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In 1933, a zeppelin leaves Nazi Germany, chartered to cross the Atlantic and land in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It’s a modern luxury holiday for travellers performing loyalty to a radicalizing Germany – until a murder in the airship’s washroom exposes the rot beneath the Reich. Police Detective Bruno Brückner happens to be on board and is drafted to investigate, only to discover that the ‘Good Nazi’ victim was a total fabrication. Hidden among his belongings is a stash of banned ‘degenerate’ material. It seems everyone on board has something to hide, and even beyond Germany’s border, no one is safe to voice what they may know.
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A fiendishly clever historical mystery featuring one of literature's most famous villains: James Moriarty
A mute heiress, a mysterious message, a New York secret society… It's the perfect case for Dr Clara Mendel and James Moriarty
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A murder cries out for vengeance. A rogue answers the call. For six long years, fired by cold rage, Jonas Flynt has hunted the man who paved the way for the murder of his son the Caribbean and American Colonies. Many a pirate was delivered to justice during the chase, but Dan Hawke proved elusive. Learning that his quarry has now returned to London, Flynt races across the Atlantic in pursuit. There, he reunites with old allies and older enemies. But, in streets where lies and betrayal are the norm, alliances have shifted, and it’s hard to tell friend from foe. Will Flynt be able track Hawke down at last in this web of intrigue? Or will his years-long quest for revenge have been in vain?
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From C.J. Sansom, beloved author of the Shardlake series, Winter in Madrid is a bestselling, twisting page-turner of spies in the Second World War. Here in a special 20th anniversary edition.
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It is 1965, and the Cold War has never been colder. The Circus – the secret centre of British intelligence – has one prize asset left in Moscow: a senior Red Army officer with access to the enemy’s deepest secrets. But when a British agent is shot in Helsinki, George Smiley uncovers a Soviet operation that imperils this irreplaceable source. The trail leads Smiley not to Berlin or Vienna, but Los Angeles – the most foreign place he has ever known. There, in the murky heart of US intelligence, a Communist sleeper agent – a ‘Taper Man’ – is poised to expose Britain’s operative in Moscow. To save him, Smiley must navigate an America riven with political tension, all while his spy in Leningrad, Roy Bland, risks everything in pursuit of a Russian defector who holds the final piece of the puzzle.
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London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension. When a policeman is found brutally murdered on the streets of Kensington, blame falls on the three women seen fleeing the scene. Their sole witness? Stephen Pike: ex-borstal boy, under-butler extraordinaire and assistant to the most unconventional detective in London, Miss Decima Stockingham. Sharp-tongued, fearless and bored of behaving herself, she’s the only one able to see that this case is not what it seems. Aided by an invisible network of maids – their eyes and ears in every house in London – this unlikely duo must catch the killer before time runs out. But in a city dazzled by ceremony and divided by change, you never know what might be lurking in the shadows.
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A cosy crime mystery in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Turnglass – perfect for fans of Murdle looking for their next clever crime fix!
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The Pratts had planned for festive cheer, despite the wartime shortages: with Elva’s map of the hotel and Anthony’s prop weapons to use as clues, the guests in their parlour game would move through the rooms to figure out whodunnit. But when Anthony discovers the cook’s sister Miss Silver beaten to death, they instead find themselves investigating a shockingly real crime.
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Set in wartime London and based on a true story, Everest Macdonald investigates the murder of her uncle, the actor William Terriss. A riveting, dark historical mystery from Sunday Times bestselling author A.J. West.
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Wannsee, 1942. Fifteen of the most powerful men in the Third Reich meet in secret. Their goal: the implementation of the Final Solution. West Berlin, 1990 Anglo-German journalist Michael Braun makes a living tracking down old Nazis. But since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fleet Street’s interest has waned, and he needs more than another concentration camp guard or petty bureaucrat to sell a story. Then Braun is offered an improbable assignment: during the storming of the East German Stasi headquarters, files were found that show a Nazi may have been hiding in Berlin for decades. And not just another low-ranking soldier but Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo. The only Nazi at the Wannsee Conference whose fate is unknown since he disappeared from Hitler’s bunker in 1945. Desperate for money, Braun takes the job. But the man he’s hunting – Müller or not – knows how to stay hidden.
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1804, Isle of Ray, Essex. Lysander Rose has spent his life searching for the truth about his mother, abducted when he was just a baby. When the men who took her return for him, Lysander is forced to flee – leaving behind everything he knows. But in his escape, he uncovers a clue that draws him into the orbit of a secretive organisation known only as the Circle. As Lysander follows the trail from the Essex coast to the shadowed streets of Edinburgh, he finds himself entangled in a world of murder, blackmail and political intrigue. At its centre: an exiled king, and a conspiracy that could shape the fate of nations. And stranger still, every step of his journey seems to have already been written – played out in the pages of a lurid penny-blood chapbook. But if the story has already been told, can Lysander change how it ends?
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The brand new Miss Marple novel from Lucy Foley, the No.1 bestselling author of The Guest List and The Midnight Feast.
THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION
Pre-order now to receive your stunning limited edition hardback
A must-have for all Lucy Foley and Agatha Christie fans
*While stocks last. First print run only.*
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When everyone’s favourite reformed miser, Ebenezer Scrooge errs from the path of goodness, he starts seeing spirits again – this time of a girl, whose murder he must solve if he is to avoid the dreaded vision of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
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Cold War Moscow is a place smouldering with secrets. Gabriel Dax has been tasked with delivering a mysterious Blanco drawing to celebrated defector Kit Caldwell. But Caldwell is convinced the KGB suspects him of treachery, and he wants out now. When Gabriel is ordered by his enigmatic handler Faith Green to help, he is pulled into a web of shifting loyalties and dangerous escape plans. As tensions rise and trust fractures, he is forced to confront the fine line between devotion and deception.
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The definitive visual record of the clandestine work carried out by the British Security Service, MI5, from its origins to the modern day. Regnum Defende: Defend the Realm. MI5, the intelligence agency responsible for protecting the UK against threats to national security, has acted under this motto since it was founded in 1909. This has involved the management of secrets over the decades: secrets for which vast swathes of information are now declassified. Detailing uprisings and executions, double agents and femmes fatales from across the globe, The MI5 Archive presents a window into the world of spycraft that has kept British democracy safe. Rummage through documents received anonymously to the shadowy PO Box 500, London, W2. Work out what has value and how to decode it, with experts at your shoulder: authors and archivists Mark Dunton and Stephen Twigge have had unparalleled access. Within you will find source material on the Sie
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A gripping and compassionate novel that reimagines the life of the last woman to be executed in Britain.
The Underground Railroad 
