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Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion. In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious judge uses his trademark expertise to unravel the mysteries of the nobleman, a shattered vase, and a dead bondmaid. Along the way he encounters a woman who fights with loaded sleeves, a nearly drowned courtesan, and an elaborate trap set for a murderer.

"I cannot recommend this series enough."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood Charlotte Holmes finds herself in a dreadfully precarious position when she’s accused of murder—a crime she’s accustomed to solving as Sherlock Holmes—in this twisty Victorian mystery from the...

Onetime adventurer and now amateur sleuth Lady Eleanor Swift is attending the annual royal regatta with her new pal Tipsy Fitzroy. Tipsy has Eleanor trussed up like a debutante in a new dress, determined to turn her into a proper society lady. Even Eleanor’s favorite companion, Gladstone the bulldog, has a new outfit for the occasion. But the sparkling prize-giving ceremony is interrupted when the devilishly handsome host gulps his glass of champagne on stage and collapses to the floor. The victim is none other than the king’s cousin, Lord Xander Taylor-Howard.

The latest occurrence to disturb the peace in the quaint English village of Walmsley Parva hits rather too close to home - in fact, the prime suspect has taken up residence in Edwina's potting shed. Her elderly gardener Simpkins has been secretly sleeping there after a row with his disreputable brother-in-law and housemate, Hector Lomax. When Hector is found murdered, Constable Gibbs comes looking for Simpkins, last seen arguing with Hector the night before. Based on the sad state of her garden, Edwina has grave doubts that shiftless Simpkins could muster the effort to murder anyone.

The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley. Parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb, she must outwit a shadowy evildoer, a questionable antiquities dealer, and her loquacious son, Ramses.

Spätsommer 1929, der letzte Sommer der Goldenen Zwanziger. Niemand erkennt die Vorzeichen der Weltwirtschaftskrise. Noch bestimmen Luxus un Frivolität, Jazz und Kokain den Rhythmus des Lebens – auch auf dem Ozeanliner Champollion, der von Marseille aus Richtung Orient in See sticht. Zu den illustren Passagieren gehören eine skandalumwitterte Nackttänzerin aus Berlin und ein mysteriöser römischer Anwalt, eine adelige englische Lady, ein Schläger aus der Unterwelt – und Theodor Jung, Kriegsveteran und Fotoreporter der Berliner Illustrirten.

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.

Na počátku je vypálení vladyckého dvorce v Tajné. Ale to, co se zdálo jako loupežné přepadení, tají podivné tajemství, jehož kořeny sahají až k počátkům přemyslovského rodu a ke knížeti svatému Václavovi. A tak je Oldřich z Chlumu i se svým panošem Otou vtažen do děsivého víru násilí, pronásledování a vražd. Jen díky své odvaze, rytířskému umění a moudrosti se jim podaří záhadné klubko rozplést.

Having just returned from a clandestine excursion to Spain and Portugal on behalf of the queen, Thomas Chaloner finds London dank and grey under leaden skies. He finds many things changed, including the government slapping a tax on printed newspapers. Handwritten news reports escape the duty, and the rivalry between the producers of the two conduits of news is the talk of the coffee houses with the battle to be first with any sort of intelligence escalating into violent rivalry. And it seems that a number of citizens who have eaten cucumbers have come to untimely deaths.

Season Two, Volume One. Four cryptic cases involving murder, mayhem, and mysterious disappearances. Is one mastermind behind them all?

When the body of a renowned British archeologist is found inside a sarcophagus he was bringing back from a dig in Egypt, Redmond and Haze must determine who aboard the Sea Witch had reason to want him dead. The method of murder suggests it was someone familiar with the funerary rites of the Ancient Egyptians, casting suspicion on members of the expedition, but there were others aboard the vessel who might have harbored a grudge against Blake Upton for reasons unconnected to the dig.

Berlin am Abgrund: Gereon Raths vierter Fall. Juli 1932, die Berliner Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel: Ein Mann liegt tot im Lastenaufzug von Haus Vaterland, dem legendären Vergnügungstempel am Potsdamer Platz. Kommissar Gereon Rath ist wenig erfreut über den neuen Fall, denn er hat schon genug Ärger.

When famed psychic Alicia Lysander is brutally attacked after leaving a seance at the home of an earl, Jason Redmond and Daniel Haze must retrace her movements to determine who might have had a motive to want Alicia dead. As they delve into the private life of the woman who had not only become a friend but had also helped Daniel to rescue his abducted daughter, they uncover buried secrets, bitter rivalries, and unexpected betrayals.

Paris, juin 1889 : le monde entier se presse à l'Exposition Universelle où la Tour Eiffel, qui vient d'être achevée, accueille plus de mille visiteurs par jour. Les Français s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont un Empire colonial en découvrant les pavillons exotiques et les villages indigènes groupés au pied d'un des temples d'Angkor reconstitué. C'est dans cette ambiance de kermesse que survient une série de morts inexpliquées. Les victimes ne présentent aucune blessure apparente et, hormis le fait d'avoir été présentes à l'Exposition, rien ne les relie entre elles.

In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.

Your lost love never came home after the war. Would you risk everything to find out what happened to him?

Nach einem mysteriösen Mordfall im Tal der Könige wird Rechmire, der junge und ehrgeizige Schreiber des Wesirs von Teben, losgeschickt sich der Sache anzunehmen. Doch der Mord bleibt kein Einzelfall, während des berauschenden Opet-Fests in Luxor und Karnak schlägt der Mörder ein weiteres Mal zu - auch Rechmire selbst wird von dunklen Gestalten bedroht. Als unerwarteter Weise der Pharao seinen Besuch anmeldet, erkennt Rechmire die eigentliche Absicht des Mörders. Ein Rennen gegen die Zeit beginnt.

Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who - with brutal precision - begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear.

Giugno 1970. Tutta l'Italia è seduta davanti al televisore per seguire le partite della Nazionale di calcio ai Mondiali in Messico, mentre i ragazzi, e soprattutto le ragazze, scendono in piazza per rivendicare i propri diritti, nel clima di protesta di quegli anni. Il mondo sta cambiando in fretta, pensa l'ex commissario Franco Bordelli, e ogni cambiamento si tira dietro un bel po' di confusione. Adesso che è in pensione il tempo per pensare al passato – a sua madre, alla guerra, ai vecchi casi non risolti – non gli manca, ma fa anche tanti progetti per il futuro con la fidanzata Eleonora.

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady’s maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village’s inaugural art exhibition—and bicycle race—to look forward to. But at the exhibition opening, there’s a panicked shout of ‘Fire!’ In the confusion, the main attraction—an extremely expensive book—is stolen from under everyone’s nose, as is a valuable painting lent by Sir Hector Farley-Stroud.