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Dresda, 1947: a due anni dalla fine della guerra la città è una terra desolata e piena di macerie sotto occupazione sovietica. Nel gelido inverno, la vita è dominata dalla carenza di alloggi, dalla fame e dalle malattie. Il commissario capo Max Heller viene chiamato sulla scena di un crimine nel quartiere Neustadt dalla neonata polizia popolare. Ma prima che possa avviare le indagini, il corpo del soldato dell'Armata Rossa pugnalato a morte viene portato via dai militari. Ciò che resta è una pozza di sangue rappreso e uno zaino contenente la testa mozzata di un uomo.

Alessandria d’Egitto, 112 dopo Cristo. Il ritrovamento del corpo senza testa del governatore romano Servio Simile spinge l’imperatore Traiano a inviare con urgenza dall’Urbe il suo fidato amico e compagno d’armi Gaio Ticio Massimo. Mentre l’Egitto centrale brucia nella rivolta, nell’oscurità dei vicoli di Alessandria esseri soprannaturali compiono la loro sanguinaria vendetta. Per liberare il fido Sosia dai contrabbandieri che lo hanno rapito, Massimo e il centurione Decio si imbarcheranno, in compagnia di una donna bellissima e misteriosa, in un viaggio sul Nilo che li porterà verso la guerra.

It’s May 1941, and the war is in full swing. Yet in the quiet village of Woodville in rural Kent a happy event is on the horizon, as Faye Bright interrupts her training with the British Secret Service to return home and marry her true love, Bertie Butterworth. But as preparations get underway, a ghostly premonition throws a spanner in the works. Who is the Corn Bride, and is her burning visage a warning, or a threat to the happiest day of Faye’s life?

London, 1911: In einem äußerst verrufenen Viertel muss Daniel Pitt eine Leiche identifizieren – es handelt sich um einen Kollegen seiner Anwaltskanzlei, Jonah Drake, der offensichtlich gewaltsam zu Tode kam. Da die Polizei merkwürdig wenig Interesse an der Aufklärung der Tat zeigt, nimmt Daniel kurzentschlossen die Ermittlungen in die eigene Hand. Doch zwei Zeugen, die er befragt, werden kurz darauf ebenfalls ermordet. Als Daniels Mutter entführt wird, ahnt der junge Anwalt, dass er dem Täter bereits zu nahe gekommen ist.

In an icy, Victorianesque world, a harsh god rules, and He has one law: a life for a life. Konrad Savast is the Malykant: detective, judge and executioner in one. It's kill and be killed in Konrad's world, and his unhappy duty to mete out his Master's implacable justice. The body of an aristocrat lies in the mist-shrouded reaches of the Bone Forest. Her killer has signed their own death warrant, but first, Konrad must learn who could have wanted the delightful Lady Rostikova dead. With a pair of ghosts to assist him, Konrad will hunt stop at nothing to finally bring them down.

Queen Angelique is caught in a quandary. She has ruled The Black Land since the death of her husband, the pharaoh. She defied tradition by refusing to name her son Penaware as the next pharaoh, even though everyone knows he was too young and immature to rule. Time is running out. Prince Penaware’s approaching birthday means he’ll come of age soon. The nation and the powerful priests who strongly influence it expect Angelique to proclaim Penaware the new pharaoh. But there’s another option. She could break tradition once more and claim the title of pharaoh for herself.

West End theatre impresario Septimus Gooch is a man with many enemies, but when he's found dead in the dressing-room of his leading lady, the police put it down to an accident. The cast of Septimus's latest musical production at the Jollity Theatre are having none of it, however—this is the second mysterious death in two months, and they're convinced Septimus died after being frightened out of his wits by the ghost that's haunted the theatre ever since it burned to the ground many years ago. A malevolent spirit is on the loose, striking them down one by one.

In 1808, after six years behind enemy lines, only four members of the British elite spy group "Viper", Patrick, Gregory, Anthony, and Theron, were finally heading home. William, the fifth, lost his life in the line of duty. His father gave away his precious daughter Katherine to London's rogue, Quinton Bennett. Before his death, William promised to unearth his father's decision to throw his sister's life away. Patrick swore to keep his friend's promise. Upon returning to England, he immediately delved into the mystery, and soon found that Katherine was caught in a deadly conspiracy.

Once a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devastation of the War Between the States. But with a forced marriage and a desolate future on the horizon, her hopes are beginning to dwindle. When she discovers an encrypted note on a dying soldier, she seizes the opportunity to use it to deliver a message of her own. Instead, she’s mistaken for a spy and captured. Can she unravel a conspiracy before her secrets cost a man his life? The complete trilogy of exciting Accidental Spy novels.

Former knight Crispin Guest is now known in the streets of medieval London as the Tracker—an investigator who can find anything and anyone. What begins as a straightforward case of murder turns complicated when Crispin realizes that the victim was an important courier in possession of a holy artifact—an object so valuable that its absence could start a war between France and England. Surrounded by possible suspects, Guest will have to use his wiles to navigate both the exclusive halls of King Richard's court and the hardscrabble streets of fourteenth-century London.

Cuando tenía 13 años, Diyu fue secuestrada mientras recorría el bullicioso mercado del pequeño pueblo donde vivía en China. Arrancada de su hogar y forzada a atravesar el océano hasta llegar a Estados Unidos, Diyu se reinventará ante cada nuevo obstáculo que enfrente. Desde dar clases en una escuela de caligrafía, disfrazarse de hombre o ser obligada a trabajar en un burdel de San Francisco, se esforzará desesperadamente por escapar a una fuerza que se empeña en arrebatarle las riendas de su destino.

Joachim Mukangoma, demandeur d'asile rwandais en France, confie à l'écrivain Jean-Louis Delayet la vérité sur le meurtre camouflé du journaliste et reporter français Richard Grideau. Ce dernier, dans un contexte de forte tension diplomatique, s'était rendu au Rwanda pour effectuer un reportage sur la détention d'un Franco-Rwandais dans la prison de Kigali. Séquestré et torturé à mort par la suite, son corps fut abandonné sur le lieu d'un attentat.

In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political—because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down. This time a commission shows up on her doorstep—someone is staging brutal murders in some of the most beautiful buildings in Rome, each staging different.

Lady Violet Belmaine emerges from two years of mourning less than enthusiastic about resuming her place in Polite Society. She’s talked into attending a country house party by her French physician friend, Hugh St. Sevier, only to find that the house party guests are preyed upon by a mysterious thief.

A rash of poison pen letters has enveloped the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva in cloud of suspicion and paranoia. But when rampant aspersions culminate in murder, enquiry agents Beryl Helliwell and Edwina Davenport must stamp out the evil-minded epistles....

In an alternate history where a modern-day country worships the gods of ancient Egypt, Meres is horrified to see her husband nailed into a sarcophagus and thrown into the river during a festival day. It wasn’t supposed to happen. Everything is going terribly wrong. Why would the priests want to kill him? Running away from the White-Walled City and the temple she loves, Meres hides in the desert of The Black Land, determined to follow the river and find her husband’s body to rescue his soul before it’s destroyed forever.

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.

Sven Saxon Sword is content with his life but King Sweyn Forkbeard wants to use the Dragon Sword to help him claim a kingdom across the seas from Denmark. With Prince Cnut at his side, Sven has to fight not only the English but also Danes who change sides, Scots keen to grab land themselves and even the oathsworn of the new Danish king.

A phone call prompts Bill Lammiter, a young American playwright, to follow a former girlfriend to Rome. There, Lammiter saves a mysterious Italian girl from a beating and the fat is in the fire. A kidnapping, a battle in a Renaissance villa, a shrewd gamekeeper, a chance snapshot and a touring preppy contribute to the excitement and suspense of this Cold War thriller.

1942. Hull, East Yorkshire - It is the most heavily bombed city outside of London—but for the sake of national morale, the Hull Blitz is kept top secret. Only the politicians in Whitehall and Hull's citizens themselves know of the true chaos. Newly posted Inspector Ambrose Swift cannot believe the devastation he finds. But for Swift and his two deputies—part-time bare-knuckle boxer Jim 'Little' Weighton and Dales farmer's daughter Kathleen Carver—it's murder, not the war, that's at the forefront of their minds.