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Der Fremde aus Indien ist eine geheimnisumwobene Gestalt, die eines Tages in der "alten Hauptstadt" auftaucht. Sie wird immer mehr zum Widersacher des unheimlichen "Hauptmanns", dem zahllose Verbrechen anzulasten sind, und allmählich klären sich weit zurückliegende Ereignisse zugunsten eines unschuldig Bestraften.

1948 kehrt Hans-Joachim Stein in seine von Spaltung und Blockade gebeutelte Heimatstadt Berlin zurück: Als Kommissar will er helfen, Recht und Ordnung wiederherzustellen. Doch in der neu gegründeten Mordinspektion West schlagen ihm Vorbehalte und Misstrauen entgegen. Der brutale Mord an einem bekannten Schieberkönig wird schließlich zum ersten Fall für den jungen Kommissar. Kurz darauf geschieht ein weiterer Mord mit ähnlicher Handschrift - den Steins Vorgesetzter mit allen Mitteln zu vertuschen sucht.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation...

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

When Charlotte Haze’s nurse, Rebecca Grainger, is found murdered at a disused burial ground and her young charge is nowhere to be found, Daniel and Jason must race against the clock to solve the crime in order to save the little girl.

Die Bestsellerautorin Henrike Engel mit dem neuen großen Roman über vergangene Zeiten und unbekannte Welten am Hamburger Hafen. Hamburg, 1911: Anne Fitzpatrick behandelt in ihrer Arztpraxis am Hafen immer häufiger chinesische Frauen, die in den Kolonien als Arbeitskräfte angeworben wurden. Viele von ihnen wurden schwer misshandelt. Als eine der Frauen in Annes Armen stirbt, schwört die Hafenärztin die Verantwortlichen zu finden. Zusammen mit Kommissar Berthold Rheydt fängt sie an, in der Schmuckstraße, dem Chinesenviertel auf Sankt Pauli, nachzuforschen.

On his return from South Africa, Charles Knox is invited to spend the weekend at the country home of Sir Neville Strickland, whose beautiful wife Rosamund was once Knox's fiancée. But in the dead of night Sir Neville is murdered. Who did it? As suspicion falls on each of the house guests in turn, Knox finds himself faced with deception and betrayal on all sides, and only the enigmatic Angela Marchmont seems to offer a solution to the mystery. This 1920s whodunit will delight all fans of traditional country house murder stories.

Der Teufel von Straßburg: Seine Opfer sind jung, wehrlos und vollkommen allein. Ein grausamer Kindermörder treibt im Jahr 1348 in Straßburg sein Unwesen. Als die Klosterschülerin Adelheid von den Morden erfährt, ist sie zutiefst schockiert: Selbst dem Schicksal einer solchen Kindheit nur knapp entronnen, fühlt sie sich den Opfern verbunden und beschließt, auf eigene Faust zu handeln.

A festive murder mystery novella featuring Ali Dawson No-one is more surprised than time-travelling detective Ali Dawson when Charles Dickens suddenly turns up on her doorstep a few days before Christmas. The Great Writer is as baffled as she is as to how he got there. Ali takes him in, despite...

London 1926. When Kitty Worthington, her husband Robert, and their friends arrive at Langford Hall for the society wedding of the season, something feels wrong before the first champagne cork pops. The groom is drinking too much. The sweet-faced American bride with a steel fortune looks as though she'd rather be anywhere else. And the crumbling Tudor estate draped in roses and lilies can't quite disguise the desperation underneath.

Connecticut, 1833. A year after Chester Cranberry’s unsolved murder, the town that he founded continues to suspect that his wife, Elcira, ended his life. With insufficient evidence to bring her to trial, and little effort to find another suspect, the town gossip labels her “The Widow Murderess.” But Elcira has seven children to feed, ranging in age from three to nine, and her nanny, Deborah, a freed slave, is pregnant with her husband’s illegitimate child. All eyes are on these two women, expecting them to fail to keep the farm and the family together.

Dr. Lydia Weston undertakes to clear the name of a woman surgeon embroiled in an ever-deepening medical scandal, set against the backdrop of the 1876 World’s Fair, in the riveting next book from the author of Murder by Degrees. The year is 1876 and the World’s Fair has come to Philadelphia...

The "Archival Mystery" Beneath the moss-draped cedars of the Kitsap Peninsula, something is waking up. When archivist Amaya Freeman is called to a crumbling Scandia farmhouse, she expects to find dusty records of Norwegian pioneers. Instead, she discovers a hidden cedar chest containing the journals of Dr. Soren Nilsen—a man who vanished in 1947 while tracking a shadow he called Chief Kitsap’s "Red Medicine." From the historic docks of Poulsbo to the rugged Hoh River, Nilsen’s records reveal a terrifying truth: the earth isn’t just soil and stone; it is a sentient ledger.

In the midst of the Great Depression, a Los Angeles detective lands a case that seems too good to be true. But his client is connected to a big-budget motion picture, "The Blood Red Sphinx" and the odd mystic behind the production. Can one man make a stand against a web of Hollywood intrigues, or is the world doomed by rising shadows?

The weathered remains of Eleanor Gray are found on a Scottish mountainside, and her mother, the domineering Lady Maude Gray, requires delicate treatment. This is a case that will lead Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard to Scotland, where his harrowing journey to find the truth will drag him...

A timeless murder mystery with the fascinating, glamorous Mitford sisters at its heart, The Mitford Trial is the fourth installment in the Mitford Murders series from Jessica Fellowes, inspired by a real-life murder in a story full of intrigue, affairs and betrayal... It's lady's maid Louisa...

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady’s maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame?

Das tote Dienstmädchen von Occles Hall. Daisy Dalrymple, eine junge Adlige mit ausgeprägtem kriminalistischen Scharfsinn, besucht im England der zwanziger Jahre das imposante Landgut Occles Hall. Eigentlich will sie hier einen Artikel schreiben, aber wenige Stunden nach ihrer Ankunft wird im Wintergarten die Leiche des Dienstmädchens gefunden. Die Polizei verdächtigt den Gärtner, aber ist er tatsächlich der Mörder? Miss Daisy hat da so ihre Zweifel, und zusammen mit Alec Fletcher von Scotland Yard macht sie sich an die Ermittlungen in ihrem atemberaubenden zweiten Fall.

Kiew, 1919: In den Wirren nach der Russischen Revolution stößt der junge Samson, gerade zur Vollwaise geworden, beinahe durch Zufall zur neuen sowjetischen Polizei. Sein erster Fall ist gleich äußerst mysteriös: Ein abgeschnittenes Ohr, ein Knochen aus reinem Silber und ein Anzug aus feinem englischem Tuch geben ihm Rätsel auf. Doch die Zeiten sind gefährlich und halten jeden Tag neue Überraschungen bereit. Zum Glück lernt Samson die patente Nadjeschda kennen, die ihm bei den Ermittlungen hilft und an die er schon bald sein Herz verliert.

Hadrian Becket, the Earl of Ravenhurst, has always scorned the supernatural—until a head injury left him with the unnerving ability to see visions through touch. Though he loathes the curse, it's proven invaluable in solving murder investigations alongside Miss Matilda Wren. When Hadrian's mother hires Tilda to investigate a medium who claims she can contact her late son, Tilda and Hadrian are drawn into a deadly game. Mediums across London are falling victim to the "Levitation Killer," and the murderer's chilling focus soon shifts to them both.