Misterios históricos

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  • Fresh Snow on Bedford Falls
    G. L. Gooding
    It has only been a few days since George Bailey and his building and loan faced ruin.  Thanks to the generosity of many friends however, disaster has been avoided. Yet as 1946 dawns, an uneasy feeling plagues George.  Something tells him that the ruthless Henry F. Potter is still plotting to destroy him once and for all.George’s fears are confirmed with the arrival of state ban...
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    37,13 €

  • Death’s Executioner
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    Detective. Judge. Executioner.Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter.  The Zolin Conspiracy: Out in the deep snow lies the body of a gentleman — missing his head. Bogdan Zolin’s death proves a mystery difficult to solve, ...
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    14,53 €

  • The Prisoner’s Key
    C.J. Archer / C.JArcher
    India’s study into the language of spells is interrupted by the arrest of her teacher for an unpaid debt. Before Matt can repay it for him, the powerful magician escapes from his prison cell. To make matters worse, the moneylender is murdered and the magician is implicated.Convinced of his innocence, India and Matt must discover who really killed the moneylender before the poli...
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    16,16 €

  • Murder on Eaton Square
    Lee Strauss
    Murder’s Bad Karma. . .Life couldn’t be better on Eaton Square Gardens where the most prestigious families lived, until one of their own dies and it’s murder.Ginger and Basil are on the case, but it’s not a simple glass of bubbly fizz. The more the clues present themselves, the trickier the puzzle gets, and Ginger feels she’s on a wild goose chase.But as someone close to the vi...
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    11,64 €

  • Baker City 1948
    George Byron Wright
    It is January 1948. Nine-year-old Philip Wade and his family have been uprooted and moved to the small Eastern Oregon town of Baker City, where Philip’s father, Kenneth Wade, will begin his career as a mortician. In the spring, the father hires a local recluse, Jack O’Brien, to help put a new roof on their house. Three weeks later, when a school teacher is found beaten to death...
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    11,86 €

  • A Shot in the Dark
    Costello Matthew / Neil Richards
    Sussex, England, 1929.Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But things are about to liven up there considerably, when young Sir Harry Mortimer returns home from his government posting in Cairo, with his unconventional American wife – Kat Reilly.No sooner have the two arrived, when a jewel robbery occurs at Harry's aunt's home – Mydworth Man...
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    7,26 €

  • Murder at Bray Manor
    Lee Strauss
    A poltergeist guilty of murder?Ginger Gold receives a letter from her sister-in-law, Felicia, requesting Ginger come straightaway to her late husband's family home, Bray Manor. Dowager Lady Gold, Ginger's nervous grandmother through marriage, believes the old manor is haunted.Ginger doesn't believe in ghosts, but is haunted nevertheless by memories of her husband an...
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    11,72 €

  • The DAUPHIN DECEPTION
    Urcelia Teixeira
    Romance...adventure...action...Christian values. Everything you’ll want for the perfect binge-read!A boy-king the world never knew about. A missing relic said to have proven his death. An unknown enemy with a deadly secret.When a series of anonymous letters lure archaeologists Alex and Sam into a hidden world of secrets, they get thrust into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. I...
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    22,25 €

  • The Missing Heir Murders
    Rowse Sharon
    When John Granville commits to finding young Rupert Weston, he and his fiancée Emily Turner face treachery on a scale they never imagined.Hired to find a remittance man who is suddenly heir to an Earldom, John Granville quickly learns the fellow hasn’t been seen in months. He can’t trust his client. He can’t trust the facts he’s been given.Digging deeper, Granville uncovers uns...
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    17,70 €

  • The Cannery Row Murders
    Sharon Rowse
    When human bones are found in a vat of lye on Steveston’s notorious Cannery Row, John Granville is determined to find out why.In a time of frontier brawls and broken dreams, the fishing industry is vital to the survival of the young province and the people who live there. Tensions from a recent fishing strike abound, and Cannery Row is a tinderbox.Can Granville—with a little he...
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    17,72 €

  • The Terminal City Murders
    Sharon Rowse
    When a young Englishman is arrested for fraud, John Granville takes the case as a favor to a friend. The resulting scramble to extricate his client involves Granville in a break-in and two murders, drawing him—and his fiancée Emily Turner—ever deeper into the murky side of the local business world.With their client panicking and the witnesses dying, can they solve this one befo...
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    17,82 €

  • The Silk Train Murder
    Sharon Rowse
    It’s 1899, and when his best friend is arrested for the murder of a notorious gangster, gentleman adventurer John Granville is determined to hunt down the real killer.To save his friend, Granville must dive into the seedy side of the city—the burlesque halls, gambling joints, and opium dens that line reeking mudflats. He finds allies along the way, including Emily Turner, the e...
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    16,89 €

  • Frost Fair
    Edith Layton
    A brand-new, never-released novel from the USA TODAY bestselling Regency author!When a gentleman is found dead on a fishmonger's doorstep in Regency London, a rugged Bow Street Runner has to pair with the man's elegant noble nephew to solve the crime. They both find unexpected help--and infatuation--with the fishmonger's very unusual young widow.Individually, each h...
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    17,11 €

  • Death of an Honourable Gent
    VL McBeath
    Money, power and a deadly family feud. Eliza Thomson Investigates...A body floating in the lake, an abandoned croquet mallet, and a debutante ball.Preparations for one of the society events of the year are in full swing at Lowton Hall, the family estate of Neville, Earl of Lowton.He inherited his wealth and title from his father, and nothing will stop him arranging a suitable m...
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    14,68 €

  • The Lost Mine Murders
    Sharon Rowse
    John Granville is offered a fortune to find a lost gold mine, one that legend says is protected by more than secrecy—and nearly turns it down. But the search for his partner's stolen niece has stalled until one of their leads comes through. Then they'll need travel funds to find the child––and to buy her freedom.Saving a child's life is worth whatever danger they mi...
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    16,82 €

  • The Curse of Braeburn Castle
    Karen Baugh Menuhin
    Book 3 in the Heathcliff Lennox seriesHalloween 1921. A castle on a rock in a lonely Scottish loch, Braeburn has been crumbling for centuries. Someone tries to remedy the rot but uncovers a skeleton behind a wall. It wears a crown upon its skull and hides a curse within its bones. Is it the ancient King of the Isles? Or is it Black Dougal? And why is it surrounded by mystery?As...
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    12,01 €

  • The Hidden City Murders
    Sharon Rowse
    The Hidden City Murders opens on a sultry August day in 1900. John Granville and Emily Turner have just wrapped up the Cannery Row case, and are ready for a well deserved break. Alas, it is not to be.Granville’s indispensable lawyer is under attack, and turns to Granville for help. Before Granville and his partner can react, their lawyer is attacked and left for dead. Granville...
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    20,32 €

  • Murder at Feathers & Flair
    Lee Strauss
    Espionage, intrigue . . . murder . . .It's 1924 and war widow fashionista Ginger Gold's new Regent Street dress shop, Feathers & Flair, is the talk of the London fashion district attracting aristocrats from Paris to Berlin to Moscow.Ginger is offered her first job as a private detective when her sister-in-law’s stage actor friend goes missing, and though the dress shop ...
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    11,68 €

  • The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
    Rich DiSilvio
    DASHING & CLEVER, Armand Arnolfini confronts a dazzling array of art thieves, forgers, and ruthless murderers in this riveting series of mysterious art crimes.Arnolfini’s manhunts take him from New York to Italy, Belgium, Germany and beyond in his quest to unravel a series of intriguing mysteries, while also seeking to preserve a broad spectrum of great art and artifacts that h...
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    22,88 €

  • Los lugares misteriosos de la tierra
    Massimo Centini
    Bomarzo, Carnac, Chartres, Lago Ness, Stonehenge, Isla de Pascua, Nazca, Gizeh, Ayers Rock... Se trata de lugares misteriosos de la Tierra que, a pesar de que hay estudios cada vez más detallados sobre ellos, siguen asombrándonos con preguntas sin aparente respuesta. ¿Quiénes y por qué construyeron las pirámides? ¿Para qué servían las gigantescas figuras trazadas en el suelo en...
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    34,27 €

  • Murder in Moreton
    VL McBeath
    A suspicious death, two missing medicine bottles and an absent son.Eliza Thomson Investigates...June 1900: Eliza Thomson is delighted to be back in Moreton after nearly thirty years away. To cap it all, she has a job in her husband’s surgery ... and her best friend, Connie lives next door!Connie is eager to introduce Eliza to the villagers, but their excitement vanishes when th...
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    14,66 €

  • Monster
    Markus Innocenti
    Inspired by an award-winning web series, 'Monster' is the first novella in a four-part historical murder mystery that follows a mythic Italian serial killer, Il Sonnambulo, from Venice in the Spring of 1888 to the streets of London during the fateful Autumn of the Ripper Murders. Although fictional, the two central novellas in 'The Crimes of Il Sonnambulo' serie...
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    10,10 €

  • Demon
    Markus Innocenti
    Inspired by an award-winning web series, 'Demon' is the third novella in a four-part historical murder mystery that follows a mythic Italian serial killer, Il Sonnambulo, from Venice in the Spring of 1888 to the streets of London during the fateful Autumn of the Ripper Murders. Although fictional, the two central novellas in 'The Crimes of Il Sonnambulo' series,...
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    9,70 €

  • Antichrist
    Markus Innocenti
    Inspired by an award-winning web series, 'Antichrist' is the fourth and final novella in a four-part historical murder mystery that follows a mythic Italian serial killer, Il Sonnambulo, from Venice in the Spring of 1888 to the streets of London during the fateful Autumn of the Ripper Murders. Although fictional, the two central novellas in 'The Crimes of Il Sonnamb...
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    9,71 €

  • Ripper
    Markus Innocenti
    Inspired by an award-winning web series, 'Ripper' is the second novella in a four-part historical murder mystery that follows a mythic Italian serial killer, Il Sonnambulo, from Venice in the Spring of 1888 to the streets of London during the fateful Autumn of the Ripper Murders. Although fictional, the two central novellas in 'The Crimes of Il Sonnambulo' serie...
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    9,85 €

  • Denver City Justice
    J.v.L. Bell
    Territory of Colorado, 1864. Millie and Dom Drouillard return with more murder, mayhem, and misadventures in J.v.L. Bell’s latest novel, Denver City Justice.The newlyweds are barely settled into wedded bliss when their neighbor the Widow Ferris is found dead with an icicle piercing her cold heart. Suspects abound—Widow Ferris has been blackmailing most of the upstanding citizen...
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    12,86 €

  • The Case of the Good Deed
    Jim Shon / Masa Hagino
    The Case of the Good Deed follows two investigators reminiscent of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto, but not the same. An old Hawaiian deed from the mid-19th century is found in the wall of a historic church. The deed is to a valuable parcel in rapidly developing downtown Kakaako. A young museum researcher and a young reporter, Zoe Lee, believe it can complicate if not stop a major de...
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    7,22 €

  • Only Charlotte
    Rosemary Poole-Carter
    Lenore James, a woman of independent means who has outlived three husbands, is determined to disentangle her brother Gilbert from the beguiling Charlotte Eden. Chafing against misogyny and racism in the post-Civil War South, Lenore learns that Charlotte’s husband is enmeshed in the re-enslavement schemes of a powerful judge, and she worries that Gilbert’s adoration of Charlotte...
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    14,20 €

  • The Irish Bride
    Sarah Woodbury
    August 1148. The wedding of Godfrid and Cait promises to be the event of the year, and even Gwen has made the journey across the Irish Sea to celebrate. Weddings can be moments around which tensions and resentments pivot, however, so when a monk turns up dead within moments of Gareth and Gwen’s arrival in Ireland, the pair put on their sleuthing hats and get to work, racing to ...
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    19,17 €

  • Fifteen Postcards
    Kirsten McKenzie
    History shapes those who travel through itFollowing the unexplained disappearance of her parents, and to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin, Sarah Lester takes on a deceased estate. A jumbled collection of vintage postcards then lead Sarah on a journey through time.Unprepared for the stories these postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, they complic...
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    20,35 €


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