1786, Jerusalem College Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds. Desperate to salvage her son's...
Формат:
только полные версии
The Nicholas Shelby Mystery #1
LONDON, 1590. Queen Elizabeth I’s control over her kingdom is wavering. Amidst a tumultuous backdrop of Spanish plotters, Catholic heretics and foreign wars threatening the country’s fragile stability, the...
Автор: Догерти Пол
Серия: Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan #4
Язык: английский
полная версия
In autumn 1379, the power of the British crown is invested in John of Gaunt, and the kingdom is seething with discontent. The French are attacking the southern ports and peasants are planning a revolt organized by a mysterious leader who...
As the nuns of St. Frideswide's priory prepare for the welcome end of Lent, their peaceful expectations are overset by the sudden return of long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she fled from the nunnery with a man. Now her lover is dead and...
The Apothecary...
Автор: Догерти Пол
Серия: Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan #7
Язык: английский
полная версия
Sir John Cranston, the Coroner of the City of London, comes to survey the scene when the corpse of Edwin Chapler is pulled from the Thames. When more clerks are murdered, Cranston and Athelstan, his secretarius, have to pit their wits against a...
May 1695. During a horse race at Edo Castle the chief of the shogun's intelligence service, Ejima Senzaemon, drops dead as his horse gallops across the finish line-the fourth in a recent series of sudden deaths of high-ranking officials. Sano...
The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.
Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.
Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to...
Death isn't always what it seems. And neither is murder.
When a former Auschwitz inmate is found dead with his wrists slashed, the police call it suicide, but private investigator Adam Lapid is not so sure.
Has he stumbled upon the trail...
A Crowner John Mystery #4
Coroner Sir John gets entangled with the Knights Templar in this suspenseful instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England.
1195. Gilbert de Ridefort is a Knight of the...