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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Die Tochter des Uhrmachers
    Archer C.J. / Heller Simone
    India Steele ist verzweifelt. Ihr Vater ist verstorben, ihr Verlobter hat sie um ihr Erbe erleichtert, und niemand will ihr Arbeit geben, obwohl sie jahrelang ihren Vater, den Uhrmacher, unterstützt hat. Vielmehr scheinen sich die Uhrmacher von London vor ihr zu fürchten. Auf sich gestellt, verarmt und am Ende ihrer Kräfte lässt sich India vom einzigen Menschen anstellen, der s...
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    18,45 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 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 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 €


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