Historical Psychological Thriller

Patty Miller, a paraplegic, is discovered at home barely clinging to life. Her infant son, already dead, lies on her chest still clinging to his mother. On the morning that Patty is found, she is not expected to survive but is taken to the hospital where she eventually recovers. But, severely emotionally disturbed, Patty soon finds herself a patient at Hillside Asylum.

Ucraina, 1941.Tutto inizia con l'Operazione Barbarossa, l'attacco nazista all'Unione Sovietica. Tra i primi a varcare il confine tra Germania e Russia c'è un giovane capitano dell'esercito tedesco: il suo nome è Martin Bora, il detective che ha reso celebre Ben Pastor. Colto, distaccato, compassionevole e nel contempo severo, anche in Russia Bora sarà costretto a dare prova del suo talento investigativo, inciampando quasi subito nel cadavere mutilato di una contadina.

Continua la saga di Martin Bora. Siamo nel 1944. Lasciata Roma diretto a Bolsena, Bora viene catapultato a Faracruci, un paesino dell'Abruzzo, per una missione segretissima e rischiosa. Si tratta di recuperare dei documenti brucianti. A complicare la situazione, si intromette il cadavere di un giovane sconosciuto, trovato una mattina nella piazza del paese. Fra thriller e spionaggio, uno dei romanzi più avvincenti della serie, sullo sfondo della guerra e della Resistenza abruzzese.

Martin Bora, giovane capitano del controspionaggio militare e protagonista fisso dei thriller bellici di Ben Pastor, arriva nella Ville Lumière per svolgere un incarico molto delicato: fare rapporto sulle strane mosse di Ernst Jünger, il grande scrittore, l'eroe della patria, l'amante della guerra, che però ha col regime di Hitler un infido rapporto. E sempre a lui toccherà investigare sulla misteriosa morte, avvenuta in Bretagna, della moglie di un commodoro della Marina del Terzo Reich.

Spagna, 1937. La guerra civile tra i repubblicani e gli insorti franchisti non conosce un istante di tregua. Convinto volontario del "Tercio" franchista, Martin Bora vive il conflitto spagnolo come un'avventura entusiasmante, dove il rigore delle scelte politiche si sposa all'impeto vitalistico dell'azione pura. I primi dubbi, tuttavia, cominciano ad apparire quando si imbatte nel cadavere di un uomo barbaramente assassinato. Si tratta di Federico Garcia Lorca, brillante poeta, progressista, omosessuale. Chi l'ha fatto fuori?

Martin Bora, l'investigatore di casi delicati per i servizi segreti della Wehrmacht, si trova a Mosca. Mancano settimane all'attacco di Hitler alla Russia di Stalin, e l'ufficiale è aggregato al corpo diplomatico della capitale sovietica immersa ancora nel clima del patto Ribbentrop-Molotov. In questa veste, gli arriva una strana richiesta da parte del diabolico Beria: recarsi a Creta, appena presa dai tedeschi, per procurare al raccapricciante capo dello spionaggio sovietico sessanta bottiglie di un pregiatissimo vino cretese.

Ucraina nord-orientale, 1943. Il maggiore Martin von Bora è tornato eroicamente da Stalingrado. Nel suo ruolo di ufficiale dell'Abwehr, il servizio segreto dell'esercito tedesco, ha per le mani due generali dell'Armata Rossa, Platonov e Tibyetsky, detto Khan. Entrambi sono a parte di segreti strategici. Platonov, che è stato vittima delle purghe di Stalin, è restio a collaborare. Invece, Tibyetsky-Khan, nobile passato alla rivoluzione, che tra l'altro è lontano parente di Martin, sembra più equivocamente implicato in un'opera di controllo, di disinformazione o qualcos'altro.

Salò, inverno del 1944. Reduce dall'avventuroso recupero del carteggio Mussolini-Churchill narrato ne "Il morto in piazza", il colonnello Martin Bora si ritrova sulle sponde del lago di Garda come ufficiale di collegamento tra la Wehrmacht e la Repubblica Sociale Italiana. Qui viene subito incaricato da un generale dell'Aviazione di investigare sull'incredibile furto della "Venere di Salò", un preziosissimo dipinto di Tiziano sottratto con troppa facilità dalle sale di una villa requisita dai tedeschi.

When 54-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, it's with one purpose in mind. Julianna knows she must go back to the tiny farming community in Northern Missouri where she was born and raised. It's the place where she and her best friend, Ben Taylor, roamed as children, and where her life's course shifted irrevocably one night long ago. Embarking on her journey, Julianna meets Elijah Hunter, a shy teenage African-American boy, and Jon Tate, a young hitchhiker on the run from the law.

In Blood of the Reich, critically acclaimed and best-selling author William Dietrich weaves two stories separated by place and time yet deeply intertwined by the dangerous secret they share.... On the eve of World War II, explorer Kurt Raeder receives orders from Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler to set out from Berlin in search of a legendary energy source hidden among the mountains of Tibet - one that could bring victory to the Nazis.

From its official sanction in 1953 to its shutdown in 1973, the CIA clandestinely conducted methods of mind control on unwitting American and Canadian citizens. This covert and illegal operation, Project MKULTRA, eventually made national headlines upon the declassification of thousands of documents in 2001. Intrigued by the people empowered to enact such abuses and the legacy of such an operation, Scott O'Connor weaves the nuanced and compelling story of Henry March, a CIA agent forced to spearhead a series of insidious mind-control experiments in San Francisco.

It is 1956. Radio reports of the Hungarian revolution break through the government's radio jamming, setting the entire Eastern Bloc on edge.

Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar must track down a murderer while dealing with his crumbling marriage. As he is drawn deep into an underworld of betrayal and violence, he finds that he is not so different from those he pursues.

Situated on a Turkish island, Portmantle might be the strangest, most exclusive artists' colony around. Its brilliant residents linger for years, all expenses paid and living under assumed names. Relieved of the burdens of time and ego, they are free to create their next masterpieces. Elspeth Conroy (aka "Knell") is a Scottish painter who has been at Portmantle for a decade, a refugee from the hectic London art scene. Her fellow longtimers include Quickman, whose sole book became a classic and paralyzed his muse.

Two years on from uncovering a terrifying conspiracy of rogue scientists, all Kate Maddox wants is to lead a normal life with her partner, Paul, and son, Jack. But then a face from the past turns up, bringing chilling news. A devastating new strain of the virus that killed Kate's parents is loose in LA - and when a bomb rips through a hotel, killing many top scientists, it becomes clear someone will do anything to stop a cure being found.

Gammon is under immense pressure in his latest quest to find a horrendous serial killer stalking the Peak District. The killings are mounting up, and the pressure that goes with his DCI position with Bixton Police is beginning to tell.

Part diary, part scientific journal, part detective story, part love story: The Case of Emily V is thoroughly post-modern in its deliberate blurring of the distinction between fact and fiction, its cavalier blending of literary genres. But Oatley's first novel also resembles old 19th-century literature. His characters are dynamic, his storylines complex and suspenseful, his social commentary broad and integral to the plot.

Acclaimed-author Elizabeth Harrower's stunning debut, first published in 1957. Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion - until flashy Stan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life. Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat. Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bitterly resentful of her privilege, Stan is involved with his former girlfriend and a series of shady business deals.

Andres Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. He spends his days painting a huge mural that pays homage to history's classic works of war art and that incorporates a lifetime of disturbing images.

FrontierWorld follows Tommy Ray and Willie Parker and a half dozen other characters as they meet in Seattle to begin their wagon train adventure. Once they arrive at the wagon camp, the group meets Brad Jefferson, the young wagon master who will lead the neo-pioneers through their 14-day journey. Jefferson gives the group strict instructions that everything from the 21st century must stay at the base camp. From this point on, everything will be just as it was in the early 1800s.

August 6, 1945: the day Enola Gay unleashed an atomic inferno over Hiroshima. In the wake of its devastation, two stories unfold. There’s Jim, an American soldier who was entrusted with taking care of Yoro, a Japanese girl who then disappears after the atomic bomb falls. And there’s H, a Japanese child who is at school when the bomb drops and is indelibly marked by its destruction. Both victims of the bomb, H and Jim meet for the first time in New York years later - their paths cross by chance, they fall in love, and together they continue Jim’s search for Yoro.