歴史

It was 1970 in a defeated Rhode Island fishing town. Vietnam and Nixon dominated the national news. Both the near and distant future looked bleak. But they were five inseparable high school friends with something incredible in common.

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...

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...

A classic Japanese mystery-a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in nineteenth century Tokyo A captivating locked room murder mystery perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and Janice Hallett Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion. Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to...

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...

Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft....

The New York Times bestselling classic of alternate history, a murder mystery set in a world where the Nazis won World War II—for fans of The Plot Against America and The Man in the High Castle Berlin, 1964. The Greater German Reich stretches from the Rhine to the Urals, and keeps an uneasy...

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing...

1783: His Majesty's secret agent Fresh from war in the Americas, young navy veteran Alan Lewrie finds London pure pleasure. Then, at Plymouth he boards the trading ship Telesto, to find out why merchantmen are disappearing in the East Indies. Between the pungent shores of Calcutta and teaming...

Mountain man Smoke Jensen lives by the rules of the frontier. The first rule is: the strongest survive. But when bad breaks, bad weather and bad bovines back Smoke into a corner, he needs something to go right. Instead, he faces the kind of tough luck only a gun can beat.... A contract to...

Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins. Along the way, Ezio will call upon the wisdom of such great minds as Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò...

“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 invited to the Chimneys estate for a party. Rented by Sir Oswald and...

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, “a true master at the pinnacle of his craft” (Jack Carr), returns with a classic and “unputdownable” (Library Journal) Western—gunfights, horses, saloons, and looming above, the ominous presence of the railroad—about a Civil War veteran...

Marco Tullio Cicerone è un oratore giunto a un punto decisivo della carriera, Tito Annio Tuscolano un ex centurione disincantato. Unendo i loro talenti...

This instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known Christian piece The Last Supper. Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a...

Lancelot Nowlton, Viscount Lakehurst, writes gothic novels. The widow Lady Cassandra Tidemark, Marchioness of Darkford, is living a gothic nightmare. The young marchioness is haunted by nightmarish visions of a past she can't escape.

A 2,000-year-old skeleton discovered in Jerusalem, and believed to be the body of Jesus Christ, threatens to destroy the Church and plunge the world into chaos....

¿Por qué las rarezas del genial compositor veneciano Antonio Vivaldi llamaron la atención de sus contemporáneos y a lo largo del tiempo han hecho correr ríos de tinta? Antes de morir, el cura rojo, nombre con el que se le conoce en alusión al color de su pelo, confiará un extraño...

Impossible odds. A relentless pursuit. The brink of world domination. With her husband imprisoned in eternal purgatory, Julia O'Connor and her friends must use every tool in their arsenal to stop Salvatore della Porta from completing his plan of global supremacy through Veritism—the one...

Als die Jüdin Astrid eine Vorladung der Gestapo erhält, weiß sie: Wenn sie bleibt, wird sie sterben. Nur die Flucht kann ihr Leben retten, doch der einzige Weg in die Freiheit führt über die verschneiten Alpen.