Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Thrillers - Historical

" this] Florida native breathes life into all her characters -- dead or alive." --St. Augustine Record

Lucy Fowler plans to spend winter break on an island off the coast of Florida, to finish writing her thesis. She needs one last interview with an elderly midwife. Lucy almost cancels the trip after she's brutally assaulted on campus. But in the end she goes, hoping work will be therapeutic.

On remote, isolated Ibo Key, Lucy learns midwife Esther Day is now confined to a psychiatric ward. She also learns that there was once a thriving black community, Revelation, on the...

In less-conflicted times they might never have met, but as Germany lurched toward World War II many lives were forced to change direction. Dieter is the orphaned son of a music professor and one of that teacher's pupils. His father had been killed in World War I and his mother died in the influenza pandemic of 1917, leaving the young man as a ward of the music school where he had been born. There he played the piano for gratuities and earned the favor of older boys in the school dormitory by sharing their bunk space, until an edict closing the Jewish-managed school evicted him into pre-war...

The 1960s were just getting into their swing - miniskirts were all the rage, The Beatles topped the charts, and housewives were no longer chained to the kitchen sink. Freedom was in the air, and life was becoming a thing to enjoy. But between the sturdy sandstone walls of a terraced house in Yorkshire, popular music was forbidden and discipline was strictly enforced. This was no ordinary household, and it was only a matter of time before everything changed in a most unexpected way...

The Dancing Barber is a humorous thriller, set within the eccentric household of Taras, who was once...

At fifteen, Frank "Shane" McLean covets a commission in the Texas Rangers. With the shadow of civil war on the country's doorstep, he uncovers a dark family secret. His God-fearing father Kirby is an Illuminati henchman and hired assassin for the secret society. Kirby is responsible for the death of a renegade Freemason with ties to Governor Sam Houston. A staunch Freemason and secret Illuminati, Houston hires bounty hunters who kill Kirby in front of his wife and son.

Shane begins a violent life of revenge for his father's death and as a member of Terry's Texas Rangers in the Civil...

It's the Arizona Territory. The year, 1848. The year the Mexican War ended. Fate and blazing pistols have just thrown together reporter and part-time drunk Marion T. Bell and the very nearly legendary John Charles Hart, mustanger and scout, in the Little Fanny Saloon in the town of Gable's Ferry. A rough place in a lawless era.
About to become a hell of a lot more so one night when Hart, Bell and the easy-going giant Mother Knuckles stumble upon Elena, a fierce, young, badly wounded Mexican woman near the banks of the Colorado. She tells them about the torment she and her sister have...

Helena reist durch die Zeit. Immer wieder fUhrt es sie an dieselben Orte zurUck. Doch ihre ungewollten Zeitreisen bringen ihr gewaltigen Arger in ihrem eigenen Leben im westdeutschen Frankfurt des Jahres 1984. Weder die ertrinkende Frau im englischen Lynmouth des Jahres 1952, noch die Flucht einer ostdeutschen HOrgeschAdigten aus der DDR im Jahr 1956 ergeben fUr Helena einen Sinn. DarUber hinaus taucht immer wieder der aggressive, unheimliche Alfred in Helenas Zeit auf und droht ihr, nichts in der Vergangenheit zu Andern. Einzig der stets optimistische Felix gibt ihr Halt und Freude in all...

In 480 B.C., a mysterious alien spaceship is attacked, and in a desperate attempt to survive, the captain of the ship launches an attack that sends both his ship and his crew hurtling down through the Earth's atmosphere, where it crashes into the base of a mountain in the German Alps.

No one knew what lay hidden deep beneath the snowcapped mountainside; that is until the ship was discovered in 1943 by a lone miner who saw it as a chance to both help the Reich, and to enrich himself at the same time, the miner makes contact with a geologist named Professor Hans Steiger, who's been on...

The Holy Land, 1187

Salah-adin is poised to conquer the Kingdom of Jerusalem. For 10-year old Lucca "the Louse," it's life as normal. The streets of Acre--the wickedest city in the world--are his playground. But when a violent act of betrayal leaves him homeless and alone, he's drawn into a terrifying web of violence, espionage and holy war.

The murder of a local clerk sends Lucca and the mysterious Brother Marco into a race against time to stop the Kingdom from tearing itself apart and becoming easy prey for their enemies. Can one lone boy save the Crusader Kingdom from...

Green Curry and Caviar: The Mystery of Arash Asahvi is not a classic romance, and yet it is a love story, an extraordinary account of love on many levels.

Neither is it a cookbook, but it is a mix of savoury adventures steeped in the tantalising flavours of Bangkok, its foods, its markets, and its grand hotels. Nor is this a travel book, and yet for everyone it becomes a journey.

Brimming with colour and fragrance, the novel is spiced with curiosity, the perfume of jasmine blossoms, and the smoke of burning joss sticks.

We glimpse a Bangkok unknown to...

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga set in the eighteenth century and packed with action, violence, romance, and rousing adventure.

Tom Courtney, one of four sons of master mariner Sir Hal Courtney, once again sets sail on a treacherous journey that will take him across the vast reaches of the ocean and pit him against dangerous enemies in...

International bestselling author Paullina Simons delivers a riveting novel about a young woman whose search for her missing friend turns into a life-shattering odyssey.

The truth will change her forever.

Living in bustling New York City, Lily Quinn has plenty of distractions and is struggling to finish college as well as pay her rent. But that all pales in comparison when Amy, her best friend and roommate, disappears without a trace.

Spencer O'Malley, a cynical NYPD detective assigned to Amy's case, immediately captures Lily's attention. Though he is wary and...

US Special Forces Col. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, temporarily assigned to the CIA, has received an invitation from General Tamir Pardo, Head of Mossad, to accompany Danielle “Arielle” Yaniv and her Sayeret Matkal/Mossad team into Tehran on a “recon” mission to smuggle out a highly sensitive intelligence source within the Iranian government.  As soon as the team returns from their mission, the Israelis launch a massive raid against several of the larger Iranian nuclear sites, completely destroying their...