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Baker Canyon in Colorado. A place shunned by native tribes since prehistory. A place they considered to harbor evil. A place where coal has been discovered and miners labor daily to wrest it from the mountain. Hank Steadman is the foreman of a crew of miners who go deep into the bowels of the mountain one day and never come out. The one surviving miner, John Sanger, claims that Steadman took his men to the wrong part of the mine and he alone is responsible for the deaths of his men. But is Sanger’s story true, or is he lying to cover up his own sordid secret?

At an ancient British manor, tragedy strikes the Adair lineage, leaving Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James to sift through the aftermath. With the heir apparent in the crosshairs of suspicion, the stakes are as personal as they are perplexing. As the mystery unfurls like fog over London, Holmes, Lucy, Becky, and Flynn find themselves amid a labyrinth of hidden motives and whispered scandals. In a house where every portrait could hide a clue, can our Baker Street ensemble stitch together the truth from the tapestry of lies?

Former chief investigator Jan Kalisz lives a dangerous double life, forced to work with the occupiers as he gathers information for the fledgling Polish resistance. Even his family cannot be told his true allegiance. When the niece of a Wehrmacht general is found terribly mutilated, Jan links the murder to other killings that are of less interest to his new overlords. Soon, he finds himself on the trail of a psychopathic killer known as The Artist. But, shunned as a Nazi collaborator, can he solve the case before another innocent girl is taken?

Une nouvelle enquête de Cotton Malone. 2023 : Cotton Malone visite le château de Herrenchiemsee, près de Munich. Construit sur une île, celui-ci a été conçu sur le modèle de Versailles par Louis II de Bavière, admirateur passionné de Louis XIV. Si l'édifice est inachevé, il renferme néanmoins de nombreux mystères. Cotton l'apprend à ses dépens lorsque, au milieu de sa visite, un individu lui tire dessus avant de s'emparer d'un livre dissimulé dans le compartiment caché d'un bureau en marqueterie.

In a bid to heal from the grief of a personal loss, forensic genealogist RaeJean Hunter takes on a straightforward case-identify human remains found on a nearby college campus, believed to be the 180-year-old remains of Mary Rogers, a woman who died mysteriously in 1841 and was believed to have been buried in the nearby cemetery that had washed away. It should be simple enough, a project to get her back in the game.

Having donated a parcel of her land for a village Victory Garden, Lady Elizabeth feels obliged to send her assistant, Polly, to tend to a plot now that its owner has passed away. Polly is happily digging in the dirt when she discovers a dead body buried there. Once more Lady Elizabeth faces a ruthless killer, putting her life in grave danger.

Наши дни. У майора МЧС и по совместительству друга старшего следователя Волина - Юрия Варламова пропадает отец. Чтобы найти его, друзьям придется заглянуть в прошлое, в частности, познакомиться с судьбой учителя Варламова-старшего Андрея Ивановича Мазура. Август 1944 года. Первый Белорусский фронт ведет бои с немецко-фашистскими войсками на территории Польши. Опираясь на клеветнический донос, особый отдел штаба армии заводит дело против войскового разведчика старшего лейтенанта Андрея Мазура. Обвинения очень серьезные, Мазуру грозит большой тюремный срок или даже расстрел.

New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost, la detective privata più famosa e meno ortodossa in circolazione, e la sua assistente ed ex artista circense Will Parker ricevono una chiamata direttamente dal passato di quest'ultima. Il circo itinerante Hart and Halloway's, dove la ragazza è stata accolta dopo essere scappata di casa da adolescente, è sconvolto da un terribile evento: in un vicolo tra il tendone e le roulotte degli artisti, è stato trovato il corpo senza vita di Ruby Donner, l'Incredibile Donna Tatuata. Una spaventosa ferita le taglia la schiena, attraversando le decine di disegni di cui è costellata.

After recovering from her beating in the warehouse and being reunited with Davy Jones, Lucy was ready to settle into a quiet life until she woke up next to a dead body. All because of the journal. The journal was written by Francine Skaggs, a secretary who worked for the government in the 1960s after President Kennedy's assassination. In the journal, Francine suggests that she knows who killed the president, and it wasn't Harvey Oswald.

When a seemingly simple hit-and-run turns out to be cold-blooded murder, Detectives Thane and Moss find themselves entangled in a complex web of stolen cars, blackmail, and deadly family secrets. As the body count rises, the hunt for the killer leads them from the gritty underbelly of the city to the rugged peaks of the Scottish Highlands, testing their skills and their resolve at every turn.

Molly Murphy wird Mutter und hat eigentlich geschworen, nie wieder zu ermitteln... Der spannende neue Fall der Cosy-Crime-Reihe von Rhys Bowen. Molly Sullivan ist ein Jahr verheiratet, erwartet ihr erstes Kind und ist auf das Leben einer Hausfrau beschränkt. Sie ist ruhelos und reizbar in der erzwungenen Untätigkeit der Schwangerschaft und der Hitze eines New Yorker Sommers im Jahr 1905. Ihr Mann, NYPD-Captain Daniel Sullivan arbeitet währenddessen an einer Reihe von Kindesentführungen.

Milano, 1631. Il venticinquenne luogotenente di giustizia italo-spagnolo Diego Antonio Olivares indaga sulla morte dell’Innominato (il “perfetto penitente” Bernardino Visconti, pentitosi dopo una vita da fuorilegge), ucciso su un sentiero montano sopra Lecco. Il defunto era molto apprezzato e addirittura esibito dalla Chiesa milanese, grazie alla sua conversione a mezzo del Cardinal Federico Borromeo... Ben Pastor immagina come sarebbero potuti continuare I Promessi Sposi.

Auf dem Wege nach Konstanza werden der Professor und Hatch mit militärischer Gewalt aus dem Zug geholt und dem Kronprinzen Ferdinand von Rumänien zugeführt, dessen Sohn entführt worden ist. Die üblichen Suchaktionen sind ergebnislos verlaufen. Doch die Recherchen des Professors bringen ihm die Erkenntnis, dass sich beide noch auf dem Schloss aufhalten müssen. In der kronprinzlichen Menagerie beobachtet er die Menschenaffen, in der Hauptsache einen kränkelnden Orang-Utan.

Un cadavere al cimitero: si direbbe tutto regolare. Ma non se si tratta dell'ingegner Adone Giacomo Forlanini riverso sulla tomba di famiglia, ucciso con una stilettata. Un caso banale, pensa il commissario siciliano Eriberto Passalacqua, arrivato da poco in una Milano che in quel 1975 è martoriata dalla violenza politica e dalla criminalità. Nel giro di poche ore, è costretto a ricredersi.

A cat-and-mouse thriller set in Victorian London, The Burial Plot is the third novel from Sunday Times bestseller Elizabeth Macneal, about murder, manipulation, and a young woman wrestling power from the hands of a dangerous man.

Maggie Hope has come a long way since she was Mr. Churchill’s secretary. In the face of tremendous danger, she’s learned espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. But things are different now that she has so much to lose, including the possibility of a family with John Sterling, the man who’s long held her heart.

La lista de sospechosos de tanta desgracia y vergüenza nacional incluye al presidente Plutarco Elías Calles, al fundador de la crom, Luis N. Morones, a la renombrada madre Conchita, y a una serie de oscuros personajes encumbrados del clero de México, quienes organizaron un boicot comercial a nivel nacional para poner de rodillas al gobierno y cerraron los templos para privar de consuelo espiritual a la feligresía y enardecerla.

On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear through a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. Felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, the young slave appears to have been offered as a human sacrifice, forbidden as an abomination in the Roman Republic. For Cicero, the ill forebodings of this hideous murder only increase his frustrations and the dangers he already faces as Rome's leader.

On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear through a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. Felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, the young slave appears to have been offered as a human sacrifice, forbidden as an abomination in the Roman Republic.

Amid a revolution, archaeologist Christopher Jordan and ancient manuscript expert Kathryn Ferguson travel to Syria in search of the original scroll of Marks' Gospel. Paralleling their quest is the story of the evangelist's escape with the scroll from the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., his struggles to complete the manuscript, and his journeys and efforts with the daughter of Peter the Apostle to protect and save it for the ages. For both couples, time is running out and enemies are closing in.