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      • Fiction
        March 2016

        A Coin for the Hangman

        by Ralph Spurrier

        Booksellers never know what they might find in an estate sale. When our man finds the tools of England’s last hangman, along with the diary of a man he executed, he knows he has a mystery to solve. Was there a miscarriage of justice? Did the wrong man die at the noose? And just who is telling the truth?  A mystery that has readers guessing to the very last page.

      • Fiction

        A Pair of Sharp Eyes

        by Kat Armstrong

        In a brutal slave port, a servant girl uncovers secrets. But does she understand the danger she is in? Coronation hears of the murders before she even reaches the slave port of Bristol – six boys found with their throats slit. The locals blame the killings on Red John, a travelling-man few have actually seen. Coronation yearns to know more about the mystery. But first she has to outsmart the bawds, thieves and rakes who prey on young girls like her. fresh from the countryside and desperate for work. When the murderer strikes shockingly close to Coronation, she schemes, eavesdrops and spies on all around her until the shameful truth is out.

      • Fiction
        March 2017

        The Mystery of Madam Yin

        by Nathan Winters

        Inspector Celeste Summersteen is leaving Chicago to travel to London with young Dorothea Ellingsford. It may seem that she is merely accompanying the girl back to her family, whereas her real task is much more precarious: one of Dorothea’s friends was murdered and Celeste has to find the murderer and protect Dorothea, who now appears to be in danger herself. When the corpse of the opium queen of the East End, Madame Yin, is found in the river Thames, Celeste is drawn deep into the hidden parts of society. She gets support from Inspector Edwards, who at the beginning does everything but helping her.

      • Fiction
        August 2021

        Wenn die Schatten sterben

        by Christof Gasser

        Wenn die Schatten sterben Kriminalroman Auf einem herrschaftlichen Schweizer Familiensitz fördern Renovierungsarbeiten den Leichnam einer jungen Frau zutage, die in den 1940er Jahren erschossen wurde. Offiziell ist der Fall verjährt. Doch der aus Deutschland stammenden Becky Kolberg, der das Schloss inzwischen gehört, lässt das Schicksal der Toten keine Ruhe. Die junge Frau arbeitete in einer Waffenfabrik im Ort, die sich im besitz der Nationalsozialisten befand. Becky stößft auf Tagebücher und Fotos des Opfers aus jener Zeit, als die Schweiz vom Faschismus umzingelt war. Fasziniert taucht sie in das fremde Leben ein - bis die Schatten der Vergangenheit auch nach ihr greifen. Zwei Frauen, zwei Epochen, eine Hoffnung Mit Wenn die Schatten sterben widmet sich der Schweizer Bestsellerautor Christof Gaser einem Thema, das in der Kriminalliteratur bislang wenig Beachtung fand. Eindrucksvoll schildert er die bedrückende Atmosphäre der Schweiz zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Das Land ist vom Faschismus nahezu umzingelt, niemand weiß, ob Hitler den Befehl zum Einmarsch in die Alpenrepublik erteilt und selbst unter den Eidgenossen gibt es Strömungen, die offen den Anschluss der Schweiz an das Deutsche Reich befürworten. In einer packenden Geschichte fokussiert Gasser einen zeitgeschichtlichen Wendepunkt, in dem die Schweiz beinahe in eine epochale Katastrophe gezogen worden wäre und zeigt, wie erschreckend fragil Freiheit und Frieden sind. Seine Protagonistin Becky Kolberg stößt auf ihrem Schweizer Familiensitz auf Tagebücher einer jungen Frau, deren Inhalt die Geschichte der Schweiz in einem völlig neuem Licht erscheinen lassen. Welches Geheimnis birgt das Leben der jungen Emma Kummer, die 1940 in einer deutschen Waffenfabrik in Solothurn gearbeitet hat? Und hätte sich die Schweiz um ein Haar zu einem völlig anderen Land entwickeln können? Christof Gasser erzählt eine faszinierende Geschichte, die die Auswirkungen historischer Bedingungen und individueller Entscheidungen bis in die Gegenwart nachzeichnet. Dabei zeigt er eindrucksvoll auf, dass der Kriminalroman als Genre nicht vor großen Themen und existenziellen Konflikten zurückschrecken muss. Vielmehr ermöglicht er eine ganz eigene Form der Auseinandersetzung, die in Wenn die Schatten sterben meisterhaft umgesetzt wurde.

      • Fiction

        Sie waren nie weg

        by Paul Kohl

        Sie waren nie weg Paul Kohl Deutschland 1951: Die Republik ist im Aufbruch. Menschen kehren heim aus Krieg und Emigration. Auch die alte Naziriege ist wieder da. Sie war nie weg. Mit ihren alten Zielen wird sie wieder eingesetzt in ihre Ämter, in die Presse, Parteien, in Parlamente. Und mittendrin der jugendliche Ludwig, benebelt von den Heimatfilmen "Schwarzwaldmädel", "Grün is die Heide" und vom Wirtschaftswunder. Als er erkennt, was um ihn herum geschieht und was sein eigener Vater getan hat, handelt er. Wirtschaftswunder zwischen Kriegsruinen: ein gesellschaftliches Panorama Nachrkriegsdeutschland. In Sie waren nie weg entwirft der Autor und Zeitzeuge Paul Kohl ein Sittengemälde der Nachkriegszeit. Die größten Trümmerberge sind abgetragen, die Baulücken werden emsig geschlossen, über die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit wird geschwiegen. Aus historischen Quellen, Erinnerungsfragmenten und fiktiven Elementen entfaltet Kohl einen mitreißenden Entwicklungsroman, der hineinsticht in das damalige Deutschland. Paul Kohl zeigt die Fünzigerjahre als das Jahrzehnt des großen Verdrängens, das die Täter und Mitläufer der NS-Zeit wieder in die Mitte der Gesellschaft aufnimmt. Im Zentrum des Romans steht der junge Ludwig, der die Zerrissenheit der Zeit deutlich spürt und bald bemerkt, dass mit den Heimatfilmen und der Schlagermusik etwas nicht stimmen kann. Er lernt den Verleger Middelhauve kennen, der seine FDP auf Rechtskurs trimmt, prominente Nazis in seine Partei aufnimmt und den nationalsozialistischen Naumann-Kreis unterstützt. Und er lernt die in ihre Heimatstadt zurückgekehrte 18-jährige jüdische Buchhändlerin Luise kennen, die mit ihrem Vater in belgischen KZs gefangen war. Seine Freundschaft mit ihr öffnet ihm die Augen. Durch sie beginnt Ludwig die kritischen Autoren Böll, Andersch und Koeppen und Bücher über Widerstand und die Wiederbewaffnung der Bundesrepublik zu lesen. Paul Kohl schildert eindrucksvoll die verstörende Kontinuität vom NS-Staat zur jungen Republik im Zeichen des Aufschwungs. Brillant recherchiert, lakonisch, gesellschaftskritisch.

      • Biography & True Stories
        May 2011

        The Sex Slave Murders

        The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego

        by R. Barri Flowers

        The Sex Slave Murders is an international bestselling true crime book.   A marriage made in hell... Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her lethal husband, Gerald, lay waiting. A killer couple bound together by secrets, lies, and sex slave fantasies... Married multiple times and still in his early thirties, Gerald Gallego found the perfect companion in Charlene. Over a grisly period of twenty-six months, their bloody and brutal rampage of kidnapping, rape, and murder spanned three states and claimed eleven lives. In this much more frightening than fiction tale of domination, depraved lust, substance abuse, violence, and murder, award winning, bestselling criminologist R. Barri Flowers tells the whole story of a couple's twisted relationship, their ghastly crimes and ability to elude the law, how they were finally captured, and the two riveting trials that ultimately pitted wife against husband with the stakes higher than either once imagined in their murderous bond.   "Selected as one of Suspense Magazine's Best of 2011 books." -- John Raab, CEO/Publisher, Suspense Magazine   "A gripping account of the murders committed by husband-and-wife serial killers Gerald and Charlene Gallego. Top true crime author and criminologist R. Barri Flowers provides his keen insight and expertise into what made these killing partners tick. Flowers knows his stuff. Compelling reading." -- Gary C. King, author of Blood Lust

      • Fiction
        November 2012

        Dark Streets of Whitechapel

        A Jack the Ripper Mystery

        by R. Barri Flowers

        Modern day criminologist and Ripperologist and bestselling author R. Barri Flowers delivers a heart-pounding historical thriller in Dark Streets of Whitechapel, featuring arguably the most infamous and elusive murderer of them all--19th century serial killer Jack the Ripper.   In 1888 in New York City, the search for a killer of prostitutes comes to an end with the capture of Doctor Jack Lewiston, a respected surgeon and madman. But before he can go to trial, Jack escapes from custody and flees the country to London, England.   Brought out of retirement to track him down is ex-NYC homicide detective-criminologist Henry Marboro. In charge of the original investigation into the “Ripper Murders,” Henry lost his objectivity when his younger sister was one of Jack’s victims. Ultimately his obsession to find the killer cost him his career, his wife, and some time in a hospital for alcohol treatment.   Now on a renewed mission, Henry must find Jack Lewiston and bring him back to America--dead or alive--hopefully before more prostitutes become the victims of the serial killer.   In the process, Henry develops an attraction for a mysterious and beautiful American nurse, Loraine Broderick, who lives in London. Unfortunately, Jack also has his sights set on her as a target of his madness in addition to ladies of the night streetwalking in Whitechapel in London’s East End.     “It gets no better than this! R. Barri Flowers has written another thriller guaranteed to hold onto its readers! It was so gripping that I forgot to breathe a couple of times!” -- Huntress Reviews   “A compelling and powerful account of Jack the Ripper.... Flowers has captured the sights and sounds of New York City and London’s East End in 1888.... The action is fast paced; the suspense building to a peak to the finale.” -- MysteryAbout.com

      • Fiction
        August 2004

        DIAMONDS:

        The Rush of '72

        by Sam North

        Diamonds: The Rush of 1872:  A true story from the American West When two Kentucky prospectors, John Slack and Philip Arnold arrived penniless and near starving in San Francisco to deposit raw 'American' diamonds in the Bank of California, it caused quite a stir. Rumors flew across the city. This was going to be bigger than Kimberley and everyone wanted a piece of the action. But Slack and Arnold would be hard men to woo. This is a true story of the American West all the main players famous in their own time. What begins as a trickle in the Colorado mountains would grow into the great diamond rush of 1872 and ruin the lives of almost everyone it touched. ---

      • Fiction
        October 2011

        Song at Dawn

        1150 in Provence

        by Jean Gill

        Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction - a medieval thriller/romanceBook 1 in the Troubadours Series 1150 in Provence, where love and marriage are as divided as Christian and Muslim. A historical thriller set in Narbonne just after the Second Crusade. On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her petticoats. Her talent finds a patron in Alienor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Weary of war, Dragonetz uses Jewish money and Moorish expertise to build that most modern of inventions, a papermill, arousing the wrath of the Church. Their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne. Watch the trailer youtube.com/watch?v=XZvFmOkD6Pc

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        The Girl on the Roof

        by Debra Moffitt

        As the people of Annecy in the French Alps meet the Gestapo’s brutality with surprising resistance, a teen-aged girl cannot rest until she solves the mystery of a death in her family. Aurelie watches as her father places a shrouded body on the North side of the roof of their home. It’s winter, under a Nazi-declared state of siege, and they must wait until the spring thaw for the burial. But who died? And why is no one speaking to her anymore? Aurelie must discover the truth and fight to prevent the same terrible fate from happening to her best friend.

      • Fiction
        October 2019

        The Train from Enfield

        by Nathan Winters

        Celeste Summersteen wanted to delay her journey home to help with the search for Osbert Pudley. But since he stays lost, she is as good as convinced to go to Chicago when a good friend of hers gets shot and heavily injured. His finacee wants her to find the man responsible. Meanwhile Inspector Edwards investigates another assault and soon they discover that both their cases are intertwined.

      • Fiction
        June 2012

        Las cartas robadas

        by Lorenzo de Medici

        Some lost in the seventeenth century jewelry, a secret box Rubens, murder and intrigue where nothing is what it seems. Paris, 1623. A secret letters. Some jewelry missing. An encryption code. A Queen and court painter. Camogli, Italy, 2010. Break Ann Carrington, Professor of History in the United States, are complicated when he learns of the death of Professor Scoppetta, whom he had summoned to show him some unpublished letters written by Maria de 'Medici, and reveal a secret. Who is behind this murder? What interests are behind the research that was conducted Professor Scopetta? Ann Carrington Will continue with it and crack the code that Rubens used to communicate with Queen Maria de 'Medicis? Lorenzo de 'Medici, a direct descendant of the legendary Italian family Medici captivates readers with a novel full of interesting historical details and appealing characters in which recounts one of the most unknown episodes of his illustrious predecessors.   BIC CODE; FV – FJH – FFH BISAC CODE; FIC014000 FIC022020

      • Historical mysteries

        Mysteries of Britain

        by Michelle Brachet

        The Little Book of Mysteries of Britain begins by uncovering an array of historical mysteries, exposing the tales of the past that are sitting right underneath us in the present. From the secrets of 17th and 18th-century smuggler s tunnels to the flight of Mary, Queen of Scots, particular mysteries are researched, studied and explained in detail. Proving also to be a good do-it-yourself guide, if there is a local mystery that you have always wanted to get to the bottom of, you will learn how to get your very own investigations underway

      • Fiction

        The Gilded Shroud

        Lady Fan Mysteries - Book 1

        by Elizabeth Bailey

        When a murder is committed a lady’s companion finds herself as an amateur sleuth… 1789, London: When Emily Fanshawe, Marchioness of Polbrook, is found strangled in her bedchamber, suspicion immediately falls on those residing in the grand house in Hanover Square. Emily’s husband – Randal Fanshawe, Lord Polbrook – fled in the night and is chief suspect – much to the dismay of his family. Ottilia Draycott is brought in as the new lady’s companion to Sybilla, Dowager Marchioness and soon finds herself assisting younger son, Lord Francis Fanshawe in his investigations. Can Ottilia help clear the family name? Does the killer still reside in the house? Or could there be more to the mystery than meets the eye…?

      • Fiction
        November 2015

        El plan Bérkowitz

        by Mario J. Les

        The autumn of 2001 has barely begun. An elderly prisoner wakes up in his cell like every morning since an eternity. Tired of the endless confinement, he awaits for his own death as the only way out from the nightmare that haunts him. During the summer of that same year, three young men, partners in a modest audiovisual company, are hired by an eccentric millionaire to make some nature documentaries in Kenya. Excited, they face the opportunity of their lives: a dream job and the possibility of refloating his battered economy. However, they will soon discover that not all that glitters around their patron is gold. In the troubled Germany of 1938, Eyal Bérkowitz was one among hundred Jewish prisoners who were transferred from the Dachau concentration camp to the newly opened Flossenbürg. There they will work from sunrise to sunset in the neighboring quarry, extracting the granite necessary for the constructions that Albert Speer has designed for Hitler's imperialist Germany. The Jewish group, with Bérkowitz leading, will suffer in their flesh the abuse of power by the head of their barracks, Ludwig von Häussler, captain of the SS. With the background of World War II, the attack on Reinhard Heydrich and Operation Valkyrie, Eyal Bérkowitz will devise a risky plan that can save his own life ... and mortgage that of others. * * *  Apenas comenzado el otoño de 2001, un anciano prisionero despierta en su celda como cada mañana desde hace una eternidad. Hastiado de ese interminable encierro, aguarda su propia muerte como única salida a la pesadilla que le atormenta. Durante el verano de ese mismo año, tres jóvenes, socios de una modesta empresa audiovisual, son contratados por un excéntrico millonario para realizar unos documentales de naturaleza en Kenia. Entusiasmados, se ven ante la oportunidad de sus vidas; un trabajo soñado y la posibilidad de reflotar su maltrecha economía. Sin embargo, pronto descubrirán que no es oro todo lo que reluce en torno a su mecenas. En la convulsa Alemania de 1938, Eyal Bérkowitz forma parte del centenar de presos judíos que son trasladados del campo de concentración de Dachau al recién inaugurado Flossenbürg. Allí trabajarán de sol a sol en la cantera vecina extrayendo el granito necesario para las construcciones que Albert Speer ha proyectado para la Alemania imperialista de Hitler. El grupo judío, con Bérkowitz a la cabeza, sufrirá en sus carnes el abuso de poder por parte del jefe de su barracón, Ludwig von Häussler, capitán de las SS. Con el trasfondo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el atentado contra Reinhard Heydrich y la Operación Valkiria, Eyal Bérkowitz ideará un arriesgado plan que puede salvar su propia vida… e hipotecar la de otros.

      • Fiction
        February 2021

        The Crow Folk

        #1 in The Witches of Woodville Trilogy

        by Mark Stay

        For fans of Lev Grossman and Terry Pratchett comes this delightful novel of war, mystery and a little bit of magic... Fall in love with the extraordinary world of Faye Bright – it’s Maisie Dobbs meets The Magicians. As Spitfires roar overhead and a dark figure stalks the village of Woodville, a young woman will discover her destiny… Faye Bright always felt a little bit different. And today she’s found out why. She’s just stumbled across her late mother’s diary which includes not only a spiffing recipe for jam roly-poly, but spells, incantations, runes and recitations… a witch’s notebook. And Faye has inherited her mother’s abilities. Just in time, too. The Crow Folk are coming. Led by the charismatic Pumpkinhead, their strange magic threatens Faye and the villagers. As WW2 goes on in the background, and armed with little more than her mum’s words, her trusty bicycle, the grudging help of two bickering old ladies, and some aggressive church bellringing, Faye will find herself on the front lines of a war nobody expected.

      • Fiction

        Frozen Blood

        by F.G. Haghenbeck

        In 1943 the Mexican government imprisoned mexican citizens who were descendants of Germans (considered to be possible traitors) in the Perote concentration camp, inside the old fortress of San Carlos. More than five hundred people were locked in those high mountains, surrounded by only cold and humidity.   This is in one of the most secret passages in Mexican history. In the middle of a harsh and snowy winter, the prisoners will have to face something more than the Mexican government when a gigantic pre-Hispanic god awakens from his millennial hibernation ready to regain lost power: Xipe Tótec, a flayed lord.   The stark deity will cause terror among Austrians and Germans, who will have to confront terrifying ancient magic, suspicion hanging over their heads, and their own uncontrollable demons.

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        El bosque de los cuatro vientos

        by Maria Oruña

        THE FOREST OF THE FOUR WINDS Jon Bécquer is an anthropologist whose job is to locate and uncover lost historical objects. In an old monastery in Ourense he begins to investigate the curious disappearance of centuries-old relics which are part of The Legend of Nine Rings. So, when the corpse of a man in a Benedictine habit worn two centuries before unexpectedly appears, Bécquer and sergeant Xocas will venture deep into the legendary forests of Galicia in search of an explanation. As they move back in time, they will come across a singular story of doctor Vallejo and his daughter Marina, who, at the beginning of the 19th century travelled from Valladolid to the former Principality of Galicia to dedicate themselves to monastic life. There they will witness the fall of the Church after centuries in power and the final demise of the Anciene Régime, brought about by political upheaval and the Enlightenment. Interested in medicine and botany but not allowed to study, Marina will break the rules of knowledge, love and liberty that will change forever the course of life of the future generations.

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        Ghosts’ Procession

        by Gianluca Lioni

        Sardinia, 1864. Russian anarchist Michail Bakunin lands on the island of La Maddalena, where he is personally greeted by Giuseppe Garibaldi and his gang. Meanwhile, at the only tavern in the village, old English captain Daniel Roberts learns about the mysterious death of Loriga, a merchant who claimed to have witnessed the Rèula, a macabre procession of souls that local people believe to be a “portent of doom”. But Roberts is too shrewd a man to fall for superstition, and so he begins to investigate what could be the true reason behind this murder –until the situation soon falls into chaos when another man is found dead.To solve the mystery, Roberts must delve into the intricate tangle of deceptions, secrets and fables, with Garibaldi, Bakunin and a priest as his allies.With a skilful and knowing literary eye, Gianluca Lioni creates a strongly convincing scenario for his debut novel, a story just as plausible as historically accurate.

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