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'Truth is the Daughter of Time' is an old proverb. And The Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey's search for the truth about the murder of the Princes in the Tower. Was the hunchback, Richard III, the monster that Shakespeare and the history books have made him out to be?

'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail LAWS ARE SILENT IN TIMES OF WAR. There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins...

'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL...

When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime during the blood moon eclipse to please her domineering mother-in-law, she doesn't expect to stumble upon a murder - again. With anti-British sentiments on the rise, a charismatic religious leader growing in influence...

Latem 1941 roku Niemcy zajmują dawne województwo stanisławowskie. Rodzina Szymańskich zostaje rozbita. Uznana za winną zdrady i spiskowania z wrogiem Łucja znajduje się na zesłaniu w ZSRR, Aldona pnie się w górę w hierarchii partii bolszewickiej, Konstancja zaś walczy o przetrwanie w getcie w Stanisławowie.

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot...

The stylish mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal. COLD WAR MOSCOW IS A PLACE SMOLDERING WITH SECRETS . . . Gabriel Dax is on route to Russia, tasked with delivering a...

Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But the capital has never been in greater need of its protector.

The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective. A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy...

DIE MATT DRAKE ABENTEUER Weltumspannende Schauplätze, atemlose Action und die größten Rätsel der Menschheit. In Amerika verwandeln sich scheinbar unbescholtene Bürger von einem Moment auf den anderen in gnadenlose Attentäter. Niemand kennt das Muster, niemand weiß, wer als Nächster zur...

Im eisigen Londoner Winter 1683 kreuzen sich die Wege der willensstarken Emma, in die Ehe mit einem Adeligen gezwungen, und der rätselhaften Ruth. Diese sinnt auf Rache, nachdem ihr skrupelloser Mann, ein Spion der Krone, sie töten wollte. Als sich herausstellt, dass beide Ehemänner in eine Verschwörung gegen König Charles II. verstrickt sind, verbünden sich die Frauen, um den Staatsstreich zu verhindern.

There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

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. 

ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ರೋಚಕ ಘಟನೆಗಳ ಸುತ್ತ ಹೆಣೆಯಲಾದ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಥ್ರಿಲ್ಲರ್ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ಡಾ.ಕೆ.ಎನ್.ಗಣೇಶಯ್ಯನವರ "ಚಿತಾದಂತ - ಶಾಂತಿದೂತನ ದಂತಯಾನ

Set in Oxford in the 1660s – a time and place of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment – this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion;

'A page turner from beginning to end ... A damn fine read' Ben Kane. Four Emperors. Two Friends. One Destiny. As twilight descends on the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire is but a shadow of its former self. Decades of usurping emperors, splinter kingdoms and savage wars have left the people...

திரு. சாண்டில்யன் அவர்கள் எழுதிய ஜலதீபம் என்ற சரித்திர நூல் 1700களின் மராட்டிய பின்னணியில் எழுதப்பட்ட ஒரு...

'ஹொய்சாளர்களாலும் அதற்குப்பின் டெல்லி சுல்தான்கள் படையெடுப்பின் காரணமாகவும் ஸ்ரீரங்க ரங்கநாதன் ஒரு...

Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.

Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Missing You) The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds...