Luis Miguel Rocha A gripping thriller which uncovers a dark conspiracy at the heart of the Vatican Vatican City, 29 September 1978: the world wakes to the shocking news that Pope John Paul I is dead, just a month after his accession. Thirty years later, in London, young journalist Sarah Monteiro receives a mysterious package. Enclosed is a list of names and a coded message. Moments later a masked assassin attempts to silence her for ever. It seems Sarah holds the key to unveiling a deadly secret a plot that implicates unscrupulous mercenaries and crooked politicians, and which goes to the very heart of the Vatican. Sarah has no choice but to run, forced into a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse. She can trust no one, especially when her fathers name appears on the incriminating list. Sarah finds herself at the centre of a world wide conspiracy its keepers will stop at nothing to protect. 'An immensely entertaining book' USA Today
Leo TolstoyResurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a time, his daughter's influence and natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
One night a young woman disappears ...In broad daylight a retired teacher is stabbed to death ...In a small-town beauty parlor two women are butchered ...Three baffling cases, linked only by a lack of motive until psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis stumble upon a clue. A stolen luxury car is found undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. Soon they uncover other expensive cars 'borrowed' before a killing. Soon the pair are hunting for a multiple killer, from LA high society to its desperate slums, even to New York and a forgotten cold case. However the killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification. To unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to understand his murderous compulsion.
Aux amateurs curieux d''explorer plus avant d''autres aspects de la personnalité de Raymond Queneau, et de son ?uvre, nous présentons avec ce court texte inédit et inachevé une facette peu connue (oubliee ?) et pourtant recurrente et non negligeable de sa production litteraire, ancree dans un " art de l''illusion " derive, semble-t-il, de la pratique du surrealisme et de Fantomas.
''The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn. "They don''t know," he thought, "those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers - a woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent by its parents in irritation; and according to what I will, what I decide, their whole future will be decided ...Sudden murder. Theft. Fire." It was as simple as that.'' In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been stretched to the breaking point. Often chilling, sometimes poignant, these stories display the full range of Daphne du Maurier''s considerable talent.
Eine junge Frau verschwindet spurlos in den Straßen von New York. Charlie Parker, Privatdetektiv aus Maine, wird beauftragt, sie zu finden. Er stößt auf die makabren Reliquien eines uralten Totenkultes. In einem Beinhaus im böhmischen Sedlec, inmitten atemberaubender Kunstwerke aus menschlichen Knochen, steht er dem leibhaftigen Grauen gegenüber.
Ancien rédacteur de Millénium, revue d'investigations sociales et économiques, Mikael Blomkvist est contacté par Henrik Vanger pour relancer une enquête abandonnée depuis quarante ans : la disparition de sa petite nièce. Secondé par Lisbeth Salander, jeune femme rebelle et perturbée, placée sous contrôle social mais fouineuse hors pair, le journaliste tenace va résoudre l'affaire des fleurs séchées et découvrir ce qu'il faudrait peut-être taire. Enfin, la trilogie culte millénium en livre à écouter ! Après avoir goûté à la lecture d'Emmanuel Dekoninck, vous serez doublement conquis.
Ein Kind, das schweigt. Ein Geheimnis, das tötet. Als seine Frau unvermutet stirbt, ist Ben am Boden zerstört. Allein Jacob, Sarahs autistischer Sohn, spendet ihm Trost. Doch während Ben die gemeinsame Wohnung aufräumt, macht er eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung: Jacob war gar nicht Sarahs leibliches Kind. Offenbar hatte sie den Jungen entführt, als der noch ein Baby war. Fassungslos informiert Ben die Behörden, die Jacobs leiblichen Vater schnell ermitteln. Keiner ahnt, dass damit eine Lawine tödlicher Obsessionen ins Rollen gebracht wird. Simon Beckett ist einer der erfolgreichsten Autoren der Gegenwart. Allein in Deutschland verkauften sich seine Bücher millionenfach.
The life of Paul Metzger, a writer, is in disrepair. Mid-thirties, divorced, underachieving. A mid-winter Sunday in New York sees him traversing the city to visit three people: an elder half-brother who wants little to do with him; a disgraced, dying father, once infamous as a Nazi sympathiser, whose meagre estate has pitted his sons against one another; and an ex-wife whom Paul still loves. But it is a fourth, unplanned and violent encounter that sets in motion the events of City of Strangers and changes more than one life forever. In a city of many millions of souls, Paul experiences the dawning realisation that he is being followed, and that his watcher means him harm. The story that unfolds over the course of the next week is one of a family inalterably fractured by its past, of a man who refuses to believe that what''s done can''t be undone, and of a world that catastrophically insists otherwise. City of Strangers is a stunning debut by a gifted young writer, an unforgettable exploration of how we live now, of the city''s latent violence, of masculinity, and of the chance encounters upon which lives turn.
Anger, jealousy, gluttony, sloth, lust, greed and pride. The Seven Deadly sins. Doesn't every major crime have one of these deadly sins at its root? This volume selects two of them, lust and greed, as the inspiration for a selection of brand new stories, chosen and edited by internationally bestselling author Elizabeth George.
Luis Miguel Rocha A gripping thriller which uncovers a dark conspiracy at the heart of the Vatican Vatican City, 29 September 1978: the world wakes to the shocking news that Pope John Paul I is dead, just a month after his accession. Thirty years later, in London, young journalist Sarah Monteiro receives a mysterious package. Enclosed is a list of names and a coded message. Moments later a masked assassin attempts to silence her for ever. It seems Sarah holds the key to unveiling a deadly secret a plot that implicates unscrupulous mercenaries and crooked politicians, and which goes to the very heart of the Vatican. Sarah has no choice but to run, forced into a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse. She can trust no one, especially when her fathers name appears on the incriminating list. Sarah finds herself at the centre of a world wide conspiracy its keepers will stop at nothing to protect. 'An immensely entertaining book' USA Today
Leo TolstoyResurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a time, his daughter's influence and natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
One night a young woman disappears ...In broad daylight a retired teacher is stabbed to death ...In a small-town beauty parlor two women are butchered ...Three baffling cases, linked only by a lack of motive until psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis stumble upon a clue. A stolen luxury car is found undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. Soon they uncover other expensive cars 'borrowed' before a killing. Soon the pair are hunting for a multiple killer, from LA high society to its desperate slums, even to New York and a forgotten cold case. However the killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification. To unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to understand his murderous compulsion.
Aux amateurs curieux d''explorer plus avant d''autres aspects de la personnalité de Raymond Queneau, et de son ?uvre, nous présentons avec ce court texte inédit et inachevé une facette peu connue (oubliee ?) et pourtant recurrente et non negligeable de sa production litteraire, ancree dans un " art de l''illusion " derive, semble-t-il, de la pratique du surrealisme et de Fantomas.
''The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn. "They don''t know," he thought, "those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers - a woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent by its parents in irritation; and according to what I will, what I decide, their whole future will be decided ...Sudden murder. Theft. Fire." It was as simple as that.'' In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been stretched to the breaking point. Often chilling, sometimes poignant, these stories display the full range of Daphne du Maurier''s considerable talent.
Eine junge Frau verschwindet spurlos in den Straßen von New York. Charlie Parker, Privatdetektiv aus Maine, wird beauftragt, sie zu finden. Er stößt auf die makabren Reliquien eines uralten Totenkultes. In einem Beinhaus im böhmischen Sedlec, inmitten atemberaubender Kunstwerke aus menschlichen Knochen, steht er dem leibhaftigen Grauen gegenüber.
Ancien rédacteur de Millénium, revue d'investigations sociales et économiques, Mikael Blomkvist est contacté par Henrik Vanger pour relancer une enquête abandonnée depuis quarante ans : la disparition de sa petite nièce. Secondé par Lisbeth Salander, jeune femme rebelle et perturbée, placée sous contrôle social mais fouineuse hors pair, le journaliste tenace va résoudre l'affaire des fleurs séchées et découvrir ce qu'il faudrait peut-être taire. Enfin, la trilogie culte millénium en livre à écouter ! Après avoir goûté à la lecture d'Emmanuel Dekoninck, vous serez doublement conquis.
Ein Kind, das schweigt. Ein Geheimnis, das tötet. Als seine Frau unvermutet stirbt, ist Ben am Boden zerstört. Allein Jacob, Sarahs autistischer Sohn, spendet ihm Trost. Doch während Ben die gemeinsame Wohnung aufräumt, macht er eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung: Jacob war gar nicht Sarahs leibliches Kind. Offenbar hatte sie den Jungen entführt, als der noch ein Baby war. Fassungslos informiert Ben die Behörden, die Jacobs leiblichen Vater schnell ermitteln. Keiner ahnt, dass damit eine Lawine tödlicher Obsessionen ins Rollen gebracht wird. Simon Beckett ist einer der erfolgreichsten Autoren der Gegenwart. Allein in Deutschland verkauften sich seine Bücher millionenfach.
The life of Paul Metzger, a writer, is in disrepair. Mid-thirties, divorced, underachieving. A mid-winter Sunday in New York sees him traversing the city to visit three people: an elder half-brother who wants little to do with him; a disgraced, dying father, once infamous as a Nazi sympathiser, whose meagre estate has pitted his sons against one another; and an ex-wife whom Paul still loves. But it is a fourth, unplanned and violent encounter that sets in motion the events of City of Strangers and changes more than one life forever. In a city of many millions of souls, Paul experiences the dawning realisation that he is being followed, and that his watcher means him harm. The story that unfolds over the course of the next week is one of a family inalterably fractured by its past, of a man who refuses to believe that what''s done can''t be undone, and of a world that catastrophically insists otherwise. City of Strangers is a stunning debut by a gifted young writer, an unforgettable exploration of how we live now, of the city''s latent violence, of masculinity, and of the chance encounters upon which lives turn.
Anger, jealousy, gluttony, sloth, lust, greed and pride. The Seven Deadly sins. Doesn't every major crime have one of these deadly sins at its root? This volume selects two of them, lust and greed, as the inspiration for a selection of brand new stories, chosen and edited by internationally bestselling author Elizabeth George.
