Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Histórico

Venezia, 1761. Un ricco membro del Maggior Consiglio muore cadendo nel Canal Grande dalla finestra del suo palazzo. Tutto sembra far pensare a un omicidio passionale e il possibile colpevole è subito identificato dalle temute magistrature veneziane: Eliardo de Broglie, uno spiantato truffatore che, millantando di saper trasformare il piombo in oro, aveva circuito la moglie del defunto. Il giovane, fiutando il pericolo, riesce a fuggire grazie alla protezione di un'enigmatica nobildonna francese, Annika Stéphanie Brûlart, contessa d'Aumale.

Norimberga, 1934. La grande regista Leni Riefenstahl si appresta a trasformare una riunione del partito nazista in una grande opera cinematografica. Ma qualcun altro ha deciso di farne anche il set di un crimine. Le luci e le ombre di un periodo tragico, viste attraverso l'obiettivo di una donna di genio. E una nuova avventura per Egon Meinecke, lo svagato eroe de La donna sulla Luna.

Roma, 1938. Beniamino è appena venuto a conoscenza della morte del padre, un professore di fisica nucleare, ed è convinto che il suo assassino sia una persona a lui vicina poiché solo i figli, il nipote e il suo allievo favorito erano a conoscenza dei dettagli del suo piano di espatriare insieme alla famiglia. Nonostante la polizia abbia catalogato l'accaduto come incidente, Beniamino vuole indagare perché ci sono troppi elementi che non tornano: il padre riporta dei traumi pre-mortem, i soldi sono ancora nel portafoglio e gli unici oggetti scomparsi sono gli appunti che quella sera il professore era andato a recuperare nel suo studio.

Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. When his manipulative boss begins swindling the unsuspecting parents of his students, Max must retrieve his passport to return home. Max sneaks into her office only to stumble upon a burglary in progress. Max barely escapes but accidentally takes a strange diary bound in leather and embossed with a strange seal. Little does Max know that this diary has been hidden for over half a century, and its secrets could topple some of Japan's most powerful people and rewrite the history of the royal family.

Mayan legends tell of a location where the secret to surviving the end of the world may be found. One part of that legend is recorded on a stone tablet in the dusty attic of Lord 'Ratty' Ballashiels' crumbling manor. The other twin part disappeared from a Berlin museum when the Nazis took power. When Ratty seems about to sell his tablet to the adopted son of Josef Mengele, his friend, the archaeologist Ruby Towers, is appalled. Soon it is clear that more than archaeology is at stake.

Are Hitler's atrocities really over? For depressive Wall Street trader Jeremy Corbin, absolute truths become undeniable lies overnight. He finds out his long-lost father is dead, he discovers his boss's real identity, and he ends up boarding a plane to Zurich. He has a Nazi medallion in his pocket, a hot CIA bodyguard next to him, and a clearly dangerous Mossad agent on his tail. What was his father investigating? Why was his mother assassinated? Why are unknown sides fighting over him with automatic weapons?

A soldier returns from the front line of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant, Kirov, travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap.

Deep in the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency. A revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye.

The Providence Rider is the fourth installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter with notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter. When an unexplained series of explosions rocks his Manhattan neighborhood, Matthew finds himself forced to confront a new and unexpected problem. Someone is trying - and trying very hard - to get his attention.

The year is 1703. The place: The Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional 'problem solver,' has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: Escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation.

Somewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. One hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past.

St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts - mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war - and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since Antietam, when he lay delirious among the dead and dying, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless spirits. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated cities as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains west with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz.

Jeremy Corbin and Jacqueline Walls lead a calm life in a New Jersey suburb, then one day everything changes. Eytan Morgenstern returns to save them, and this improbable team must take on the Consortium, leading them on an epic journey from London to Tel Aviv, from the Polish forests to Manhattan high-rises, from the shameful past to the threatening future.

El mundo se tambalea: Alejandro, rey de Macedonia, un muchacho de apenas veinte años, arrasa poblaciones enteras y afianza su hegemonía sobre los griegos, al tiempo que prepara el asalto al todopoderoso imperio persa. La ciudad de Atenas, aterrada por la situación, se halla sumida en disputas entre seguidores y detractores del macedonio. Diógenes, un anciano harapiento que vive de la limosna, duerme en una tinaja y se asea una vez al año, permanece ajeno a todo ello.

Luisiana, año 1830. Harriet, esclava de la plantación Beaumont de Saint Francisville, acude a Marie Laveau, la Reina del Vudú de Nueva Orleans,para vengarse de su amo, hombre tiránico y cruel atormentado por la muerte de su esposa.En una casa maldita de la Luisiana del Viejo Sur Harriet vivirá una historia de venganza, magia y libertad. ¿Qué secretos esconde la mansión Beaumont? ¿Qué hay bajo las oscuras aguas del bayou? Viaja a la Nueva Orleans del siglo XIX, a las plantaciones de algodón y el vudú.

Corre el año 1954 y el inspector Ichiro Abe, de la Policía de Tokio, tiene que enfrentarse al caso más complicado de su carrera: ocho supervivientes del holocausto nuclear de Hiroshima han sido asesinados en un tren. Marginados por la propia sociedad japonesa, el caso se complica cuando los cuatro asesinos que han tomado parte en los crímenes aparecen muertos en un hotel de Tokio. Por su parte, Ryo Watenabe, único superviviente de la hecatombe de Hiroshima, contrata al ahora exinspector Ichiro Abe para que le ayude a reconstruir el pasado de su familia.

Corre el año 1954 y el inspector Ichiro Abe, de la Policía de Tokio, tiene que enfrentarse al caso más complicado de su carrera: ocho supervivientes del holocausto nuclear de Hiroshima han sido asesinados en un tren. Marginados por la propia sociedad japonesa, el caso se complica cuando los cuatro asesinos que han tomado parte en los crímenes aparecen muertos en un hotel de Tokio. Por su parte, Ryo Watenabe, único superviviente de la hecatombe de Hiroshima, contrata al ahora exinspector Ichiro Abe para que le ayude a reconstruir el pasado de su familia.

The daughter of a murdered businessman joins forces with a New York City cop in a perilous hunt for history's most coveted treasure. Claire Andrews loved her father dearly, but now he's dead, brutally slain after attempting to sell an irreplaceable, possibly priceless saltcellar encrusted with rare gems. Leaving the Midwest for New York City, she seeks the help of Detective Artie Modelstein of the NYPD's Frauds/Jewels Squad, hoping to recover the lost treasure and clear her father's sullied name.

2018. La vie de Jo vole en éclats suite à ce qui ne semblait être qu'un banal accident sans gravité ; pourtant, un scanner révèle qu'un anévrisme risque de se rompre à tout moment. Le neurologue lui laisse le choix : elle peut être opérée, mais les risques sont importants. Persuadée qu'elle va mourir, Jo se réfugie chez Victor, son grand-père. Ce dernier va lui montrer un pendentif qu'il a reçu d'Angleterre quelques années plus tôt, avec pour seule explication ce mot griffonné sur une feuille : "De la part de Charlotte, qui n'a jamais oublié Gabriel".

A watertight packet is discovered by a diver in the waters surrounding Block Island. Unrecovered detritus from the last German U-boat sunk off the coast of Rhode Island, it contains secret codes suggesting that a Nazi spy ring operated in the United States during the darkest days of World War II. If confirmed, it could prove a major embarrassment to the FBI - whose late director, J. Edgar Hoover, once assured the government there were no spies in the country - so the bureau sends one of its best, Unit Chief Todd Oliver, to Newport to investigate.