The Distant Dead
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Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London.
Lesley Thomsonová se ve své tvorbě zaměřuje na životy žen a jejich vnitřní světy, často v kontextu společenských změn a osobních krizí. Její psaní vyniká hlubokou empatií a pronikavým vhledem do lidské psychiky. Své příběhy zasazuje do reálných kulis a zkoumá složité vztahy a dilemata, kterým její postavy čelí. Thomsonová je uznávanou autorkou, jejíž díla rezonují s čtenáři díky své autentičnosti a emocionální hloubce.






Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London.
In a grand old mansion in the middle of the Sussex countryside, six people have seen more than they should... The new standalone thriller from Lesley Thomson.
Stella Darnell, the Detective's Daughter, investigates a decades-old mystery in Kew Gardens.
Freddy left her childhood home 22 years ago and swore never to return. But now her parents are dead, and she's back in her hometown to help her brothers manage the family fishmonger. Then one of her old school friends goes missing.
Cleaner Stella Darnell and her sidekick Jack Harmon investigate a mystery in East Sussex with its roots in WWII in the new psychological procedural in the Detective's Daughter series.
When a woman is found dead, and the killer is linked to the murder of a little girl in 1980, Stella is the woman for the case. But dredging up the past can be dangerous...
Stella Darnell, the Detective's Daughter, investigates a twenty-year-old unsolved murder.
A new case for sees Stella, the detective's daughter, and Jack moving to the country in order to solve a cold case.
A year after her father's death, the detective's daughter inherits a strange new case. Terry Darnell was a detective with Hammersmith police. Now his daughter Stella has found a folder of photographs hidden in his cellar. Why did he take so many picture of deserted London streets? One photo dates from 1966, to a day when a little girl, just ten years old, witnessed something that would haunt her forever. As Stella grows obsessed with uncovering the truth, the events of that day begin to haunt her too... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret.
In the summer of 1968, the day senator Robert Kennedy is shot, two nine year-old girls are playing hide an seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor Ramsay's mother, and is taunting the other girl. When it is Eleanor's turn to hide, Alice disappears.