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A murdered diplomat, planted evidence and a treacherous sister: once again, Helga had better find the real killer quickly, before heads start rolling - literally - in this brand-new Viking noir mystery. 'For Vikings done right, come to Snorri Kristjansson' Mark Lawrence, author of...

Would you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life? When the Black Death comes knocking on your door, you'd better decide quickly.2018 WRITER'S DIGEST SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD, HONORABLE MENTIONERIC HOFFER GRAND PRIZE FINALISTEDITOR'S CHOICE, HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEWVenice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing...

Their rivalry will change the world forever.As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by currents of politics, religion and personal tragedy, threatened by barbarian...

FORGOTTEN SECRETS UNLEASH A RISING DARKNESS IN THE WORLDThe Demon Core-history records that the third and final plutonium core meant for Hiroshima was destroyed nearly a century ago. But history is wrong, and now the core reemerges in the hands of a rising power,...

Author: Tim SeverinISBN-10: 0330426753ISBN-13: 9780330426756Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.72h x 5.12w x 0.83d

Read the classic monster book that started them all.The definitive edition Large Print edition Features an uplifting extended biography of the life and experiences of Mary Shelly Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written...

The Cross and the Crown Series Book 4Queen of Blood, Book Four of the Cross and the Crown series, continues the story of Catherine Havens, a former nun in Tudor England. It is now 1553, and Mary Tudor has just been crowned queen of...

Read one of the Robert Louis Stevenson classics.The definitive edition. Large Print Edition Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading The story follows young David Balfour, whose parents have recently...

The definitive edition. Large Print Edition Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading Follow the adventures of Jim Hawkins, a boy whose life is sparked by an eerie encounter in...

When four guilty men are acquitted of a horrific crime, a prophetic vision is set in motion and a group of magicians must trust in each other to prevent a powerful beast from being released, a demon hell bent on destroying what remains of...

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...

When John Granville commits to finding young Rupert Weston, he and his fianc e 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...

Cornwall, England. 1740.They say only the brave ride Bridles Lane at night. Vicar Richard Dodge speaks of ghosts and demons, conducting elaborate exorcisms in his churchyard overlooking the lane. And with the villagers sheltering in fear, local smugglers carry their haul up the road...

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...

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...

The time has come for Cassiopeia Vitt to sell her ancestral home. It sits on a Spanish bluff by the Mediterranean Sea, and bears the name Casa de Hace Mucho Tiempo, House of Long Ago. Trapped inside its walls are memories from a time...

April 1862. The War of the Rebellion threatens the Deep South after Grant's army occupies most of west Tennessee. The Federals grow in strength as new recruits arrive every day and veteran divisions march from Nashville. Expectation rides the air in the Federal army....

In the midst of the shadowy world of government corruption and the sex trade in the late-twentieth-century USSR, Mitch Galichin risks his life and puts his family in jeopardy in order to expose a human trafficking ring that reaches into the highest levels of...

"Tommy Carbone brings you right to the Maine woods in his new novel. You're not going to want to stop reading." - George Smith, Maine's Bangor Daily News, Book Reviews.* * * * * A Maine Mystery Are there spies in the woods? Have...

The stifling, atmospheric, gothic crime novel with a unique protagonist and killer twist, perfect for fans of The Woman in Black, The Silent Companions, and Little Strangers****************1904. Thomas Bexley, one of the first forensic photographers, is called to the sleepy Welsh village of Dinas...

Autumn 1908 finds Caroline Fremont Jones and her partner in love and work, Michael Kossoff, traveling incognito, riding the rails from San Francisco to Boston. The railroad hired the sleuthing couple to investigate a series of accidents. But before they can solve the mystery,...

How could two men from two different families and time periods of twelve hundred years apart possibly have anything in common? While it might seem impossible, yet that is part of the mystery surrounding Joseph of Arimathea and Lord Robert de Borron.Each man is...

In the worlds of passion and politics, Ursula Blanchard knows to follow her heart -- if she is to keep her head.... Happily married and enjoying the life domestic, Ursula has her mind on family matters, not court treachery, as she begins to plan...

16th Century.Conflict, Chaos and Corruption in Reformation Scotland He wants to reform Scotland, but his enemies will stop at nothing to prevent him. Scotland 1559: Fiery reformer John Knox returns to a Scotland on the brink of civil war. Victorious, he feels confident of...

No Trivial Pursuit. Not When It's Your Own Daughter Missing. A front-page murder is assigned to LAPD Detective Harley Ellis and her partner. Hollywood studio head Ira Spielman has been murdered. His widow says he had no enemies. Except one, says Harley, and she...

"Joe Edd Morris has honed a bullet aimed directly at the heart and soul of the reader." -Peggy Webb, USA Today bestselling author of The Language of Silence"Torched is a gripping novel of forbidden love, and friendship across racial divides." -IndieReader ApprovedTorched finds Sam...

"This tasty 1950s L.A. noir crime novel goes down smoother than an Old Fashioned. Highly recommended." -Best Thrillers Los Angeles, 1954.Sending a pair of mass murderers to the chair got his name in the papers, but veteran fighter pilot turned detective, Augy Small, couldn't...

"In the tradition of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and, more recently, Bernhard Schlink's "The Reader," comes a provocative and unsettling modern morality tale of subtly evolving horror--a mesmerizing debut from a brilliant young writer"--Author: Andrew TaylorISBN-10: 1432881825ISBN-13: 9781432881825Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

May 1453: Lemster, the English MarchesWhen thirteen-year-old Thomas Berrington is attacked by a group of boys on his way home he believes it is just another beating he must take--until one of the boys is found dead, and Thomas is accused of the murder....

Captain Tom Caine knows he should be out with the throngs of revellers celebrating Victory in Europe but, instead of elation, he only feels anger. How can he celebrate when he is haunted by the horrors of the war and the friends he was...

May 1945In the dying days of WW II on the American occupied side of Germany's Elbe River, US Army Medical Corps Colonel Samuel Singer comes upon the shot-up wreck of a smouldering SS Staff car, with a badly injured driver, nearby a dead German...

May 1945In the dying days of WW II on the American occupied side of Germany's Elbe River, US Army Medical Corps Colonel Samuel Singer comes upon the shot-up wreck of a smouldering SS Staff car, with a badly injured driver, nearby a dead German...

After the passing of their father in 1992, Harold Pritchett's children take control of high quality photographs that Harold took in the Dealey Plaza area on November 22, 1963. One son, with guidance from an unscrupulous reporter, has the photos evaluated by a Kennedy...

Ligai T'aa' (White Feather), a 16th century Apache warrior, relates the fascinating story of his courageous and impassioned life in the raw and rugged land that is now known as Arizona. From his intense training as a young warrior, his early encounter with Coronado...

The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt is a historical thriller from award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon, featuring Teddy Roosevelt's near death... September 3, 1902. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Theodore Roosevelt has been president for less than a year when his horse-drawn carriage is broadsided by an...

We all know about Jack the Ripper, the serial murderer who terrorized Whitechapel and confounded police in 1888, but how much do we really know about his victims?Pursued by one demon into the clutches of another, the ordinary life of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols...

THEY BELIEVE SECRETS GIVE THEM POWERWorld War II--Hitler is obsessed with gathering ancient knowledge and artifacts from around the globe, in an effort to consolidate the wisdom and power of long-gone cultures and rule the modern world. The Divisi Azul--the Blue Division--is a Spanish...

When Cass goes to visit her one-hundred-year old great grandmother to invite her to Cass' wedding, she is unaware that the history Matilda tells her about the 1920s was more than just a recalling of family and friends, but rather a conditioning to prepare...

What if your father lied about what he did in World War II? What if he was actually a war criminal? History professor Bram McCoy always believed his German father's story about being held in a concentration camp for refusing to work as an...

Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death.Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day is brightened when a fellow reporter, South African Susan Vidler, comes into his life looking for help with a story.Susan is...

The year is 1949. Two women, mortal enemies during WW II, both now work for the United States. Erika Lehmann, a former spy for Nazi Germany; and Zhanna Rogova, an assassin for the Soviet Union during the war, are tasked to team up for...

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...

The King's Sisters continues the story of Catherine Havens. It's now 1542, and another queen, Catherine Howard, has been beheaded for adultery. Although young Prince Edward is growing, and the line of Tudor succession seems secure, the king falls into a deep melancholy and...

Two generations and four decades in the lives of Frank, Mary Lou and the rest of the gang This omnibus collection contains the complete four-book saga of the Lagotti Family: The Heist: After leaving Baltimore Penitentiary, Frank's get rich quick scheme to rob a...

More dastardly than Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel; more vile than the dense fog of a London Particular, an arch-fiend prowls the Victorian city streets. Nobody is safe from his experiments, whether peer or prostitute, preacher or policeman in this in this shocking tale...

It is late summer and London is all a-bustle for St Bartholomew's Fayre, with merchants arriving from faraway lands. When an old friend returns with fabulous items for sale, it can only mean one thing: trouble. As thievery, revenge and murder stalk the fayre,...

Seb Foxley and his wife, Emily, have been forced to flee medieval London to escape their enemies. They find a safe haven in the isolated Norfolk village where Seb was born. Yet this idyllic rural setting has its own murderous secrets and a terrible...

The third Sebastian Foxley Medieval Murder Mystery by Toni Mount. A devilish miasma of murder and heresy lurks in the winter streets of medieval London - someone is slaying women of the night. For Seb Foxley and his brother, Jude, evil and the threat...

BOOK TWO IN THE SEBASTIAN FOXLEY SERIES A wedding in medieval London should be a splendid occasion, especially when a royal guest will be attending the nuptial feast. Yet for the bridegroom, the talented young artist, Sebastian Foxley, his marriage day begins with disaster...

The Forsaken Inn is a historical mystery novel set in the late 18th century, about a young newly-wed couple staying the night at the Inn, and leaving the next day. Several years later a secret room is discovered with the bride's body in it....