una lettera ingiallita dal tempo scivola in una cassetta della posta: sono passati cinquant'anni da quando è stata spedita. È il 1992, e quel messaggio inatteso riporta tutto indietro, a un mondo oscurato dalle tende nere del Blitz londinese e ai segreti inconfessabili sepolti tra le mura di Milderhurst Castle. Per Edie Burchill, quella busta non è soltanto posta smarrita: è la chiave per scardinare il passato enigmatico di sua madre e scoprire una verità rimasta ostinatamente nascosta per mezzo secolo.

When the body of a young woman is exhumed from unconsecrated ground—her remains marked by signs of a deviant burial—Jason and Daniel are drawn into a case steeped in fear and folklore. Whispers of the occult and tales of vampires, which had recently gripped London society, force them to confront the strange and the supernatural. But the more they uncover about the victim, the more the bizarre precautions taken with her body seem misplaced. Was she truly a vampire, a witch, or merely a tragic figure whose brutal death and macabre burial were meant to stoke fear—or silence the curious?

It's May 1643, and the Royalist cause is reeling. In the bloody aftermath of Sourton Down, Captain Stryker and his men are retreating across the wild borderlands of Dartmoor – fighting just to survive. Then Stryker captures a Parliamentarian ammunition wagon from under the nose of ruthless...

Soon to be a new Netflix drama series starring Mia McKenna-Bruce “It’s odd, isn’t it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?” In the sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, Superintendent Battle must solve a practical joke gone horribly wrong. Gerald Wade is among the many...

"You could get addicted to this series. Easily." --The New York Times Book Review 1788--Bahamas Squadron . . . A fighter, rogue, and ladies man, Alan Lewrie has done the unthinkable and gotten himself hitched--to a woman and a ship! The woman is the lovely Caroline Chiswick. The ship is the gun...

The throne is never safe...especially in Rome AD 60. Rome stands at the height of its power – glittering with wealth, drowning in intrigue. On Palatine Hill, Nero Claudius Caesar rules as Emperor, a young man adored for his beauty and brilliance, feared for his temper, intoxicated by his own...

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharoah’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea…...

Katherine Armstrong planned every detail of her birthday weekend on a private island in the Everglades: the guest list, the menu, the flowers, the entertainment. She even arranged to keep the water at a safe distance. But when a storm tears through the Glades, the power goes out, the phones die...

Eine Verschwörung im Herzen des Reiches 63 vor Christus, eine Zeit des Friedens und des Wohlstands: Die Legionen der mächtigen Römischen Republik haben alle Feinde in die Knie gezwungen. Doch auf den Straßen Roms fließt das Blut. Während die Obrigkeit wegsieht, führt Decius Caecilius...

Smoke Jensen has come to Corpus Christi, Texas, to take delivery of 500 horses he purchased from and old friend. That's when a Mexican revolutionary, Colonel Butamante Keno, brazenly crashes the border, slaughters 22 innocent US citizens in cold blood, and steals a thousand head of cattle - along with 200 of Smoke's horses.

London, 1817: a city glittering with wealth and rotting with secrets. In the uneasy years after the Napoleonic Wars—before fingerprints, detectives, or organized policing—one man bears the burden of justice alone. Captain Winter, once a decorated soldier and now Whitehall's "special emissary," moves easily between the capital's extremes: the stately parlors where power is traded behind fans and smiles, and the shadowed alleys where danger has no name.

Em 1866, numa exclusiva escola inglesa, um jovem aluno se afoga em circunstâncias misteriosas. As repercussões de sua morte se estenderão por muitas décadas, em uma saga de traição, ganância, vingança e paixão.

“Robert Harris is, simply put, masterful.”—Karin Slaughter A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the Great War from the bestselling author of Act of Oblivion, Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, and Conclave. Summer 1914. A world on the...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Holidaying in the countryside and enjoying a quiet breakfast Hastings, Inspector Japp and Poirot are disturbed by a local police officer who needs their help to solve a case. A man has been found shot...

Brought to you by Penguin. ONLY SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. ONLY HE CAN TELL THE WORLD. VIENNA, 1946 A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins Nazi Europe in search of a new life MOSCOW, 1964 A rising star of the British diplomatic service whose job is not what it seems LONDON, THE PRESENT...

""A galloping adventure.” — The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the...

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in Eastern Europe...

Altaïr embarks on a formidable mission - one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed. To demonstrate his commitment, Altaïr must defeat nine deadly enemies, including Templar leader Robert de Sablé. Here, for the first time, Niccolò Polo, father of Marco, shares Altaïr's remarkable story: his ongoing battle with the Templar conspiracy; a family life that is as tragic as it is shocking; the betrayal of an old friend; and a journey that will ultimately change the course of history.

In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against...

Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "Silver Blaze" 13th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker.