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Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance; perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life. So begins this brilliant and gripping novel, a dark mystery set in late-Victorian England.

Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.

London, 1789. After a fire consumes the Theatre Royal, master showman Joseph Eliot is desperate to rebuild. His answer comes in the form of a strange, silent boy—his skin marked with tiger–like stripes—and a plan to turn curiosity into spectacle.

Thomas Finbow, falconer to Sir Robert Vicary, is sent to the remote Salisbury Plain by his master to assist on the estate of the impoverished Sir Giles Buckeridge. Thomas is to train a ramage hawk – an immature, half-wild bird – and to teach the arts of falconry to Sir Giles’s young ward, Gervase. It soon becomes clear, however, that Sir Giles has much bigger problems than falconry as he is struggling to secure respectable futures – and provide sufficient dowries - for his three spirited daughters.

When invited to attend the Barrowhill Pleasures at the seat of the extravagant and pompous Earl of Reigate, Sir Robert Vicary of Petbury brings Thomas, his trusted falconer along with him to enjoy the festivities. But things take a very deadly turn when three of the Earl's guests are murdered, and the Earl seems eager to cover the deaths up at all costs. As the festivities continue, a killer is on the loose, and Thomas must keep a keen eye on the guests. One of them is not what they seem, and he must discern who before the Earl himself becomes the next target.

Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible—but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his...

The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have selected their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures, providing listeners a curated masterclass in crime fiction. Each of these 19 tales, from Sherlock's first appearance in A Study in Scarlet to the late classic The Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings, and revenge.

“One of the best historical series being written today.” —Washington Post “Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre’s most complex and fascinating detective.” —Entertainment Weekly The Confession is historical crime fiction at its finest, continuing...

After two London men end their business partnership, one of them is savagely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset. Investigating the killing, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that the victim was universally despised in Cambury - even the victim's wife and the town's police inspector are suspect. And yet in London circles, the man was highly regarded. What triggered his death?

Tawcester Towers, the family seat of the Lyminster family, has suffered an unwelcome injection of distant cousins - so distant that they aren't even British! Count Igor and Count Lyudmilla Bashusky had to flee Russia after the Revolution and have spent the intervening years building up debts in the hotels of Europe's capitals and sponging off ever more exasperated (and distant) relatives.

I foråret 1897 realiserer selskabsdamen Fredrika Nilsdotter sin drøm og åbner sit eget detektivbureau under et mandligt alias. Da den berømte teaterdirektør Georg Valentin pludselig styrter i døden fra Katarinahissen, indser Fredrika, at det højt profilerede mord kan være den mulighed, hun har ventet på for at bevise sit værd. For at gøre det har hun brug for hjælp fra sine fortrolige i den mærkværdige kvartet: enken Olga, syersken Hildur og tjenestepigen Edit.

Berlin 1889: Gabriel Landow und sein Kompagnon Orsini ziehen in ihre neu gegründete Berliner Hinterhofdetektei in Kreuzberg, die auch ihr gemeinsames Zuhause ist. Nach anfänglicher Flaute scheint es den ersten Auftrag zu geben: Der achtjährige Sohn der Nachbarin, der Bankiersfrau Frau Phillipi, ist von seinem Geigenunterricht nicht nach Hause gekommen. Doch das Glück ist nicht mit ihm: Der Junge taucht von allein wieder auf, unversehrt und adrett wie eh und je. Aber er sagt keinen einzigen Ton mehr, was immer seine Mutter auch versucht.

December 1882. Attending the opening of the new Natural History Museum, reporter Alec Lonsdale and his colleague Hulda Friederichs are shocked to discover a body in the basement, hacked to death. Suspicion falls on three cannibals, brought from the Congo as museum exhibits, who have disappeared. But Alec discovers that three other men have been similarly murdered, and when he and Hulda discover a letter in the victim's home warning of a catastrophic event planned for Christmas Eve, they find themselves in a race against time.

Drei Morde, rätselhafte Nachrichten, ein blutiger Anfänger. Berlin 1888: Die Beschattung von Ehebrechern ist der Alltag in seiner schlecht laufenden Detektei. Gabriel Landow, schwarzes Schaf einer ostpreußischen Adelsfamilie, fällt der Erfolg nicht in den Schoß. Doch dann landet direkt vor seinen Füßen ein von ihm Observierter, aus nachtschwarzem Himmel mitten aufs Sperrgebiet am Tempelhofer Feld. Der Ministerialbeamte wurde aus dem Korb eines Militärballons gestoßen und hält ein Buch der Brüder Grimm in der Hand. Es ist bereits der dritte mysteriöse Todesfall in kurzer Zeit.

London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the postmortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague, Hulda Friederichs, begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society.

When Sir Geoffrey’s unpopular brother, Henry, is murdered, he unwillingly inherits Goodrich Castle in the Welsh Marches. Immediately, his sister pushes him towards a marriage that will provide an heir and stability for the family. But when Geoffrey survives attempts on his own life, he wonders whether they are linked to Henry’s death, to his potential brides, or even to the rumoured murder of the Duchess of Normandy, as a Welsh revolt against the English looms.

When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm destroys the ship they are on and casts them ashore. The two knights are unwillingly thrust into the company of other shipwrecked passengers, and while attempting to evade the unwelcome attention of the more dangerous members of the group, they become unwillingly drawn into a plot to overthrow the king and return England to Saxon rule...

When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of mysterious letters to the restless western reaches of Wales, he agrees only reluctantly. His conviction that the simple mission hides something more sinister is strengthened when the letters’ scribe is murdered before the journey begins. Then one of Geoffrey’s travelling companions is killed, and he knows he must uncover the secret behind the letters before more victims are claimed...

‘At first glance it could have been anything – a stone, a knotted root – until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand…’It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk’s teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to find.

Drei Morde, rätselhafte Nachrichten, ein blutiger Anfänger. Berlin 1888: Die Beschattung von Ehebrechern ist der Alltag in seiner schlecht laufenden Detektei. Gabriel Landow, schwarzes Schaf einer ostpreußischen Adelsfamilie, fällt der Erfolg nicht in den Schoß. Doch dann landet direkt vor seinen Füßen ein von ihm Observierter, aus nachtschwarzem Himmel mitten aufs Sperrgebiet am Tempelhofer Feld. Der Ministerialbeamte wurde aus dem Korb eines Militärballons gestoßen und hält ein Buch der Brüder Grimm in der Hand.