Novedades

For years, Lady Bancroft’s Valentine’s Ball at Bancroft Hall had been a glittering gathering of high society’s most eligible men and women. Countless happy couples owe their love stories to her matchmaking, their gratitude keeping Lady Bancroft in the genteel comfort of her grand Cotswolds estate. But this year tragedy strikes. A murder threatens to ruin everything. Desperate, Lady Bancroft turns to her neighbour, the dashing Major Heathcliff Lennox. A decorated war hero and now a consultant to Scotland Yard, Lennox would much rather be fishing.

The weekend was supposed to be an enjoyable time with her family at the neo-Gothic manor of Lord and Lady Kershaw, but when the gamekeeper is murdered, Cleo can’t rest until the killer is caught. As a witness herself, she’s frustrated with the incompetence of the local police who lay the blame on a man who conveniently disappeared. When she realizes their ineptitude is a result of Lord Kershaw’s influence, she focuses her investigation on the earl and his family, against the wishes of her uncle.

When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.

The only thing hotter than their animosity is their attraction. Lady Gigi Harrington has a plan: save her sleepy village from ruin and prove she's more than just a pretty debutante. The arrival of ruthless industrialist Conrad Godwin jeopardizes everything. A powerful man with a secret agenda—and identity—Conrad is flummoxed when the spirited miss dares to get in his way.

When Mr. Rushworth, the former husband of Edmund's sister Maria, is discovered dead in his home, Jonathan and Juliet find themselves with problems far weightier than the marriage market. In one of the greatest scandals of its day, Maria abandoned her new husband in favor of the notorious rake Henry Crawford, and when he wouldn't marry her, was forced to flee to the continent in disgrace. Now Maria is back, accompanied by a daughter she claims Mr. Rushworth fathered after their divorce—and who he wrote into his will just before his death.

Golden-age gadabout Anty Boisjoly, his valet Vickers, the weary and wary Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when what at first seems a simple, unexplainable, locked-stateroom murder twists into a tale of pirate treasure, perilous weather and treacherous endeavours at sea.

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

Leonora Spencer has an acquaintance with death. Sixteen years ago, only she survived the brutal murder of her family. Now, as an assistant in her uncle's London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also isn't opposed to helping him during postmortems if his skilled hands begin to shake. After a thief breaks into the morgue and steals a locket from a young woman's corpse, Leo is determined to understand why, even if it means going against Detective Inspector Jasper Reid's express orders to keep her nose out of it.

Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington Manor after her grandfather suffers a heart attack. Back in her childhood home for the first time in years, Saffron faces tense family relationships made worse by the presence of the enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired on as a doctor to the ailing Lord Easting. But the man is no doctor—in reality, he is a mysterious figure involved in the trafficking of dangerous government secrets, and his presence at Ellington can only mean trouble.

The British Museum gets one more corpse than they bargained for as doors open for their new Egyptian exhibit.

January 1313. As London is gripped by a freezing winter, Sir Hugh Corbett becomes embroiled in a ghoulish game of kings played out between the English and French courts. Years earlier, Corbett prevented a gang of rifflers from breaking into the Royal Treasury, but the leading chieftain, Sarasin, escaped. Now Sarasin is caught killing a squire of Queen Isabella's and Corbett swiftly has the riffler tried and hanged from the signpost of The Twilight tavern.

Morderstwo z cieniem Stalina w tle… W letniskowej miejscowości Wyręby zostaje zamordowany starszy mężczyzna Kazimierz Łyczuk. Redaktor lokalnej gazety wyrusza w podróż, by czegokolwiek dowiedzieć się o zmarłym i być może trafić na ślad mordercy. Rozmawiając z ludźmi, którzy znali Łyczuka, odkrywa, że przed laty nierzucający się w oczy staruszek był ważną postacią ocierającą się o szczyty ówczesnej władzy.

The town of Coatesville has just celebrated two weddings. In the midst of their celebrations, someone manages to really irritate the local Klan. The local Klaven rides on the Catholic families in the small town, and on the school. The Robertson County Sheriff really messed up. He was skimming money from the county, accepting bribes, and generally casting a pall on his office. A few months before he had arrested everybody in the courtroom because his deputy couldn't control a prisoner. One of those arrested was Attorney Declan Dougherty. Things go from bad to worse when the sheriff orders ...

Traumatized as a child after witnessing a murder, Anthony Andrews, the first black reporter at the Arkansas Sun, seeks to solve the mysterious abandonment of a small town and the disappearance of fourteen white men. His investigation leads him from rural Arkansas to Cleveland, Ohio, as he tries to uncover a family secret kept hidden for more than a decade. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he must question his motives. His quest not only reveals the true identify of people he has met along the way, but also points Anthony toward a path that leads to his own salvation.

While in Paris, where he solves a national crisis on behalf of a grateful French government, Sherlock Holmes is approached by a young nun, who brings to his attention the strange mystery surrounding the theft of a precious relic from the convent chapel that very morning. Impressed by the nun’s intelligence and the considerable powers of deduction she demonstrates before him, Holmes agrees to investigate the events at the convent where she resides in the Norman countryside, only to learn that the little religious community is at the heart of larger events than any of the sisters there have...

MURDER IN THE CRYSTAL COURT-- DESCRIPTION The Murder in the Crystal Court is the second unsought case to come Dave White's way since his retirement from a career as a Corporate Economist and Chief Financial Officer. Although he is not interested in becoming a private investigator in his retirement, and his spouse and life partner, Chris Thorson, is definitely opposed, it is hard for either of them to turn this case down. The Minnesota Family Values Coalition is planning to use the unsolved death of Stuart Nelson in 1974 and pictures of unindicted, but publicly accused suspect, wealthy ...

What would it be like to speak with someone who is nearly 2,000 years old?Or at least someone who thinks they are. What would you talk about? What would they say? Would they even bother speaking with you? Eternal Patience takes place in a psychiatric hospital and reveals a conversation between psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Engelbrecht and her patient, Sebastian Cartwright. Together, they take you on a 2,000-year worldwide journey through human history of what may be the patient’s personal memories and recollections, or just the incredible storytelling of a brilliant but disturbed psychiatric ...

She was in on the game but a reluctant player The game started right after Nero’s suicide in AD 68, and his death was part of the game. He’d been tricked by the other players into taking his own life, opening the race, the free-for-all to seize power in Rome. What ensued went down in History as the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’. But from the start the rivals vying for the top prize discovered that Nero had a half-sister, eighteen-year-old Antonia, the daughter of Claudius and Agrippina, and using her as a pawn became part of the game. Only, she didn’t want to be used—or eliminated...

Phillip Brown wakes up one bitter November morning to find a woman near frozen on the stoop of the Baltimore home he shares with his sister and uncle. The unconscious woman eventually awakens, unwilling to share who has terrified her while she makes a recovery in the Brown home. He continues his work at the Wiest Oyster Cannery and pouring beer on occasion at his neighborhood brewery while guarding his family from dangerous criminals’ intent of silencing his discoveries about the woman.

Venezia, 1753. In una gelida primavera, una serie di delitti e sparizioni colpisce importanti esponenti della nobiltà veneziana. La vicenda prende subito i contorni di un grande complotto internazionale per colpire il cuore della Serenissima. Marco Leon, agente segreto dell'Inquisizione di Stato, è chiamato a indagare, ma la posta in gioco è altissima: i nuovi magistrati dell'Inquisizione sono infatti decisi a sciogliere gli Angeli Neri, il corpo di agenti segreti che lo affianca da sempre nelle indagini.