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Brought to you by Penguin. 1686, ICELAND. AN ISOLATED, WINDSWEPT LAND HAUNTED BY WITCH TRIALS AND STEEPED IN THE ANCIENT SAGAS. Betrothed unexpectedly to Jón Eiríksson, Rósa is sent to join her new husband in the remote village of Stykkishólmur. Here, the villagers are wary of outsiders. But...

India Summers is a librarian and a talented historian, so when a stranger asks her opinion on an ancient coin she is happy to oblige, but when the same man is murdered less than an hour later, it soon becomes apparent that there is far more to the situation than meets the eye. Recognising her unique talents for historical reference, she is quickly recruited by Brandon Walker, a security service intelligence officer investigating the strange disappearance of a very special young girl.

THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself.' By chance, two men - one English, the...

Counterfeiters, spies, murderers...and Isaac Newton must use his brilliant mind to defeat them all in this pair of full-cast historical crime dramas. In Master of the Mint, a new figure of justice is walking the streets of 17th-century London—Isaac Newton, scientific genius. After thirty years as a Cambridge academic, Newton takes up a new post at the Royal Mint in the Tower of London. In Nemesis, Isaac Newton must contend not only with opponents to his currency plans, but also with a French secret agent who is aiding the theft of England's entire supply of silver.

Munich, 1935 - The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young, aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars. What they don't see - or choose to ignore - is the brutal underbelly of the Nazi movement which considers Munich its spiritual home. When a...

Abridged edition, narrated by Richard E Grant (Withnail and I) An epic, spellbinding tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece. A Mason with a Dream It is...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Utterly gripping. . . a transformative and immersive story so powerful and captivating that I could not put it down. . . . Truly one of the best books I’ve read.” —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish “Lisa Barr's new historical fiction...

Ghost Station is a tense thriller about espionage, cryptography, and paranoia, set in the earliest days of the Berlin Wall. Can Reed trust Longshore? His boss? His lover? Can he find the truth behind the lies - or will Berlin become ground zero for a world-ending war?

Abridged edition, read by John Nettles (Midsomer Murders) From terrorist conspiracies in Paris to guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan, Lie Down With Lions is the thrilling tale of suspense and deceit from master of the spy story, Ken Follett. A Dangerous Romance In Paris, rival spies Ellis and...

Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.

A stirring adventure novel set amid the tumultuous clashes between the Roman and Carthaginian empires, battling for control of the Mediterranean, north Africa and Rome itself. Atticus, the young Greek captain, is now a commander of the growing Roman navy, blockading a port near Tunis, when the...

It's October 21st, 1888, in the city of London. Three men plan to rob a jewelry store. Tum, Lionel, and Tiny Tim. The goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible and get safely back to the hideout in Whitechapel. Between them they have one lockpick, one crutch, and almost no relevant...

He’s ex-Special Forces. They’re movie star elite. There is just one mission – save D-Day Dover, 1943. Suffering from undiagnosed battle fatigue, Chief Inspector Alex Sutherland is sent by Scotland Yard to find a killer. He unearths a world of black marketeering, clandestine tunnels and...

Betreten Sie das viktorianische London des Jahres 1897: Entdecken Sie Liebe und Intrigen mit der historischen Mystery-Serie "Tabitha & Wolf", in der Mysterium auf Romantik mit einer Prise Humor trifft. Tabitha war es gewohnt, ein sozialer Paria zu sein. Könnte sich ihr Ansehen in der...

Wolf hatte gehofft, sein Leben als Dieb hinter sich lassen zu können, als er unerwartet eine Grafschaft erbte. Jeremy Wolfson Chesterton – "Wolf" – der neue Earl of Pembroke, wird wider besseren Wissens erneut in eine Untersuchung hineingezogen. Er weiß, dass er Tabitha, die Witwe seines...

Las leyes que vigilaban el tráfico ilegal de antigüedades precolombinas y restos arqueológicos no eran excesivamente severas en Colombia a principios del siglo XX, así que no es extraño que Jaime Mercader, sin demasiados escrúpulos para rozar la ilegalidad, intentase sacar provecho de ello uniéndose al próspero negocio de su padre. Lo que no podía imaginar es que el descubrimiento de una curiosa piedra inca los llevase a vivir una de las más extrañas aventuras de su vida.

London, 1882. American agents Henry and Johanna McClellan need the help of the World’s End Bureau to find Bruno Schmidt, a cunning lecturer who cajoled a young American woman called Ava into eloping to Europe. Now Ava’s father wants her back. Though the McClellans have followed the missing pair’s trail to London, they can’t find their way around the busy city without help. PI duo Lily and Felix accept the case and soon discover a promising clue regarding Bruno and Ava’s whereabouts.

I died a fortnight ago this coming Thursday. It was a terrifically unpleasant experience—being murdered, I mean to say. Raven Helen Allan has always been haunted by witchcraft. Since the death of her beloved mother, she has soothed herself by speaking words into spells—a proclivity enhanced...

The instant Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE ULTIMATE TALE OF COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER November 11th, 1918. As the guns of the First World War fall silent, two babies draw their first breath. Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Adam, a shepherd's son. Yet from their first...

A vanished conclave. An empty Sistine Chapel. And a secret buried for eight centuries. From internationally bestselling author Glenn Cooper comes a gripping Vatican conspiracy thriller that has already topped the charts in Italy. When Pope John XXIV is found dead in his bed just two years after...