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När Ebba Beckman kämpar med sina studier i Göteborg gör hon en märklig upptäckt på vinden i farföräldrarnas hus – en upptäckt som förändrar allt. Plötsligt dras hon in i en historia som varit begravd i familjen i decennier. En gammal inskription leder henne tillbaka till farfar Thore, frukthandlaren som under kriget påstås ha levt ett dubbelliv. Var han en kollaboratör med kopplingar till tyskarna – eller en hjälte inom den norska motståndsrörelsen? Ju mer Ebba gräver i familjens förflutna, desto fler frågor väcks om lojalitet, skuld och svek.

”… enkelt och följsamt språk som är smakfullt anpassat efter tiden den utspelar sig i. Karaktärerna är konsekventa och trovärdiga.” Helhetsbetyg: 4. BTJ Stockholm 1898. Liket av en sjuårig pojke flyter upp i Riddarholmskanalen. Ingen saknar honom, ingen vet vem han är. Ellen Bergman, som med hjälp av före detta ligaflickan Rakel driver Damernas juridikbyrå, börjar intressera sig för pojkens tragiska öde. Samtidigt gräver detektivkonstapel Johan Rådig i fallet trots att hans överordnade, den djupt korrupte kommissarie Berg, säger åt honom att avsluta ärendet.

Some ghosts wear boots. Some just whistle.Guatemala, 1977. Private Diego Morales didn't volunteer for the jungle — nobody in Second Platoon did. But the Petén doesn't care whose idea it was. It swallows roads, swallows silence, and, if the old stories are true, it sends something ahead of the...

Ireland, 1805. A country on the brink of rebellion.American widow Marian Devlin arrives in the west of Ireland to restore the crumbling estate left by her late husband. But the land is failing, the tenants are starving, and resentment against the ruling classes is turning violent.When a...

La vicenda di un eccidio di neri, di «negri», durante la Guerra di Secessione. A raccontarla in modo fluviale, trascinante, inarrestabile, l'unico testimone sopravvissuto, Dick Stanton, soldato dell'esercito del Sud, stanato e pungolato in fin di vita da una giovane studentessa che vuole ricostruire la verità. Verità storica e romanzesca, perché Barbero inventa una voce indimenticabile, comica e inaffidabile, logorroica e irritante, dolente e angosciosa, che trascina il lettore in quegli abissi che ancora una volta si sono riaperti.

The call comes at dawn. Three words. Come to Pompeii.Marcus Russo has spent his career excavating the past. He has never been afraid of what he might find—until now.The chamber shouldn't exist. Neither should what's painted on its walls. The seven-petaled rose. The geometric cross. The...

June 1944: One weather forecast will determine if D-Day succeeds—or becomes history's greatest military disaster. USAAF Captain Andy Lockhart stands at the heart of history's most pivotal operation, providing the meteorological intelligence that will guide Eisenhower's decision to send 150,000...

**Book 1 in a completed trilogy with 1,000+ 5-Star ratings on Goodreads** His orders were simple: bring the children home. He failed 200 of them. Brother Foulques de Villaret has devoted his life to God and the protection of the innocent. When the Knights Hospitaller send him to the Alps to...

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.

BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick! Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who is charged with the brutal murder of her former master. Inspired by a true story, Burial Rites is perfect for fans of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and The...

American Colonel Hugh Kelso is washed ashore on German-held Jersey in Spring 1944, with top-secret D-Day plans in his possession. To get him back, the most daring escape of the Second World War must be planned and executed. Harry Martineau, bilingual philosophy professor turned assassin, and Sarah Drayton, a beautiful, half-French Jersey native, are selected to carry out the mission, and set off to steal the most precious Allied asset from under the noses of the Nazis....

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...

Code to Zero is a fast-paced thriller about the satellite space race in the Cold War, from the master of suspense and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. A Man with No Memory A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all...

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

From Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! If you thought Jurassic Park was an adventure, you should try the Wild West! 1876. In...

'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...

Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, Tolstoyan. In its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless game of diplomacy and double-dealing.

When Conrad Browning's wife disappears in the untamed frontier, Conrad finds himself assuming the identity of his famous gunslinging father, Frank Morgan, to find her. But his hopes of rescuing Rebel are swiftly shattered - and now he's burning for vengeance, the old-fashioned way. So he fakes his own death and starts calling himself The Loner, becoming the deadliest gunfighter this side of his own father - ready to settle the score in blood and bullets....

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 Jean-Pierre both fall in love with Jane, and all three become...

Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy...