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Das Psychogramm eines Mörders

New York 1896: Unter Polizeichef Theodore Roosevelt kommt es zu einem grauenvollen Mord, der sich als Teil einer ganzen Mordserie erweist. Mit den Ermittlungen wird Dr. Kreisler beauftragt, ein Vorläufer Sigmund Freuds. Gegen erbitterte Widerstände gelingt es ihm, mittels eines detaillierten Psychogramms den Mörder einzukreisen.

Photographic operator Robert McEntee’s regimen is upended while Colonel Ellsworth’s manhattan fireplace division Zouaves arrive in Washington, D.C. on the outset of the Civil warfare. they're uncooperative sitters by means of day and trigger fake alarms via night—and they’ve enlisted his more youthful brother, Andrew! Rob is swiftly enmeshed in homicide, espionage, and the conflict of First Manassas, encountering alongside the way in which Alan Pinkerton, Andrew Carnegie, Mathew Brady and the notorious Rose O’Neal Greenhow. Jean West recreates Washington as capital city, instead of urban, the place the well-known and strong rode upon unpaved streets and mingled with their acquaintances.

Mayhem at Manassas is the 1st in a sequence of Civil warfare mysteries that includes photographer-sleuth Rob McEntee. search for the sequels, because the visual display unit and Merrimack draw Rob into Peril at the Peninsula and America’s bloodiest day grows extra lethal with a chain of murders in soreness at Antietam.

Bis wir einander wiederfinden.

Frankfurt, 1938: Als Jüdin darf die junge Opernsängerin Anni nicht mehr auftreten. Nur mit Mühe kann sie für sich und ihre kleine Tochter Ruth sorgen. Die Angst vor dem NS-Regime wird immer größer, doch all ihre Bemühungen, gemeinsam auszureisen, scheitern. Schließlich ringt sich Anni zu der wohl schwersten Entscheidung für eine Mutter durch: Um wenigstens ihre Tochter in Sicherheit zu wissen, schickt sie Ruth mit einem der Kindertransporte nach England. So bald wie möglich will Anni ihr folgen. Doch dann bricht Krieg aus, und sie kann das Land nicht mehr verlassen …

Sister Fidelma returns in a new Celtic secret by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed writer of the second one dying and PENANCE OF THE DAMNED.

Ireland, advert 671. at the eve of the pagan dinner party of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, find a guy murdered in an unlit pyre within the middle of Cashel. He has been wearing the gowns of a religieux and killed by means of the ritualistic 'three deaths'.

When a wierd girl often called Brancheó seems to be in a raven-feather cloak foretelling of historic gods returning to distinctive revenge upon the mortal global, she is readily branded a suspect.

But of their look for the killer, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf will quickly find a darker shadow looming over the citadel. for his or her research is associated with a booklet stolen from the Papal mystery information that could wreck the hot religion within the 5 Kingdoms...and Fidelma herself will arise opposed to mortal probability earlier than the case is unravelled.

An orphaned younger girl needs to come to a decision even if to keep on with her head or her center in June Francis’s soaking up new Liverpool saga.

1961. Nineteen-year-old Lucia Brookes and her 5 more youthful siblings are dealing with their first Christmas on my own when you consider that their mom and dad have been killed in a automobile crash. as soon as, Lucia had dreamed of assembly a guy who would really like, cherish and supply for her. Now she has misplaced wish simply because what guy would need to take her on with all her responsibilities?

Everything adjustments whilst Tim Murphy enters the Liverpool espresso bar the place Lucia works, searching for a room to hire. even if she is familiar with of Tim’s prior and his fresh spell in felony, Lucia can’t support being charmed by means of the cute rogue. Ignoring the warnings from her friends and family, she accepts Tim’s provide of a date. yet has Tim fairly replaced his methods … and should his shady earlier meet up with him?

‘It used to be suffocatingly scorching, and the viewers of howling teenagers was once viciously detached to the violence being performed to my integrity as an artist through each ghastly syllable i used to be obliged to utter and through each mincing step i used to be obliged to take. because the foul scent of the traditional wig i used to be donning wafted into my nostrils, i started to view the bombing of Darwin with whatever like nostalgia.’

William strength, actor and someday inner most inquiry agent, has again from the Northern Territory, shaken, stirred, and usually discombobulated. ‘I survived the tropics with my lifestyles and my appears intact, regardless of the simplest efforts of the vegetation, fauna, and armed forces Intelligence to thieve either from me.’ it's past due 1942, and in what he believes is a demeaning sideshow to the struggle, he unearths himself taking part in a pantomime dame. If in basic terms this was once his in simple terms fear, yet, as his nice hero, Shakespeare, famous, ‘When sorrows come, they arrive now not unmarried spies, yet in battalions.’ Can Will ultimately conquer his tendency to be the dwelling embodiment of Murphy’s Law?

PRAISE FOR ROBERT GOTT

‘Aussie comedian crime fiction wouldn’t be an analogous with no William strength … an enjoyable combination of humour, historic crime, and the realm of theatre.’ The Sydney Morning Herald

A degree OF TIME is determined in England over the last 12 months of global battle II in post-war England. It tells the tale of the as soon as acclaimed live performance pianist now a hugely adorned B-17 pilot who makes one tragic mistake. His lengthy street to restoration is made attainable with the aid of the church, his shut pal the Bishop of Norwich, his track, and remarkable girls.

When David Walker witnesses a mysterious girl obtain a mystery package deal from a stranger, he makes the fateful choice to keep on with her. He has no concept that he's approximately to stroll right into a multilayered conspiracy that is going again decades…back to international battle II and the Nazi regime.

What David doesn’t notice is this lady were on a private undertaking to retrieve paintings that was once stolen from her relatives by way of the Nazis through the battle. What she unearthed on her quest—a checklist of mysterious financial institution accounts—accounts that threaten to bare the CIA’s darkest secret—would make her a marked woman.

Will David have the capacity to get away the eyes of the CIA, which has been staring at him longer than he might ever have imagined? Will he be capable of reveal the largest conspiracy of the 20th century?

A free End is a riveting mystery with momentous old imaginative and prescient. Written with gorgeous perception into the complicated cog that was once global battle II, this fast paced novel of political conspiracy will swap how you examine the second one international War—and Hitler—forever.

Roma, 1938. Alessandro Borghesi, ingegnere minerario neolaureato e pieno di entusiasmo, viene assunto in una missione archeologica destinata a scavare nell'oasi di Siwah, nel deserto del Sahara, alla ricerca della tomba perduta di Alessandro Magno. Ma ben presto il giovane Borghesi viene a sapere che secondo un antico papiro a Siwah è nascosto un tesoro ben più prezioso, di valore inestimabile: l. a. fonte di un potere misterioso, un segreto celato da quattro ideogrammi - una lingua arcana e sconosciuta - che nessuno studioso al mondo è ancora riuscito a decifrare. Arrivato al Cairo, Alessandro si rende conto che intorno alla missione archeologica ruotano enormi interessi economici e politici: il tedesco Hans Brunner, morto in circostanze sospette, aveva infatti individuato proprio dove sorge l'oasi di Siwah un giacimento di greggio, ora conteso tra gli italiani - che occupano l. a. Libia - e gli inglesi che controllano l'Egitto. Nel seguire le tracce di questa scoperta, Alessandro incontra l'affascinante Elisabeth Rosenheim, egittologa allieva del defunto professor Brunner, e make a decision di inoltrarsi con lei tra i tanti, troppi misteri della missione. Giunto nel cuore del Sahara, scoprirà che nemmeno il recupero del giacimento di greggio è il suo unico scopo. Nel viaggio si nascondono un'altra verità e nuovi, inquietanti interrogativi: perché l'Ovra ha intercettato una telefonata tra il cardinale di Chicago e los angeles Segreteria di Stato di Pio XI? E quale filo sottile lega i servizi segreti di Hitler all'Ambasciata italiana presso Il Cairo? Silenziosi e indecifrabili, intanto, i quattro enigmatici ideogrammi di Siwah continuano a custodire misteri millenari, capaci forse di mutare il corso della Storia... Attingendo a documenti originali custoditi nella Segreteria di Stato del Vaticano e dando vita a personaggi di profonda umanità, Barbara Frale costruisce un romanzo originalissimo, che con il passo incalzante del mystery ci conduce dai misteri mai svelati della storia antica fino alle region d'ombra di quella più recente, quelle con le quali tutti i conti sono ancora aperti.

this can be the ultimate a part of a two-volume radical retelling of the traditional Indian epic, The Mahābhārata. the 1st quantity, The Scales, follows the tale of Karna as he is going from mysterious and humble beginnings to coach within the arts of strive against with units of princes. His contention with Arjuna, the best warrior between those, embroils him within the turning out to be enmity among the royal families. 
In this moment quantity, The Yoke, the antagonism among the princes results in a conflict during which Arjuna will necessarily need to face Karna. within the historic epic, in advance of conflict starts, Arjuna is reluctant to struggle, and the motion is quickly suspended to bring the Bhagavad Gītā, a sacred textual content concerning a discussion among Arjuna and Krishna. during this retelling there happens as a substitute at this element a discussion during which there's an try and convince Arjuna that loose will and the excellence among brain and mind are illusions. within the aftermath of the resultant conflict, the secret of Karna starts off to unravel.
This fiction hopes to have fun historic India's giant contributions to humanity; yet its final function is to take you out of truth after which to come you, maybe to another position. Have a secure trip back.