Ergebnis für "Jane" in Historische Thriller

Manchester, 1867. Im Morgengrauen hängen die Rebellen. Die englische Polizei wirft ihnen vor, die "Fenians", irische Unabhängigkeitskämpfer, zu unterstützen. Eine gefährliche Machtgeste seines Vorgesetzten, findet Constable James O'Connor, der gerade aus Dublin nach Manchester versetzt wurde. Einst hieß es, er sei der klügste Mann der Stadt gewesen. Das war, bevor er seine Frau verlor, bevor er sich dem Whiskey hingab. Mittlerweile rührt er keinen Tropfen mehr an. Doch jetzt sinnen die "Fenians" nach Rache.

Zdá se, že v už Čechách není tak bezpečno, jak bylo dříve. Lupiči na Menším Městě pražském se nebojí uchýlit i k zabíjení a ze zchudlých šlechticů se stávají lapkové. Královský písař Jiří Adam z Dobronína je povolán do kanceláře nejvyššího purkrabího Jana z Vartemberka. Důvodem je vražda velmožova syna Jindřicha, ke které došlo téže noci. Zároveň však, jak mu Jan z Vartemberka sdělí, již více jak před týdnem zmizel jeho nevlastní syn Jakub. V jeho ložnici se našel list, v němž stálo, že syn pána z Vartemberka dluží dvacet tisíc kop grošů, a pokud je za něj nezaplatí, bude to Jakuba stát život.

“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.” – New York Times Book Review “[A] pitch-perfect murder mystery… If The Crown were crossed with Miss Marple…, the result would probably be something...

An escaped convict! A Contessa who is not what she seems! What are the mysteries of the Whitaker Theatre company? And –– could a baby be on the way? Where is the doctor???

London, 1527: Jane Seymour arrives at court to take her place with Queen Katherine. Discovering a court dividing into factions between Katherine and Anne Boleyn, Jane finds herself caught between the old world and the new. Determined to have a son, the king appears to be prepared to take whatever steps necessary to secure the Tudor dynasty. When King Henry VIII succeeds in his pursuit of Anne, Jane witnesses the unravelling of his interest as she, too, fails to deliver a son.

Případ plzeňských mordů je úvodním příběhem oblíbemé audio knižní řady Letopisy Královské komory. Odehrává se v polovině 16. století, za vlády Ferdinanda I. Habsburského. Děj se zasazen do města Plzně. Při vyšetřování několika záhadných vražd se poprvé setkává královský písař z Prahy - Jiří Adam z Dobronína se svým pomocníkem, bakalářem Petrem Korcem. Díky jeho pomoci se mu podaří vyváznout zdravý z velmi ošemetné situace, a navíc společně odhalí intriky proti králi.

“This is historical fiction at its best.” --Book Reporter Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone—and no one—seemed to know. At the start of a new...

The next witty, must-listen audiobook in the Flavia Albia series. An unpaid bar bill leads Flavia Albia to her most bitter and complex case yet. Decades earlier Appius Tranquillus Surus wrote his will: it freed his slaves and bequeathed his businesses to them. He left an orchard to the Prisci, a...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Utterly gripping. . . a transformative and immersive story so powerful and captivating that I could not put it down. . . . Truly one of the best books I’ve read.”—Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish “Lisa Barr's new historical fiction, The...

Jane’s a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She’ll become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but that’s a long way off. Not my fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after Daddy. She steals Momma’s Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy. Everything’s looking up. She’s climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections with the artists and thinkers of her day.

Nelson Mandela buried a gun at his secret hideout shortly before his betrayal by the CIA and capture by the South African Police. The gun has never been found. This tantalizing and historically documented fact is the catalyst for a high-concept novel about competing quests for freedom and the struggle for power in South Africa, a sweeping saga set against the backdrop of the country’s violent history, vivid landscape, and the rise of apartheid.

For unwed mother Nell Lillington, 1876 Chicago - and her new wealth - offer the promise of longed-for independence. She dreams of a place in society for her daughter Sarah and contentment for her friend Tess. Yet, how can she settle in a town where she’s far too likely to run into Martin Rutherford and his glittering, faithless wife, Lucetta? Can she resist her love for Martin for Sarah’s sake?

Kansas, 1872. Unwed mother Nell Lillington hopes to support her daughter Sarah and friend Tess by working as a seamstress in an isolated seminary. When her only ally among the seminary's leaders dies, she must choose between returning to her old life in Chicago and remaining in charge of her destiny.

From the author of Falling and Sister Stardust comes the New York Times bestseller about finding your place in the place you call home. Ever since her life took an unexpected turn, Nan Powell has enjoyed living alone on the sun-drenched shores of Nantucket. At sixty-five, she’s just as likely...

Hester, the wife of an acting magistrate, is fighting a cause. Sickened by the hanging of a woman who had been brutalized by her husband, and still deeply affected by her own childhood experiences, Hester feels compelled to help women who face the death penalty.

The moment Angelique arrives in Paris, she is taken prisoner by the SS. In a lonely little room, she is put in a chair with leather straps and a bloodstained seat and ordered to tell her captors everything she knows about the resistance. But Angelique knows nothing. She cares only for Martin, the boy who has been unable to speak since the bombs first fell during the Blitzkrieg. He has a secret - and she will protect it until her dying breath.

A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman’s Tale. Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery, this time...

After surviving war, betrayal, and an assassination attempt, Lord Peregrine Fitzroy has been pressed into service as a double agent—caught between the Queen and a shadowy organisation threatening to bring England to its knees. His only advantage? The sharp mind and shrewd instincts he once learned to hide from the ton.

A tale in the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca, in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers...

On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service. In sixteenth-century London...