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The best historical thriller I’ve read since The Da Vinci Code' AMISH TRIPATHI A LEGENDARY PORT AD 72: Jayesh, a trader from the fabled city of Muziris, carefully conceals a relic that caused widespread devastation upon its arrival in India. He prays that it will never be found again. A...

This bundle includes The Thief of Blackfriars Lane, The Bride of Blackfriars Lane, and The Sleuth of Blackfriars Lane.

Augsburg, 1478. Ein skrupelloser Mörder versetzt die Stadt in Angst und Schrecken. Oder ist es gar kein Mensch, der die Opfer auf dem Gewissen hat? Als Peter Bernward in seine ehemalige Heimatstadt zurückkehrt, fordern ihn dort weit mächtigere Gegner heraus, als nur die Gespenster der Vergangenheit.

Venedig 1478: Aus den trüben Wassern der Lagune wird vor den Augen des deutschen Händlers Peter Bernward die Leiche eines Kindes geborgen. Bald darauf kommen zwei weitere Kinder ums Leben - Gassenjungen, die als Zeugen gesucht wurden. Wussten sie zu viel? Bernward beschließt, den wenigen Hinweisen nachzugehen. Dabei dringt er tief in das Räderwerk der Macht vor, mit der Venedig seit 400 Jahren den Handel in Europa kontrolliert - und gerät in ein Netz aus Verbrechen und Intrigen, das die dunkle Seite der Stadt offenbart.

Italien im Jahre 1478: Während der Ostermesse im Dom zu Florenz wird bei einem Attentat auf die Medici der jüngere Bruder Giuliano getötet. Sein Bruder Lorenzo, der seit einiger Zeit mit dem Papst um die Vorherrschaft um einige italienische Republiken streitet, überlebt - und eröffnet eine gnadenlose Jagd auf die vermutlich Schuldigen: die rivalisierende Sippe der Pazzi, ebenfalls ein altes florentinisches Geschlecht.

Noviembre de 1942, el mundo arde en llamas y España, aún arrasada y en plena represión, es un nido de espías. Carlos Lombardi, de nuevo en Madrid, sobrevive como puede con su precaria agencia de detectives. No puede permitirse el lujo de rechazar ningún trabajo por lo que tiene que...

Krakau im Jahre 1486: Peter Bernward hat sich mit seiner Lebensgefährtin Jana Dlugosz in deren Heimatstadt niedergelassen und dort ein ruhiges Familienleben gefunden. Doch die Ruhe währt nicht lange: Als Peter versucht, einem befreundeten jüdischen Bankier zu helfen, sticht er in ein Wespennest. Die antijüdische Stimmung in Krakau beginnt sich aufzuheizen und es kommt zu Ausschreitungen.

De la autora del espectacular éxito de ventas El secreto de la boticaria, nos llega ahora una fascinante historia sobre dos mujeres audaces que persiguen la verdad y la justicia mediante el peligroso arte de invocar a los muertos. 1873. En un château abandonado de las afueras de París está a...

"The Hammer of God," readers are surprised to learn from Father Brown that the murderer is not a violent madman but rather a very respected member of the community. The Reverend Wilfred Bohun could no longer stand the scandalous behavior of his alcoholic brother Norman, who blasphemed God and humiliated the Reverend Bohun in the eyes of his parishioners. Chesterton states that Wilfred and Norman Bohun belong to an old noble family whose descendants are now mostly "drunkards and dandy degenerates." Rumor has it that there has been "a whisper of insanity" in the Bohun family.

Father Brown (Chesterton's sharp-witted detective priest) and Flambeau (the reformed master-thief and Brown's constant companion) are on a little vacation in Norfolk, invited to visit the mysterious Prince Saradine. It doesn't go well. Sure, Flambeau gets some good fishing in, but there's also a duel with rapiers, a couple of murders, a hanging, a case of mistaken identity, an awkward family reunion, and a gang of surly Sicilians.

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, the unnamed narrator, undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris.

Le phénomène du thriller taiwanais : les amours interdites d'un futur chef de guerre chinois. En 1936, Luk Pa-Choi, jeune paysan chinois, fuit la guerre civile comme des milliers de ses compatriotes et se réfugie à Hong Kong, alors colonie britannique. Il y retrouve son frère, immigré depuis plusieurs années, qui occupe un poste important au sein de la plus grande triade chinoise, Hong Men. Gagnant aussitôt la confiance de son chef, Luk bâtit peu à peu son royaume.

“This is historical fiction at its best.” --Book Reporter Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone—and no one—seemed to know. At the start of a new...

A wealthy merchant has been murdered in his own home, and the suspect has fled to sanctuary in a local church. Enter Sir Faucon de Ramis, the king's new keeper of the peas, to solve the murder, assisted by his prickly secretary, Brother Edmund. This time, the hunt leads Sir Faucon into the upside-down world of a woman's trade where the merchant's wife owns the business - Unheard of! - only to discover he isn't the only one on the hunt.

April 1865. Having been an eyewitness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London on an undercover assignment to hunt down the assassin's coconspirators. Ambitious young journalist Jim Batchelor has been charged with writing a feature article on the visiting American. Both men are distracted from their missions by the discovery of a body in London's Soho district.

1985, Boston. In Vietnam, Andy Roark witnessed death and horrifying destruction. Still feeling adrift and unsettled, Andy has struck up a welcome friendship with Nguyen, a Vietnamese restaurant owner. Sipping beer and trading memories after the restaurant shutters, Andy gradually learns of the extraordinary lengths Nguyen took to flee Saigon shortly after its fall. Andy's latest case, too, has ties to Vietnam. His new client, a beautiful and enigmatic young Vietnamese woman, hires him to investigate her uncle's murder.

A woman dies in a burglary in Fitzrovia. A man is murdered in an opium den in Limehouse. Gutsy Fleet Street reporter Penny Green suspects the two deaths are connected, but how can she prove it? The answer may lie in Whitehall where the India Office reaps the benefits of Britain's opium trade. But when Inspector James Blakely of Scotland Yard begins investigating, an unforeseen danger looms. Soon Penny is forced to act alone and is put to the ultimate test when her quest becomes personal.

What did he eat last? Whom did he eat, in fact? Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has the perfect plan to make money - he will assist Vespasian in the Emperor's 'Great Census' of AD 73. His potential fee could finally allow him to join the middle ranks and be worthy of long-suffering Helena Justina. Unexpectedly confronted with the murder of a man-eating lion, Falco is distracted from his original task, uncovering a bitter rivalry between the gladiators' trainers.

In spring 1889, Prudence and Geoffrey set sail from New York Harbor on a private yacht bound for Bradford Island, where her friend Eleanor Dickson is to be wed. The Sea Islands along the Georgia coast serve as a winter playground for the likes of the Carnegies, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Dicksons. Despite her Yankee pedigree, Eleanor is marrying a Southern gentleman, Teddy Bennett, and Prudence is thrilled to be the maid of honor.

In 1920's Kansas, the mangled body of champion buggy racer Tommy Donnan has been discovered beneath his carriage, dragged to his death by his own horse. His twelve-year-old sister, Millie, does not believe his death was an accident. She wants to know the truth behind the night Tommy died. But with her mother given over to grief, her father to fate, and her only surviving brother, Junior, a shell of himself since returning from The Great War, Millie will have to seek this truth alone.