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Amen Corner, London, 1864. Two gruesome murders take place - first a customs officer at the docks and next a jeweller in Hatton Garden, both of whom are strangled in an unusual, distinct way. A local simpleton, Holy Joe, is blamed for the murders, but neither Lily Korechnya nor Sarah O'Reilly is convinced the police have the right man. The trail of the missing gems leads them back to India, ghosts and the dangerous cult of the destroyer goddess Kali.

Ensconced in the comfort of their elegant home in London's Berkeley Square, Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch are no longer subject to the perilous life of intrigue they led during the Napoleonic Wars. Once an Intelligence Agent, Malcolm is now a Member of Parliament, and Suzanne is one of the city's most sought-after hostesses. But a late-night visit from a friend who's been robbed may lure them back into the dangerous world they thought they'd left behind.

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 unravels a murderous world of espionage....

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 Tatiana.

The city of Austin, Texas, "is fearfully dull", wrote young Will Porter to a friend in the spring of 1885, "except for the frequent raids of the Servant Girl Annihilators, who make things lively in the dead of night." Years later Will Porter would become the most famous writer in America - O. Henry, the toast of New York. The long-ago Austin servant girl murders would remain unsolved. But behind the O. Henry pen name, Will Porter was a man with secrets.

Two years have passed since the dramatic destruction of Count Dracula. And Jonathan Harker has settled down to a quiet life as a junior partner in a law firm. But his reputation is about to catch up with him. As word of his abilities spreads, clients are turning to him for help with problems which appear to have an involvement in the supernatural. His first case takes him to Cornwall, where the Haywood family are worried about the imminent marriage of their daughter, Flora, to the elusive Sir Owen Velland.

In the summer of 1897, Fiona MacGillivray and her 11-year-old son, Angus, arrive in Vancouver in time to hear the news gold discovered in the Klondike! Fiona immediately sets off for Skagway, Alaska, intent on opening a theatre. After one encounter with infamous gangster Soapy Smith and his henchman Paul Sheridan, she decides to pursue her ambitions on the other side of the border in Dawson City. As a dying man breathes his last, he passes on to Sheridan a map pointing due north to the fabled Gold Mountain, where hills of gold keep the heat from hot springs contained in a valley as warm as California.

In 1566, Elizabeth Tudor faces tremendous opposition from Parliament for ruling England without the help of a husband. Instead, she turns to her Privy Plot Council for help, only to discover from her royal herbalist that a woman has drowned in a tub of starch. Soon another garment worker meets the same rigid fate. Elizabeth becomes unbending in her attempts to solve the murders, as well as iron out the problems of her kingdom.

New York, 1891: a rapidly changing city, torn between lamplight and electric light, where the burgeoning steel and railway industries attract a flood of humanity from every corner of the globe, fuelling cutthroat gangs, corruption and vice. A prostitute is found brutally murdered. Immediately fear starts to spread. The victim bears the same hallmarks as Jack the Ripper's recent killing spree in England. Could it be that the Ripper has crossed the Atlantic to fresh killing grounds? Or is this simply a copycat murder?

Although he was watching closely when the mummer was poisoned, it took Gil Cunningham several days and three more poisonings to work out how it was done. Danny Gibson and Nanty Bothwell, rivals for the affections of Agnes Renfrew, the apothecary's pretty daughter, are also good friends.

Un cautivador thriller histórico-religioso situado en el siglo II d. C., en pleno auge de las primeras herejías. Los cimientos de la iglesia de Antioquía se ven sacudidos por el robo de una considerable suma de dinero atesorada en la sede del obispo. En el siglo II, el cristianismo continuaba su proceso de expansión por el Imperio romano, desarrollaba una estructura organizativa y configuraba su doctrina básica gracias a la labor de los denominados Padres Apostólicos.

Hamburg 1887. In einem Kontor wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt, die mit zahllosen Messerstichen getötet wurde. Der Fall wird zur Bewährungsprobe für den frisch zum Criminalcommissar beförderten Hermann Rieker. Bei seinen Ermittlungen trifft er auf Johanna Ahrens, Tochter eines Richters, die heimlich arme Frauen im Gängeviertel unterrichtet.

Ein Wildhüter und ein Flüchtlingsjunge auf der Spur eines Mythos Fichtelgebirge, 1630. Die calvinistische Familie des jungen Johann versucht, sich eine neue Existenz in einem entlegenen Dorf aufzubauen. Unterdessen grübelt der Junge über das Schicksal der Kinder des Ortes. Wer oder was hat zwei von ihnen getötet und wohin sind alle anderen verschwunden? War es der legendenumwobene »Wilde Jäger« – ein Wolfsmann, der im dicht bewaldeten Gebirge sein Unwesen treiben soll?

Un nuovo caso per Marco Pisani, con l'aiuto straordinario di Giacomo Casanova. Sono bionde, sono giovani, sono belle. E sono scomparse senza lasciare traccia. A richiamare l'attenzione di Marco Pisani, affiancato dall'amico Daniele Zen e dal dottor Valentini, è il cadavere della prima ragazza scaraventato da una violenta mareggiata su un terreno emerso della laguna; quello della seconda viene invece rinvenuto in fondo a un pozzo alle Zattere.

Rock ’n’ Roll in Berlin. Bill Haley spielt 1958 im Sportpalast – und wenig später wird Wulf Herzke, der Starreporter des RIAS, ermordet aufgefunden. Eigentlich kein Fall für Jo Sturm, den Ermittler, den man in die Vermisstenabteilung versetzt hat. Doch als die Tochter einer Bekannten verschwindet und deren Mutter ermordet wird, muss man ihn wohl oder übel hinzuziehen. Denn offenbar hatten die Ermordete und der RIAS-Reporter ein Verhältnis. Jo Sturm bemerkt bald, dass er zwischen alle Linien gerät.

Gerhard Lenz, commissaire à la KriPo à Berlin, doit enquêter sur une série d'assassinats dont les mises en scène semblent ritualisées. Une investigation qui le conduira dans le dédale des administrations du Reich et lui fera découvrir l'ampleur du programme d'euthanasie de masse gardé secret par les autorités.

Der Kriegsveteran Patrice Belval verhindert die Entführung der jungen Krankenschwester Coralie und wird dadurch immer tiefer in eine geheimnisvolle Angelegenheit hineingezogen, die Coralies Ehemann und eine Bande orientalischer Verbrecher betrifft. Nach der Ermordung des Ehemanns machen sich Patrice und Coralie auf die Suche nach einem riesigen Goldschatz, dem goldenen Dreieck. Dabei stellen sie fest, dass sie eine gemeinsame Vergangenheit haben, denn ihre Eltern wurden gemeinsam Opfer eines furchtbaren Anschlags. Der Mörder lebt allerdings noch und trachtet ihnen nun ebenfalls nach dem Leben.

La quarta indagine di Marco Pisani, avogadore a Venezia in missione nella città eterna. Roma all’improvviso è impazzita: ostie che si incendiano, monache che fuggono dai conventi in preda a raptus, strade e case in cui si aggirano fantasmi, fontane che buttano sangue. Le forze del Male si sono impadronite della città o si tratta di una congiura di matrice molto umana? Così sembra pensarla papa Lambertini, che per sventare il pericolo chiama al suo fianco il vecchio amico Guido Valentini e l’avogadore Marco Pisani, seguiti dai fidi Nani e Gasparetto.

1955, Firenze, nel pieno della Guerra Fredda, che in Italia si traduce in guerra ideologica. La città deserta è riunita ad assistere all'amichevole di calcio tra la Fiorentina, squadra locale nonché favorita, e la Dinamo Mosca, supportata da una schiera di tifosi russi comunisti, che si limitano a fare il tifo in silenzio, il semplice fazzoletto rosso legato al collo. Una giornata come tante, all'insegna dello sport, ma non per il maresciallo Girolamo Betti, che si trova a dover sovrintendere alla rimozione del cadavere dell'ex fascista Catone Tagliapani, apparentemente morto per infarto.

Als der britische Millionär Mornington in Marokko an einer Blutvergiftung stirbt, wird sein Freund Don Luis Perenna dazu bestimmt, den Nachlass zu verwalten. Es geht darum, innerhalb von drei Monaten den Erben eines Vermögens von 100 Millionen Francs zu finden. Leider gibt es offenbar jemanden, der es darauf abgesehen hat, alle möglichen Erben aus dem Weg zu räumen, bevor Perenna sie kontaktieren kann. Und so muss Don Luis, unterstützt von der französischen Polizei, sich diesem finsteren Gegenspieler stellen. Besonders eine attraktive junge Frau schwebt in höchster Gefahr.