Paris 1878: Der alte Lord Littleby, Sammler orientalischer Kostbarkeiten, wird ermordetaufgefunden. Und nicht nur er. Auch seine beiden Kinder nebst der gesamten Dienerschaft sind dem rasenden Morder zum Opfer gefallen. Die Spuren fuhren den Ermittlungsbeauftragten Kommissar Cocheauf das Luxusschiff Leviathan, das sich auf seiner Jungfernfahrt durch den Suezkanal nach Kalkutta befindet. An Bord treten jede Menge verdachtige Passagiere auf – und ...
It's 1796, and traveling weaver Will Rees is visiting Salem, Massachusetts. He's in town to buy a luxurious gift for his pregnant wife. While traveling through Salem, however, Rees comes upon a funeral procession for the deceased Mrs. Antiss Boothe. When Rees happens upon Twig, a friend who fought alongside him in the war, he learns that Mrs. Boothe had been very ill, and her death had not come as a surprise. But the next morning, Mr. ...
Trapped in what appears to be an endless bloodbath – vividly presented with Heffernan's meticulous historical research – three boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war's end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the third comes home as an unfeeling psychopath. The novel turns on the subsequent murder of the psy ...
In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime. When a massive earthquake devestates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation – except when a nobleman's daughters are found dead from incense poisoning and their father threatens to topple the regime unless Sano I ...
Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed. The death of the Shogun's daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago, Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun's favorite advisor. Yanagisawa is ...
