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Январь-март 1902 года. Соединенные Штаты Америки — Россия. Молодой американский инженер Эндрю Тимоти изобретает сверхскоростной электрический двигатель для подводной лодки. Военная комиссия не принимает изобретение, поскольку, на ее взгляд, оно требует доработки. Однако об уникальном двигателе узнает неизвестный, который начинает шантажировать Тимоти. Преследования пугают инженера. Кроме того, он остро нуждается в деньгах. К счастью, в Сан-Франциско, где живет Тимоти, приезжает русский художник Василий Верещагин.

Serve coraggio quando si parte, ma a volte ne serve ancora di più quando si torna. È il luglio del 1940, l’Italia è in guerra. Ricciardi – preoccupato per la figlia Marta e per i suoceri, in grave pericolo a causa delle origini ebraiche – ha ormai trasferito la famiglia a Fortino, il paese dove è nato. Lì, nei luoghi dell’infanzia, sperava di avere un po’ di quiete. Invece, mentre in città il fido brigadiere Maione cerca di salvare un comune amico da morte certa, tra le montagne del Cilento il commissario è messo faccia a faccia con un passato che avrebbe voluto scordare.

This is the heartbreaking and passionate tale of true love's blindness and destruction by the bestselling author of the Victorian era, who romances were beloved of figures as diverse as Gladstone, Churchill, and Queen Victoria herself.

Das Musgrave-Ritual ist ein jahrhundertealter Familienbrauch der Herren von Gut Hurlstone. Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes erkennt, dass in dem Ritual der Schlüssel zu einem Schatz von historischer Bedeutung verborgen liegt. Aber nicht nur Holmes versucht dieses Geheimnis zu entschlüsseln. Noch ehe er es lösen kann, haben bereits zwei Menschen ihr Leben verloren.

Un reporter de guerre est retrouvé mort en Indochine française. Sa jeune remplaçante enquête et se retrouve entrainée dans des histoires d'espion, d'aventuriers et de tueurs à gage. ​Un roman d'espionnage historique de haut vol par un talent du polar français, et porté par la lecture captivante de Marie du Bled. En Indochine française : une reporter de guerre sur les traces d'espions et de tueurs à gage. Septembre 1953, New York. La rédaction de Life magazine est en deuil.

For Ellen Whitfield, the betrothal of her dear friend Harriet to Ellen's brother has brought both loss and solace. But when Harriet suddenly breaks off the engagement, ostensibly at the insistence of her deceased mother, Ellen is bewildered. And when she learns that Harriet is involved with a spiritualist group led by the charismatic Caroline McLeod, she fears losing her friend altogether.

On the night of March 17, 1934, in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, a man crept to a window and shot a woman through her heart. Her name was Susan Mummey, but she was better known as the Witch of Ringtown Valley. The shocking true story of her life and murder has never been told, until now. The cold-blooded shooting of a woman in her home would have been news on its own. But the victim who lay on her sitting room floor wasn’t just any woman. For years, the people of Schuylkill County whispered about how Susan Mummey practiced magic from her isolated farmhouse.

Sembra essere una giornata tranquilla a Lugano quando, in una lussuosa residenza di via Bossi, viene scoperto un cadavere quasi decapitato con una scure a fianco, una scena che sembra uscita direttamente dalle pagine tormentate di Dostoevskij. Il delegato Ezechiele Beretta, poliziotto che ben conosce Delitto e castigo, si trova di fronte a un caso che rispecchia il dramma di Raskol'nikov, ma questa volta il movente potrebbe essere una distorta giustizia personale.

James Faraday is about to turn eighty and his daughter has organised a gathering of friends and family at Woodford Grange to celebrate the big day. There will be a marquee in the garden, plenty of food and drink, and a huge stack of birthday presents. One particular gift, however, is proving difficult to track down.

Some people are simply asking to be murdered. Rosemary Lillywhite has had a lot on her tea tray: murder, intrigue, and three men vying for her affections. When her mother, Evelyn, calls and pleads with her to help put on a country garden club event, Rosemary begrudgingly agrees. After all, she can't leave poor Vera to her own devices, not when Evelyn has so staunchly objected to the match between Vera and Rosemary's brother, Frederick.

When Thomas Berrington finds the bones of a human hand in his room at Ludlow Castle, he knows he must confront whoever left them. But when Thomas tracks the man down, his throat has been cut, and Thomas believes the killer is an old adversary.

New Mexico, 1936. Settling in for a harsh winter alone at her house at the Ghost Ranch, painter and occasional amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe makes the most of the weather before a storm rolls in. But when she finds the ideal spot to capture a particularly nice sunset, Georgia discovers a boy—cold, exhausted, and desperate . . . Joseph Reyes is a student at St Ignatius School, and he claims that sinister Sister Angelica and Father Raphael have raped and killed his sister. And she is not the only one who suddenly went missing!

London, 1924. Westminster is in an uproar when a promising young clerk is found dead at his desk, killed by a powerful poison sent by post. Worse yet, the letter was addressed to his boss—the Leader of the House of Lords. Dora and Rex, with the help of Clark and Prudence, must determine who sent the killer's letter and why. Between political parties jostling for power and enemies plotting overseas, there is no shortage of suspects. Can the bright young foursome find the killer before he strikes again?

Rough-around-the-edges Harriet Morrow has long been drawn to the idea of whizzing around the city on her bicycle as a professional detective, solving crimes for a living without having to take a husband. She seizes the chance when the prestigious Prescott Agency hires her as its first woman operative. The move sparks controversy—with skeptical male colleagues, a high-strung office secretary, and her boss, Mr. Theodore Prescott, all waiting for her to unravel under the pressure.

The moor is a difficult place for a young woman to grow up in the eighteenth century, and life for Hettie Gale is no different. Abused by her father and abandoned by her family, she builds a new life for herself and her young son. But when she’s assaulted by men who lie about the encounter and accuse her of a heinous crime, Hettie is sentenced to death. In the present day, Alice receives news that her cousin has gone missing from her cottage on the moor, where Alice spent many of her childhood summers. Wanting to help find Fleur, she heads to the village.

On a fall night in 1954, in working-class Lindenhurst, Long Island, a woman goes alone to a bar filled with German speakers who’ve finished their shifts at different jobs—some at a groundbreaking new project run by a man named Leavitt. They are gathered to listen to the first game of the World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians at the Polo Grounds. The game would make the history books because of “The Catch” at the outfield wall by Willie Mays. But Lindenhurst's new chief of police, Paul Beirne, can't think about baseball.

When the genteelly born, impoverished Frankie Turner's impulsive younger sister goes missing, Frankie has no idea where to begin the search to find her. But when she discovers hasty marriages materializing between “troublemaking” women and men who don’t deserve them, she knows her sister is somehow involved. The only thread connecting the groomsmen is a membership to Rockford’s, an exclusive gambling hell owned by the devilish Jasper Jones. And it just so happens that Jasper has recently become the guardian of a sullen fifteen-year-old.

NEW YORK CITY, 1947: Wealthy financier and ghoulish connoisseur of crime, Jessup Quincannon, is dead, and famed detective Lillian Pentecost is under arrest for his murder. Means, motive, and a mountain of evidence leave everyone believing she’s guilty. Everyone, that is, except Willowjean “Will” Parker, who knows for a fact her boss is innocent. She just doesn’t know if she can prove it.

Bienvenidos al Triángulo Negro de la ciudad de Nueva York, el decadente reino de los fumaderos de opio, la lucha libre femenina, los garitos ruinosos, los coloridos burdeles, los abortos clandestinos, el crimen y la miseria. La emperatriz de este desapacible lugar es la temible Black Lena Shanks, quien, junto a su familia, lidera un clan de delincuentes, una pandilla de mujeres expertas en el arte de la crueldad.

«El próximo funeral será el tuyo» es una de las amenazas que recibe Rebeca Turumbay, profesora de arte en la universidad y empleada de la fundación del Teatro-Museo Dalí de Figueres, a los pocos días de llegar a Cárcar, el pueblo en el que ha decidido pasar las vacaciones. Es allí donde nació su abuelo Ángel Turumbay, y ella va con la intención de conocer algo más sobre su historia, de la que nunca le han hablado. Pronto averigua que algo turbio rodea a la figura de su abuelo, y que quizá tenga que ver con el silencio que se cierne sobre el asesinato de la joven Celia Urbiola en el año 1945.