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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • Será nuestro secreto
    Francisco José Rullán Ferrer
    Elisa Márquez, conductora y guía turística en Madrid, casada y madre de doshijos de ocho y doce años, decide separarse después de quince años dematrimonio, hastiada por la rutina y el aburrimiento. La casualidad le haceencontrar a un viejo conocido, con el que comenzará una relación muyespecial. Rubén es un arqueólogo con el que vivirá no sólo una aventurasentimental, sino tamb...
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    17,00 €

  • 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 €

  • Glittering Death
    Carmen Radtke
    1862. A group of brides from Australia have arrived in British Columbia, and love is in the air - until their new-found happiness in the prospectors’ town “Run’s End” is shattered when the hotel-owner is murdered. To make matters worse, something is wrong with the stored gold at the hotel, and an epidemic makes it impossible for anyone to leave town. The brides set all their ho...
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    13,05 €

  • The Advisor
    Kenneth Tentarelli
    ". . ... reflections on personal psychological growth as Nico moves through Italian society are what gives The Advisor such an extraordinary blend of history, atmospheric re-creation of the times, and social insight. ...  The Advisor holds just the right blend of social inspection, psychological insight, and historical references to keep the story inviting, absorbing, and under...
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    13,32 €

  • The White Company
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The White Company is a historical adventure by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle...
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    20,99 €

  • The Widows of Broome
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Broome is a little sun-drenched town on the barren north-west coast of Australia, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business, where all the little bungalows might be glass for all the secrets they hide. How then had the murderer of Broome's two most attractive widows got away without leaving a single clue? Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates,...
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    22,38 €

  • An Author Bites the Dust
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of a famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room. But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the me...
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    22,34 €

  • The Devil’s Steps
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the search for a wily killer..."The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favouri...
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    22,29 €

  • The Man in the Brown Suit
    Agatha Christie
    Anne Beddingfeld is on her own and ready for adventures when one comes her way. She sees a man die in a tube station and picks up a piece of paper dropped nearby. The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as she fits more pieces of the puzzle together about the death she witnessed, a murder in England the next day, and attempts to kill her on the ship en route to Cape ...
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    17,84 €

  • MYSTERY ON THE OTTERTAIL
    Robb Felder
    MYSTERY ON THE OTTERTAILA sequel to Pioneers on the OttertailIt is the year 2025.  It's been 40 years since any of the Feifer family has been seen in Otter Falls.  After their uncle Lewis sold the family's brewery and farmstead to the cheese company, the family all moved away.Now this once historic place just lies in a disgraceful state of destruction after the cheese c...
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    12,54 €

  • Felix Grey and the Descendant
    Mario Michael Theodorou
    1904. Three years since the death of Queen Victoria and the ascension of her son, Edward VII to the throne. In that time, the decline of the British Empire has accelerated, the economy has stuttered, Scott has gone to the South Pole, and Liberal politician, Felix Grey has been parachuted into Number Ten on the crest of a populist wave. The third youngest Prime Minister in histo...
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    10,94 €

  • Priestess of Paracas
    K. Patrick Donoghue
    We’ve all had them. Haunting dreams of past lives. They are so real, the details so fine, you wake up wondering if they might be distant memories instead of subconscious trickery. For Pebbles McCarver, they might be a bit of both.After a near-death experience, she is tormented by recurring visions she can’t escape. A woman running, full of fear and panic, always turning to look...
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    25,51 €

  • Priestess of Paracas
    K. Patrick Donoghue
    We’ve all had them. Haunting dreams of past lives. They are so real, the details so fine, you wake up wondering if they might be distant memories instead of subconscious trickery. For Pebbles McCarver, they might be a bit of both.After a near-death experience, she is tormented by recurring visions she can’t escape. A woman running, full of fear and panic, always turning to look...
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    15,34 €

  • Death at Brighton Pavilion
    Ashley Gardner / Ashley Jennifer / Gardner Ashley / Jennifer Ashley
    When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer.The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with after the battle of Salamanca in Spain seven years before. As Lacey tries to piece together the events of the previous night, he...
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    11,56 €

  • Smalltown Boy
    T.S. Hunter
    A CHRISTMAS DINNER PARTY WITH MURDER ON THE MENUIt’s Christmas Eve, 1988 and Russell and Joe are among the guests at a lavish party in a celebrity mansion in the heart of Soho.Television presenter and national treasure, Nathan Bentley, has a formidable reputation for legendary parties—with wall-to-wall celebrities, drink flowing, drugs, dancing, ill-tempered Cordon-Bleu chefs l...
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    5,92 €

  • Soho Noir
    T.S. Hunter
    NOIRISH COSY CRIME SET IN THE BARS, BACK STREETS AND DRAG CLUBS OF LONDON'S SOHO IN THE 1980s.A fantastic series of six classic crime capers set in 1980s London, with all the big hair, electro-pop, shoulder pads, police discrimination  and lethal killers the era had to offer.Set against a backdrop of the most important decade for LGBTQ rights, in the most vibrant and dynami...
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    28,70 €

  • Soho Noir
    T.S. Hunter
    NOIRISH COSY CRIME SET IN THE BARS, BACK STREETS AND DRAG CLUBS OF LONDON'S SOHO IN THE 1980s.A fantastic series of six classic crime capers set in 1980s London, with all the big hair, electro-pop, shoulder pads, police discrimination  and lethal killers the era had to offer.Set against a backdrop of the most important decade for LGBTQ rights, in the most vibrant and dynami...
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    23,25 €

  • The Heel of Achilles
    L. Patrick Greene
    The long-running and much-beloved series from the pages of Short Stories is finally collected in order and with a plethora of bonus material. Join Aubrey St. John Major—AKA the Major—and his faithful companion, Jim the Hottentot, on their adventures across the diamond country of Africa. This collection includes the next seven stories, along with another rare, never-before repri...
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    21,56 €

  • Fountain Inn
    Victor Canning
    What’s going on behind the doors of Fountain Inn?When her employer suddenly disappears, young Grace Kirkstall finds herself accepting a new job at a new company in the same building – an oasis of tranquillity off the streets of London.Ben and Helen Brown’s startup company’s pitch is that, for a small consideration, they will help people out of their major and minor fixes. Their...
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    11,79 €

  • The Glass Forest
    Lisa Lieberman
    Saigon, 1957:  Banished from the set of The Quiet American, actress Cara Walden stumbles onto a communist insurgency-and discovers her brother's young Vietnamese lover right in the thick of it. A bittersweet story of love and betrayal set in the early years of American involvement in the country, Lisa Lieberman’s tribute to Graham Greene shows us a Vietnam already simmering...
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    15,10 €


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