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Von einem Schneesturm überrascht, verschlägt es den Deserteur Johann List in dieses abgeschiedene, von Furcht und Aberglaube beherrschte Bergdorf. Schnell ist ihm klar, dass mit dem Dorf etwas nicht stimmt, dass ein düsterer Schatten über den Bewohnern liegt - Tiere werden getötet, Menschen verschwinden, vermummte Gestalten lauern in den finsteren Wäldern. Als Johann sich in die Tochter eines Bauern verliebt, beschließt er, mit ihr das Dorf zu verlassen.

Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. When his manipulative boss begins swindling the unsuspecting parents of his students, Max must retrieve his passport to return home. Max sneaks into her office only to stumble upon a burglary in progress. Max barely escapes but accidentally takes a strange diary bound in leather and embossed with a strange seal. Little does Max know that this diary has been hidden for over half a century, and its secrets could topple some of Japan's most powerful people and rewrite the history of the royal family.

A watertight packet is discovered by a diver in the waters surrounding Block Island. Unrecovered detritus from the last German U-boat sunk off the coast of Rhode Island, it contains secret codes suggesting that a Nazi spy ring operated in the United States during the darkest days of World War II. If confirmed, it could prove a major embarrassment to the FBI - whose late director, J. Edgar Hoover, once assured the government there were no spies in the country - so the bureau sends one of its best, Unit Chief Todd Oliver, to Newport to investigate.

Trieste, primavera del 1902. Il ricordo dei fatti di sangue seguiti al primo sciopero operaio dell'Impero asburgico è ancora vivo nella mente della cittadinanza. A pochi giorni dalla revoca dello stato d'assedio proclamato dal governo di Vienna, un sottufficiale dell'esercito viene trovato morto e sfigurato in un vicolo. Intanto, una preziosa reliquia cristiana, il Mandylion, viene rubata, perduta e infine ritrovata da Davorin, un ragazzino di dodici anni che in seguito a ciò pare acquisire strani poteri.

A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramn Mercader—the obedient assassin. Ramn Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.

Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead - the victim of a savage stabbing - and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan's safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it's about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa.

When struggling painter Nicholas Gray first sees Margaretha Zelle, it is in a poor photograph. But something draws him to her. All men are drawn to Margaretha - her mysterious eyes, her effortless sensuality. In another life she will become known as Mata Hari. As a dancer she becomes famous. As a seductress she becomes legendary. Soon Mata Hari is crisscrossing Europe, collecting generals, aristocrats, and businessmen as her lovers.

Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fool's Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary. The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until...

London 1859-62. A time of great exhibitions, foreign conquests and underground trains. But the era of Victorian marvels is also the time of the Great Stink. With cholera and depravity never far from the headlines, it's not only the sewers that smell bad. Novice detective Campbell Lawless stumbles onto the trail of Berwick Skelton, an elusive revolutionary determined to bring London to its knees through devilish acts of terrorism.

Deciding on her 39th birthday that a baby is the best present she could give herself, single Manhattan public relations executive Nina Kitchener makes an appointment to undergo artificial insemination at the Human Fertility Institute. Nine months later the nightmare begins. Just hours after she gives birth, someone kidnaps her infant son from the nursery. The police aren't helping, the fertility institute has shut down, and Nina believes that the only way to find her baby is to learn the identity of the sperm donor.

Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final toll: over 30 Chinese gold miners brutally murdered. Their San Francisco employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case. Soon he journeys up the wild Snake River with Lee Loi, an ambitious young company investigator, and Grace Sundown, a metis mountain guide with too many secrets.

Winsor Glanvil pays court to Louise Carney, heiress to a fortune, and she agrees to marry him. The marriage is opposed by big Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival and formidable foe, so Glanvil and Louise plan to be married in a sequestered valley by a local clergyman. Rutledge and his supporters, learning of the plan, arrive in the valley ahead of the two and seize Glanvil. Glanvil is beaten mercilessly and Rutledge disfigures him, destroying one side of his face with the cutting edge of a spur. Rutledge then rejoins his gang in the clergyman’s house.

Jeremy Corbin and Jacqueline Walls lead a calm life in a New Jersey suburb, then one day everything changes. Eytan Morgenstern returns to save them, and this improbable team must take on the Consortium, leading them on an epic journey from London to Tel Aviv, from the Polish forests to Manhattan high-rises, from the shameful past to the threatening future.

Estate 1808. Nel caldo soffocante l'esercito napoleonico occupa la Prussia e tenta di mettere le mani sulla sua ricchezza più grande: l'ambra. Ma una maledizione sembra calare sulle raccoglitrici della preziosa resina, donne forti e splendide che cadono sotto i colpi di un assassino efferato e maniacale. Mentre i loro corpi, lasciati nudi e stranamente mutilati sulle spiagge del Baltico, sembrano comporre un oscuro disegno, spetta di nuovo a Stiffeniis, il detective allievo di Kant, affrontare l'ignoto, e un pericolo più vicino di quanto lui stesso possa immaginare.

Dotato di arguzia e di un formidabile spirito di osservazione, il giovane Vitale Federici, cadetto di Montefeltri, viene chiamato a indagare su un concatenarsi di delitti all'apparenza insolvibili. L'Italia di fine Settecento, tuttavia, si rivelerà presto ai suoi occhi come un insidioso gioco di apparenze, sotto il quale si celano le macchinazioni di aristocratici, religiosi e magistrati. Le città di Roma, Urbino e Venezia diverranno per lui autentiche trappole mortali, dalle quali potrà salvarsi soltanto grazie al lume dell'intelletto e all'arte della dissimulazione.

Un thriller tra le macerie della Seconda guerra mondiale in cui nulla è dato per scontato; un gioco di specchi orchestrato come nelle migliori spy storySarajevo, 1943. Mentre la Jugoslavia è dilaniata dalla guerra, una giovane e bellissima fotografa - vera e propria eroina per il suo popolo - e un ufficiale tedesco vengono rinvenuti brutalmente assassinati. Assegnato al caso è il capitano dell'intelligence militare Gregor Reinhardt, già detective della polizia di Berlino, poi allontanato dai nazisti.

È la primavera del 1227 e la regina di Castiglia è scomparsa in modo misterioso. Strane voci corrono per il regno e alcuni parlano di un intervento del Maligno. L'unico in grado di risolvere l'enigma è Ignazio da Toledo, grande conoscitore dei luoghi e delle genti grazie ai suoi numerosi viaggi tra Oriente e Occidente e alla sua capacità di risolvere arcani e antichi misteri. A Córdoba, dove Ignazio viene convocato, incontra un vecchio magister che gli parla di un libro che tutti stanno cercando.

Are Hitler's atrocities really over? For depressive Wall Street trader Jeremy Corbin, absolute truths become undeniable lies overnight. He finds out his long-lost father is dead, he discovers his boss's real identity, and he ends up boarding a plane to Zurich. He has a Nazi medallion in his pocket, a hot CIA bodyguard next to him, and a clearly dangerous Mossad agent on his tail. What was his father investigating? Why was his mother assassinated? Why are unknown sides fighting over him with automatic weapons?

Deep in the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency. A revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye.

The Civil War is over, though for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. He returns to the plantation he worked on before the war in search of his woman but rather finds his old master gone mad, haunting the ruins like a ghost. Out of pity for the now mentally ill colonel, Jupiter strangles him and heads west to seek a new life in San Francisco.