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Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades. But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbours – a poised English beauty, a policeman’s daughter, a frustrated female baseball star, and a rabidly pro-McCarthy typist – into an unlikely friendship.

The year is 1317, and young squire Benedict Russell has joined the English-held garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed after the spectacular Scottish victory at Bannockburn three years earlier. Serious and self-doubting, he can't wait for his time there to come to an end. Living on the disputed territory between Scotland and England is a precarious existence, and as the Scots draw ever closer and the English king does nothing to stop them, Benedict finds himself in a race against time to solve the brutal murder of a young girl and find the traitor who lurks within Berwick's walls.

Der mittelalterliche Kern der Stadt an der Trave, die einmal als "Königin der Hanse" bezeichnet wurde, übt immer noch einen besonderen Reiz auf Touristen aus. Es leben dort über zweihunderttausend Menschen, viele von ihnen seit Generationen. Manche verbergen düstere Geheimnisse. Einer davon ist Gunnar Lüderupp, dem durch die ganz spezielle Erziehung einer streng religiösen Stiefmutter ein unheilvoller Lebensweg bereitet wurde.

Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own.

November 1943. Stalin is pressing the Allies to open a second front in Europe in order to ease the pressure on the bloody grinding war in the East. Roosevelt and Churchill agree to meet the Soviet premiere in Tehran. Wild Bill Donovan, the charismatic leader of the OSS, has intelligence that someone is planning to assassinate either or both of the Western leaders at the conference. He sends his best agent, Dick Canidy, to thwart the plan, but how can he do that when he doesn't even know if the killer is a Nazi or an Ally?

September 1920. A young bride is discovered dead at a country house on her wedding day. Has she fallen victim to the deadly Withington curse, which strikes down any woman who marries into the family? Forensic Pathologist Dr Bernard Spilsbury doesn't believe in such superstitions, and suspects a more earthly reason for Theodora Tupper's death. But as he and his trusty assistant Violet investigate, they soon discover that there are indeed ghosts at Withington Hall. And they, too, have a story to tell.

Paris, juin 1889 : le monde entier se presse à l'Exposition Universelle où la Tour Eiffel, qui vient d'être achevée, accueille plus de mille visiteurs par jour. Les Français s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont un Empire colonial en découvrant les pavillons exotiques et les villages indigènes groupés au pied d'un des temples d'Angkor reconstitué. C'est dans cette ambiance de kermesse que survient une série de morts inexpliquées. Les victimes ne présentent aucune blessure apparente et, hormis le fait d'avoir été présentes à l'Exposition, rien ne les relie entre elles.

The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940. During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in her kitchen whilst cooking for her husband and children. She becomes trapped in the rear of her home, but regains consciousness just in time to see a familiar face, offering hope of rescue. But instead, Madeline is tragically strangled to death. As a dangerous murderer uses the Blitz to cover their crime, local detective Jamie Barton enlists the help of Madeline’s sister and volunteer firefighter, Penny Fairfax to help.

It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the mollies' silent guard. When the queen of all 'he-harlots', Mother Clap, confides in him about a deadly threat, he realises his friends are facing imminent execution. To the horror of all mollies, there is a rat amongst them.

In 1954, ex-escort Sunni Sinclair breaks free of Australia’s gangland, reinventing herself as a pub owner in a lawless mining town near Sydney. A champion of justice, she challenges societal norms, advocating for women’s rights and downtrodden miners.

Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel’s overprivileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life lessons from the game of chess.

England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella his wife. The orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman—an outsider with no fortune or connections—Orabella never expected to marry. But her uncle has many debts, and Orabella, curious about the seeming devotion Elias bestows upon her, agrees.

What Bernard Sampson, protagonist of Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match, is about to know may hurt him. When word gets to London Central that a cache of millions of pounds has disappeared inside the Service, Samson is determined to learn the truth. But not even that discovery will help if the Department itself wants his blood....

Beatrice Richards was 39 years old on her last birthday. That may have been accurate, it might not have been. It mattered not to her friends—of which she had only a few—and it certainly didn’t matter to her husband, in large part because he simply didn’t care. Beatrice was wealthy, entitled, snobbish, unhappy and bored. That is until “it” came.

Gregory Wentz's yacht is marooned on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Senator's fifteen-year-old son ventures into the tree line and finds something amazing: the scattered remains of a plane wreck with the number N16020 stamped on its wing. Wentz, a former Air Force pilot, instantly recognizes what he's looking at. He contacts someone he knows he can trust, a man who is supposed to be dead, Solomon Raegor, Director of the Tactical Archaeological Command.

Würzburg 1574: Bäckerlehrling Simon leidet unter seinem brutalen Stiefvater und dessen Sohn Wulf. Als die Streitigkeiten eskalieren, muss er die Stadt verlassen und erlernt in Venedig die Kunst der Zuckerbäckerei. Nach Jahren in der Ferne kehrt Simon nach Würzburg zurück. Dort übernimmt er die Backstube des Juliusspitals und gewinnt die Zuneigung des mächtigen, unnahbaren Fürstbischofs Julius Echter. Doch Simons Stiefbruder Wulf, getrieben von Neid und Missgunst, lässt nichts unversucht, um ihm zu schaden.

Tra i due rami della stirpe dei Falck non corre buon sangue. Un rapporto al veleno che è destinato a inasprirsi con la morte dell’anziana matriarca. Quando Vera, un tempo famosa scrittrice, muore in mare, porta infatti con sé due grandi misteri: quello del suo testamento, che risulta introvabile, e quello di un vecchio manoscritto mai dato alle stampe a cui aveva lavorato in silenzio tanti anni prima. Si dice che in quelle pagine raccontasse del naufragio in cui, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, aveva perso la vita il marito, ma nessuno ha mai potuto leggerle.

In the years following the end of the Shah’s dynasty, a major petrochemical refinery is being constructed in northern Iran by the Islamic Regime. While this is good for Iran, it’s not so good for the West. Enter the Organization for Reorganizing Business (ORB), led by Murray Stockman. ORB sends their senior field operative, Matthew Black, into Iran to “fix” the refinery problem. But this won’t be an easy task.

È il 1957 e la giovane Elisabetta II, di ritorno dal suo primo viaggio a Parigi nei panni di sovrana del Regno Unito, viene informata di un duplice omicidio: un uomo e una donna sono stati uccisi in un pied-à-terre frequentato da alcuni membri del Club Artemis, un esclusivo gruppo dell'alta società inglese di cui fa parte lo stesso principe Filippo. L'ultima cosa di cui ha bisogno la giovane Elisabetta, che sta lavorando alacremente perché il suo paese abbia un ruolo rilevante nell'Europa del dopoguerra, è uno scandalo che la coinvolga.

After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety.