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London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon. A woman has been found dead in a lake in a place where she shouldn’t have been. Jane needs to gather the clues and find the killer before someone else from the agency gets hurt… Shy and handsome code-breaker Arthur Cilento is bewildered by the arrival of the efficient Miss Treen and her cat Marmaduke.

Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream. Meridian...

De achttienjarige Isobel 'Izzy' Stanhope heeft geheimen. Zo is ze smoorverliefd op een jonge hertog die niet eens weet dat ze bestaat. Ook is haar familie berooid achtergebleven nadat Izzy's vader overleed, maar niemand uit de hogere elite mag dat weten. En dan is er nog haar baan bij de Aviary (Volière), een onderzoeksbureau volledig gerund door vrouwen en gespecialiseerd in het opgraven van schandalen en louche zaken van machtige mannen.

Cambridge, 1896. When gifted mathematician Grace Marshall is thrown into poverty by the sudden loss of her distinguished father, marriage seems to offer the best hope of security. The obvious candidate agrees; their union would boost his professional reputation as well as offering Grace safe respectability. But Grace's ally at the college, Miss Froment, has taken against this suitor and recruits the Moth Agency in a campaign of engagement prevention.

Thorpeness, 1973. Wrongly exiled from London, Judge Neville Hanmer sought solace and a quiet life on the Suffolk coast. But then a face from the past unexpectedly resurfaces and he turns to The Anglian Detective Agency for help. Laurel, Frank, and the rest of the team are busier than ever trying to solve the mysterious theft of rare plants from Yoxford Hall Gardens. But when Judge Hanmer doesn't show for their meeting, they find themselves embroiled in yet another case.

Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid, Daisy, form a detective agency, they never dream their first case will take place at a glamorous house in the Scottish Highlands. But when the duchess of Duddingston, concerned that a notorious jewelry thief will target her lavish weekend party, employs Maud to go undercover as a guest to find the culprit, the agency has its first case to solve....

Professor Theo Watt needs a suitable wife, or so his mother believes. His dazzling career as a naturalist leaves no time to find one, so he grudgingly defers to her matchmaking. Amidst a string of disappointing candidates, he unexpectedly finds himself charmed by a passing young woman who sacrifices her pretty dress to join him in the muddy rescue of a fish.

Britain is in shambles, as it recovers from the cataclysm of WWI. Although the war has ended, it takes effort to preserve the peace against hidden enemies striving to undermine or replace the government. There is a desperate need for recruits to fight this invisible war. Sophie Burgoyne can trace her lineage back to the ancient French kings and dukes of twelve centuries ago.A long pedigree doesn't help her when she only has a few pounds in the bank. Sophie knows she must take action, or she and her father, the vicar of Havering-under-Lyme, will face the horrors of genteel impoverishment.

تتمحور أحداث الرواية حول بطلها الطالب المتفوق في معهد المعلمين ب"دمنهور" والذي يتسبب اعتداءه على مدرسه في طرده من المعهد وسقوطه إلى غياهب العالم السفلي لنتعرف من خلاله على وكالة عطية؛ مأوى المهمشين والأشقياء والصعاليك في المدينة.

A prequel to the bestselling Jon Hunt series based on the actual war time experiences of one man. It’s 1939 and war with Germany is inevitable. Already qualified as a pilot, John Hunt can see the writing on the wall and decides to join the Royal Naval Air Service. He goes through the training system but at the end is asked to volunteer for service with the RAF who are desperately short of pilots as the Battle of Britain ramps up. At the same time Heather, his fiancé, joins the Air Transport Auxiliary and also qualifies as a war time pilot.

Un romanzo storico collettivo a forte valenza politica, un'avvicente cavalcata nel tempo sulle tracce di "Q" di Wu Ming. Un'ombra attraversa il Tempo: dall'antico Egitto, dove ha avuto origine, un pericolo minaccia il destino dell'Uomo. Un segreto custodito nei millenni da chi ha scelto di non avvalersi della sua potenza distruttrice.

While Jemma continues to search for her missing husband, the citizens of historic York are shocked by a series of vicious crimes at the city's two museums. A bungled break-in at the Yorkshire Museum is quickly followed by the brutal murder of Lance Richards, a sub-curator at the neighboring Castle Museum. The main suspect is Anthony Gill, a quiet and unprepossessing clerk. But Gill doesn't have an alibi and is uncooperative with the police. His desperate lawyer hires Jemma and Bobbie from Smoke & Cracked Mirrors to prove his innocence.

When her husband goes "missing in action", Jemma James returns to the city of her birth to set up a private detective agency with her best friend, Roberta "Bobbie" Baker, with whom she shares a passionate love of Golden Age crime fiction. These two enterprising young women soon find themselves embroiled in a series of mysterious cases, shadowing blackmailers and bigamists, and investigating the perplexing history of a wealthy young woman who seems determined to wipe out her past. And it's not long before they stumble across an unsolved murder.

È il 1902 e molti italiani cercano fortuna negli Stati Uniti. Anche Giuseppe, ventun anni, figlio maggiore di una famiglia contadina dell'Aspromonte, lascia tutto quello che ha e attraversa l'oceano. Sbarcato a Ellis Island, non supera le visite di controllo e viene isolato per essere rispedito indietro. Ma una signora vestita di azzurro e con un bimbo in braccio gli appare all'improvviso, aprendogli le porte dell'America. Dopo anni di duro lavoro nell'aria irrespirabile delle miniere e delle fonderie, Giuseppe torna in Calabria.

For too many years, Prudence Aldrich has been numbing the pain in her life with random sexual encounters. Her marriage to cold, self-centered Nick is, not surprisingly, on the rocks. But after several dangerous experiences with strangers, Prudence finally realizes she needs therapy to stop her self-destructive behavior, and so she checks into the Serenity Hills rehab center. Prudence blames herself for her irresponsible behavior and is filled with self-loathing. However, her therapist and the other members of her rehab group see the person behind the pain.

In 1893, on the eve of the great race for land, Benjamin David prays for God to guide him to his Promised Land. Finding property and preaching to the lost are his only ways of honoring his deceased fiancée. He hasn’t counted on Elmer (Elsie) Smith claiming the same plot and refusing to leave. Not only is she a burr in his side, but she is full of the homesteading know-how he is sadly lacking. Obtaining a claim in the Cherokee Strip Land Run is Elsie Smith’s only hope for survival, and not just any plot, she has a specific one in mind.

Over a decade before the events of the manga series, a chance encounter leads professional bodyguard Yukichi Fukuzawa to begrudgingly take an arrogant boy genius named Ranpo Edogawa under his wing. Their first job brings them to a local theater on high alert after receiving a bizarre death...

The Civil War rages around her, yet Brigid McGinnis has her life planned out. That was, until she stumbles across an unconscious Confederate soldier on her father’s property. A blow to the head stole Dominic Warner’s memory. The beautiful Fraulein who nurses him back to health steals something even more important - his heart. Follow Brigid and Dominic from the battlefields surrounding Atlanta, along slave escape routes, to Little Rock, and eventually to the plains of Eastern Texas, as they learn to trust, forgive, love, and surrender to a plan greater than their own.

Lotingen. Tre anni dopo gli omicidi di Könisberg, Hanno Stiffeniis e la moglie Helena conducono una vita di ristrettezze dopo la sconfitta dell'esercito a Jena contro le truppe napoleoniche. Quando vengono ritrovati i cadaveri mutilati di tre bambini, figli di un ufficiale ussaro, appare evidente che Stiffeniis dovrà indagare spalla a spalla con il nemico.

Roma, 46 d.C. In una gradevole giornata dell'estate romana il senatore Publio Aurelio Stazio viene invitato a un banchetto nella ricca dimora del console Paolo Metronio, personalità politica assai di spicco. Qui Aurelio ha la piacevole sorpresa di ritrovare due compagni d'infanzia che aveva perduto di vista; con loro si lascia andare alla rievocazione dolceamara dei "bei tempi andati", tra pettegolezzi, ricordi di amori e avventure, racconti di fortune e rovesci. Presto però l'atmosfera da amarcord si tinge di rosso sangue quando uno dei due amici viene ucciso.