Mystery England

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery - including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while others in the village have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place...and then they dissapear!

How does a maximum-security inmate commit a murder on the outside? The answer is more terrifying than you think. Mark my words.... Derek Warren is smooth, charming, and a master manipulator. But is he a killer?

En ærlig og ordentlig mand bliver overordentligt overrasket, da han ved juletid finder en død gås med en enorm blå juvel maven. Faktisk bliver han så befippet, at han skynder sig hen til mesterdetektiven Sherlock Holmes med den. Den berømte og nonchalante detektiv er straks fanget af den mærkelige hændelse og kaster sig frådende over gåden. Sagen rummer et væld af mærkelige spor, som han på sin klassiske manér stykker sammen til en løsning...

Wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer. Dieser Ansicht sind zumindest die Bewohner des Provinznestes Lymstock, als anonyme Verleumdungsbriefe im Dorf kursieren...

Stan and Jake's wedding will soon take place on the town green in Frog Ledge, Connecticut, followed by a reception at their beloved Irish pub filled with friends, family, and their four favorite canine companions. Stan just has to endure the traditional girls' night out first. Male strippers jumping out of gigantic cakes aren't her preferred entertainment. But the hired hottie never gets around to taking it all off . . . because someone takes him out first with one of Stan's kitchen knives.

Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting critic of the Cardinal is found brutally slain whilst awaiting an audience at Richmond Palace. He will not be the last to die. Anthony Blanke, trumpeter and groom, is once again called upon to unmask a murderer. Joining forces with Sir Thomas More, he is forced to confront the unpopularity of his master's rule.

Frankie und Sophie wachsen in einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt am Meer auf. Die beiden sind unzertrennlich, verbringen die Abende mit ihrer Clique auf dem alten Pier, trinken Dosenbier und tanzen zu Madonna. Und sie erzählen einander alles. Doch dann verschwindet Sophie eines Nachts spurlos. Zurück bleiben nur ihr Turnschuh am Pier und die Frage nach dem Warum. 18 Jahre später wird dort eine Leiche angespült, und Frankie weiß, dass sie nach Hause zurückkehren und Antworten finden muss. Darauf, was in dieser Nacht wirklich geschah. Denn niemand verschwindet einfach so.

Here is New York Times best-selling author Iris Johansen's novel of unforgettable romance and unrelenting suspense; a ravishing thriller of a woman with a secret irresistibly drawn into the glittering world of a famous man whose past may be murder.

Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. The fates of the two cousins and Mr Cadmus, and those of Little Camborne and Caldera, become inextricably enmeshed....

Chicago sixth graders Ruthie and Jack think they’ve learned everything about the magic of the Art Institute’s Thorne Rooms. But the magic starts to act strangely when Ruthie and Jack discover two rings that are out of place - and out of time - and a portal that shouldn’t be open but somehow is. Ruthie and Jack follow the clues to 17th-century England and the Brownlow house, where they meet the Brownlow’s governess, Rebecca. But Rebecca has a few secrets of her own - and she might even be in the wrong century!

Mortician Tennessee England lives to honor the dead. But a slow season means she’s back freelancing as a party planner. Doctor Phillip Saint James warns the stress might worsen her cerebral aneurysm, causing all sorts of mystifying symptoms. To her disgust, he’s right. She’s been hallucinating a sexy ghost samurai all damn day. Or has she? His icy touch on the nape of her neck feels awfully real! So do his dire warnings that she must choose a side: mortal or immortal.

It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.

The ghostly little monk of Foulridge and the giant apparition from Heaton Norris are just two of the denizens of the North-West you might not care to meet on a dark, stormy evening. But for those intrepid souls whose hearts quicken at the thought of eerie footsteps and muffled groans Peter Underwood has assembled an impressive collection of traditional legends.

Darlington is a small Northern town where everyone knows everyone. And Detectives Tanzy and Byrd know there’s a twisted serial killer in their midst... They find Julia Porter’s body tied to a chair in her quiet family home in the outskirts of Darlington. She’s covered in blood, and someone has cut out her eyes. Next to her is a message written in red crayon: She didn’t see it coming. Detectives Tanzy and Byrd have never seen the like of this in their town before. Then a few days later a woman is handed a package on the high street. It contains Julia Porter’s eyes ... It’s a warning.

As the old gods are eroded by the new church and and ambitious men vie for power, blood is shed throughout the land. In the south, ealdorman Aelfhere believes that for his only daughter, 16-year-old Cynethryth, marriage to a Saxon king is the way to security. And so, against her own wishes, Cynethryth is betrothed. Yet as battle rages around her, Cynethryth too becomes a victim of war. Taken prisoner by the warrior invaders, she is forced into the presence of another Saxon king, who would also have her for his wife. A man she actually loves.

The Sukhoi Su-57 “Felon”. The Russian Federation’s formidable new stealth fighter. Sleek, dangerous, and—forward-deployed into the maelstrom of the Syrian Civil War for field testing—vulnerable. For the CIA, the Su-57’s presence in Syria presents an opportunity. For Mossad’s David Shafron, the former assassin once known as the “Lion of God”, it represents a threat. For the Syrian rebels soon tasked with its recovery...their own damnation. It’s a high-stakes gambit worthy of the Cold War, but this war is red-hot.

DAS TAL DER ANGST beginnt mit einem rätselhaften Mord im Herzen Londons, der Holmes' unvergleichliche Fähigkeiten herausfordert. Die Auflösung des Falls führt ihn zusammen mit seinem treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson jedoch in die abgelegenen Berglandschaften eines gefährlichen Tals in Amerika.

Eine stürmische Winternacht im England des späten 19. Jahrhunderts: In der Gaststube des "Swan" sitzen die Bewohner von Radcot zusammen und wärmen sich an ihren Geschichten und Getränken, als ein Mann mit einem leblosen Mädchen im Arm hereinstolpert, das er aus der Themse geborgen hat. Die herbeigerufene Krankenschwester kann nur noch den Tod feststellen. Als sie jedoch ein paar Stunden später erneut nach dem Kind schaut, bemerkt sie, dass es wieder atmet. Ein Wunder oder gar Zauberei?

When a shy high-school student's body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England beach town - an apparent suicide - 15-year-old Terry Novak doesn't know what to think. Something just doesn't add up, so he decides to do some investigating of his own with the help of his best friend, Abby. It doesn't take long before they learn that asking questions puts them in grave danger, and surviving is going to be a fight.

When a mute criminal known as the "Street Arab" is taken into custody, police call on court missionary Robert Elliott to try and unravel the enigma. With the help of Mary O'Driscoll, a sharply perceptive nurse, Elliott reveals the prisoner to be Walter Stanford, a man with a blemished past and who is about to change their lives forever. As Elliott tries to understand the significance of a mysterious note found in a locket on the cell floor, Mary becomes haunted by a series of lucid dreams about Walter's life and a dark, harrowing crime.