Résultats pour "Underground" dans Historique

Hitler is dead. A new threat is born . . . The brand new blockbuster from 'the master of the wartime thriller' (FT) Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying...

'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable … If only all first novels were as enthralling as this' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Merridale’s talents as a Russia expert and writer combine to beam light on the depths of Moscow’s...

The second book in the acclaimed new historical crime series, set in Victorian London and featuring a transgender protagonist, following on from the Richard & Judy Book Club 2019 pick The House on Half Moon Street. It's been a year since Leo Stanhope lost the woman he loved, and came closing to...

It's 1934. When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy 'Pongle'. Several of her fellow residents - even Tuppy the terrier - have parts to play in the events that lead to a dramatic arrest.

Every fall, six men return to a remote cabin in the woods of northern Maine. They come to hunt, to work, to sit by the fire, and to keep a tradition alive—one passed down not just through family, but through time spent on land that asks to be treated with care. What begins as another familiar season changes when a wounded deer leads one of them into ground that has been quiet for more than a century. Hidden in stone and shadow is a truth the land has protected through silence—human lives caught between hope and history, waiting where freedom once passed north.

December 1940. Down Street underground station, in the heart of London's Mayfair, is now a secret retreat for Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his cabinet from the relentless air raids overhead. In this supposedly secure location, the body of a woman is found, stabbed in the heart. The victim, fortune-teller Lady Za Za, did not see this one coming. Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called to investigate but whispers of treason and corruption succeed in muddying the waters of the case.

In Londons U-Bahnen kommt es zu einer Serie äußerst brutaler Raubüberfälle. Zwei Verbrecher rauben gemeinsam spät heimkehrende Besucher der Theater, Opern und Vergnügungsviertel aus und verschwinden, bevor sie jemand fassen kann. Suchen sie sich ihre Opfer zufällig aus, oder steckt ein System dahinter? Als es dabei zu einem Mord kommt, nimmt Chief-Inspector Anthony Stafford die Ermittlungen auf, in deren Verlauf sich sein junger Sohn Kenneth gefährlich nahe an die Täter heranwagt.