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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Thomas Ashworth receives a letter from an old Oxford friend - delivered by hand, with no postmark, and signed with a single word of fear - he boards the five o'clock train to Wiltshire without telling a soul. By the time he arrives at Ravenswood Hall, Edmund Ravenswood is already dressed for the dinner at which he promised to reveal everything. By half past ten, Edmund is dead, and Thomas finds himself locked in a house full of people with reasons to lie: a charming heir who stands to lose a fortune, a physician who knows too much and drinks too heavily, a sharp-eyed cousin who warns of danger while concealing her own, and a young woman in a dark green dress who claims to be Edmund's daughter and seems to know exactly where every piece of evidence will be found. As October rain closes in over the Wiltshire countryside, Thomas must untangle a conspiracy months in the making - one built on stolen money, slow poison, and the lethal patience of a man who has been waiting twenty years to inherit what he was promised.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For readers of John le Carré, Alan Furst, and Charles Cumming.At the funeral of a retired GCHQ analyst, Marcus Vane sees a man in the third row who has been dead for years. No one else notices. No one else could - the dead man was very good at being dead.What follows is a quiet excavation of a Cold War protocol that was never buried, only waiting: a Warsaw-era operation that learned to survive the fall of the world it was built for, and to adapt to the one that came after. As Marcus traces the thread from a graveside in London back through decades of controlled silence, he understands that some operations don't end when the war does. They simply change their name.The Warsaw Revenant is a slow-burn, morally grey espionage novel about the past that refuses to stay dead. Book Four of the Marcus Vane series.Cerebral, atmospheric spy fiction in the classic tradition.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A village erased from every map. A mother who died protecting it. A daughter who was meant to disappear with it.Iris Calder reconstructs the truth of places for a living. A forensic cartographer in Edinburgh, she is the specialist they call when a boundary, a fire, or a grave refuses to match the record - and she has spent her whole career proving one quiet, dangerous thing: that empty ground is rarely as empty as the map claims.Then her father dies, and leaves her a letter that unmakes her.She was found, at four years old, at the foot of a Scots pine in a Perthshire forest - silent, alone, wrapped in a dead woman's coat, holding a hand-drawn map of a village called Kindail. A village that appears on no map of Scotland. That officially never existed.As Iris follows her mother's map into the past, she uncovers a crime one powerful family kept buried for a hundred and fifty years - and the reason someone once tried to erase her along with it. To finish what her mother began, she must sit down across a table from the man who ordered her death, and decide how much of herself she is willing to risk to bring the lost back onto the record.Atmospheric, haunting, and quietly devastating, The Unmapped is a literary crime novel for readers of Tana French, Ann Cleeves, and Jane Harper - the first in a series about the places a country agrees not to see, and the one woman who refuses to look away.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - BEFORE THE SIGNAL(A Preface)Every investigation has a center.In Book One, the center was a mechanism: the lethal resonance between the 4.9Hz PHRENOSfrequency and the vagal sensitivity window of a threshold event. Everything in that investigation was built around that center - the pattern led to the mechanism, the mechanism led to PHRENOS, PHRENOS led to VERITY, VERITY led to the committee's December 2030 decision, and the committee decision led to the accountability process now underway.The center held. The record built around it holds.This investigation has a different center.Not a mechanism - a signal. A mathematical signature in the electromagnetic backgroundnoise of every documented threshold mortality event, present for at least eighty-five years, visible only when you look for it with the right method, hiding in the randomness of what should be random.The signal had always been there.She had the data - had always had the data, the full EM dataset going back to 2021. The signal was in all of it. She had not been looking for it because she had been looking for something5THE THRESHOLD BUREAU THE FIRST KNOWINGelse, and looking for something specific is a powerful tool and a significant constraint simultaneously.Both things.The signal in the noise is a principle, not just a finding.It means: the pattern is present before you can read it. The coherent structure exists withinwhat appears to be randomness. You need the right method to see it.The right method for finding the SCS was a radio astronomy decomposition that Toma s hadread about in February and finally applied in April.The right method for finding the SCS's origin was eighty-five years of pre-digital archive workthat Mira built with the same precision she brings to everything.The right method for understanding what the SCS is for - the third investigation - is not yetidentified.Both things: the method exists and we haven't found it yet. Both things. The investigation continues.Both things.Always.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A wife. A poisoned husband. A house full of secrets.beautiful things hide dangerous truths.For twenty-two years, Nora Ashworth has been the perfect wife - graceful, composed, quietly loyal to a husband whose charm concealed something colder beneath the surface. Behind the polished silver, candlelit dinners, and sprawling gardens, their marriage has been quietly unraveling for years.Then, after an elegant dinner party on a storm-soaked October night, Richard Ashworth is found dead in his locked study.The door was bolted from the inside.The windows were sealed.No sign of forced entry.No obvious suspect.And everyone inside Marrowbourne has something to hide.As Detective Margot Fenn begins unraveling the truth, she discovers a family built on performance, dangerous business secrets, betrayal hidden beneath luxury, and a marriage filled with quiet wounds no one dared speak aloud.The grieving wife.The protective sister.The business partner with secrets.The assistant no one wants to discuss.And a dead man who may not have been as untouchable as he believed.But the deeper Margot digs, the clearer one terrifying truth becomes: Someone inside Marrowbourne knows exactly what happened that night.Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware, Freida McFadden, and 'The Thursday Murder Club' with darker psychological depth, The Last Supper at Marrowbourne is an addictive locked-room mystery filled with shocking twists, emotional tension, buried family wounds, and a final reveal readers won't see coming.Everyone came to dinner.Not everyone left innocent. …

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