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Um die flammend vorgetragenen Predigten des charismatischen Mönchs Ambrosio in der Kirche des Kapuzinerklosters in Madrid zu hören, strömen die Gläubigen besonders weibliche Gläubige von weither herbei. Doch der vermeintlichen Lichtgestalt, die man allerorten schon der Heilige nennt, sind auch die dunklen Seiten und Abgründe des menschlichen Charakters keinesfalls fremd, ganz im Gegenteil…
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Mitte der 1930er Jahre: Mr. Granville Lee, ein Gentleman aus Virginia, USA, ist gezwungen, sich eines Lungenleidens wegen im würzig-milden Klima der Kleinen Antillen aufzuhalten. Auf der karibischen Insel Saint Thomas gerät er schon bald mit dem gefährlichen Voodoo-Kult der dortigen Eingeborenen in Berührung…
| Автор | Henry S. Whitehead |
A brutal serial killer targets a succession of five unsuspecting female victims in this new spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller author, Beverly Barton.One by one he kills them…With every kill, his strength increases. But this time is different. This time he has found his perfect fifth victim…Deep in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar – the gruesome work of a killer who has evaded the authorities across the country. FBI agent Dallas...
| Автор | BEVERLY BARTON |
An intriguing literary thriller, ‘The Buried Circle' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction that is impossible to put down.The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.Weaving fact with fiction, Jenni Mills's second novel is set in a haunted landscape where the past breaks through into the present. In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander...
| Автор | Jenni Mills |
A dark and disturbing novel of suspense, set at the turn of the 20th century, by the bestselling author of An Instance of the FingerpostThe windswept isle of Houat, off the coast of Brittany, is no picturesque artists' colony. At the turn of the twentieth century, life is harsh and rustic. So why did Henry MacAlpine forsake London – where he had been fêted by critics and gallery owners, his works exhibited alongside the likes of Cezanne and Van Gogh – to make his home in this remote outpost?The...
| Автор | Iain Pears |
Sometimes the worst nightmares happen in broad daylight…An utterly gripping novel for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham, from a rising star in the crime genre.A woman is found brutally murdered on a quiet housing estate, her tongue and eyes ritualistically gouged out.Children are being abducted and then returned to their families days later without a scratch and with no knowledge or where they have been – or with whom.If DC Laura McGanity thought moving from London to sleepy Lancashire was...
| Автор | Neil White |
USA, 1890: Der Anwalt Jenner Brading ist einigermaßen überrascht, dass Irene Marlowe, die ihn zweifellos liebt, seine Heiratsanträge vehement ablehnt. Indes hat die begehrenswerte junge Frau mit den faszinierenden blauen Augen mehr als einen guten Grund, unverheiratet zu bleiben, wie sie ihm eines Abends in der freien Natur offenbart.
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
Eigentlich hatte Markheim an jenem dunklen Dezembertag des Jahres 1888 nur ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für seine Verlobte kaufen wollen, zumindest sagt er das, doch der unerwartete Blick in einen Spiegel im Laden des alten Antiquitätenhändlers Miller ließ ihn mit ungeahnten Folgen seine dunkle Seite erkennen..
| Автор | Роберт Стивенсон |
Um ihr eigenes Auskommen und auch das ihrer Mutter zu sichern, sucht Bella Rolleston händeringend eine Anstellung als Gesellschafterin in einem hochherrschaftlichen Haus. Durch die Leiterin einer Vermittlungs-Agentur wird sie der sehr betagten Lady Ducayne vorgestellt…
| Автор | Мэри Брэддон |
The only collection of Ngaio Marsh short stories, first published in 1995 to celebrate her centenary, now with two additional stories.A man dies with his hand on a radio dial. A disguised aristocrat finds murder at the opening night of a play. A cryptogram produces death in an English churchyard. These are the short cases of Scotland Yard’s Inspector Roderick Alleyn who, with his lovely wife Agatha Troy, charmed his way through more than thirty novels. The book concludes with a script written...
| Автор | Ngaio Marsh |
EVERYTHING YOU NEVER EXPECTED. Escaping New York for the beautiful Irish Isle seemed the best way to escape the past for NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi and his family. But following the death of a girl in the local village, Joe soon finds out that the killer is closer to his past than he would care to remember.From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond.In New York, when a routine investigation comes to a violent and tragic end, Detective Joe Lucchesi takes leave from the NYPD and...
| Автор | Alex Barclay |
Second in the sparky crime series featuring Tamla Motown-loving barrister Frankie RichmondBarrister and sometime detective Frankie Richmond has never been any good at saying no – a fatal weakness that always leads to big trouble.In Birmingham for a child abuse inquiry, Frankie reluctantly agrees to fill in at a corpseless murder trial for one day only. But walking away from a juicy crime brief was never going to be easy. Especially when the defendant’s girlfriend, who begs her for help to prove...
| Автор | Elizabeth Woodcraft |
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the second volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.DIED IN THE WOOLOne summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech – and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction – packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead…FINAL CURTAINJust as...
| Автор | Ngaio Marsh |
Kann Foster die entführte Emily Blake retten? Die Spur führt ihn zu einer mächtigen Sekte – und in die höchsten Reihen der Politik. Schon bald wird ihm klar: Wenn er Emily noch retten will, muss er hinabsteigen in die Welt der Schattenwesen. Und dort wird er völlig auf sich allein gestellt sein.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Sie ist zehn Jahre alt – allein und auf der Flucht vor unbegreiflichen Kräften: Weiße und schwarze Engel sammeln sich zum letzten Kampf um die kleine Marie Dufage, die die Ausersehene aus der Prophezeiung sein könnte. Es ist eine erbarmungslose Jagd, ein überirdischer Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse – und mittendrin versuchen zwei Menschen verzweifelt, Marie zu retten, um damit das Schlimmste zu verhindern.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Steve Brill beschließt, den auf seinem Land befindlichen Grabhügel gegen den ausdrücklichen Rat seines Nachbarn Juan Lopez zu öffnen. Angeblich soll es eine unheimliche Bewandtnis mit dem merkwürdigen Erdhaufen haben. Der Farmer jedoch glaubt nicht an Geister, Flüche und Dämonen und rammt daher beherzt den Spaten in den Boden…
| Автор | Robert E. Howard |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Sir Henry Clithering is staying with his friends the Bantrys. Over breakfast he learns that a girl has drowned herself. Miss Marple comes to him and says, ‘She did not drown herself – she was murdered … And I know who murdered her’. She then gives him a piece of paper with the murderer’s name to investigate. Will she be right?
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Shortlisted for the 2012 Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger for best first novelIf you love D I Jack Frost, you’ll love D I Glyn Capaldi, maverick cop.Introducing DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half-Italian, all maverick. He’s fallen from grace in Cardiff and exiled to be the catch-all detective in the big bit in the middle that God gave to the sheep. A place where nothing of any significance is meant to happen, a place where supposedly he can do little harm.But trouble have a way of...
| Автор | Ewart Hutton |
Powerful, moving and gripping, this is an extraordinary novel about the ways that secrets and lies can tear a family apart.When Julia Lambert settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationship with her father, a retired but demanding neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending, unnoticed, into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: her youngest son Jack, far from being the charming and much-loved maverick of...
| Автор | Roxana Robinson |
When the clock strikes twelve, it's time to die… Prepare to lose sleep with this exhilarating thriller.When the clock strikes twelve, it's time to die…One by one, random victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight…Since her fall from Hollywood, actress Lorie Hammonds has returned to her hometown of Alabama and built a new life for herself. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. But as the notes...
| Автор | BEVERLY BARTON |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of the young Grace who during the last few months of their courtship has become distinctly uppish. Amongst the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels distinctly disgruntled and out of place. Eager to both irritate and win over his sometime girlfriend, James bypasses the queue to...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Langsam und vorsichtig zwängten wir uns durch den schmalen Stollen. Meine Fingernägel brachen, die Haut riss. Blut sickerte aus den Fingerkuppen – Fleischfetzen bröckelten ab. Doch es gab keinen anderen Ausweg. Zurück konnten wir nicht, denn am anderen Ende des Tunnels – direkt neben dem Loch – da wartete der Tod. Wir würden ihm nicht entgehen. Dessen waren wir uns bewusst. Jede gottverdammte Sekunde.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Morton Clinch schien kaum zu atmen. Sein zerknittertes Gesicht war wie in Stein gemeißelt. Vor dem Mann lag ein modrig riechendes, uraltes Buch, darüber glitzernde Steine, die zu seltsamen Formen zusammengelegt waren wie ein Mosaik. Clinch wusste: Diese Nacht würde ihm entweder Erfüllung bringen oder den Tod.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In Laurel Ridge, Pennsylvania, a community once united must suspect one of their ownAmish quilter Sarah Bitler's dreams no longer feature a husband and family. Instead, she searches for success in the quilt shop within Blackburn House, a place once tarnished with deadly secrets. She refuses to let the past influence her future…until an ominous fire forces them to collide.Fire-fighter Aaron King was the first to touch Sarah's heart—and the first to break it. Now a widower and father of two small...
| Автор | Marta Perry |