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Ellis Peters Een hard gelag

De vroegere verloofde van een middeleeuwse monnik is spoorloos verdwenen.

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Nederlands | 204 pagina's | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2013

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Ben Kane Het verloren legioen

In de eerste eeuw voor Christus wordt een tweeling in slavernij geboren, nadat hun moeder is verkracht door een edelman. Eerste deel van een trilogie.

Fictie

Nederlands | 534 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2011

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Colleen Coble De dochter van de vuurtorenwachter

De dochter van een vuurtorenwachter aan de kust van Californië ontdekt na de dood van haar vader een familiegeheim.

Fictie

Nederlands | 327 pagina's | Den Hertog, Houten | 2011

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Arthur B. Reeve The Poisoned Pen

"The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story offers a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, as well as being loaded with adventure, action,...

Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Arthur B. Reeve The Silent Bullet

"The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. "The Terror in the Air" follows the development of the gyroscope for aeroplanes. Each story offers a...

Engels | 8 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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M J Lee The Killing Time

As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing... Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child... but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing. Missing, and then murdered. Who is responsible? Why have the children's bodies been exhibited for all to see? Just as Danilov thinks the stakes couldn't be higher, there is a new dimension, Japan, a rising power flexing its muscles. In fractious Shanghai, an explosion is long overdue....

Engels | 9 uur 1 minuut (419 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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M J Lee The Murder Game

A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts – and is screaming for Inspector Danilov... Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov... someone prepared to kill, just to get their message across. At first, the victims seem unconnected. But with each body bringing a new message for Danilov, he knows this is a riddle especially designed for him. As more bodies start appearing, time is running out to solve...

Engels | 9 uur 30 minuten (440 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Infernal Trap

From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Fifty thousand francs are stolen from Nicolas Dugrival’s jacket and Arsène Lupin is the main suspect. When Dugrival commits suicide, his widow swears revenge and sets an inescapable trap for our hero... The fourth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic detective series perfect for readers who love Arthur Conan Doyle’s...

Engels | 52 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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M.R.C. Kasasian The Horror of Haglin House

Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate. A woman is killed outside Violet’s house, then another murdered in...

Engels | 13 uur 1 minuut (587 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Peter Tremayne De leprozenbel

een keltisch misdaadmysterie

De Ierse rechtsgeleerde Zuster Fidelma en haar partner krijgen eind 667 te horen dat hun zoontje is verdwenen en ontdekken dat een melaatse hier wellicht meer van weet.

Fictie

Nederlands | 282 pagina's | De Leeskamer, Zelhem | 2011

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Kate Furnivall The betrayal

Een jonge Franse vrouw riskeert haar leven uit schuldgevoel voor de moord op haar vader die niet de man blijkt te zijn die zij dacht. Dan ontdekt ze dat haar tweelingzus ook geheimen heeft.

Fictie

Engels | 436 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS company, London | 2017

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Wakolda

Jozef Mengele, de kamparts van vernietigingskamp Ausschwitz, is na de oorlog naar Argentinië gevlucht. In een hotel in Patagonië onderwerpt hij de dochter van de eigenaars aan een medisch experiment.

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Alex Gough Emperor's Axe

The fate of Rome, and thousands of lives, rests on the shoulders of one man. After murdering his brother, and taking the position of Emperor for himself, Caracalla orders a brutal purge of the supporters of Geta. Meanwhile, Caracalla’s ally Marcellus is captured by Syrian warriors. They wish to use his son, Avitus, as a puppet emperor to affirm a new Eastern Empire. Caracalla orders Silus to track down and rescue Avitus, rumoured to be Caracalla’s child. As Rome buckles beneath the weight of...

Engels | 11 uur 50 minuten (524 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Alex Gough Emperor's Knife

Brothers. Emperors. Deadly enemies... An unputdownable novel of intrigue and combat in Ancient Rome. Emperor Severus is on his deathbed. His sons Geta and Caracalla, feuding in Britannia, are readying for a devastating power struggle. Silus, now a centurion in the Arcani, the secrete network of spies and assassins, is thrown into the maelstrom. Back in Ancient Rome, plots breed in the stinking alleys. Everyone might be an enemy. Everyone a traitor. As an Imperial Assassin, Silus’ loyalty will...

Engels | 13 uur 24 minuten (594 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Alex Gough Emperor's Sword

A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. Roman scout, Silus, is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one-man ambush, everything quickly goes wrong and Silus must run for his life, the head of the enemy leader in his hands. Little does he know the price he will pay... As Silus is inducted into the Arcani, an elite faction of assassins and spies, he must return to Caledonia...

Engels | 12 uur 58 minuten (571 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Alex Gough Emperor's Spear

An intense novel of war at the Roman frontier. On the Empire's Northern border trouble is stirring. For decades the barbarians have been at the gates. Now, facing threats from within as well as outside, the Emperor is provoking war. When his friend Atius goes missing in Germania, Imperial Assassin Silus is sent into the heart of the battle-torn region. Plunged into a deadly intrigue and a brutal conflict, can Silus find out who is betraying Rome? Or will the legions start falling, one by bloody...

Engels | 10 uur 21 minuten (456 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Michael Ridpath Shadows of war

Een Engelse luitenant ontdekt in 1938 een plan van de nazi's om de afgetreden Engelse koning Edward VIII weer aan de macht te krijgen als pro Duitse regeringsleider om zo een bruggenhoofd voor een Duitse invasie te creëren.

Fictie

Engels | 428 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2015

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Wilbur Smith | Tom Harper Nemesis

Parijs, 1794. Een man kijkt toe hoe zijn moeder naar de guillotine wordt gebracht en weet dat hij er alles aan moet doen om aan hetzelfde lot te ontsnappen.

Fictie

Engels | 460 pagina's | Zaffre, London | 2023

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Alex Gough Emperor's Fate

Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...

Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Alex Gough Emperor's Lion

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...

Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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