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Fotograf Ian Jarett se při své práci ve Vídni náhle a zoufale zamiluje do ženy, kterou potkal za zvláštních okolností. Po společně stráveném týdnu si on a Marian slíbí, že se opět sejdou. Ian se vrací do Anglie, rozvádí se s manželkou a jede na schůzku s Marian, aby se dozvěděl, že Marian nepřijde. Pak z jeho života zmizí stejně záhadně, jako do něj vstoupila. Tímto okamžikem se roztáčí kolotoč hledání, rozkrývání dávných tajemství a objevování nových záhad. Ian Jarett ztratil rodinu a nyní ztrácí i práci a pověst vynikajícího fotografa, neboť zběsile hledá ženu, pro kterou všechno obětoval. Když už je zoufalstvím bez sebe, nachází na hřbitově náhrobek Marianiných předků a potkává Daphne, psychoterapeutku, která mu vysvětluje, že Marian Esguardová žila v době regentství a vynalezla fotografii deset let před Foxem Talbotem. Je-li tomu tak, proč ji – Marian Esguardovou – nikdo nezná? A kdo je ta žena, jež se za ni vydává?

Psychologické drama z anglického maloměsta na konci 19. století se odehrává mezi příslušníky středních a vyšších vrstev místní společnosti. Temné rodinné tajemství rozvrátí život váženého a seriózního obchodníka, šťastně ženatého a pevně zakotveného mezi spoluobčany. Jeho žena byla kdysi zasnoubena s mladým šlechticem, který údajně spáchal sebevraždu. Po jedenácti letech přichází člověk, který tvrdí, že je jejím někdejším snoubencem a vznáší nároky na titul i majetek, obhospodařovaný jeho mladším bratrem. Vlastní rodina odmítá jeho totožnost uznat a on potvrzení své totožnosti požaduje po bývalé snoubence. Od té chvíle vychází při soudním přelíčení najevo rodinné tajemství, jehož zvěřejnění navždy poznamená životy všech zúčastněných.

Rok 1721. William Spandrel, zchudlý kreslič map, sedí ve vězení pro dlužníky. Jihopacifická společnost katastrofálním způsobem zkrachovala a vznáší se nad ní skandál takových rozměrů, že by mohl otřást i samotným anglickým trůnem. A co mají tyto dvě věci společného? Je to jednoduché. Vysoce postavení akcionáři, mezi nimiž nechybějí ministři, členové sněmovny lordů, a dokonce ani samo Jeho Veličenstvo včetně královské milenky, mají "máslo na hlavě", Zatímco výše úplatků, které obdrželi, je přímo astronomická, řadoví podílníci mohou jít žebrotou. A to vše, včetně přesných cifer a vznešených jmen - je do detailu zapsáno v jedné účetní knize v zelených deskách. Z toho plyne jediné: kniha musí zmizet co nejdál, nejlépe za hranice. A kdo je nejlepším poslem, který za odpuštění dluhů a příslib svobody udělá cokoli a nebude se na nic ptát? Samozřejmě, náš nešťastný neúspěšný zeměměřič.

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection'The world's greatest storyteller' Guardian'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily Mail'Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting' Mick Herron______________________________________Umiko Wada never[Bokinfo].

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection 'The world's greatest storyteller' THE GUARDIAN 'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' DAILY MAIL On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago. Uncovering the truth may be his responsibility, but Taleb is well aware that no-one in Algeria wants to be reminded of the dark deeds carried out in the struggle for independence - or in the violence that has racked the nation since. Before long, he will face a choice he has long sought to avoid, between self-preservation and doing the right thing. And, ultimately, the choice may not even be his to make.

Hatred governs Leonora's childhood after the Great War, but cannot crush her longing to know the truth of her mother's life and father's death.

Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly and coldly reject him? Why, seventy years later, should people go to such lengths — even as far as murder — to prevent the truth from being revealed? Martin Radford, history graduate, disaffected and unemployed, leaps at the chance to get to the island of Madeira and begin the hunt for a solution to the intriguing secret of Edwin Stafford's fall from grace. However, his seeming good fortune turns to nightmare as his investigation triggers a bizarre and violent train of events which remorselessly entangles him and those who believed they had escaped the spectre of crimes long past but never paid for...

Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Twelve years before the day in September 1923 when a paragraph in the newspaper made his blood run cold, he had turned his back on it for the last time, turned his back on the woman he loved, and who loved him. But when he read that Consuela Caswell had been charged with murder by poisoning he knew, with a certainty that defied the great divide of all those years, that she could not be guilty. As the remorse and shame of his own betrayal of her came flooding back, he knew too that he could not let matters rest. And when she sent her own daughter to him, pleading for help, he knew that he must return at last to Clouds Frome and to the dark secret that it held.

From the Edgar Award-winning British writer Robert Goddard comes a gripping new trilogy of historical thrillers set in the aftermath of World War I. The story follows James “Max” Maxted, a Royal Flying Corps veteran with a knack for finding trouble. In the spring of 1919, as peace delegates gather in Paris, British diplomat Sir Henry Maxted is tasked with negotiating with the Brazilians over seized ships. However, before a deal can be finalized, Sir Henry is found dead outside a Montparnasse apartment building, apparently having fallen from the roof. His sons, Max and Ashley, arrive in Paris to retrieve the body, only to discover that the French police's explanation is suspect. With the potential fallout from a diplomat's murder threatening the peace conference, few are willing to investigate—except for Max. What starts as a quest for answers about his father's death plunges him into a perilous world of secret alliances and international espionage, where betrayal lurks at every corner. Max must navigate this treacherous landscape, determined to uncover the truth about a father he barely knew, while facing the very real danger that his inquiries could cost him his own life.

Kill the Messenger—Tami HoagJace has one last package to deliver but en route to delivering it to a defense attorney he is nearly run down by a car, chased through back alleys, and shot at. Only the instincts acquired while growing up allows him to escape with his life-and with a package someone wants badly enough to kill for.Brandenburg—Henry Porter November 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall. One man is caught between East and West...Digger—Max AndersonA funny, thoughtful tale of one man's obsession with finding gold amidst crazy miners, forgotten communities, mosquitoes and dust of the Australian outback.Sight Unseen—Robert GoddardIt is a hot summer's day in the tourist village of Avebury. A man sits outside the Red Lion pub, waiting. He sees a woman with three young children, two of them running ahead while their sister dawdles behind. A child's voice catches on the breeze. For want of anything more interesting to do, the man watches. And then it happens.