Bøker av Sean McLachlan

A chance at stardom. A murder on the set. Katherine Schmidt has always dreamed of being an actress. An opportunity arises when her flamboyant cousin Anton gets her a role as an extra in a major German motion picture. But those dreams come crashing down when the leading lady drops dead. Anton is arrested for her murder. His family disinherited him years before due to his lifestyle and the studio thinks he's guilty. Katherine knows she's the only one who can help. Now she must find out who's behind the brazen poisoning and clear her cousin's name-before she becomes the next victim. Katherine and her friends are on the case again in the second installment of The Berlin Murders, set in the Weimar era's decadent Berlin.

The voyage of a lifetime turns into a nightmare.When Katherine Schmidt sails for Europe in late 1929, she looks forward to a year of carefree travel thanks to an unexpected inheritance. But when a companion on her steamer is murdered and she becomes a suspect, she needs to find the real killer before the police close in. Now she must delve into Weimar Berlin's decadent nightlife and radical politics in order to clear her name.Can an innocent young woman from Missouri outwit fascists, communists, and the denizens of Berlin's notorious shadow world?Welcome to book one of The Berlin Murders, a new historical mystery series by award-winning author Sean McLachlan.

A homeless boy. A hunted girl.Cairo, 1917. In a city plagued by poverty and war, ten-year-old Faisal begs and steals to survive, hiding at night from the things that prowl after dark. The nimblest and most clever of the street boys, he's terrified of the unseen spirits he's convinced haunt the ancient city.But when he discovers a girl his age left homeless by a terrible tragedy, Faisal decides to do what no one ever did for him-help. With no shelter and facing the many dangers of Cairo's darkened streets, Faisal's loyalties are tested when together they uncover a criminal ring more sinister than his worst superstitions.This prequel to the Masked Man of Cairo mystery adventure series will thrill new readers and long-time fans alike! A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to help Egyptian street children.

September 1914: The British Expeditionary Force has the Germans on the run, or so they think.After a month of bitter fighting, the British are battered, exhausted, and down to half their strength, yet they've helped save Paris and are pushing towards Berlin. Then the retreating Germans decide to make a stand. Holding a steep slope beside the River Aisne, the entrenched Germans mow down the advancing British with machine gun fire. Soon the British dig in too, and it looks like the war might grind down into deadly stalemate.Searching through No-Man's Land in the darkness, Private Timothy Crawford of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry finds a chink in the German armor. But can this lowly private, who spends as much time in the battalion guardhouse as he does on the parade ground, convince his commanding officer to risk everything for a chance to break through?

October 1914: The British line is about to break.After two months of hard fighting, the British Expeditionary Force is short of men, ammunition, and ideas. With their line stretched to the breaking point, aerial reconnaissance spots German reinforcements massing for the big push. As their trenches are hammered by a German artillery battery, the men of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry come up with a desperate plan--a daring raid behind enemy lines to destroy the enemy guns, and give the British a chance to stop the German army from breaking through.

Christmas 1914:In the cold, muddy trenches of the Western Front, there is a strange silence. As the men of a crack English trench raiding team enjoy a rare day of peace, they begin to fraternize with the Germans in No Man's Land.But when the English recognize some enemy trench raiders who recently launched a deadly attack on their position, can they keep the peace through the Christmas Truce?

No Man's Land-a hellscape of shell craters and dead bodies. Soldiers have fought over it, charged across it, and bled on it for a year of grueling war, but neither side has dominated it.Until now.An elite German raiding party is passing through No Man's Land every night, attacking the British trenches at will. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry need to reassert control over their front lines.So the exhausted men of Company E decide to set a trap, a nighttime ambush in the middle of No Man's Land, where any mistake can be fatal. But the few surviving veterans are leading recruits who have only been in the trenches two weeks. Mistakes are inevitable.

Back in the days when Tangier was an International Zone, the city was full of refugees. People fleeing Stalin. People fleeing Franco. People fleeing the Nuremberg Trials. Tangier offered a safe haven from the chaos of Europe.The International Council had to keep a delicate balance, tolerating everything from anti-capitalist agitators to Germans with murky pasts. It was the only way to keep the peace, and it worked.Until an anarchist was found dead with a fascist dagger in his chest.And I got stuck with the case just when I had to smuggle a couple of Party operatives out of town.

A rat hunter on the Western Front suspects his prey are plotting against him…A routine trip through the trenches leads to an unexpected insight…A soldier discovers the most dangerous enemy can't be killed…A bereaved woman performs a forbidden ritual to avenge her father's murder…A doomed militia is offered a path to victory that leads to damnation…Here are five tales of war from the pen of military historian and novelist Sean McLachlan. From the bushwhackers of the American Civil War to the trenches of WWI, these stories walk the line from the strange and paranormal to the frighteningly real.

Arizona 1846Nantan, a young Apache warrior, is building a name for himself by leading raids against Mexican ranches to impress his war chief, and the chief's lovely daughter.But there is one thing he and all other Apaches fear-a ruthless band of Mexican scalp hunters who slaughter entire villages.Nantan and his friends have sworn to fight back, but they are inexperienced, and led by a war chief driven mad with a thirst for revenge. Can they track their tribe's worst enemy into unknown territory and defeat them?

Right after the war, Tangier was the craziest town in North Africa. Everything was for sale and the price was cheap. The perverts came for the flesh. The addicts came for the drugs. A whole army of hustlers and grifters came for the loose laws and free flow of cash and contraband.So why was I here? Because it was the only place that would have me. Besides, it was a great place to be a detective. You got cases like in no other place I'd ever been, and I'd been all over. Cases you couldn't believe ever happened. Like when I had to track down the guy who stole the bank.No, he didn't rob the bank, he stole it.Here's how it happened . . .

It Happened in Missouri takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Show Me State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.

"Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia".

Featuring illustrations and colour photographs of reconstructed handgonnes, this book reveals the true history of what could easily have been the most revolutionary weapon in history. It is suitable for medieval enthusiasts and re-enactors.