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1829 is a tough year to be a body snatcher. Sammy and Facey are a couple of so-called "resurrection men", making a living among society's fringe-dwellers by hoisting the newly departed from the churchyards of London whilst masquerading as late-night bakers. Operating on tip-offs and rumors in the capital’s drinking dens and fighting pits, the pair find themselves in receipt of some valuable intelligence: An unusual cadaver has popped up on the market - that of a hermaphrodite.

What if your inner voice was dictated to you by someone else? How far exactly does the concept of free will come to fruition in our everyday lives? Walker Henderson, a used car salesman, is drained by the monotony of his everyday life until he is involved in an accident that leaves him in possession of a common object, which carries with it uncommon implications that ultimately charts the course of the world by reshaping the history of World War II.

Brothers. Emperors. Deadly enemies... An unputdownable novel of intrigue and combat in Ancient Rome. Emperor Severus is on his deathbed. His sons Geta and Caracalla, feuding in Britannia, are readying for a devastating power struggle. Silus, now a centurion in the Arcani, the secrete network of spies and assassins, is thrown into the maelstrom. Back in Ancient Rome, plots breed in the stinking alleys. Everyone might be an enemy. Everyone a traitor. As an Imperial Assassin, Silus’ loyalty will be tested to breaking point.

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.

Do dworu swojego stryja na Mazowszu przyjeżdża młody kadet Szkoły Rycerskiej. Na miejscu nie zastaje krewnego, za to służba wita go zatrważającą nowiną. Wedle ich słów panią domu udusiły upiory. Wykształcony w duchu oświeceniowego racjonalizmu młodzieniec nie daje zwieść się wiejskim zabobonom. Postanawia odkryć, co tak naprawdę stało się ze stryjenką i kto stoi za jej zabójstwem. Musi liczyć się z tym, że i jego życie znajduje się teraz w niebezpieczeństwie.

1952, Los Angeles. It is New Year’s Eve, and PI Aloysius Archer is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood actress Liberty Callahan when they’re approached by Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter who would like to hire him, as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb’s Malibu residence leaves Archer knocked unconscious after he stumbles over a dead body in the hallway and Lamb seems to have vanished. With the police now involved in the case, a close friend and colleague of Lamb’s employs Archer to find out what’s happened to the screenwriter.

It is May 1706. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife with her mother and twin younger brothers. The town is in the shadow of a mighty volcano, which legend says has the devil living inside it. However, there has been no eruption for thousands of years, and no one believes it is a threat. One day, Ana notices that the air feels strange and heavy, that the birds have stopped singing. Tending the family vineyard, a sudden strange tremor in the earth frightens her.

Singulière affaire dont doit s'occuper Louis Fronsac en mai 1638. En ouvrant le testament d'un riche voiturier sur eau qui vient d'être assassiné, sa fille découvre qu'il a laissé sa fortune à sa belle-mère, contrairement à la coutume de Paris. Au même moment, Gaston de Tilly, revenu de Hollande où il était cornette dans la compagnie de M. de Turenne, occupe une charge de commissaire des quais au bureau de l'Hôtel de ville de Paris quand M. Fronsac obtient pour lui un office de commissaire examinateur au Grand-Châtelet.

Peter and his two-year-old daughter, Sara, escape war-torn Poland after World War 2 and settle in Pennsylvania, but when tragedy strikes 21 years later, the dark secrets of the past will be revealed. Realizing her family is being targeted, and without her father to turn to, Sara teams up with Tom Kirby, an FBI agent who’s meeting a wall of silence at every turn. Working with and getting ever closer to Tom, Sara will reveal secrets and conspiracies that stretch from the Philadelphia underworld all the way back to the darkest days of the Holocaust in Poland.

Germany, late summer 1945. The war is over, but the country is in ruins. Millions of refugees and holocaust survivors strive to rebuild their lives in displaced persons camps. Millions of German soldiers and SS men are held captive in primitive conditions in open-air detention centres. Everywhere, civilians are desperate for food and shelter. No one admits to having voted Nazi, yet many are unrepentant. Adolf Hitler is said to have killed himself in his Berlin bunker. But no body was found - and many people believe he is alive.

2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia “Lucky” Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions.

Este libro revela la parte oculta de la historia del segundo emperador del México independiente: su pasado borrado, las traiciones y manipulaciones de las que fue objeto, y el verdadero propósito detrás de su brevísimo mandato. Además, explora una posibilidad escalofriante: ¿qué ocurriría si su único y distante heredero fuera hoy llamado por un grupo de monarquistas para restablecer el imperio que se vio truncado por la Reforma?

When Sergeant Frank Hardy's father, James Hardy, arrives from England, he's accompanied by a woman he met on the voyage. In forced quarantine on Somes Island in Wellington Harbor, Frank is visited by a man claiming to be a detective from the Chinatown Squad in San Francisco, who warns Frank that his father is in deep trouble. The woman has enemies, and they are on the way to New Zealand to find her and kill her. If James Hardy gets in their way, he's a dead man.

The odd explosion of an aging Nazi’s secret fortress in a remote area of Argentina initiates a chain reaction across the planet, an event that could unleash a wrath upon the Earth that hasn’t been seen in centuries. Not since before the Great Flood of Noah have the fallen angels - otherwise known as the Watchers - freely roamed the Earth. Now the dominos have begun to fall, which could trigger their freedom from the earthly prison the Creator banished them to ages ago.

In postwar Vienna, the term peace is relative - the Americans, British and Russians govern the city in an uneasy truce, and the main difference is that now it's the Soviet secret police making people disappear rather than the Nazis. When Bernie is asked by a high-ranking Soviet official to clear an old Kripo colleague's name of the murder of an American officer, he quickly realises he's in over his head.

Munich, 1949, is home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It's work that fills Bernie with disgust - but it also fills his sorely depleted wallet. Then a woman seeks him out. Her husband has disappeared. She's not looking to get him back - he's a wanted man who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland.

For Lieutenant Reim of the Stasi, life in East Berlin is a satisfying blend of days behind a desk and nights in front of a bottle. But, when a senior officer has a messy affair, it falls to Reim to do the clearing up. It should be a straightforward job; lean on a few people to get them to shut up, intimidate neighbors, bribe officials, and appeal to the socialist conscience of party members. But, when Reim starts his interrogations, he realizes his boss is hiding more than just a lover.

Ex-Berlin cop and private detective Bernie Gunther has seen his share of bad guys. But when the worst guys of all are the ones running the show, it's much harder to stay out of their reach. Hired by a wealthy industrialist to investigate the murder of his daughter and her husband in an apparent botched robbery, Bernie soon finds himself drawn into the complex - not to mention lethal - internal politics and corruption of the Nazi party.

From the celebrated, New York Times bestselling author comes the twisted thriller of an MIT grad student who unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history.

Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead. But unlike the undesirables who make up the majority of dead and missing people in Hitler's Berlin, these girls were blonde and blue-eyed - the Aryan flower of German maidenhood - and their gruesome deaths recall ritual killings.