Lindsay Jayne Ashford Knihy

Inspirováno životem Agathy Christie. Agatha Christie chce zapomenout na své nevydařené manželství, které po mužově nevěře skončilo rozvodem, a tak se zlomeným srdcem a pod falešným jménem nastupuje do Orient expresu, aby alespoň na nějaký čas utekla co nejdál. A není jedinou cestující, která skrývá tajemství. Její spolucestující Katharine Keelingová, jejíž manželství skončilo tragicky po šesti měsících, je velmi přitažlivá žena, za níž se muži otáčejí, ona si ale své ženství plně vychutnat nemůže. Trojlístek doplňuje čerstvě provdaná Nancy Nelsonová, která však pod srdcem nosí dítě jiného muže, s nímž se brzy shledá, nebo v to alespoň doufá. Všechny tři ženy pečlivě tají svou minulost, ale jak se vlak blíží na Blízký východ, jejich životní příběhy se překvapivě proplétají a nečekaně rozvíjejí. Ženy pomalu a opatrně sdílí svou bolest a utvářejí mezi sebou přátelské pouto s puncem sdíleného tajemství.

As World War II rages, love, mystery, and secrets collide on the English coast in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of The Snow Gypsy. In April 1943 a young woman washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. With shorn hair and a number stitched on her tattered chemise, Alice is the survivor of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat. She's found by the mysterious Viscount Jack Trewella, who suspects that she's a prisoner of war or a spy. But the secret Alice asks Jack to keep is one he could never have guessed, and it creates an intimate bond he never expected. With her true identity hidden beneath the waves, Alice grasps the chance to reinvent herself. But as she begins to fall for Jack, she discovers he has secrets too--ones echoing the legend of a mermaid said to lure men into the dark depths of the sea. For two strangers in the shadow of war, lost love, and haunting memories, is it time to let go of the past? Or to finally face it--whatever the risks?

For three women in postwar Germany, 1945 is a time of hope--lost and found--in this powerful novel by the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express. Just weeks after World War II ends, three women from different corners of the world arrive in Germany to run a Displaced Persons camp. They long to help rebuild shattered lives--including their own... For Martha, going to Germany provides an opportunity to escape Brooklyn and a violent marriage. Arriving from England is orphaned Kitty. She hopes working at the camp will bring her closer to her parents, last seen before the war began. For Delphine, Paris has been a city of ghosts after her husband and son died in Dachau. Working at the camp is her chance to find meaning again by helping other victims of Hitler's regime. Charged with the care of more than two thousand camp residents, Martha, Delphine, and Kitty draw on each other's strength to endure and to give hope when all seems lost. Among these strangers and survivors, they might find the love and closure they need to heal their hearts and leave their troubled pasts behind.

Megan Rhys is due at a police conference on sex offenders—not a particularly nice subject, but it does mean she can get away from her office at Birmingham’s Heartland University and spend a few days by the sea at her grandmother’s cottage in Borth. It turns out not to be quite the kind of break she was anticipating when a body turns up, miraculously preserved, in the bog behind the golf course. It seems that her place of refuge is no longer a safe haven from the violence that is her stock in trade. Only time and the pathologist will tell if the mutilated bog man is an ancient or a modern relic of man’s inhumanity to man, but not before Megan’s skills in forensic psychology and her unerring gut instinct for trouble are tested to the limits by a ruthless killer determined on revenge for past misdeeds.

Ein schillernder Roman über die goldene Epoche des Films von Bestsellerautorin Lindsay Ashford. Kalkutta, 1931: Die 19-jährige Estelle Thompson geht leidenschaftlich gern ins Kino. Denn nur in der Geborgenheit eines Lichtspielhauses kann sie vergessen, dass sie als »Mischling« weder Teil der britischen noch der indischen Gesellschaft sein kann. Ihr Leben ändert sich von Grund auf, als die junge Schönheit einen Amerikaner mit Verbindungen nach Hollywood kennenlernt. Sie verlässt Indien und ihr Weg führt sie ins aufregende London der dreißiger Jahre. Sie will ihre Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen – aus Estelle Thompson wird die Leinwandgöttin Merle Oberon. Sie lebt ihren Traum, doch sie weiß, dass es damit sofort vorbei ist, wenn jemand von ihrer indischen Abstammung erfährt …