In the early spring of 1919 at Samson Kolechko during a street pogrom, the Cossacks hacked to death his father, his ear was cut off. There are riots in Kiev, the city is again captured by the Bolsheviks, but they have almost no control over the situation. Citizens are being robbed by real and fake Red Army soldiers, on the outskirts of Kiev every now and then gangs of all kinds of atamans -...

Some mysterious documents fall into the hands of the protagonist of Andrei Kurkov's action novel The Good Angel of Death, Mykola Sotnikov. Hiding from people who want to take possession of them, he embarks on a journey to the Caspian Sea. The trip is very risky and dramatically changes the life of the hero.

In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she’s pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia’s wrists.

Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog—and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.

Sir - our client, Mr Robert Ferguson, has made an enquiry concerning vampires. Since we are an engineering firm, unfortunately the matter is not one upon which we can advise. Perhaps you can help. Holmes and Watson take on their strangest case yet when a distraught husband comes to them desperate to understand his wife's weird behaviour. He's caught her sucking the blood of their baby son! But...

Private detective Taras Bily is ordered to investigate the murder of a young lady. They accuse a certain seminarian Homa Brutus, and the case seems to be clear... However, the village where the murder took place hides a secret. And this secret is scarier than all the stories about the young lady who rose from the grave.

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a ‘sissy’ by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal,...

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on...

So kennen wir das Berlin Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bisher nicht. Der große Auftakt der historischen Kriminalserie um Ermittler Gabriel Landow, Ermittler wider Willen im turbulenten Berlin des Deutschen Kaiserreichs, verbindet Spannung, Zeitkolorit, Atmosphäre.

1922: Hulda Gold ist gewitzt und unerschrocken und im Viertel äußerst beliebt. Durch ihre Hausbesuche begegnet die Hebamme den unterschiedlichsten Menschen, wobei ihr das Schicksal der Frauen besonders am Herzen liegt. Der Große Krieg hat tiefe Wunden hinterlassen, und die junge Republik ist zwar von Aufbruchsstimmung, aber auch von bitterer Armut geprägt. Hulda neigt durch ihre engagierte Art...

Hamburg, 1928: Seit einem Jahr gibt es im Hamburger Stadthaus eine weibliche Kriminalpolizei unter Leitung der resoluten Josefine Erkens. Auch die freiheitsliebende Paula heuert dort an. Als eine Tänzerin ermordet und obszön entstellt wird, gelingt es Erkens, Paula und eine weitere Kommissarin in der bisher rein männlich besetzten Mordkommission unterzubringen. Angefuhrt wird diese...