"Broken Hills Nursing Home is a house laden down with secrets, its residents now settled in Australia but living out their troubled lives trapped in the past. ..." --Back cover.
»Winterblumen« nannte ihr Vater seine beiden im Dezember geborenen Töchter. Mehr scheinen die Schwestern allerdings nicht gemein zu haben: Während Hazel durch wilde Partys und an der Seite der falschen Männer Ablenkung von ihrem Alltag als alleinerziehende Mutter sucht, führt Iris ein zurückgezogenes Leben, das scheinbar nur durch die Eskapaden ihrer jüngeren Schwester von Zeit zu Zeit aus der Bahn geworfen wird. Und erst, als beide sich ihrer Vergangenheit stellen und lernen zu verzeihen, können sie erkennen, wie fest das Band der Liebe ist, das sie verbindet ...
Brendan Martin is an American-born loner raised in Ireland by his silent, embittered mother before escaping back to New York, where he lives and works each day in blissful isolation in the crowded city. Brendan spends his days happily labouring on building sites and his evenings dranking alone in bars and hooking up with a constant stream of one-night stands. Following a second DUI, Brendan's peaceful and predictable life ends abruptly and his is forced to go to live in the town of Dover, New Jersey, with his overbearing uncle. There he forms an unlikely friendshp with his meek, downtrodden cousin Eileen. Forced into completing his community service, he meets Jonathan Doe, an intriguing man living in a local homeless shelter whose amazing stories of a happy childhood in the Appalachian Mountains captivate him. Within weeks of his arrival in Dover, Brendan loses himself in the strange man's incredible stories. Fascinated by the fact that Jonathan Doe can no longer remember exactly where he is from, Brendan becomes obsessed with helping his new friend find his way back to the kind of home he himself has always dreamed of. But is Jonathan's past real or are his memories the product of a deeply troubled mind? The closer Brendan gets to the truth, the more he realises that all is not what it seems with Jonathan Doe.
"When ex-trooper, Lee Carter, is arrested for the brutal murder of Archaeology Professor Alec Colton, Detective Sergeant Locklear knows the odds are stacked against proving that his friend is innocent. He finds himself suspended from duty and knows his only hope of saving Lee is to follow the leads which take him to the place of his birth, the Badlands of South Dakota. With his shrewd trooper, Jo Mendoza, by his side, he finds himself caught between a mysterious multinational organisation responsible for the theft of priceless indigenous artefacts and an equally dangerous secret society trying to stop them. When the trail brings Locklear into conflict with old friends and even older enemies, Mendoza and he uncover a conspiracy involving the police, university academics, international diplomats, the US army and the inhabitants of an impoverished Native American reservation. It also brings Locklear face to face with both sides of a family he did not know he had. With family members on opposite sides of a bloody conflict in which there are no rules, the line between right and wrong becomes blurred for Locklear. He must choose. But which side is right, and can he choose in time to save his friend?"--Publisher.
When Richmond homicide detective Locklear is called in to investigate the attempted murder of a young Mennonite in a Virginian farming town, he is instantly drawn into a web of secrecy and lies spanning back to the American Civil War. Frustrated by the refusal of locals to co-operate with the investigation, Locklear realises that to find the perpetrator he must first solve a 150-year-old mystery. With his leads restricted to historical records, the Native American is running out of time to save the orphaned boy's siblings from a similar fate. As the body count in a seeming local feud rises, Locklear is no nearer to solving the most complex case of his career. Flanked by his trusted colleague Jo Mendoza and local cop Carter, Locklear finds himself embroiled in a silent religious community where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide.
Kann ein kleines Mädchen eine Mörderin sein? Das Leben der irischen Farmerfamilie Byrne ändert sich schlagartig, als der für seine Trunksucht und Brutalität bekannte Michael Byrne tot aufgefunden wird. Neben ihm seine elfjährige, autistische Tochter Tess, in ihrer Hand der Stein, mit dem ihr Vater erschlagen wurde. Das verängstige Mädchen schweigt zu allen Vorwürfen und wird des Mordes schuldig gesprochen in eine psychiatrische Anstalt eingewiesen. Zehn Jahre später kehrt sie in ihr Heimatdorf zurück, und die alten Mauern des Schweigens beginnen zu brechen …