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La primera trascurre en los principios del tribunal de la inquisición de Valencia, dónde es protagonista destacado el humanista Luis Vives, la inquisición y sus secretos. Todos los personajes existieron en su época y todos los hechos narrados se corresponden con la realidad histórica. La segunda historia es protagonizada por un grupo de amigos en la Valencia actual, que descubren que el misterio que creían resuelto, en realidad no ha hecho más que comenzar.

Octubre de 1948. Miquel Mascarell y Patro viven juntos en el piso de ella. Han encontrado la paz y la felicidad. Pero el pasado siempre vuelve. La visita de un hombre temible y su extraña petición -más bien una orden- pondrá patas arriba su vida. Miquel ha de buscar la tumba de un joven muerto el 18 de julio de 1936. ¿Por qué? ¿Qué secretos esconde ese cadáver? ¿Cómo podrá dar con el lugar si han pasado 12 años y no hay ya testigos vivos de lo que sucedió? Miquel volverá a enfrentarse a sus fantasmas sabiendo que está en juego su supervivencia.

New York, 1903. Un cadavere orribilmente mutilato viene ritrovato all'interno di un barile abbandonato su un marciapiede. I sospetti portano verso la criminalità italiana. È un lavoro per il "Dago", il sergente Giuseppe "Joe" Petrosino, il più famoso detective della città. L'unico dell'intero dipartimento di polizia di New York che, grazie alle sue origini italiane, è capace di passare inosservato tra i vicoli di Little Italy, capire i dialetti del sud della penisola, interpretare i simboli e le modalità delle prime organizzazioni criminali mafiose, come la temutissima Mano Nera.

When a 100-year-old crucifix is discovered around the neck of a 500-year-old mummy, Brandon Walker once more calls on the expertise of India Summers to solve the mystery. Within days they realise there is far more to this than a cruel hoax, and it soon becomes clear that there are strong links back to the SS in the Second World War. Ultimately, what they find is not only a cover-up of global proportions and the tragic aftermath of a long-forgotten battle, but a group of dangerous men seeking the most powerful and dangerous Icon the world has ever known.

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.

Polizist Peder Hansen sucht dort den Mörder seines Bruders. Li Lim, Auftragskiller der Shanghaier Triaden, soll einen Oppositionellen töten. Als Hansen tiefer in die Unterwelt von St. Pauli vordringt, gerät er an seinen größten Feind: Woo Chong, Herrscher über das Nachtleben und mutmaßlicher Mörder seines Bruders.

Ein packender Roman über eine Frau, die sich früh in der Männerdomäne der Psychoanalyse behauptet und ein unfassbares Geheimnis aufdeckt. Hamburg 1920: Die Psychoanalytikerin Vera hat die Praxis ihres Mannes im Stadtteil Uhlenhorst übernommen, nachdem er fünf Jahre zuvor im Ersten Weltkrieg gefallen ist. Ihre Patienten haben die unterschiedlichsten seelische Narben – die meisten aufgrund ihrer Kriegsvergangenheit. Als es unter ihnen zu mysteriösen Todesfällen kommt, bittet Kommissar Bender Vera um Hilfe.

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.

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.

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?

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.