Nouveautés

What Bernard Sampson, protagonist of Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match, is about to know may hurt him. When word gets to London Central that a cache of millions of pounds has disappeared inside the Service, Samson is determined to learn the truth. But not even that discovery will help if the Department itself wants his blood....

In 1954, ex-escort Sunni Sinclair breaks free of Australia’s gangland, reinventing herself as a pub owner in a lawless mining town near Sydney. A champion of justice, she challenges societal norms, advocating for women’s rights and downtrodden miners.

Beatrice Richards was 39 years old on her last birthday. That may have been accurate, it might not have been. It mattered not to her friends—of which she had only a few—and it certainly didn’t matter to her husband, in large part because he simply didn’t care. Beatrice was wealthy, entitled, snobbish, unhappy and bored. That is until “it” came.

Gregory Wentz's yacht is marooned on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Senator's fifteen-year-old son ventures into the tree line and finds something amazing: the scattered remains of a plane wreck with the number N16020 stamped on its wing. Wentz, a former Air Force pilot, instantly recognizes what he's looking at. He contacts someone he knows he can trust, a man who is supposed to be dead, Solomon Raegor, Director of the Tactical Archaeological Command.

It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the molly's silent guard. When the queen of all 'he-harlots', Mother Clap, confides in him about a deadly threat, he realises his friends are facing imminent execution. To the horror of all mollies, there is a rat amongst them.

Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel’s overprivileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life lessons from the game of chess.

Würzburg 1574: Bäckerlehrling Simon leidet unter seinem brutalen Stiefvater und dessen Sohn Wulf. Als die Streitigkeiten eskalieren, muss er die Stadt verlassen und erlernt in Venedig die Kunst der Zuckerbäckerei. Nach Jahren in der Ferne kehrt Simon nach Würzburg zurück. Dort übernimmt er die Backstube des Juliusspitals und gewinnt die Zuneigung des mächtigen, unnahbaren Fürstbischofs Julius Echter. Doch Simons Stiefbruder Wulf, getrieben von Neid und Missgunst, lässt nichts unversucht, um ihm zu schaden.

Tra i due rami della stirpe dei Falck non corre buon sangue. Un rapporto al veleno che è destinato a inasprirsi con la morte dell’anziana matriarca. Quando Vera, un tempo famosa scrittrice, muore in mare, porta infatti con sé due grandi misteri: quello del suo testamento, che risulta introvabile, e quello di un vecchio manoscritto mai dato alle stampe a cui aveva lavorato in silenzio tanti anni prima. Si dice che in quelle pagine raccontasse del naufragio in cui, durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, aveva perso la vita il marito, ma nessuno ha mai potuto leggerle.

Paris, juin 1889 : le monde entier se presse à l'Exposition Universelle où la Tour Eiffel, qui vient d'être achevée, accueille plus de mille visiteurs par jour. Les Français s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont un Empire colonial en découvrant les pavillons exotiques et les villages indigènes groupés au pied d'un des temples d'Angkor reconstitué. C'est dans cette ambiance de kermesse que survient une série de morts inexpliquées. Les victimes ne présentent aucune blessure apparente et, hormis le fait d'avoir été présentes à l'Exposition, rien ne les relie entre elles.

The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940. During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in her kitchen whilst cooking for her husband and children. She becomes trapped in the rear of her home, but regains consciousness just in time to see a familiar face, offering hope of rescue. But instead, Madeline is tragically strangled to death. As a dangerous murderer uses the Blitz to cover their crime, local detective Jamie Barton enlists the help of Madeline’s sister and volunteer firefighter, Penny Fairfax to help.

September 1920. A young bride is discovered dead at a country house on her wedding day. Has she fallen victim to the deadly Withington curse, which strikes down any woman who marries into the family? Forensic Pathologist Dr Bernard Spilsbury doesn't believe in such superstitions, and suspects a more earthly reason for Theodora Tupper's death. But as he and his trusty assistant Violet investigate, they soon discover that there are indeed ghosts at Withington Hall. And they, too, have a story to tell.

England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella his wife. The orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman—an outsider with no fortune or connections—Orabella never expected to marry. But her uncle has many debts, and Orabella, curious about the seeming devotion Elias bestows upon her, agrees.