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During a hospital visit, Lady Violet Thorn overhears a young woman accusing a married couple of her parents' murder and stealing their home, Maccabee House. From body parts scattered around town igniting rumours about a cannibal to a sex worker found brutalised, macabre events soon unfold culminating in Violet receiving a mannequin, resembling herself, stabbed through the heart. With the town of Montford in meltdown, Violet knows that the answers wait at Maccabee House, which lies in the shadow of the old tannery. But with the killer's sights firmly on her, can she make it out alive?

London, 1903: Glamour thrives, but so do deadly secrets.Amid the dazzling theatres and opulent restaurants of fashionable Knightsbridge, Flora Maguire is drawn into a web of intrigue that stretches far beyond London’s polished facade.When the body of a prominent socialite and leader of the women’s suffrage movement is discovered, Flora’s curiosity leads her to uncover mysterious letters, cryptic ties to the Foreign Office, and a chilling connection to the assassination of a Baltic king.As she pieces together the clues, Flora realises this is no ordinary murder.

The horrors have only just begun... When Lady Violet Thorn's unbearable Aunt Igitha unexpectedly arrives at her doorstep and disrupts her peaceful existence, it sets off unsettling events eerily reminiscent of the infamous Montford Maniac’s reign. Violet must unravel the connection between her unwelcome guest and the brutal incidents – from savage beasts at her doorstep to horrifying public executions.

Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate.

Some secrets hide in plain sight. Others are stolen in the dead of night... Flora Maguire has everything she could wish for—a beautiful Belgravia home, a devoted husband, and baby Arthur to dote on. But her perfect world is shattered when she accepts an invitation to tour St Philomena’s Children’s Hospital in poverty-stricken Southwark. The conditions are appalling, but the real horror lies in a chilling discovery: children are vanishing from the hospital.

Even the most glamorous stately homes hide secrets and lies from the past... When Flora receives a shocking telegram about her father’s sudden death in a riding accident, she rushes back to her childhood home, Cleeve Abbey. Once a governess to young Eddy, Viscount Trent, and daughter of the Earl’s trusted butler, Flora finds the house steeped in unease. Her plans to lay her father to rest beside her mother, Lily, are upended when mystery surrounds Lily’s final resting place.

Erpressung, Korruption, Verrat und Mord – ein ganz normaler Tag im alten Rom … Rom, 70 vor Christus: Gewalttätige Räuber beherrschen die Straßen der Ewigen Stadt, sie plündern, morden und brandschatzen, ohne dass ihnen jemand Einhalt gebieten kann. Selbst Decius Caecilius Metellus der Jüngere, Kommandant der Vigiles, kann nicht viel mehr tun, als Brände zu löschen. Als eines Morgens ein ehemaliger Gladiator tot auf der Straße gefunden wird, nimmt der hochgeborene Hauptmann die Ermittlungen auf.

Im Zentrum steht die bewegende Geschichte des jungen Seemanns Edmond Dantès, dessen Leben am Tag seiner Hochzeit durch Verrat zerstört wird. Unschuldig inhaftiert, verliert er alles – bis ihm eine spektakuläre Flucht auf die geheimnisvolle Insel Monte Christo gelingt. Aus dem gebrochenen Mann wird eine schillernde, rätselhafte Gestalt, die mit unerschütterlicher Entschlossenheit einen ebenso präzisen wie unerbittlichen Racheplan verfolgt.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings, Styrkar, loyal housecarl to the fallen King Harold, journeys to Ireland in search of the dead king's exiled sons. When a plot to murder Harold's widow and infant son is uncovered, duty pulls him in a different direction. Fleeing back to England with the dowager and child, Styrkar's loyalties are tested as he's forced into an uneasy alliance with his old comrade Eadnoth, now sworn to William the Conqueror. When the sons of Harold return to reclaim their birthright, Styrkar must choose: stand with his blood brother or his brothers-in-arms?

A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts - and is screaming for Inspector Danilov... Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov... someone prepared to kill, just to get their message across. At first, the victims seem unconnected. But with each body bringing a new message for Danilov, he knows this is a riddle especially designed for him. As more bodies start appearing, time is running out to solve the deadly puzzle.

In 1905 London, where glittering wealth collides with political unrest, Flora Maguire faces her most personal mystery yet. When a body is found on a train bound for Paddington and her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, Flora refuses to leave his fate in the hands of the police. Teaming up with her husband Bunny, Flora dives into a murky underworld of spies, communists, and fraudsters. And with the police surer than ever that Edward is their murderer, Flora must work fast to keep him safe.

Helen Turrell is a young and well-off single woman, living a the countryside village. But one day, she decides to travel to southern France and returns home with a baby called Michael. Helen says that Michael is the son of her brother, George, who died in India after falling off a horse. However, the truth is quite different and secretly, Helen tells Michael that he can call her "Mummy". Why did Helen travel to France? Is Michael really her nephew? Find out the truth in Rudyard Kipling’s story "The Gardener" from 1925. B. J.

As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing... Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child... but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing. Missing, and then murdered. Who is responsible? Why have the children's bodies been exhibited for all to see? Just as Danilov thinks the stakes couldn't be higher, there is a new dimension, Japan, a rising power flexing its muscles. In fractious Shanghai, an explosion is long overdue. With the clock ticking can Danilov and his assistant Strachan solve the case?

It only takes one defeat to topple an empire. With Britain still in the grips of World War Two, Georgina Garrett has her own battles to fight. She has made many enemies over the years, and with every victory she's only grown stronger. But following a bitter betrayal, Georgina must find a way to claw herself out of the depths of despair and back to the top position within London's criminal underworld. She'll do whatever it takes to secure her freedom and defeat those who'd rather to see her dead.

She's out of retirement – and out for revenge! When Georgina Garrett wakes in the night to find intruders in her house, she knows she must do everything she can to keep her children safe. But just when she thinks the ordeal is over, she realises something is terribly wrong. She arrives at her crime-lord husband David Maynard's London house to find a bloodbath. Six of David's best men lie dead and he is nowhere to be found. Georgina may have walked away from the game but she's still the best player on the street.

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Im Vatikan läuten die Totenglocken: Der Papst ist gestorben, ein neues Konklave muss einberufen werden, die gesamte Welt schaut zu... Doch dann geschieht das Unvorstellbare: Ein Kardinal nach dem anderen lehnt die Wahl zum Oberhaupt der Kirche ab. Allmählich machen sich Zweifel breit, ein dunkles Gerücht wird wispernd weitergetragen: es erzählt von Verrat und Verschwörung.

Hidden in the lush vegetation of the Central American rainforest lie the remnants of the Mayan civilization. These ruins bear witness to a thriving society that flourished for almost four millennia. Here, rulers presided over communities with millions of inhabitants, scholars developed advanced mathematical calendars, and slaves toiled to raise pyramids so towering that they surpassed even the great structures of the Egyptians. Yet, inexplicably, the Mayans vanished from their cities, and their once-mighty civilization faded into obscurity.

1961 plant Queen Elisabeth gerade ihren Staatsbesuch in Italien an Bord der Britannia, als sie eine schockierende Nachricht erhält: Ein Mann behauptet, vom königlichen Zug aus einen Mord beobachtet zu haben. Nun ist der angebliche Zeuge kein besonders vertrauenswürdiger Zeitgenosse – andererseits wird aber just seit dem Tag des möglichen Mordes ein Freund von Prinzessin Margarets neuem Ehemann vermisst. Der jungen Queen bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als in dieser delikaten Angelegenheit selbst zu ermitteln.

Patricia Peacock ist überglücklich, das Erbe ihres lang verschollenen Vaters antreten zu können - befreit es sie doch von ihrer ungeliebten Anstellung als Gesellschaftsdame bei Lady Blanford. In Kairo muss sie allerdings feststellen, dass der Verstorbene ihr nicht nur seinen Besitz samt Hausangestellten und der treudoofen Dogge Sir Tiny hinterlassen hat, sondern auch noch jede Menge Auflagen, um das Erbe überhaupt erst antreten zu können.