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Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past - from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him. It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a tumultuous, violent political season. All of Springfield's elite have gathered at a grand party to celebrate the Fourth of July. Spirits are high - until a prominent local politician is assassinated in the midst of fireworks.

Er ist brillant. Er kennt keine Angst. Und er ist eine tickende Zeitbombe: Gideon Crew hat ein Aneurysma im Gehirn, das ihn jederzeit töten kann...

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately...

An obligatory listen for the lovers of dark thrillers and the character of Aloysius Pendergast. It was supposed to be an easy business - stealing the collection of precious wine can only scare the owner of the cellar. Agent Pendergast and Constance didn't expect to find a walled up human skeleton in the bucolic seaside town of Exmouth. This seemingly idyllic place is hiding a much darker secret connected to the witches who fled Salem in 1692...