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Lady Eleanor Swift’s marriage to dashing Chief Inspector Hugh Seldon is just days away. There’s a lot to organise from the dress to the catering, including, of course, the all-important wedding cake. But Eleanor is heartbroken when their chef, apple-cheeked Annie Tibetts, dies of poisoning. And as the doctor confirms her death wasn’t an accident, accusations fly around the whole community.

Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten. Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is called to the shores of Whale Fjord where the skeletons of a man and a woman have been discovered, both shot with British wartime bullets. Magnus uncovers a web of anger and revenge that stretches back 80 years and forward to a shocking murder in Reykjavík.

The treasury's coffers are bare, and tensions with the powerful Dutch Republic are boiling over. And now, an investigator sent by the king to look into corruption at the Royal Navy has been brutally murdered. Loathe to leave the pleasures of London, Samuel Pepys is sent dragging his feet to Portsmouth to find the truth about what happened. Aided by his faithful assistant, Will Hewer, he soon exposes the killer. But has he got the right person? And if the mystery isn't solved in time, then England could be thrown into a war that would have devastating consequences....

The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author A religious serial killer is haunting Florence and only Cesare Aldo can stop them. A Divine Fury is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy. ‘Full of dash and atmosphere’ - The Times Florence...

WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (NEW STATESMAN) 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' - Ian Rankin 'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is peerless...

Annie Howarth is living a restless life in a restless town. It's 1984 and for a mining community in South Yorkshire, the strikes mean tensions are running high. Then a murdered girl is found on the moors and the anxiety levels are pushed to a dangerous breaking point. Married to the Chief of...

September 1920. A young bride is discovered dead at a country house on her wedding day. Has she fallen victim to the deadly Withington curse, which strikes down any woman who marries into the family? Forensic Pathologist Dr Bernard Spilsbury doesn't believe in such superstitions, and suspects a more earthly reason for Theodora Tupper's death. But as he and his trusty assistant Violet investigate, they soon discover that there are indeed ghosts at Withington Hall. And they, too, have a story to tell.

A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. Roman scout, Silus, is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one-man ambush, everything quickly goes wrong and Silus must run for his life, the head of the enemy leader in his hands. Little does he know the price he will pay... As Silus is inducted into the Arcani, an elite faction of assassins and spies, he must return to Caledonia and risk everything in the service of his Caesar.

Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the property of a rich citizen. 

A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels. Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only...

Helena Lanark is the only one who knows about the horrors which once occurred in her family's house. The heiress of an immense family fortune, she now resides in a luxurious care home; her mind and memory fading fast. Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death...

In the ghetto, the last 50,000 Jews await their fate, but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, these Jews are prepared to fight. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and Resistance double-agent, has promised to supply them with weapons. But how will he fulfil his vow? The murder of a German officer appears to provide an opportunity.

Read by Jamie Glover. The first book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of...

Private investigator Riley Sullivan uncovers the smuggling of opium into the Port of San Francisco in this 1933 historical mystery/suspense thriller. He's hired by a lawyer for the San Francisco Port Authority to investigate the heist of a delivery to Madame Dalyu Wu, owner of an art galley in Chinatown. Riley becomes quickly involved in an international opium smuggling ring. His assistant in this endeavor is Gina Gallo an agent and sharpshooter with the Bureau of Narcotics.

Northern Michigan is a land of ghosts and sweeping vistas. In a small town, an ancient oak stands heavy with grief, its twisted limbs hung with shoes like eerie gravestones. The town whispers about Colwyn Cueny—the child murderer, the woman who sees specters in the woods and locked her own sister away. The curse of the ancient forest witch carved into flesh and bone. But when embattled Chicago attorney Marcus Lenarsic arrives to board with her, he doesn't find a monster. He finds a haunted woman, bound by secrets and buried beneath a decade of fear.

Deux femmes que deux siècles séparent enquêtent chacune sur la mystérieuse disparition de Louise Joubert, leur ancêtre commune. La Rochelle, 1867. Avec la révocation de l'édit de Nantes par Louis XIV, les persécutions contre les protestants ont repris de plus belle. Fuyant la ville avec sa grand-mère, la jeune Suzanne Joubert décide de quitter la France. Ce sera Amsterdam, d'abord, puis l'Afrique du Sud, parmi d'autres colons résolus à vivre librement leur foi.

I died a fortnight ago this coming Thursday. It was a terrifically unpleasant experience—being murdered, I mean to say. Raven Helen Allan has always been haunted by witchcraft. Since the death of her beloved mother, she has soothed herself by speaking words into spells—a proclivity enhanced...

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.

A dead surveyor. A corrupted compass. And buried iron that points to murder. Nevada Territory, 1882. Surveyor Virgil Peck is found face-up on the alkali flats east of Furnace Creek — no water, no hat, no horse, and a shattered compass at his side. The coroner rules it exposure. The desert, after all, doesn't require malice. Silas Thorne knows better. Hired to verify Peck's railroad survey, Silas and his partner Linus arrive in a town built around a water tower and controlled by a man who owns every spring in the basin. The survey should be routine.

THE FINAL FREY & McGRAY MYSTERY All will be revealed... * * * * * The Devil Has Come to Edinburgh... An ill-fated grave-robbery unearths a corpse with a most disturbing symbol on it. When a patient in Edinburgh's lunatic asylum is murdered, the same sign is daubed in blood on the walls - the...