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Frère Cadfael fait partie d'une délégation religieuse qui se rend au Pays de Galles pour ramener à l'abbaye bénédictine de Shrewsbury les reliques de Sainte Winifred. Les tractations avec les Gallois sont difficiles. Pendant le séjour, Rhisiard , leader de l'opposition au transfert, est assassiné. Immédiatement son pauvre serviteur, anglais et amoureux transi de sa fille, est désigné coupable. Ce n'est pas l'avis de frère Cadfael qui va apporter son aide à cet homme malheureux que le destin accable.

London, 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable.' 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.' So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde in a Chelsea drawing room, in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle. The business they are gathered to discuss is none other than the case of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious murderer in England. And thus the three men set out to solve one of the world's most famous mysteries.

November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who’s become the solver of high society’s trickiest problems. But when the sumptuous black-tie event turns deadly, Olive’s cousin Peter becomes the main suspect. Olive must unmask a sophisticated killer before an innocent man takes the blame . . . because murder doesn’t RSVP.

Olive and Jasper have never been closer—except for one thing. Jasper is still reticent about his frequent disappearances from polite society. With the holidays approaching and no paying client on the books, Olive decides to shadow Jasper when he’s unexpectedly called away. Her search brings her to Holly Hill Lodge where an eclectic group has gathered to celebrate an old-fashioned English Christmas. When the butler goes missing, Olive and Jasper must work together to solve the Christmas crime—as well as the secret Jasper hides.

Anthea Halliwell's once-bright future is cruelly taken from her the moment she is accused of stealing a necklace dripping with rubies and diamonds and attempting to sell it. Her beloved Captain Crispin breaks off their engagement at the first hint of scandal and marries her friend instead. Then to make matters worse, her father gambles away their fortune. Heartbroken and penniless, Anthea is forced to beg handsome Gideon Rodrigo for help. But she never expects him to propose.

It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds herself happily settled into a sleepy hamlet in the interior of British Columbia surrounded by a suitably eclectic cast of small-town characters, she feels like she may finally be able to put her past to rest. But then a body is discovered, the victim of murder, and although she works alongside the town's Inspectors Darling and Ames to discover who might have possibly have motivation to kill, she unknowingly casts doubt on herself.

November, 1923. Olive’s school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi’s dotty grandmother fears for her life—or so she’s said to Gigi. However Olive is surprised to find that the dowager is far from muddled. The sharp and imperious matriarch refuses to admit to her worries and sends Olive on her way. Without a client or case, Olive is swept into the glittering lifestyle of the “fast set,” and their decadent excess. But then among the cocktails and champagne, a murderer strikes during a frivolous party game, and Olive realizes the dowager’s fears were well-founded.

William Warwick is eight when he decides to join the police force. Resolute in the face of his prominent QC father’s objections, William graduates in Art History from university and immediately enrols as a constable in the Metropolitan Police. Gaining insight from his first mentor, an experienced, world-weary constable, his keen mind quickly takes him into a role in Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques unit and his first case: the recovery of a Rembrandt stolen from the Fitzmolean Museum.

When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.

Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery. In a small cafe in Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life. In the face of cyber-bullying, the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun and great-grandmother, and the joy and heartbreak of family, Nao is trying to find her own place - and voice - through a diary.

Sir Augustus Wall, a horribly mutilated veteran of the Great War, has left Europe behind to open an antiquities shop in Cairo. But Europe's troubles follow him as a priceless inscription is stolen and those who know its secrets start turning up dead.

The most skilled of Merlin's Mauraders, Siena must unmask a traitor lurking among an exclusive club of book collectors. Armed with only her wits, her blades, and her sultry body, she joins the gentlemen at a country house party. But her prime suspect, disgraced ex-army officer Lord Kirtland proves as enigmatic as he is suspicious-and sinfully sensuous.

Im botanischen Garten von Singapur geht ein mörderischer Kopfjäger um - so hat es jedenfalls den Anschein, bis Prof. van Dusen sich auf der Durchreise des Falles annimmt. Durch seine kriminalistischen Fähigkeiten, vor allem auf dem Gebiet der Daktyloskopie, überführt er den wahren Mörder und enthüllt die sensationellen Hintergründe.

Told in a sharp, modern first-person voice, the story follows Evelyn Hart—a brilliant, introverted bookseller with a photographic memory—as she uncovers a hidden letter from her late grandmother. The letter reveals the existence of Elara, a long-lost city buried beneath the ice, and a device called the Heart of the Ancients, an ancient artificial intelligence which contains the knowledge of a forgotten civilization.

Late one night a distraught young woman on the run begs Reverend Lucian Shaw for help, claiming she has been kidnapped and held against her will at Ravenswood, a remote and heavily guarded country house. When she is later found dead in suspicious circumstances, Shaw enlists the help of Chief Inspector Ludd of the Suffolk Constabulary to investigate.

A beautiful weaver, the discerning son of the notorious William Tell and a fugitive Templar knight meet in this tale of allegiance, mystery, romance, and perhaps a little medieval magic, set in the magnificent but menacing Alps in the 14th century.

Ich stieß auf die Weltkarte in einem Reiseführer aus den 1970er-Jahren, und mir war auf Anhieb bewusst, dass sie dort nicht hineingehörte. Vermutlich hätte ich sie nicht weiter beachtet, wäre da nicht diese Notiz am Rand gewesen. Sechs unheimliche Geschichten entführen den Leser an verschiedene Orte kosmischen Grauens.

Été 1138, la guerre civile fait rage en Angleterre entre le roi Étienne et l'impératrice Mathilde. Le roi Étienne fait pendre les membres de la garnison de Shrewsbury fidèle à Mathilde. Cadfael est chargé de préparer les corps avant qu'ils ne soient rendus à leur famille ou enterrés. Mais en les alignant, il découvre qu'il y a un cadavre de trop. Il lui faudra beaucoup de diplomatie et d'esprit pour résoudre ce mystère. À noter l'arrivée de Hugh Beringar à Shrewsbury.

Долгожданный приквел одной из самых популярных книжных серий этого года — третья часть детективного цикла Юлии Яковлевой в уникальных декорациях Москвы начала XIX века. 1812 год. Армия Наполеона покидает Москву, оставляя ее в огне и разрухе. Первые русские гусары возвращаются в город, разоренный и опустошенный войной. Патрулируя незнакомые улицы, ротмистр Мурин и его товарищ встречают на своем пути полуразрушенный особняк. Внезапно, из здания доносится пронзительный женский крик, молящий о помощи на французском.

Капитану полиции Юрию Бурлаку во время захвата лихой московской банды кто-то выстрелил в голову, в упор. Очнулся он не только в далеком прошлом (как потом выяснилось — в 1912 году), но и в чужом теле. Но ведь в теле отпетого бандита по прозвищу Жора-Гимназист!