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Ein vielschichtiger Kriminalroman über ein bisher nicht erzähltes Kapitel Nachkriegsgeschichte. Stuttgart 1945. Der Polizeibeamte Paul Kramer muss mithelfen, im berüchtigten Hotel Silber die neue Kriminalpolizei aufzubauen – genau an jenem Ort, an dem er wenige Tage vor Kriegsende noch von der Gestapo gefoltert wurde. Doch Hass und Ideologie sind mit der Kapitulation nicht verschwunden. Als die ersten Verbrechen aufgeklärt werden müssen, zeigt sich schnell, wer auf welcher Seite steht – und Pauls Ermittlungen werden für ihn selbst zur Gefahr.

Londyn 1899 rok. Simeon Lynch prowadził dostatnie życie, służąc jako zabójca rodzinie Moriartych, która kierowała najpotężniejszą organizacją przestępczą ówczesnego świata. Teraz, stojąc prawie na stopniach szubienicy, dowiaduje się mrocznej prawdy o swoim pracodawcy, o Sherlocku Holmesie i swojej własnej przeszłości. Ta wiedza sprawia, że Simeon postanawia za wszelką cenę uciec z więzienia i zabić raz jeszcze.

Neapolis, 22 a.C. Dalla vasca delle murene di una lussuosa villa situata nella meravigliosa località di Pausilypon affiora una carcassa umana. È del ricco e spregevole eques romano Lucio Popilio Lepido, ospite del proprietario della villa, il cavaliere Publio Vedio Pollione, più feroce del morto. Pollione e Lepido non sono gli unici equites di Pausilypon: altri cinque loro sodali, con cui hanno sancito un patto segreto, si sono dati appuntamento nella dimora per un simposio. A pochi giorni – non è un caso – dall'arrivo in città dell'imperatore Augusto. Accanto al corpo di Lepido, un messaggio oscuro.

La prima indagine della nuova squadra investigativa al servizio del papa. Una serie di omicidi per avvelenamento dilaga ormai da troppo tempo tra tutte le classi sociali di Roma. Come se non bastasse, diversi neonati spariscono misteriosamente e i casi di aborto procurato si moltiplicano. Papa Benedetto non può accettare questa nuova piaga che si è abbattuta sulla città.

Maria Viani, biologa in pensione e detective per passione, rispolvera una serie di efferati crimini compiuti 500 anni prima. I colpi di scena si susseguono in quella che si rivelerà la sua indagine più pericolosa. Maria Viani trascorre l'inverno frequentando la biblioteca civica alla ricerca di documenti sulla storia della Repubblica di Genova. In maniera del tutto fortuita le capita tra le mani il verbale di un processo per duplice omicidio, avvenuto nel centro storico nel 1550. Protagonista un ricco artigiano della seta genovese, condannato a morte.

En Todo el oro de Lisboa, Juan Patricio Riveroll expone hasta qué punto pueden arrastrarnos los pecados de las generaciones pasadas cuando se revela el rostro oculto de la familia. Desde que la escuchó en una intensa noche de juerga en Lisboa, el narrador se obsesionó con la misteriosa historia del padre de Santiago, Pol Espasí, un catalán exiliado en Portugal durante la Guerra Civil española, quien murió dejando una estela de interrogantes relacionadas con varios documentos vinculados con el contrabando de piezas de arte y una red de espionaje nazi.

After hearing endless rumors of the Seven Cities of Gold and Sardina’s tale of Peru, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado sets forth an Entrada of his own. However, the harsh and unexplored territories of the Arizona desert gives no quarter and proves to be just as cruel as the conquistadors themselves. Hopeless and lost, the Spanish miraculously find a strange mystical shaman they name “The Turk” who knows the whereabouts of these illustrious cities and promises to lead them there. They simply must pass through another hell.

The actual events behind A Scandal in Bohemia. Get ready for surprising revelations about that story’s heroine and meet two non-Bohemian kings, a hapless queen, and conspirators who will light the Balkan Powder Keg that sets off World War I.

Back in 1956, a cargo plane left a small airport outside Los Angeles and flew straight into a raging storm, never to be seen again. Sixty some years later, retired military assassin and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches sight of something as he and his fiancé Savannah are flying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That tiny plane and its mysterious cargo have finally been found.

With her sharpened magical senses, Sylvia recognizes invisible writing while cataloging an obscure book for the library. She’s shocked to discover the message, written many years earlier, pleaded for help. She’s even more shocked to discover the author of the message was married to a paper magician. Could there be a connection to Sylvia’s father? With a magical mystery on her hands, Sylvia engages the help of Gabe Glass, and together they follow the clues to the location of two hidden ledgers that implicate a very dangerous individual in an illegal bookmaking scheme.

Meet Francine Witt: successful blogger, influencer, and wine expert. Not quite the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism she envisioned, but successful nonetheless. When an auction for a long-lost bottle of 1943 Margaux—a rumoured key to Queen Nefertiti’s hidden treasure—takes place, Francine covers the event. But things take a thrilling turn when she witnesses two men steal the precious bottle from renowned Egyptologist Hermione Radcliffe, the auction winner. As prominent Egyptologists are murdered one by one, Francine finds herself thrust into the story of a lifetime.

Summoned to a historic Tudor manor, Jason and Daniel are charged with investigating the heart-wrenching murder of two small boys. To discover who would have a motive to commit such a heinous crime, they must delve into the unexpectedly complicated relationships between the manor’s inhabitants.

Mira Marleigh, as far as the public is concerned, is an unassuming companion. She quietly drifts through London society accompanying her dear friend and confidant, Ursula. Mira flies under the radar, which is exactly how she likes it, because unbeknownst to everyone besides her sisters and Ursula, she is the anonymous author of one of the most popular society circulars under the pseudonym Aurelius. As a purveyor of society gossip, keeping a low profile allows her to see and hear nearly everything.

When an innocent man goes on the run from police, Sylvia finds herself harboring an accused murderer. Drawn into investigating the violent crime, her search for the truth leads her into the unfamiliar world of betting and horseracing.

The Home Office has asked Sir Bertrand Thorndike to head an investigation into stolen royal jewels. It's the perfect chance for Bertie to step out of his brother's long shadow. His superior, The Duke of Haverly, has a plan that makes him balk: in order to sell his cover, Bertie must play the part of a man looking for love, ready to reform his rakish ways. The duke is willing to let Bertie name his own investigative team, but his recommendation that the team include Philippa Cashel has Bertie on his guard. Does the duke-known for his behind-the-scenes machinations-have an ulterior motive?

Four people's lives are dramatically torn apart by a single terrifying event. Two days before Christmas the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a local train in the winter darkness outside Paris. On board is Gilles Malroux, a man with a shady past and a strong reason to avoid the police. In the mayhem of the crash he is badly injured but to avoid capture by the police he swaps identity papers with one of the other victims of the impact. Gilles tries to flee in the dark but finds himself taken to the house of a woman he doesn't know but who calls him Davide.

In the early 1940s, NYPD Dan Brady, an Irish immigrant who, as a boy in Dublin ran messages for the Sinn Fein, is working on a string of anti-Semitic assaults when he catches a murder case of a Bronx Sunday School teacher by a serial rapist. He soon discovers the rapist's pattern of hitchhiking into and out of the city and pioneers a process of cooperation with the FBI and other police departments to conduct a dragnet from Louisiana to New England.

Ty Dawson, now the sheriff of Oregon's Meriwether County, is ready to put a trying year behind him, but he's afforded no such luck. In a country still coming to grips with the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Charles Manson, Ty's neck of the woods isn't safe from the turmoil-especially when a commune of young so-called hippies springs up out of nowhere . . .

Familie Rath steuert auf ein dramatisches Ende zu: Gereon hat nach der Rückkehr aus den USA ein Versteck in Rhöndorf bei Bonn bezogen und schlägt sich nach Berlin durch, um Charly beizustehen. Sie muss Hannah Singer aus den Wittenauer Heilstätten befreien und Fritze verteidigen, der unter Mordverdacht gerät. Der Judenhass wächst und mit der Reichsprgromnacht kulminiert eine Entwicklung, die Charly vorhergesehen und Gereon lange geleugnet hat.

Harry Fox is after the man who ripped his family apart. How can he get his revenge? By tempting the man with a relic he can't refuse. But fate intervenes when an earthquake reveals the tomb of a Thracian king. A tantalizing missive in the tomb pulls Harry away from his quest for revenge and launches him on a perilous chase to uncover the truth behind this Thracian mystery. Except Harry isn't the only person racing through the past. Harry follows a treacherous path across ancient Thrace as a mysterious adversary closes in.