Résultats pour "Vera" dans Historique

Paris, 1942. The war is everywhere. But inside the quiet corridors of the Bibliothèque nationale, another battle is being fought—one measured in documents, archives, and secrets hidden in plain sight.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator. When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her...

A registry clerk discovers that dozens of people have been assigned to a demolished address that no longer exists. As Claire Moreau follows the trail through archives, parish ledgers, and decades-old corrections, she uncovers a hidden system designed to move people through official records without leaving a trace. Pursued by investigators and trapped inside a growing conspiracy of paperwork and identity, Claire must decide whether the truth is worth destroying the institutions built to conceal it.

It's spring 1971 and Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave Brooklyn for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in LA. Max's parents are divorcing—her father is already engaged to a much younger woman, under the sway of an occultist charlatan and her mother has left their estate with no indication of return. Max prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, while Max attempts to navigate her father and the occultist, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.

Justin Tolliver is on the brink of an enormous change. The younger son of an English peer - that is, the son with no money and no prospects - he had joined the police force in British East Africa, full of dreams of bringing his majesty's justice to a dark and savage world. But it's 1913, and with his faith in the British government in tatters, Justin is opting instead for life as an African farmer and a newly minted family-man. It is his wife, Vera, who has helped him put aside images of darkness and come to see Africa, instead, as all but lit from within.

Tra le dune di Venezia, una coppia in cerca di intimità ritrova un cadavere. È il 1943, la Seconda Guerra Mondiale non accenna a finire, e in Italia il Fascismo sta iniziando a crollare. In questa torrida estate, il maresciallo Russo dovrà indagare sulla morte dell'uomo ritrovato tra le dune, riconosciuto come Ludovico Ferri, ricco borghese molto noto in città. In questo giallo storico, l'orrore della Guerra rifletterà altri segreti che si nascondono tra i canali di Venezia.

Die amerikanische Kolonie im Dresden des 19. Jahrhunderts: Zu den reichen Amerikanern gehört auch Florence de Meli. Sie ist der umschwärmte Mittelpunkt der High Society. Doch ihr Ehemann tobt vor Eifersucht. Er schmiedet ein Komplott und lässt sie für verrückt erklären. Florence landet in der Irrenanstalt. Doch sie kämpft für ihre Kinder und Gerechtigkeit. Ihre abenteuerliche Reise führt sie quer durch Europa bis nach New York. Eine Scheidungsschlacht beginnt.

An einem sonnigen Wintermorgen 1875 herrscht großer Andrang im Hafen von Bremerhaven. Gleich wird die "Mosel" ablegen. Ihr Ziel: New York. Plötzlich zerreißt ein Knall die Luft. Menschen, Tiere, ganze Fuhrwerke werden durch die Luft geschleudert. Eine Dynamit-Explosion mit vielen Toten und Verletzten. Die "Thomas-Katastrophe" macht weltweit Schlagzeilen. Beim Begräbnis stehen sich zwei Frauen gegenüber. Die eine hat gerade fast ihre gesamte Familie verloren. Die andere ist die Ehefrau des "Dynamit-Teufels".