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A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter. En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be.

Big Anthony Tagliabue is a local character whose fiancee Agnes Ann owns a stable on the eponymous offshore island. She is secretly training a promising filly for the track when she discovers that Tagliabue also harbors a secret: He's a deep-cover operative who is called to duty when a Russian spy ship transits the coast on her way back to St. Petersburg. Giselle, Tagliabue's enigmatic and exotic handler, intimates that his mission to rescue a defector from the Leonov might also ameliorate his thirst to find the killers of his mate. Agnes Ann is not so sure about Giselle.

Brought to you by Penguin. A rich, atmospheric WWII thriller from the award-winning author of Moskva and Nightfall Berlin An unlikely spy. July 1940. As Britain braces itself for invasion, ex-Tommy and safecracker Bill O'Hagan is glad to have escaped the battlefield. But when a job goes wrong...

The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English...

Im August 1956 verschwindet die fünfzehnjährige Lára. Sie hat in ihren Sommerferien als Haushaltshilfe auf einer beschaulichen Insel südlich von Reykjavík gearbeitet ― bis sie eines Tages wie vom Erdboden verschluckt ist. Das tragische Ereignis wird zu Islands berühmtestem ungelösten Fall. Dreißig Jahre später geht der Journalist Valur kurz vor dem brisanten Gipfel zwischen Ronald Reagan und Michail Gorbatschow in Reykjavík einer neuen Spur im Fall Lára nach und riskiert damit sein Leben. Denn wenn Lára vor 30 Jahren Opfer eines Gewaltverbrechens wurde, dann hätte der Mörder gerade jetzt genug Gründe, erneut zuzuschlagen.