Inhalt: After being together for ten years, Sylvia and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly they even finish each other's sentences. They have a happy marriage and believe they know everything there is to know about each other. Until it's casually mentioned to them that they could be together for another sixty-eight years ... and panic sets in. They quickly decide to create little surprises for each other, to keep their relationship fresh and fun. But in their pursuit of Project Surprise Me - anything from unexpected gifts to restaurant dates to photo shoots - mishaps arise with disastrous and comical results. Gradually, the surprises turn into shocking discoveries. And when a scandal from the past is uncovered, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all... Schlagworte:Beziehung, Ehepaar, Englische Literatur, Geschenke, Liebe, Überraschungen Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 385 Seiten Beteiligte:Kinsella, Sophie Standort: Engl. Kin ISBN: 978-1-78416-395-2
Inhalt: How do we become who we are? Can we ever truly escape our origins? Must we dance to the music of our time?
Set in London, New York and West Africa, Swing Time is about two brown girls from Willesden who dream of being dancers. Only one - Tracey - has the talent. But the other has ideas which take her further than she could ever have imagined. It is a story of finding happiness in the meanest of places and feeling sad when all around you are happy. It's about choices we make and the choices made for us. Above all, it's a tale of the friendships that anchor us, define us, and change us forever.
Inhalt: "Let us see, Mr Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be"
There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident - but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal mistake. Schlagworte:Christie, Agatha <1890-1976>, Krimi, Poirot, Hercule Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 331 Seiten Beteiligte:Christie, Agatha Standort: Engl. Chr ISBN: 978-0-00-711929-5
Inhalt: From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.
Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking-for lack of a better word-on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armour. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.
Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He'll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control-but Lucas's time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.
Inhalt: She's in your house. She controls your life. Now she's going to destroy it.
From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller
She watches you constantly. Newly divorced Jo is delighted to move into her best friend's spare room almost rent-free. The high-tech luxury Camden flat is managed by a meticulous Home Assistant, called Electra, that takes care of the heating, the lights - and sometimes Jo even turns to her for company.
She knows all your secrets. Until, late one night, Electra says one sentence that rips Jo's fragile world in two: 'I know what you did.' And Jo is horrified. Because in her past she did do something terrible. Something unforgivable.
Now she wants to destroy you. Only two other people in the whole world know Jo's secret. And they would never tell anyone. Would they? As a fierce winter brings London to a standstill, Jo begins to understand that the Assistant on the shelf doesn't just want to control Jo; it wants to destroy her. Schlagworte:Alexa, Geheimnis, Home Assistant, KI, Künstliche Intelligenz, Smart Home, Technologie, Thriller, Vergangenheit Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 375 Seiten Beteiligte:Tremayne, S. K. Standort: Engl. Tre ISBN: 978-0-00-830951-0
Inhalt: Behind every successful man is a busy assistant and Tina's boss is -very- successful. But Tina is tired of being overworked and underpaid. She's bored of her damp flat and her mounting debts. Then a blip in the expenses system sends Tina a cheque. She's a good person. But she's desperate. This isn't stealing. It's an administrative error. Right? What would you do if you thought you'd get away with it? Schlagworte:Freche Frauen, Karriere, Sekretärin Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 281 Seiten Beteiligte:Perri, Camille Standort: Engl. Per ISBN: 978-0-552-17308-7
Inhalt: This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.
"Courageous and provocative, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us open our eyes and see."-Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo-until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight, leaving Nuri to navigate her grief as well as a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece toward an uncertain future in Britain.
Nuri is sustained only by the knowledge that waiting for them is his cousin Mustafa, who has started an apiary in Yorkshire and is teaching fellow refugees beekeeping. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss but dangers that would overwhelm even the bravest souls. Above all, they must make the difficult journey back to each other, a path once so familiar yet rendered foreign by the heartache of displacement.
Moving, intimate, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a book for our times: a novel that at once reminds us that the most peaceful and ordinary lives can be utterly upended in unimaginable ways and brings a journey in faraway lands close to home, never to be forgotten. Schlagworte:Bienen, Bienenzucht, Flucht, Migration, Syrien, Verlust Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 378 Seiten, Karten Beteiligte:Lefteri, Christy Standort: Engl. Lef ISBN: 978-1-78576-893-4
Inhalt: Dorothys death leaves Aaron bereft. As those around him bring casserole after casserole, he ploughs on. But then Dorothy starts to materialise in the oddest places. And as she and Aaron talk, the cracks that were present in their perfectly ordinary marriage start to reappear. The new bestseller from Anne Tyler is a story about two people so intertwined they cannot be separated - even by death. Schlagworte:Englischer Roman, Liebe, Liebesroman, Tod, Trauer, Trauerbewältigung, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 262 S. Beteiligte:Tyler, Anne Standort: Engl. Tyl ISBN: 978-0-09-958204-5
Inhalt: From the internationally bestselling author, praised for her beguiling, lyrical prose (The Sunday Times Review, UK), comes a brilliant, provocative novel about an artist, Harriet Burden, who after years of being ignored by the art world conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.
With "The Blazing World", internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt returns to the New York art world in her most masterful and urgent novel since What I Loved. Hustvedt, who has long been celebrated for her "beguiling, lyrical prose" (The Sunday Times Books, London), tells the provocative story of the artist Harriet Burden. After years of watching her work ignored or dismissed by critics, Burden conducts an experiment she calls Maskings: she presents her own art behind three male masks, concealing her female identity. The three solo shows are successful, but when Burden finally steps forward triumphantly to reveal herself as the artist behind the exhibitions, there are critics who doubt her. The public scandal turns on the final exhibition, initially shown as the work of acclaimed artist Rune, who denies Burden's role in its creation. What no one doubts, however, is that the two artists were intensely involved with each other. As Burden's journals reveal, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous game that ended with the man's bizarre death. Ingeniously presented as a collection of texts compiled after Burden's death, "The Blazing World" unfolds from multiple perspectives. The exuberant Burden speaks - in all her joy and fury - through extracts from her own notebooks, while critics, fans, family members, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of who she was, and where the truth lies. From one of the most ambitious and internationally renowned writers of her generation, "The Blazing World" is a polyphonic tour de force. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle, it explores the deceptive powers of prejudice, money, fame, and desire. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, Hustvedt's novel is a bold, rich masterpiece, one that will be remembered for years to come. Schlagworte:Englischer Roman, Experiment, Frau, Künstler, Künstlerin, Mann, New York, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 356 S. Beteiligte:Hustvedt, Siri Standort: Engl. Hus ISBN: 978-1-4447-7963-9
Inhalt: Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem. On days when they aren't playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their uncle Martin on his fishing boat in the North Sea, where German ships have become a common sight. But conflict still seems unthinkable, even as the boys' father naively sends his sons to a Hitler Youth camp in an effort to secure German business for the factory. When war breaks out, Jacob's world is thrown into chaos. The Boat Runner follows Jacob over the course of four years, through the forests of France, the stormy beaches of England, and deep within the secret missions of the German navy, where he is confronted with the moral dilemma that will change his life - and his life's mission - forever. Epic in scope and featuring a thrilling narrative with percise, elegant language, The Boat Runner tells the little-known story of the young Dutch boys who were thrust into the Nazi campaign, as well as the brave boatmen who risked everything to give Jewish refugees safe passage to land abroad. Schlagworte:2. Weltkrieg, Englische Literatur, Holland, Kind, Niederlande, Nordsee, Zweiter Weltkrieg <1939-1945> Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 370 Seiten Beteiligte:Murphy, Devin Standort: Engl. Mur ISBN: 978-0-06-265801-2
Inhalt: A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a well in an ancient hilltop castle. The young woman, Claudia, had been working in the archives of an eminent French art historian, a crippled Resistance war hero, at his art-filled chateau.
As Claudia's White House connections get the US Embassy and the FBI involved, Bruno traces the people and events that led to her fatal accident - or was it murder?
Bruno learns that Claudia had been trying to buy the chateau and art collection of her tutor, even while her researches led her to suspect that some of his attributions may have been forged. This takes Bruno down a trail that leads him from the ruins of Berlin in 1945, to France's colonial war in Algeria.
The long arm of French history has reached out to find a new victim, but can Bruno identify the killer - and prove his case? Schlagworte:Dordogne, Frankreich, Krimi, Studentin Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 375 Seiten Beteiligte:Walker, Martin Standort: Engl. Wal ISBN: 978-1-78648-576-2
Inhalt: EVEN ON AN ISLAND PARADISE, DANGER STILL LURKS
Called in to examine what is left of a body struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in a much larger case. Young men - tourists - have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace. But recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them.
Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common - other than the unusual locations where their bodies are eventually found, and the fact that the young men all seem to be the least likely to be involved in foul play. Do these attacks have something to do with the islands' seething culture of gang violence? Tempe isn't so sure. And then she turns up disturbing clues that what's at stake may actually have global significance.
It isn't long before the sound of a ticking clock grows menacingly loud, and then Tempe herself becomes a target . . . Schlagworte:Caicosinseln, Insel, Mordfall, Thriller, Turksinseln, Verschwinden Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 320 Seiten Beteiligte:Reichs, Kathy Standort: Engl. Rei ISBN: 978-1-398-51084-5
Inhalt: Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own...shell.
The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.
When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all-or mostly all-excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?
Nina considers her options. 1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.) 2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee). 3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)
It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It's going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page. Schlagworte:Buchhandlung, Familie, Komödie, Liebe, Nervosität, Schüchternheit, Todesfall, Vater Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 332 Seiten, Illustrationen Beteiligte:Waxman, Abbi Standort: Engl. Wax ISBN: 978-0-451-49187-9
Inhalt: Desperate to escape London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four-year-old son, Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartement on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night, and Hari's dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister, Surinder, comes to Zoe's aid, hooking her up with a job as far away from the urban crush as possible: working at a bookshop on the banks of Loch Ness. And there's a second job to cover housing: Zoe will be an au pair for three children at a genuine castle in the Scottish Highlands. But while Scotland is everything Zoe dreamed of - clear skies, brisk fresh air, blessed quiet - everything else is a bit of a mess. The Urquart family castle is grand but crumbling, the children's mother has abandoned the family, their father is a wreck, and the kids have been kicked out of school and left to their own devices. Zoe has her work cut out for her and is determined to rise to the challenge, especially when she sees how happily Hari has taken to their new home. With the help of NIna, the friendly bookseller, Zoe begins to put wodn roots in the community. Are books, fresh air, and kindness enough to heal the Urquart family - and her own? Schlagworte:Au-pair, Buchhandlung, Englische Literatur, Familie, Liebe, Loch Ness, Schottland, Scotland Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 409 Seiten Beteiligte:Colgan, Jenny Standort: Engl. Col ISBN: 978-0-06-285018-8
Inhalt: The first rule of book club: You don't talk about book club.
Gavin Scott's marriage is trouble. The Nashville Legends baseball star has recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. His reaction to the revelation is the final straw for their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he's let his pride and fear get the better of him.
Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.
Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency called Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his beloved wife. Schlagworte:Club, Ehe, Geheimnis, Liebe, Liebesbeziehung, Romantik, Trennung Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 339 Seiten Beteiligte:Adams, Lyssa Kay Standort: Engl. Ada ISBN: 978-1-4722-7163-1
Inhalt: Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award 2012 and the Albatros Literaturpreis 2014
Die bewegende Geschichte einer Gruppe von Frauen auf einer Reise ins Ungewisse ... Mit leiser Wehmut, vielen Fragen und großen Hoffnungen im Gepäck überqueren sie den Ozean: junge Japanerinnen, die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts ihre Heimat verlassen, um in Kalifornien japanische Einwanderer zu heiraten. Bis zu ihrer Ankunft kennen die Frauen ihre zukünftigen Männer nur von den strahlenden Fotos der Heiratsvermittler, und auch sonst haben sie äußerst vage Vorstellungen von Amerika. Die Überfahrt wird zu einer seltsamen, oft traumartigen Passage zwischen zwei Welten - und die Ankunft in Amerika zu einem abrupten Erwachen in der Fremde, in der kaum etwas so ist wie erwartet ...
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A New York Times Notable Book
A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times. Schlagworte:20. Jahrhundert, Auswanderer, Auswanderung, Außenseiter, California, Englischer Roman, Frauen, Frauenschicksal, Heirat, Hochzeit, Japan, Kalifornien, Pearl Harbor, Preisgekrönt, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 129 S. Beteiligte:Otsuka, Julie Standort: Engl. Ots ISBN: 978-0-307-74442-5
Inhalt: A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE?
THINK AGAIN...
You wake on a beautiful, remote island.
Sparkling blue seas, golden sunsets, barely a footprint in the sand.
Yet this is no ordinary escape.
Next to the wreck of a plane, a stranger paces. Another sharpens a knife, scoring a list of the dead onto a palm tree. Others watch from the shadows of a campfire - all with untold stories, and closely-guarded secrets...
This is no ordinary holiday. This is no ordinary island. This is no ordinary beach read. Schlagworte:Flugzeugabsturz, Insel, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 389 Seiten Beteiligte:Clarke, Lucy Standort: Engl. Cla ISBN: 978-0-00-834091-9
Inhalt: Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today. Schlagworte:American English, Englischer Roman, Jugendlicher Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 192 S. Beteiligte:Salinger, Jerome D. Standort: Sal ISBN: 978-0-241-95042-5
Inhalt: Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia's richest man, he now resides in splendid exile in London, where he has waged a tireless crusade against the authoritarian kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion in Chelsea's exclusive Cheyne Walk is one of the most heavily protected private dwellings in London. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russia's vengeful president finally manages to cross Orlov's name off his kill list.
Before him was the receiver from his landline telephone, a half-drunk glass of red wine, and a stack of documents....
The documents are contaminated with a deadly nerve agent. The Metropolitan Police determine that they were delivered to Orlov's home by one of his employees, a prominent investigative reporter from the anti-KremlinMoskovskaya Gazeta. And when the reporter slips from London hours after the killing, MI6 concludes she is a Moscow Center assassin who has cunningly penetrated Orlov's formidable defenses.
But Gabriel Allon, who owes his very life to Viktor Orlov, believes his friends in British intelligence are dangerously mistaken. His desperate search for the truth will take him from London to Amsterdam and eventually to Geneva, where a private intelligence service controlled by a childhood friend of the Russian president is using KGB-style "active measures" to undermine the West from within. Known as the Haydn Group, the unit is plotting an unspeakable act of violence that will plunge an already divided America into chaos and leave Russia unchallenged. Only Gabriel Allon, with the help of a brilliant young woman employed by the world's dirtiest bank, can stop it.
Elegant and sophisticated, provocative and daring, The Cellist explores one of the preeminent threats facing the West today-the corrupting influence of dirty money wielded by a revanchist and reckless Russia. It is at once a novel of hope and a stark warning about the fragile state of democracy. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva is regarded as his generation's finest writer of suspense and international intrigue. Schlagworte:England, Mord, Pandemie, Russland, Spionage, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 471 Seiten Beteiligte:Silva, Daniel Standort: Engl. Sil ISBN: 978-0-06-283532-1
Inhalt: A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.
"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under snow? Oris it possible you are still alive?"
Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's Skookum National Forest. She would be eight-years-old now if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder," Naomi is their last hope.
Naomi¿s methodical search takes her deep into the icy, mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, and into her own fragmented past. She understands children like Madison because once upon a time, she was a lost girl, too.
As Naomi relentlessly pursues and slowly uncovers the truth behind Madison¿s disappearance, shards of a dark dream pierce the defenses that have protected her, reminding her of a terrible loss she feels but cannot remember. If she finds Madison, will Naomi ultimately unlock the secrets of her own life?
Told in the alternating voices of Naomi and a deeply imaginative child, The Child Finder is a breathtaking, exquisitely rendered literary page-turner about redemption, the line between reality and memories and dreams, and the human capacity to survive. Schlagworte:Englische Literatur, Kind, Thriller, Verschwinden Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 273 Seiten Beteiligte:Denfeld, Rene Standort: Engl. Den ISBN: 978-0-06-265905-7
Inhalt: Familienrecht ist das Spezialgebiet der Richterin Fiona Maye am High Court in London: Scheidungen, Sorgerecht, Fragen des Kindeswohls. In ihrer eigenen Ehe ist sie seit über dreißig Jahren glücklich. Da unterbreitet ihr Mann ihr einen schockierenden Vorschlag. Und zugleich wird ihr ein dringlicher Gerichtsfall vorgelegt, in dem es um den Widerstreit zwischen Religion und Medizin und um Leben und Tod eines 17-jährigen Jungen geht. A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.
At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for religious reasons, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? In the course of reaching a decision Fiona visits Adam in hospital an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both. Schlagworte:Ehekonflikt, England, Englischer Roman, Familienrecht, Geliebte, Gericht, Jugendliche, Kinder, Leukämie, London, Protagonistin, Religion, Richterin, Sorgerecht, Verantwortung, Zeugen Jehovas Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 211 S. Beteiligte:MacEwan, Ian Standort: Engl. MacE ISBN: 978-0-224-10199-8
Inhalt: Movie tie-in edition of the Sparks classic Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life, he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Travis's attempts to be friendly, she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him. But something compels Travis to get to know his new neighbour. His persistent efforts lead them both to make tough decisions, the consequences of which neither could have foreseen. The Choice confronts us with that most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? Schlagworte:Amerikanisches Englisch, Englischer Roman, Filmbuch, Leichte Lektüre, Liebe, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 342 Seiten Beteiligte:Sparks, Nicholas Standort: Engl. Spa ISBN: 978-0-7515-6226-2
Inhalt: In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance. I'm no Hercule Poirot. I'm her husband's mistress.
Agatha Christie's world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame.
Nan O'Dea's world is something very different. Her attempts to escape a tough London upbringing during the Great War led to a life in Ireland marred by a hidden tragedy.
After fighting her way back to England, she's set her sights on Agatha. Because Agatha Christie has something Nan wants. And it's not just her husband.
Inhalt: My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.
Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?
Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter. Schlagworte:19. Jahrhundert, England, Englischer Roman, Frauenroman, Geheimnis, Künstler, Mord, Neunzehntes Jahrhundert, Tochter, Uhrmacherkunst, Vergangenheit Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 585 Seiten Beteiligte:Morton, Kate Standort: Engl. Mor ISBN: 978-0-230-75928-2
Inhalt: Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain - and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy.
With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka's most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head. Schlagworte:Großbritannien, Metapher, Politiker, Satire, Verwandlung Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 99 Seiten Beteiligte:McEwan, Ian Standort: Engl. MacE ISBN: 978-0-593-08242-3
Inhalt: Je größer die Gefahr, desto heißer die Leidenschaft ... Lila Emerson liebt ihren Job als Homesitterin über alles. Doch als sie eines Tages vom Fenster ihres aktuellen Apartments einen Mord mit anschließendem Suizid beobachtet, verändert sich ihr Leben auf einen Schlag, denn Ashton Archer, der Bruder des potenziellen Mörders, bittet sie um Hilfe. Lila fühlt sich von dem attraktiven Künstler mehr als angezogen, und auch Ash weiß sofort: Die Frau mit den dunklen, tiefen Augen muss er zeichnen! Gemeinsam machen sie sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit, und bald wird klar: Unschätzbar teure Kunstgegenstände scheinen im Zentrum dieses Verbrechens zu stehen und ein Sammler, der für seine Obsession über Leichen geht.
A thrilling novel of crime and passion from Nora Roberts - the world's greatest storyteller Lila Emerson is fascinated by other people's lives. As a house-sitter, she loves looking after the glamorous homes she could never afford herself. And as a writer, she enjoys dreaming up stories for the people she sees from her window. But then one day she witnesses something only too real - the shocking murder of a young woman living across the street in New York. Now Lila is in mortal danger from an audacious, single-minded assassin who kills for profit and for pleasure. With the police following a false lead, Lila's only hope is to team up with Ashton Archer, an artist with his own complicated reasons for getting involved. Lila wants to trust the passionate, quick-witted Ash - but is she letting her feelings blind her to his motives? Either way, she will never watch from the sidelines again... Schlagworte:Amerikanisches Englisch, Bruder, Englischer Roman, Kunst, Künstler, Mord, Protagonistin, Psychothriller, Sammlung, Selbstmord, Suizid, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 483 S. Beteiligte:Roberts, Nora Standort: Engl. Rob ISBN: 978-0-7499-5930-2
Inhalt: The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of ?the man of two minds? as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism
The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.
Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese ?aunt,? he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.
Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen?s position in the firmament of American letters. Schlagworte:80er Jahre, Achtziger Jahre, Drogenhandel, Paris, Spionage, Thriller, Trauma Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 345 Seiten, Abbildung Beteiligte:Nguyen, Viet Thanh Standort: Engl. Ngu ISBN: 978-0-8021-5706-5
Inhalt: "The Complaints" - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Malcolm Fox works in the Complaints and Conduct departement, so he's not a popular man. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's got problems of his own. Now Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. Fox takes on the job, and learns that there's more to the Breck case than anyone thinks. This knowledge will prove dangerous, ecpecially when a vicious murder intervenes far too close to home for Fox's liking... Schlagworte:British English, Edinburgh, Englischer Roman, Krimi, Schottland, Scotland Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 452 S. Beteiligte:Rankin, Ian Standort: Engl. Ran ISBN: 978-1-4091-0359-2
Inhalt: You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall. Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying. Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back every half hour. Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realized. She's gone. You've never had to call the police before. But now they're in your home, and who knows what they'll find there. What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit? Schlagworte:Ehepaar, Entführung, Intrige, Thriller, Tochter Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 361 Seiten Beteiligte:Lapena, Shari Standort: Engl. Lap ISBN: 978-0-552-17406-0
Inhalt: He hid the bodies where nobody could find them. But some secrets aren't buried deep enough...
Florence Lovelady's career was made when she concvicted coffin-maker Larry Glassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago. Like something from our worst nightmares the victims were buried ... alive. Larry confessed to the crimes; it was an open and shut case. But now he's dead and events from the past start to repeat themselves. Did she get it wrong all those years ago? Or is there something much darker at play? Schlagworte:Kinder, Mord, Serienmörder, Thriller, Vergangenheit Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 422 Seiten Beteiligte:Bolton, Sharon Standort: Engl. Bol ISBN: 978-1-4091-7413-4
Inhalt: Christopher Boone is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrom. He knows lots about maths and nothing about people. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. Whitbread Award. Schlagworte:British English, Englischer Roman Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 271 S. Beteiligte:Haddon, Mark Standort: Engl. Had
Inhalt: On New Year's Eve at the end of one of the hardest years in history, hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air in time-honoured LA tradition. But as the rain of lead comes down, a man is shot dead in the middle of a crowded street party.
Detective Renée Ballard soon connects the bullet to an unsolved cold case last worked by legendary ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch. As they investigate where the old and new cases connect, a new crime shatters the night shift.
The Midnight Men are a pair of violent predators who stalk the city during the dark hours, and will kill to keep their identities secret.
In a police department shaken to the core by pandemic and protests, both cases have the power to save Ballard's belief in the job - or take everything from her... Schlagworte:Mordfall, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 465 Seiten Beteiligte:Connelly, Michael Standort: Engl. Con ISBN: 978-1-4091-8618-2
Inhalt: A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WW II. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn¿t been the same since her fiance jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother¿s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in ¿the distant hours¿ of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it. Schlagworte:Australian English, England, Englischer Roman, Familie, Geheimnis Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 677 S. Beteiligte:Morton, Kate Standort: Engl. Mor ISBN: 978-0-330-53378-2
Inhalt: Atlanta, 1890: By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Soutzern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie". When her column becomes wildly popular, Jo uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta's most notorious criminal, Jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadows, is ready to step into the light. Schlagworte:19. Jahrhundert, Atlanta, Feminismus, Gangster, Historisches, Kolumnen, Kolumnist, Neunzehntes Jahrhundert, Young Adult Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 372 Seiten Beteiligte:Lee, Stacey Standort: Engl. Lee ISBN: 978-1-5247-4097-9
Inhalt: Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man
Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. During a hasty escape from a secluded boarding school, her coach careened over a hillside road during one of the year's heaviest snowstorms, trapping her inside with a handful of survivors, a brewing virus, and no way to call for help. If she and the remaining few want to make it out alive, with their sanity--and secrets--intact, they'll need to work together or they'll be buried alive with the rest of the dead.
A former detective, Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She is in a cable car suspended far above a snowstorm and surrounded by strangers in the same uniform as her, with no memory of how they got there. They are heading to a mysterious place known to them only as "The Retreat," but when they discover a dead man among their ranks and Meg spies a familiar face, she realizes that there is something far more insidious going on.
Carter is gazing out the window of the abandoned ski chalet that he and his ragtag compatriots call home. Together, they manage a precarious survival, manufacturing vaccines against a deadly virus in exchange for life's essentials. But as their generator begins to waver, the threat of something lurking in the chalet's depths looms larger, and their fragile bonds will be tested when the power finally fails--for good.
A lost child. A shattered past. A life going under . . .
Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, nearly unconscious and losing blood fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him.
A mile away from his body, a boat was found covered in blood - Vincent's and that of three others. Forensics say at least one of them must be dead. Vincent, a police detective, had signed his service pistol out of the station armoury, despite being on leave. Murder suspects can often fake amnesia, and the investigating team are not sure this case is any different . . .
The only clue is a picture in Vincent's pocket: a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. And though Mickey is presumed dead, Vincent has the nagging doubt that she is alive and in terrible danger . . Schlagworte:Amnesie, Englische Literatur, Gedächtnisverlust, London, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 401 Seiten Beteiligte:Robotham, Michael Standort: Engl. Rob ISBN: 978-0-7515-4422-0
Inhalt: Becca King and her mother are on the run from her stepfather who has used Becca's talent for hearing 'whispers' to make a large and illegal sum of money. Now their options for safety are running out. In the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Becca finds refuge in the home of her mother's childhood friend while her mother continues on to Canada in search of safety. But on her first day in town Becca meets sixteen years old Derric Mathieson, a Ugandan orphan who was adopted as a ten-year-old by the town's Deputy Sheriff. Derric has a secret that no one on Whidbey Island knows. Derric and Becca form an un-severable bond. Becca is convinced that she's the only person who can truly help him, and just maybe Derric can convince Becca that life is too short to live on the run. Schlagworte:Englischer Roman, Flucht, Gedankenlesen, Krimi, Stiefvater, Teenager, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 388 S. Beteiligte:George, Elizabeth Standort: Engl. Geo ISBN: 978-1-4447-1996-3
Inhalt: Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and her sober fiancé Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner selt that wants something more, an inner self that calmly sabotages her careful plans, stable routine - and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... Schlagworte:Englischer Roman Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 281 S. Beteiligte:Atwood, Margaret Standort: Engl. Atw ISBN: 978-0-86068-129-8
Inhalt: ambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party-or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people.
So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her.
Inhalt: She survived her first year at Basgiath War College . . . but the danger is only beginning.
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her wits, and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.
But a determination to survive won't be enough this year.
Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
Inhalt: Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College.
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds if candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat way ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, every day the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Everyone at Basgiath has an agenda, so sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
Inhalt: It starts with a shocking accusation . . .
Stephanie and Patrick are recently married, with new-born twins. While Stephanie struggles with the disorienting effects of sleep deprivation, there's one thing she knows for certain - she has everything she ever wanted.
Then a woman from his past arrives and makes a horrifying allegation about his first wife. He always claimed her death was an accident - but she says it was murder.
He insists he's innocent, that this is nothing but a blackmail attempt. But is Patrick telling the truth? Or has Stephanie made a terrible mistake?
Inhalt: No.1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime ministers career is threatened with destruction. Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems...and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth Silvas work has captured the imagination of millions worldwide; his No.1 New York Times bestselling series, which chronicles the adventures of art-restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon, has earned the praise of readers and reviewers everywhere. This captivating new page-turner from the undisputed master of spy fiction is sure to thrill new and old fans alike. Schlagworte:England, Korsika, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 519 S. Beteiligte:Silva, Daniel Standort: Engl. Sil ISBN: 978-0-06-232606-5
They would never have been friends if they hadn't needed one another. They would never have found one another except for the art that drew them together. They would never have become family wihtout their love for the music, for one another. Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; on the viola is Henry, a prodigy who always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, an angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness Quartet. After the group's youthful, rocky start, they experience devastating failure and wild success, heartbreak and marriage, triumph and loss, betrayal and enduring loyalty. They are always tied together - by career, by the intensity of their art, by the secrets they carry, by choosing one another over and over again. Following these four unforgettable characters, Aja Gabel's debut novel gives a riveting look into the high-skates, cutthroat world of musicians, and of lives made in concert. Schlagworte:Englische Literatur, Freundschaft, Musik, Musiker, Musikerin, Musikgruppe, Musikindustrie, Quartett Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 339 Seiten Beteiligte:Gabel, Aja Standort: Engl. Gab ISBN: 978-0-525-53507-2
Inhalt: When Puller's older brother inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out. David Baldacci is one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers. In his blockbuster thrillers Zero Day and The Forgotten , he enthralled readers with John Puller. A combat veteran and special agent with the U.S. Army, Puller is the man they call to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. But all his training, all his experience, all his skills will not prepare him for his newest case, one that will force him to hunt down the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked: his own brother. THE ESCAPE It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They know it's impossible . . . until now. John Puller's older brother, Robert, was convicted of treason and national security crimes. His inexplicable escape from prison makes him the most wanted criminal in the country. Some in the government believe that John Puller represents their best chance at capturing Robert alive, and so Puller must bring in his brother to face justice. But Puller quickly discovers that his brother is pursued by others who don't want him to survive. Puller is in turn pushed into an uneasy, fraught partnership with another agent, who may have an agenda of her own. They dig more deeply into the case together, and Puller finds that not only are her allegiances unclear, but there are troubling details about his brother's conviction . . . and someone out there doesn't want the truth to ever come to light. As the nationwide manhunt for Robert grows more urgent, Puller's masterful skills as an investigator and strengths as a fighter may not be enough to save his brother-or himself. Schlagworte:Amerikanisches Englisch, Brüder, Englischer Roman, Flucht, Gefängnis, Thriller, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 470 S. Beteiligte:Baldacci, David Standort: Engl. Bal ISBN: 978-1-4555-5848-3
Inhalt: A TIME OF CONFLICT It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages, and England faces attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Life is hard, and those with power wield it harshly, bending justice according to their will - often in conflict with the king. With his grip on the country fragile and with no clear rule of law, chaos and bloodshed reign.
THREE LIVES INTERTWINED Into this uncertain world three people come to the fore: a young boatbuilder, who dreams of a better future when a devastating Viking raid shatters the life that he and the woman he loves hoped for; a Norman noblewoman, who follows her beloved husband across the sea to a new land only to find her life there shockingly different; and a capable monk at Shiring Abbey, who dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a centre of learning admired throughout Europe.
THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE Now, with England at the dawn of the Middle Ages, these three people will each come into dangerous conflict with a ruthless bishop, who will do anything to increase his wealth and power, in an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, death and birth, and love and hate.
Thirty years ago we were introduced to Kingsbridge in The Pillars of the Earth, and now in this masterful prequel international bestseller Ken Follett will take us on a journey into a rich past, which will end where his masterpiece begins. Schlagworte:10. Jahrhundert, England, Großbritannien, Historisches, Liebe, Machtkampf, Mittelalter, Wikinger, Zehntes Jahrhundert Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 816 Seiten, Karte Beteiligte:Follett, Ken Standort: Engl. Fol ISBN: 978-1-4472-7878-8
Inhalt: On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to have been realised.
Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same police building, on the same team. Freyja believes that personal and professional relationships must remain separate, however hard that may be. But when a woman's dismembered body is found in a deserted car, her head missing, and Freyja and Huldar find themselves working on the same case, the secrecy around their affair threatens to crack. And when Freyja is accused of a serious breach of police protocol, will Huldar be able to help her? Meanwhile, their search to identify the body takes the case back into secrets of the past, and the unspoken crimes that bind three separate families. Schlagworte:Ermittler, Ermittlerin, Island, Mordfall, Reykjavik, Thriller, Verschwinden Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 440 Seiten Beteiligte:Sigurdardóttir, Yrsa, Cribb, Victoria Standort: Engl. Sig ISBN: 978-1-4736-9354-8
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