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A country Christmas in Victorian England takes a murderous turn in Agatha and Lefty Award–winning author Dianne Freeman’s delightful mystery featuring Frances Hazelton, the former Countess of Harleigh, and her husband, George. Frances and George are looking forward to a Christmas season...

DARK CORRUPTION AND THE PENITENCE OF DEATH . . . Under the harsh hand of its newly elected prioress, St. Frideswide's has become a place of deadly sin. The corruption has grown subtly and slowly, but it has found fertile soil in the rage and greed of Domina Alys, who has turned the priory into a...

To save his favorite newspaper, Nero Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war. 

This audiobook is narrated by Indira Varma and Tom Burke. As recommended by the BBC Radio 2 Book Club 'A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. I didn’t want it to end' - S J Watson They say we'll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets...

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...

Like most women, Elizabeth Miles assumes many roles; unlike most, hers have made her a woman on the run. Living on the edge of society, Elizabeth uses her guile to relieve so-called respectable men of their ill-gotten gains. But brutal and greedy entrepreneur Oscar Thornton is out for blood. He's lost a great deal of money and is not going to forgive a woman for outwitting him. With his thugs hot on her trail, Elizabeth seizes the moment to blend in with a group of women who have an agenda of their own.

Un apasionante y enrevesado misterio de asesinato perfecto para todos los aficionados a la novela negra. Serie Ryder y Loveday, Libro 2. Verano de 1960, Oxford. Bajo el glorioso sol de Oxford, en un día en el que todos deberían estar de celebración, la tragedia lo eclipsa todo cuando un...

OXFORD, 1960. Un asesino anda suelto y dos héroes insólitos están dispuestos a resolver el caso. Trudy Loveday, agente de policía en prácticas, es inteligente y entusiasta, aunque siempre la subestiman. Con la esperanza de quitársela de en medio, su oficial superior la asigna para ayudar...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. UNA PRECIOSA FINCA FRANCESA, UNA BODA, UN ASESINATO Y UNA DETECTIVE NOVATA DISPUESTA A RESOLVER SU PRIMER CASO. Tras dejar un prestigioso internado suizo donde trabajaba como profesora, Miss Atalanta Ashford se convierte de repente en la joven...

UNA PRECIOSA ISLA GRIEGA. UNA EXTRAÑA CON VELO. Y UNA CAÍDA FATAL DESDE LOS ACANTILADOS. Miss Atalanta Ashford está haciendo turismo cerca de Venecia cuando una enigmática dama con velo se le acerca con la petición urgente de que investigue la misteriosa muerte de su hija en la idílica...

Der Industrielle Lance Ingram, den Dr. Mortimer aus seiner Zeit in London kennt, ist in seinen Geburtsort Falls zurückgekehrt, um den Familienbetrieb zu übernehmen. Zur Feier dieses Ereignisses veranstaltet er einen großen Maskenball, zudem er die Mortimers und Sir Henry Baskerville einlädt...

Ein stürmischer Abend am Riverside Drive: In Mrs. Myra Crabtrees Haus versammelt sich der exzentrische „Club des schwarzen Katers", um Edgar Allan Poe zu huldigen. Doch der literarische Grusel wird bittere Realität, als der Bankier Cecil Deakin tot aufgefunden wird – vergiftet! Wenig später entdeckt Professor van Dusen im Weinkeller des Hauses eine weitere angsteinflößende Überraschung.

“I cannot recommend this series enough.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood Charlotte Holmes—aka Sherlock Holmes—becomes entangled in a puzzling missing person case that hits close to home for her beloved Mrs. Watson in this Victorian-set mystery from the USA Today...

The term “sour grapes” is often used in reference to an instance in which someone adopts an attitude to something because they can’t equal it themselves. That was certainly the case when a 20th century critic wrote a derogatory article in the New York Magazine, stating: “Who cares Who...

In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence—and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. In the spring, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey, carrying with it many strange souls…and perhaps the...

In 49 BC, in the city of Massilia (modern-day Marseille), on the coast of southern Gaul, Gordianus the Finder's beloved son Meto has disappeared—branded as a traitor to Caesar and apparently dead. Consumed with grief, Gordianus arrives in the city amid a raging civil war, hoping to discover...

The year is 1142. England is in the iron grip of civil war, and within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the upheavals of the outside world. First, there is the sad demise of the Lord of Eaton, whose...

As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts in the city, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own home, the body of Pompey's favorite cousin. Before fleeing the city, Pompey exacts a terrible bargain from the finder of secrets: to unearth the killer or sacrifice his own son-in-law to service in...

It's a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut. The year is 1967, and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. But Holloman has other things to worry about—on April 3, 1967, twelve murders have taken place on one day...

In the next installment of this "compelling, passionate, and gritty" (Daily Mail, London) suspense series, police captain Carmine Delmonico is on the trail of not one but two killers. It's August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is...