Historical House Mysteries

On Sugawara Akitada's first official assignment as a young government clerk in 11th-century Japan, he is sent from the capital city on a nearly impossible mission to Kazusa to discover why tax convoys are disappearing. In the politically murky world of the Japanese court, he has been set up to fail. However, the resourceful Akitada, his elderly servant, Seimei, and his impudent bodyguard, Tora, are determined to fulfill their mission and discover the truth in a town of dangerous secrets.

When Amy Osbourne’s parents are lost at sea, she is forced to leave her London home and is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at the opposite end of the country. Alardyce House is depressing and dreary, her aunt haughty and cruel. Amy strikes up a friendship with her cousin Edward but his older brother Henry is just as conceited as his mother, and a mutual loathing develops between him and Amy. Struggling in this strange, unwelcoming environment, Amy begins to suspect that something isn’t right at Alardyce House.

A standalone novel from the author of the classic Australian Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery series. Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for Breakaway House is Mt Magnet, about 580km north of Perth, deep in gold country.

El monasterio de Santa María de Veruela aspiraba a ser una ciudad celeste, un fiel reflejo del reino de los cielos, pero lo cierto es que lo habitaban simples mortales. Sus muros fueron testigos de historias de ambición, traición y venganza. Y también de amor, sexo y...muerte. En las mágicas y misteriosas tierras del Moncayo se asienta uno de los monasterios cistercienses más bellos del mundo. En el siglo XIV es escenario de una cruenta guerra entre las coronas de Castilla y Aragón, y hasta allí llega el joven Bizén con una misión que cumplir.

Un año después de la muerte del rey Gustavo III, los vientos de la Revolución francesa llegan incluso a Suecia, donde la tensión es palpable en todo el país, convertido en un nido de conspiraciones, suspicacias y recelos. En esta atmósfera irrespirable, Mickel Cardell, un veterano de la guerra contra Rusia, descubre un cuerpo atrozmente mutilado en un lago de Estocolmo.

In the early 1600s, Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess, ruled Čachtice Castle in the hinterlands of Slovakia. During bizarre nightly rites, she tortured and killed the young women she had taken on as servants. A devil, a demon, the terror of Royal Hungary — she bathed in their blood to preserve her own youth. 400 years later, echoes of the Countess’s legendary brutality reach Aspen, Colorado.

What started as a routine investigation of three small-time criminals with seemingly little in common exploded into a conspiracy of nation-toppling proportions. Walt is a hardened NYPD detective assigned to a case that takes him from the seedy underbelly of Harlem to the weird and haunted world of 1950s Haiti. True crime writer Paul Merlino (author of Homicides in Harlem) brings to light the true story of a series of murders that connected politicians, the mob, and even intelligence agencies that threatened the very ecosystem of the delicately poised Caribbean life.

In der Welt der Reichen und Schönen ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt... Jane Wunderly stolpert mitten in ihren ersten Fall, von der Gewinnerin des "Agatha Awards" Erica Ruth Neubauer! Jane Wunderly und ihre Tante Millie besuchen das Mena House Hotel – ein Luxus Resort, das der High Society aus der ganzen Welt erlaubt, hier die Nachwirkungen des ersten Weltkriegs zu vergessen und die Alkohol Prohibition zu umgehen. Die charmanten Gäste des Hotels sorgen bei Jane für Zerstreuung – allen voran der mysteriöse Banker Mr Redvers.

When Kate goes to look after her estranged sister’s children in their creepy old house, she takes a photo of what seems to be a ghost. Frightened yet intrigued, Kate undertakes to uncover the secrets of the house and the two mysterious sisters who lived there over a hundred years before. But like the illusions of light and shadow in the sisters’ strange and disturbing Victorian post-mortem photography, Kate discovers that all is not what it seems. Someone – or something – has their own plans for Rookswood House – and for Kate.

A month ago, Amy Wood had her perfect home, perfect boyfriend and perfect job in London. Now she’s broken-hearted, living in her parents’ tiny bungalow, and working in an estate agents in Bath. But Amy gets a new lease on life when she undertakes to sell Rosemont Hall, a crumbling Georgian mansion riddled with woodworm, dry rot – and secrets.

Alex Hart loves her job as manager of Mallow Court, an historic Elizabethan house. But the discovery of a antique jewelled locket and a long-buried secret changes everything... From an old diary to a charismatic barrister, a mysterious clockmaker and the darkest hours of the London Blitz, Alex must follow a trail of clues to uncover the truth about her family and their wartime history. But there is someone who is determined to stop her... Who can she really trust?

Rasante Action, atemberaubende Abenteuer und faszinierende historische Fakten – ein Archäologie-Thriller der Extraklasse Der ehemalige Geheimagent Sean Wyatt zögert keine Sekunde, als sein bester Freund Thomas Schulz entführt wird, und heftet sich auf die Spur der Kidnapper. Doch was wollen die Verbrecher von dem Archäologen? Unterstützt von der Reporterin Allyson Webster stößt Sean auf Hinweise auf die sagenumwobenen Goldenen Kammern der Cherokee – und auf die darin verborgenen, angeblich magischen Steine. Er glaubt nicht an Zauberei, doch die Entführer offenbar durchaus. Wer steckt dahinter?

The year is 1962, and KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin is chasing a white elephant: the long-rumored existence of an American spy embedded at the highest echelon of Soviet power. In a wild-goose chase that has Vasin engaged in high-stakes espionage against a rival State agency, he first hears whispers of an ominous top-secret undertaking: Operation Anadyr. As tensions flare between Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy over Russian missiles hidden in Cuba, four Soviet submarines are ordered to make a covert run at the American blockade in the Caribbean.

In a time of war, nowhere is safe. While World War Two rages, Cat Carlisle runs a women’s refuge to protect beaten wives. But when one of the women is found dead in the woods behind the house, Cat’s world shatters. Was the killer a violent husband seeking revenge? A secret lover? Or is something more dangerous at play? Because Cat and her fiancé, Thomas, have a secret: they’re hiding a precious golden chalice, keeping it locked safely away from the plundering Nazis until the war is over. But someone wants that treasure, and no one will be safe until they get it....

¿Quién es Klingsor? Detrás de este nombre en clave se oculta un personaje siniestro, o quizá sólo una leyenda. Los datos disponibles indican que es un científico para quien son familiares la mecánica cuántica, la teoría de la relatividad, las partículas subatómicas, la fisión, pero ante todo, que es consejero de Hitler y responsable de las estrategias científico-bélicas del Reich, entre ellas, desarrollar la bomba atómica. Su búsqueda le es encomendada a Francis Bacon.

La sinfonía del tiempo es una emocionante historia de amor, una gran saga familiar y una poderosa intriga histórica. Un fascinante viaje a los tiempos del acero y el carbón, de los edificios de hierro y cristal, de los avances industriales y científicos, de la desigualdad social y el refinamiento burgués.

Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968 - an episode she’s managed to keep secret for more than 40 years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she’s about to let the world in on that shocking secret - as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions. A resonant coming-of-age story and a thrilling political mystery, True Believers is Kurt Andersen’s most ambitious novel to date, introducing a brilliant, funny, and irresistible new heroine to contemporary fiction.

London, 1833. Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission. But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees—a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia. If Hester can cure the ailing health of its owner, Gervaise Cherville, she will receive payment that will bring her everything she could dream of. But on arriving at Tall Trees, Hester quickly discovers that an even bigger task awaits her.

On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Into the vacuum—before a new democracy had time to put down roots—surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or “roof”—protection for the privately owned businesses sprouting across the country.

An extraordinary debut novel - dark, fast-paced, thrilling - set in contemporary and 19th-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures, his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888, and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city in present time.