Résultats Éditeur "Random House Audio" dans Historique

In 1920s Munich, the body of Anna Gross, a young society wife, has been found in the English Gardens, still clothed in finery. Soon a second body is discovered, also a woman of high society. When a third body is found, homicide detective Axel Berg realizes he's dealing with unprecedented evil. Is the murderer politically motivated? Is he a lone madman? Or worse, is the killer possessed by both political and personal demons?

Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James investigates the mysterious disappearance of a well-connected American tourist, unaware of the trouble that awaits her ... At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Ritz Hotel in pre-War Paris, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets an intriguing man...

An American woman and her son unearth the buried secrets and past lives of an English manor house in this masterful and riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Belfer. “Infused with the brooding, gothic atmosphere of Jane Eyre or Rebecca . . . a novel that must be savored...

Sunset Jones has just killed her husband. Never mind that he was raping her. Pete Jones was constable of a small sawmill settlement called Camp Rapture where no woman refuses her husband. So everyone is angrily surprised when Sunset becomes the new constable and investigates murders in which her late husband might be implicated. Yet, no one is more surprised than Sunset when the murders lead her, not only to the conclusion of the case, but to a well of inner strength she never knew she had.

Charlotte Brontë, the beloved author of Jane Eyre, lived a quiet and private life in her father’s Yorkshire parish. Or did she? What if a diary was uncovered that revealed her secret involvement in one of the most thrilling adventures of the 19th century? Upon learning that she has been...

Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James arrives in Paris in 1938 eager to make a fresh start, but little does she know the trouble that awaits her... Charlie James is chasing her first big scoop as correspondent for British-based newspaper The Times, and she needs to prove to her boss that...

A scintillating debut novel that brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen. Through character actress turned gossip columnist Edie O'Dare's eyes, Lindsay Lynch draws back the curtain...

As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for generations. She is soon introduced to her "charge", John Cosway, a 39-year-old man whose strange behavior is vaguely explained by his mother and sisters as part of the madness that runs in the family.

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling—by turns funny and moving—novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern Italy...

Berlin, 1966: Eine Stadt regiert von den Siegermächten. Ost gegen West. West gegen Ost. Alles scheint dabei erlaubt, auch Mord? Kriminalkommissar Thomas Engel hat es nach West-Berlin verschlagen, um bei der Mordkommission in der geteilten Stadt ermitteln zu können. Doch es kommt anders: Statt Mörder sind Spione sein täglich Brot, denn die Stadt ist voll davon. Die Alliierten tun alles, um an Informationen von der Gegenseite zu kommen. Dass sie dabei nicht zimperlich vorgehen, erfährt Engel gleich an seinem zweiten Tag im Dienst.

A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters. "Sly and delightful...

Julia Stuart returns in her follow-up to the bestselling The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise with this clever murder mystery set in Victorian England, brimming with her signature charm and fabulous characters. When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father...

When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair, archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether the body has lain there for two decades, two centuries, or two millennia.

The daughter of an automotive magnate escapes to an artistic retreat that holds more secrets—and more intrigue—than she could have ever imagined, in this Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea. Detroit, 1927. A city of smoke and ambition, where...

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, and other literary legends join forces to unravel a deadly conspiracy in this gripping mystery that sweeps from the halls of Oxford to the streets of London and the shores of Loch Ness. In the streets of 1936 Oxford, dark forces are at play and...

An urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, following a surprising cast of characters seeking a better future as Saint Petersburg struggles in the wake of Napoleon’s failed invasion. Saint Petersburg, 1812. Russian forces have defeated Napoleon at...

Der Auftakt zu einer historischen Krimireihe voller Spannung vor der Kulisse Hamburgs Nachkriegszeit. Hamburg, 1947: Ein harter Hungerwinter liegt hinter der zerbombten Hansestadt. Frauen fahren ins Umland, um bei Bauern Nahrungsmittel zu erbetteln. Dabei kommt es immer wieder zu Überfällen, ein Vergewaltiger geht um. Niemand scheint sich für das Leid der Frauen zu interessieren... Außer Ida Rabe. Sie hat gerade den Lehrgang zur Schutzpolizistin beendet und ihre erste Stelle bei der Weiblichen Polizei in der Davidwache auf St. Pauli angetreten.

Berlin, 1878: Der Gauner Felix Blom wird nach drei Jahren Haft aus dem Kittchen entlassen. Doch in Freiheit ist nichts mehr so, wie es war: Seine Wohnung wurde weitervermietet, sein Geld gepfändet und seine Verlobte ist mit jemand Neuem liiert. Alle Versuche, an Geld oder Arbeit zu kommen, scheitern. Doch dann kommt Blom eine Idee: Warum sich nicht mit der neuen Nachbarin zusammentun? Die ehemalige Edelprostituierte Mathilde führt eine Privatdetektei, doch die Aufträge sind rar, da man ihr als Frau diese Arbeit nicht zutraut.

Frankfurt, 1830: Im Keller Senckenberg-Museums verschwindet ein Schädel, und die Spur führt eine junge Frau ins finstre Herz alter Mythen und Legenden. Frankfurt am Main, im Jahr 1830. Während eines rauschenden Fastnachtsballs wird Millicent Wohl, eine junge und wissbegierige Frau, plötzlich Zeugin eines brutalen Raubüberfalls in einem Museum. Eine schwarze Gestalt eilt an ihr vorüber - und verschwindet im Nichts. Milli versucht den Diebstahl aufzuklären, doch niemand glaubt ihren Hinweisen.

Aus dem Keller des Senckenberg-Museums verschwindet ein Schädel und die Spur führt eine junge Frau ins finstre Herz alter Mythen und Legenden. Frankfurt am Main, im Jahr 1830. Während eines rauschenden Fastnachtsballs wird Millicent Wohl, eine junge und wissbegierige Frau, Zeugin eines brutalen Raubüberfalls im Senckenberg-Museum. Eine schwarze Gestalt eilt an ihr vorüber - und verschwindet. Milli versucht den Diebstahl aufzuklären, doch niemand glaubt ihren Hinweisen.