World War Ii Mystery Thriller

Just when US WAVE Livvy Delacourt thinks she and her team of psychic Nazi hunters are ready for whatever the Reich can throw at them, Hitler adds to the mix a spy who also happens to be a wizard. Now dark magic is being used to attack US facilities. Livvy must match wits with the evil wizard whose objective is to destroy Operation Delphi and all her team. She must sharpen her skills quickly - or risk dying and taking the team down with her.

1943: The world is at war and the outcome is anything but sure. In the heartland, communities like Caroline, Iowa, must bind together to support the cause. As the war drags on, few families escape paying the ultimate price. But the unity of this close-knit community is threatened by a violent death: a murder committed in the basement of the town's beloved Church Street United Brethren. Everyone, including the congregation's handsome new pastor, becomes a suspect.

Forty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters 16 months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works are “degenerate art” seized by the Nazis and shipped across the Atlantic to create cash for their covert operations. But how to prove it? There’s only one man for the job - Roy Hawkins. The British Secret Intelligence Service has put their half-American star agent in tough spots before, and he’s always come out on top.

1914: Sixteen-year-old Etterly, running from something, hides inside the trunk of a tree and disappears. The police search but find no trace. Her family and friends wrack their brains but come up with nothing. And so slowly life returns to normal. The hole in the tree is boarded up, and the village of Sackwater moves on. Only Etterly's best friend, Betty, clings to hope, insisting she can hear her friend calling for help. 1940: A skeleton is discovered buried in the woods....

A los trece años, la niñez de Charlie Quinn llegó a un brusco y desolador final. Dos hombres, con asuntos pendientes con su padre, que era abogado, irrumpieron en su casa y después de esa terrible noche el mundo de Charlie no volvió a ser el mismo. Ahora que ella también era abogada, se había propuesto defender a aquellos de los que nadie se preocupaba nunca. Por eso, cuando Flora Faulkner, una adolescente huérfana, le pidió ayuda, Charlie se acordó de su pasado y no fue capaz de decirle que no.

July 1940. As the Battle of Britain begins, the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary carry out the dangerous task of ferrying warplanes to RAF airbases. But for the ATA detachment sent to the base at Scotney, it’s not only in the skies that they’re a target—it seems a killer is stalking them on the ground. On the day pilot Lizzie Hayes arrives in the quiet village, one of her new comrades is found murdered. One of the few women in Britain with a psychology PhD, Lizzie thinks she can use her skills to help identify the killer, but DI Jonathan Kember isn’t convinced.

Do you think you know what really happened after World War II? You don't. Sigma made sure of that. "Ludlum's trademark skills of intricate plotting, breakneck pacing, and high-wire drama are all on display in this gripping thriller," writes Amazon.com.

It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while on a mission to take down the Twenty Committee, a German network of spies the British have turned.

A young Yale academic is summoned to Ireland to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe-deposit box, in which she finds only one thing: a nonfiction manuscript by James Bond author Ian Fleming. The manuscript, detailing Fleming's own involvement in British espionage during World War II, contains evidence that the Duke of Windsor was in a treasonous plot with Hitler, information so confidential that people are willing to kill to continue its secrecy.

Summer 1917 and Great Britain is still at war with Germany. Stylish lady detective, Miss Isabel Hewitt, is asked by her friend, Doctor Anne Murray, to find the mother of a new born baby, abandoned on the doorstep of Anne's hospital. Isabel goes to Luton in Bedfordshire, where Anne's hospital is situated and begins her investigation. Her search leads her to a local hat factory and a possible name for the mother. But the girl is currently missing.

England 1939, and the threat of German invasion looms. Richard Headley, an archaeological surveyor from Cambridge University, is tasked by the War Department with evaluating potential defensive sites along the Norfolk and Suffolk coastlines.

The West Tech Terrorist is a mystery romance novel that provides a taste of the home front during World War II America. It is the fall of 1941 at Cleveland's West Technical High School, one of the largest and most unique high schools in America. The United States is on the brink of World War II. Victor Blazek, the sports editor of the West Tech school newspaper, and his girlfriend, Doris, try to foil a sinister plot by Nazi sympathizers inside the school. But their attempt as amateur sleuths puts both their lives in danger.

España, 1934. Diego Padilla, campeón de ajedrez, conoce a la periodista francesa Marianne Latour. La guerra civil está a punto de estallar, y en ese contexto de agitación el amor encuentra a los dos jóvenes. Juntos tendrán una hija y vivirán en Madrid hasta que la violencia y la miseria los empujen al exilio a una Francia ocupada. Allí, la partida tomará otro rumbo: Diego se enfrentará a la acusación de espionaje por parte de los nazis y a un brutal encarcelamiento.

It’s 1942 in Washington, DC. Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA, and enjoys being an independent working woman despite wartime privations. But a casual friendship struck up with Alessa di Luca, a secretive war refugee, sucks Louise into a dangerous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies, banished royalty, and Sicilian aristocracy - placing not only her job but her life in jeopardy.

On a bitterly cold night in December, 1943, government girl Louise Pearlie and her friend Joe Prager are enjoying a quiet drink in the Baron Steuben Inn, when a bloodstained body is discovered behind the bar. Although the victim had been a regular customer, no one seems to know anything about him. When it turns out there is a link to Louise’s top-secret work at the OSS, she is ordered to find out as much as possible about the murder while keeping the connection secret from those involved, including the investigating police detective.

Una micidiale spia del Führer che sta per mandare a monte lo sbarco in Normandia. Una donna coraggiosa che, nella Francia occupata, lotta per la libertà. Un ragazzo danese che si imbatte nell'arma segreta dei nazisti. Quanti volti ha avuto la Seconda guerra mondiale? Nei suoi romanzi Ken Follett ne ha raccontato soprattutto l'aspetto più emozionante e nascosto, quello delle attività di intelligence e del ruolo dei civili. Spesso ispirandosi a vicende vere, ha dato vita a personaggi indimenticabili che raccontano il volto nascosto della seconda guerra mondiale.

Ares, god of war, is leading the other dying gods into battle. Which is just fine with Athena. She's ready to wage a war of her own, and she's never liked him anyway. If Athena is lucky, the winning gods will have their immortality restored. If not, at least she'll have killed the bloody lot of them, and she and Hermes can die in peace. Cassandra Weaver is a weapon of fate. The girl who kills gods. But all she wants is for the god she loved and lost to return to life. If she can't have that, then the other gods will burn, starting with his murderer, Aphrodite.

Young widow Louise Pearlie seizes a chance to escape the typewriters and files of the Office of Strategic Services, the United States’ World War II spy agency, when she’s asked to investigate a puzzling postcard referred to the OSS by the US Censor. She heads off to St. Leonard, Maryland, to talk to the postcard’s recipient, one Leroy Martin. But what seemed like a straightforward mission to Louise soon becomes complicated.

The 1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst from the Office of Strategic Services - the United States’ wartime intelligence agency - only to learn he’d drowned in the Tidal Basin days before. The OSS confirms it was an accident, and Louise is sent back to her regular job in the file rooms. Her time spent investigating Paul Hughes at least has one positive outcome, though: Louise meets a young woman in the OSS Reading Room, who asks her to join her “salon".

February, 1944. Washington, DC. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to the London office of the OSS. But in order to take up her new post, she must make a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the SS Amelia Earhart. Accompanying her on the voyage to Liverpool is an eclectic group of passengers, including the aloof Blanche Bryant, whose husband, Eddie, died in mysterious circumstances on the ship’s voyage out to New York, three months before.