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Istanbul, 1838. In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying, and the city swirls with rumors and alarms. The unexpected arrival of a French archaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community into confusion. Yashim Togalu is once again enlisted to investigate. But when the archaeologist's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out there is only one suspect: Yashim himself.

Altea, una de las más brillantes discípulas de Platón, no sabe que tiene al enemigo en su propia casa y que tanto ella como el bebé que espera se encuentran en peligro. Por su parte, su amigo y maestro Platón arriesga la vida para intentar hacer realidad su gran proyecto: unir la política y la filosofía con el fin de que gobiernen la justicia y la razón, en lugar de la corrupción y la retórica vacía de los demagogos.

La novela exige una participación activa de sus lectores, quienes deberán, como un detective más, reconstruir las pistas que la historia va dejando a su paso. En ello, el fino humor de Andújar será pieza clave, pues bajo la burla, bajo la risa, como predicaba el italiano Luigi Pirandello, subyace siempre la crítica. La imagen "ideal", "armónica" y "feliz" de República Dominicana, será desdibujada por la ironía de Andújar, y cederá paso a un retrato invadido por la corrupción.

The year is 1886. It is winter on the plains and prairies of western Kansas. The area around Dodge City is the epicenter of the Kansas cattle industry. Fort Dodge which was scheduled to be closed down in 1882, continues to maintain a company of men at the insistence of those on the plains still fearful of the extremely diminished chance of Indian attacks and the rising lawlessness of the area. On January 6th, the first of multiple severe winter storms hits the plains. Temperatures plummet and the winds increase in intensity. Life comes to a standstill as the residents think they are waiting...

William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is head of one of New York's wealthiest dynasties. When Mulholland gets wind of a hostile biography planned, he commissions his journalist son-in-law John Glass to pen the official line. To help with the job, Glass hires a beady-eyed researcher - 'the lemur'. But the next day, the Lemur is found dead, shot through the eye with a Beretta. What is the secret he knew, had he told anyone else, and why are the police suddenly asking Glass a lot of questions?

Man of Honor. A Nation in Peril. A Truth Hidden in the Shadows. One moment of boyish bravado beneath the Pemberley oak cost George Wickham his limb, but it forged his soul. In this sweeping Pride & Prejudice reimagining, the George Wickham who arrives in Meryton is not the silver-tongued libertine of canon. He is an investigator for the Archbishop of Canterbury—a man trained to see what others miss and to listen to what remains unspoken. Supported by his lifelong brothers-in-arms, William Darcy and Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, George has traded the sword for the quill, and the ballroom ...

The first swing of the wrecking ball missed the Seabreak Hotel entirely. The second swing cracked open a century of silence. Journalist Ben Mercer arrives in the fading coastal town of Avon Shoals to cover the demolition of a condemned Gilded Age resort. He expects a routine local interest story about urban decay. Instead, a tip from a county assessor leads him into the dark underbelly of the property. Hidden within the crumbling walls of the third floor is a canvas trunk belonging to a fifteen year old bellboy named Tommy Vale. Inside the trunk are a leather bound diary dated 1898 and a ...

The capital keeps two sets of books: one for the public record, and one for what men do after dark. In the polished corridors of Ottawa, Pierre Sévigny has mastered the performance required of a rising minister. He knows how to speak with caution, how to wear charm without waste, how to move through Parliament as if urgency never touches him. He has a wife, a career, and the cultivated confidence of a man who believes that discretion belongs to people like him. Then he meets Gerda Munsinger. Gerda is self-possessed, intelligent, and never quite where she is expected to be. She moves ...

Hohenwart und Siegering, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Als Fährmann muss Hannes Winkler dem Brauch folgen, sich keine Frau zu nehmen. Hannes' Herz gehört trotzdem schon lang seiner Jugendfreundin Elisabeth. Während der Erste Weltkrieg die kleine Gemeinschaft diesseits und jenseits der Salzach in Österreich und Deutschland spaltet, gerät das Leben der vier jungen Leute in einen Strudel aus Gewalt, Aufbegehren und Schuld. Als schließlich ein Kind verschwindet, wird eine tödliche Spirale in Gang gesetzt. Bis der aufkeimende Nationalismus den Frieden empfindlich stört.

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Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, but in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates from around the world who are still trying to hammer out the terms of peace. One such delegate is British diplomat Sir Henry Maxted, in charge of liaising with Brazilians regarding seized ships. But before a deal is reached, Sir Henry turns up dead outside a Montparnasse apartment building, apparently having fell from the roof.

Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion. Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious shrine maiden, can they solve each gruesome death and piece together the dark connection between them?

Who exactly is Danziger? He's a writer of letters for illiterate immigrants on Manhattan's Lower East Side - "a steadfast practitioner of concealing and forgetting" for his clients, and perhaps for himself: He hints at a much worldlier past. What and whoever he really is or has been, he has a seemingly boundless knowledge of the city and its denizens. And he knows much more than the mere identity of the floating corpse.

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. With her uncle warning her to keep her detecting activities private, Cleo agrees to meet the blackmailer when they return to London. But when the woman is seen getting on the train but not off, Cleo grows concerned.

SOME DOORS SHOULD REMAIN UNOPENED India is a continent of culture, passion, and mystery. For thousands of years this vast and wondrous nation has harbored vast treasures, inexhaustible history, and unimaginable secrets. Now a pre-eminent expert on Indian history has gone missing. One of his colleagues secures the help of Sean Wyatt and sidekick Tommy Schultz to uncover the truth behind the disappearance. In doing so, however, they discover a mystery surrounding an ancient Indian Temple, a puzzle that could lead to nearly infinite wealth and power or worldwide destruction. And they aren't ...

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series, in which Cotton must solve a five hundred year-old mystery—now in development as a streaming series. Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century...

It's late summer on Guadalcanal, and the Japanese are getting deadlier and more aggressive by the day. Hemmed in and short on supplies, the US Marine Corps fights ferociously to maintain their tenuous hold on Henderson Field. Major Al Decker, part of an elite unit known as the Marine Raiders, has put together a small crack team of battle-hardened men. Tasked with surveillance, hit and run attacks, and any other dirty job that’s required, it’s Decker’s Raiders that must venture out into the deadly tropical jungles and face down marauding Japanese soldiers around every corner.

April 1150. War has come yet again to Ceredigion, and Prince Hywel marches south alongside his wily uncle, preparing to battle his own cousins. Meanwhile, Gareth and Gwen learn of murder and treachery among the Hospitallers, who are succoring the ill and wounded within the army. As they investigate, even in the midst of war, they uncover not only murder, but treason and betrayal as well—and inadvertently set the stage for that long-awaited final reckoning within King Owain’s court.

Art student Eleanor has been trapped in fascist Italy since 1939, forced into hiding, camouflaging her identity. At war's end, she meets intelligence officer Talbot who's captivated by her story, her intellect, and her beauty. He believes he can obviate her pervasive melancholy over the dreams the war forced her to abandon. They marry and head to Washington, DC, where he joins the fledgling CIA and she struggles to find her footing in a city with a rhythm and artistic sensibility so unlike lyrical Florence.

Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world—and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer—code name GAMBIT—has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who defected to the American side. The CIA had never successfully exfiltrated a KGB officer from Moscow, and the top brass do not trust Garin.