Historical

Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone, and grieving....

Summer, Adelaide, 1917. The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a policewoman, but don't let that fool you. She's a household name.

London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon

Rebecca Waterhouse is just thirteen when she witnesses her mother's death at the hand of her father in Seaview Cottage. But what else did she see....

After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Detective Inspector Sean Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention....

September, 1940. The sun is shining, and in the midst of the good weather Londoners could be mistaken for forgetting their country was at war - until the familiar wail of the air-raid sirens heralds an enemy attack....

1925. Elspeth Valentine dreams of leaving Strathallyn Station to pursue an equestrian career in England. Instead, a fateful decision ties her to World War I veteran Thomas Delaney, setting off a series of events that ripple through generations.

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart....

Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is the first woman to hold the position at University College of London. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she doesn’t expect Mrs. Henry, one of the professors’ wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin....

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense by the best-selling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Paris Assignment.

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls....

Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman on his way home from a good night out. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor....

In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order....

The fourth volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar....

Georgie, or Lady Georgiana Rannoch, is busy planning her upcoming nuptials to Darcy O'Mara. Unfortunately, what has started as a simple wedding has become quite a royal headache and grand affair....

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home in the fourth book in the charming Saffron Everleigh mystery series.

When mystery writer Marius Quin and his sleuthing partner Lady Bella Montague are hired by a secretive stranger to find a missing civil servant, they immediately set to work.

London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton’s brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder.

The devastating Phryne Fisher is under fire again in her fourth mystery....

Raymond Bannister is a wealthy man living a secure life, but the day that he receives a single slipper in an envelope his world falls apart. He seeks out a place in the bad part of town - is he looking for his own demise? He is found slashed down in a dirty alleyway. The crime and the crime...

1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden-haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry....

Rome, once mighty, lies in ruins. The city swarms with suffering and degradation, her citizens living in the shadow of the ruthless Borgia family....

The genteel tranquility of a country house party is shattered when the gamekeeper is shot. Was his death the result of his recent indiscretions, or long-buried secrets?

Julius Caesar has taken his legions north into mighty battles with the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount, overwhelming ambition and new alliances begin to threaten his friendship with Marcus Brutus....

Chief Inspector Soobramania is called when three bodies are discovered in the space of twenty-four hours, with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to Jack the Ripper’s victims. Initial suspicion centres on an English Duke visiting Hyderabad and his friend, a powerful Deccani noble and the angry stepson of one of the dead. In the face of political pressure, Soob must ally with his rival in the British Residency Police, Inspector Wilberforce, to unearth the culprit.

When a foreign prince collapses at an English court function, suspicion falls on Lord Peregrine Fitzroy—the estranged son of a notorious traitor, and the man who knows all too well the effects of henbane especially since it's the same poison his mother once used in a crime that nearly cost Lady Charity Cresswell everything. Now a widow and lady-in-waiting to the Queen, Charity has clawed her way back from scandal to reclaim her place among the ton.

Archie Nevenden is many things: amateur archaeologist; theatre impresario; absent father; potential defector. And now, he's a missing person. His daughter, Prim, hasn't seen him for nearly fifteen years. But she's never given up on him, and now she's on her way to Cairo to assist in the search. Harry Taverner claims to work for the British Council, but Prim knows there's more to it. He clearly has a theory about what happened to Archie, one she's not going to like.

Het is 1817 en "something is rotten in the state of England". Mensen worden opgehangen voor kleine misdrijven, of ze nu schuldig zijn of niet. Kapitein Rider Sandman, een verarmde edelman, heeft de taak om te onderzoeken of Corday inderdaad onschuldig is. Hij beseft niet dat hij het zal moeten opnemen tegen een machtige groep edelen, die er alles voor overhebben om de waarheid binnenskamers te houden.

Het is 1799. Als rekruut van het Britse leger belandt Sharpe in India, waar hij het moet opnemen tegen een lokale potentaat, de Tippoo van Mysore, een man die zich steeds laat omringen door tijgers. Maar het gevaar schuilt niet alleen in vijandige rangen. Sharpe's gevaarlijkste tegenstander is sergeant Hakeswill, zijn meerdere.

India, 1803. We bevinden ons aan de vooravond van de Slag bij Assaye, een grote veldslag in de Tweede Anglo-Maratha-oorlog tussen het Maratha-rijk en de Britse Oost-Indische Compagnie. Soldaat Richard Sharpe krijgt de opdracht een verrader op te sporen. Dit voert hem diep in de gevarenzone. Bovendien wil een oude vijand van de gelegenheid gebruik maken om Sharpe uit de weg te ruimen.

Oscar Wilde wird mit einem sonderbaren Auftrag nach Paris geschickt: Er soll eine verwirrte junge Frau ausfindig machen, um sie zu einem berühmten Pariser Nervenarzt zu bringen. Was zunächst wie ein Kinderspiel klingt, entpuppt sich schnell als eine gefährliche Mörderjagd. Der Zirkel der Sieben ist ebenfalls hinter der jungen Frau her, deren Identität von einem großen Geheimnis umgeben ist.

Coral Fairbanks is a contradiction. She’s a suffragette and bit-part actress who incurs the disapproval of fellow suffragettes by posing nude as an artist’s model. Guy Flynn is an artist. He’s also a detective inspector at Scotland Yard, who doesn’t always see eye to eye with fellow officers in the Metropolitan Police. When Home Secretary Winston Churchill orders the police to terrorise the suffragettes during an afternoon of violence that becomes known as Black Friday, the battlelines are drawn – and Coral Fairbanks and Guy Flynn are on different sides.

The young Victoria remembers nothing but Kensington Palace. Arriving as a baby, she has been brought up inside its musty, mold-ridden walls. Others may see the value of Kensington's priceless artifacts and objets d'art, but the palace is a jail cell for young Victoria.

Gereon Rath, en ung, desillusioneret kriminalassistent fra Køln, bliver overflyttet til Berlin, efter at han i selvforsvar har dræbt en psykopatisk massemorder. I Berlin opdager han liget af en mand i en bil i floden Spree. Offeret, en russer, er helt tydeligt blevet både tortureret og myrdet, før han blev kørt i vandet. Inden Rath når at se sig om, er han dybt involveret i at optrevle en kontrarevolutionær plan om at smugle guld for en værdi af 80 millioner rigsmark fra det kommunistiske Rusland til Berlin.

Hinreißend charmanter Cosy Krimi mit Regency-Vibes Die mysteriöse Hochstaplerin ist der 2. historische Krimi der britischen Krimi-Reihe Miss Austen ermittelt: Jane Austens Gespür für Menschen macht sie zur perfekten Detektivin. Die Grafschaft Kent im Südosten Englands, 1797. Die junge Jane Austen freut sich darauf, den Sommer mit ihrem Bruder Neddy zu verbringen, den sie viele Jahre nicht gesehen hat. Doch schon bei ihrer Ankunft auf dem zauberhaften Anwesen Godmersham Park merkt Jane, dass Neddy dringend Hilfe benötigt.

London, 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Timothy Badger and his partner in detection Benjamin Watson are in a spin: the eminent Dr John H. Watson has been kidnapped! The physician was enjoying a glass of sherry at his Baker Street residence before being bundled away in a barouche coach wearing only one slipper. Did Dr Watson know his captor, and where is he now? Could the mysterious ransom notes arriving in the post hold the answer?

Miss Penelope Monckton, just returned from nursing with Florence Nightingale's in Crimea, has come to the country estate of one of the most scandalous men in England, Lord Rickarby—nicknamed Rakerby—to collect a bequest from his late wife, her childhood friend Millie. But something about Millie's death doesn't sit right with Penny. A celebrated painter, Joss, Lord Rickarby, knows Miss Penelope Monckton only from the letters she sent to his late wife during her time nursing in a war zone.

Moving between the present and 1715 the stories of four women are woven together by circumstance. Set in the sweeping landscape of central Scotland against the backdrop of the ‘15 Jacobite uprising. Jeannie Kellie and Mairead Erskine are caught in a desperate battle to survive.

Augustin Rothmayer è un becchino nel famoso cimitero centrale di Vienna. Herzfeldt ha bisogno della collaborazione di un esperto nella preparazione dei cadaveri: diverse cameriere sono state uccise per essere poi brutalmente impalate. L'ispettore e il becchino iniziano a indagare insieme e finiscono per rendersi conto che dietro le mura di questa affascinante città cosmopolita si aprono profonde voragini.

Skander Nachtstein, ehemaliger Soldat Seiner Majestät, kehrt nach dreizehn Jahren Irrfahrt durch die Reiche des Ostens nach Hause zurück. Als er vom gewaltsamen Tod seines Bruders erfährt, verbeißt er sich in die Aufklärung dieses Unglücks, denn er hat nichts mehr zu verlieren. Schnell wird Skander klar, dass nichts weniger als seine Heimatstadt und die Leben aller, die er kennt, an einem seidenen Faden hängen.

I slutningen af det 19. århundrede sker der store forandringer i Stockholm. På en frostkold nytårsnat i 1896 bliver en ung kvinde fundet død i en indergård på Södermalm. I samme ejendom bor fire kvinder fra vidt forskellige samfundslag, og det tragiske dødsfald fletter deres skæbner sammen.

Join Frank and Joe Hardy—the crackerjack sleuths of Bayport—in their most melodramatic case yet! A night at the theater explodes into a full-fledged mystery when the Hardy Boys cross paths with the sinister Phantom of the Opera! This masked villain is blackmailing the opera house owners, dropping deadly chandeliers, and worst of all, making toad noises during performances! Who can stop him, if not a fifteen-year-old boy and his slightly older brother?

New Mexico Territory, 1825: a volatile frontier where cultures collide. In Taos Valley, the brutal murder of a Mexican official and theft of the legendary Sangre de Cristo Cache—priceless Spanish gold and sacred religious artifacts—threaten to ignite open war. The cache, key to the new government's stability, becomes a magnet for deadly ambition. U.S. Territorial Marshal Sam Hartwell rides into this powder keg. The Hawken rifle used points to American mountain men, but Hartwell uncovers a deeper, more insidious conspiracy: the theft was an inside job, its secrets guarded by powerful figures.

In un’Italia che cerca di ritrovare sé stessa tra le macerie della guerra, il commissario Gianfranco Maugeri — ex comandante partigiano e uomo di profonda umanità — affronta delitti che affondano le radici nel passato recente, tra vendette, silenzi e memorie rimosse. Milano, 1946-1949. Dai quartieri di Città Studi ai Navigli, passando per salotti borghesi e circoli ferroviari, ogni indagine è un viaggio nella coscienza di una città ferita ma viva. Maugeri osserva, ascolta e collega frammenti di verità, guidato da un senso del dovere che si intreccia con il dubbio e la compassione…

In den schattigen und kostspieligen Gemäuern von Rosewood Manor lebt die eigenwillige Lady Agnes Blackwood ein zurückgezogenes Leben. Das ändert sich, als ihr Gärtner mit einer Gartenschere in der Brust aufgefunden wird. Kommissar Edward Sterling wird mit dem Fall betraut.

Зима 1799 года. В Барселоне не прекращаются дожди, город кажется парализованным, и тем не менее, светская жизнь в самом разгаре. Арестован молодой поэт, случайно оказавшийся «не в то время не в том месте». Он безоговорочно признан виновным, тем более что у него обнаружились документы, которые могут привести к падению «вашей чести» - дона Рафеля Массо, председателя Верховного суда. Известно, что у этого человека, наделенного властью казнить или миловать, есть одна слабость: он обожает красивых женщин.

Wanneer Marc Hessels een concert bijwoont van de oude cellovirtuoos Antonovitsj, staart de muzikant Marc geschrokken aan. Welke geheimen draagt Marcs vader met zich mee? De violist van Birkenau is een roman over hartstocht en wreedheid. Het boek vertelt een meeslepend en mysterieus familieverhaal over het leven na een vernietigingskamp.

Головокружительное расследование убийства, жертва которого обнаружена в тумане недалеко от знаменитой лондонской улицы. В числе подозреваемых оказываются представители родовитой британской аристократии, и детектив Даукер едва не отправляет на виселицу невиновного.

Карр вовлекает читателя в сети ловко расставленных ловушек, обманных ходов и тонких намеков и предлагает принять участие в решении хитроумной головоломки. Захватывающее путешествие во времени, сделка с дьяволом и романтическая любовная история сочетаются с расследованием загадочного преступления, которое произошло несколько веков назад, в эпоху поздней Реставрации.