Tudor Mystery

Der Sinn des Lebens: Herr Spessa schaut sich während der Fussball-WM gemeinsam mit Freunden Spiele an. Seine Frau fand das bis anhin nicht toll, doch diesmal ist sie regelrecht begeistert. Herr Spessa befürchtet deshalb, dass seine Frau einen Liebhaber hat. Falsche Polizisten: Der Vater von Maloneys Klient wird beinahe das Opfer von Trickbetrügern. Ein falscher Polizist fragte nach Bargeld in der Wohnung und erklärte dem alten Mann, dass das Geld nicht sicher sei. Maloney soll den falschen Polizisten ausfindig machen.

London, 1594. The queen's physician has been executed for treason and conspiracy theories flood the streets. When Nicholas Shelby, unorthodox physician and unwilling associate of spymaster Robert Cecil, is accused of being part of the plot, he and his new wife, Bianca, must flee for their lives. With agents of the Crown on their tail, they make for Padua, following the ancient pilgrimage route, the Via Francigena. But the pursuing English aren't the only threat Nicholas and Bianca face.

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.

In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes.

London, 1471. The War of the Roses rages on. Edward of York has claimed the English throne, and his Yorkist supporters gleefully slaughter their adversaries; there's no mercy for anyone who supported the Lancastrian cause. Margaret Beaufort - mother of Henry Tudor, the only hope for the House of Lancaster - knows her enemies are closing in. Desperate for help, she turns to Christopher Urswicke for protection. But when ruthless scheming and pitiless killings are the only routes to survival, Urswicke will have to choose where his loyalties truly lie.

Her family offered a life of power and privilege, until Lotti turned away from her father’s grand plans – and towards a life that felt more like her own. With a new start as a teacher, Lotti may have even found the right man, a rough-around-the-edges single dad who’d never fit in with her high-brow upbringing, but who has started to feel like home. But Lotti isn’t the only one running. August’s strong silent demeanour may be part of his appeal, but as they get closer, his inability to talk about his past begins to jeopardise their future.

Die Bombendrohung: Maloneys neue Klientin ist Direktorin eines Einkaufszentrums. Innert kurzer Zeit sind mehrere Bombendrohungen eingegangen. Beim ersten Mal wurden die Leute aus dem Gebäude evakuiert. Danach hat man keinen Alarm mehr ausgelöst. Maloney spricht mit einem Tatverdächtigen, der im Zentrum wegen Diebstahls ein Hausverbot hat. Diesen Mann trifft er auch vor einem Bürogebäude an, das wegen eines Bombenalarms ebenfalls geräumt werden musste. Das Jubiläumsgeschenk: Eine Frau kommt zu Maloney und behauptet, ein Jubiläumsgeschenk für ihn zu haben.

UN surgeon Rachel Forester is posted at a remote medical clinic deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With violence escalating in the region, Dr Forester risks her life by remaining to tend an injured child while the rest of her team evacuates. On the cusp of her final desperate chance to leave, a soldier is carried into the camp by three other members of his unit, his condition so critical, his airlift must take priority over hers.

London, 1593. Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick physician – and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a life on Bankside. But in London there is always a plot afoot.... Robert Cecil, the Queen’s spymaster, once again recruits Nicholas to embark on a dangerous undercover mission that will take him to the back alleys of Marrakech in search of a missing informer.

Varina Westcott is a young widow and a talented candlemaker for the royal court and church. At a time of great political unrest in 1501, Varina is conscripted for a secret project by Queen Elizabeth of York. Her task? To carve wax figures of four dead children. But soon, news comes to the court: The queen's eldest child, heir to the throne, Arthur, prince of Wales, has died. Deep in her grief, Elizabeth of York does not believe her son died of natural causes or because of a sudden illness - she believes he was murdered by the king's enemies.

Gabe Forman está preso em um engarrafamento, atrasado para o jantar em casa com a família, quando o rosto de sua filha, Izzy, de cinco anos, aparece no vidro traseiro do carro à frente e balbucia “papai”. Três anos depois, Gabe passa seus dias e noites rodando pela estrada em que viu Izzy pela última vez.

Ein kleines Dorf in Sussex. Eine unheilvolle Legende. Und eine Pfarrerin, die die Ruhe der Geister stört. Vor 500 Jahren: Acht Märtyrer wurden bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt. Vor 30 Jahren: Zwei Mädchen verschwanden für immer. Vor zwei Monaten: Ein Pfarrer hat sich in der Kapelle erhängt. Willkommen in Chapel Croft. Für die Pfarrerin Jack Brooks und ihre Tochter Flo sollte es ein Neustart sein: neuer Job, neues Zuhause. Aber Jack stößt auf eine eingeschworene Dorfgemeinschaft, in der Misstrauen gegenüber Fremden tief verwurzelt ist.

Ein kleines Dorf in Sussex. Eine unheilvolle Legende. Und eine Pfarrerin, die die Ruhe der Geister stört. Vor 500 Jahren: Acht Märtyrer wurden bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt. Vor 30 Jahren: Zwei Mädchen verschwanden für immer. Vor zwei Monaten: Ein Pfarrer hat sich in der Kapelle erhängt. Willkommen in Chapel Croft. Für die Pfarrerin Jack Brooks und ihre Tochter Flo sollte es ein Neustart sein: neuer Job, neues Zuhause. Aber Jack stößt auf eine eingeschworene Dorfgemeinschaft, in der Misstrauen gegenüber Fremden tief verwurzelt ist.

After leading a raid in Afghanistan, elite operative John Stratton is contacted by an old friend in military intelligence with a curious message about being hunted by an assassin. When the officer vanishes, Stratton gets drawn into a desperate race to secure a missing nuclear warhead, stolen from the Pakistan military. Against an unknown enemy, he conducts a terrifying search for the bomb - from a Taliban hideout a few miles outside Bagram Air Base to the crowded streets of Manhattan.

Spanish Netherlands, 1620s: raised by her father Lucas to know her mind, Antonia Vorsterman sees everything that goes on in her world—all the rivalries and jealousies that course through the artists' studios and workshops of Antwerp. Drawn into the lively household of the artist Peter Paul Rubens, whose work her father engraves for a living, Antonia begins to see a life of colour and possibility for herself—until Lucas entrusts her with a terrible secret that will alter the course of their family's future.

Richard and Robin Mariner are amongst a select group of honoured guests at a reception in the Presidential Palace, in the recently refurbished capital of a powerful West Africa nation. They have been instrumental in helping the president take charge, which he is still fighting to drag into the 21st century.

After the British military lose an officer to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, a desperate race begins to find his killers. Little do the assailants know that the precious information they have stolen could bring down the entire network of Western intelligence in the Mid-East. But then one of them is captured by US troops and flown to the States for interrogation. And so begins a nail-biting, claustrophobic and explosive thriller that will ultimately lead British operative John Stratton to the Styx penitentiary, America's undersea prison.

1938: As Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the fürher’s land hunger is insatiable, the head of the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to help him prove that Czechoslovakia is threatened with invasion. Before heading undercover to Prague, however, Jardine must first extricate himself from France, where his attempts to smuggle guns to Spain have been held up by a group of fanatical fascists. Finally arriving in Czechoslovakia, working undercover for the SIS proves no less dangerous.

In the dark days of King James I, a man must know his enemies to survive. To Henry Gresham, gentleman, scholar, courtier, and spy, William Shadwell is invaluable. A thief, informer, double-dealer, and pimp, he may not be the most moral of men, but he is one of Gresham's best sources. When Shadwell is murdered, Gresham's enquiries uncover a plot so audacious it is scarcely believable.

1326: Queen Isabella refuses to leave France and humiliates her husband, King Edward II, by flaunting her adulterous relationship with the arch-traitor Sir Roger Mortimer. The King is furious when he hears she has also betrothed their son to the daughter of the French Count of Hainault, and all England fears invasion. As news of an invasion fleet is received, the King’s knights, including Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, are commanded to London to protect the King and his realm.

1325: Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend Simon Puttock are sent to France to guard the King’s son. The King’s son must pay homage to the French King if he is to enable the English to keep hold of vital territory, but they are unaware that King Edward’s wife, Isabella, has grown so disaffected that she has begun to plot her revenge.