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Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar…

Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts. But the siblings’ quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs.

Unter dem Erfurter Domberg wird bei Bauarbeiten eine verborgene Grotte entdeckt. Um eine steinerne Tafel sitzen zwölf Mumien in jahrhundertealten Roben, die alle ein mysteriöses Zeichen tragen: eine Glocke, aus der sich eine Schlange windet. Jonas Wiesenburg wird vom LKA als Fachberater verpflichtet. Er ahnt nicht, dass er dabei einem gefährlichen Geheimnis um die berühmte Glocke Gloriosa und einem perfiden Racheplan auf die Spur kommt.

Lady Priscilla Dalloway’s twin brother took a job as trainer to Lord Cromarty - and then promptly disappeared. For Pris, finding her brother means seducing notorious cad Dillon Caxton. Dillon claims to have set aside his devilish ways and forged an impeccable reputation as Keeper of the Register for racehorses. He resists all women, and lets absolutely no one view the information he safeguards. But Lady Priscilla Dalloway is no ordinary temptress and she means to work her way into Dillon’s books.

In Vengeance, a bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as Benjamin Black reveals a world where money and sex trump everything. It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his...

Now a major motion picture directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Gal Gadot. Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was...

Ulm 1412. Als die junge Begine Anna Ehinger ihren Dienst im Spital der Stadt antritt, ahnt sie nicht, dass die Vorkommnisse im Infirmarium ihr Leben für immer verändern werden. Während der Siechenmeister Lazarus sie in ihre Aufgaben einweist, wird ein furchtbar zugerichteter Mann ins Spital eingeliefert, der wenig später seinen Verletzungen erliegt. Als sich nach einer Leichenschau herausstellt, dass der Mann ermordet worden ist, beschließen Anna und Lazarus, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen und bringen sich damit in tödliche Gefahr. Denn bald tauchen weitere Leichen in Ulm auf.

It’s the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, antimonarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence. Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide campaign of terror, but to what end? At the same time, a bizarrely garbed figure has been spotted on the rooftops and in the grimy back alleys of the capital.

Florence Nightingale's charity gala could turn from posh to perilous. Can Sherlock and Lucy save the evening and serve up justice? London, 1902: a charity bash sponsored by none other than "The Lady with the Lamp" is the talk of the town. The gala's coming up soon at the Carlton Hotel, where the new King dines and César Ritz reigns, But when a crucial researcher is murdered, the gala's not just about gourmet dishes by Escoffier anymore – it's a recipe for disaster.

One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying...

Reporter sleuth Poppy Denby is asked to investigate the mysterious death of an up-and-coming female scientist in an Oxford laboratory known as the Crystal Crypt. The official verdict is that Dr June Leighton died in a tragic accident, but Dr Leighton's lab assistant believes it was murder. However, when Poppy discovers that the colleague has spent time in a mental institution and has an unresolved murder in her own past, Poppy wonders if she is being misled. Then, another female academic is attacked, and Poppy herself becomes a target.

Rosenmontag 1933: Gereon Rath feiert Karneval in Köln. Der Morgen danach beginnt für ihn mit einem heftigen Kater, der falschen Frau im Bett und einem Anruf aus Berlin: Der Reichstag steht in Flammen! Sofortige Urlaubssperre! Seinen neuen Fall aber erbt Gereon Rath von seinem Vorgesetzten Wilhelm Böhm, der sich unter dem Nazi-Polizeipräsidenten ins politische Abseits manövriert hat: Ein Obdachloser ist erstochen am Nollendorfplatz gefunden worden.

Napoli, agosto 1931. Un caldo soffocante, infernale, avvolge la città e si spande nelle stanze buie dei palazzi. La festa di Santa Maria Regina, con il suo tradizionale falò, è appena passata, quando il corpo senza vita della bellissima duchessa Adriana Musso di Camparino viene trovato dalla governante. Anche questa volta saranno le ultime parole della vittima, misteriosamente percepite dal commissario Ricciardi, a guidare l'indagine.

When a young man is found hanging inside the Ashford family tomb, Redmond and Haze assume the man had run afoul of the noble family and paid for it with his life. Once they identify the remains, they discover not only the victim’s shocking secrets but that the young man had an unexpected connection to Jason. With few leads and no obvious motive for the murder, will Redmond and Haze solve the case before the killer claims another life?

Best-selling mystery author Elizabeth Peters has captured the hearts of thousands of readers with her spunky Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody Emerson. In Seeing a Large Cat, Amelia must ensnare a modern-day killer, a bogus spiritualist, and a predatory debutante in the awesome Valley of the Kings. Someone is sending ominous messages: "Stay away from tomb Twenty-A!" Intrigued, parasol-wielding Amelia won't rest until she finds the forbidden burial site.

This adventure transports Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson to Amarna, the rustic desert site where the two archaeologists first met, beginning the 13-year association that would take them from mayhem to murder in the Egyptian outback.

April 1937, die Familie Rath ist zersprengt. Eigentlich wollte Charlotte Rath, geborene Ritter, schon längst im Ausland sein, doch halten die Umstände sie in Berlin fest. Ihr ehemaliger Pflegesohn Fritze ist in die geschlossene Abteilung der Nervenheilanstalt Wittenau gesteckt worden, ihre beste Freundin Greta ist spurlos verschwunden und steht unter Mordverdacht. Dem untergetauchten und von den Behörden für tot gehaltenen Gereon Rath wird es derweil zu gefährlich in Deutschland, er besteigt einen Zeppelin, um in die USA zu entkommen.

1940. Britain is at war. Rector’s daughter Wilhelmina Harkness longs to do her duty for her country, but when her strict mother forbids her to enlist, their bitter argument has devasting consequences. Unable to stay in the village she loves, Wilhelmina—reinventing herself as Billie—spends everything she has on a one-way ticket up north. Hull is a distant, dangerous city, but Billie is determined to leave her painful memories behind and start afresh, whatever the cost.

1860. A seize ans, Camille quitte sa mère et les Bois d'en Haut pour rejoindre les "limousinants", paysans creusois itinérants qui vont travailler comme maçons jusqu'à Lyon. Dans la ville en pleine mutation commence pour l'adolescent un dur apprentissage : onze heures par jour sur des échafaudages dangereux à servir maçons et tailleurs de pierre. Quatre ans plus tôt, son père, lui aussi maçon, a disparu dans la crue centennale qui a balayé la ville.

Venezia 1902. Dalla sommità del campanile di San Marco un ragazzo viene spinto nel vuoto e si schianta tra i turisti in piazza. Le indagini sono affidate a un commissario di polizia, Guido Bordin molto capace, sebbene tormentato da profondi problemi esistenziali. Ben presto tra assassino e commissario nasce una sfida, una caccia all'uomo attraverso la città in cui i ruoli di preda e predatore talvolta si invertono. Ma cosa spinge Pfenner a questi omicidi? Cosa si nasconde dietro l'inquietudine di Bordin?