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A bold and brilliantly inventive historical novel set in the reign of James II at a time of rebellion and unrest from a 25 million copy bestselling author

Walters makes a brilliant debut with this dark and suspenseful mystery that has the Book-of-the-Month Club raving, "One of the most impossible-to-put-down mysteries we've read this year". Three women who live together are thrown into turmoil when a mutilated body is found in their estate's ice house. Martin's.

A deadly plague is spreading across the land... June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it spreads, the people of the county start to die in their thousands. In the estate of Develish, Lady Anne takes control of her peoples future - including the lives of two hundred bonded serfs. Strong, compassionate and resourceful, Lady Anne chooses a bastard slave, Thaddeus Thurkell, to act as her steward. Together, they decide to quarantine Develish by bringing the serfs inside the walls. With this sudden overturning of the accepted social order, where serfs exist only to serve their lords, conflicts soon arise. Ignorant of what is happening in the world outside, they wrestle with themselves, with God and with the terrible uncertainty of their futures. Lady Annes people fear starvation but they fear the pestilence more. Who amongst them has the courage to leave the security of the walls?And how safe is anyone in Develish when a dreadful event threatens the uneasy status quo..?

When she revisited, always with astonishment, what had happened to her, it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers that remained indelibly printed on her memory ...Twelve hours after a woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away wandering the streets of Poole. But why was Kate killed and her daughter, a witness, allowed to live? And why weren't they together? More curiously, why had Kate willingly boarded a boat when she had a terror of drowning at sea? Police suspicion centres on both a young actor, whose ...

El hallazgo del cadáver de una mujer desnuda y la posterior aparición de su pequeña hija, aparentemente abandonada, da lugar a una electrizante intriga. Los sospechosos son varios -desde un amante despechado a un marido descontento-, pero el caso se complica inesperadamente... Una magistral novela policiaca.

In London in 1978 a black woman died in a rain-soaked gutter. Annie was found by a Mrs Ranelagh, who twenty years later is still painstakingly trying to uncover the truth about Annie's murder. But wh

'It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant. It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his knees.' Who was Billy Blake, other than a homeless alcoholic who wandered the streets? Why was he found dead from starvation in one of the richest areas of one of the richest capitals in the world? And why did he die alone in the garage of wealthy architect Amanda Powell - a woman whose wealth can only be explained if her husband is dead ...? 'Grips like steel ...Plays havoc with your emotions, keeps you awake, ends with joy and ...

A Sowerbridge, une vieille clame fortunée et sa garde-malade sont sauvagement assassinées.On arrête un petit voleur Irlandais qui est immédiatement mis sous les verrous. Il n'en faut pas plus pour ra

El hallazgo de una mujer asesinada en una playa de la costa inglesa, y la posterior aparición de su pequeña hija, abandonada en un pueblo cercano, dan lugar a una tensa trama policiaca de profundo pe

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their ''sink'' estate. A noman''s land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know she that is entering the home of a known paedophile...and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are out in force...Soon Sophie is trapped at the centre of a terrifying siege, with a man she has come to despise. Whipped to a frenzy by ...