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The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.

The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest mystery. It’s the kind of story that can make a reporter’s career. If he lives to write about it....

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history....

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Maybe Jake Epping can....

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy in this historical thriller based on a true story, from the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Last Days of Night....

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci’s newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the second world war, and the healing and hope they find in one another.

Lady Eleanor Swift’s marriage to dashing Chief Inspector Hugh Seldon is just days away. There’s a lot to organise from the dress to the catering, including, of course, the all-important wedding cake.

The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes and unseen truths...all under the watchful eye of a terrifying villain....

A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist. This is the breakout from Craig Russell, author of The Devil Aspect....

Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break....

Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the newspaper.

A murder mystery set in a world where the Nazis won World War II - for fans of The Plot Against America and The Man in the High Castle....

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself....

For Inspector Sebastian Bell and nurse Gemma Tate, a night at the theater becomes a deadly spectacle when the two lead actors are found dead on the stage, murdered before a stunned audience. Drawn into a shadowy backstage world, they encounter a cast of suspects, each with desperate secrets to hide.

The men onboard HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.

For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it....

It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of dos and a much longer list of don'ts....

A woman lies dead, shot and bleeding. Behind her body stands a large old manor house, her house, and now her son's. She ran the rural estate as a minor fiefdom, all had to subjugate themselves to her will, or they were put out of their homes and ejected from the community.

It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits....

Amid the grandeur of the Vatican, the bones of Saint Peter—the Church’s most sacred relics—hold secrets that could reshape its history.

It’s the early 1960s, and the newly built Berlin Wall looms large. British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, caught in its shadow, feels the chill all too keenly: the preceding years have seen nearly every member of his Berlin spy network either murdered or captured.

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath initiate a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives....

The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force.

Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run. Katrina knew the trek west would be difficult. But she had no idea she’d be walking straight into hell. The young mother of four is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect her family from the violence closing in, but the battle to survive will be more harrowing than anything she can imagine.

At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor.

What if Sherlock Holmes never truly defeated the Baskerville Hound? What if they’re still embroiled, still vying, still wrestling for control? Varti Weller’s promising career as a badge ended the day he was cursed by an Olde Childe to only speak in lies. While others from his cohort protect the city, Varti’s consigned to the evidence lockers in the Bastion’s several basements. Until a string of grisly murders bring him face-to-face with a monster and a legend and a job offer. Because Sherlock Holmes is in fresh need of a new assistant.

Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob's whole world is his open-minded mother, Leah. But Jacob’s prospects are forever altered when a light-fingered pickpocket takes Jacob under his wing and teaches him a trade that pays far better than the neighborhood boys could possibly dream.

Amid the grandeur of the Vatican, the bones of Saint Peter—the Church’s most sacred relics—hold secrets that could reshape its history. Father Michael Dominic, Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives, uncovers a mysterious, nearly forgotten inscription linking Linus, Saint Peter’s first successor, to foundational decisions that shaped the early Church. What begins as a scholarly exploration of Linus’s legacy quickly turns into an urgent quest to protect the truth.

Gerald Wade is among the many invited to the Chimneys estate for a party. Rented by Sir Oswald and Lady Coote for the season, it is rather the place to be. Unfortunately, during his stay there Gerry has garnered the teasing of his friends for a particular talent of his: to oversleep. One day the set decides to “fix” the matter with a little joke. The plan is to set out eight alarm clocks in Gerry’s room, all set to different times … as early as 6:30 a.m.! When they go to check on him, his friends discover that Gerry hasn’t overslept this time. In fact, he has been murdered.

England 1904. Mirror twins Adelaide and Victoria have spent their lives in orbit of each other–doomed to be in the other’s shadow, their lives are intertwined and inextricable as each other’s identical inverse. Adelaide is dutiful and reserved, happy to remain in her childhood home, Harewood Hall, forever. Victoria wishes for a thrilling life, exploring the world and finding a great romance–but the twins cannot live apart. Visiting Lord Stanley bewitches Victoria with his talk of a life of luxury in New York, but it is obedient Adelaide whom he marries against her will and to Victoria’s fury

A Jaws universe expansion novel providing details and backstory to enhance the performances in the original movie. For the 50th Anniversary in 2025, after you experience The Book of Quint, watch Jaws again for the first time.

In this gripping and atmospheric tale, Sarah Chen, a dedicated historian and photographer, embarks on a haunting journey to uncover the untold stories of the soldiers who fought and died at the Battle of Gettysburg. As she delves deeper into the mysteries of the past, Sarah finds herself inexplicably drawn to the ghostly figure of Private Eli Thompson, a young Confederate soldier whose tragic story becomes inextricably linked to her own.

In the graveyards of 1870s Cincinnati, William Cunningham is a veteran resurrectionist, making a living supplying cadavers to the city’s medical colleges. With age and illness catching up to him, Cunningham takes on an unlikely new partner—Charley Keaton, a dockworker desperate to support his sister and niece. But as the city cracks down on grave robbing and rival ghouls vie for control, Cunningham and Keaton must stay ahead of watchmen and vengeful families determined to keep their dead buried. What begins as a macabre trade soon spirals into a deadly game when a wealthy socialite’s ...

The summer of 1976 in Huntsville, Arkansas, was supposed to be unforgettable—for all the right reasons. For Jake and his tight-knit group of friends, it marked their first true taste of freedom: a week-long camping trip deep in the uncharted wilderness of the Ozark Mountains. The boys expected adventure, laughter, and maybe a few scares from the campfire stories. What they didn’t expect was the terror that would emerge from the shadows of the forest.

The Colorado Territory is the story of the Bar TC’s move from No Man’s Land in the Indian Territory to Las Animas County in the Colorado Territory. Before the trail drive even starts, Klu saved a white girl from Indians, had a run-in with buffalo hunters, and fought off a group of Comanche. He buys land and files homestead claims for 160 acres for each of the Bar TC crew. While on the trip, he marries Melody Rose Goodwill, the girl he rescued from the Indians. The trail drive from No Man’s Land to Las Animas County is only about fifty-five miles.

1937: Hitler sent an expedition to Tibet in search of the lost land of Thule. 1941: Himmler spent a huge fortune, and sacrificed the lives of hundreds to turn Wewelsburg Castle in Germany into a shrine to the SS. 2008: Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is astonished to discover that the gentle grandfather he thought he knew was a decorated war hero, serving in the Special Air Service in World War Two. And his grandfather has one more surprise.

Hanna Fischer wollte immer nur Physik bei Albert Einstein studieren. Doch als ihr Leben 1919 auf den Kopf gestellt wird, beginnt für sie eine außergewöhnliche Reise–als Wissenschaftlerin, Sekretärin, Schwester und Spionin. Von rassistischen Banden in Berlin über Gangster in New York City, Nazis in den 1930er Jahren bis hin zu Hitlers innerem Kreis während des Zweiten Weltkriegs begegnet Hanna einigen der größten Köpfe und schrecklichsten Momente der Geschichte, während sie verzweifelt versucht, am Leben zu bleiben.

Stranger in the Mind is a supernatural thriller blending history, mystery, and the unexplainable. Mystery and murder swirl around a dangerous doctor. One detective vows to unravel the truth. 1920s Liverpool—a city shrouded in fog and secrets. Detective Amelia Dei uncovers a string of unexplained comas in Liverpool’s most notorious infirmary. As she digs deeper, she faces a sinister psychiatrist and a truth darker than anything she’s imagined..."‘Stranger in the Mind’ quickly draws you in and does not let you go till the last word." Reader Views • 5 stars • 5 stars

München 26. September 1980, 22:19 Uhr: Eine Bombe zerreißt die Nacht und stürzt die Besucher des Oktoberfests in einen Albtraum, der bis heute viele Fragen aufwirft. Der junge Kriminalkommissar Max, bekannt als Sturkopf und unkonventioneller Ermittler, wird unfreiwillig Zeuge des Attentats. Er kann und will sich nicht mit der offiziellen Theorie eines Einzeltäters abfinden. Seine Suche nach der Wahrheit führt ihn tief in ein Labyrinth aus Lügen, in dem fanatische Neonazis, korrupte Politiker und schattenhafte Geheimdienste die Fäden ziehen.

Nightmares and memories of the Inquisition, torture, and unspeakable pain led Lisa Barnes to seek the truth. What she found would either destroy her completely, or change her life forever!

Watching his people suffer years of appalling violence has made human rights defender Patrice Le Congo grow weary and cynical. But when schoolteacher Aurélia Mukunda turns to him for help after a mutilated body is found in a village, he can’t say no.

The novel "Fantaisie" takes place in 1946 post-war Europe, following Jan Orlinski, a former Polish RAF pilot, and his lover Sophie Gordon. Jan takes a job flying cargo missions from Paris to the Belgian Congo for a mysterious employer named Gerston, transporting what he believes is cobalt ore.

A Devil’s Bargain – A Gothic Tale of Love, Curses, and the Shadows That Bind Us There are houses that whisper. Houses that breathe. Houses that remember every soul that ever dared to cross their threshold. Ravenshade Manor is one of them. When Evelina Harrow arrives at the decaying estate, she believes she’s simply settling a family debt. But from the moment she steps inside, the house knows her name. The walls shift when she isn’t looking. Shadows move where no light should be. And then there’s Lucien D’Armand—the cursed and enigmatic lord of Ravenshade, a man who walks the ...

Anna Thalberg is a villager shunned for her red hair and provocative beauty, so when she is dragged from her home and accused of witchcraft, her neighbors do not intervene. Only Klaus, her husband, and Father Friedrich, a priest experiencing a crisis of faith, set out to Würzburg to prove her innocence. There, locked in a prison tower, Anna faces isolation and torture while anxiety builds over strange happenings within the city walls. Can the two men convince the Church inquisitors to release Anna, or will she burn at the stake?

Das Deutschordensland im frühen 15. Jahrhundert … Folgen Sie dem jungen Komtur Hermann von Thünnen in die folgenschwere Schlacht bei Tannenberg gegen die Feinde des Deutschritterordens. Im Jahr 1410 steht für die Ritter des Deutschen Ordens ein neuer Konflikt am Horizont. Doch Unstimmigkeiten und Intrigen im Inneren des Ordens schwächen dessen Verteidigungskraft. Auch andere Feinde im Ordensland wittern die Chance, sich von den engen Regeln des Deutschritterordens loszulösen.

War is Hell! But Stealing Nazi Treasure is Pure Gold! Adventurer Chase Baker is back in action. He, along with the beautiful daughter of a Hasidic Jew who owns a New York City pawn shop, fly to Europe to uncover a stash of Nazi gold estimated to be worth over $1.5 billion dollars. How are they going to do it? They have a secret SS diary in hand that contains a map. And X marks the spot. Only problem is, some modern-day Nazis and the war in Ukraine are getting in their way. From bestselling Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a pulse-pounding ride for fans of Dan Brown, ...

A riveting thriller about crime and punishment in Soviet-era Moscow. Like the Arkady Renko novels of Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Littell's masterful Mother Russia transports listeners back in time and behind the Iron Curtain to experience the extremes of Soviet society.

London, 1592. Twenty-eight-year-old William Shakespeare is the rising man of English theater. But plague has hit the capital, and the playhouses are to be shut. Livelihoods, and lives, are at stake. Lady Celia Vernon is one of the first to perish but did she really die of plague? Her cousin, the Earl of Southampton, orders Will to discover the truth in a London filled with conspirators, cutthroats, and traitors. The Queen's spymaster, Robert Cecil, suspects the Earl of treason and orders Will to spy on him in return.