Historical

When the celebrated biographer of the infamous pirate Blackheart takes a suite at the Mayfair Hotel to live out his final months, Goliath the porter is desperate to ask the one question that has haunted treasure hunters for decades: Where is the loot buried? Forbidden to disturb a guest, he instead visits the man writing the author’s own life story, only to discover him dead at his desk. Accused of the crime, Goliath turns to Cleo and Harry to clear his name.

The fifth book in New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray’s Jane Austen sequel series, which finds amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney investigating a suspicious murder at Netherfield Park “With wit, charm, and a pitch perfect Regency voice, Claudia Gray expertly conjures...

Aunt Violet and her niece Hannah have a bookshop to run. Hannah takes a visit to the reading room of the British Library to find out more about a rare book. Hannah has barely finished making her request when a man at one of the hundreds of desks slumps over his work. Within moments, it becomes clear he is dead, stabbed in broad daylight, in the middle of the reading room surrounded by oblivious academics. The reading room is an exclusive space where no one can enter or leave without detection. Yet the initial investigation yields no weapon, no witnesses, and no apparent motive.

25 years ago, two-year-old Evie Albert disappeared without a trace from the Brittany seaside town of Morranez. So, when a stranger called Nicole Stevenson walks into the offices of Touissants Detective Agency declaring herself the missing girl, Mila Shepherd and her colleague Carter Jackson are suspicious. They are inclined to agree with Nicole’s sisters Imogen and Charlotte, that for whatever reason, Nicole is a fantasist looking for attention. But as Mila and Carter reopen the case of the missing toddler, a twisting tale of misdirection, a secret society and a forgotten mother slowly unfolds

A young man died, consumed by fire. There was no evidence of crime, but suspicions persist. Julian Courtauld had raised hackles, not that he cared. Rich, confident and handsome, he saw a glittering future for himself. He was a budding playwright, he had girls swooning at his feet despite just becoming engaged to a dazzling heiress. And then the fire ended it all. Five years later a parcel arrives on Miss Busby's doorstep. The anonymous letter begs for her help.

London 1926. When Kitty Worthington, her husband Robert, and their friends arrive at Langford Hall for the society wedding of the season, something feels wrong before the first champagne cork pops. The groom is drinking too much. The sweet-faced American bride with a steel fortune looks as though she'd rather be anywhere else. And the crumbling Tudor estate draped in roses and lilies can't quite disguise the desperation underneath.

When Jess Morgan arrives in Northumberland to research the history of a crumbling chapel, she's drawn to the legend of the Brinkburn Witch – a woman said to appear when blood is spilled near an ancient standing stone. Over a century earlier, Eliza Stratford turned to the witch for help after a violent betrayal – and sealed her fate with a terrible bargain. Now her story, and the secrets she died to protect, are surfacing again.

England, 1758: Vor siebzehn Jahren wurde Lord Johns Vater tot mit einer Pistole in der Hand aufgefunden. Nun erwacht die Erinnerung an die Vergangenheit, als Johns Bruder von einem unbekannten Absender eine Seite aus dem Tagebuch ihres Vaters zugeschickt wird. Um herauszufinden, wer dahinter steckt, wendet Lord John sich an den einzigen Mann, dem er noch vertrauen kann: Jamie Fraser. Aber der Siebenjährige Krieg, eine verbotene Affäre und Jamies eigene Geheimnisse erschweren Lord Johns Bestrebungen, endlich die Wahrheit über den Tod seines Vaters herauszufinden.

India und Matt glaubten, sie müssten nur Chronos finden, um all ihre Probleme zu lösen. Doch der Uhrenmagier wirft ebenso viele Fragen auf, wie er beantwortet, und bringt noch dazu Schwierigkeiten mit. Um Matts magische Taschenuhr zu reparieren, brauchen sie das Tagebuch eines vor Jahrzehnten ermordeten Arztmagiers. Die Suche danach führt zu einem schmutzigen Geheimnis, in das zwei von Londons Handwerksgilden verwickelt sind. Als alte und neue Gegner auftauchen und ans Licht kommt, was lange verborgen war, müssen Matt und India besser zusammenarbeiten denn je.

Ghosts from the past have the nasty habit of refusing to stay buried. Returning from an extended stay in Scotland, life for Mikaela and Brodie picks up right back where it left off. Brodie is immediately tasked with a new case for the Agency, while Mikaela must attend a reception for the release...

A secret liaison. A baffling murder. Can one woman solve the crime without joining the body count? Northern England, 1953. Pauline Riddell has grand ambitions for her future at the armament factory. So, when her closest workmate reveals a salacious affair with a married man, Pauline refuses to...

"Smart material, fresh characters, intricate plot, a thumping success!"—New York Herald Tribune Hardy is a small-time diamond salesman and ex-cop who knows private deals mean trouble. Against his better judgment he decides to help a rich acquaintance find a special diamond for his wife. Saul...

Romeo and Juliet (yes, that Romeo and Juliet) invite you to join them in celebrating the union of their spinster daughter, Rosie (she’s 20!) to Escalus the younger, prince of Verona, where murder is the unexpected guest at the wedding. My Lady Jane meets Knives Out in Fair Verona, as New York...

As warm sunshine bathes the streets of Paris in the late 1800s, the lively young debutante May meets the cotton-broker John Tyler. Far from a picturesque romance, life with the boorish broker turns sour as they move to Manchester and May finds herself trapped in a world of hostile servants and neglect. When Tyler meets his end from an overdose of arsenic – the drug which he was so fond of prescribing himself as a kind of panacea – May is dragged into a trial coloured by the public's hunger to paint her as a beguiling murderess.

Saffron Summersby lost everything after her brother's suspicious death: her dresses, her dowry, her place in society as a baronet's sister. So when she sees her brother's face in the latest painting from famous anonymous artist Ravenmore and realizes he might still be alive, she comes up with a...

“Il tramonto della Germania di Weimar in un grande romanzo criminale” Frankfurter Allgemeine Berlino, 1930. La star del grande schermo Betty Winter muore durante le riprese del suo primo film sonoro: un riflettore cade e la colpisce in pieno. È stato davvero un incidente? Il commissario...

1842: London is preparing for Christmas, but Isabelle Burdett wants nothing to do with the world. Grieving her husband, she has withdrawn from work, family, and even her daughter. Yet as Christmas Eve draws to a close, an unexpected arrival at her door shatters her carefully built solitude – and brings a choice that could change everything. Present day: Emily, a history lecturer still mourning her father, is called to a crumbling house in Cheapside, where developers have discovered a stack of old notebooks. They tell the story of three ghostly visitors on a Christmas Eve long ago.

A fiendishly clever puzzle mystery starring the beloved detective Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a...

Two men met at dawn. Only one walked away. Is he a murderer or the next man marked for death? London, 1868. Etty Redgrave will bend rules, reputations, and polite society itself to protect the innocent. This time, justice demands she stand beside the last man she ever wanted to defend. Her childhood nemesis is accused of killing a man on the duelling field, an illegal and dishonourable act shielded by aristocratic privilege. The evidence is damning. The scandal inevitable. Yet something about the death refuses to sit neatly in its box.

Tödliche Rituale im Wien der Jahrhundertwende Ein blutiges Ritual erschüttert das vornehme Wien des Jahres 1896: Bei einer vermeintlich satanistischen Messe wurde eine junge Frau bestialisch ermordet – ihre Kehle durchgeschnitten, Zunge und Herz fehlen. Als Inspektor Leopold von Herzfeldt...

Nach der Ermordung des russischen Zaren liegen bei Polizeipräsident Marx die Nerven blank. Ungereimtheiten an der Leiche eines ermordeten Ziegelarbeiters lassen ihn ein ähnliches Attentat in Wien befürchten. Doch die Staatsanwaltschaft hat bereits ein Geständnis für die Tat vorliegen und sieht von weiteren Ermittlungen ab. Marx beauftragt seinen geheimen Sonderermittler mit der Klärung des mysteriösen Falls.

The first original novel inspired by the hit MASTERPIECE Mystery! series Miss Scarlet and the Duke. At the height of Victorian "Egyptian Mummymania," when illusion and obsession captivate London society, a discovery defies all reason—the body of a recently murdered woman found inside a...

July 1833. Lady Darby and her husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their daughter. With the breach between them and Sebastian's father healed, they've agreed to help host a country house party. Kiera is also anxious to help...

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN . . . "Sanctuary! In God's name you must give it!" A dark lady rides back into the life of Dame Frevisse, bearing with her two small boys haunted by the touch of death and scandal. Nine men lie dead on the road behind them, victims of the grim fate which relentlessly...

A lawman hunts his brother through a killing winter. But what he finds isn’t the man he remembers. It’s the truth. After a deadly stagecoach robbery leaves four men dead, Sheriff Elias Kane tracks the outlaw responsible into the high country—only to discover the fugitive is his estranged brother, Harlan. Stranded by a violent storm and bound together by survival, the two men are forced into an uneasy alliance. But as they descend from the mountain, the conflict shifts—from survival… to something far more dangerous.