Historical Fiction Religion Thriller

In this third and final novel in the Lancaster Burning series, author Linda Byler takes us inside the home of Davey Beiler, the leader of this Amish district. He clearly feels the heat in more ways than one. Some of the younger members of his church are ready to testify against the man who has allegedly started at least several of the fires. Davey counsels patience and forgiveness.

October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger.

At the trial of Christ, Theophilus, brilliant young assessore raised in the Roman aristocracy, stands behind Pontius Pilate and whispers, "Offer to release Barabbas." The strategy backfires, and Theophilus never forgets the sight of an innocent man unjustly suffering the worst of all possible deaths - Roman crucifixion. Three decades later, Theophilus has proven himself in the legal ranks of the Roman Empire. He has survived the insane rule of Caligula and has weathered the cruel tyrant’s quest to control the woman he loves.

It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitler’s Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed.

Une aventure passionnante à la recherche de la Ménorah, le plus vieux symbole juif aujourd'hui disparu... Plus de sept ans après l'enquête qui les a conduits sur les traces du Code d'Esther, Bernard Benyamin et Yohan Perez reçoivent un jour une mystérieuse lettre. À l'intérieur se trouve une photographie de la Ménorah, l'un des objets les plus sacrés du judaïsme, accompagnée de ces quelques mots : "J'espère que vous êtes à présent en paix avec vos morts... Il serait temps que vous repreniez votre enquête parmi les vivants...".

Assassiné dans le train Rome-Paris, le père Andrei était sur le point de découvrir un secret susceptible de faire vaciller l'Occident, et que l'Eglise s'acharne depuis sa fondation à dissimuler. Ce secret, il avait eu le temps de le confier à son ami, le père Nil. Poursuivant son enquête, Nil se lance sur les traces d'une épître et d'un compagnon de Jésus occultés au cours des siècles. Rome va tout faire pour l'en empêcher, Jérusalem et La Mecque aussi : car c'est l'ordre du monde qui est en jeu.

The body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, 10 years before. A magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a mystical voice, a young Muslim woman recounts her own relationship with one of the dead women and with the suspected killer.