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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Survivor, Lesley Pearse's stunning new novel in the bestselling and enthralling Belle series. read by the actress Alison Dowling. London, 1939 Eighteen-year-old Mari is defiant, strong-willed and selfish. She has craved...

For young mother Fosca Sentino, accepting refuge from ex-British soldier Richard - in Tuscany to escape his tragic past - is the only way to keep her little family safe. She once risked everything to spy on Nazi commanders and pass secret information to the resistenza. But after a heartbreaking betrayal, Fosca’s best friend, Simonetta, disappeared without trace. The whole community was torn apart, and now Fosca and her son are outcasts.

Mary Russell, assistant and protégée of the great Sherlock Holmes, finds herself and her partner once more mired in mystery. When Mary is given a scrap of papyrus by an old archaeologist friend, she has no inkling of what it contains. Written in Greek, it could be a letter from a previously unknown apostle - who just happens to be female. However, the situation moves from being curiously exciting to chillingly perilous as the archaeologist is murdered and Mary and Sherlock's home is ransacked.

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail 'Brody's writing is like her central character Kate Shackleton: witty, acerbic and very, very perceptive' Ann Cleeves 1929, London. In the darkness before dawn, a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unloads a...

Northamptonshire, 1810: As a new canal network snakes across the landscape, a vicious mob stakes its claim to the county. Every local constable is out on the hunt for the ruthless Panther Gang. When an elderly man is robbed and murdered in sleepy Middleton, the beleaguered magistrates send for help from London's Bow Street Police Office.

Darwin, Summer, 1963. The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at a body that had been dragged from the shallow marshland. He didn't need a coroner to tell him this was a bad death. He didn't know then that this was only the first. Or that he was...

Bloomsbury presents The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie, read by Joe Jameson. _______________ 'If you love the TV series Grantchester, don’t miss this captivating prequel. It reveals the backstory of how a young Sidney Chambers, carefree in London just before the Second World War, came to...

The marriage of a well-bred Royalist lady and an illegitimate Roundhead Colonel is less a match made in heaven than a union doomed to hell. Unfortunately, Sir Robert Brandon's last will and testament leaves Venetia Clifford and Gabriel Brandon with little choice in the matter - deeply though they both resent it. Their tempestuous relationship is reflected in the stormy events buffeting the nation as England slides inexorably into a second Civil War.

Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson's desperate attempt to regain digging rights backfires—and his dream of unearthing the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon is dashed. Now Emerson, his archaeologist wife, Amelia Peabody, and their family must watch from the sidelines as Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter "discover" the greatest Egyptian treasure of all time.

Three young girls have been abducted from their homes. The body of one has been found in a shallow grave. The other two are still missing. The murder has shocked everyone in the peaceful city of Delft, and the mayor is desperate to catch the perpetrator before panic can spread any further. With the bitterly cold January weather intensifying, it is doubtful that the other two girls are still alive. But whoever took them is still at large.

April, 1940. Hitler is invading Denmark on Tuesday. Olivia Redmond has only a weekend to bring a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and his war-altering research to Britain. The scientist and his wife want to leave, but their troublesome daughter will do anything to stop her parents from departing. When the daughter’s German fiancé is murdered, the police refuse to let anyone depart until they find the killer. If Olivia wants to escape Denmark with the chemist and his breakthroughs, she will have to unmask the killer before the Nazis stop her forever.

Cambridge in 1352 is rife with terrible clashes between the fledgling university and the townspeople. Matthew Bartholomew, physician and teacher at Michaelhouse College, is trying to keep the peace when a student is murdered and the town plunges into chaos. At the same time, a skeleton is discovered that is rumoured to belong to a local martyr, and Bartholomew has his hands full investigating both deaths while the rioting intensifies....

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, the unnamed narrator, undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris.

Pas encore! Avant de rendre leur amour officiel, Joséphine et Jérôme doivent obtenir l'accord des parents de ce dernier. Et ce n'est pas gagné... Car eux ont décidé qu'il s'unirait à une autre: Blanche d'Ambert, fille aînée d'un duc. Furieux, Jérôme jure qu'il ne l'épousera pas. Jamais! Hélas, le ciel semble l'entendre, car la pauvre Blanche est retrouvée morte peu de temps après, le crâne fracassé. Et vers qui les indices pointent-ils tous?

It's the year 1784 and the shogun rules with an iron fist . . . except within the walled pleasure quarter of Yoshiwara. Inside the Great Gate, samurai law does not apply, and it's women who pull the strings. Magistrates bow to courtesans, prostitutes snub potentates, and those with the most...

It’s 1957, with Mitch Miller on the radio and Sputnik orbiting overhead. In this fourth Father Hardy outing, Hardy and his friends brave the drifting snow and deadly Arctic chill to search for a missing local woman. Can they find her in time? What Hardy reveals to the marshal about her, will shock you. There’s a prowler on the loose. Is he a murderer? Is he a stranger or, God forbid, “one of us?” Can they catch him before he strikes again?

Die Light-Novel-Vorlage zum Manga-Hit endlich als Hörbuch – eine gewitzte Apothekerin, ein mysteriöser Eunuch und spannende höfische Intrigen! Maomao ist eine unscheinbare Dienerin am Kaiserlichen Hof. Zumindest bemüht sie sich, so gesehen zu werden. Denn seit sie in den Dienst des Kaisers verkauft wurde, hat die junge Apothekerin alles darangesetzt, ihre Schuld abzuarbeiten, ohne weiteres Aufsehen zu erregen, damit sie bald nach Hause zurückkehren kann. Aber Maomao ist schlau – und viel zu neugierig.

Lissabon, 1938. Europa steht am Rand des Krieges, und für die junge Schauspielerin Lara Hope beginnt ein neuer Lebensabschnitt. Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters sucht sie einen Neuanfang und reist nach Lissabon. Während über Europa der Krieg tobt, findet Lara Zuflucht in der Buchhandlung ihrer Vermieterin, einem Ort voller Frieden, Geschichten und Hoffnung. Als sie eines Tages beobachtet, wie ein Kunde heimlich ein Buch austauscht, wird ihr klar: Diese Buchhandlung birgt Geheimnisse.

Zwischen Wirtschaftswunder und Halbwelt tummeln sich die Spione. Ruhrgebiet, 1960er Jahre: Hedy Voss ist gewitzt, unabhängig - und verzweifelt. Um für ihre kranke Schwester Elsa sorgen zu können, hat sie keine andere Wahl, als zu tun, was sie am besten kann: Einbrüche verüben. Eines Tages fallen Hedy dabei gefährliche Informationen in die Hände, mit denen Elsa leichtfertiger umgeht, als es den beiden Schwestern guttut. Plötzlich schweben die beiden in höchster Gefahr, und Hedy muss sich entscheiden, wie weit sie bereit ist zu gehen, um Elsa und sich zu schützen.

De la autora del espectacular éxito de ventas El secreto de la boticaria, nos llega ahora una fascinante historia sobre dos mujeres audaces que persiguen la verdad y la justicia mediante el peligroso arte de invocar a los muertos. 1873. En un château abandonado de las afueras de París está a...