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Professor James Moriarty (Monaghan) is back for a gripping new adventure that finds him joining forces with his bitter rival, Sherlock Holmes (LaMarr). Moriarty tracks down the woman he loves but discovers that she is trapped in the web of a shadowy cabal of evil that’s growing stronger every day. To fight it, Moriarty must face Lady Milverton (Mirren), a ruthless mastermind whose blackmail poisons the highest levels of power. When he learns that his nemesis Sherlock Holmes is also in Milverton’s grip, the two must set their animosity aside to stop an escalating threat of world war.

To defend her client, she must dig up a town’s darkest secrets. Defense attorney Cass Leary thought she’d escaped her hometown for good. But after leaving her high-paying job in Chicago, she decides to revisit her troubled past. When someone murders the beloved high school basketball coach and Cass steps in to defend the girl accused of the crime, she doesn’t expect the death threats that follow.... Confronting the town that shunned her as a child, she unearths secrets that some would kill to keep buried.

For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe, alone and unjustly in exile, cut off from faith and human love, he cares only for his hoard of golden guineas. But two events occur that will change his life forever; his gold disappears and a golden-haired baby girl appears. But where did she come from and who really stole the gold? This moving tale sees Silas eventually redeemed and restored to life by the unlikely means of his love for the orphan child Eppie.

Twenty years ago at summer camp, Paul Copeland's sister died in the woods, the alleged victim of a serial killer. Her body was never found. Now, Paul is the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey, immersed in one of the biggest cases of his career - a case that will change everything he believes about the past...and the truth.

55 BC and 54 BC. Julius Caesar invades Britain twice...only to leave empty handed. 60 AD. The Romans single-mindedly target the extermination of the Druids and the destruction of their sacred sites. What fear drives them to do so? Present day: Who were the Druids? Were they priests or astronomers? Scientists or sorcerers? What is the ancient and terrifying secret from the Mahabharata that links the megalithic sites of Britain to the Druids, Julius Caesar and a mysterious Queen who lived 4,000 years ago? These are the riddles that Vijay Singh and the task force must answer.

Film producer Pero Baltazar thought he was taking a Berlin filming assignment. He needed the work, needed to get back in the saddle after fighting off a life-threatening experience in East Africa - al-Shabaab had attacked his crew, intent on a much larger terrorist attack. Suddenly he finds himself under orders from his part-time employers at the State Department and the CIA when he is handed a mysterious package. It's an assignment he doesn't want. The problem is, it is a job contracted by mysterious patrons.

MEET DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JEMIMA HUXLEY IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS. An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves. A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career. The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a...

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town. Alban refuses to knock the playhouse down, even keeping a picture of it on his wall.

La inspectora Mónica Rojo y su marido, Cito, pasan días felices de luna de miel en Oporto cuando, durante una visita a unas conocidas bodegas locales, él desaparece sin dejar rastro. Tras las primeras horas de incertidumbre y confusión, Mónica acude a la Policía y, con sus preguntas, nacen las primeras dudas: ¿y si se tratase de una huida intencionada? ¿Y si Cito no fuera lo que parece?

Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles—and of a cop treading a thin, thin line—from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty. “McKinty is one of the most striking and...

Chief Inspector Soobramania is called when three bodies are discovered in the space of twenty-four hours, with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to Jack the Ripper’s victims. Initial suspicion centres on an English Duke visiting Hyderabad and his friend, a powerful Deccani noble and the angry stepson of one of the dead. In the face of political pressure, Soob must ally with his rival in the British Residency Police, Inspector Wilberforce, to unearth the culprit.

Professor James Moriarty thought he could outwit fate… But when his future-predicting equation falls into the wrong hands, it threatens to ignite a global war. Moriarty is dragged into a deadly race across continents, locked in a twisted duel with Sherlock Holmes himself, and haunted by secrets from his own family that refuse to stay buried. From sinking ships to burning cathedrals, shadow councils to submarine tombs, this season hurtles Moriarty toward a final reckoning where genius, betrayal, and obsession collide.

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

While running in Central Park, New York Times science writer Damon Ellis crashes—literally—into a story that just might resurrect his career…and change the course of human history. On the face of it, it seems absurd—a small biotech company in Boston called Calypso that claims to have cracked the secret of eternal youth. Surely a hoax. Or is it?

Narrated by Nicola Walker. Featuring an exclusive conversation between Richard Osman and narrator Nicola Walker at the end of the audiobook Richard Osman’s globe-trotting series ‘We Solve Murders’ returns this September with the thrilling new mystery, We Chase Shadows. At sunrise, high in...

Suspendida de su cargo, Marta Escudero se refugia en su apartamento frente al mar, lejos de los casos y de las decisiones que la pusieron al margen. Pero el pasado vuelve a llamar con fuerza cuando una desaparición cercana desentierra heridas que nunca sanaron. En busca de respuestas, Marta viaja al norte junto a su hermana Lara, sin saber que está a punto de adentrarse en una red mucho más oscura de lo que imaginaba.

A powerful politician dies at an elegant dinner party. But was it murder? And if so, who wanted him dead? When a prominent Member of Parliament collapses during a private dinner attended by London’s elite, his personal physician swiftly attributes the death to a weak heart. But Detective...

Trapped on a remote island by a howling storm, nine people sit down to dinner. One of them is about to die. A group of international players has gathered in a tiny village off the coast of Iceland for a diplomatic dinner. There’s Kristján, the mayor reeling from a personal tragedy. Graeme...

THE DAZZLING DEBUT FROM YOUR NEW FAVOURITE MYSTERY WRITER. Radhi returns home to Mumbai to lick her wounds after a failed relationship and a bout of writer's block, but she soon gets caught up in the tangled mystery surrounding the death of her best friend's father. Among the rarefied circles of...