Historical

Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old, is searching for a mysterious middle-aged aghori (Shiva devotee), Om Shastri, who was traced more than 200 years ago before he was captured and transported to a high-tech facility on an isolated Indian island. When the aghori was drugged and hypnotized for...

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four...

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must stop a killer lurking among a young family in the newest installment of the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries....

The scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi returns to solve another fiendish murder mystery. An old friend of Kindaichi’s invites the detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe, the site of a 20-year-old unsolved murder case.

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields....

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private detective husband Frank discover that the cure is worse than the disease when they investigate the death of a promising young woman in this atmospheric, riveting mystery....

"Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love...

The Azad Hind Fauj plans to set up the Azad Hind Bank at Port Blair, after the liberation of the Andaman and Nicobar islands from the British. However, the treasure and men sent to open the branch are mysteriously lost.

'बाजिंद' ही एक ऐतिहासिक रहस्यकथा आहे. रहस्यमयतेने शेवटपर्यंत वाचकांची उत्कंठा ताणून धरणारी ही कादंबरी बहिर्जी...

After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and finds that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed....

Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins....

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....

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....

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls....

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....

December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever....

Three linked crimes test Sherlock Holmes’ deductive powers, and his skepticism about the supernatural, to the limit....

Twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is far too shy to investigate the suspicious death of a fellow guest in the Lake District. A spinster who lives on the sufferance of her relatives, she would certainly not presume to search the rooms of her host's son and his friend looking for evidence....

Brought to you by Penguin. The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the basis for a world-renowned stage musical. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Mireille Ribiere, and an introduction by Jann Matlock...

Brought to you by Penguin. Dark secrets, an unexplained death and an old country house lie at the heart of Georgette Heyer's classic murder mystery. The Priory may look ramshackle in appearance, but Peter, Margaret and Celia are totally charmed by their newly inherited country house. But...

When a day at the races reveals sabotage and subterfuge, Elizabeth Miles must use every ounce of her craftiness to even the score in this all-new Counterfeit Lady novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson....

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 assistant believes it was murder....

In the sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, Superintendent Battle must solve a practical joke gone horribly wrong.

They’re used to solving murders. But until now the killer has always been human…

The iconic duo find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events: an otherworldly stone whose touch inflicts fatal bleeding; a hellish potion to unlock a person’s devilish psyche; a fiendishly clever, almost undetectable method of revenge and many more....

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2025. Und wir schreiben das Jahr 1945. Gelingt es, in der Gegenwart ein Verbrechen aufzuklären, das weit zurück in der Vergangenheit begangen wurde? Als auf einem Flohmarkt im ostfriesischen Moordorf eine filigrane Brosche auftaucht, ahnt zunächst niemand, dass sie einst Teil eines ostpreußischen Familienschatzes war. 1945 verloren gegangen auf der Flucht vor der heranrückenden Roten Armee, wurde sie noch am selben Tag gefunden von dem zehnjährigen Klaus Oldinski, der sie zu seinem persönlichen Schatz erklärte.

Un cosy mystery pétillant au Grand Siècle ! Les réceptions mondaines ? Très peu pour Joséphine ! La jeune fille préfère la compagnie des livres et l'apprentissage de la médecine avec son père, le docteur Henri Galtier - une hérésie pour une femme en 1672. Pourtant, lorsque sa sœur Louise la supplie de l'accompagner à la fête de fiançailles de Marianne, leur amie d'enfance, Jo accepte... bien à contrecœur. Mais quand la future belle-mère est retrouvée morte au petit matin, Joséphine comprend très vite qu'elle a été empoisonnée.

1890. The New Mexico Territory is a lawless frontier where criminals steal money and land alike with impunity. Everyone wears a six-gun and is ready and willing to draw it. In the new city of Montaña Roja, Fred Harvey’s growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. To get justice, he needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask.

Young Nancy Ratcliffe is on the run. Her father had sought refuge for his family with the Brethren, led by the charismatic but dangerous Prophet. But now her father is gravely ill, and even the sooty streets of Victorian London hold less terror for Nancy than the brutality of Brethren Hall. Meanwhile, Spider is biding her time. Wrapped in dreams and visions, she paces the dark corridors and hidden staircases of the crumbling house she grew up in. The man who murdered a part of her disappeared many years ago, but still she hopes for revenge...

Il ragioniere Antonio Patò è scomparso a Vigàta nel marzo del 1890, mentre recitava la parte di Giuda sul palco di una sacra rappresentazione del Venerdì Santo. È stato inghiottito da una botola della macchina scenica, senza che lasciasse traccia di sé. È stato rapito? L'hanno ammazzato? Vaga per le campagne, smemorato? Le ipotesi sono tante.

When Gavin travels to Edinburgh with his good friend Oscar Barratt, he’s eager to acquire a centuries-old book on witchcraft for the soon-to-open Glass Library. Even with ruthless railroad magnate John J. Defoe in the bidding, the victory comes easily. Perhaps too easily. Hours later, the book is stolen. A single clue links the theft to the recent abduction of two women, both magicians.

When prominent Chattanooga businessman Augustus Aldridge III is found dead in his mansion’s library, Lt. Kate Gazzara discovers something chilling: nearly a century earlier, a young woman named Emily Caldwell was murdered in that same room. The cause of death: poisoning—carefully planned, expertly administered. The suspects include family members desperate for inheritance, longtime staff with hidden grudges, and a household full of people who each had means, motive, and opportunity. But as Kate digs deeper into Augustus’s death, she uncovers his secret obsession with Emily’s unsolved murder.

Anna Lang lost everyone she loved during the Second World War—except her cherished music teacher, Esther Haymann. When Miss Haymann dies under suspicious circumstances and rumors of suicide swirl, Anna doesn't want to believe them. Her doubts intensify when she catches a stranger rifling through Miss Haymann's papers, claiming a link between her death and that of renowned scientist Alan Turing.

From the smoke-filled chaos of Waterloo to the elegant halls of Brantstone Hall, Captain Sebastian Alder finds his world transformed overnight when he inherits the Somerton viscountcy. Yet his fairytale elevation masks a grim reality – crumbling estates, mounting debts and the disturbing questions surrounding his cousin's untimely demise. With a killer potentially still at large, Sebastian must trade the straightforward perils of battle for the treacherous maze of aristocratic intrigue. When Sebastian and Isabel's paths collide, neither expects the spark that ignites between them.

Ostern 1903. In den Armenvierteln von London werden französische Prostituierte gekreuzigt aufgefunden. In der Kleidung der Leichen entdeckt man mysteriöse Nachrichten. Diese Kreuzigungs-Morde sorgen für internationales Aufsehen und belasten einen anstehenden Staatsbesuch des englischen Königs beim französischen Präsidenten, bei dem sich beide Großmächte einander annähern wollen. Inspektor Bradstreet von Scotland Yard und die Londoner Polizei tappen im Dunkeln. Zur Klärung der Mordserie wird Sherlock Holmes vom König direkt beauftragt.

Tabitha and Wolf have been invited to historic Salisbury for a scholarly lecture celebrating their recent discovery at Pembroke Castle. However, the occasion takes a dark turn when the lecturer is found dead beneath the towering ruins of Old Sarum. As the couple begins to investigate, they are drawn into a labyrinth of ancient Druidic rites, shadowy Church intrigues, and secrets buried beneath the chalky plains. An excavation near Stonehenge uncovers more than bones, awakening old rivalries and new dangers.

Year 2020: not even the Lock Down due to the COVID 19 pandemic will be able to stop the work of scholar Lucia Balleani and archaeologist Andrea Franciolini, once again committed to discovering mysterious arcana in the heart of the historic center of Jesi. An ancient underground pipeline and an enigmatic stone sphere will represent two puzzles that are difficult for the young couple of researchers to solve.

Step into the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London with The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the most intriguing mysteries in the legendary Sherlock Holmes canon. When a newly married bride vanishes without explanation on her wedding night, suspicion falls upon deception, scandal, and secrets hidden behind aristocratic respectability.

The year is 1925. A labyrinth of roads and rails spirals out from the bones of a nearly forgotten settlement. Londinium. Once the far-flung edge of the vast Roman Empire, it is now the seat of a greater one. Few have given more for the Empire than Colonel Hadrian Russell. Robbed of his four sons by the Great War, he now holds court as the acting president of the Britannia, a prestigious soldiers-only club in London. But when the Colonel is shot and thrown out the club’s front window, it seems the shadows of the Great War may extend further than previously thought.

When a terrified young woman seeks help after her sister’s mysterious death, Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a dark country estate filled with strange whistles in the night, bolted shutters, and a sinister stepfather with a violent temper. What begins as a puzzling locked-room mystery quickly becomes a race against time as Holmes uncovers a method of murder so cunning it has shocked people for generations.