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2. Jahrhundert nach Christus, unter der Herrschaft von Kaiser Hadrian: Über der römischen Provinzstadt Vindobona braut sich neues Unheil zusammen. Inmitten eines verheerenden Schneesturms treffen im Haus des germanischen Händlers Thanar die Anhänger zweier geächteter Kulte aufeinander –...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3:14 in the morning. Evolutionary biologist Thomas Wren is staring at a watch that should not exist. It arrived without a return address. Engraved inside the case: C.D. H.M.S. Beagle. 1831. The teeth of its escape wheel have...

London, 1854. On the fog-shrouded brink of the Crimean War, Ambassador Fedor Zinchenko holds a single secret to force peace: a scandalous, one-of-a-kind daguerreotype of a 17-year-old Princess Victoria. His plan: blackmail the Crown. Before he can act, Zinchenko is murdered and the secret is stolen. The last hope for peace dies. The weapon meant to prevent the war now belongs to the very men who crave it.

Als ihre gemeinnützige Arbeit Dorothea Truelove zum Oakgate-Gefängnis führt, freut sie sich über die Gelegenheit, die Theorie der Phrenologie zu erforschen. Doch als Dorothea die junge Schneiderin Ruth Butterham trifft, stellt sie sich ganz andere Fragen: Ist es möglich, mit Nadel und Faden zu töten? Denn Ruth schreibt ihre Verbrechen einer übernatürlichen Kraft zu, die ihren Stichen innewohnt. Die Geschichte, die sie über ihre tödlichen Kreationen zu erzählen hat – von Bitterkeit und Verrat, von Tod und Kleidern – wird Dorotheas Glauben an die Wissenschaft erschüttern.

À Narbonne, un chasseur de trésors est retrouvé assassiné chez lui, le crâne fracassé. La veille, il avait confié à Pierre Cavaignac et Marjolaine Karadec, archéologues et francs-maçons, un extraordinaire rouleau de cuivre gravé en araméen et en grec ancien. Cavaignac et Karadec...

Book 1 The Alexander Wolfe SeriesBest selling author with sales of over one million booksChristmas at Caxton Manor promises to be a festive gathering of old friends, but the holiday cheer turns deadly when an uninvited guest, the ruthless industrialist Boris Bullen, is found murdered in the snow. Called in to discreetly investigate, the enigmatic Alexander Wolfe arrives to find himself embroiled in a perplexing mystery with echoes of a past crime.

The brand-new Miss Marple mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Foley comes to life with a stunning multicast narration featuring Hayley Atwell, Mara Wilson, Adeel Akhtar, and Lucy Boynton. High in the Swiss Alps, accessible only by a single, winding railway, stands the...

A brutal, gripping tale of courage, loyalty, and sacrifice set in a horrifying 18th-century Colonial America. Amidst the brutality of the French and Indian War, an officer in the legendary Rogers’ Rangers is thrust into a nightmare that will challenge both his leadership and his lifelong quest...

Am Ende der Tod. Aber warum? Die Umstände sind mysteriös und niemand ist in der Lage, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen. Falls es jemand überhaupt versucht ... oder will. Drei fatale Geschichten, in denen die Leser klüger sind als alle Beteiligten...

The Ninth Templar: Guardian of the Grail What if Christ wrote his own gospel…and the Knights Templar discovered it beneath Solomon’s Temple? Their betrayal on Friday the 13th of October in 1307 was not about cancelling debts or seizing their treasury, it was about burying discoveries that...

The Four Winds meets Bonnie and Clyde in this exhilarating historical thriller in which an unforgettable mother races to find the gangster she once loved—before the law gets to him first. "The best gangster novel I’ve ever read." —Stephen King “This story accomplishes the near-impossible...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! "The Munich Affair is a master class in tension and a perfect historical thriller.” —Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls “This World War II-era thriller feels startlingly modern and essential. As you watch a detective, a...

¿Quién financió realmente el ascenso de Hitler? Mientras la historia oficial señala a Hitler como el gran protagonista de una tragedia mundial, detrás de él operó una red de banqueros, industriales, políticos y espías que ayudó a moldear el destino del siglo XX.

Award-winning writer delivers a pulse-pounding espionage thriller. Missing soldiers, MI6 secrets and European partisans collide in a deadly game where the lines between lies and reality are fast disintegrating. In the dying days of the Second World War, a new conflict is about to ignite. May...

Journey to the Scottish Highlands for the further adventures of David Balfour as he grows from boy to man. Stevenson's approach to the material adjusts appropriately, becoming a hybrid adventure novel and a novel of manners. David's adventures never run in a straight line, as he must now outwit the political machinations of the Campbells, who are determined to see him hijacked in one way or another. Alan Breck Stewart aids in more ways than one, as David's tumultuous journey comes to its riveting and satisfying conclusion.

It's 1643 and England stands divided: King against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother. For Captain Stryker, scarred veteran of the brutal wars in the low countries, the rights and wrongs of the Royalist cause mean little. Stryker's loyalty is to his band of soldiers —...

If any man can keep his nerve in a war tearing England apart, it's Captain Stryker. The year is 1642. England is bleeding. King and Parliament have plunged the country into civil war, and no road is safe. Captain Stryker didn't return home out of loyalty to a king. He came back to face his enemy...

A survivor accused of a decade-old grisly murder. A disgraced lawyer with everything to prove. And the only witness has stood watch for more than a millennium. Northern Michigan is a land of ghosts and sweeping vistas. In a small town, an ancient oak stands heavy with grief, its twisted limbs...

A gripping tale of moral courage in the shadow of victory—where the end of war begins history’s most perilous reckoning. With Hitler's suicide marking the end of the Third Reich and chaos consuming a shattered Germany, Captain Edward Hume continues to lead his bomb disposal squad—The...

Cuando en 1871 la intrépida Philomela Drax recibe una carta de su abuelo temiéndose lo peor, acude en su ayuda. Pero el tiempo apremia porque Katie, líder del clan, una joven despiadada con el don de la clarividencia y una notable habilidad criminal con el martillo, está a punto de lograr su objetivo. Comienza entonces una persecución desenfrenada, desde las polvorientas calles de un pueblo de Nueva Jersey hasta las relucientes aceras de Saratoga, pasando por los muelles de Nueva York. Philo sabe que es un duelo a muerte.