Category: Historical Mysteries

The Eyes of Aurora: A Fifth Case from the Notebooks of Pliny by Jr., Albert A, Bell

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By Jr., Albert A, Bell

Pliny's servant Aurora, who's additionally the forbidden love of his existence, has performed stable Samaritan to a lady who claims to be looking for her lacking husband. considering he might help the lady, Pliny steps in, assisted, as traditional, via his pal Tacitus. however the scenario becomes an online of deception and intrigue after they observe facts of a awful homicide whereas looking within the geographical region for clues to the whereabouts of the lacking guy. After Aurora is injured, Pliny's involvement turns into own. he is even determined sufficient to invite Regulus, his longtime sworn enemy, for aid while the case brings him to the malevolent consciousness of the emperor Domitian.

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Unlikely Traitors (Ursula Marlow Mysteries Book 3) by Clare Langley-Hawthorne

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By Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Ursula Marlow idea she was once performed with demise, but if her fiancé, Lord Wrotham, is arrested on fees of treason, her international is grew to become the wrong way up. it's the iciness of 1913, and the British Parliament, unsettled at the query of domestic Rule for eire, is shaken over allegations of a plot to promote naval army secrets and techniques to Kaiser’s Germany and unencumber eire from English rule. For the 1st time, Ursula needs to interact with leader Inspector Harrison to discover the reality approximately Lord Wrotham’s involvement, in addition to his mysterious past.
 
As the research maintains, Ursula is drawn into the shadowy international of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and an internet of espionage and betrayal. She needs to race opposed to time to transparent Lord Wrotham’s identify and thwart a plot that threatens not just British nationwide safety, but additionally her life.

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Joys of My Life (A Hawkenlye Mystery Book 12) by Alys Clare

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By Alys Clare

A Hawkenlye medieval secret - may well 1199. Abbess Helewise has been summoned by way of Queen Eleanor to debate the construction of a chapel at Hawkenlye Abbey. in the meantime, Sir Josse d'Acquin is at the path of a gaggle of mysterious knights rumoured to be satan worshippers. As Helewise heads for domestic, Josse follows his quarry to Chartres, the place he meets the final individual he expects: Joanna. and she or he has grave difficulties of her personal . . .

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Den Löwen zum Fraß: Ein Fall für Marcus Didius Falco by Lindsey Davis,Susanne Aeckerle

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By Lindsey Davis,Susanne Aeckerle

Ein neuer Fall für Falco, den ersten Detektiv der Weltgeschichte! Diesmal soll der gewitzte Schnüffler zunächst nur den Tod eines Löwen aufklären, der in der römischen area so manchen unglücklichen Gladiator auf dem Gewissen hat. Doch dann passiert ein "richtiger" Mord, und Falco muss einmal mehr seinen Mut und seinen Witz unter Beweis stellen...

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Death Spiral by James W. Nichol

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By James W. Nichol

Nominated for the Arthur Ellis most sensible Novel Award and shortlisted for the 2011 Evergreen Award. This complicated, multi-layered mystery opens with a hero's welcome for the wounded Wilf McLauchlin, a celebrated WWII Canadian Spitfire fighter pilot. shortly after his homecoming, a sequence of surprising murders erupt in his place of origin. Wilf unearths himself attempting to resolve them and brooding about if he's one way or the other inflicting them. Wilf follows his personal path again to whilst he was once shot down over Germany within the final days of the warfare and makes the shattering connection.

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Het Illuminati Complot (Dutch Edition) by Patrick Bernauw

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By Patrick Bernauw

Moord op Albert I voorspeld door Leonie Van den Dijck, zieneres van Onkerzele?

Televisiereporter Maarten Dejonckheere bijt zich giant in het onderzoek naar het dodelijk ongeval van koning Albert I in 1934 in Marche-les-Dames, en ontdekt dat de officiële versie van de feiten een sprookje is. Werd Albert I het slachtoffer van een passioneel drama of een politiek complot? En wat heeft een voorspelling van de zieneres van Onkerzele, Leonie Van den Dijck, met dit alles te maken?

Het spoor leidt naar de Rex-beweging van Léon Degrelle, die wel eens in verband wordt gebracht met de Illuminati, een geheim genootschap van katholieke fundamentalisten. Gesteund door nazi-Duitsland en de Italiaanse fascisten, beraamde Degrelle in de jaren dertig een coup die Leopold III tot het autoritaire staatshoofd van België moest kronen. De Illuminaten waren echter niet alleen zeer actief in de jaren dertig...

Patrick Bernauw oogstte veel succes met zijn trilogie rond Maarten Dejonckheere, die van 2006 tot 2008 verscheen bij uitgeverij Manteau, en waarvan dit boek het sluitstuk is. Na Het Bloed van het Lam, waarin Maarten Dejonckheere het mysterie van de Graal én van de Rechtvaardige Rechters ontrafelde, en Nostradamus in Orval, speelde Bernauw opnieuw 'een magistraal spel met heden, verleden, waarheid en verdichting' (Vrij Nederland over Nostradamus in Orval).

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Merode-Trilogie 2 - Mönchsgesang: Historischer Krimi aus der by Günter Krieger

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By Günter Krieger

Kloster Schwarzenbroich, im Herbst 1349: Eher zufällig entdeckt Dorfherr Mathäus von Merode, dass es beim Ableben eines betagten Klosterbruders nicht mit rechten Dingen zugegangen ist. Als bald darauf weitere Mönche auf seltsame Weise ums Leben kommen, machen sich Mathäus und sein Freund Heinrich auf die gefährliche Suche nach dem Mörder.

"Mönchsgesang" ist der zweite Band der Merode-Triologie, Band 1 "Teufelswerk" und Band three "Löwentod" sind als book version im Dryas Verlag erhältlich.

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Swords, Sandals and Sirens by Marilyn Todd

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By Marilyn Todd

some of the tales function Claudia Seferius, the superbitch heroine of Marilyn Todd’s seriously acclaimed secret sequence set in historical Rome. Others function Iliona, excessive Priestess of the Temple of Eurotas, blackmailed to paintings with Sparta’s feared mystery police. From Sparta to Delphi, Egypt to Rome, this gleaming assortment may have you giggling, guessing, biting your nails. each one with a twist you by no means observed coming.

Introduction and prefaces to every tale via the author.

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Sidney Chambers and The Persistence of Love (Grantchester by James Runcie

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By James Runcie

The 6th publication within the James Runcie's much-loved sequence, tailored for ITV's Grantchester which stars James Norton as Sidney Chambers. ideal for enthusiasts of M. C. Beaton.

It is could 1971 and the Cambridgeshire nation-state is bursting into summer time. Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is jogging in a bluebell wooden together with his daughter Anna and their growing old Labrador Byron once they bump into a physique. Plunged into one other homicide research, Sidney discovers an international of hippies and psychedelic crops, the place permissive behaviour turns out to conceal whatever darker.

This is the 1st of many tense secrets and techniques that Sidney finds underneath the tranquil floor of the diocese: a celebrated photographer is accused of rape; a valuable non secular textual content vanishes from a Cambridge university; the authentication of a misplaced masterpiece proves a slippery company; and Sidney's personal nephew is going missing.

Endeavouring to slot in his clerical tasks round sleuthing, Sidney keeps to mirror at the divine mysteries of affection, lifestyles and religion, whereas wrestling with the earthly difficulties of parish scandals, a innovative new secretary, the demanding situations of parenthood, and an excellent loss.

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