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On his return from South Africa, Charles Knox is invited to spend the weekend at the country home of Sir Neville Strickland, whose beautiful wife Rosamund was once Knox's fiancée. But in the dead of night Sir Neville is murdered. Who did it? As suspicion falls on each of the house guests in turn, Knox finds himself faced with deception and betrayal on all sides, and only the enigmatic Angela Marchmont seems to offer a solution to the mystery. This 1920s whodunit will delight all fans of traditional country house murder stories.

Lost in the mists of the Romney Marsh, Angela Marchmont stumbles upon the body of a woman whose face has been disfigured—presumably to prevent recognition. Who is she, and what was she doing out there in the middle of nowhere? The search for answers will take Angela from a grand stately home to London’s most fashionable—and disreputable—nightclub, and into a murky world of illegal drinking, jazz music and lost souls.

The fourth Brighton Mysteries story from the author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway series - a must-read for fans of Bryant and May. 'Mixes cosiness and sharpness in a way that recalls the best of Agatha Christie' Sunday Express (on Smoke and Mirrors) What do a murdered Brighton flower...

Get the next two compelling books in the series. Richard and Jack are set on a mission to sell a stolen arms shipment to the Knight's of St John - how badly wrong could it go? Follow their adventures through Europe and the Malta to the Island fortress of the Knights. The backdrop to their own struggle is the political tension in England. Mary I, convinced God has given her the task of returning England to the true faith sends the Protestant reformers a stark and violent message.

Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman’s quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library—a converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns in Montana. When...

A young landscape painter, finds himself stranded by a fierce snowstorm near the Scottish Border and seeks refuge at the ancient, isolated house. He is taken in by the graceful young mistress, and her eccentric, ascetic guardian, an antiquary and collector. He quickly falls in love. He realizes that his host is at the center of a profound and potentially dangerous mystery tied to this single object, The Copper Box, compelling him to stay and investigate.

From Wall Street Journal best-selling author Michael Wallace comes this collection of three of his most exciting historical thrillers: The Red Rooster, Blood of Vipers, and Wolf Hook.

Drei spannende Kriminalfälle aus dem Dresden der 50er-Jahre: Es sind politisch unruhige Zeiten, der Arbeiteraufstand wurde blutig niedergeschlagen, das Misstrauen in der Bevölkerung ist groß. Doch auch das Verbrechen ruht nicht. Kommissar Max Heller bekommt es mit einem in Dresden agierenden Ring von Uranerz-Schmugglern zu tun und wird mit der Frage konfrontiert, ob sein alter Freund Saizev zur CIA übergelaufen ist. In seinem nächsten Fall wird in einem Betrieb für Wärmeisolierungen der Betriebsleiter tot aufgefunden und Heller rennt gegen eine Mauer des Schweigens.

The Mystery of the Blue Train: When the Count de Roscanvel's body is found on the railway tracks, police accuse France's top young novelist. The Haunted House: Artist Jean Lachesnaye lives an idyllic life with his family. But when a convivial dinner party gives way to a night of supernatural chaos, the dream unravels. The Aviator's Crime: Jacques Moret is the dashing man of the hour: a flying ace. But even as Moret celebrates, poison pen letters accuse him of lusting after the aircraft designer's wife.

When Orla Penrose discovers a banker’s box labeled “LATER” inside the fading Briar Annex records building, she expects forgotten paperwork. Instead, she finds documents that should not belong together—and evidence that something inside the system has been quietly altered without ever being removed. As officials push to process and relocate the box, Orla uncovers a pattern hidden in ordinary records: subtle changes, missing attachments, shifted alignments, and procedural decisions designed not to erase information, but to misplace meaning itself.

Kommissar Max Heller ermittelt im Dresden der 40er- und 50er-Jahre. Im Kriegschaos der bombenzerstörten Stadt, während der sowjetischen Besatzung und der Anfangsjahre der DDR kämpfen die Menschen ums nackte Überleben und um ein bisschen Normalität. Doch die Stadt wird immer wieder von schweren Verbrechen erschüttert, die Max Heller und seine Mannschaft bis über ihre eigenen Grenzen hinaus führen. Die Box beinhaltet die ersten drei Fälle für den Kommissar. Mit der unverwechselbaren Stimme von Heikko Deutschmann tauchen die Hörer tief ab in vergangene, gefährliche Zeiten.

Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Unfall hin, als der zurückgezogen lebende Wissenschaftler Dr. Norton ertrinkt. Nur Sherlock Holmes hegt den Verdacht, dass jemand dabei nachgeholfen hat ... Ein heimlicher Besuch in Nortons Labor bringt Holmes und Watson in Lebensgefahr, als das Gebäude plötzlich in Flammen aufgeht. Schon wittert Holmes eine neue Spur, die in die Wäscherei des dubiosen Chinesen Fing Su führt. In den unterirdischen Katakomben scheinen die Fäden einer gefährlichen Verschwörung zusammenzulaufen. Holmes vermutet seinen neuen Erzfeind dahinter: Farley Straker!

Eine Reihe grauenvoller Verbrechen erschüttert London. Allesamt tragen sie die Handschrift eines ebenso gefürchteten wie legendären Verbrechers - Jack the Ripper! Doch kann wahr sein, was nicht wahr sein darf, über zwölf Jahre nach dem Ende der blutigen Mordserie in Whitechapel? Holmes nimmt Kontakt zum mittlerweile pensionierten Chief Inspector Abberline auf, der seinerzeit die Ermittlungen führte. Bekommen Holmes und Abberline eine zweite Chance, um diesen schrecklichen Schatten der Vergangenheit ein für alle Mal zu vertreiben?

Journey through the colonies of 19th-century Australia with three stand-alone novels of love, loss, survival, and redemption. In 1806, a fateful decision sends Eleanor Marling from the salons of London to a prison ship bound for New South Wales. She is put to work at the female factory of Parramatta. English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. Deep in the wilderness, they find a crude hut inhabited by an escaped convict long presumed dead.

In this historical mystery, set in Arkansas in 1961 when the mob still ruled Hot Springs, babies are being kidnapped, and the local sheriff has to put this case to bed before the bosses come down from Chicago. They don't need the heat, and they have the leverage with the sheriff to make him do whatever they want. It seems like a good move to arrest Leslie Richards, the new woman in town, even though there is only thin circumstantial evidence against her.

A two-mile-wide alien space ship speeds toward Florida showing bad intentions. Stark terror visits the world of a young hip-hop urban rapper, Lil' Bubba Riley, who comes into possession of the "Black Box". Lil' Bubba finds himself yoked to the president of the US, who sends him and the Black Box into space towards a final life and death struggle with the alien ship to save the world from an eternity of nothingness!

An international crisis threatens to plunge the world into war at the dawn of the 20th century, but the British Foreign Office finds itself blinded by the bizarre deaths of crucial agents and informants as it struggles to stave off the coming conflagration. For help, they turn to an unconventional outsider, Inspector Jenkins of Scotland Yard, who soon finds himself on the trail of a mysterious man with a deadly black box and a host of devoted accomplices.

Named sole heir to her aunt's estate, Charity Gannon arrives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, hoping to find a link to her past. She's not looking for lost treasures; she is searching for a connection to the aunt she barely knew. What she finds is a 30-something-year-old mystery and questions with no answers. A sad, secluded cottage, all but hidden amid the vines. A man's suit of clothes, tainted with dried blood and a bullet hole. Four forgotten boxes, stuffed into a large bag and buried in the far corners of the shed.

Valle de los Reyes, Egipto, 1880. Un joven arqueólogo inglés está a punto de descubrir la tumba de un importante dignatario egipcio que ha permanecido intacta durante casi tres mil años. En su interior le aguardan tesoros de un valor incalculable pero también, y sobre todo, un secreto que ha dormido durante siglos y que puede hacer realidad el mayor de sus deseos. Londres, tres años después.

1950s New York. Alice White is a law student working as an investigator for a small downtown law firm. Her grit and courage have taken her far, but as she dives into Manhattan's underbelly and the crime-ridden outer boroughs, Alice discovers a world she never understood...and falls in love with the dangers! Now enjoy all four novels in the Alice White series: The Case, Hard Case, The Con Case, and The Case of the Butcher, the Bank Robber, and the Blonde.