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"Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path" Sunday Express It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622. This anomaly piques the interest of the writer Joël Dicker...

When librarian Patton Harcourt comes under sniper fire in her rural North Carolina home, she is thrown together with professional assassin Nemo and into a web of international deceit. On the run from two German killers, Patton and Nemo discover a 75-year-old Enigma message, which leads them to Bletchley Park in England and a code breaker named Ruthie Drinkwater, an old flame of Patton’s. Unable to complete the job of code breaking at Bletchley, the trio leaves and is pursued by the Germans, who support a white-supremacist agenda.

Seit Salem denken kann, gilt sie als das schwarze Schaf ihrer wohlhabenden Familie. Doch als ihre Schwester unter mysteriösen Umständen an der renommierten Mortimer-Universität stirbt, glaubt Salem als Einzige nicht an einen Unfall. Fest entschlossen, die Wahrheit hinter dem rätselhaften Tod ihrer Schwester aufzudecken, beginnt sie auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Auf ihrer Suche nach Antworten trifft sie auf Caz – einen düsteren, charismatischen Künstler, der selbst zahlreiche Geheimnisse verbirgt und eigene Motive verfolgt.

Olive Sterling thought time off from her job would finally give her the chance to uncover the truth about her family's unsolved murders. The man she believes holds the answers is none other than the father of Jason Stewart—her former boyfriend and current colleague. But when that man turns up wounded and then vanishes, Olive has no choice but to bring Jason into the hunt.

Retired police captain Waverly Underhill and his sidekick, Doctor Scofield, unlock the enigma in two edge-of-your-seat thrillers. Heard on public radio, each is a contemporary tale in the classic tradition of The Shadow, with a full cast, original music, and sound effects.

Caspian Anderson, once a black-ops assassin known as Elias, now works for the Defense Clandestine Service. But unfinished business dies hard. Glimpsing a familiar face while tying up loose ends overseas, he swears it’s his lover, Liesel Bergmann—a German spy and erstwhile collaborator. But back stateside, he can’t ask her without giving himself away.

July 1540: the shock news of Cromwell's fall reaches the court of Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I of France and arguably the most cultured woman north of the Alps. She sends her courtier and poet, Nicolas Bourbon, an avid reformer with many friends in English court circles, to find out...

En el popular barrio de Triana hay un dicho sobre el grado de verdad de cualquier sentencia que un tercero entona por derecho: eso es "lavangelio". Pocos saben que esa misteriosa expresión sevillana tiene un origen insospechado. Los inspectores Jiménez y Villanueva están a punto de descubrirlo. Pero antes nuestros héroes tendrán que enfrentarse a un secreto que ni el del Código Da Vinci.

Despite their best efforts, Melody and Rat found themselves powerless to prevent the crisis in Morocco from spiraling out of control, threatening to ignite the powder keg of tensions between Germany, France, and Britain. With the specter of war looming, Britain is determined to expand its influence across Europe. After the Agadir Crisis, the preservation of Dutch neutrality, crucial for Britain’s access to Dutch ports, becomes an even more pressing concern.

Dogged by depression, doubt, and - as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed - emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer he'd nearly captured in Munich in 1892. The murderer, known as the Monster of Munich, announces that he has relocated to Eisendorf, a tiny village near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Tatiana Petrovna, coraggiosa giornalista d'inchiesta, ha lasciato Mosca per dedicarsi a un misterioso incarico. Arkady Renko, leggendario investigatore e suo amante, sa che deve preoccuparsi, perché conosce troppo bene i nemici della donna e quello che sono disposti a fare per tenerla buona. Renko inizia quindi un lungo e pericoloso viaggio in Siberia per trovare Tatiana.

Elvis is alive - and he's missing! Except he's not exactly Elvis. And he's not alive...in the traditional sense. But the man with a personal connection to the King and currently known as Patrick is definitely missing. Mallory won't let the confusing nature of Patrick's background stop her from investigating, not when there's a mystery to solve. And who better to crack a case involving the weird and wondrous than the best (and hungriest) sleuthing vamp around?

No vuelve con un detective chiflado, sino con nueve. No vuelve con un caso, sino con tres.Vuelve el mejor Eduardo Mendoza. Barcelona, primavera de 2022. Los miembros de una organización gubernamental secreta se enfrentan a la peligrosísima investigación de tres casos que tal vez estén...

In Trotterdown, Cornwall, a boat, The Enigma, washes in to the harbour. The skipper is dead, and Harriet Taylor is brought in to investigate. But one dead body is not the only crime the team have to deal with. Meanwhile, further up the coast in Whitby, a boat washes up on the rocks just outside the harbour. Everyone on board is dead. Whitby Police are out of their depth, so DS Jason Smith is called in to help. It soon becomes clear the cases are connected and the teams from York and Trotterdown settle down to work with each other.

In the dangerous waters of the Caribbean, one man reigns supreme as the most cunning and elusive criminal of them all: Julian, the last remaining brother of a notorious dynasty. With a vast fortune, Julian's power and influence know no bounds. But now, the Enigma Heirs, R-Group, and CATS team have set their sights on bringing him down, determined to dismantle his entire operation and put an end to his illegal drug and human trafficking enterprises.

Santiago Posteguillo nos sorprende ahora con un fascinante recorrido por los enigmas más famosos de la literatura. Asesinatos, suicidios, duelos, condenas a muerte, guerras, eclipses, vampiros, misterios, juicios… Detrás de los grandes libros se esconde mucha más sangre de lo que uno...

When a quiet conspiracy, bent on revenge, begins dismantling the Inspector's life, he’s forced to investigate the one case he never expected — himself. After years of loss, they want to utterly humiliate him. Knowing they cannot outsmart him, they turn their focus inward and attack his mind. Ruthless, subtle, and deceitful, they thrive on chaos. When a woman offers him something he wants, he must decide whether she’s real — or another way in. Renowned for solving impossible cases, the Inspector built his career on pattern recognition.

EN EL PARAÍSO, NADIE CIERRA LA PUERTA... HASTA QUE ES DEMASIADO TARDE. Waikiki, 1925. Entre el aroma de las flores de jengibre y el murmullo de las olas, un crimen brutal sacude a la alta sociedad de Honolulu. Dan Winterslip, un hombre de inmensa fortuna y pasado turbio, es hallado muerto en su...

Un fine settimana di dicembre, il Palace de Verbier, lussuoso hotel sulle Alpi svizzere, ospita l'annuale festa di una importante banca d'affari di Ginevra, che si appresta a nominare il nuovo presidente. La notte della elezione, tuttavia, un omicidio nella camera 622 scuote il Palace de Verbier, la banca e l'intero mondo finanziario svizzero. L'inchiesta della polizia non riesce a individuare il colpevole, molti avrebbero avuto interesse a commettere l'omicidio ma ognuno sembra avere un alibi:

Ketilsey Island, 1960. Near this deserted island off the western coast of Iceland, the dawning of spring brings with it new life for the local wildlife. But for the decaying body discovered by three seal hunters, winter is a matter of permanence. After it is found to be a Danish cryptographer missing for months, the ensuing investigation uncovers a mysterious link between him and a medieval manuscript known as the Book of Flatey. Before long another body is found on Flatey, another tiny island off the western coast.