"They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon." When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon--one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers--Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of...
"They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon." When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she...
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Fun, funky, and fabulous, this is the first personal buying guide to help you get in on the resale craze that is sweeping America. Would you like...
Sometimes it s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria s favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancee. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated and horrified he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he s done monstrous, quite appalling things ? Barbara Vine (a.k.a....
Sometimes it s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victo...
Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time. Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her...
Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured a...
Kerstin Kvist, eine junge schwedische Krankenschwester, kommt nach Lydstep Old Hall zur Pflege des kranken John Cosway. Doch nicht nur der erwachsene Sohn des Hauses verhält sich auffällig, auch der Rest der Familie wirkt eigenartig. Aus dieser Welt gibt es kaum noch ein Entkommen
Kerstin Kvist, eine junge schwedische Krankenschwester, kommt nach Lydstep Old Hall zur Pflege des kranken John Cosway. Doch nicht nur der erwachsene ...
Ein langer, heier Sommer im Jahr 1976. Eine zufllig zusammengewrfelte Gruppe junger Leute sammelt sich um Adam, der ein altes Haus in Suffolk geerbt hat. Sorglos leben sie in den Tag hinein, lieben, stehlen, existieren. Zehn Jahre spter werden auf dem bizarren Tierfriedhof des Ortes zwei Skelette gefunden - das einer jungen Frau und das eines Suglings...
Ein langer, heier Sommer im Jahr 1976. Eine zufllig zusammengewrfelte Gruppe junger Leute sammelt sich um Adam, der ein altes Haus in Suffolk geerbt h...
Martin Nanther auf den Spuren seines berhmten Urgrovaters, dem Leibarzt von Queen Victoria: Fr seine Verdienste um die Erforschung der kniglichen Krankheit hochgeehrt, fhrte Lord Henry Nanther ein vorbildliches Leben - scheinbar.
Martin Nanther auf den Spuren seines berhmten Urgrovaters, dem Leibarzt von Queen Victoria: Fr seine Verdienste um die Erforschung der kniglichen Kran...
Ivor Tesham, ein Machtmensch, Draufgänger und Politiker, macht seiner anderweitig verheirateten Geliebten zum achtundzwanzigsten Geburtstag ein riskantes Überraschungsgeschenk. Ein Geschenk, das seine Karriere und sein Leben zu zerstören droht.
Ivor Tesham, ein Machtmensch, Draufgänger und Politiker, macht seiner anderweitig verheirateten Geliebten zum achtundzwanzigsten Geburtstag ein riska...
"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." --New York Times Book Review "When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." --TIME Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing...
"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need f...