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The year is 1976. Veteran New Haven homicide detective Frank Suchy has finally learned to cope with the demons in his life and the daily pressure of "the job" - being exposed to every manner of death that could possibly befall someone - all the while celebrating his third year of sobriety. But when his best friend's child is brutally murdered in broad daylight outside a downtown shopping mall, his world begins to deteriorate, bringing back the nightmares that he thought were locked away long ago.

In einem kleinen Cottage außerhalb Londons verbringen die Heldars den ersten Frühling mit ihrem Sohn Peter. Doch als die Verlobte von Johnnys Cousin, Prudence, des Mordes verdächtigt wird, eilt das Buchhändlerpaar zurück nach London, um die Ermittlungen aufzunehmen. Mit überraschenden Twists führt uns Henrietta Hamilton auf die Spur eines Verbrechens, das die Urfrage stellt, wem wir wirklich vertrauen können. In Mr. Frodshams Haus in der Willow Street spielen sich geheimnisvolle Treffen und verbotene Liebschaften ab, Identitäten werden ausgetauscht, Erpresserbriefe verfasst und Plagiate vertuscht.

London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that...

Nel bosco in fondo a Needless Street non abitano solo animali ma anche senso di colpa, crudeltà e dolore. Smarrircisi è fin troppo facile, perché tutti siamo vittime ma anche carnefici. Questa è la storia di un assassino, di una bambina scomparsa e di una vendetta. Questa è la storia di Ted, che vive con sua figlia Lauren e la gatta Olivia in una casa normale alla fine di una strada normale. Tutte queste cose sono vere. Eppure, alcune sono bugie. Pensi di sapere cosa c'è dentro l'ultima casa in fondo a Needless Street. Pensi di aver già letto questa storia. Ma è qui che ti sbagli.

he game is afoot. When Dr. John Watson, a wounded veteran newly returned from Afghanistan, meets the brilliant and eccentric Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea he is about to witness the birth of a legend. Sharing rooms at 221B Baker Street, the unlikely pair soon find themselves drawn into a...

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson bereiten sich auf eine Reise nach Birmingham vor, um die dortige Polizei bei einem schwierigen Fall zu unterstützen. Jedoch werden sie überraschend von einem mutmaßlichen Klienten aufgehalten. Der junge Mann aus Amerika bittet Holmes um Hilfe, doch dann geraten die Dinge ein wenig außer Kontrolle.

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From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood. “A blistering book. A love story. Social commentary. History. Protest...

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The queen of the Victorian mystery, New York Times bestseller Anne Perry returns with the 22nd novel in the William Monk series REVENGE IN A COLD RIVER. An adversary Monk cannot remember threatens everything he holds dear - will he survive what is to come? London, 1869: The body of a middle-aged...

Diesmal ermittelt Sherlock in seinem bisher persönlichsten Fall: Sein Bruder Mycroft wird beschuldigt, Rita Burnet, ein stadtbekanntes Callgirl, mit einem Messer umgebracht zu haben. Die Indizien belasten ihn und die Polizei ist von seiner Schuld überzeugt. Doch was ist in jener dunklen Gasse wirklich passiert? War es eine missglückte Mission des Geheimdienstes oder hatte noch jemand ganz anderes seine Finger im Spiel? Die Uhr tickt, denn zu allem Überfluss schwebt Mycroft seit dem Vorfall in Lebensgefahr.

London, 1812. At a fashionable address in leafy Mayfair, a far cry from Detective Stephen Lavender’s usual haunts, a man is found dead in his room. He has been brutally stabbed, but the door is locked from the inside, and the weapon is missing. The deceased is David MacAdam, an Essex businessman with expensive tastes. As Lavender and Constable Ned Woods travel between London and Chelmsford seeking to understand MacAdam’s final hours and unearth the grisly truth, they uncover a tangled web of deceit behind his stylish facade.