Nigella Parker, Detective Inspector with the City Police, has a deep-rooted fear of fire and a talent for solving arson cases. When a charred figure is found curled beside Sir Christopher Wren's Monument to the Great Fire of London, Nigella is dragged into a case pitting her against a murderous artist creating sculptures using burnt flesh.
Nigella partners with Colm O'Leary of Scotland Yard to track the arsonist across greater London. The pair are more than colleagues-they were lovers until O'Leary made the mistake of uttering three little words. But their past isn't the only buried history as they race to connect the dots between an antique nail pulled from a dead man's hands and a long-forgotten architect dwarfed by the life's work of Sir Christopher Wren.
Wren, one of London's most famous architects, is everywhere the pair turn. Digging into his legacy leads the DCIs into the coldest of cold cases: a search for a bookseller gone missing during the Great Fire of London. More than 350 years earlier, while looking for their friend, a second pair of detectives-a lady-in-waiting to the Queen and a royal fireworks maker-discovered foul play in the supposedly accidental destruction of St. Paul's Cathedral. But did that same devilry lead to murder? And can these centuries-old crimes help catch a modern-day murderer?
As Nigella and O'Leary rush to decode clues, London's killer-artist sets his sights on a member of the investigative team as the subject of his next fiery masterpiece.
For the past six months, since solving the thefts of England's subsidies meant for its war allies, Lady Cecilia and Sir James Branstoke have concentrated on renovating their estate in Kent. But with most of the work done, and winter approaching, Lady Cecilia is restless. She doesn't want to hibernate like a bear for the winter. Her husband, Sir James Branstoke, cautions her to be careful of what she wishes for.
When David Thornbridge sends word to them that someone has kidnapped a child from The East India Company dock, Cecilia and James immediately return to London to investigate. To their horror, they learn the child is the nephew of their friend, the Earl of Soothcoor. The Branstokes take in the child's nursemaid, and with the help of her, a Bow Street Runner, and Mr. Thornbridge, they search London for the child.
Their investigation leads them from warehouses, to a society musical entertainment, and to the rooftops and chimneys of London. And just when they rescue the child, murder occurs. For kidnapping the child was only a small part of a monstrous plan to hold the power of life and death in one man's hands-for a profit.
Contains mature themes.
Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world's greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper.
London, 1942.
A killer going by the name of 'Crimson Jack' is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack-or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings?
In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend to track down Crimson Jack before he completes his tally of death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked out streets of London, death waits just around the corner.
Lighthearted 1920s cozy mysteries with a cast of unique and quirky characters tackling mysteries in country estates, villages, and the bright lights of the roaring twenties.
House Party Murder Rap: Two people have been targeted. Shots have been fired. Who stands to inherit? Who has the most to lose? Evangeline 'Evie' Parker, Countess of Woodridge, thinks it's nothing but an accident but then an attempt is made on her host's life. Suddenly, all the guests attending the Duke of Hetherington's house party think they are being targeted. Who will be next? Evie and her new chauffeur form an unlikely alliance to discover as much as they can before the killer can get it right.
Murder at the Tea Party: Warning: Afternoon tea with Lady Woodridge can be fatal. Evie has her hands full trying to keep the name of Woodridge free of scandal as well as mending fences with her maid Caro. No easy task when one of her afternoon tea guests is poisoned. Is it a coincidence when another guest is found dead from poison?
Anne Perry toma como hilo conductor la trayectoria vital de los hermanos Reavley para realizar el retrato humano del día a día de aquellos que participaron en la Gran Guerra en esta novela que será difícil de olvidar.
Primera Guerra Mundial, marzo de 1916, Joseph Reavley, gravemente herido en el intento de rescatar a un compañero durante el combate, es enviado a casa, en Cambridgeshire, para recuperarse al lado de su hermana Hannah. La inesperada visita de un amigo común los involucra en un invento que podría neutralizar el efecto devastador de los submarinos alemanes, así como el asesinato de uno de los científicos implicados en el mismo.
La idea de que alguien esté filtrando información al enemigo hace imprescindible la ayuda de su hermano Matthew, agente de los servicios secretos británicos.
Año 2017: la joven estudiosa Lucia Balleani, está ordenando y clasificando los textos de la biblioteca de la fundación Hoenstaufen mientras trabaja en el antiguo palacio que había sido la residencia de la noble familia Baldeschi - Balleani, de la que es una descendiente directa. Una serie de visiones ligadas a lo que le había ocurrido a su homónima Lucia Baldeschi, llevará al lector a descubrir junto a ella una oscura historia ocurrida en el mismo lugar 500 años antes.
Año 2017: la joven estudiosa Lucia Balleani, está ordenando y clasificando los textos de la biblioteca de la fundación Hoenstaufen mientras trabaja en el antiguo palacio que había sido la residencia de la noble familia Baldeschi - Balleani, de la que es una descendiente directa. Una serie de visiones ligadas a lo que le había ocurrido a su homónima Lucia Baldeschi, llevará al lector a descubrir junto a ella una oscura historia ocurrida en el mismo lugar 500 años antes.
La joven Lucia Baldeschi es sobrina del malvado Cardenal, tejedor de oscuras tramas con la finalidad de centralizar tanto el poder temporal como eclesiástico en sus manos. Lucia, muchacha dotada de una inteligencia especial, se hace amiga de un tipógrafo, Bernardino, junto al cual compartirá la pasión por el renacimiento de las artes, de la ciencia y de la cultura, que caracterizan al período en toda Italia. Tendrá que elegir por fuerza entre el deber de obedecer a su tío, que la ha hecho crecer y educar en palacio ante la ausencia de sus padres, y el amor apasionado por Andrea Franciolini, hijo del Capitano del Popolo1 y víctima designada de la tiranía del Cardenal. La historia es contada a través de los ojos de Lucia Balleani, una joven estudiosa descendiente del noble linaje. En 2017, exactamente 500 años después de los hechos, ésta última descubre antiguos documentos en el palacio de la familia y reconstruye toda la compleja historia de la que se había perdido el rastro.
PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
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Un clásico contemporáneo del thriller, firmado por el autor más leído en España.
Un espía que persigue a un criminal oculto durante décadas.
Una expedición al desierto de Jordania en busca del arca de la alianza.
Una historia trepidante en la que cualquiera puede ser un traidor.
La crítica ha dicho:
«Respira hondo antes de empezar a leer. No volverás a tener tiempo hasta el final.»
JAVIER SIERRA
«Un thriller cardíaco, repleto de dos mil años de intriga en Oriente Próximo.»
Katherine Neville, autora de El Ocho
Uma chamada na emergência, sons durante a ligação. Um trem Decorado no estilo dos anos 1920, com vagões mobiliados com madeira polida e bronze, trazendo glamour e beleza ao viajante. Pessoas completamente desconexas se reúnem em torno de um crime que gera a pergunta que não quer calar: ' Quem matou a testemunha?'
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One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claimed to be Romanian, but evidence suggests he may have been German. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg has to find out exactly who he was, and what he was doing at Claridge's under a false identity. Once he has established those facts, he might get an insight into why he was killed, and who by. Coburg's job is complicated by the fact that so many of the hotel's residents are exiled European royalty. King George of Greece is registered as 'Mr Brown' and even the Duke of Windsor is staying, though without Wallis Simpson. Clandestine affairs, furtive goings-on and conspiracies against the government: Coburg must tread very lightly indeed.
The phony war has dragged out past Christmas into a dark and dreary New Year, 1940.
In the blackout, someone murdered BBC engineer Frank Kennedy, making him more popular dead than alive. A blackmailer and bully, he sold out his friends, assaulted his Broadcasting House colleagues, and sabotaged his employer.
Kennedy was also a government informant against the IRA. Despite arrests of members, the IRA is still planning more attacks against British civilians. Attacks Frank Kennedy might have been involved in.
Britain’s counterintelligence spymaster orders newspaper reporter Olivia Redmond to find Kennedy’s killer and learn which of the many motives led to his murder. Olivia quickly learns how vicious Frank Kennedy was and halfway hopes his killer escapes hanging.
Until his killer strikes again…
Schauplatz dieses authentischen und spannenden Historienromans von Brigitte Riebe ist Siena im Jahr 1368. Dorthin verschlägt es die Kaufmannstochter Gemma, bei dem Versuch ihren brutalen Eheleben zu entkommen. Sie lernt die junge Witwe Lina kennen und kümmert sich fortan mit ihr gemeinsam um die Waisenkinder der Stadt. Doch dann sterben zwei Kinder unter ihrer Obhut und Gemma wird als Mörderin angeklagt...-
Bei dem vorliegenden Titel handelt es sich um die Fortsetzung des spannenden Historienromans 'Die Pestmagd' von Erfolgsautorin Brigitte Riebe. Protagonistin Johanna Arnheim und der Mediziner Vincent de Vries haben mittlerweile ein gemeinsames Kind. Zusammen zieht die kleine Familie im Jahr 1541 nach Mainz. Dort kann Vincent eine Anstellung als Arzt am Hof von Kardinal Albrecht antreten. Doch dann wird ihre kleine Tochter Barbara entführt und in der Stadt grassieren erste Fälle von Schwarzen Blattern... -
