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Augustin Rothmayer è un becchino nel famoso cimitero centrale di Vienna. Herzfeldt ha bisogno della collaborazione di un esperto nella preparazione dei cadaveri: diverse cameriere sono state uccise per essere poi brutalmente impalate. L'ispettore e il becchino iniziano a indagare insieme e finiscono per rendersi conto che dietro le mura di questa affascinante città cosmopolita si aprono profonde voragini.

Pompei, 47 d.C. Una città vivace e caotica, ancora ignara del destino di morte e gloria che l'attende. Il Vesuvio nasconde la propria furia e per le strade è un ribollire di commerci e incontri, non tutti approvati dai pochi superstiti rappresentanti del severo mos maiorum. Protagonista di questa spumeggiante vita mondana è l'avvenente cortigiana Fortunata. Ma la sua bellezza non vale a salvarla dalla crudeltà di uno spietato assassino che uccide le prostitute di Pompei. A nulla sono servite le amicizie altolocate della donna, che tempo prima era stata la favorita di Claudio.

Abandoned as a child and raised by the Church, young Sebastian works tirelessly in his pursuit of priesthood. But when a shadowy hooded figure serves him with a summons, his careful plans face a turning point. It appears his name has drawn the attention of the Inquisition and his attendance is commanded at once - for retribution, information, or something else, he does not know.

Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t save. And his sister, unconventional nurse Gemma Tate, tracks down troubled police inspector Sebastian Bell to unravel the truth. Sebastian has enough pressure to solve the murder of an aristocratic heiress without Gemma meddling in his case. But the cryptic sentences she brings him from her brother’s notebook could be a crucial lead. If only they knew what “milky way” meant.

Eine unheimliche Mordserie erschüttert die Habsburger- Monarchie. Der Kirche kommt das gelegen. Sie deutet die Morde als Werke des Teufels und als seine Antwort auf die vermeintlich ketzerische Politik des aufklärerischen Kaisers Joseph II. Um seine Macht zu wahren, muss der Monarch handeln. Er schickt zwei Ermittler in ein kleines steirisches Dorf, die den wahren Täter fassen sollen. Nicht weniger als die Zukunft der Monarchie liegt in ihren Händen. Ein packender historischer Krimi, der auf wahren Begebenheiten beruht.

Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London's East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace - leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before - a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.

In the summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find a serial killer responsible for the deaths of Union veterans. Based on true events, That Bright Land is the story of a violent and fragile nation in the wake of the Civil War and a man who must exorcise his own savage demons while tracking down another.

When Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are hired to find a girl from the upper classes who has gone missing in the East End, they assume her kidnapping is the work of white slavers. But when they discover five girls have been murdered in Bethnal Green, taunting letters begin to arrive in Craig's Court from a killer calling himself Mr. Miacca. Barker fears that Miacca might be part of the Hellfire Club, a group of powerful, hedonistic aristocrats performing satanic rituals.

In 1863, General James A. Longstreet asks his trouble shooter, Captain William Wallace, to investigate a murder. The investigation leads Captain Wallace across the south in the search of an apparent serial killer.

Eric Ward thinks there is something odd about Arthur Egan’s life and death. But Ward is a former police inspector and trained to be suspicious. Egan left a large sum. But Ward makes no progress tracing the dead man’s offspring. A photograph of an unknown tombstone is his only clue. He discovers Egan served a term for manslaughter and that the evidence against him may have been planted. Why had he accepted his fate so meekly?

Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the situation—and to Dani Flanagan herself—than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland.

Spiritualism has captured the public’s imagination. Séances are all the rage, and Detective Ian Hamilton’s otherwise sensible aunt Lillian is not immune to their allure. But for Ian, indulging her superstitions has its limits. When members of Lillian’s circle of séance friends begin turning up dead, Ian doesn’t need a medium to tell him these aren’t freak accidents.

Amid the hustle and bustle of the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition, workers discover the mutilated corpse of a popular model and Moulin Rouge Can-Can dancer in a Montmartre sewer. Hysterical rumors swirl that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel, and Inspector Achille Lefebvre enters the Parisian underworld to track down the brutal killer. His suspects are the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, an acrobat at the Circus Fernando named Jojo, and Sir Henry Collingwood, a mysterious English gynecologist and amateur artist.

Eine unheimliche Mordserie erschüttert die Habsburger- Monarchie. Der Kirche kommt das gelegen. Sie deutet die Morde als Werke des Teufels und als seine Antwort auf die vermeintlich ketzerische Politik des aufklärerischen Kaisers Joseph II. Um seine Macht zu wahren, muss der Monarch handeln. Er schickt zwei Ermittler in ein kleines steirisches Dorf, die den wahren Täter fassen sollen. Nicht weniger als die Zukunft der Monarchie liegt in ihren Händen. Ein packender historischer Krimi, der auf wahren Begebenheiten beruht.

Un peculiar detective del siglo XVII llamado Capablanca, junto con su inseparable ayudante Fray Hortensio, se verá envuelto en un misterio, justo cuando está a punto de embarcar rumbo hacia las Indias. Se han producido una serie de asesinatos, sus víctimas siempre son mujeres y las muertes parecen obedecer a una especie de ritual sangriento. Capablanca descubrirá que el Madrid barroco de los bajos fondos y las altas esferas del poder no están tan alejados como cabría pensar.

An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike" (Sarah McCarry). In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival...

Now an Amazon Prime original limited series! Agatha Christie’s beloved classic The A.B.C. Murders sets Hercule Poirot on the trail of a serial killer. There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher...

The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author A religious serial killer is haunting Florence and only Cesare Aldo can stop them. A Divine Fury is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy. ‘Full of dash and atmosphere’ - The Times Florence...

September 1920. A young bride is discovered dead at a country house on her wedding day. Has she fallen victim to the deadly Withington curse, which strikes down any woman who marries into the family? Forensic Pathologist Dr Bernard Spilsbury doesn't believe in such superstitions, and suspects a more earthly reason for Theodora Tupper's death. But as he and his trusty assistant Violet investigate, they soon discover that there are indeed ghosts at Withington Hall. And they, too, have a story to tell.

Gabriel Joly, jeune provincial ambitieux, monte à la capitale où il rêve de devenir le plus grand journaliste de son temps, un enquêteur déterminé à faire la lumière sur les mystères de cette période tourmentée. Son premier défi : démasquer le Loup des Cordeliers, cet étrange justicier qui tient un loup en laisse et, la nuit, commet de sanglants assassinats pour protéger des femmes dans les rues de Paris... Les investigations de Gabriel Joly le conduisent alors sur la route des grands acteurs de la Révolution qui commence.