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: When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren't: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn't belong¿a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she's introduced to an entirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the music is as addictive as the heroin that's used there, the startling sounds of bebop, and even the possibility of romance.
Over half a century later, the Barbizon's gone condo and most of its long-ago guests are forgotten. But rumors of Darby's involvement in a deadly skirmish with a hotel maid back in 1952 haunt the halls of the building as surely as the melancholy music that floats from the elderly woman's rent-controlled apartment. It's a combination too intoxicating for journalist Rose Lewin, Darby's upstairs neighbor, to resist¿not to mention the perfect distraction from her own imploding personal life. Yet as Rose's obsession deepens, the ethics of her investigation become increasingly murky, and neither woman will remain unchanged when the shocking truth is finally revealed. Schlagworte:50er Jahre, Englische Literatur, Freundschaft, Fünfziger Jahre, Hotel, Journalistin, New York Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 289 Seiten Beteiligte:Davis, Fiona Standort: Engl. Dav ISBN: 978-1-101-98626-4
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
Inhalt: Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong. As Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? Soon the two women's lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood's stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other. Schlagworte:17. Jahrhundert, England, Frauen, Freundschaft, Hexenjagd, Hexenverfolgung, Historisches, Magie, Schwangerschaft, Siebzehntes Jahrhundert Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 418 Seiten Beteiligte:Halls, Stacey Standort: Engl. Hal ISBN: 978-1-78576-614-5
Inhalt: LONDON. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones.
DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago.
Also inside the bag is a trail of clues, in particular the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu back to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly thirty years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby waited upstairs for someone to pick her up.
The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts.
Inhalt: In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They've been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go?
Two entangled families. A house with the darkest of secrets. A compulsive new thriller from Lisa Jewell. Schlagworte:Baby, Englische Literatur, Familie, Familiendrama, Geheimnis, Mord, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 449 Seiten Beteiligte:Jewell, Lisa Standort: Engl. Jew ISBN: 978-1-78089-921-3
Inhalt: Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages-and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here-more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone else.
Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines, is in desperate search of a better future when she commits to being a "Host" at Golden Oaks-or the Farm, as residents call it. But now pregnant, fragile, consumed with worry for her family, Jane is determined to reconnect with her life outside. Yet she cannot leave the Farm or she will lose the life-changing fee she'll receive on the delivery of her child.
Gripping, provocative, heartbreaking, The Farm pushes to the extremes our thinking on motherhood, money, and merit and raises crucial questions about the trade-offs women will make to fortify their futures and the futures of those they love. Schlagworte:Ausbeutung, Frauen, Leihmutter, Schwangerschaft, Zukunftsvision Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 326 Seiten Beteiligte:Ramos, Joanne Standort: Engl. Ram ISBN: 978-1-984853-75-2
Inhalt: When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn't what he seemed and he left her life in pieces. Now 32, Lou discovers that Mike is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history doesn't repeat itself, she returns home to confront him for the damage he's caused. But Mike is a predator of the worst kind, and as Lou tries to bring him to justice, it's clear that she could once again become his prey. Schlagworte:Missbrauch, Protagonistin, Thriller, Vergangenheit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 400 Seiten Beteiligte:Taylor, C. L. Standort: Engl. Tay ISBN: 978-0-00-811809-9
Inhalt: Hollis Shaw, creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis, finds her life turned upside down when her heart-surgeon husband is killed in a car accident on a snowy February morning. As Hollis searches for comfort, she discovers the idea of the 'Five Star Weekend': a gathering of the best friends from each stage of your life. But when Hollis decides to host her own version on Nantucket, the weekend isn't exactly a Hallmark movie...
First, there's Tatum, Hollis's best friend growing up on Nantucket - and her husband's best friend, Jack, who just happens to be Hollis's first love.
Then there's Dru-ann, her best friend from college, now a prominent Black female sports agent in Chicago, whose Twitter comments have just landed her - and her marriage - in hot water.
Brooke is the best friend who helped raise her kids with Hollis during their thirties, until she was ousted from the local mum's group by Electra, self-appointed queen bee. But Brooke and Electra are finally meeting up to make amends this weekend . . .
And lastly, Gigi, who reached out to Hollis on her food blog to become 'internet besties', but has never met her in real life.
All the weekend needs is Hollis's daughter Caroline, a documentary student, who wants to film the entire party... What could possibly go wrong?
Inhalt: Two different worlds ... opposite paths ...
Professionally, Daisy is sharp as a knife when it comes to visual arts. Personally, she has gone through lengthy changes to forget her past and rebuild herself. Suddenly her social circle includes a group of warm, loving firends, and a family she never had, but always dreamed of. However, Daisy's hard-won sobriety is at odds with her new friends' social style, and there's a risk that her demons will be exposed. The most unlikely person to catch her when she falls is flirty Josh, the guy everyone warns will stomp on her heart. To her surprise, he fills her life with hope, pride, and desire.
A stupid bet. No women for two weeks. For the ladie's man, Josh, that is physically impossible, but he's always up for a good challenge. Until the colorful Daisy appears again, throwing him into the unknown. Tempting him in more ways than one. After having her crumple in his arms, his feelings grow in a way that he never experienced before. Is it because you always want what you can't have or is there something pushing them together that's out of his control?
Inhalt: Christmas wishes come true in New York City ... or maybe not
After a demanding career of living out of her suitcase, Sophia lands a dream job in New York City that will keep her in one place for six months. Being alone in a big city is nothing new for her but not during the holidays. When an irrestistible jeweler appears in her life more than once, Christmas surprises po up on every corner. Drew loses his creativity and holiday spirit just when he needs it the most. Then a snowstorm blows Sophia into his jewelry store, and a surge of inspiration follows. He is used to handling precious gems but nothing as priceless as she is. Even though they just met, their instant attraction turns into something more. But one event leads to betrayal, leaving Sophia once again alone and brokenhearted. Can the magic of Christmas bring them back toghether, or will one of them be left in the cold? Schlagworte:Juwelier, Liebe, New York, Streit, Weihnachten Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 141 Seiten Beteiligte:Beck, Kristina Standort: Engl. Bec ISBN: 978-3-947985-07-4
Is one week of breathtaking passion a reason to turn your life upside down?
Winter is Lacey's arch-enemy and it won't let up even though it's the middle of April. She can't get out of New York City fast enough to kick off her spring vacation in the tropics. One travel glitch and a stumbled step finds Lacey on the lap of a handsome, mysterious stranger, connecting her heart to his in a way she can't comprehend.
Will gets a last-minute seat on a flight back home, sitting him next to a beautiful, quirky woman who blows into his life like a warm spring breeze. Her magnetism lights him up after weeks of darkness. He refuses to say goodbye until he steals one heated kiss from her.
A surprise twist of fate drops them into deep water, but the fire between them never burns out. What they thought would be a week of carefree distractions blossoms into something their hearts didn't bargain for. Schlagworte:Flugreise, Frühling, Liebe, Urlaub Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 179 Seiten Beteiligte:Beck, Kristina Standort: Engl. Bec ISBN: 978-3-947985-10-4
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