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LONDON 1600. When the Earl of Essex is removed from command and placed under arrest for reaching a forbidden truce with the Irish rebels, Serjeant Noah Ames reluctantly accepts a commission to investigate the earl’s fitness for command, and the two are pitted against each other once again. Meanwhile, Noah’s beautiful daughter, Lady Jessica, has sought to remarry into the nobility, but events have thus far frustrated her plans. One day, Noah attends a briefing where the Queen’s new commander displays maps of English military positions in Ireland. Noah’s suspicions are aroused when he...

The eleventh month, the eleventh day, the eleventh hour, the eleventh minute. Armistice Day. The end of the War to End All Wars. The toll in lives was tremendous. Spanish flu brought an even greater toll. Men who came through the war unscathed succumbed to the plague. In the end, no one was left untouched. This was especially true for the families of Zofia's Cakes and Tarts.

What do missing members of the Romanov family—supposedly executed in 1918—have to do with Imperial Russian treasures looted by the Nazis in 1943? Rostock, Germany, 1943: For months, the Nazis have been secretly shipping treasures looted from all over Europe to black market auctions outside the Third Reich. Now someone has been stealing from the Germans—but only items looted from the Romanov palace at Livadia, on the Black Sea. Lena Schiller must find the culprits before the Gestapo finds easier prey to blame—someone like her. Her Russian mother escaped the Russian Revolution when ...

Beautiful Drusilla was in love with Kanter Thorton but to protect him she was forced to marry another man. After years of abuse her husband is poisoned and all eyes are on her as the likely suspect. Only Kanter and a young lawyer named John Adams believe she is innocent. Discover what it took for Drusilla to truly be set free in this drama set in the backdrop of Post-puritan/Pre-revolutionary War Boston.

«Se dice que, cuando uno piensa vengarse, debe cavar dos tumbas». Cuando el cadáver de la Sirenita de Ampurias, una conocida cantante, aparece destripado sobre el escenario del teatro en el que trabajaba, el inspector Adolfo Kobler y el médico forense Miralles se verán empujados a trabajar en la investigación junto con Adoración Venecia, artista de vanguardia, empresaria teatral y bailarina exótica. Son los felices años veinte, y en Madrid florece un mundo nocturno de plumas y oropel, pero los cadáveres empiezan a multiplicarse y los asesinatos resultan cada vez más truculentos.

Here are ten more traditional tales spanning Sherlock Holmes's illustrious career. Beginning with “The Matter of the Missing Mortician,” which London’s greatest detective solves without ever leaving his Baker Street sitting room to “The Conundrum of the Disputed Canvas,” which brings Holmes to Richmond Hill to resolve the authenticity of a painting of questionable origins. In between, an audacious new rival rises up to challenge Sherlock Holmes over two vexing cases. Then, an old enemy cleverly strikes at the hated detective from afar in “The Difficulty of the Distant Antagonist.

Kitty Worthington’s joyous Christmas season spirals into a deadly mystery when a holiday shop owner is murdered, and a dear friend is blamed for the crime. London. 1924. Kitty Worthington, newly married to the love of her life, Chief Detective Inspector Robert Crawford Sinclair, is eagerly anticipating spending Christmas with her family at Wynchcombe Castle. But when the health of Robert’s brother takes a turn for the worse, their holiday plans change. Hoping to make their Christmas in London as merry as possible, she visits the city’s famous Mistletoe Shoppe to buy festive decorations.

April 4, 1917: The United States enters The Great War. Young men are being drafted, while young women volunteer to serve in auxilary positions, freeing "A Man to Fight." Rhys Shay has his draft notice, and is preparing to report any day now. Lucy Goodheart, the young woman his brother rescued from a sex trafficker five years before, has learned the art of telegraphy from her foster father. Now that she is out of school, she joins the U.S. Navy in the only capacity available, as a Yeoman (F). Not only does being a Yeomanette enable her to make use of her telegraphy skills, it lets her feel ...

64 год н. э., десятый год правления Нерона. Новая жена, красавица Поппея Сабина, старше императора на шесть лет. Она властолюбива, предприимчива и обладает изощренным умом. Нерон уже и не мыслит, как править государством без ее поддержки. Но сбывается роковое пророчество сивиллы — Рим гибнет в огне. По стране ползут слухи, что пожар возник не случайно, а по воле Нерона. Эти слухи будоражат не только простонародье, но и знать. Понимая, что его судьба теперь неразрывно связана с судьбой Рима, Нерон клянется воздвигнуть на руинах новый город — и мир ослепнет от его великолепия.

1914: England has entered the War to End All Wars.. Germany seems determined to force the British to split their forces and to fight against the Irish rebels in the north. Mounted Police Officer Tadhg Nagel has become somewhat of a local hero. First he was instrumental in breaking up a peonage operation for the Bureau of Investigation. Then he foiled a major theft at a society fashion show. That wasn't enough for Officer Nagel. He needed to do something to stop the Germans from destroying his homeland. Joining the Britsh Army would most likely mean coming home in a pine box. Nagel didn't ...

Lily Barnett, a failure in medical school through no fault of her own, enters the new nursing program at St Joseph's Hospital. At the very beginning of the War to End All Wars, she steps up and joins the British Medical Corps.

Gabrielle Lane Pennington has a great grift. She's running tent revivals all over the east coast, and preaching the Gospel as it is convenient.. On the side, her roustabouts are snatching young girls from their revivals and shipping them off to brothels run by a notorious madam. The fledgling Bureau of Investigation has a new agent,. Still with only forty-three agents in the country, Dylan Shay was accepted on the force. The BoI's mandate still includes sussing out violations of the Mann Act, as well as investigating acts of espionage. Newly minted Agent Shay is called upon to surveille ...

Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city’s famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is aan unorthodox yet highly educated oddball who finds solace amongst the dead as well as in the writing the pages of the first almanac of his profession. But his fragile peace is abruptly disturbed when young inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt, an ambitious young transfer from Graz, arrives in need of help from someone expert in death. No one knows the subject better than Augustin Rothmeyer.

While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive—especially when it comes to solving crimes—in this radiant historical mystery by USA Today best-selling author Amanda Flower.

As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. The victim’s name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little—only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but—described as quiet and kempt—she doesn’t appear to be a fallen woman. What sinister secrets could have made poor Zenia worth killing? And why does the government keep interfering in Monk’s investigation?

He’s trying to forget all about crime. But now targeted as a suspect, can he keep from going down for murder? England, 1964. Retired inspector Tom Ramsay wants to leave the past behind. Hoping to get on with his plans to hike the beauty spots of his homeland, a vacation to North Yorkshire strikes him as just the ticket. Yet while exploring the beach with his young border collie, he’s shocked to discover a decomposing body hidden in a cave. Happy to put the case in the hands of local police, he’s relieved not to be involved in the ugly matter. But as the small-town rumor mill churns ...

Tudor Close Hotel, Rottingdean, is the most glamorous venue of the season. And not somewhere Viriginia or her sister Vanessa would usually choose to frequent. They're far happier at home with their writing or painting, than brushing shoulders with debutantes or starlets. When the group bumps into fashion designer Mimi Mason in the hotel bar, they begrudgingly accept an invite to her wedding breakfast the next morning. No one imagined that, a few cocktails later, Mimi would be dead.

Private investigator and former knight Crispin Guest faces his most complicated case yet when he witnesses a body fall from London bridge into the frigid River Thames. Though the man's death is declared a suicide, Guest sees evidence of foul play. His investigation leads him to Sir Thomas Saunfayl, an old acquaintance from his knighthood days. It seems the dead man was bargaining with Sir Thomas for the Spear of Longinus, the weapon used to pierce the side of Christ on the Cross, which grants invincibility to its owner.

In a mystery as twisty as the Rio Grande, Loveda Brown takes a fateful Texas two-step on her journey West and has to hunt down a rattler. Señora Loveda Dunn's newly found marital bliss is interrupted when she discovers the maid sleeping in the bridal bed instead of making it.

Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which is embroiled in a labour dispute. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently. Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer.