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Acclaimed short-story author Luis García Jambrina is a full professor of Spanish literature at the University of Salamanca—Spain’s oldest university. Here, Jambrina uses his intimate knowledge of the school to pen his debut novel. It’s the end of the 15th century, and law student Fernando de Rojas is investigating the mysterious death of a theology professor in Salamanca. But Fernando’s journey leads down a dangerous path through the city’s political unrest.

En Cielos de barro, un inspector intenta resolver el caso de una matanza en la casa senoiral de un cortijo extremeno. El inspector cree que sabe quien es el responsable, pero un viejo alfarero pone en duda sus sospechas. Unas historias surgen durante la reconstruccion de esa tragedia y la vida de los personajes nunca sera la misma hasta llegar a la verdad.

Il monte Fumo è una cattedrale di ghiaccio, teatro di una battaglia decisiva. Ma l'eco dei combattimenti non varca l'entrata della caverna in cui avviene un confronto fra due uomini. Uno è un prigioniero che all'alba sarà fucilato, a meno che non riveli nome e grado. L'altro è un medico che ha solo una notte per convincerlo a parlare, ma che ancora non sa che ciò che sta per sentire è molto più di quanto ha chiesto e cambierà per sempre anche la sua esistenza. Perché le vite di questi due uomini che dovrebbero essere nemici, in realtà, sono legate.

Der Schongauer Henker Jakob Kuisl ist in eine Falle getappt: Bei einem Besuch in Regensburg findet er seine Schwester und den Schwager tot in der Badestube. Die Stadtwache verhaftet ihn als Verdächtigen und wirft ihn in den Kerker. Nun drohen ihm, dem Henker, selbst Folter und Hinrichtung. Fieberhaft suchen seine Tochter Magdalena und der Medicus Simon Fronwieser nach dem wahren Täter und stoßen dabei auf ein Komplott, bei dem die Zukunft des Kaiserreichs auf dem Spiel steht.

India, 1922: In the kingdom of Satapur, a curse seems to have fallen upon the royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow. The royal ladies are in dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer's council is required. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, India's only female lawyer.

India’s only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay.

Kate Ardleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, free-thinking, American...and a writer of the frowned upon penny dreadfuls. Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig - and Kate has the chance to not only research her latest story but to begin her first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan.

Poppy Denby is intrigued when she is invited to attend the auction for the death mask of Nefertiti. Held on the country estate of Sir James Maddox, a famous explorer, the auction promises to be a controversial and newsworthy affair. Representatives from the world's leading museums are gathering to bid on the mask, which was discovered in Egypt. Poppy quickly sniffs out that the mask was not the only thing found that night: the underground chamber also contained a dead body.

Emma Trafford's new neighbor is a lady killer - but is the scoundrel with the scar capable of murder? Emma can barely contain her precocious younger sister, Lily - the child swears she spied their neighbor engaged in foul play in his Bloomsbury love nest. But when Lily goes too far searching for "evidence," Emma must save the imp by distracting Simon - with an all-consuming kiss rife with danger and desire.

In “Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!”, it has been a fortnight since the baroness Repstein disappeared from Paris, taking with her a fortune in jewels stolen from her husband. French detectives have chased her all over Europe, following the trail of gemstones like so many precious breadcrumbs, but she has eluded their efforts. When Arsène Lupin finds her, she will not escape so easily. Also featuring “The Wedding-Ring”, “The Sign of the Shadow”, “The Infernal Trap”, “The Red Silk Scarf”, “Shadowed by Death”, “Lupin’s Marriage”, and more.

Berlin, 1879. Als Privatdetektiv Felix Blom und seine Partnerin Mathilde Voss am Spreeufer den Mord an einer Prostituierten untersuchen, werden sie von der Vergangenheit eingeholt: Vor neun Jahren verschwand eine Freundin von Mathilde auf rätselhafte Weise – und nun deuten Hinweise darauf, dass beide Ereignisse zusammenhängen. Als es ein weiteres Mordopfer gibt, erkennen Felix und Mathilde, dass jemand bereit ist, über Leichen zu gehen, um ein düsteres Geheimnis zu bewahren.

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Movimenti sospetti nella notte a Bellano: forse allucinazioni, forse faccende private, forse non proprio reati. Forse. "Un uomo in mutande?" chiese il maresciallo Ernesto Maccadò. Nessuna traccia di sorriso. Anzi, un'espressione che valeva un punto interrogativo. Il Misfatti l'aveva messa sullo scherzo, ma quello, niente, aveva preteso i dettagli invece di riderci su. "Si spieghi meglio, appuntato", disse il Maccadò. "Dicevo tanto per..." annaspò il Misfatti. "L'ascolto comunque", insisté il maresciallo.

Two female spies risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi in this sweeping, profound tale of bravery from the bestselling author of Lilac Girls. “A riveting story of two brave and amazing women who work in the French resistance during World War II . . . a triumph!”—Lisa Scottoline...

It’s 1968, London is in full swing, and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming the rich, famous, and aristocratic into its rarified world of perfection. Royals wait upstairs in luxurious suites for discreet encounters. All is as it should be at the Savoy. If only it weren’t for the dead body in Room 705. Could it be murder? Impossible! Who could have done such a thing? Suspicion falls upon Priscilla Tempest, the quick-witted Canadian head of the Savoy press office who has a penchant for champagne, the wrong sort of men—and trouble.

Charlotte Holmes’s brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at sea in the new mystery in the bestselling Lady Sherlock series. After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty’s perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But...

Eine geerbte Detektei, eine namenlose Leiche und ein betrügerischer Liebhaber - Molly Murphys dritter Fall. Der neue historische Cosy Krimi für mörderisch gute Stunden! Nachdem Molly Murphy die Fälle ihres verstorbenen Mentors Paddy Reilly geerbt hat, sieht ihr Alltag plötzlich ganz anders aus. Als Privatdetektivin folgt sie betrügerischen Ehemännern, spürt entlaufene Debütantinnen auf und arbeitet sogar verdeckt in einem Geschäft, um herauszufinden, wer die Kleider entwendet. Keiner dieser Jobs scheint gefährlich zu sein.

When librarian Patton Harcourt comes under sniper fire in her rural North Carolina home, she is thrown together with professional assassin Nemo and into a web of international deceit. On the run from two German killers, Patton and Nemo discover a 75-year-old Enigma message, which leads them to Bletchley Park in England and a code breaker named Ruthie Drinkwater, an old flame of Patton’s. Unable to complete the job of code breaking at Bletchley, the trio leaves and is pursued by the Germans, who support a white-supremacist agenda.

Join Annie Fuller, widowed boarding house owner, and Nate Dawson, local lawyer, as they investigate their first crimes in the first four books in the romantic and suspenseful Victorian San Francisco Mystery series: Maids of Misfortune, Uneasy Spirits, Bloody Lessons, and Deadly Proof. Annie Fuller is a young widow who supplements her income by giving financial and domestic advice as Madam Sibyl. When one of Madam Sibyl’s clients dies in mysterious circumstances, Annie goes undercover as a domestic servant to find out the truth about his death.