1,344円 The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite. By Eve's side is her ex-husband, who has attempted to force his unwelcome...

1,344円 A chilling Gothic tale of warped passion and bizarre murder by the master of the historical whodunit. Two women: one a vile old bawd, dead, it seemed, of fright; the other, Peg, a headstrong, ravishing young heiress. Their lives are linked by a mysterious portrait and a child's nursery rhyme - a ...

503円 When first published in hard cover, C.W. Smith’s Hunter’s Trap was praised by Kirkus Reviews as a "Beautifully bitter Depression-era revenge melodrama in which good guys lose, good women die, and virtue's reward is unreasonable tragedy." The novel, set in El Paso in 1930, follows on Smith’s highl...

166円 Miranda Corbie returns in this stunning prequel story to Kelli Stanley's acclaimed historical series. San Francisco, 1939. The Golden Gate International Exposition has captured the imagination of the country. The fair is a spectacular blend of mankind's newest innovations and basest urges, and Mi...

202円 Monsieur Jonquelle is no ordinary prefect of police of Paris. With cool intellect and charm, he can see into the heart of the most perplexing of crimes. From the jungles of the Congo to the sun bathed streets of Nice, criminals will find themselves outsmarted. This mastermind of mystery saves Rus...

202円 The Bradmoor Murder is a wonderful collection of mysteries by a true American master of the detective short story. Melville Davisson Post tells tales of mysterious death, unexplainable murder, and complex crimes. From the sea washed cliffs of Bradmoor to the fairylands of Belgium, there is strang...

1,257円 Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England, Garrett again applies distinguished literary skills to spin a tale dark with deception and metaphysical questions but teeming with sensuous and concrete details that convey the spirit of the age. In 1597, when it seems that "h...

543円 Man schreibt das Jahr 1837 und Amber weiß kaum noch, wo ihr der hübsche Kopf steht. Vor einigen Stunden wurde die Halbwaise von einem gutaussehenden Fremden aus einer gefährlichen Situation im Moor gerettet. Doch damit es nicht genug, nicht nur die Gefahr, in der sie sich befunden...

543円 Auch diese Liebesgeschichte von Nadine Romin folgt zunächst den bekannten Mustern des historischen Romans. Die Heldin dieser viktorianischen Novelle nimmt eine Stelle als Gouvernante bei einer adligen Familie an. Felicity verliebt sich, wird von ihren Schülerinnen verehrt und wird von i...

543円 Diane ist ein ungezogenes junges Mädchen. Schon zu Beginn der Geschichte verärgert sie ihre Eltern aufs Äußerste, sie stört deren Jagd und schadet so dem gesellschaftlichen Ansehen der Familie. Doch der Wildfang ist nicht zu bändigen, beeinflusst von der Literatur d...

1,076円 A man is found dead in a London hotel room, the only clue to his identity a polaroid of a lost Impressionist painting. A young man inherits his mother's diaries and realises her early life in France was much more eventful than he'd realised. And as the extent of the past's effect on the present b...

1,076円 While investigating the mutilation of a painting in a London gallery, journalist Minto Maitland finds himself drawn into a horrific story of brutality and betrayal during the Hungarian revolution. Exposing odd connections to art dealer Alexander Courtney, Maitland suspects an appalling secret.