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Brought to you by Penguin. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago...

Im Paris der Blütezeit der Régence kommt es zu abscheulichen Morden. Die Leiterin von PARABIOS plant eine geheime Versuchsreihe, doch bleibt sie dabei nicht so unbeobachtet, wie sie gehofft hatte. Der berühmte Schriftsteller und Abenteurer Jules Verne erreicht mit seinen Mitreisenden Augusto Berns und Nathaniel de Salis endlich das erste Etappenziel ihrer langen Reise.

'A riveting thriller with nonstop action' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Full of rollercoaster twists and turns' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A compelling mix of history, mystery, and high-stakes action' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called...

ring China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution, the People’s Liberation Army dispatches an elite group of prospectors famous for their work uncovering rare minerals to the mountains of rural Inner Mongolia. Their assignment: to bring honor to their country by descending into a maze of dank caves to find and retrieve the remnants of a buried Japanese World War II bomber. How the aircraft ended up beneath thousands of feet of rock baffles the team, but they’ll soon encounter far more treacherous forces lurking in the shadows.

March, 1605. Country doctor and former ship surgeon Gabriel Taverner is ready for his next adventure. He can't wait to leave Devon and tend to the crew of the Luipaard while sailing the Eastern seas. As years pass by, Gabriel's family and friends back home are struggling with his substitute physician. Doctor Maudsley Cheverell turned out to be as incompetent as they come and unpleasant at best. So when he is found dead in a ditch one day, no one seems to be too surprised. Only, when examining the body, it seems like Cheverell was tortured using a specific method from the East . . .

February 1605. A series of killings shake the quiet life of Devon's Tavy valley. Country doctor Gabriel Taverner, summoned to examine the bodies, believes the murders are somehow connected to a mysterious woman recently discovered in shocking circumstances. Gabriel is determined to solve the mystery, and soon uncovers clues that link his unexpected patient to the brutal killings.

June 1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the edge of the moor, physician Gabriel Taverner's verdict is death from natural causes. But is all as it seems? Who was the dead man, and why had he come to the small West Country village of Tavy St Luke's to die cold, sick and alone? Then a discovery found buried in a nearby field throws a strange new light on the case...and as they search for answers, Gabriel Taverner and Coroner Theophilus Davey unearth a series of shocking secrets stretching back more than 14 years.

Death at the Carnival: riddle, ritual and murder Shrove Tuesday, 1784. While the nobility dance at a masked ball, beautiful Lady Martesen is murdered. Daniel Clode is found by her body, his wrists slit and his memories nightmarish. What has he done? Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther race to...

Am Flughafen London-Heathrow erwartete mich eine so ungewöhnliche wie grausame Fracht. Der untote Körper einer Frau in Form eines indischen Rachegeists! Wir stießen auf drei ehemalige Offiziere aus Zeiten der britischen Besatzung Indiens, die alle einst in die Verurteilung und Hinrichtung eines jungen Mädchens verstrickt gewesen waren...

Tenochtitlan, 30 de junio de 1520. Antes de abandonar la ciudad, Cortés ordena reunir las riquezas saquedas de Moctezuma. Esa noche, a la hora en que el cielo es más oscuro, ochocientos soldados españoles mueren emboscados por los guerreros mexicanos en la calzada de Tacuba. Ochenta años...