Книги жанра исторические приключения

When you play with fire, you’re not the only one who gets burned…Setting up an illegal casino in Soho was a dangerous move, and now Alfie Jennings’ business is under threat from a rival gang. The last thing he needs is for his teenage niece Chloe-Jane to turn up on his doorstep – and all the trouble that she brings with her.When Chloe-Jane betrays Alfie’s trust, she finds herself back on the stree…

Loving someone, in a time of war and divided loyalties, can be the greatest risk of all.Ordered home by despatch vessel, Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin have been tasked with bringing the news of the latest victory in the war with America back to the government in Britain. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought upon the French intelligence network in the Ne…

Действие романа «Золото острова Аскольд» происходит в городе Владивостоке в 1908 году. Ротмистр жандармского корпуса Алексей Кублинский занимается расследованием убийства неизвестного найденного на льду Амурского залива. Куда приведут следы загадочного преступления? Кому достанется карта сокровищ острова Аскольд? Встретит ли он любовь? и кто она?

In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die…PARTISANS While Tito’s rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction.PARTISANS Three Yugoslavs set out from Rome to relay the German battle plan – but their loyalties lie elsewhere.PARTISANS A dangerous journey with dangerous companions –where no one is who they see…

‘Police Procedural at its finest: detailed, magnificently researched and gripping. 5 stars.’ Rachel LynchHow do you catch a man’s killer when everyone wanted him dead?In Middlesbury, a rally is being held by the British Allegiance Party – a far-right group protesting against the opening of a new Mosque.When the crowd disperses, a body is found in an alleyway. Tommy Meegan, the loud-mouthed leader …

Major new psychological Peak District thriller from the acclaimed author of Blood on the Tongue and Blind to the Bones.The vast labyrinth of caverns, passages and subterranean rivers beneath the Peak District are a major tourist attraction. But this summer not all the darkness is underground, and not all the devils are folk legends. Mingling with the holidaymakers is a convicted killer, bent on re…

After a lifetime of secrets how far would you go for the truth?An unputdownable new psychological thriller, full of twists you won’t see coming, from Chris Curran.Your whole life has been a lie…One email is all it takes to turn Eve’s world upside down. It contains a picture of her true birth mother, Stella, and proves that Eve’s entire life with her adoptive parents has been a lie. Now she must un…

Navium Tirocinium - первый роман историко-приключенческой эпопеи, Navium Tirocinium - первый роман историко-приключенческой эпопеи, переведённый и отредактированный вашим покорным слугой (об истории создания романа читайте в предисловии к нему).Действие происходит в середине 16-го века в Шотландии и Англии. Книгу отличает самый достоверный исторический антураж и колоритное описание событий того вр…

The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.‘A superb mystery’ The TimesTwenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since.When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa – along with grisly evidence of a r…

Her dream home will become her worst nightmare…A USA Today and Sunday Times top ten bestseller. This is the dark and twisty psychological thriller from the No.1 ebook bestselling author of The Woman Next Door.A strange encounter Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neve’s hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames b…

An atmospheric Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill.A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning of an eight-year-old girl in picturesque Dovedale. For Detective Constable Ben Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, the incident is not only traumatic, but leads him to become involved in the tangled lives of the Neilds, the dead girl&ap…

Забавная история или сборник анекдотов о приключениях студента в Мозамбике, куда он приехал работать переводчиком португальского языка в 80-ые годы.

An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Doctor Jennings, a noted scientist in possession of a precious secret, has gone over to the Soviet Union. It is Michael Reynolds’ mission to get him back.To penetrate behind the Iron Curtain and reach his quarry w…

The timeless Higgins classic…Captain Hugh Lomax's last view of Kyros had been as a German prisoner of war. The picturesque beauty of the Greek Islands hiding their blood-drenched history and the terrifying carnage that took place years earlier.But there are questions still unanswered. Lomax knows he was innocent, and as he returns to Kyros he begins to remember things he had long since buried…