Nouveautés

A mystical object brings the CIA, Mossad, crime syndicates, and the Holy Roman Church into conflict. A father and son get caught in the middle as forces collide.

Madrid, 2010. Carmen Klein, la famosa escritora de bestsellers, cuyo auténtico nombre es Gabriela Salazar, ha muerto. Poco después del deceso, sus hijos, Lola y Carlos McKenzie, reciben a través de un bufete de abogados un documento titulado Línea de ratas que su madre les legó treinta años atrás. Se trata de un texto autobiográfico en el que Gabriela desvela el oscuro secreto que ha ocultado toda su vida. Buenos Aires, 1952.

1926 – Christie is a darling of the literary circuit and the most desired guest in London’s glittering social scene. She can often be found at meetings of the Detection Club – where mystery writers come together to share ideas, swap secrets and drink copiously. But then a fellow author's initiation ceremony takes a gruesome turn, and one of the group ends up dead. Now, Agatha is no longer just the creator of great mystery plots – she’s a player in one.

Banff, Scotland in the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess that he's been poisoned. His body is discovered in the house of Alexander Seaton - a fallen minister, the discovery of whose clandestine love affair has left him disgraced.

Shanghai 1927. Pearl of the East or Whore of the Orient? Depends on who you ask. It's a cesspool of poverty, thronged with refugees, gripped by civil war. But for some it's still a fever dream: jazz clubs, film stars, and opium dens, celebrities and spies, easy money and easier women. The son of a rural Irish cop, Michael Gallagher has joined the Shanghai Municipal Police to escape an Ireland crippled by its recent bitter independence fight and escape a personal tragedy.

In the tradition of Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Du Maurier’s Rebecca, All That Glitters takes listeners on a journey of self-discovery, danger, and survival. Join Sarah Anne as she unravels the secrets of Ripon House.

With only days left until Christmas, uncle Albert is in a tizzy. The annual Twelve-Birds-Of-Christmas Dinner is looming, and his scheme to procure a copy of the latest book craze to sweep the Royal Society for Natural History Appreciation has been thwarted. Now, in a desperate bid to secure a Christmas miracle, Lady Caroline and Uncle Albert travel to an isolated castle on the Yorkshire moors in pursuit of the only available copy of the coveted book.

Join the crew of the Panther in this thrilling continuation of the Tides of Fortune series. As tensions mount in San Francisco, Nick Van Doran and his crew are thrust into a desperate race against time. Their mission: to navigate the treacherous waters and war-torn landscapes to reach New York.

Im August 1881 wird Kriminalrat Gustav Heller in die Villa von Adele Blumfeld gerufen, um den plötzlichen Tod eines Teilnehmers der gerade stattgefundenen Séance aufzuklären. Heller glaubt keine Sekunde an Geister oder die übersinnlichen Kräfte der exzentrischen Gastgeberin. Doch das morbide Haus und vor allem das stumme und mit Narben übersäte junge Dienstmädchen scheinen ein Geheimnis zu hüten, dem der Kriminalrat auf den Grund gehen will. Nach weiteren mysteriösen Todesfällen beschließt Heller, selbst an einer Geisterbeschwörung teilzunehmen….

Ein großes Panorama aus historischem Wissen, Spannung, Intrigen und Liebe. 1540. Die kräuterkundige Verena von Pfäffikon soll als Hexe verbrannt werden. Doch bevor sie auf dem Scheiterhaufen stirbt, brennt das Dorf – Verena gelingt die Flucht. Drei beschwerliche Wochen später trifft sie – als Mann verkleidet und sich nun Johann nennend – in Padua ein. Im Sog einer Gruppe von Studenten gelangt sie ins anatomische Theater und wird Zeugin, wie der berühmte Anatom Andreas Vesal eine Obduktion ausführt.