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Mara Coyne’s new client has left her uneasy. Republican kingmaker Richard Tobias has hired her, he says, because of her skill in recovering stolen art and advocating for the rightful owners, but Mara senses that he is not telling her everything. Tobias reveals that a centuries-old map was stolen from an archaeological dig he is sponsoring in China, and he wants her to get it back. But as Mara begins her investigation, she uncovers the shocking truth: The map is more valuable than anyone has ever imagined, and her client’s motives are more sinister than she suspected.

Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refuses to listen. The upcoming Allied Tehran conference will be where the next steps - whatever they are - will be decided. Into this nest of double- and triple-dealing steps Willard Mayer, OSS agent and FDR's envoy to the conference. His job is to secure the peace that the USA and Hitler now crave. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Jazz, mafia et meurtres en série : le retour du nouveau maître du thriller historique. New York, 1947 : un mystérieux tueur assassine de sang-froid tous les occupants d'un hôtel de Harlem. On parle d'un meurtre rituel, lié au vaudou. Un suspect est arrêté, condamné. Une ancienne détective de l'agence Pinkerton, Ida Davis, et le patron d'un club en vogue de Manhattan, Gabriel Leveson, se retrouvent mêlés à l'enquête.

1968. L'Egitto, con l'aiuto dell'Unione Sovietica, sta approntando un arsenale di ordigni nucleari. Una fine prematura minaccia Israele, a meno che non riesca a costruire a sua volta bombe atomiche. Bisogna che qualcuno rubi dell'uranio. L'agente israeliano Nat Dickstein ci prova, organizzando il più grandioso e segreto dirottamento della storia. Contro di lui il Kgb, i servizi segreti egiziani e i fedayn. Al suo fianco solo una giovane donna dall'incerta lealtà...

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her. 

Peter Fallon, the hero of William Martin's bestselling novel Back Bay, has found evidence that a priceless treasure - an undiscovered Shakespeare play - is hidden somewhere in the venerable halls of Harvard University. An antiquarian who knows many of the school’s carefully guarded secrets, Fallon understands the powerful implications of the discovery. But as he delves into the school’s past - from witch hangings to the fires of the Civil War to the riotous 1960s - he learns that men and women have risked death, disgrace, and banishment in pursuit of this invaluable relic.

Après lui, l'Apocalypse... La prophétie de Malachie, la vision de Pie X et l'annonce faite par Marie aux jeunes bergers de Fátima, ne pourraient être plus claires : le pape actuel sera le dernier de l'histoire des hommes. Le souverain pontife lui-même en est persuadé. Requis par le Saint-Siège à propos d'une sombre histoire de documents volés, l'historien Tomás Noronha accorde peu de foi à ces élucubrations. L'enlèvement du Saint-Père, le soir même, le détrompera. Quant aux caves du Vatican, elles recèlent plus d'un Judas... Et plus d'un coin d'ombre.

Så sent som 4 januari 1945 gjorde general Patton följande notering i sin dagbok: Vi kan fortfarande förlora detta krig. Eisenhowers arméer hade vid den tidpunkten förlorat mer än 300 000 man i strid och de befann sig fortfarande på samma positioner som de hade vunnit tre månader tidigare. Tyskarna anföll mot Frankrikes östra delar, Luxemburg och Belgien. Charles Whiting har i 'Tredje rikets sista dagar' samlat de stridande männens egna berättelser.

Berlin, début 1945. Au cœur d'une ville dévastée, Richard Oppenheimer, juif et ancien commissaire, vit dans la peur de faire partie des tout derniers déportés. Aidé par son amie Hilde, fervente opposante au régime, il mène une existence dans l'ombre. La situation s'aggrave brusquement lorsque Hilde est accusée d'avoir tué son ex-mari, membre des SS impliqué dans les atroces expériences humaines menées à Auschwitz. Avec une broche portant un sigle runique comme seul indice, Oppenheimer se lance dans une enquête risquée pour démasquer le vrai coupable.

1882. St John's Wood. Lorsqu'un homme se présente aux portes de la maison de Constance Trenchard, celle-ci ne se doute pas que sa vie va être bouleversée. L'homme prétend en effet être Sir James Davenall, son ancien fiancé, disparu une semaine avant leur mariage et que tout le monde croit mort depuis dix ans. Si Constance le reconnaît, toute la famille Davenall, en particulier sa mère et son frère, Hugo, héritier du prestigieux domaine de Cleave Court, prétend qu'il s'agit d'un imposteur.

Nathan Makaryk's epic and daring debut rewrites the Robin Hood legend, giving voice to those history never mentioned and challenging who's really a hero and a villain.... England, 1191. King Richard is half a world away, fighting for God and his own ambition. Back home, his country languishes, bankrupt and on the verge of anarchy. People with power are running unchecked. People without are growing angry. And in Nottingham, one of the largest shires in England, the sheriff seems intent on doing nothing about it. 

The summer after World War II, two men form an uneasy bond that inevitably leads to a mysterious accident that shatters the tranquility between them.

The discovery of a deadly virus being smuggled across the border pits FBI Special Agent James Mason and his strike force against an unknown adversary hell-bent on humanity’s destruction. In a desperate effort to contain the pathogen, they launch a predawn raid, only to find that their enemy knows they’re coming...and it’s not about to be taken alive. An explosion rips through the building, killing the majority of Mason’s team, including his partner and mentor.

Atticus Perennis, Roman prefect and hero of the seas, is stranded in Carthage. His Roman masters have all but abandoned him, and at his feet gape the jaws of an angry mercenary army. For while the senators and consuls of Rome bicker and debate, the mercenaries around Utica are running out of patience and strain at the leash, on the verge of war. And then, when a councillor is sent as a message to Atticus and his comrades, all but dead and hideously disfigured, the leash finally breaks.... 

Août 415 après J-C. : La ville d'Alexandrie s'assoupit dans une odeur âcre de chair brûlée. Hypatie, philosophe et mathématicienne d'exception, vient d'être massacrée dans la rue par des hommes en furie, et ses membres en lambeaux se consument dans un brasier avec l'ensemble de ses écrits. Cet assassinat sauvage amorce un engrenage terrifiant qui, à travers les lieux et les époques, sème la mort sur son passage. Inéluctablement se relaient ceux qui, dans le sillage d'Hypatie, poursuivent sa grande œuvre et visent à accomplir son dessein.

Venice, 1752. On a cold December night, a man is found strangled in a dark alley. High magistrate Marco Pisani is tasked with investigating the grisly murder. When two more bodies are discovered, it is clear there is a serial killer on the loose. Helped in his investigation by lawyer Zen, daring gondolier Nani and the cunning Chiara Renier, Pisani is determined to uncover the truth before the murderer strikes again. But to find answers, he must move among the city’s criminal underworld of spies, shady taverns and gambling halls.

Cambodia, 1978. Amid the Khmer Rouge's crazed genocide, soldier of fortune Jack Elliott is given the impossible task of rescuing a family from the regime. Eighteen-year-old orphan and budding journalist Lisa Robinson has received the impossible news that her father is, in fact, alive. His name - Jack Elliott. As Jack tracks the hostages and Lisa traces her heritage, each is intent on reuniting a family. Yet to succeed, so must run a dangerous gauntlet of bullets and betrayal.

Für Nele Stern wird ein Traum wahr, als sie im Frühjahr 1912 den Luxusliner Titanic besteigt. Nach einem verpatzten Autritt im rennomierten Varieté Berliner Wintergarten kehrt sie dem deutschen Publikum den Rücken und möchte ihr Glück in Amerika suchen. An Bord der Titanic lernt Nele Matheus kennen, einen Pastor aus Berlin, der mit Frau und Kind unterwegs ist. Allerdings krieselt es in Matheus Ehe gewaltig und seine Frau Cäcilie flirtet ungeniert mit einem Engländer, der sich zudem noch höchst verdächtig verhält. Ist es vielleicht ein Spion? Das Desaster nimmt seinen Lauf.

Ulv har rest till Uppsala för att läsa medicin och bli en riktig doktor. Men i staden verkar inte allt vara som det ska. Hans lärare, professor Broberg, verkar ha konstiga saker för sig och äger flera förbjudna böcker. Men vad gör väl det när Broberg lär Ulv så mycket nytt och spännande? Allt vänds upp och ner när Ulv blir misstänkt för häxeri. Häxbrygden är den sjätte boken i den spännande Häxserien.

A wagon train winding through the remote reaches of the Rocky Mountain high country can attract plenty of scavengers - some of them human - like Vic Bedell and his gang of cutthroats. All he wants is the women, who can be traded for gold mine supplies...or used for whatever else he has in mind. But he didn't count on Preacher leading that train.