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Un attentato a Mussolini di cui nessuno si accorge. Un sacrificio umano nelle paludi pontine. Un colloquio con gli spiriti etruschi, una tragica vendetta nella laguna veneta, una medium al Vittoriale. Sette casi improbabili per Cesare Marni, eroe fiumano e svagato architetto alla perenne ricerca di lavoro.

In the fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of Lady Ermentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey for her amusement. She demands wine, a feast.... And her niece, the angelic Thomasine.

On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French husband Victor, an heir to the Michelin rubber fortune, she’s certain that their new life is full of promise, for while the rest of the world is sinking into economic depression, Indochine is gold for the Michelins. Jessie knows that the vast plantations near Saigon are the key to the family’s prosperity, and though they have recently been marred in scandal, she needs them to succeed for her husband’s sake.

Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies...and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns...but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife - and demanding the town of Barlow itself as ransom.

The mythic West. Sprawling, violent, beautiful. The expansion of Americans into this vast landscape was America’s very own Iliad, its own Odyssey. These legendary times were immortalised in screen and print down the decades, but perhaps its greatest canvas was the radio waves. And Gunsmoke was perhaps the best of its breed. Now good versus bad, the epic legend of the American West is back on the airwaves.

Roma, febbraio 1466. Arrivato nell'Urbe per questioni di affari, il giovane Lorenzo de' Medici si ritrova circondato da insidie senza volto. Qualcuno, infatti, come una silenziosa minaccia, ha infilato sotto la sua sella un antico pugnale dall'elsa d'argento, con uno stemma dal senso indecifrabile. Lorenzo comincia così una tortuosa indagine in una città piena di magia e di segrete ombre, di antiche glorie imperiali e sinistri fantasmi fin troppo ansiosi di risorgere fra i vivi.

Sarajevo, marzo 1945. Il capitano dell'intelligence militare tedesca Gregor Reinhardt è appena stato assegnato ai Feldjägerkorps, prestigioso corpo di polizia militare con ampi poteri. Il nuovo incarico lo allontana dalle amicizie degli ultimi due anni, tra cui altri ufficiali e dissidenti che formano una cellula di resistenza perseguitata dalle SS.

For centuries, a mysterious syndicate known as the Thirteen has staged a silent coup, infiltrating governments and manipulating the course of world events. It’s more powerful than any nation, deadlier than any army. The time has come for it to emerge from the shadows and claim the entire world as its own. And only FBI Special Agent James Mason and his longtime friends stand in its way. After narrowly preventing a global pandemic, Mason and his team discover an even deadlier threat has already been set into motion. 

On a bright Sunday morning in Hawaii, Japanese planes swoop down and attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbour. America enters the war and Britain no longer stands alone against Hitler. The country can dare to hope again, although a long hard struggle still clearly lies ahead. Conditions on the home front remain bleak, and for Scotland Yard detective Frank Merlin, life is as arduous as ever. 

Un thriller médiéval à mi-chemin entre Le Nom de la rose et Les Piliers de la terre, best-seller en Espagne. Et si une jeune scribe tenait entre ses mains le destin de l'Occident ? Franconie, an 799, à la veille du sacre de Charlemagne. Fille d'un célèbre scribe byzantin, Theresa est apprentie parcheminière.

It's the 1930s, and Georgina Garrett has risen up from her tough beginnings to become the new boss of the Battersea gang. But not everyone is pleased with a female taking charge. With rival gangs trying to steal her turf, untrustworthy men in her midst and her dad lost deep in the bottle, Georgina has a lot to tackle. With her friends and family in constant danger and those closest to her questioning her leadership Georgina must use her wits to show that she's made for this job. The Garrett name is one to be feared, and Georgina will begin to change the face of Battersea forever. 

1931. Sullo scalone di Capodimonte, nella gelida alba di un autunno umido di pioggia, viene ritrovato un bambino morto. È Tetté, un piccolo scugnizzo senza famiglia né amici. Il freddo, la fame o una malattia sembrano le cause più probabili del decesso, ma il commissario Ricciardi non si accontenta e da solo prende a scavare nelle vite di cui nessuno si cura, di cui nessuno sa niente. Nemmeno il suo dono questa volta lo aiuta, nel luogo del ritrovamento non avverte alcuna voce. Fino al giorno dei morti.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Una expedición de paleontólogos y científicos descubre una isla sin cartografiar en mitad del Atlántico con restos de una civilización muy antigua. En ella hay una cueva y en el centro de esta una inmensa columna con unas inscripciones en una lengua ya perdida. Cuando el grupo que entra en la cueva regresa a sus respectivos hogares comienzan a tener visiones de una grotesca presencia. Uno de los paleontólogos mata a su familia y reproduce en la pared de su salón las extrañas escrituras de la cueva antes de suicidarse.