A full-throttle adventure through modern Europe and the Mediterranean in a book that’s part thriller, part mystery, and all rollicking ride... An exhilarating journey that will satisfy the most avid thriller reader. Pearce again accomplishes every thriller writer’s aim: creating characters that the readers can root for and a believable, fast-paced storyline. The climax and denouement bring the storylines together neatly, but fans will see that there may yet be room for another book in the series.- Kirkus

1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers during the battle that temporarily dashes all hopes for the fledging Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the medallion melted down, but circumstances have it otherwise. Eleonora, Goffredo, and Sandor will continue their fervent fight for the cause of freedom—first in Italy with Garibaldi, Margaret Fuller, and Cristina Belgioioso, and years later in America in the Civil War. They will lose track of each other, believe each other dead, and re-find each other. Eleonora and Sandor will fall in love but it will be Eleonora and Goffredo to marry. They will live the rest of their lives in an uncertain truce with the mystery that the medallion masks—a mystery finally resolved in the twenty-first century by their great-great granddaughter, Angie Cebrelli. The source of the mystery goes back to a caste of Northern Italian merchants, the casane, who specialized in moving trade-route gold and silver from one place to another, and in lending credit at trade fairs in Europe between the 12th and 15th centuries. What town or city, in the Western World today, doesn’t have a Lombard Street to remember them by? And yet they were not from Lombardy but from Piedmont—the peaceful Barolo wine-producing area containing the casane and the Monferrat. Under the Marquis Boniface I, the benevolent ruler of Constantinople in the immediate aftermath of its brutal sacking by Crusaders in 1204, the Monferrat dynasty ruled the world. Only the Marquis and the casane knew of the existence of an ancient treasure—a fragment of Alexander the Great’s last treasure buried with the Roman Emperor Aurelian near to Constantinople. The only clue to its whereabouts lies in the medallion created by Aurelian’s high priest—the one which comes to light in Rome in the 19th century. 2008s America. Angie Cebrelli, wearing her inherited medallion during a Gettysburg Civil War re-enactment, receives a bullet in the arm. A photo of her medallion is found a few days later in Rome next to the mutilated body of Father Kevin, a priestly scholar of Ancient Art and Mithraism, a lost religion. She joins forces with the unconventional Italian police detective, Filippo Dardanoni, who has been tailing her for clues about the priest’s murder. Moving in on the treasure for reasons of his own, Dardanoni also has to deal with the dangerous and powerful Vatican Bank. Questions: Who will find the treasure? Can it be right under our noses and us not able to touch it?

A WWII mystery based on actual events
Greece and the Aegean Sea have been the stage for countless legends of war and adventure. In 1944, the Germans pledged to leave the Greek Jews in peace in exchange for a head tax. The ransom was paid but the Germans herded the Jews to the death camps just the same. That's when an OSS commando parachuted into occupied Greece. The soldier, a Greek himself, turned the Nazi plot on its head then disappeared with the loot.
Seventy years later, the soldier's grandson searches for the truth, his father's murderer, and the fabulous missing fortune bringing the decades-old mystery to an explosive conclusion.

A veteran actress’s brutal murder at a Broadway theater in 1941 sets off a police investigation that reaches back to pre-WWI Vienna and 1920s Berlin in Brigitte Goldstein’s densely plotted noir mystery novel, Death of a Diva.

In 1941 New York, the murder on Broadway of Stella Berger, famed star of screen and stage of Weimar Germany and outspoken critic of the Nazi regime which had forced her into exile, sends shock waves through the American public.

The police act quickly, and the prime suspect, an emigrant street musician, is tried and put on death row. But Misia Safran, a young Jewish refugee from Germany and part-time employee at the theater who becomes inadvertently involved in the investigation, is haunted by the possibility of his innocence and a suspicion that there's more to the case than meets the eye.

Determined to uncover the truth, Misia delves into Stella's background. She patches together the life of the revered actress from testimony by those who had been closest to her throughout her rise to stardom. From accounts of her humble origins in a Viennese ghetto to her rise to the pinnacle in the acting world of 1920's Berlin, to her battle with Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels, emerges the portrait of a woman of great strength of character and resolve, albeit one that conceals a vulnerable side which ultimately may have been the cause of her undoing. As Misia cuts through a bewildering thicket of lies, hidden agendas, and deceptions, she is met with intimations of a deep secret in Stella's past, evidence of which may be stored in the vault of a Swiss bank. If made public, this secret could provide the clue to the mystery, but could also destroy the star's carefully guarded public persona.

The Summer of 1936 was to be very important for Hitler’s Third Reich. There would be hundreds of thousands of visitors, from all over the world, coming to Berlin for the Olympics. The Nazis were determined to show the “New Germany” in the best possible light. America's Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the “Lone Eagle”, who, in 1927, became the first man to fly solo from New York to Paris, was arriving on July 22nd for a 10 day visit. A few weeks prior to his arrival, a plot was discovered. A major crime ring was being paid a great deal of money to assassinate him during his visit. This was Charles Lindbergh’s first trip to Germany. What reason could anyone in Berlin have for wanting him dead? That was the question that General Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Germany’s Air Force, and the one who had extended the invitation to Colonel Lindbergh, wanted answered. He turned to Karl von Ernst, a Private Investigator and former Chief Inspector in the Berlin Police, to find the answer and stop the attempt on Lindbergh’s life. Karl had to unravel the plot which included an exiled Nazi group working out of Prague, Serenity, Berlin's largest crime ring and a mystery man, the one who initiated the plan to kill Lindbergh. He had to do this while contending with Reinhard Heydrich, of the SS, the Nazi Party's infamous police force, and one of General Goering’s chief rivals for power within the Nazi hierarchy. Karl had to fight a two front battle, plotters on one side, the SS on the other.