Historical

It is meant to be a celebration, but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed....

William Warwick is eight when he decides to join the police force. Resolute in the face of his prominent QC father’s objections, William graduates in Art History from university and immediately enrols as a constable in the Metropolitan Police....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor....

Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer....

ராஜாஜி பக்தர் கல்கி என்பது பலருக்கும் தெரியும்....

Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations - in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project to design the atomic bomb and in her passionate love affair with coworker Thomas Wheeler....

While my beau, Darcy, is off on a mysterious mission, I am once again caught between my high birth and empty purse. I am therefore relieved to receive a new assignment....

Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary....

William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force....

In the stifling summer heat, three disturbing events take place: a clique of city leaders is poisoned, a white gangster is found mutilated and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace....

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s Theatre in Bristol with her maid and confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two opens with a body on stage—a real one....

Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, 21-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City....

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North....

The gripping second historical crime novel in David Baldacci’s Private Investigator Archer series, following the Sunday Times top five bestseller One Good Deed....

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizer....

Private investigator and WWII veteran Aloysius Archer returns to solve a new case in Hollywood, in this riveting thriller from international number one best-selling author David Baldacci....

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s....

The stunning novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Age of Odin, in which the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft collide....

It’s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed....

Who killed 24-year-old Priscilla Hart? And why would anyone want to murder this idealistic American student who had come to India to volunteer in a women’s health programme? Intellectually provocative and emotionally charged, Riot is a novel about love, hate, and fanaticism....

Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid find themselves hosting a colorful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture is being shown to mark Halloween....

In 1949, Aloysius Archer arrives in the dusty Southern town of Poca City. He has nothing but a handful of dollars, the clothes he’s wearing and an appointment with his new parole officer....

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house....

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved....

Mrs Beatrice Dark, the wife of powerful cabinet minister, Joseph Dark, enters the office of a tabloid newspaper and shoots her husband’s enemy, the editor of the tabloid on the eve of World War Two....

Hamburg 1920. Einbrüche und Raubüberfälle sind an der Tagesordnung. Die Polizei sieht sich einer gut organisierten Bande von Kriminellen gegenüber, die auch vor dem Einsatz brutaler Gewalt nicht zurückschreckt. Doch Gewalt gibt es auch anderswo. Das junge Nachkriegsdeutschland steckt in einer schweren Wirtschaftskrise. Kapp-Putsch, Hungerunruhen, Ausnahmezustand in Hamburg. Und die Polizei hat ihre eigenen Probleme. Bei einer Inflationsrate von mehr als 100 Prozent reichen die Gehälter der Beamten kaum aus, um ihre Familien zu ernähren.

Im Frühling des Jahres 1550 kehrt die schwangere "Lebenspflückerin" Hiske an der Seite ihres Mannes, des Arztes Jan Valkensteyn, nach Jever zurück. Ihre alte Freundin, die Duuvke Anneke Hollander, fürchtet um ihr Leben, weil sie Augenzeugin eines Mordes geworden ist. Kurz vor dem Eintreffen der beiden wird noch ein weiterer Mann tot aufgefunden. Besteht am Ende ein Zusammenhang zwischen den Morden und der beständig voranschreitenden Reformation? Das Jeverland ist schließlich dem katholischen Kaiser als burgundisches Lehen verpflichtet.

Il male non si concede pause neanche a maggio. Sul lungomare di Posillipo viene trovato un anziano prete, barbaramente ucciso. È inspiegabile, perché padre Angelo, era amato da tutti. Un santo, dicono. Un fine teologo, un uomo che nella vita ha donato conforto a tante persone. E Ricciardi è più inquieto che mai. Lui ed Enrica hanno cominciato a incontrarsi, ma il commissario non può continuare a nasconderle la propria natura, il segreto che a lungo lo ha tenuto lontano da lei.

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British-quite a tidy way to end her disastrous marriage, the village gossips whisper.

22 janvier 1905. Paris se presse à la suite du cortège funéraire de Louise Michel, icône légendaire de la Commune. Parmi les ouvriers, la jeune Jeanne Desroselles, travestie en femme du peuple, se mêle à la foule. Idéaliste et militante, cette jeune héritière fréquente depuis quelques mois les rassemblements publics, vibrant des revendications de ceux qui luttent pour la justice et la liberté. Mais ce matin d'hiver sera pour Jeanne le dernier.

Mathon Churchyard, March 1891. The Cleaves family gather in a small country churchyard for their son's funeral. But they don't recognise the dead man in the coffin. WHO IS HE? AND WHERE'S THEIR SON? Detective Inspector Ravenscroft is alarmed by the behaviour of the Upton Undertakers. What are they hiding? And who killed this man? Then another member of the Cleaves family is found dead. Ravenscroft begins to suspect something grisly is afoot—could someone be involved in body snatching?

Sebastian St. Cyr ermittelt in seinem rätselhaftesten Fall... Der historische Kriminalroman im nebelverhüllten London jetzt auch als Hörbuch! London, 1811: Ein Serienmörder hat es scheinbar auf die wohlhabende junge Elite abgesehen und tötet die Söhne der prominentesten Familien Englands. Die Leichen werden grausig zugerichtet und im Morgengrauen auf öffentlichen Plätzen abgelegt. Der örtliche Magistrat wendet sich in seiner Verzweiflung an Sebastian St. Cyr, den Viscount Devlin, um ihn um Hilfe zu bitten.

Nathan Heller, star of MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins’ most acclaimed series of novels (more than 1 million copies sold to date!), comes to Hard Case Crime for the first time in an all-new thriller drawn from the pages of history. A millionaire’s son is kidnapped and private eye Heller is called in to help. But when half of the record $600,000 ransom goes missing, Heller must wade through a morass of deception and depravity to blow the lid off a notorious crime whose consequences reach into the corridors of power in Washington D.C.

Frankreich um 1951 - Departement Vaucluse. In dem kleinen und beschaulichen Städtchen Roussillon ereignen sich unheimliche und merkwürdige Mordfälle. Die Polizei hat Mühe sie zu klären. In einem alten, liebevoll renovierten Landhaus lebt die pensionierte Geschichtsprofessorin Juliette Lafayette, die sich als scharfsinnige Amateurdetektivin ebenfalls an der Lösung der sonderbaren Fälle beteiligt. Unterstützt wird sie von ihrer pfiffigen Nichte Madeleine, die ab und zu bei ihr wohnt. Sehr zum Verdruss von Kommissar Alois Becuse.

Edinburgh 1890. Inspector McGray ertappt zwei Grabräuber auf dem Friedhof, und beim Anblick der Leiche gefriert ihm das Blut in den Adern. Der Toten wurde das Zeichen des Teufels ins Gesicht gebrannt. Dasselbe Zeichen taucht kurz darauf in Edinburghs Irrenanstalt auf, mit dem Blut eines getöteten Patienten an die Wand geschmiert. Beschuldigt wird die berüchtigste Insassin des Hauses: McGrays Schwester Amy, die ihre Eltern brutal ermordet haben soll. Verzweifelt wendet sich McGray an einen alten Freund: Ian Frey.

Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from senior MI5 boss Lord Templeman brings him out of retirement.  A nearby village has been locked down by the military, its residents blighted by a deadly illness. No one is allowed in or out. There are rumours the Nazi machine is still operational, with links to Unit 731, a notorious Japanese biological warfare research laboratory.

It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow-moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. 

Der Auftakt zu einer historischen Krimireihe voller Spannung vor der Kulisse Hamburgs Nachkriegszeit. Hamburg, 1947: Ein harter Hungerwinter liegt hinter der zerbombten Hansestadt. Frauen fahren ins Umland, um bei Bauern Nahrungsmittel zu erbetteln. Dabei kommt es immer wieder zu Überfällen, ein Vergewaltiger geht um. Niemand scheint sich für das Leid der Frauen zu interessieren... Außer Ida Rabe. Sie hat gerade den Lehrgang zur Schutzpolizistin beendet und ihre erste Stelle bei der Weiblichen Polizei in der Davidwache auf St. Pauli angetreten.

London, April 1891. When the severed torso of a woman washes up on the bank of the river Thames, London believes a serial killer from the past has struck again. Crime photographer and investigator Sarah Bain Barrett is on the scene with her friends Mick O’Reilly and Lord Hugh Staunton. This is their chance to solve a cold case and deliver a monster to justice, with help from Sarah’s husband Detective Sergeant Thomas Barrett; her sister Sally Albert, an intrepid newspaper reporter; and Hugh’s psychologist, Dr. Joshua Lewes, a pioneer in the new science of criminal profiling.

Glamourös, klug und unabhängig, eine moderne Frau und eine gewitzte Detektivin - das ist Phryne Fisher. Die wohlhabende englische Aristokratin lässt sich in den wilden 1920er Jahren in Melbourne nieder und lebt mit ihren beiden Adoptivtöchtern in St. Kilda, wo sie ihr Single-Dasein in vollen Zügen genießt - und nebenbei einen Mordfall nach dem anderen löst. Nicht immer zur Freude der örtlichen Polizei. Das kleine Städtchen St. Kilda steht kopf: Der Zirkus ist in der Stadt, und in wenigen Tagen wird die große Blumenparade stattfinden.