検索キーワード： 歴史

#1 bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in a thrilling blend of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a...

1735, London. Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword from the age he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked—his father murdered and his sister taken by armed men—Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills. With his family destroyed, he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer. Consumed by his thirst for revenge, Haytham begins a quest for retribution, trusting no one and questioning everything he has ever known.

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...

Rache und Blut Eine spannende Geschichte von Marius Buckley-Quinn Eine Gruppe die scheinbar wahr los zusammengewürfelt wurde wacht in einem Schulgebäude auf. Keiner kann sich erinnern wie er dorthin gekommen ist. Als die Gruppe merkt, dass sie in der Schule einschlossen ist, taucht eine...

Wien, 1531: Die türkische Belagerung ist vorüber, und doch kommt die Stadt nicht zur Ruhe. Der Mathematiker Sebastian Grün wird beauftragt, eine Reihe rätselhafter Todesfälle aufzuklären, tatkräftig unterstützt von seiner Freundin, der Winzertochter Fanny Roth. Alle Morde weisen auf Verbindungen zu den osmanischen Belagerern hin und versetzen die Bürger Wiens in Angst und Schrecken.

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS. EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT - "...the screams of the wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on Earth."

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe’s experiences in India. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo of Mysore’s forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a...

When a mission of critical importance arises, Lord Lynsley, the enigmatic head of Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Extraordinary Young Ladies, is forced to take on the assignment himself. But when things take an unexpected turn, he has has no choice but to ask for help from a former agent whose injury during a botched mission ten years ago forced her to retire from the elite unit of unconventional lady spies.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes a novel set in 1940s London about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another. "A masterpiece of a historical thriller." —Lisa...

THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Everyone believes that Lenora Hope is a mass murderer. When the Hope family was massacred decades ago, she was the only one left after that tragic night. Mute, paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora...

Wieland (1798) is an early American novel set in 1760s Pennsylvania. Based on a real case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the story is imbued with suspense and intrigue, adopting Gothic devices such as ventriloquism and spontaneous combustion. The satanic interloper Carwin exercises his power over the narrator, Clara Wieland, wreaking havoc over the Wieland family with disastrous consequences. A central theme in the novel is the issue of the values that formed the basis of a new democratic and republican America.

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, book two of the All Souls series. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes...

Shrewd bankers, astute politicians, godfathers of the Renaissance, glittering dukes... how history remembers Florence's most notorious family. But the Medici and their bloody path to power was built on murder, intrigue and conspiracies that stretched across three centuries. Florence, 1429...

he second instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance. Florence, 1469. The Medici family is preparing for the marriage of its son and heir Lorenzo. His heart belongs to another, but this union...

Cuando los dioses callan y los reyes mueren, la historia la escriben los que sobreviven. Un thriller lleno de conspiración, pasión y peligro. Aristóteles es el filósofo más prestigioso de Grecia y el maestro de Alejandro Magno, el conquistador invencible que ha sometido todas las ciudades...

In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way north to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper. But fate has other plans. 

Historia del náufrago español Gonzalo Guerrero, un adversario conquistador español.

"Arthur is concerned about the Nazis' latest terror weapon," Guy said. "Rockets; they have the potential to cause death, destruction and chaos in Britain. He wants us to locate the launch site so that the RAF can bomb it.""How do we achieve that?" I asked."The Resistance in Paris think that they have identified the site," Guy said. "Arthur wants us to confirm their suspicions.""Why doesn't the local Sherlock network deal with this?" Mimi asked."Recently," Guy said, "the Gestapo captured their wireless operator. Their network is in chaos. Trust is at a low ebb.

There are towns born from rivers, towns born from railroads, and towns born from men with money and matches. But Blackburn was born from a grave. Its heartbeat is the hush beneath the soil. Its breath is the wind slipping through the cedar bones of the houses. Its memory is the echo of every door that refuses to stay shut. People who come here learn to move gently, to tread with the respect you’d give a sleeping animal. Because Blackburn can dream… and when it dreams, it dreams of you. It dreams of your footsteps, your mistakes, your blood, your promises. It dreams in hunger.

Paris, 1942. Servane a dix-sept ans. La faim, le rationnement et la peur des arrestations règlent ses journées. Pour elle, endurer, c'est rester du bon côté. Paul, ancien militaire désabusé, trafique avec tous. Pour lui, profiter, c'est se maintenir.