Category: Historical Mysteries

Gracie Evans is uninterested in retirement on the Moser Mansion relaxation domestic for ladies. She is homesick and has an lousy case of Spring Fever. She desires to flip again the clock and return to her farm, 3 Oaks, to go to. Gracie will get what she needs for whilst the renter asks her to farm take a seat whereas he is taking his spouse and daughter to go to his wife's mom for a month. dwelling on a farm isn't really particularly what Gracie remembered it to be while she was once younger. to move in addition to the entire chores she has the further inconvience of discovering a lacking neighbor's outfits on her pond dam. one of many Indian braves camped alongside the river within the trees fears that Gracie is at risk and attempts to aid her. Plus, an previous boy buddy from the farm round the corner makes a decision to spend extra time together with her than she is pleased with. sign up for Gracie as she works her means via her spring fever and danger.

summer season, 1381. the nice riot has been overwhelmed; the king’s peace ruthlessly enforced. Brother Athelstan in the meantime is getting ready for a pilgrimage to St Thomas a Becket’s shrine in Canterbury to provide thank you for the wellness of his congregation after the violent uprising.

But arrangements are disrupted whilst Athelstan is summoned to a modest condominium in Cheapside, scene of a brutal triple homicide. one of many sufferers used to be the manager clerk of the key Chancery of John of Gaunt. may well this be an act of revenge by means of the Upright males, these rebels who survived the nice rebel?

At an analogous time Athelstan is receiving menacing messages from an murderer who calls himself Azrael, the Angel of dying? who's he – and why is he focusing on a innocuous friar? may Athelstan’s pilgrimage be prime him right into a lethal seize?

within the decadent and hazardous Shanghai of 1929, somebody is spying for the japanese, and the foreign Settlement's British police are at the hunt. Now, in the course of the Mid-Autumn Moon pageant, American aviator Jack "Ace" Jordan turns into the leading suspect. Embarking on a determined bid to transparent his identify, Ace joins forces with an area drug broker, an aspiring information reporter, and a rescued chinese language teenager to unmask the identification of the genuine agent. As a path of demise and treachery leads them towards the interior circle of Japan's such a lot infamous spymaster, Ace and his affiliates turn into reluctantly entangled within the opium-fueled global of the strong and supernatural Taoist gangster Pockmarked Fang.

A exciting narrative mixing truth, fiction and infrequent images, Lantern of the depraved creates an atmospheric window into the complexity and darkish grandeur of the colonial Orient during this gripping ancient mystery.

HIDDEN MICKEY 1: occasionally useless males DO inform stories!

1st of the Hidden Mickey experience Mysteries approximately Walt Disney and Disneyland Magic state written for Adults, young people, & Tweens (age 10 & up).
If you're keen on country Keepers by way of Ridley Pearson you are going to love Hidden Mickey Adventures.

TWO associates locate WALT DISNEY'S misplaced DIARY.

Who knew it should lead them on a wild cross-country seek jam-packed with discoveries, concerning the recognized guy, his lifestyles, and approximately themselves.

THE DIARY tricks OF A HIDDEN TREASURE.

Beth, Adam's former female friend, was once fired from her cherished activity at Disneyland, due to Adam. Now he wishes her assist in untangling an online of clues that Walt left at the back of. Can she placed their previous apart and paintings with him back? Can the 3 buddies decipher the eccentric clues that Disney himself could have ingeniously devised?

WHO ELSE is looking for THE TREASURE?

As the clues lead them in the direction of their aim, and deeper within the legacy of Walt Disney himself, will they locate a few long-lost treasure?

IS THIS ONE ultimate phantasm through THE WORLD'S maximum STORYTELLER?

Anyone who loves all-things Disney can be swept up within the intrigue of the occasionally refined, occasionally imprecise, and continuously awesome evidence surrounding essentially the most well-known, loved and creative males of all time. stroll within the footwear of our intrepid treasure hunters as they scavenge old files and become aware of impressive connections, whereas they search out what Walt could have left behind.

An "E-Ticket" trip via Disney's history.

Next e-book within the series... HIDDEN MICKEY 2: all of it Started...

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Hidden Mickey 1: occasionally useless males DO inform stories! is Flesch-Kincaid Grade 4.2 - Flesch studying Ease 83

Ein mörderisches Phantom.
Totentanz im Mittelalter.
Und ein grauenvolles Geheimnis.
Lüfte es!
Doch sieh dich vor -
der Seelenhändler naht.

Herzogtum Steiermark; Sommer im Jahr des Herrn 1385.
Eine Reihe mysteriöser Verbrechen versetzt die Bewohner einer abgelegenen Gebirgsregion in Angst und Schrecken. Wer ist für das grauenvolle Massaker an der Familie Arnulfs des Köhlers verantwortlich? Und wer für den blutigen Überfall auf einen venezianischen Kaufmannszug? Im Auftrag des Priors des Benediktinerklosters zu Admont machen sich der geheimnisumwitterte Wolf von der Klause und die schöne Katharina von Klingfurth auf die Suche nach den Tätern. Dabei stoßen sie nicht nur auf die Spur eines verbrecherischen Ordens - sondern auch auf ein viele Jahre zurückliegendes Geschehen, um das sich ein furchtbares Geheimnis rankt. Noch ahnen sie nicht, in welch tödliche Gefahr sie diese Entdeckung bringen wird …

… Und noch während er über geborstene Säulen hinwegsetzte, Mauerreste umrundete und Trümmerstücke übersprang, tauchte es plötzlich wieder vor seinem inneren Auge auf: das Bild aus seinem Traum, das ihn schon seit vielen Wochen verfolgte. Spätestens in diesem Augenblick wusste Wolf, dass das Spiel um eine schreckliche size erweitert worden warfare …

In ihren „Dunklen Geschichten" begibt sich Barbara Wolflingseder auf eine faszinierende excursion in die Tiefen der Zeiten, sie erkundet Orte und Räume voll mystischem Dunkel, erzählt von düsteren Geheimnissen und mysteriösen Begebenheiten.
Wer mit offenen Augen und offenem Herzen durch Wien geht, wird den Zauber spüren, den die Vergangenheit in der alten Kaiserstadt entfaltet. „Soviel zerbröckelter Stein, so viele hohle Wände sind da, daß guy es flüstern hört von langher, von weither", schrieb einst Ingeborg Bachmann und forderte dazu auf, diesem Flüstern nachzugehen, dem „Schluchzen aus lockeren Pflastersteinen".
Das Buch nimmt diese Forderung ernst, es blickt hinter die von Klischees bis zum Überdruss glatt polierte Fassade der Metropole an der Donau und gräbt tiefer, es fördert Vergessenes und Verdrängtes zutage, lässt sich abseits von Walzerseligkeit und Heurigengemütlichkeit auf das Verborgene und Abgründige ein.

February 1665. With wintry weather passing, Mercia Blakewood is ultimately headed again to England from the United States, hoping to depart in the back of the shadow solid by way of loss of life and heartache. She expects a welcome from the King contemplating her past, as a rule winning, challenge at his behalf, however the reception is not often hot. extra manipulation lies forward and Mercia needs to settle for a clandestine and uncomfortable position on the center of the royal court docket to discover a undercover agent and traitor.

Ganador del CWA old Dagger Award en 2016, el más prestigioso premio para novela policiaca histórica del ámbito anglosajón Libro del mes por los angeles sección de novela negra del Times Selección semanal del day-by-day Telegraph

"Escalofriante", Daily Telegraph

"Extremadamente adictiva", Sun day Express

Berlín oriental, 1975

Cuando l. a. detective Oberleutnant Karin Müller es llamada para investigar los angeles muerte de una adolescente al pie del Muro, al ver el cuerpo comprende que no se trata de una muerte más: los angeles chica huía, sí, pero de los angeles parte occidental.

Müller pertenece a l. a. Policía del Pueblo, cuyos poderes están de facto limitados por l. a. todopoderosa Stasi. Por un lado le piden que descubra los angeles identidad de l. a. chica, pero le aseguran que el caso está cerrado y l. a. animan encarecidamente a que se abstenga de hacer ninguna pregunta. Las pruebas no cuadran, y Müller enseguida se da cuenta de que el escenario del crimen es un montaje. Pero las mentes curiosas no tienen buena prensa en regímenes como el de los angeles República Democrática Alemana, y Müller no se da cuenta de que los angeles pista que está siguiendo l. a. llevará por un sendero lleno de peligros que afectarán a su vida personal…

Con reminiscencias de las obras de Tom Rob Smith y Philip Kerr y los angeles película La vida de los otros, Hijos de los angeles Stasi es una historia absorbente y excelentemente trabada, llena a rebosar de intriga, infidelidades y traiciones.

"En Berlín Oriental las preguntas son peligrosas. Las respuestas pueden matar".

"En esta primera novela, David younger ofrece una historia solvente y personajes bien delineados, destacando los angeles feliz manera que tiene de plasmar el estado de ánimo dominante en los angeles Alemania del Este en aquella época (y lo he cotejado con alguien que vivió allí): a mitad de camino entre el miedo y el orgullo patrio". The Times

"Uno de los mejores libros que he leído en mucho tiempo. Entrelaza de manera soberbia las dos tramas de l. a. historia y refleja con crudeza los angeles vida al otro lado del Muro de Berlín, un debut de órdago". David Jackson, autor de Cry Baby

"Hijos de los angeles Stasi es un gran libro, no solo por los angeles historia que cuenta (llena de intriga, apasionante), sino también porque nos retrotrae con viveza a una época que casi todos hemos olvidado […]. David younger se ha documentado de forma exhaustiva para escribir el libro, y rezuma credibilidad por todas partes". tripfiction.com

"La lectura de esta novela me tuvo en vilo todo el tiempo. David younger consigue captar de manera maravillosa los angeles atmósfera de un sitio […]. Es una historia de detectives buenísima, y arroja luz sobre una época ya pasada con unas implicaciones políticas fascinantes". Northern Crime

DEATH IN BYZANTIUM: on the middle of what's left of the Roman Empire, lies a urban simmering with intrigue & treachery. Amid this maelstrom stands John, a slave who has risen to develop into the precise hand of Justinian, the best of Byzantium's emperors. With violence and homicide regular, it's John's abilities as an investigator that the Emperor prizes the main.

SIX FOR GOLD: advert 542. John is chained and imprisoned, accused of murdering an imperial senator – and worse a favorite of the notorious empress Theodora. His existence is nearly definitely forfeit yet Justinian spirits him out of Constantinople and to a distant Egyptian shrine. Why? and what's the relationship among a sequence of brutal deaths during this distant outpost and what occurred in Constantinople? If John can remain alive lengthy sufficient, he could locate the major to returning domestic.

Someone�s stealing gold shipments in Colorado. John Whyte, ace Pinkerton detective, is tasked to discover the culprits and produce them to justice. he's joined via his buddies and colleagues: Khan Singh, his dependable Sikh manservant from his carrier for the Queen in India, who him to the United States and fought at his facet within the Civil conflict; and Curly invoice Williams, his American buddy from Texas. John investigates the string of brutal robberies of gold shipments from the mines in important Colorado en path to Denver, the place the dear steel is subtle into gold cash on the US Mint. John enlists assistance from a beautiful Irish madam, who impresses him along with her sharp brain in addition to her actual charms. jointly, they resolve the secret, and in a sequence of shootouts get a divorce and wreck the group, together with the arrest of its astounding leader.