Category: Historical Mystery Thriller Suspense Fiction

A younger lady strains her mother’s steps the entire method from London to Japan to look for the daddy she by no means knew.

Hana arrives in Tokyo with purely phrases in her brain: The Teahouse. She’s far from domestic in East London and nonetheless clean from the lack of her mom. yet her grief has despatched her throughout to the opposite aspect of the area to determine who she is, and for Hana that implies discovering the japanese guy she hasn't ever met, her father with simply those phrases as clues.

Made in Japan is a fantastically woven tale of a mom and daughter who, many years aside, tread a similar streets of glittering Tokyo trying to find that whatever that may whole them.

Before there has been D-Day...

For over years, she’s watched him.
Now he’s on her doorstep.
This is lifestyles within the Resistance.

In Normandy in 1943, Victoire leads a band of the Resistance. whilst Leal, the fellow she’s had watched for over years, arrives at her doorstep, she’ll need to face new demanding situations in warfare and in love.

Robberies, a kidnapping and clandestine evening adventures weren't in any respect what Victoire deliberate for her existence. and he or she almost definitely by no means deliberate to be betrayed. yet conflict— and love— are unpredictable. Joined by means of her buddy Rainier who's mistrusted via Leal, the mysterious Voleta, and Father Pierre, Victoire and Leal needs to fight for survival, the grounds of France, and the cloth in their souls.

When Leal reveals a twenty-five-year-old mystery, with Victoire on the middle, her complete lifestyles is shaken. because the Allies procedure, the previous, current and destiny cling within the stability. Can somebody be depended on whilst the realm spins upside down?

“Rich either in twists and interval aspect, this story of big-city ambition is very unlikely to place down.”—People
 
Fiona Davis's wonderful debut novel pulls readers into the luxurious international of recent York City's glamorous Barbizon lodge for girls, the place within the Nineteen Fifties a new release of aspiring types, secretaries, and editors lived part via part whereas trying to claw their approach to fairy-tale luck, and the place a present-day journalist turns into ate up with uncovering a gloomy mystery buried deep in the Barbizon's glitzy past.
 
whilst she arrives on the famed Barbizon resort in 1952, secretarial tuition enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is every thing her modeling supplier corridor buddies should not: undeniable, self-conscious, homesick, and totally confident she does not belong—a thought the versions do not anything to disabuse. but while Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she's brought to a wholly new facet of latest York urban: seedy downtown jazz golf equipment the place the tune is as addictive because the heroin that is used there, the startling sounds of bebop, or even the potential of romance.
 
Over part a century later, the Barbizon's long past condominium and such a lot of its long-ago visitors are forgotten. yet rumors of Darby's involvement in a perilous skirmish with a resort maid again in 1952 hang-out the halls of the construction as definitely because the depression tune that floats from the aged woman's rent-controlled house. it is a blend too intoxicating for journalist Rose Lewin, Darby's upstairs neighbor, to resist—not to say the fitting distraction from her personal imploding own existence. but as Rose's obsession deepens, the ethics of her research develop into more and more murky, and neither girl will stay unchanged whilst the stunning fact is ultimately revealed.

historical old cultures world wide are of curiosity to trendy day archaeologists. Archaeology by means of definition is the examine of prior human lifestyles as printed by way of relics left through historic peoples. even supposing the cultures did not depart any writings, pictographs, or ideologies in their earlier, we will occasionally locate whatever that might deliver them to existence in alternative ways. Archaeologists like delving into historical past of prior cultures, a few of them do it for the status, a few of them do it for his or her personal earlier via their descendants and a few of them do it for the gathering of relics they could obtain.

The Phoenician Coin secret follows Jacy, an archaeologist who's investigating the Chaco Canyon Grid, and whose discoveries result in an enticing exploration into the tradition of the Phoenicians, whose lifestyle continues to be a secret to this day.

Bis wir einander wiederfinden.

Frankfurt, 1938: Als Jüdin darf die junge Opernsängerin Anni nicht mehr auftreten. Nur mit Mühe kann sie für sich und ihre kleine Tochter Ruth sorgen. Die Angst vor dem NS-Regime wird immer größer, doch all ihre Bemühungen, gemeinsam auszureisen, scheitern. Schließlich ringt sich Anni zu der wohl schwersten Entscheidung für eine Mutter durch: Um wenigstens ihre Tochter in Sicherheit zu wissen, schickt sie Ruth mit einem der Kindertransporte nach England. So bald wie möglich will Anni ihr folgen. Doch dann bricht Krieg aus, und sie kann das Land nicht mehr verlassen …

used to be Uctred da gerade gefunden hatte, hielt er zunächst für Schweineknochen. Warum sie in der Senkgrube am Fuß der Burgmauer von Bampton lagen, wusste er nicht, und es conflict ihm auch gleichgültig.
Dann entdeckte er den Schädel. Uctred hatte schon viele Schweine geschlachtet. Er kannte den Unterschied zwischen einem Schweinekopf und einem menschlichen Schädel. Lord Gilbert ließ mich holen, damit ich mir die Knochen ansehe. Alle wussten, wessen Gebeine es wohl waren. Aber sie sollten sich irren.

Oxford, im Herbst 1363. Hugh de Singleton hat sich in soeben als Chirurg niedergelassen. Während er aus dem Fenster starrt und auf erste Patienten wartet, wird er Zeuge eines Reitunfalls direkt vor seinem Haus - ein Glücksfall für ihn, wie sich herausstellen soll. Hugh behandelt den verletzten Lord Gilbert mit Erfolg, und die Zufallsbegegnung öffnet ihm die Türen zu einer guten place. Dass er damit auch unerwartet in die Aufklärung eines undurchsichtigen Mordfalls hineinverstrickt werden wird, kann Hugh noch nicht ahnen.

during this sweeping novel encouraged by way of the Iran-Contra affair, grasp storyteller James A. Michener conjures the triumphs and tragedies of 1 family members and their dynamic position within the heritage of the us and its founding rfile. Over a stressful weekend of mirrored image, significant Norman Starr of the nationwide defense Council prepares to seem prior to a congressional committee to publicly account for his covert activities. Hoping to profit whatever from his proud, historical past, Starr appears for assistance within the lives of his ancestors: all-Americans who weren’t continually correct. From a framer of the structure to a slave proprietor, from a preferrred court docket justice to a brave suffragist, every one recollects an immense legacy that Starr needs to in some way reconcile along with his personal perilous dilemma.

BONUS: This version comprises an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.
 
Praise for Legacy
 
“Michener has left his personal legacy. . . . [He] is an educator, not only in heritage yet in ethics, and prefer any stable educator, he’s now not afraid to confront a posh world.”—Edward Rutherfurd, Chicago Tribune
 
“Michener tells attention-grabbing tales in regards to the structure, no matter if they're fiction. He brings the record alive. . . . every one story is informed with the Michener flair.”—United Press International
 
“An outstanding volume of historic drama . . . desirable ancient vignettes [are] woven skillfully inside of Starr’s talks along with his loving spouse and constant attorney.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
“A revealing ebook . . . in regards to the forging of the structure and the crises that formed it.”—Associated Press

The noonday solar mercilessly scorched the nodding wheat box of Black invoice Jones’s farm. sometimes a welcome little gypsy breeze lazed around the box rolling the grain heads sooner than it in lengthy flowing waves, yet for the main half the boys simply needed to sweat it out within the nonetheless, sizzling air…

An epic story of affection, homicide, and struggle, Richard Pope’s Shadows collecting offers a haunting glimpse into rural Canada through the tumultuous days of global struggle I.

With lovely aspect, readers are transported backward and forward among a logging camp in 1909, the place a sad coincidence with far-reaching outcomes happens, and the day-by-day lives, loves, and hopes, of an remoted village’s population in 1914.

A richly imagined forged of characters together with Poles, Germans, Blacks, Irish Catholics, and English Protestants contributes to a wealthy social cloth that's racked by way of battle, love, and a violent crime that haunts them all.

Follow the increase and fall of a tenacious group as goals of patriotism wither within the brutal truth of conflict, a poignant romance involves its inevitable end, and a bunch of universal villagers are pressured to undergo the inevitable devastation warfare leaves in its wake.

Septembre 1944, l. a. Belgique est libérée de l’oppression nazie. Une décennie d’épuration débute dans un will pay meurtri.
Le procès maçonnique d’Arthur Neupré est un record exceptionnel qui nous plonge, sous un perspective totalement inédit, au coeur d’une loge qui se relève péniblement de los angeles période l. a. plus noire de son histoire.

La franc-maçonnerie est de nature discrète. On le comprend à l. a. lecture de cette pièce de théâtre et de ses annexes qui relatent les agressions insensées qu’elle vient de subir. Cette chronique se déroule par le parcours d’Arthur Neupré, dénoncé pour fait de collaboration et qui va défendre son honneur devant sa loge et ses frères.

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A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR

Tristan Bourlard a publié Simenon photographe, l’oeil du romancier chez l’éditeur Actes Sud, assortment Solin et en 2010 le livre La clef écossaise, en collaboration avec François De Smet, aux éditions Véga. Il est le réalisateur du movie La clef écossaise sur les origines de los angeles franc-maçonnerie.

Il est réalisateur de occupation, spécialisé dans les productions à vocation historique, scientifique, patrimoniale et culturelle.
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Ein Leuchten im Nebel. Ein totes Mädchen im Wald. Eine Marköbler Legende, die es seit Urzeiten gibt. Lisas Leben wird nach einem Autounfall auf den Kopf gestellt. Plötzlich findet sich die Studentin im Jahr 1792 wieder und wird konfrontiert mit dem Frauenmörder aus dem Kinzigtal, einem geheimnisumwobenen Arzt und einem historisch-verbürgten Marköbler Helden. Das sind die Zutaten eines spannenden Thrillers, der geschickt Geschichte und Fiktion verknüpft und sie mit historischen Figuren würzt.