Historical Psychological Thriller

À l'été 1991, une série d'incendies éclatent aux quatre coins de la ville de Malartic. Des corps d'enfants sont retrouvés à l'intérieur des résidences incendiées, mais personne ne sait comment ils se sont retrouvés dans ces maisons. Rapidement, la terreur gagne les Malarticois. Les gamins désertent les parcs et plus personne n'ose laisser son enfant sortir. Marie-Hélène et Mylène ont peur que leurs frères et soeurs soient les prochaines cibles.... Ce qu'elles ignorent, c'est que ce qui les guette est bien plus dangereux qu'un pyromane.

Patty Miller, a paraplegic, is discovered at home barely clinging to life. Her infant son, already dead, lies on her chest still clinging to his mother. On the morning that Patty is found, she is not expected to survive but is taken to the hospital where she eventually recovers. But, severely emotionally disturbed, Patty soon finds herself a patient at Hillside Asylum.

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge.

Martin Bora, l'investigatore di casi delicati per i servizi segreti della Wehrmacht, si trova a Mosca. Mancano settimane all'attacco di Hitler alla Russia di Stalin, e l'ufficiale è aggregato al corpo diplomatico della capitale sovietica immersa ancora nel clima del patto Ribbentrop-Molotov. In questa veste, gli arriva una strana richiesta da parte del diabolico Beria: recarsi a Creta, appena presa dai tedeschi, per procurare al raccapricciante capo dello spionaggio sovietico sessanta bottiglie di un pregiatissimo vino cretese.

Ucraina nord-orientale, 1943. Il maggiore Martin von Bora è tornato eroicamente da Stalingrado. Nel suo ruolo di ufficiale dell'Abwehr, il servizio segreto dell'esercito tedesco, ha per le mani due generali dell'Armata Rossa, Platonov e Tibyetsky, detto Khan. Entrambi sono a parte di segreti strategici. Platonov, che è stato vittima delle purghe di Stalin, è restio a collaborare. Invece, Tibyetsky-Khan, nobile passato alla rivoluzione, che tra l'altro è lontano parente di Martin, sembra più equivocamente implicato in un'opera di controllo, di disinformazione o qualcos'altro.

Martin Bora, giovane capitano del controspionaggio militare e protagonista fisso dei thriller bellici di Ben Pastor, arriva nella Ville Lumière per svolgere un incarico molto delicato: fare rapporto sulle strane mosse di Ernst Jünger, il grande scrittore, l'eroe della patria, l'amante della guerra, che però ha col regime di Hitler un infido rapporto. E sempre a lui toccherà investigare sulla misteriosa morte, avvenuta in Bretagna, della moglie di un commodoro della Marina del Terzo Reich.

Spagna, 1937. La guerra civile tra i repubblicani e gli insorti franchisti non conosce un istante di tregua. Convinto volontario del "Tercio" franchista, Martin Bora vive il conflitto spagnolo come un'avventura entusiasmante, dove il rigore delle scelte politiche si sposa all'impeto vitalistico dell'azione pura. I primi dubbi, tuttavia, cominciano ad apparire quando si imbatte nel cadavere di un uomo barbaramente assassinato. Si tratta di Federico Garcia Lorca, brillante poeta, progressista, omosessuale. Chi l'ha fatto fuori?

Ucraina, 1941.Tutto inizia con l'Operazione Barbarossa, l'attacco nazista all'Unione Sovietica. Tra i primi a varcare il confine tra Germania e Russia c'è un giovane capitano dell'esercito tedesco: il suo nome è Martin Bora, il detective che ha reso celebre Ben Pastor. Colto, distaccato, compassionevole e nel contempo severo, anche in Russia Bora sarà costretto a dare prova del suo talento investigativo, inciampando quasi subito nel cadavere mutilato di una contadina.

Salò, inverno del 1944. Reduce dall'avventuroso recupero del carteggio Mussolini-Churchill narrato ne "Il morto in piazza", il colonnello Martin Bora si ritrova sulle sponde del lago di Garda come ufficiale di collegamento tra la Wehrmacht e la Repubblica Sociale Italiana. Qui viene subito incaricato da un generale dell'Aviazione di investigare sull'incredibile furto della "Venere di Salò", un preziosissimo dipinto di Tiziano sottratto con troppa facilità dalle sale di una villa requisita dai tedeschi.

When Bea Hanlon follows her preacher husband, Max, to a remote island in the Pacific, she soon sees that their mission will bring anything but salvation.... Advent Island is a place beyond the reaches of Bea's most fitful imaginings. It's not just the rats and the hordes of mosquitoes and the weevils in the powdered milk. Past the confines of their stuffy little house, amidst the damp and the dust and the sweltering heat, rumours are spreading of devil chasers who roam the island on the hunt for evil spirits. And then there are the noises from the church at night.

It started with a child's letter. Psychologist Karen Wiley thought she understood moral dilemma. Now, somewhere out there, an anonymous child has begun to cry for her help. The letters keep coming...and then something far, far worse. Until the terror in the Trueblood trailer, police chief Ella McCullers believed she knew crises of faith.

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. The Detective Story Club, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers.

It is 1944 in war-battered London. Freya and Shona are identical twins, close despite their different characters. Freya is a newly qualified doctor treating the injured in an East End hospital, while Shona has been recruited by the SOE. The sisters are so physically alike that they can fool people into thinking that one is the other. It's a game they've played since childhood. But when Shona persuades her twin to swap roles to meet her Polish lover, he is angered at being tricked.

What happens when every parent's worst nightmare comes true - and when the past is unwilling to be the past? Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past. During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it's clear he has no intention of leaving. A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent's worst nightmare.

A love story between men - without being, basically, a novel about gay issues; more about appreciating what you have while you have it, and ultimately learning what matters to you in life.

Miranda has had a rough few years. Her successful career as a social media influencer has come crashing down after the controversial flop of her fertility app. Humiliated, she moves reluctantly back home to her judgmental father and cold stepmother's house to nurse her wounds, feeling more than ever the loss of her mother. Miranda's mother, well-known author Tessa Summer, died when Miranda was young, leaving behind her best-selling book, The House of Brides - a book that chronicled the generations of brides, each more notorious and tragic than the last.

Part diary, part scientific journal, part detective story, part love story: The Case of Emily V is thoroughly post-modern in its deliberate blurring of the distinction between fact and fiction, its cavalier blending of literary genres. But Oatley's first novel also resembles old 19th-century literature. His characters are dynamic, his storylines complex and suspenseful, his social commentary broad and integral to the plot.

December, 1962. Desperate to create a happy Christmas for her young daughter, Franny, after a disastrous year, Malorie rents a remote house on the Norfolk coast. But once there, the strained silence between them feels louder than ever. As Malorie digs for decorations in the attic, she comes across the notebooks of the teenaged Rosemary, who lived in the house 30 years before. Trapped inside by a blizzard, and with long days and nights ahead of her, Malorie begins to read. Though she knows she needs to focus on the present, she finds herself inexorably drawn into the past.

Molodaya anglichanka Linda Martin priezzhaet vo Franciyu, chtoby stat' guvernantkoj devyatiletnego Filippa, grafa de Val'mi. Ee podopechnyj - vladelec rodovogo zamka i imeniya, kotorymi upravlyaet ego dyadya Leon. Linda chuvstvuet v otnosheniyah obitatelej zamka neponyatnuyu napryazhennost' i pytaetsya zashchitit' mal'chika ot davyashchej vlastnosti dyadi i holodnogo ravnodushiya tetki. Vnezapno vspyhnuvshaya lyubov' k synu Leona, Raulyu, eshche bolee oslozhnyaet ee zhizn'. Vo vremya progulki v Filippa strelyayut.

Gammon is under immense pressure in his latest quest to find a horrendous serial killer stalking the Peak District. The killings are mounting up, and the pressure that goes with his DCI position with Bixton Police is beginning to tell.