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Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery to flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns. However, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later in a brutal fall from a high cliff.

Der Klimawandel hat den Norden Europas entvölkert. In Jokkmokk, einer der wenigen bewohnten Enklaven, soll die Stockholmer Kommissarin Selma Fredriksson einen Mord aufklären. Der samische Polizist Aslak Järvi unterstützt sie dabei, ohne zu ahnen, dass Selma ganz andere Ziele verfolgt.

Der zwölfte Band der bekannten Krimireihe mit Capitaine Roger Blanc Juni in der Provence, mit dem Sommer kommen die Touristen – gerade auch nach Saint-Rémy, einem der schönsten Orte in Südfrankreich. Ganz in der Nähe des malerischen Städtchens erheben sich die Alpilles, ein Gebirgszug mit schroffen Felsgipfeln und dicht bewaldeten, fast menschenleeren Tälern. Und genau zwischen Stadt und Bergen, zwischen Betriebsamkeit und Einsamkeit, erstreckt sich die seit mehr als anderthalb Jahrtausenden verlassene antike Metropole Glanum, das "Pompeji der Provence".

Brought to you by Penguin. Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going très wrong: He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen. His research into...

Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock have been granted leave to go on pilgrimage. Together they travel across Europe to Portugal, but danger seems to follow them, as they are among the first on the scene when a beautiful young girl is found brutally raped and murdered on the hillside of Santiago de Compostela. Baldwin and Simon lend their investigative skills to the ensuing enquiry headed by the local pesquisidore, Munio.

Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead-straight line following one degree 50 West up Britain.

Kids can be so cruel. They'll call you names. Hurt your feelings. Push you to your death. In the garden of an abandoned house, Luke Connolly lies broken, dead. The night before, he and his friends partied inside. Nobody fought, everybody else went home safely. And yet, Luke was raped and pushed...