Catálogo de libros: Misterios históricos

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  • Betrayal at Ravenswick
    Kelly Oliver
    What’s the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course.Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover.At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he’s a crack huntsma...
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    13,40 €

  • Kinser Hill
    Julie Kinser Huffman
     Life on Kinser Hill had been lighthearted and carefree until the 1st of May, 1922, which was when everything was to change for the family that resided there. On that fateful day, a knock on the door brought Vesta Kinser to her knees. Her husband Wesley had been senselessly murdered. The years to come consisted of multiple court trials, with the desparate family seeking justice...
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    19,09 €

  • DEATH IN DAMASCUS
    Karen Baugh Menuhin
    There's a damsel in distress and accusations of attempted murder flying around, but it's not in the comfortable confines of the English countryside, it's in the very distant city of Damascus. Lennox must go and investigate, although he's not too keen on exotic locations, and his old retainer, Greggs is distinctly averse to the very idea. Nevertheless, ex-Chief I...
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    12,06 €

  • Tom Wasp and the Seven Deadly Sins
    Amy Myers
    ’So evocative of Victorian London that you’ll be brushing Tom Wasp’s soot from your shoulders’ - Debbie Young, bestselling author of the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries.’Tom Wasp is one of the most engaging characters I’ve encountered in years’ - Ellen Keith, Historical Novels Review.Tom Wasp scrapes a living as a chimney sweep, aided by his young assistant, Ned. While the gap ...
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    12,92 €

  • Thanksgiving Angels
    Alice Duncan
    Grandmother of Monty Mountjoy Cruelly Murdered in Thanksgiving Angels, a Cozy Historical Mystery from Alice Duncan--1926, Los Angeles, CA--Former Boston Brahmin Mercy Allcutt moved from Boston to Los Angeles specifically to get away from her overbearing mother and father. Therefore, she’s upset when her boss, P.I. Ernie Templeton, gives her the entire Thanksgiving week, 1926, o...
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    19,67 €

  • Lyon’s Claw
    Betty Vaughn
    Quint and Lila Cord are honeymooning in the South of France when ex-pat, Lyon Owens, has Lila kidnapped.  Owens plans to use Lila’s internet expertise to hack into and drain the financial accounts of his enemy...a Russian born senator from California...to prevent the man’s continuous attempts against his life.  Before Lila can fully implement Owens’ scheme, a team of the senato...
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    17,60 €

  • Foul Play
    PJ Quinn
    This intriguing detective story introduces DI Ambrose in the first of a series of tales of murder most foul. Foul Play happens in a fog bound theatre with a cast of eccentric actors to keep the reader engaged until the very last page. We also meet popular team members DS Waters and WPC Meadows for the first time This novel is the first cooperation by mother daughter duo Pauline...
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    12,90 €

  • Hanging Murder
    A JWright / A. J. Wright
    We can all stand on principles until evil pays us a visit…The year is 1894 when Mr Simeon Crosby, a retired executioner, comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk on his life’s work.Whilst he has an eager following, there are also many people who strongly object to Crosby’s profession and do not wish his melancholy shadow to be cast over their town. Protests have ...
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    13,71 €

  • Critter
    Michael McClendon
    At the Worsham Hotel, guests and staff hunker down, reeling from the effects of the '29 crash. In the middle of the Great Depression, they gaze uneasily into the encroaching darkness. Something cold and menacing is already in their midst. Waiting. Watching. The Gideon boys are the new owners of the massive Whistle-Stop hotel in rural Sunday Silence. Their housekeeper glides f...
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    7,78 €

  • The Year of the Snake
    M. J. Trow / Maryanne Coleman
    Sometimes, a snake is just a snake. And sometimes…First-century Rome.Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva is taken ill at a dinner party and dies a few days later. His heartbroken wife, Flavia, is told it was a natural death. Calidus, Nerva’s recently freed slave, suspects otherwise.As he embarks upon the funeral ceremonies, Calidus becomes more and more convinced that his master was mur...
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    12,07 €

  • A Summer of Smoke and Sin
    T J Nichols
    To stop a serial killer a detective will need to explore his own vices…Nathanial Bayard wants nothing more than to find the nobleman creating snuff pornography. If he fails, his career in the recently formed nobility taskforce will be over and as the youngest son he’ll be forced to obey his father and join the church. But a life of celibacy doesn’t appeal. Nathanial has never e...
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    19,57 €

  • Stayin' Alive
    Julie Mulhern
    Springtime. Love is in the air. So is murder. When Ellison Russell, reluctant finder of bodies, chairs a gala in conjunction with the museum’s Chinese funerary exhibit, she expects disaster. So, she’s not remotely surprised when a body turns up. Ellison is willing to leave the investigation to the police till an attempt is made on her life. Now she’s juggling evading a kille...
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    12,38 €

  • Murder at Mount Vernon
    Robert J Muller
    Politics, murder, and mortal danger confront retired General George Washington as he considers whether to accept the presidency of the United States.The General has retired to his farm, Mount Vernon, but he cannot escape the politics of his time. The new constitution requires a president, and no one doubts it must be him. Except himself.Colonel David Humphreys, Washington’s aid...
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    24,58 €

  • Sitting Murder
    A. J. Wright / AJWright
    With a myriad of motives, the question is who?Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living.So, when he finds himself investigating the case of a recently widowed young woman, Alice Goodway, who has suddenly developed ‘the Gift’ of mediumship and has received a threatening l...
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    12,78 €

  • 103 Pilgrims
    Rick Pontz
    What secrets do 400-year-old bones hold? In Plymouth, Massachusetts, Home of the Rock, someone is digging up the Pilgrims. tere’s a rumor that there’s more than 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact—but no one knows because the original Compact doesn’t exist. Or does it? If someone discovers the secret, they could become rich beyond their dreams and enjoy world-wide fame.103 Pilg...
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    13,04 €

  • Repechage
    Gary S. Brayshaw
    Five years after he left, vowing never to go back, Abe Weir returns to the family farm in the spring of 1967.  Abe’s mom, Abby, has asked him to help her get the crops off the field, his father, Isaac, being deathly ill.  Abe agrees, despite hating farming, and his father.Abe returns intent on keeping to himself his tour in Vietnam as a decorated Marine Captain.  Abby has a sec...
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    27,49 €

  • The Knowledge of Water
    Sarah Smith
    “I will marry you,” Perdita Halley said to Alexander von Reisden at eighteen, “but not until I study music.” Now, at twenty-one, she has come to Paris, his city--but music still stands between them. She is pursuing her dream of becoming a concert pianist; he is trying for the less likely one of becoming an ordinary, unhaunted man. They are drawn into an all-consuming passion th...
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    11,79 €

  • Always Louisa
    Joanne Austen Brown
    Louisa Stapleton has been disgraced and banished from Society. She wants to return to defend herself and seize the life she desires. Her father has obtained the help of the one man she sees as her nemesis. Arriving at the house party, she has her doubts about her success in returning.Chalanor Farraday, the Viscount Lightford, had a hand in her downfall but he was not a willing ...
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    13,28 €

  • The Enemy We Don’t Know
    Liz Milliron
    November, 1942. Betty Ahern is doing her part for the war, working at Bell Aircraft while her older brother and fiancé are fighting overseas, but she really wants to be a private detective like her movie idol Sam Spade. When sabotage comes to the plant, and a suspected co-worker hires her to clear her name, Betty sees it as her big chance.As her questions take her into Buffalo’...
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    12,34 €

  • The Message of Blood
    David Penny
    Spain: 1489. Cordoba, AndalusiaWhen Thomas Berrington is sent to Cordoba on the orders of a man he hates he welcomes the distraction of a murder, but is shocked when the evidence points to the killer being his closest companion.With Jorge is imprisoned, Thomas must continue his investigation alone – a task made harder by the distraction of two beautiful women.In his search for ...
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    15,62 €

  • VENETIAN CRUCIBLE
    Andy Burtis
    It is 1630 and Venice is being torn apart by factions within and enemies without. Our two now-grown Alberti friends from ‘Venetian Born’ fight through plague and war in this, their “Venetian Crucible,’ to rise from the ashes fully equipped to fulfill their separate destinies in the third and fourth books of my tetralogy ‘East/West.’This is the story of boys becoming men: Love d...
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    27,25 €

  • Murder on Fleet Street
    Lee Strauss
    Murder’s a Deadly Secret!Mrs. Ginger Reed—the former Lady Gold—thought her past was dead and buried, but when the mysterious death of a British secret service agent threatens to expose her own Great War secrets, she’s faced with an unimaginable dilemma: break her legal vow to the Official Secrets Act or join the agency again, something she’s loathe to do. Because once they own ...
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    11,68 €

  • The Imposter’s Inheritance
    C.J. Archer / C.JArcher
    A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt’s family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip before reputations are ruined.To make matters worse, someone is sending threatening letters to the magicians of London, sti...
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    16,12 €

  • The Art of Sherlock Holmes
    Phil Growick
    The Art of Sherlock Holmes Global Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our two volumes, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach and USA, there had never been volumes where Holmes short stories were interpreted by such accomplished artists. In this first Global edition, fifteen world-class ...
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    70,98 €

  • The Russian
    C. A. Bennett / C.A. Bennett
    San Francisco—the infamous City by the Bay. There are dark elements at work, and it's not as easy as splitting the world into groups of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys. Lines are being crossed, and the rules don't always count. Matt Vaughn, former police officer, turned upscale San Francisco Private Investigator has a problem. He finds himself unwillingly but inescapably in the ...
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    10,34 €

  • Conduct in 'A Minor'
    Smith S. G.
    The year is 1885.  Haunted by a mysterious melody, seventeen-year-old Savannah Briggs, orphaned and homeless, faces a life of loneliness and danger on the streets. Nearly killed in a savage attack, she is saved by the enigmatic Isaac Neillands, medical doctor and professor of anatomy. Neillands takes Savannah into his home to heal from her wounds. As time passes, she becomes a ...
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    15,90 €

  • Dreamland
    Nancy Bilyeau
    ***Now available to pre-order: The Fugitive Colours, the highly anticipated follow-up to the sweeping historical thriller The Blue.’Achingly believable’ - Publishers Weekly’This fast-paced, engrossing novel from Bilyeau... gives readers an up-close and personal view of New York’s Gilded Age’ - Library Journal’Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Dreamland is a rollick...
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    15,44 €

  • The Six-Week Solution
    Paula Darnell
    Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch guest dies after her Cadillac plunges off Mount Rose Highway, a mountain road between Lake Tahoe and Reno, Washoe County Deputy ...
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    27,92 €

  • The Six-Week Solution
    Paula Darnell
    Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch guest dies after her Cadillac plunges off Mount Rose Highway, a mountain road between Lake Tahoe and Reno, Washoe County Deputy ...
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    12,30 €

  • The Vanished Child
    Sarah Smith
    'Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why.'New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed.Switzerland, 1905. Alexander von Reisden, 'intellectual, immoral, and unstable,' is 'recognized' as Richard. Despite Reisden's insisten...
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    12,03 €


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