Historical

Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the newspaper.

In 18th-century London, porcelain is the most seductive of commodities; fortunes are made and lost upon it....

She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk. An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift....

Winter 1925. Eleanor and Hugh are decking the halls for their first married Christmas together when butler Clifford arrives with a mysterious telegram. A lucrative case awaits their new detective agency… but in the most remote county in England.

A powerful new thriller by the master of adventure fiction, Storm Tide is an epic story of nautical adventure and a battle for freedom by the master of adventure fiction....

Winter 1924. When Lady Eleanor Swift unexpectedly finds herself a guest of the reclusive Duke of Auldwyke, she’s determined to enjoy Christmas with all the trimmings at his sprawling manor house.

Lady Eleanor Swift’s marriage to dashing Chief Inspector Hugh Seldon is just days away. There’s a lot to organise from the dress to the catering, including, of course, the all-important wedding cake.

When Jane Treen is summoned to her boss’s office at the end of a long day, she smooths down her tweed skirt and makes them both another strong pot of coffee. Brigadier Remmington-Blythe slides a folded copy of the evening newspaper towards her, with one small article circled in red ink.

Late spring, 1936. As Kitty Underhay steps onto the sun-drenched station platform in Nice, on orders from Whitehall to track down a missing man, she hopes there will still be time to lie by the pool, preferably with a cocktail in hand.

Spring 1924. Scotland. The ancient halls of Clan McFee’s castle echo with the whispers of history—and now, the stirrings of ambition and rivalry. The old Laird has passed away, leaving no will, no children, and no clear heir.

Heading south to lands he once considered his home, Beobrand is plunged into a dark world of piracy and slavery when an old friend enlists his help to recover a kidnapped girl....

Oswald has reigned over Northumbria for eight years, and Beobrand has led the king to ever greater victories. Rewarded for his fealty and prowess in battle, Beobrand is now a wealthy warlord, with a sizable warband....

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing...

Winter, 1936. Kitty receives an unexpected telegram just before Christmas saying that her father in New York is seriously ill. She and her husband Matt swiftly set out for America and, after a fraught ocean crossing, they arrive to discover he is much improved.

Sharpe is back. The global best seller Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe. If any man can do the impossible, it's Richard Sharpe.... Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army 21 years ago, and...

Beobrand has land, men and riches. He should be content. And yet he cannot find peace until his enemies are food for the ravens....

It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up....

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm....

Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death. Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day is brightened when a fellow reporter, South African Susan Vidler, comes into his life looking for help with a story. Susan is chasing information...

India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders, Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective, is exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous Naga Hills District. As India's first post-Independence election looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds herself banished to the...

Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both in this action-packed historical thriller for fans of CJ Sansom, Rory Clements and The Three Musketeers. 'MacLean skilfully weaves together the disparate threads of...

Autumn, 1837. Driving onward, a legendary caravan of men, women and children forge a new link in the wilderness trek from Independence, Missouri to the "Promised Land" beyond the Rockies....

The second novella in the INVADER series, set in Roman Britain, AD 44, from Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews Britannia is a nightmare campaign setting for the brave soldiers of the Second Legion. Horatius Figulus, a junior officer, has been rewarded for bravery...

When a disgraced singer is snared in the undercurrents of WWII espionage, she must learn to become a shadow in the limelight.

In a factory hidden deep in the Brazilian jungle, the Germans are developing a long-range bomber capable of reaching the United States—a weapon that could tip the scales of World War II in their favor.

India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders, Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective, is exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous Naga Hills District. As India's first post-Independence election looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds herself banished to the...

La giovane Juni, in fuga da un marito violento, si rifugia nella casa dei nonni su un'isola norvegese, un luogo ormai quasi disabitato che in lei evoca ricordi felici: è qui che è cresciuta insieme agli amati nonni, che ora non ci sono più. Rovistando tra i loro cimeli, Juni trova una fotografia che ritrae la nonna Tekla da giovane insieme a un uomo che non è il nonno; l'immagine è datata giugno 1945, l'uomo è un soldato e i due hanno tutta l'aria di essere innamorati.

Long ago some of our ancestors were marked by gods. These mythological kings are found in lists all over the world. The Sumerian Kings list. The Egyptian Kings List. The Biblical Kings List.

Three bodies are found scattered across South Africa. One on the shores of the Indian Ocean, one in a farm invasion in modern KwaZulu-Natal, and one in 1880, in the aftermath of the Anglo-Zulu War. Detective Sannie van Rensburg and marine biologist and former soldier Adam Kruger are each on the trail of a mystery, while more than a century ago colonial police officer Peter Gregory has a secret mission: to find the lost sword of the great Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Germans arrived with a plan to occupy a quiet French village. The French Resistance and Allied forces had other plans. Sturmbannführer Gunther Dettmer stands at the Franco-German border, poised with Hitler's war machine to unleash the western Blitzkrieg. Six hundred kilometers away, WWI veteran René Legrand tends to his fields in peaceful Sainte-Mère-Église, trying to forget his past as the French army's deadliest assassin

The Great War may be over, but brilliant scientist Billie McKennan continues the fight to be taken seriously. When a deliberate omission wins her a marine biologist position aboard an expedition funded by a wealthy eccentric, she quickly discovers she’s not the only one keeping secrets. The opulent Eurybia sets sail for the Gulf of California with a handful of well-to-do passengers and talented scientists on board. To Billie’s surprise, her ex-husband counts among them.

Masques Macabre is “a juicy collection of stories, with some great character development and a lot of original ideas. Recommended!” [Horror After Dark]. “This collection consists of four unique stories. Bruns handles plot, setting, and characterization exceptionally well in all four. The horror creeps slowly under your skin until you suddenly realize you’re in the midst of madness.” [Quiet Fury]. “Bruns creates realistic settings for his well-imagined, lively characters.” [Kirkus Reviews].

As one of the masterminds behind the US 8th Air Force's daring raids into Nazi Germany, Colonel Matt Barrington is accustomed to making decisions that send men to their deaths. But when a mission goes terribly wrong, resulting in the loss of sixty bombers, the weight of command threatens to crush him.

Am 18. Februar 1812 erleidet die Emily Rose an der Südküste Australiens Schiffbruch. Die Überlebenden sind gezwungen, tausende Kilometer durch das unerforschte Land zu laufen, um die einzige Siedlung, Sydney Cove, zu erreichen. Nach einigen Kilometern landeinwärts stoßen sie auf die Überreste eines monströsen Schiffes, das weit größer ist als alles, was die britische Marine je gebaut hat. In der Gegenwart untersuchen Sam Reilly und sein Team von Meeresforschern die Ursache für ein weit verbreitetes Sterben von Meereslebewesen im Golf von Mexiko.

Dresden, Mai 1883. Eine Eilmeldung stört jäh die sonnige Frühjahrsstimmung: Aus dem Zoologischen Garten ist ein Tiger entkommen. Zwei Tage später kommt die nächste Schreckensnachricht – ganz in der Nähe des Zoos wird ein Toter gefunden. Das Opfer, ein junger Mann aus reichem Haus, wurde bestialisch ermordet. Als weitere Morde folgen, scheint sicher: Ein Serienmörder geht um, der die Kinder gut situierter Dresdner Bürger im Visier hat. Gustav Heller steht vor seiner größten Herausforderung!

April 1891, as the dusty frontier city of San Diego recovers from a collapsing real estate bubble, residents look forward to the arrival of Benjamin Harrison, the first US president to visit their city. Little do they suspect that some of their citizens are planning an attack on the president and his train.

The Gospel of Silas is a chilling psychological thriller that delves into the dark world of a charismatic minister with a twisted agenda. Silas Richter, a man of perfect facade and sinister secrets, has lived a life cloaked in deception. As he travels from town to town, preaching salvation, he secretly hunts for the innocent lives that will feed his soul. His manipulative sermons hide a violent nature, one that will stop at nothing to satisfy his insatiable thirst for terror.

Who can you trust in a "sunny place for shady people"? A trip to the French Riviera sounds like just the ticket for Marjorie and Mrs Jameson. But from the moment they step aboard the famous Blue Train to the Mediterranean coast, it becomes clear that this won't be an ordinary vacation. They've been invited to stay at the palatial Villa Beau Rivage for a month in the sun, after a dismal summer in London.

In the final days of the German Democratic Republic, as hundreds of thousands flee the country and mass demonstrations grow, a high ranking Stasi officer discovers the leadership of State Security intends to kidnap his two-year old son for unknown reasons. Is it because of the boy’s extraordinary intelligence, and does the leadership know something about the source of that gift which the parents do not?

On a warm spring day in April 1734, a fire raged through Montreal’s merchant quarters. When the flames finally died, 46 buildings – including the Hôtel-Dieu convent and hospital – had been destroyed. Within hours, rumors ran rampant that Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman fighting for her freedom, had started the fire with her white lover, Claude Thibault. Less than 24 hours later, Angelique was sitting in a prison cell. Her lover was nowhere to be found. More than 20 witnesses appeared before the judge, all claiming Angélique was the arsonist. But no one saw her set the fire.

In 2008, Father Jonathan Rose uncovers a secret that’s been buried for over eight hundred years. When his sister, FBI agent Courtney Rose is brutally murdered and the investigation is quietly shut down, Jonathan is forced to confront a truth far darker than faith alone can explain. Driven across continents by grief and unanswered questions, Rose discovers he is not the only one searching for justice. An ancient order thought long extinct is fighting for survival, and a powerful enemy will stop at nothing to ensure the truth remains hidden.

Hohenwart und Siegering, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Als Fährmann muss Hannes Winkler dem Brauch folgen, sich keine Frau zu nehmen. Hannes' Herz gehört trotzdem schon lang seiner Jugendfreundin Elisabeth. Während der Erste Weltkrieg die kleine Gemeinschaft diesseits und jenseits der Salzach in Österreich und Deutschland spaltet, gerät das Leben der vier jungen Leute in einen Strudel aus Gewalt, Aufbegehren und Schuld. Als schließlich ein Kind verschwindet, wird eine tödliche Spirale in Gang gesetzt. Bis der aufkeimende Nationalismus den Frieden empfindlich stört.

After the daring escape from the gallows of Gaspard Delacroix, Alderman James is finally convinced that all has not been as it seemed in Dublin for many years. Has he been chasing the same killer all along? With his career now in peril, he must unmask his enemy before time runs out. Edwards, though addled by unseen enemies, puts his final plan into motion. Can anything stop him from bringing down the chaos he so craves? Can the Light Beneath the Cauldron finally set the city to boil over?

Nueva Orleans, 1897. Es la popular noche de Mardi Gras, y Alexander Le Bois, heredero de una de las familias más importantes de la ciudad, empieza a manifestar unos extraños síntomas durante el gran baile celebrado en Ópera Francesa. Isabella, su joven esposa nacida en Cuba y criada en Oviedo, busca desesperadamente ayuda y solo encuentra a Markus, un médico negro sin mucho crédito ni acceso a la medicina reservada a los blancos.

È il 1584 quando, orfana, Emily St. Aubert raggiunge la zia Madame Cheron: un rifugio che presto si rivela prigione. Il matrimonio di lei con il conte Montoni la trascina in un dedalo di torri aguzze, stanze invase dall'ombra e corridoi in cui ogni eco vibra come un presagio. Quando cala la notte, note lontane e sussurri intrappolati nelle mura guidano Emily fino a lettere ingiallite, dietro a tende consumate dal tempo. Il conte Montoni la fissa con gelida determinazione, desideroso di soffocare ogni barlume di speranza.

Welcome, curious soul, to the shadowed streets of London, a city choked with fog and oil, where gas lamps flicker against walls slick with rain and something far older than humanity stirs beneath the cobblestones. I am Aryn Bats, your guide through a tale of flesh, steel, and madness, where science and horror entwine like gears in a cruel machine. In this book, you will meet a man, Dr. Jekyll, whose brilliance has fractured his very being, giving birth to a creature of nightmare, Hyde. But do not mistake this for a tale of duality and morality. Here, the serum does not simply transform.

In the fog-choked alleys of Victorian London, fear has a new face. When a string of brutal murders strikes the heart of Whitechapel, Inspector John Maywills—a detective haunted by his own past—descends into the city’s darkest corners to uncover the truth.

The East Riding of Yorkshire 1709. The tiny village of North Burton. It’s March. In years to come they will call it The Great Frost. Meg and Nana know the cold will get worse – because everything always does. Meg’s husband is away at war, the roof is about to fall in and Carrick, the big rector up at St Michael’s, says the cold is a punishment for their sins. When a wounded highwayman bangs on their door in the night, and they take him in, they don’t realise just how much worse it will get.

Over a century after the infamous 1912 axe murders shocked the nation, investigative researcher Alex Hartman and forensic scholar Dr. Samuel Graves arrive in Villisca chasing rumors of something older and darker than anyone had ever imagined. When a modern family is found murdered in a chilling copy of the past, their investigation spirals into a tangled web of cryptic journals, forbidden sermons, and a long-forgotten traveling carnival that once passed through town... but did it ever leave?

La conspiración de la Sangre de CristoAdéntrate en el Territorio de Nuevo México crudo e indómito de 1825, una frontera equilibrada al filo de la navaja. Cuatro años después de la independencia mexicana, el recién abierto Camino de Santa Fe inunda el Valle de Taos con comerciantes estadounidenses, encendiendo tensiones entre las autoridades mexicanas, comerciantes ambiciosos, colonos españoles desplazados y antiguas comunidades pueblo.