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A fascinating biographical novel of America's must successful bank robber, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar. ★ "Electrifying." —Booklist (starred review) Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were...

Death is only the beginning… 'Breathtaking … A new talent [in] the field of gothic historical literature' NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS 'Devilishly macabre … As dark as a midnight graveyard' PATRICE McDONOUGH 'Hauntingly gothic, intimately told, and wickedly, wonderfully grotesque' MARIELLE...

Set in January 1965, A House in Winter tells the story of the visit of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to his sister's home in Abbeyleix, Ireland, when they faced local opposition and IRA petrol bomb attacks that confined them, without electricity, for 48 fraught hours. As well as the conflict outside the walls, there's plenty within, with Margaret's difficult mother-in-law gleefully contributing to her disintegrating marriage. Meanwhile in the nearby village local woman Cait has struggles of her own, unable to escape family responsibilities and small town life.

Brought to you by Penguin. ON THE EVE OF WAR, A ROYAL GUEST IS LURED INTO HITLER'S DEADLY WEB . . . Munich, 1937. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have arrived in Germany for a historic meeting at Hitler's mountain retreat. But recent attacks by ruthless Communist band, Red Freedom, has brought...

Brought to you by Penguin. It's 1965, and the world lives on a knife edge. After the nuclear standoff in Cuba, and with Vietnam even now becoming a major conflict zone, the Cold War is colder than ever. The Circus, home of British intelligence, has one formidable clandestine asset in Moscow: a...

An all-female crime gang runs havoc in 1920s Glasgow. The first policewoman is determined to bring them down. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNPICKING When whispers of abuse at Arrol's department store reach Mabel, a determined policewoman, she knows she must act. Enlisting the help of Johnnie, a...

The colonies stood on the cusp of victory after Yorktown, until King George bought twenty thousand Russian mercenaries using the gold Istäni stole from Lubrerum. While the war between Britain and the colonies erupts anew, another smaller but no less brutal war begins in the wilds of Vermont, when Istäni brings his rivalry with Murdoch back to Maralah.

The second novel in Simon Scarrow's best-selling Roman series. When Centurion Macro arrives on British soil as one of Emperor Claudius's invasion force in 43 AD, he is facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career. In a series of bloody skirmishes, Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato, and the desperately outnumbered Roman army must find and defeat the enemy before he grows strong enough to overwhelm the legions. But the Britons are not the only foe facing Macro and Cato....

Ancora un caso per il commissario Bordelli, e questa volta è davvero una brutta faccenda. Siamo nell'aprile del '64, ma la primavera proprio non si decide ad arrivare. Firenze è coperta da un cielo grigio e umido, un cielo triste che non preannuncia niente di buono. Così come niente di buono preannuncia l'arrivo in commissariato di un ometto piccolo piccolo che, con l'aria allarmata, insiste per essere accompagnato da Bordelli. È Casimiro, il suo amico nano, che ha appena scoperto il cadavere di un uomo in un campo sopra Fiesole.

A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES STARRING COLIN FARRELL, JACK O'CONNELL AND STEPHEN GRAHAM A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept...

A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels. Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Deighton is a marvel ... a tale told by an author at the height of his power' Chicago Tribune World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to...

Die größte Schiffskatastrophe zu Friedenszeiten. Als die estnisch-schwedischen Fähre Estonia 1994 bei einem Sturm untergeht, kommen 850 Menschen ums Leben. Die Umstände der Katastrophe sind jedoch dubios. Warum sank die Estonia überhaupt erst? Waren mehr Faktoren als bloß der Sturm im Spiel? Steckt dahinter gar ein Komplott? Genau das gedenken Claudius Graf Stackelberg, exzentrischer Millionenerbe, und sein Freund Wolf Jacobsen herauszufinden.

New York City, 1972—A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat...

1839, and Bow Street Runner Pip Shepherd is out of a job. The Runners have been disbanded, merged with Sir Robert Peel's new Metropolitan Police - and there's no way Pip's signing up with them. But when he befriends 'Peeler' Thomas Tedman, and hears about an upcoming detective division, he has second thoughts, and soon the duo are investigating their first cases together.

Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, a brilliant thriller that was also made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wrangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth” (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley. In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is...

La anodina vida de Sofía y Daniel cambia radicalmente cuando él recibe una carta anónima en la que se le dice que Sagrario, a la que venera, no es su verdadera madre y que si quiere conocer la verdad de su origen debe ir a París esa misma noche. Intrigado, pregunta a su padre por esta cuestión y él le recomienda que lo deje pasar, que no remueva el pasado. Sin embargo, hay preguntas que necesitan una respuesta y esta búsqueda desencadenará una sucesión de terribles acontecimientos y encuentros inesperados de infortunado desenlace que trastocará su vida y la de su mujer.

Novela policial e histórica, thriller que emana del resultado de una investigación minuciosa en el Archivo General de la Nación, esta obra no está hecha de la tensión entre un asesino y un detective en busca de las huellas para encarcelarlo. Zigzagueando entre...

From New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred...