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December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. The trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor. Spanning the entirety of World War II, Five Decembers is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever.

1961 plant Queen Elisabeth gerade ihren Staatsbesuch in Italien an Bord der Britannia, als sie eine schockierende Nachricht erhält: Ein Mann behauptet, vom königlichen Zug aus einen Mord beobachtet zu haben. Nun ist der angebliche Zeuge kein besonders vertrauenswürdiger Zeitgenosse – andererseits wird aber just seit dem Tag des möglichen Mordes ein Freund von Prinzessin Margarets neuem Ehemann vermisst. Der jungen Queen bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als in dieser delikaten Angelegenheit selbst zu ermitteln.

Based on the real-life memoirs of the 19th Century investigator who inspired Sherlock Holmes, Inspector James McLevy, this atmospheric mystery series features the fictional casebook of Edinburgh's finest thief-taker. Accompanied by his loyal partner, Constable Mulholland, McLevy prowls the murky streets of 1840s Leith bringing criminals to justice—assisted by the madam of Edinburgh's finest bawdy-house, the deliciously immoral Jean Brash.

September, 1930. Fearless detective Miss Clara Vale is bound for Berlin, but this trip is all about la mode - not murder. Clara is set to walk the runway at Berlin Fashion Week, as a favour to her designer friend Juju, with her assistant Bella in tow. Elections loom in Germany, and among Juju's friends, the Spieglers, all the talk is of the National Socialists. But trouble brews closer to home, when a shocking murder at their clothing factory points the finger at the Jewish couple's brilliant young son.

Am einsamen Strand der Nordseeinsel werden PDDDAVD und sein treuer Assistent und Chronist Hutchinson Hatch von einer strengen Dame in Schwarz gekidnappt und im Meer ausgesetzt. Unversehens sind die beiden in eine politische Intrige von höchster Brisanz verwickelt. Bis heute ist sie ein streng gehütetes Geheimnis geblieben, die sensationelle Affäre um den deutschen Kaiser Wilhelm II., die sich im Jahre 1904 auf der ostfriesischen Insel Norderney zugetragen hat.

Complete with fascinating biographies by Tony Medawar of all the featured authors, this latest volume in the annual Bodies from the Library series once again brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and is an indispensable collection for any bookshelf.

Having inexplicably nabbed the duke of Kesgrave, 26-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once, and no amount of hand-wringing from anxious family members, worried friends, and well-meaning acquaintances will convince her to delay. Except, maybe, she is a little swayed by her uncle’s efforts to make amends for treating her with cold indifference during her childhood.

Der Fremde aus Indien ist eine geheimnisumwobene Gestalt, die eines Tages in der "alten Hauptstadt" auftaucht. Sie wird immer mehr zum Widersacher des unheimlichen "Hauptmanns", dem zahllose Verbrechen anzulasten sind, und allmählich klären sich weit zurückliegende Ereignisse zugunsten eines unschuldig Bestraften.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

When a notorious cad is bludgeoned to death with a candlestick in the library at the most important ball of the London social season, Cleo finds herself in the prime position to solve the crime. After all, she stumbled across the body soon after the victim’s demise and is a witness to the evening’s events.

Full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of the first five Falco novels by Lindsey Davis, starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco.

Drei spannende Kriminalfälle aus dem Dresden der 50er-Jahre: Es sind politisch unruhige Zeiten, der Arbeiteraufstand wurde blutig niedergeschlagen, das Misstrauen in der Bevölkerung ist groß. Doch auch das Verbrechen ruht nicht. Kommissar Max Heller bekommt es mit einem in Dresden agierenden Ring von Uranerz-Schmugglern zu tun und wird mit der Frage konfrontiert, ob sein alter Freund Saizev zur CIA übergelaufen ist. In seinem nächsten Fall wird in einem Betrieb für Wärmeisolierungen der Betriebsleiter tot aufgefunden und Heller rennt gegen eine Mauer des Schweigens.

1916. As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, the munitionettes, or ‘canaries’, are easily recognisable with their chemically-stained yellow faces. Among the raucous group of women is Florrie Duncan, who plans to celebrate her birthday in style at the Golden Goose pub. But the celebrations are cut short when all but one are killed in a brutal explosion.

On a routine patrol, HM Submarine Searcher strikes an unidentified moving object where no obstruction should have been and sinks to the bottom of the sea. Her Captain, Lieutenant Peter Sinclair, RN, is court-martialed.

Salò, marzo 1938. L'apparente calma del lago di Garda è messa a soqquadro dalla frenetica preparazione della Mille Miglia, la mitica corsa automobilistica che collega Brescia e Roma, diventata una vetrina decisiva per il regime fascista. Il commissario Italo Sartori ha appena litigato con la sua amante, la ricca, audace vedova Anna Arquati, che vive sull'altra sponda del golfo di Salò: la donna vuole partecipare alla Mille Miglia con la sua auto, ma il commissario Sartori, abruzzese di nascita trapiantato sul Garda come il sommo vate D'Annunzio, non è d'accordo.

1924. John Olson left his home in Kootenai, Idaho for a sales trip to Spokane, expecting to return in two days. Instead he disappeared; his personal effects found strewn along the south bank of the Spokane River. Meanwhile, a hobo dressed in a business suit is rousted from a freight train. He has no idea where he is and, incredibly, has no idea who he is. He assumes an alias and works odd jobs while he searches for himself. Lonely, and with no one to turn to, he writes about his trials and his turmoil in a diary.

Paul Haydn was on his way home at last, to New York and the civilian life he longed for after years of war. Yet he would never forget the tormented people, desperate for refuge in Berlin. They had survived the war—but now a new, sinister presence threatened them, their families, the whole of society. Now he discovered that, back home, some of his former colleagues had dangerous political sympathies, that someone was trying to discredit the woman he had once loved. The pattern seemed suddenly familiar. He began to realize why there was such interest in his counter-propaganda skills.

1664. There is an electric air of foreboding on the streets of London. An atmosphere Thomas Chaloner fears will only take a small spark to ignite into another civil war.... Thomas Chaloner has forged a living as spy to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, since the early days of the Restoration. Now, in February 1664, he is aware of an undercurrent of restlessness on the streets of London. The coffee houses are thick with rumours. There is anger at the new laws governing church attendance and a deepening contempt for the loucheness of the court. And there is murder.

January 1313. As London is gripped by a freezing winter, Sir Hugh Corbett becomes embroiled in a ghoulish game of kings played out between the English and French courts. Years earlier, Corbett prevented a gang of rifflers from breaking into the Royal Treasury, but the leading chieftain, Sarasin, escaped. Now Sarasin is caught killing a squire of Queen Isabella's and Corbett swiftly has the riffler tried and hanged from the signpost of The Twilight tavern.

New York, 2002. Una serie di attentati sanguinosi sta seminando il terrore in ogni parte del mondo, ma i vertici delle agenzie di intelligence brancolano nel buio. Unici indizi i folli comunicati di un serial bomber, che preannuncia i massacri a mezzo di messaggi tortuosi fra le righe del Corano, agghiaccianti promesse di morte siglate dall'arcano simbolo di un anello leggendario. Un anello che incatena avvenimenti lontanissimi nel tempo, drammaticamente legati al suo infausto luccichio.