Résultats pour "Angelique" dans Historique

Múnich, 1931. Falta poco para que unas históricas elecciones otorguen el poder a los nazis. Los comisarios Siegfried Sauer y Mutti Forster se enfrentan al aburrido turno del sábado cuando el director de la policía criminal les avisa de un suceso en el número 16 de Prinzregentenplatz, la vivienda de Adolf Hitler.

Another murder, another unanswered question. And Detective Mendoza hates to leave things undone. Hers was the kind of casual homicide that occurred every week in a city like Los Angeles in the sixties. Beaten, robbed, and left in an abandoned lot, Elena Ramirez's death was like many others...

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

Great Britain, 1923: When Detective Inspector John Redfyre is invited to attend the annual St. Barnabas College Christmas concert in his Aunt Henrietta's stead, he is expecting a quiet evening. But he arrives to witness a minor scandal: Juno Proudfoot, the trumpeter of the headlining musical duo, is a woman, and a young one at that - practically unheard of in conservative academic circles. When she suffers a near-fatal fall after the close of the show, Redfyre must consider whether someone was trying to kill her.

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.

En el anterior libro hemos asistido al final más sorprendente de toda la serie. ¿Alguien se lo imaginaba? ¿Cómo terminarán todos estos sorprendentes misterios? Una cosa está clara, nada es lo que parece. Continuación de El final es el principio, la nueva serie Ángeles de Vicente Raga, el autor de Las doce puertas, una de las sagas de misterio histórico más vendida en los últimos años en España, México y Estados Unidos. Todas las novelas de esta serie han sido número 1 en España y México.

In the heart of Victorian England, where steam and iron threaten to smother the ancient countryside, artist Robert McKinley is swept into a world of enchantment and peril. When the actress he loves vanishes with her mysterious troupe, Robert’s search leads him beyond the veil of ordinary life—into a realm where forgotten gods and immortal lords dwell beneath the hills, wielding magic older than time itself.

«Se dice que, cuando uno piensa vengarse, debe cavar dos tumbas». Cuando el cadáver de la Sirenita de Ampurias, una conocida cantante, aparece destripado sobre el escenario del teatro en el que trabajaba, el inspector Adolfo Kobler y el médico forense Miralles se verán empujados a trabajar en la investigación junto con Adoración Venecia, artista de vanguardia, empresaria teatral y bailarina exótica. Son los felices años veinte, y en Madrid florece un mundo nocturno de plumas y oropel, pero los cadáveres empiezan a multiplicarse y los asesinatos resultan cada vez más truculentos.

When young widow Marie-Ange Norton is invited by the mysterious Monsieur Malleval to collect an inheritance, she has no choice but to accept. But little does she know what waits for her across the sea in turbulent 19th-century France. When she arrives, she is taken aback by Malleval’s fascination with her family - seemingly inspired by his belief they are connected to a sacred relic he’s read about. As it becomes clear that Malleval’s obsession has driven him to madness, Marie-Ange is horrified to realise she is more the man’s prisoner than his guest....

Primera Guerra Mundial, marzo de 1916, Joseph Reavley, gravemente herido en el intento de rescatar a un compañero durante el combate, es enviado a casa, en Cambridgeshire, para recuperarse al lado de su hermana Hannah. La inesperada visita de un amigo común los involucra en un invento que podría neutralizar el efecto devastador de los submarinos alemanes, así como el asesinato de uno de los científicos implicados en el mismo.

June 1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the edge of the moor, physician Gabriel Taverner's verdict is death from natural causes. But is all as it seems? Who was the dead man, and why had he come to the small West Country village of Tavy St Luke's to die cold, sick and alone? Then a discovery found buried in a nearby field throws a strange new light on the case...and as they search for answers, Gabriel Taverner and Coroner Theophilus Davey unearth a series of shocking secrets stretching back more than 14 years.

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr...

For years, Oliver and Rye have shared a home, their lives interwoven in the aftermath of Lydia Hammond's departure. Lydia, once a beloved actress and Rye's mother, left them behind to return to her homeland, England. The twists of fate led her to marry Alvin Spiegel, Oliver's former writing partner, adding layers of complexity to their relationship. Now, a fresh opportunity emerges for Oliver and Rye: collaborating on a brand-new Broadway production. Yet, a daunting challenge looms casting the female lead. Neither dares utter the name that lingers unspoken between them for 45 years Lydia.

Not-quite-newlywed Angela Marchmont is having a belated honeymoon on the idyllic Greek island of Rhodes, but has barely even unpacked her bathing-suit before an unwelcome encounter with the dead body of a young archaeologist draws her into a tangled web of murder and blackmail.

The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England. Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a...

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself.

In the tenth installment of this dramatic Elizabethan series, Westfield’s Men are flying high after a celebrated performance of The Insatiate Duke at the Queen’s Head. However, victory is bittersweet as the company is soon faced with dissolution and the loss of their theatre; were it not for one of the company’s rising stars. After acquiring a new benefactor, the company plan to build their own theatre. However, before they have the chance to find out who this guardian angel is, one of the group is found brutally murdered.

Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) new world of dark fantasy from the New...

In questo romanzo il commissario De Vincenzi - uomo colto, riflessivo e misteriosamente enigmatico - lascia Milano per indagare a Roma. È il 1939, Cinecittà, la fabbrica dei sogni del Duce. Un geniale regista cinematografico, popolarissimo tra le donne, e un attore del film a cui stavano lavorando vengono uccisi a poche ore uno dall'altro. Il questore preme su De Vincenzi per chiudere il prima possibile un caso che promette di diventare terribilmente spinoso.