Apprentice - Scarlet City - Part I

England im 14. Jahrhundert: Nach dem Tod seines Vaters, des wegen Hochverrats angeklagten Earl of Waringham, hat der junge Robin alles verloren - auch den Anspruch auf sein Erbe und ist der Willkür der Obrigkeit ausgesetzt. Besonders Mortimer, der Sohn des neuen Earls, schikaniert Robin, wo er kann. Zwischen den Jungen erwächst eine tödliche Feindschaft, die sie bis ins Erwachsenenalter begleiten wird.

The year is 850. In the seas of northern Europe, the small coastal village of Elasund falls prey to marauding neighbors. Their food stores pillaged, women and children stolen, livestock destroyed, the villagers are left to barely survive the harsh winter - and contemplate a drastic solution to their recurring hardships: leaving the only village they have ever known.

Maia D'Apliése and her five sisters were all adopted as babies. When their father dies each of them are given a clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia across the world… Rio de Janeiro, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio convinces her father to allow her to accompany him to Europe. There, in the heady, vibrant cafés of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again…

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural Oxfordshire. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins. Over 150 years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items.

Bennett Fox walked into my life on one hell of a crappy Monday morning. I was late for the first day at my new job - a job I’d now have to compete for, even though I’d already worked eight years to earn it, because of an unexpected merger. While I lugged my belongings up to my new office, a meter maid wrote me a parking summons. She’d ticketed a long line of cars - except for the Audi parked in front of me, which happened to be the same make and model as mine. Annoyed, I decided to regift my ticket to the car that had evaded a fine.

Gavin Kingsley burst into my life in a sharp and unexpected twist of fate. You know his type - arrogant, dangerously handsome and impossible to ignore. Something dark within him calls to the shadows inside me. I long for the kind of heart-wrenching passion I've only read about, and his tragic past reads like one of my favorite literary classics. Raw. Visceral. Captivating. Together, we're a perfect mess. The deeper I fall into his world, the more I crave him like a drug - he pushes every boundary I have and challenges everything I thought I wanted.

England 1064. Der unbeschwerten Kindheit des jungen Cædmon of Helmsby wird ein jähes Ende gesetzt...

Für Mark Malecki, Revisor bei einer Düsseldorfer Privatbank, läuft es nicht gut. Seine Frau verlässt ihn, er fühlt sich als alleinerziehender Vater überfordert, trinkt zu viel und kommt morgens zu spät zur Arbeit. Schließlich verliert sein Chef die Geduld und schickt ihn zur Überprüfung einer Bankfiliale in den Schwarzwald. Dort erlebt er eine Überraschung: Die kleine Zweigstelle hat höhere Wertpapierumsätze und Spareinlagen als die Hauptstelle - es riecht nach Steuerbetrug!

A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia.

In ihrem ersten Sachbuch erzählt uns die Bestsellerautorin Rebecca Gable die Geschichte des englischen Mittelalters neu: kompetent und informativ, herrlich farbenprächtig und mitreiß wie ein Roman, und immer mit einem Schmunzeln. Lesen Sie, wie die Wikinger in Ermangelung anderer Hobbys Englanderoberten, unabsichtlich unterstützt vom englischen König Thelred, dessen Ruf seitdem ruiniert ist.

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May.

London, um 1330. Der Tuchhändlerlehrling Jonah Durham wächst bei seinem tyrannischen Vetter Rupert auf, der ihm das Leben zur Hölle macht. Einzig seine Großmutter erkennt sein Talent und seine Intelligenz. Sie vermacht ihm ein stattliches Vermögen, das es ihm ermöglicht, nicht nur das Haus seines Vetters zu verlassen, sondern auch als jüngstes Mitglied der Geschichte in die Gilde der Tuchhändler aufgenommen zu werden.

Auf großer Odyssee im mittelalterlichen England: Rebecca Gablé schildert in "Hiobs Brüder" große Emotionen und bewegende Schicksale vor historischer Kulisse. In der Hörbuchfassung wird das vom Bürgerkrieg geplagte mittelalterliche England durch die Lesung von Detlef Bierstedt wieder lebendig.

Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen - the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria - took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl. Twenty years ago: a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial killer. Now: a woman is viciously stabbed to death in the upmarket kitchen of her beautiful house on the edge of the marshes. Then a man called Daniel Kinder walks into Saltern police station and confesses to the murder. But DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans of the Fenland Constabulary soon discover that there is a lot more to Daniel than meets the eye.