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The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

In 1577 England, Abraham Fleming, a disgraced Cambridge scholar, travels to the fog-shrouded village of Bungay to prove the existence of a mythological beast known as the Black Shuck. He collides with Edward Tanner, a cynical spy for the Crown, and Samuel, a haunted member of a secret order, who are investigating the same string of brutal, seemingly supernatural killings.

Le roi et Colbert sont forcés de faire appel aux inspecteurs Torsac et Laruche pour mettre un terme à une épidémie de morts inexpliquées. Quitte à ce que ceux-ci empiètent sur le territoire de la police de Versailles... Savent-ils qu'ils viennent de lancer la première « guerre des...

Lemuria: an annual event when householders in Ancient Rome drive the spirits of the dead from their homes by shouting 'Ghosts of our fathers and ancestors be gone!' and clanging metal pots with sticks and utensils. Flavia Albia and her husband Tiberius Manlius have lived in their house for less...

A burned-out American dropout turned rising star, he plays the clubs under the name VESPER and composes with the help of MUSES, a superintelligent AI that finishes his hooks before he can think them. Then, one night in the small hours, the machine tells him something no machine should know: that Napoleon Bonaparte begged with his dying breath to be buried on the banks of the Seine, that he lies instead in the wrong grave a mile from the water, and that the Emperor will never rest until someone carries him home to the river.

He knelt. He wrote. And then—silence. For two thousand years, one moment in the New Testament has defied explanation: what did Jesus write in the dust when He saved a woman from stoning? Not the disciples. Not the Gospels. Not the Church itself. Father Ryan Latham, a modern-day priest, has found something impossible—an ancient, authenticated eyewitness manuscript that may finally point toward the answer. But the discovery is only the beginning.

When medical journalist Theo Croft arrives in Scotland to film a documentary on the tuberculosis pandemic, he soon finds himself in the sleepy village of Salen, where nineteenth century inhabitants mistook the disease for vampirism. As Theo and his film crew slowly unravel the truth behind the...

SOLA Jennifer Lavender fue una niña solitaria. Siempre se sintió en segundo lugar y ansiaba desesperadamente el amor de sus padres. Cuando se entera de que fue adoptada, todo encaja. Pero su sueño de encontrar a su verdadera familia nunca podrá cumplirse: su madre murió sola al dar a luz...

Belfast, 1991. The Troubles In a city built on secrets, knowing who someone really is can mean the difference between life and death. As the Troubles grind on, fear and suspicion stalk every street. Informers linger in the shadows. Behind closed doors, collusion thrives as loyalty and violence collide. Detective Harry Burnard and his ragtag unit of misfits, rejects and damaged souls in The Squad have survived bombs, betrayals, biscuits and one another. In There Are No Happy Endings, one final case lands on their desk.

A forgotten correspondence. An obscure pirate. A race no one saw coming. Some discoveries rewrite history. Some discoveries rewrite lives. Some do both. Paul Anderson is a restless history PhD student facing the prospect of a bland, but safe, academic career.

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.

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece. A MASON WITH A DREAM 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his...

His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground are legendary throughout London. He solves cases with the able assistance of his close friend and confidant. And, one day, he will become the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Meet Professor James Moriarty - consulting criminal.

A murdered heiress. Missing jewels. A killer hidden among the passengers. When wealthy American heiress Flossie Halliday boards the Plymouth Express carrying a fortune in precious jewels, she expects nothing more than an ordinary journey. Instead, her body is discovered concealed beneath a train...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY BY THE NEW YORK TIMES WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE On November 22, 1963, three...

Narrated by Samantha Bond Don’t miss Magpie Murders on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery! ""A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers."" —Janet Maslin, New York Times New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best...

Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay’s death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine? No sooner has Poirot revealed his astonishing powers of...

Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Emma Thompson lends her immense talent and experienced voice to Henry James' Gothic ghost tale, The Turn of the Screw. When a governess is hired to care for two children at a British country estate, she begins to sense an otherworldly presence around the grounds. Are they really ghosts she's seeing? Or is something far more sinister at work?

THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE AND THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER, THE SECRET OF SECRETS “Impossible to put down.” —The New York Times “Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.” —Los Angeles Times Famed Harvard...