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Good Cop, The

Peter Steiner

Good Cop, The

Impressive … A precisely written, carefully plotted novel, all the more dramatic for its understated tone Booklist In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century. Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the law when the law goes bad? The First World War has been lost and Germany is in turmoil. The new government in Berlin is weak. The police...

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Peter Steiner

Mr Campion's Seance

Mike Ripley

Mr Campion's Seance

The truth is stranger than fiction for Albert Campion in this gripping mystery where murder, detective novels and the supernatural collide. 1946, London . The eagerly anticipated new detective novel from Albert Campion's godsibling, bestselling author Evadne Childe, is proving to be another runaway success. Unfortunately, it has also caught the attention of Superintendent Stanislaus Oates for reasons that go beyond its superior plotting. The crime at the heart of The Bottle Party Murder...

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Mike Ripley

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Arthur W. Upfield

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Melbourne during the depression. A seedy, corrupt city.<br /> <br />Someone has struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? Only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse can find out.<br /> <br />Tom, born into the underworld he now tries to defeat, exposes graft and blackmail that reaches to the upper echelons of Melbourne society. His life and the...

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Arthur W. Upfield

The Bunting Quest

Steven Marcuson

The Bunting Quest

'When Bunting drew this in 1581, absolutely no one in the world could have known what the coast of Western Australia looked like…' Nick Lawrance, an antique map dealer, is shocked to find his gallery has been burgled. However, this isn't an ordinary robbery: the thieves have ignored priceless maps and have only taken Bunting's World Map. All of a sudden, Nick is thrown into a four-hundred-year religious mystery where strange people around him will do anything for this map…...

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Steven Marcuson

The House of Cain

Arthur W. Upfield

The House of Cain

Upfield's first published novel 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set out to find her and bring her back to Melbourne…

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Arthur W. Upfield

The Paris Affair

Teresa Grant

The Paris Affair

From the ashes of war rise the secrets of its darkest hearts. . . In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, while Bonapartists seek revenge only to be captured and executed. Amid the turmoil, British attaché and Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, discover that his murdered half-sister, Princess Tatiana Kirsanova, may have borne a child—a secret she took to the grave. And Malcolm...

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Teresa Grant

Imperial Scandal

Teresa Grant

Imperial Scandal

Amid the treachery of war and the whirl of revelry, no one is what they seem. . .Nights filled with lavish balls. . .lush, bucolic afternoons. . .. Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, warily partake in the country's pleasures. But with the Congress of Vienna in chaos and the Duke of Wellington preparing for battle, the festivities are cut short when Malcolm is sent on a perilous mission that...

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Teresa Grant

Vienna Waltz

Teresa Grant

Vienna Waltz

Nothing is fair in love and war. . .Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna–princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar–all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night. Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests. . .Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that her new husband, Malcolm, has also been tempted by...

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Teresa Grant

Dark Queen Rising

Paul Doherty

Dark Queen Rising

London, 1471. The War of the Roses rages on. Edward of York has claimed the English throne and his Yorkist supporters gleefully slaughter their adversaries; there's no mercy for anyone who supported the Lancastrian cause. Margaret Beaufort – mother of Henry Tudor, the only hope for the House of Lancaster – knows her enemies are closing in. Desperate for help she turns to Christopher Urswicke for protection. But when ruthless scheming and pitiless killings are the only routes to...

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Paul Doherty

The Age of Dreaming

Nina Revoyr

The Age of Dreaming

The Age of Dreaming is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn’t just seduce the readerit leaves you transformed. Nina Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today.”Jerry Stahl, author of I, FattyThis is a riveting, wise, and gorgeous novel.”Mary Yukari WatersBrilliant and original. . . . The carefully restrained voice of its narrator recalls Ishiguro’s The Remains of...

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Nina Revoyr

Outerborough Blues

Andrew Cotto

Outerborough Blues

Literary mystery set in a newly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. Will appeal to fans of urban noir or most definitely, fans of Brooklyn Noir. Combines the best elements of Brooklyn with a noir setting and property crime. Gripping take on the tensions of urbanization and immigration.Storyline is a precisely folded puzzle that takes a single week to unfurl.Author lives in Brooklyn; has extensive NYC writing connections that he will mobilize to promote book.Strong debut novel from a fresh voice...

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Andrew Cotto

House of the Patriarch

Barbara Hambly

House of the Patriarch

No one can talk to the dead . . . can they? Free man of color Benjamin January gets caught up in a strange, spiritual world that might lead to his own demise, as he hunts for a missing teenager in this gripping, atmospheric historical mystery. New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, that last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New...

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Barbara Hambly

The Girl with the Pearl Pin

Lynne Connolly

The Girl with the Pearl Pin

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Lynne Connolly

Ziegfeld Girls

Sarah Barthel

Ziegfeld Girls

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Sarah Barthel

El Inspector Con El Corazón De Oro

Marcella Piccolo

El Inspector Con El Corazón De Oro

Teddy, un inspector de policía con el corazón de oro, y Roberto, un chaval que padece de síndrome de Down, contra la criminalidad de Milán. La profesionalidad de Teddy pero también la extraordinaria habilidad de Roberto para recordar y reconocer rostros ya vistos, harán que venzan a peligrosos asesinos. Teddy es un inspector de policía, siempre preparado para tirarse al ruedo para combatir a los criminales, pero listo también para proteger y ayudar a los más débiles e indefensos. Un día, en la...

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Marcella Piccolo

Wolfswille

Melanie Vogltanz

Wolfswille

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Melanie Vogltanz

The Cavalier Club

Stanley Goldyn

The Cavalier Club

The year is 1618 and the beginning of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Lieutenant Jack Channing's life is about to be immutably altered by two events. He falls in love with a beautiful countess and witnesses an attempt on the Polish King Sigismund's life. News reaches the court that assassination attempts on Catholic monarchs have occurred elsewhere in Europe and Jack is charged with the responsibility of finding and crushing the perpetrators – murderers that became known as the...

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Stanley Goldyn

The Secret Price of History

Gayle Ridinger

The Secret Price of History

1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers on the last day of battle for the new Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help the French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the medallion melted down; but circumstances have it...

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Gayle Ridinger

The Devil in Montmartre - A Mystery...

Ксюша Ангел

The Devil in Montmartre - A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris (Unabridged)

Amid the hustle and bustle of the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition, workers discover the mutilated corpse of a popular model and Moulin Rouge Can-Can dancer in a Montmartre sewer. Hysterical rumors swirl that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel, and Inspector Achille Lefebvre enters the Parisian underworld to track down the brutal killer. His suspects are the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, an acrobat at the Circus Fernando named Jojo, and Sir Henry Collingwood, a mysterious English gynecologist and...

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Ксюша Ангел

The Man Upon the Stair - A Mystery...

Ксюша Ангел

The Man Upon the Stair - A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris, Book 3 (Unabridged)

At the public execution of the anarchist assassin Laurent Moreau, the outgoing Chief Inspector warns his protégé, the newly promoted Lefebvre: «I've heard that some of Moreau's cronies have sworn revenge. You don't want to get killed your first week as chief.» Meanwhile, Lefebvre is charged with investigating the disappearance of the Baron de Livet, a brash millionaire with connections to Russian spies and a history of gambling, womanizing, and fighting in duels. The case is more...

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Ксюша Ангел

Shameless Duke - League of Dukes, B...

Ксюша Ангел

Shameless Duke - League of Dukes, Book 4 (Unabridged)

Lucien, Duke of Arden, is on the brink of disaster, about to lose everything he worked so hard to attain as the leader of the Special League. When Home Office obliges him to join forces with a Pinkerton agent to keep his position, he is determined to send the fellow back to American shores faster than he can say «Yankee Doodle.» There's just one small problem with his flawless plan to undermine the unwanted agent… Hazel Montgomery has spent the last ten years as a Pinkerton detective,...

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Ксюша Ангел

Scandalous Duke - League of Dukes,...

Ксюша Ангел

Scandalous Duke - League of Dukes, Book 5 (Unabridged)

Felix Markham, Duke of Winchelsea, has devoted his life to being the perfect statesman and raising his daughter after his beloved wife's death. But when devastating bombings on the railway leave London in an uproar, he is determined to bring the mastermind of the attacks to justice. He will lure the fox from his den by any means. In her youth, Johanna McKenna donned a French accent and stage name to escape the clutches of her violent father and became the darling of the New York City stage...

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Ксюша Ангел

The Hanged Man - A Mystery in Fin d...

Ксюша Ангел

The Hanged Man - A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris, Book 2 (Unabridged)

Paris: July 1890. Inspector Achille Lefebvre and his wife Adele are enjoying their stay at a seaside resort-until a body found hanging from a bridge in a public park demands the Inspector's attention. Is it suicide or murder? A twisted trail of evidence draws Inspector Lefebvre into a shadowy underworld of international intrigue, espionage, and terrorism. Time is of the essence; pressure mounts on the Sureté to get results. Achille's chief orders him to work with his former partner,...

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Ксюша Ангел

Das Geheimnis der Jadekette (Ungekü...

Борис Акунин

Das Geheimnis der Jadekette (Ungekürzt)

Wird der bestialische Mord aufgeklärt…? Detektiv Fandorin rätselt über die große Blutlache des Toten. Hilft ihm die Jadekette bei der Aufklärung?

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Борис Акунин

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