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March 1938. The Germans take Vienna without a shot being fired. Covering Austria for the English press is a young journalist named Rod Troy. Back home his younger brother joins the CID as a detective-constable. November 1938. Kristallnacht. The Jews leave Vienna - Sigmund Freud with an American escort on a sleeper train, Josef Hummel tied to the underside of a box car.

Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder....

When Ana Smyth inherits Albert Einstein's violin case and sells it on eBay, she suddenly finds herself dodging international spies. A tip that her long-dead father may be alive sends her racing through Europe to discover her family's past and a lost formula for quantum gravity. The Case of Einstein's Violin is a rollicking mystery that caroms from Oregon to a Greek monastery, an Italian cyclotron, the Slovenian Alps, and the German city where Einstein was born.

Una joven hermosa, mujer de un médico boloñés, aparece muerta en el chalet de ambos. Pocas pertenencias la acompañaban en la escena del crimen, aparte de un misterioso violín guardado en su estuche. Su bolsa de joyas se ha esfumado y todas las miradas se centran en un pariente desequilibrado que ha desaparecido la misma noche del crimen. Montalbano, con su parsimonia habitual, inicia la investigación. No cree a nadie, no se fía de nadie. Tras la muerte de un sospechoso, sus superioresdan por cerrado el caso, pero él, ni hablar.

Jack Calder is an ex-SAS soldier working with former colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm. He is sent to investigate a murderous diamond heist in Holland but swiftly learns that there is a very strong Far East connection. He then travels to Hong Kong where he meets the glamorous chief of ISP's local bureau, May-Ling. Together, they begin to unravel a complex web of corruption.

En hotellanställd går en sista runda för dagen. Han ska just släcka och stänga om Leninbadet när han upptäcker en livlös kvinnokropp. Det visar sig vara liket efter en anställd vi det norrländska flygbolaget Quickfly. Ett flygbolags som utfört högriskflygningar till Ukraina. Vem nar bragt henne om livet, och varför? Det är frågor som kommissarie Colbjörnsens spaningsgrupp ställs inför.

A famous 18-year-old fiddle player, Beau, is abducted from her parents’ huge Sierra home at a birthday folk jam in her honor one summer in the early part of the 21st century. As a fire burns up the mountain while she is buried on the land under a pile of brush, she is found just in time. A month later, much to her horror, she is abducted again, this time from a Berkeley music jam.