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An elderly recluse informs historian Cameron Thorne that he has discovered the secret at the core of Freemasonry. The next day, he is killed. Thorne quickly focuses on a mysterious stone tablet, given to Moses by God along with the Ten Commandments, purportedly passed down to the Freemasons by the medieval Knights Templar. When a sultry Mossad agent joins the search—claiming that the tablet contains ancient scientific equations and formulas lost to mankind—Thorne becomes certain of one thing: He needs to locate the tablet before he becomes its second victim.

Adam Dalgliesh inddrages i en sag fuld af lidenskab og kærlighed. Og selvfølgelig en god del mystik. The Dupayne i London - et mindre privatejet museum med speciale i mellemkrigsårene - er i oprør. Bestyrelsen kan ikke blive enig om, hvorvidt museet skal lukke eller ej, og pludselig findes et af bestyrelsesmedlemmerne brutalt myrdet.

Som barn drømte Jodie Bentley om to ting: at blive smuk og at blive rig. Med en hjælpende hånd fra plastikkirurgien har hun opnået det første, og hun arbejder nu hårdt på det andet. Hendes filosofi er enkel: Man kan enten tjene penge eller gifte sig til dem. Det er nemt nok at blive gift - den sande udfordring er at slippe af med manden igen bagefter. Men øvelse gør mester.

Amador Montalba, Mexico City guide, and good friend of Shell Scott, alerts Scott to a wealthy woman in Mexico City who needs help. Shell is in Mexico City winding up another case and decides to follow up on the lead. Senora Lopez, wife of a prominent Mexican General, was secretly filmed during an extra-marital sex liaison with another man. After several payoffs to a blackmailer, she decides to turn the case over to Shell Scott. But the case is not one of simple blackmail. Communists appear to be involved.

Broadway. The Great White Way. In its theatres - one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubled side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal and violent. For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away.