Download e-book for iPad: Das Kloster der toten Seelen: Historischer Kriminalroman by Peter Tremayne,Susanne Olivia Zylla

By Peter Tremayne,Susanne Olivia Zylla

ISBN-10: 374662035X

ISBN-13: 9783746620350

ISBN-10: 3866679890

ISBN-13: 9783866679894

Ein weltweiter Botschafter der alten irischen Kultur« Irish Post

»Spannung und Humor - das ist die Mischung dieser irischen Krimis.« NDR

Wegen des großen internationalen Erfolgs dieser Serie wurde Peter Tremayne 2002 zum Ehrenmitglied der Irish Literary Society auf Lebenszeit ernannt. Schwester-Fidelma-Krimis werden in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt.

Irland im 7. Jahrhundert: Aus einer kleinen religiösen Gemeinschaft sind sämtliche Mönche verschwunden. Haben hier dunkle Mächte die Hand im Spiel? Der König von Dyfed bittet Schwester Fidelma und Bruder Eadulf um Hilfe. Ein neuer Keltenkrimi mit Schwester Fidelma, die zu einer Zeit agiert, in der der katholische Glaube irisch-keltischer Prägung den Frauen Bildung, Macht und Ein?uß gestattete und es noch kein Zölibat gab.

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Friesische Macht: Historischer Roman (German Edition) by Lothar Englert PDF

By Lothar Englert

ISBN-10: 3864120810

ISBN-13: 9783864120817

Ostfriesland im frühen 15. Jahrhundert. Das method der frei gewählten Richter ist gestürzt, an seine Stelle sind machtbesessene Häuptlinge getreten, und nun vollzieht sich eben das, wovor die Harlinger immer gewarnt haben: Diese Männer bekämpfen sich bis aufs Blut, nahezu jeder schlägt sich mit jedem, denn am Ende wollen sie alle nur eines,- in Ostfriesland herrschen. additionally führen sie ihre Kriege, die tom Brook und die Ukena, die Allena und die Wiemken. Doch damit nicht genug, sie holen auch noch Freibeuter ins Land, gewähren ihnen Schutz und Unterschlupf, in den sie sich nach ihren Raubzügen zurückziehen. Und es ist wie stets; die internen Streitereien lockt auswärtige Herren an wie das Aas die Geier. Das Land scheint durch den Bürgerkrieg geschwächt, es liegt ungeschützt wie auf dem Präsentierteller, gleich einer reifen Frucht, die nur noch darauf wartet, dass guy nach ihr greift. Natürlich nehmen sie Witterung auf, der Oldenburger Graf, die Bremer und sogar die Hamburger, denn die Gelegenheit struggle wohl lange nicht so günstig, sich dieses Ostfriesland endlich unter den Nagel zu reißen. Zudem: Gründe für militärische Interventionen gibt es massenhaft, sie werden geliefert durch dieses Raubgesindel auf See, die Störtebekers und Michels, die den Hansestädten das Leben schwermachen und durch die Ostfriesen beschützt werden, selbst Kirchen darf das Gesocks nutzen, sie werden ihnen von den Häuptlingen als Unterkünfte zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Harlinger Familie des Magnus tom Diek führt derweil das gediegene Leben ehrbarer Kaufleute und Pferdezüchter. Großvater Magnus hat noch vergeblich gegen den Niedergang der alten Rechtsordnung gekämpft, dessen Sohn Enno gar nahezu allen Besitz an die Hylmerisna verloren. Nur mühsam und mit Hilfe treuer Freunde wie den Holländer Adriaan und den Mönch William ist es gelungen, diese schweren Verluste schließlich nicht nur wettzumachen, sondern in beträchtlichen Reichtum zu wandeln. So leben die tom Diek auf eigener Scholle, mit der Politik haben sie nichts zu schaffen, sie wollen nur in Ruhe ihre Geschäfte machen. Aber guy lässt ihnen keine Ruhe. Die tom Brook geben die Versuche nicht auf, den Harlinger und seine Sippe auf ihre Seite zu ziehen, sie locken mit Geld und Einfluss, und sie drohen mit Repressalien bis hin zur offenen Gewalt. Magnus tom Diek, der Enkel des großen Harlingers, widersteht lange und mit Erfolg. Seine recognition als geachteter Handelsherr und ein Geflecht aus weitreichenden Verbindungen schützen ihn. Es wäre sogar möglich, das alles auszusitzen und die Dinge abzuwarten, wären da nicht zwei Stachel in seinem Fleisch, die ihn nach langen Jahren des Friedens mit der Vergangenheit wieder zu quälen beginnen. Der eine Stachel, das sind die Morde von Ochtersum, die vier Menschen das Leben kosten, verursacht durch die Gier und den Ehrgeiz der Brokmannen. Der zweite ist der Tod seines Vaters Enno tom Diek, der als gezwungener Vasall Ocko tom Brooks in der Auricher Burg auf immer noch ungeklärte Weise gewaltsam ums Leben kam. Und mit diesen schwärenden Wunden erwacht auch wieder der Hass. Magnus tom Diek will die Sippe der tom Brook endlich untergehen sehen. Bei der Schlacht auf den wilden Äckern vollzieht sich das Schicksal des Hauses Hylmerisna auf blutige Weise...
Die lang erwartete Fortsetzung des Erfolges "Friesische Freiheit"!

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Cynthia Peale's The Death of Colonel Mann PDF

By Cynthia Peale

ISBN-10: 0385496362

ISBN-13: 9780385496360

ISBN-10: 0440613981

ISBN-13: 9780440613985

at the back of the curtained home windows of Victorian Boston is a global of ardour, scandal ... and murder.

In existence, he used to be the main despised guy in Boston, writer of the town's scurrilous gossip sheet -- and client and vendor of people's such a lot scandalous indiscretions. Now Colonel William d'Arcy Mann lies at the ground of his stylish resort suite, the sufferer of a unmarried gunshot wound to the heart.

Addington Ames got here to recuperate a packet of affection letters written by way of his younger cousin, Val, that had fallen into the blackmailing colonel's ownership. but if he discovers Mann's corpse in its place, Ames all of sudden unearths himself on the heart of a homicide inquiry, his identify splashed around the city newspapers.

With Val dealing with public shame -- at the eve of marriage to an impeccable member of Brahmin society -- Ames's basically desire is to discover the damning missives, which he believes vanished with the killer. With assistance from his sister, Caroline, and their boarder, Dr. John MacKenzie, he strikes via Boston's so much renowned social circles looking for a well-concealed assassin whose ultimate act of violence will go away no lifestyles -- highborn or low -- untouched...

From the Paperback edition.

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Download PDF by Maggie Wheeler: On a Darkling Plain (A Lost Villages Mystery)

By Maggie Wheeler

ISBN-10: 1897508204

ISBN-13: 9781897508206

So a lot for a summer time of sunshine emotional leisure. In the month marking fifty years because the inundation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the is still of a tender guy long past lacking throughout the undertaking days floor close to previous Iroquois and fan the flames of a hornet’s nest on either side of the river. whereas dodging a cold-blooded killer, her impending 50th birthday, and emotional dedication to Inspector Jerry Strauss, Farran Mackenzie faces reconnecting with the daughter she gave up twenty-six years before–and the darkish mystery that drove them aside within the first place.

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Read e-book online A Thorn Among the Lilies (Alvin Mystery Series: Alabama PDF

By Michael Hiebert

In Michael Hiebert’s haunting and strong novel, a long-ago tragedy echoes via small-town Alabama as one girl attempts to trace down a serial killer.

Detective Leah Teal is aware about lots of the secrets and techniques in her homeland of Alvin, yet there are constantly surprises on hand. just like the day she concurs to take her daughter, Caroline, to determine a psychic for a interpreting. The psychic hones in on Leah in its place, hinting at a string of ugly killings and insisting that she intrude to avoid extra deaths.

When you go searching for hassle, you by no means understand how a lot you’ll locate. yes adequate, the psychic’s scant clues lead Leah to a chilly case from six years in the past, while a tender lady used to be came upon shot to demise, her eyelids sewn close. As Leah digs deeper into outdated records, a moment unsolved case surfaces with an identical grisly development. whereas her wise younger son, Abe, observes from the sidelines, Leah races to avoid one other bad homicide, blind to simply how deep the roots of evil can go.

Taut, suspenseful, and wealthy in Southern surroundings, A Thorn one of the Lilies is a captivating novel of loss and vengeance, and the lengths a few will visit out of loyalty and love.

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Read e-book online The Tarleton Murders: Sherlock Holmes in America PDF

By Breck England

ISBN-10: 1633536491

ISBN-13: 9781633536494

New Sherlock Holmes historic Fiction Thriller

The Tarleton Murders: A corking solid early Sherlock Holmes tale that any secret reader will love.

Find out the solutions to many tantalizing Sherlock Holmes questions in The Tarleton Murders, the publication that takes you into the darkish position within the lifetime of Sherlock Holmes B.W. (Before Watson), or, as he acknowledged, “before my biographer got here to glorify me.”

• Who fairly used to be Moriarty?
• the place did Sherlock Holmes visit school?
• How did Holmes be aware of rather a lot concerning the Ku Klux Klan?
• was once Uncle Remus really Sherlock Holmes?
• were you aware Holmes kept either common Sherman and the Pope from assassination?
• How did Holmes gather one of these wealthy acquaintance with the US?
• Did he ever visit America?
• Did he relatively hinder a moment Civil War?
• And what function did he play within the households of Martin Luther King, G.K. Chesterton, Scarlett O’Hara, and Singin’ Jimmy McCartney of Liverpool?

Historical Fiction Thriller: The Tarleton Murders, the checklist of “one of these lovely little difficulties” Holmes solved within the pre-Watson years, hasn't ever been delivered to gentle beforehand. the invention of this formerly unknown manuscript opens a window onto the mysterious early years while Holmes was once suffering to set himself up as a “consulting detective”—a formerly unknown career. “I have usually wanted that I had notes of these cases,” Watson acknowledged of Holmes’s early paintings, and so will we! yet within the Tarleton Murders now we have an account written by way of a Watson sooner than there has been a Watson. An outdated schoolmate, now a Jesuit priest, involves Holmes with an alarming coded message that menaces a decent nun.

The Early Sherlock Holmes: So starts off a frantic trip that takes Holmes and his good friend from Rome (where they keep the Pope) to Paris to London to Liverpool, around the Atlantic through the most deadly storm in two decades, to the backwoods of Georgia (infested by means of the Klan), and at last into the midst of Atlanta’s maximum society—with becoming wisdom of a plot that threatens the very life of the us. What Holmes known as in his traditional understated model “a lovely little challenge” seems to be “a lovely colossal challenge” certainly! alongside the best way we come upon George Bernard Shaw, Joel Chandler Harris, Pope Leo XIII, the artist Mary Cassatt, Moriarty himself—and Moriarty’s spouse! And in the middle of the joys we make a few astonishing discoveries, akin to the real id of Moriarty, the destiny of the Vatican Cameos, and to most sensible all of it off, Mycroft’s schoolboy nickname.

The Tarleton Murders is simply a corking solid tale that any secret reader will love.

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Last Stop in Brooklyn: A Mary Handley Mystery by Lawrence H. Levy PDF

By Lawrence H. Levy

ISBN-10: 0451498445

ISBN-13: 9780451498441

it is the summer season of 1894, and an infidelity case has introduced PI Mary Handley to a much nook of Brooklyn: Coney Island. in the course of her research, Mary is contacted through a convicted man's brother to reopen a homicide case. A prostitute used to be killed through a Jack the Ripper copycat years in the past in her big apple lodge room, yet her precise killer was once by no means came across. once more it truly is as much as Mary to make correct the city's wrongs.      
New York City's untouchable head of detectives, Thomas Byrnes, swears he placed the ideal guy behond bars, yet as Mary digs deeper, she reveals corruption on the middle of recent York's justice procedure, related to not just the police, however the strongest of inventory titans. irritating facts of alternative murders starts off to floor, each mimicking Jack the Ripper's sort, each lined up via Thomas Byrnes.    
As Mary items jointly the level of the wear, she crosses paths with Harper Lloyd, an investigative reporter. Their courting grows right into a partnership, and maybe extra, and jointly they have to seize a killer who is nonetheless available in the market, and opposite the ruthless workings of latest York's elite. it is going to be Mary's most deadly, such a lot own case yet.

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Download e-book for iPad: Pharaoh's Lightning by M.B. Nasdeo

By M.B. Nasdeo

ISBN-10: 0982895984

ISBN-13: 9780982895986

Kelly’s task for the newspaper is to get images of King Tut. not only photographs of his mummy or sarcophagus, yet of the long-dead pharaoh within the flesh. it sort of feels he has grown uninterested in demise and determined to upward thrust and stroll round Egypt looking for his misplaced love.

When Kelly arrives, the pharaoh’s realization is grew to become exclusively to her. He appears to be like while she is by myself, and disappears correct sooner than her eyes. whereas investigating, Kelly discovers she is the precise picture of Tutankhamen’s concubine. may perhaps Kelly quite be the reincarnation of the pharaoh’s lover? may well he be looking for Kelly to carry her again to historical Egypt with him? Will Kelly continue to exist lengthy adequate to get the pictures?

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Crystal Night by Marc J. Seifer PDF

By Marc J. Seifer

ISBN-10: 1931261199

ISBN-13: 9781931261197

Crystal evening is the sequel to Doppelgänger, a booklet which opens with the marriage of ace reporter, Rudy Styne, to Chessie Barnsworth, the affection of his existence who occurs to be rather pregnant. on the marriage ceremony, Abe Maxwell, an aged Jewish gentleman with a heavy German accessory insists that their baby receive a bris, while Rudy doesn't even comprehend that he may well actually be Jewish. in the course of their honeymoon, Rudy and Chessie go back and forth to Germany and that's the place he runs into his look-alike, one Rolf Linzman, son of industrialist Gunter Linzman, proprietor of MB airlines, a profitable offshoot of Lufthansa.
The again tale, keeps the story of the Maxwells, a German Jewish family members suffering to take care of their elite airline in the course of WWI, during the air-war, flying with Hermann Göring and the pink Baron within the first novel and carrying on with their plow through the increase of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust via WWII in Crystal evening. the fashionable tale maintains the saga of Rudy Styne, nonetheless at the path of a grasp hacker threatening to take over the web. On a private point, Rudy is additionally trying to find his delivery mom and dad by some means associated with the Maxwells, and this mysterious Abe Maxwell, who in flip, is suing Gunter Linzman, the daddy of Rudy's doppelgänger to attempt and come again his long-lost airline, now one billion buck off-shoot of Lufthansa.

The total presentation of the pains that confronted a Jewish-German relations in the course of the upward push of Anti-Semitism... is stirring on how the triumph of religion and spirit, can triumph over the affliction of a powerful, resilient humans in the course of one of many darkest classes in smooth background. .... you're a masterful storyteller. Edith Moraglia, big apple urban reader
I needed to let you know how a lot i'm enthralled with Crystal evening! you're a massive chronicler your wisdom is massive! you will have woven such minute element into the tapestry or particularly net of the radical. It lives for me, that's the [Germany] and instances I consider.
I rush via supper to get cozy at the couch with The booklet. i simply cannot placed it down. Gloria McMurrough, Admissions place of work, Roger Williams University.

Author_Bio: Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D., is the bestselling writer of Wizard: The existence & instances of Nikola Tesla. Featured within the big apple instances, The Wall road magazine, The Washington submit and clinical American, with appearances on AP foreign television, NPR, PBS American event, the BBC and Coast to Coast Radio, he has lectured at West element army Academy, LucasFilms commercial gentle & Magic, Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England, for the Serbian Academy of Sciences in Belgrade, in organization with the united states country division in Zagreb Croatia and on the United countries. Dr. Seifer is a handwriting professional and retired instructor of psychology from Roger Williams college.

Keywords: modern day mystery, secret, machine hacker, anti-Semitism, German heritage, Hermann

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Download e-book for iPad: HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 3: The Mermaid's Tale by Nancy Temple Rodrigue

By Nancy Temple Rodrigue

ISBN-10: 1938319206

ISBN-13: 9781938319204

ISBN-10: 193831932X

ISBN-13: 9781938319327

HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 3
The Mermaid's Tale

The seventh Hidden Mickey experience secret by means of Nancy Temple Rodrigue. The storyline revolves round Walt Disney and Disneyland, written for Adults, teenagers, & Tweens (age nine & up). Hidden Mickey Adventures sequence, quantity 3.

A FORGOTTEN TREASURE unearths A lacking PUZZLE PIECE

Going via relatives mementos of their grandmother s attic, twins Alex and Catie Michaels, besides Peter Brentwood, hit upon a well-known gray tablet and images of Margaret Michaels past.

GRANDMA MARGARET was once A MERMAID?

Thrilled to benefit she was once a Disneyland Submarine Lagoon Mermaid in 1965, they all at once attach the lacking hyperlink to the gorgeous mermaid Peter and Catie present in the Haunted Mansion attic.

A MYSTERIOUS girl HAS TO end up HERSELF

Given an easy task by way of her boss, Walt Disney, Omah was once not able to accomplish it and despatched away in shame. a long time later she s nonetheless attempting to make it correct, yet 3 young ones are within the way.

HER commitment TURNS FANATICAL

Disneyland then and now's the backdrop of this intriguing Mermaid s story. items of the puzzle catch up with as 3 various teams are woven jointly some time past and the current them all made up our minds to guard Walt Disney's legacy.

ALL three COLLIDE because the MERMAID'S story CONTINUES...

The tale maintains with... HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES four: Revenge of the Wolf

Another "E-Ticket" journey via Disney's history.

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Hidden Mickey Adventures three: The Mermaid's story is Flesch-Kincaid Grade 3.6 - Flesch analyzing Ease 86

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