Résultats pour "Simone" dans Historique

James Faraday is about to turn eighty and his daughter has organised a gathering of friends and family at Woodford Grange to celebrate the big day. There will be a marquee in the garden, plenty of food and drink, and a huge stack of birthday presents. One particular gift, however, is proving difficult to track down.

A struggling young Persian artist sends Flynn, one of Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street Irregulars, out to buy provisions for a celebratory dinner. But when he brings the requested groceries to the artist’s wife, her joy quickly turns to fear. Then Flynn returns to the artist’s studio, only to find that disaster has struck. Meanwhile, the National Portrait Gallery enlists the help of Sherlock Homes to investigate the mysterious theft of The Pink Lady. As Holmes sets out to recover the precious painting, he uncovers a dark web of deceit far more complex than he imagined.

Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this “tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a...

“A delectable read.” —C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author A young lord, his future bride, and his former lover become unlikely allies to survive a deadly mystery in this spine-tingling historical fantasy of magic, murder, and steamy encounters. Lord Nicholas Monterris is trapped...

Ferrara, octubre del año del Señor de 1187. Durante la celebración del funeral por la muerte del papa Urbano III, frente a la gran catedral, en el pequeño y aislado convento de San Lázaro encuentran ahorcada a una monja. Según parece, se ha suicidado. No obstante, dos de las hermanas de la congregación sospechan que, tras dicha muerte, se esconde una trama urdida desde fuera de los muros del cenobio.

Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn't understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground her life. Family and friends surround her, and a RAF officer attempts to bring her the normality of love and affection, but she is haunted by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war helped to develop the atom bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie?

In eighth-century Austrasia, a spirited girl in the town of Würzburg brashly defies convention by pursuing the time-honored art of parchment-making. But Theresa's dreams are shattered when unimaginable tragedy strikes, forcing her to flee and tearing her family apart. Set adrift as a fugitive, Theresa relies on her uncommon education and the sympathy of strangers to survive. When she encounters Alcuin of York, a shrewd and influential monk with close ties to King Charlemagne, she hopes her luck might have finally changed. Yet all is not what it seems.

In molti sono disposti a tutto pur di scoprire il segreto che porta all'antica reliquia. Ferrara, 1347. Il cavaliere Maynard de Rocheblanche sta indagando sulla truce morte del monaco Facio di Malaspina, collegata alla ricerca del leggendario Lapis exilii. Per far luce sulla vicenda, Maynard deve accedere alla corte estense e guadagnarsi la fiducia del marchese Obizzo, signore di Ferrara. Intanto, nella vicina abbazia di Pomposa, l'abate Andrea assiste impotente alla fuga del suo protetto, il giovane miniaturista Gualtiero de' Bruni, diretto ad Avignone con la speranza di ritrovare la madre.

Berlin 1889: Gabriel Landow und sein Kompagnon Orsini ziehen in ihre neu gegründete Berliner Hinterhofdetektei in Kreuzberg, die auch ihr gemeinsames Zuhause ist. Nach anfänglicher Flaute scheint es den ersten Auftrag zu geben: Der achtjährige Sohn der Nachbarin, der Bankiersfrau Frau Phillipi, ist von seinem Geigenunterricht nicht nach Hause gekommen. Doch das Glück ist nicht mit ihm: Der Junge taucht von allein wieder auf, unversehrt und adrett wie eh und je. Aber er sagt keinen einzigen Ton mehr, was immer seine Mutter auch versucht.

Cosa si nasconde dietro una reliquia di cui solo un monaco conosce il segreto? È l'agosto del 1346, quando il valoroso Maynard de Rocheblanche, sopravvissuto a una disfatta militare, entra in possesso di una pergamena con un enigma vergato. Quell'oscuro testo fa riferimento a una reliquia preziosa, avvolta nel mistero, il Lapis exilii.

Roma, 1625. Appartatasi con un damerino in una buia catacomba, madonna Leonora incappa in un uomo morto e in una donna nuda con la faccia di capra. A indagare sul misterioso delitto sarà fra' Girolamo Svampa, domenicano al servizio del Sant'Uffizio.

Firenze 1459. Un ricco mercante viene ucciso nella cripta di Santa Trìnita in circostanze misteriose, e dell'omicidio viene accusato Tigrinus, un ladro che ha assistito al misfatto. Barattata la vita con una perigliosa missione segreta, l'astuto ladro s'imbarcherà verso Oriente alla rocambolesca ricerca di un prezioso manoscritto su cui ha messo gli occhi Cosimo de' Medici. Quale sarà la vera identità del temibile abate nero che si nasconde nel monte Athos? E chi è veramente Tigrinus?

When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm destroys the ship they are on and casts them ashore. The two knights are unwillingly thrust into the company of other shipwrecked passengers, and while attempting to evade the unwelcome attention of the more dangerous members of the group, they become unwillingly drawn into a plot to overthrow the king and return England to Saxon rule...

When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of mysterious letters to the restless western reaches of Wales, he agrees only reluctantly. His conviction that the simple mission hides something more sinister is strengthened when the letters’ scribe is murdered before the journey begins. Then one of Geoffrey’s travelling companions is killed, and he knows he must uncover the secret behind the letters before more victims are claimed...

When Sir Geoffrey’s unpopular brother, Henry, is murdered, he unwillingly inherits Goodrich Castle in the Welsh Marches. Immediately, his sister pushes him towards a marriage that will provide an heir and stability for the family. But when Geoffrey survives attempts on his own life, he wonders whether they are linked to Henry’s death, to his potential brides, or even to the rumoured murder of the Duchess of Normandy, as a Welsh revolt against the English looms.

Menschen im Hotel, Menschen ums Hotel. In der Seitengasse der Blumenladen Zeflor, der das Hotel beliefert. Dort arbeitet Susanne Egbert, ein armes Mädchen, als Blumenbinderin. Das Antiquitätengeschäft gegenüber gehört dem jungen, blendend aussehenden Grafen Lensdorf, den man 'Schnorrergraf' nennt, weil er sich all das schenken läßt, was er braucht, obwohl ihm ein Hundert Millionen Vermögen nachgesagt wird. Alle halten ihn für einen charakterlosen Salonlöwen.

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Night Watch, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction” (Stephen King). In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money...

Der neue Roman von den Gewinnern des Kindle Storyteller Award erzählt vom Mut einer Mutter und der Entschlossenheit einer Familie in dunkler Zeit Münster 1940: Die zweijährige Lotte Brinker ist anders - für ihre Familie ein Wunderkind, gesegnet mit einer außergewöhnlichen musikalischen Begabung, doch für die Nationalsozialisten gehört das seltsame Mädchen in eine Anstalt gesperrt. Lottes Eltern Anna und Gerhard ahnen, in welcher Gefahr ihre Tochter schwebt und tun alles, um sie zu schützen. Denn am Horizont ziehen dunkle Gefahren auf.

New York Times Bestselling Author of The Diplomat’s Wife A thrilling novel of suspense about a woman who must face a past she’d rather forget in order to uncover a dangerous legacy that threatens her future. Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss’s idyllic...