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October, 1900. University College, London. When the spread-eagled body of one of her students is discovered in her rented room shortly after attending one of her lectures, Dr. Margaret Murray is disinclined to accept the official verdict of suicide and is determined to find out how and why the girl really died.

England, 1897. In London bereitet man sich auf das Diamantene Thronjubiläum Queen Victorias vor. Zur selben Zeit wird die Schriftstellerin (und gelegentliche Detektivin) Margaret Harkness von ihrem Freund Professor Joseph Bell, dem realen Vorbild für Sherlock Holmes, aufgesucht, der ihre Unterstützung braucht. Bell soll einen anarchistischen Spion entlarven und bittet um ihre Hilfe.

In the fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of Lady Ermentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey for her amusement. She demands wine, a feast.... And her niece, the angelic Thomasine.

The Christmas season brings strange guests to the medieval nunnery of St. Frideswide's. They bear with them the badly mangled body of a villager, swearing they found the drunken fool lying in a ditch. But Meg, the victim's wife and a scullery maid of the cloister, thinks there are far fouler deeds afoot. As the players rehearse for the nativity, ancient scandals lick at their heels and dark desperation haunts Meg's steps as she finds cruel feudal laws threatening to strip away the lands that would support both her and her sons in the wake of her husband's death.

Leaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. When he pleads with her to help him obtain a pardon for his crimes, she finds herself trapped between the harsh edicts of the law and the mercy of her vows. But even as she struggles to restore his fortunes, Frevisse must fight to save his soul...and his life.

Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts. Only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Join Detective Sal Brooks, newest recruit to a black-ops magic hunting team backed by the Vatican, as she travels the world to keep the supernatural in check.

Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts. Only a few who discover it survive to fight back. In this third season, join Detective Sal Brooks, newest recruit to a black-ops magic hunting team backed by the Vatican, as she travels the world to keep the supernatural in check.

September 1888. Der 29-jährige Arthur Conan Doyle erhält von der Metropolitan Police das Angebot, sie einen Monat lang als "Berater“ bei der Jagd nach dem Serienmörder zu unterstützen, der bald unter dem Namen Jack the Ripper bekannt werden wird. Doyle akzeptiert unter der Bedingung, dass sein ehemaliger Dozent für Chirurgie, Professor Joseph Bell – Doyles Inspiration für Sherlock Holmes – mit ihm zusammenarbeitet.

Eine junge Frau wird tot aufgefunden. Ihr Liebhaber, der Hauptverdächtige, scheint ein perfektes Alibi zu haben. Doch als die Polizei von Lyon nicht mehr weiterweiß, wird Edmond Locard, ein Pionier der forensischen Wissenschaft, hinzugezogen. Gemeinsam mit der scharfsinnigen Journalistin Margaret Harkness wagt er einen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um das entscheidende Indiz zu finden. Basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten, erzählt Bradley Harper eine fesselnde Geschichte über die Anfänge moderner Ermittlungsarbeit und das bahnbrechende „Locard-Prinzip“, das jede Berührung eine Spur hinterlassen lässt.

Charlie and Margaret discover the dark side of Hollywood in this sequel to New York Times bestseller The Hellfire Club—a thrilling cocktail of corruption and ambition from CNN's Jake Tapper. Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled...