Resultaat voor "Rebecca" in Historische mysteries

Ägypten 1921: Eine mutige Frau auf der Suche nach ihrem Vater. Die junge Cleopatra Vanson lebt in Cornwall bei ihrer Tante, während sich ihr verwitweter Vater als Archäologe in Ägypten der Entdeckung alter Pharaonengräber verschrieben hat. Cleo träumt davon, ihn eines Tages auf seine Expeditionen begleiten zu können. Nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag wird Cleo von der reichen Familie Tredennick aufgenommen. Als ihr Vater dann auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet, begibt sich Cleo, gerade noch unmündig, mit den Geschwistern Tredennick auf die Reise in das ferne Ägypten.

Cornwall 1906: Jago Carter-Jones, der vermögende Erbe von Allerby House, ist fest entschlossen, eine mittellose, amerikanische Sängerin zu heiraten. Halb Cornwall ist schockiert, so finden sich nur wenige Gäste bei der Hochzeit ein. Nur zwei Stunden nach der Trauung wird Jago tot aufgefunden. Erstochen – seine Frau Selena über ihn gebeugt, die Finger einer Hand um das Messer geklammert. Sie beteuert zwar ihre Unschuld, kann zum Tathergehen aber keine Angaben machen. Es droht ihr die Todesstrafe. Obwohl alles gegen Selena spricht, will Emily Tremaine an deren Schuld nicht glauben.

“A delectable read.” —C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author A young lord, his future bride, and his former lover become unlikely allies to survive a deadly mystery in this spine-tingling historical fantasy of magic, murder, and steamy encounters. Lord Nicholas Monterris is trapped...

Das Ruhrgebiet im Winter 1947. Die junge Edith, aus Ostpreußen nach Bochum geflüchtet, hat endlich eine Anstellung gefunden - bei Pohlmann, einem Rechtsanwalt, der allerdings offenbar in Schwarzmarktgeschäfte verwickelt ist. Als ein ehemaliger KZ-Häftling, der bei den Arbeitern der Region ein hohes Ansehen genießt, ermordet in einem Eisenbahnwaggon aufgefunden wird, deutet einiges daraufhin, dass Pohlmann in diesen Mordfall verwickelt ist. Edith beschließt der Sache nachzugehen - ohne zu ahnen, worauf sie sich einlässt.

Bloomsbury presents The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson by Mattea Orr, read by Rebecca Norfolk. The first in a new mystery series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes’s mother and her lady’s-maid-turned-investigative-partner. ‘Some problems simply merit solving, Mrs Hudson’ Heartbroken, widowed...

'A piece of magic in itself' FREYA MARSKE, author of A Marvellous Light and Cinder House A sparkling historical fantasy filled with arcane magic, deadly conspiracies and an irresistible queer romance. Perfect for fans of Freya Marske, Alexis Hall, and Bridgerton mixed with magic. Lord Nicholas...

Norte da África, Segunda Guerra Mundial. As tropas britânicas na região estão sofrendo perdas significativas. Não há dúvidas de que alguém está informando o inimigo sobre os movimentos e planos estratégicos do exército britânico. O espião é conhecido por seus compatriotas alemães como Esfinge, mas para todos os outros é o empresário europeu Alex Wolff. Após cruzar o deserto, ele chega ao Cairo, no Egito, munido de um rádio, uma lâmina letal e um exemplar do livro Rebecca, de Daphne du Maurier. Violento e implacável, ele está disposto a tudo para cumprir a missão que recebeu.

BRIDGERTON WITH MAGIC AND MURDER! Lord Nicholas Monterris is the only heir of Monterris Court, a crumbling manor house. Bored and trapped, Nic spends his days crafting new automatons and his nights enticing handsome rogues into his bed, fiercely ignoring the fact that one day he must marry to...

Budapest, 1944. One woman. One house. One final act of courage. As German troops enter Hungary and tighten their grip on the city, Catholic sister Sára Salkaházi continues to run a women's home on Bokréta Street. Soon she opens the doors to Jewish women and children, and her refuge quickly...

‘We trade in secrets here, Evelyn. There’s no shame in having a few of your own. Our only concern is for who might discover them.’ Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley realises that the only way for her to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides her true...

In 1920s London, “Lady Detective” Maud West enlists newly published Agatha Christie to covertly investigate a dangerous mystery, propelling the unlikely duo through mounting threats and blackmail in a quest to deliver justice. In early 1920s London, Maud West has gained a public reputation...

Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner...

Hartwell, New Jersey, was never meant to give up its secrets. When archaeologist Nora Hale returns to her hometown to oversee the redevelopment of the long-abandoned Blackwater Bootworks, she expects routine work: soil surveys, structural remnants, and fragments of the past neatly cataloged and explained. What she finds instead is something buried. Beneath the collapsed factory floor lies evidence that was never recorded—and was never meant to be found.

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant: “Historical fiction at its best…. The book is a thriller in structure, and a real page-turner, the ending both unexpected and satisfying” (Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander series, The...

Chicago, 1920s: Movie starlet Silver Dollar Tabor's glittering life shatters after a brutal attack awakens a hidden self. Plunging into the city's dangerous underworld of burlesque speakeasies, she blurs the lines between ambition and destruction, testing her love for screenwriter Carl. This Jazz Age, Prohibition-era tale explores the dark side of fame and the fragility of identity.

Ostfriesland 1548 - Die Hebamme Hiske Aalken hat alle Hände voll zu tun, denn in der Herrlichkeit Gödens grassiert das Marschenfieber. Als ihr in dieser schweren Zeit der Arzt Jan Valkensteyn zur Hilfe eilt, taucht auch ein holländischer Kaufmann namens Friso van Heek auf, der Hiske wenig sympathisch ist. Gleichwohl ist er ein faszinierender Mann, den offensichtlich ein großes Geheimnis umgibt. Ein Geheimnis, das mit einem wertvollen Medaillon - dem Meerkristall - und mit einer entstellenden Narbe zu tun hat, die der Kaufmann am Arm trägt.

Im Frühling des Jahres 1550 kehrt die schwangere "Lebenspflückerin" Hiske an der Seite ihres Mannes, des Arztes Jan Valkensteyn, nach Jever zurück. Ihre alte Freundin, die Duuvke Anneke Hollander, fürchtet um ihr Leben, weil sie Augenzeugin eines Mordes geworden ist. Kurz vor dem Eintreffen der beiden wird noch ein weiterer Mann tot aufgefunden. Besteht am Ende ein Zusammenhang zwischen den Morden und der beständig voranschreitenden Reformation? Das Jeverland ist schließlich dem katholischen Kaiser als burgundisches Lehen verpflichtet.

Following the events of A Trace of Smoke, journalist Hannah Vogel has been in hiding in Bolivia with her young ward, Anton, for the past three years. She believes she has outwitted Ernst Röhm, the head of the Nazi Party’s Storm Troopers who believes himself to be the boy’s father, so she seizes the offer from a newspaper to cover the journey of a zeppelin from South America to Switzerland, particularly as it will allow her a rare opportunity to meet with her lover, Boris Krause. When the zeppelin is diverted to Germany, she knows she’s walked straight into a trap.

London 1815. Jenny's father is dead. She needs to marry immediately to save her and her mother's livelihood. A chance meeting presents the perfect candidate in the form of the enigmatic Erasmus Black. Gentleman, merchant, and if the rumours are to be believed, captain... But where does Erasmus slip away to in the dead of night? What secrets about her father's business has he discovered? And was their meeting really just a convenient coincidence? Guided by her unique intuition, Jenny must seek the hidden forces in play to unravel a sinister web of corruption...without getting trapped herself.