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Greece, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel. Nothing could prepare them for what happens next: Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found dead inside the beach cabana. At first it appears to be a...

Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has gained an immense fan base for his Cork O’Connor series. In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to 1961 to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood. A typical 13-year-old with a strong, loving family, Frank is devastated when a tragedy forces him to face the unthinkable - and to take on a maturity beyond his years.

1893. A deadly fire engulfs a Parisian bookbindery. Then, a celebrated artist is stabbed to death in the street. As panic spreads the police struggle to keep pace with a killer growing ever bolder. Soon amateur sleuth Victor Legris and his bookselling team are on the case. But the murderer seems...

With Special Guest Star ANJELICA HUSTON playing Thessaly Edwards. A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron’s elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions. Replete with beautifully observed period detail...

In seinem letzten und bedeutendsten Roman »Die Brüder Karamasow« erschafft Fjodor Dostojewskij ein schonungsloses Porträt der russischen Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Geschichte der vier Brüder Karamasow – Dmitrij, Iwan, Alexej und Smerdjakow – ist eine zutiefst psychologische Charakterstudie, die die dunkelsten Abgründe der menschlichen Seele auslotet.

A forgotten correspondence. An obscure pirate. A race no one saw coming. Some discoveries rewrite history. Some discoveries rewrite lives. Some do both. Paul Anderson is a restless history PhD student facing the prospect of a bland, but safe, academic career. When he uncovers lost correspondence...

En barnemorder er på fri fod i Brighton, og kriminalkommissær Stephens tager hul på sin karrieres hidtil sværeste sag. Brighton 1951. Julen nærmer sig, da to forsvundne børn findes myrdet. Ligene er begravet i sneen, omgivet af slik i en morbid efterligning af et gammelt eventyr, og...

Fjärde delen i Sekelskiftesmorden Stockholm, juni 1899. Staden ligger i lummig försommargrönska och snart går folkskoleeleverna på efterlängtad ferie. Men lek och bad väntar inte för alla, många är de barn som i stället måste arbeta för att bidra till familjens skrala kassa –...

It's 1966 and Queen Elizabeth II is touring the Caribbean aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. Her schedule is measured in ten-minute increments for five weeks, and nothing can afford to go wrong. But something does. Early in the trip, the Queen's new diary secretary, Pamela Sinclair, is found dead...

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near...

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison, just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive.

It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes is settling back into life as a consulting detective at 221B Baker Street, when he and Watson learn of strange goings-on amidst the dreaming spires of Oxford. A Professor Quantock has built a wondrous computational device, which he claims is capable of analytical thought to rival the cleverest men alive. Naturally Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore this challenge. 

The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride...

"Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force"—BookPage The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy...

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...

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death. 

Skrinet är en tät och spännande roman om skuggor från det förflutna, förbjudna hemligheter och sanningar som vägrar förbli glömda. Historien för oss till dåtidens ryska revolution i Sankt Petersburg, Theresienstadt, Nazi Tyskland, och till den sydskånska byn Knickarp där sanningen...

Unsolved Mysteries of Ireland: Murders, Mysteries, and the Paranormal takes you on a captivating journey through the shadowy corners of Irish history, where the unexplained and the eerie reign. From ancient legends whispered across the hills to baffling disappearances that still haunt the...

Przysięgi nigdy nie tracą mocy. Anglia, 1835 rok. Spokojne życie Marianne Cavendish w angielskiej posiadłości burzy zaszyfrowany list od siostry, Marion. Budzą się w niej wspomnienia z dzieciństwa spędzonego w dalekiej Owernii, tajemniczej przysięgi złożonej przez mężczyzn w maskach i ucieczki w mrokach nocy.