Книги жанра исторические приключения
What happens when the past comes back to kill you?When DCI Anna Tate is called to the gruesome discovery of a dead woman found on Barnes Common, she is plunged into a high‐profile investigation involving a prominent MP. London is baying for blood – but is there more to Holly’s death than at first meets the eye?Meanwhile, the hunt is on for Anna’s missing daughter Chloe, who vanished ten years ago …
Древний Рим, эпоха тирана Домициана. Две женщины. Две запретные любви. Одна игра, где ставка — жизнь. Антония — нищая певица, чей голос сводит с ума толпу. После смерти мужа её похищает префект Рима и запирает в золотой клетке. Патриций Корнелий влюблен в Антонию. Он стремится спасти её, но император приказывает ему не покидать приделов Рима и предлагает власть в обмен на преданность. Юлия, сестр…
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLER‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermottEven when ex-SAS major Ben Hope is taking a holiday, trouble seems to find him. What started as a relaxing trip to the Deep South spirals into a nightmare when he’s wrongly accused of a vicious murder and forced to go on the run.Target of a state-wide manhunt,…
The ninth Logan McRae thriller from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride.‘Dark and griping. A riveting page-turner’ Independent on SundayOne mistake can cost you everything…A little girl’s body washes up just outside the sleepy coastal town of Macduff, kicking off a major manhunt. Officially, the investigation is out of Sergeant Logan McRae’s hands, but DCI Steel’s Major Investigation Team, drafte…
The classic tale of terrorism, where a criminal fanatic is hell-bent on blasting San Francisco into the ocean, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.'Earthquake country,' said the Professor. 'San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres – seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next,…
An organisation that doesn’t exist.A spy that can’t be caught.Years ago, a spy was born…1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite, recruited from an elite boarding school, is sent to France, tasked with gathering intelligence on an enigmatic Iranian businessman implicated in the Lockerbie bombing. But what Kite …
Это история о двух друзьях, на долю которых выпала тяжелая и почетная миссия – нести Благую весть во времена становления протестантизма. Восторженные, начитанные, но некрепкие в вере и совсем неопытные в жизни и миссионерстве, юноши сталкиваются лицом к лицу с жестоким языческим культом. В книге, события которой разворачиваются в 16 веке на фоне борьбы Мартина Лютера за свободу совести и вероиспов…
The first three books in the DCI Warren Jones series in one volume – with two bonus novellas!1 The Last Straw A professor is found with his throat slashed, and there’s a long list of potential suspects. But for newly appointed Detective Chief Inspector Warren Jones, political pressure means solving the case is far from easy…2 No Smoke Without Fire A young woman is found dead, and all the clues mat…
‘Recommended. I read it one breathless sitting’ Ian RankinA gripping new standalone spy thriller, recalling the classic film Casablanca, from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday).A SIMPLE TASK Successful novelist Kit Carradine has grown restless. So when British Intelligence invites him to enter th…
‘Gritty and gripping – by a star in the making.’ Kimberley ChambersA gritty, gangland Romeo and Juliet story from bestselling author Jacqui Rose, Trapped is perfect for fans of Jessie Keane and Martina Cole.As teenagers, Maggie Donaldson and Johnny Taylor fell hard and fast in love. But they didn’t know they were from rival gangland families in London’s criminal underworld. Going public with their…
Agatha Christie’s international mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon.Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of t…
Жозеф Рони-Старший – известный французский писатель, прославившийся по всему миру книгами о первобытных временах. Отважным персонажам его произведений противостоят грозные стихии природы, свирепые хищники, враждебные племена. Им приходится преодолевать большие расстояния, рисковать жизнью, вступая в неравный бой с врагами, и принимать решения, от которых зависят судьбы многих племен. Однако благор…
Inspired by true events…‘Moving and authentic’ Dinah Jefferies ‘Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful’ Jenny Ashcroft 'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty‘Deeply moving. Be prepared – have handkerchiefs on standby at the end’ Antonia Senior, The Times ‘An inspiring novel about the power of determination, courage and unity’ Woman’s OwnChina, 1941. With Japan’s d…
A twisty and compelling thriller perfect for fans of C L Taylor, K L Slater and B A Paris.Some secrets are deadly… When the victim of a car crash begs journalist Alex Devlin for help before disappearing without trace, Alex finds herself caught up in a mystery that won’t let her go. Determined to find the missing man, she is soon investigating a conspiracy that threatens some of the most vulnerable…
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.'In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appea…