Resultados para "The Business" en Novela histórica

Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known victim of Jack the Ripper. It's been two years since Fiona scrubbed Mary's blood from the floorboards, and London is no longer buzzing about the Ripper, but Fiona hasn't forgotten. When she's called to a murder in the middle of the night, Fiona finds a victim mutilated in an eerily similar fashion to those of the Ripper, and only a few doors down from Mary's old home.

Margot Baxter Harriman took the reins of B&H Foods after her father passed. It’s not easy being a businesswoman in 1912, but she is determined to continue what her grandparents started decades ago, no matter what it takes. So when Margot finds Mrs. Gilroy, her father’s former assistant, dead in the office with a half-finished note confessing to nebulous misdeeds at B&H, she seeks out help from a very discreet, private investigator to figure out what's going on. Her company, and her good name, are at stake if scandal breaks...and she could lose everything, including her freedom.

This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way.

The Lioness of Boston is a portrait of what society expected a woman's life to be, shattered by a courageous soul who rebelled and was determined to live on her own terms.

Tumult in Mecca: From Civil Servant to Global Business Adventurer transports listeners to 1979, a year of upheaval and change. Henrik Bertelsen, a Danish civil servant and baby boomer, is dedicated to his stable life in Copenhagen. Alongside his English wife, Sammy, they are building a co-housing community and navigating the complex adoption of a child from Indonesia. Henrik longs for peace and stability to secure his career. But life takes an unexpected turn when he is offered the chance to renovate hospital kitchens in Saudi Arabia.

Tumult in Mecca masterfully weaves Henrik’s personal quest for fulfilment with the global turbulence of 1979, capturing the tension between career and adventure, ambition and family, security and risk.

Here are 14 new cases by repeat customers written by award-winning author Lyn McConchie, in which the famous duo deals with blackmail, a kidnapped child, a lost gem of immense value, a missing girl, and other heinous crimes, including murder most foul - and know that for every crime investigated, there will be a Holmesian solution, of far better than seven percent!

胡雪岩以贫贱的钱庄学徒出身，在短时间内事业崛起，创造了近代中国金融事业中的一个奇迹，后世称其为红顶商圣……胡雪巖以貧賤的錢莊學徒出身，在短時間內事業崛起，創造了近代中國金融事業中的一個奇蹟，後世稱其為紅頂商聖……

胡雪岩白手起家，从一介布衣到富可敌国的“大清首富”，他凭借的是“做天下人生意”的眼光和野心，其经商绝学、处世韬略是留给后人的一笔宝贵财富，为世人所称道……胡雪巖白手起家，從一介布衣到富可敵國的「大清首富」，他憑藉的是「做天下人生意」的眼光和野心，其經商絕學、處世韜略是留給後人的一筆寶貴財富，為世人所稱道……

Martin Williams often finds himself in deadly historical events, with a good chance his mark will die without any intervention. But professionals don’t leave things to chance, and Martin is a motivated worker for his paymasters, the Firm. Follow Martin’s lethal career across four decades, three continents, and thousands of cigarettes.

As a women’s rights activist with a construction business in Wyoming in 1889, Bretta Shaw’s life isn’t easy. She couldn’t even find anyone to work for her until Alec Peterson shows up. The newspaper misprinted her name as Brett Shaw, and he thinks she’s a man; however, he agrees to take the job. Although Bretta suspects he might be hiding something, she hires him in desperation, but will she live to regret it?

Ahhh, the 1990s! A time for pantsuits, fashion-forward hairstyles, and female empowerment in the workforce. With better pay and a snazzy new title, quirky Nora Richards falls into the typical workaholic trap of long nights of monotonous accounting in her relentless drive to be the best. And that’s enough for her. Or it was, until her sexy, new boss reminds her in the best way possible that there’s more to life than working alone. But even with the unexpected distraction of a hidden office romance, Nora uncovers shady transactions that involve millions of corporate assets.

Part two of Unfinished Business finds Connor back in King Henry's service. Tucked inside King Louis XII's safe are the blueprints for modern war machines designed by master engineer Leonardo da Vinci. Conner is charged with the delicate and quite illegal task of stealing them back before the French monarch and his military advisers have the opportunity to produce those war machines, which would result in tipping the balance of power in the region.

Much has happened in the five years since Reagan disappeared through the curtain of time, taking Cullen McKinnon with her in the hope of saving the young knight's life. The least of those events is Henry's awarding Connor the titles of duke of Featherstone and earl of Rockport. Upon Connor's request, the earldom was passed into his care to hold until the rightful heir can take possession. No one but Nic, Morgan, and he knew that the heir is Reagan O'Riley.

Book two (parts 1 & 2) of this eight-part series focuses on the characters who are rough around the edges: Connor Holden and the fiery Irish physician, Reagan O'Riley. Both characters introduced in book one, The Beginning, have come back together in a dynamic love story full of misunderstanding, deception, and ultimately forgiveness. The growth they experience through the journey comes at a great cost, as is usually the case when lessons are learned the hard way.

Mit dem Tod ihres Vaters wird Judith alleinige Erbin eines großen Vermögens. Noch nicht volljährig, ist sie der Willkür ihres angeheirateten Onkels ausgeliefert, der sie mit seinem jüngsten Sohn vermählen möchte. Um seiner Vormundschaft zu entkommen und frei über ihr Geld verfügen zu können, entschließt sie sich, einen fremden schottischen Lord zu heiraten.

Die junge Rose ist eine Kleinkriminelle aus dem ärmsten Viertel Londons. Aus Zufall findet sie heraus, dass sie der reichen Kaufmannstochter Emilia Young zum Verwechseln ähnlich sieht. Diesen Umstand nutzt sie aus, um es sich ab sofort auf Rechnung „ihres“ Vaters gutgehen zu lassen. Als der Schwindel auffliegt, wird sie wegen Betrugs zur Deportation nach Australien und zwanzig Jahren Zwangsarbeit verurteilt.

Set in the sparkling 1920s jazz era, The Jewel of the Blues pulls back the curtain on all the romance, danger and drama in the bustling backstage life of a young performer. Billed as the Little Girl with the Big Voice, blues singer Lucille Arnetta Love always dreamed of life under the lights...

In this sweet, low-spice Regency romance, longtime rivals join forces at a country estate as they investigate the curious goings-on with a large collection of antiques. A perfect read for fans of Poldark, Julie Klassen, and Sarah Eden. Olivia Brannon knows her goals are unconventional. As a...

A gentleman never dallies with the help, but the new Duke of Penning is no gentleman in this steamy fourth and final book in The Duke Hunt series by New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan. A duke with secrets. Lucian, the newly minted Duke of Penning, has much to prove— to...