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Catrin Collier

    1. leden 1948

    Tato autorka píše pod pseudonymem Katherine John. Její díla se často zabývají tématy spojenými s její rodnou zemí, Walesem, kam se po letech strávených v Evropě a Americe vrátila. Její psaní zkoumá hlubiny lidské zkušenosti s jedinečným pohledem.

    Schonungslos
    Winds of Eden
    Homecoming
    Long Road to Baghdad
    Ein letzter Sommer
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    • Beze stopy

      • 354 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      3,1(11)Ohodnotit

      Daisy a Tim jsou manželé a zároveň lékaři, kteří se zabývají transplantacemi mozkových buněk. Pod tlakem reality ale Tim jednou špatně naprogramuje sám sebe. Následuje série hrůzných vražd, jejichž pachatel je pro policii neznámý. zdroj - KJM Brno

      Beze stopy
    • Long Road to Baghdad

      • 502 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
      4,5(2)Ohodnotit

      An epic novel of an incendiary love that threatened to set the desert alight as war raged between the British and Ottoman Empires.

      Long Road to Baghdad
    • It is January 1957 and Helen's husband Jack returns from National Service. Happy to be reunited, they resume their life together. Their friends, Lily, pregnant and married to Jack's brother Martin, Katie, pregnant and married to Helen's father John, and Judy, engaged to policeman Sam, form part of their everyday life. Then Helen is utterly shattered when Jack tells her that a brief fling with a sergeant's widow has left the woman pregnant. Helen can't have children so handling her friends' pregnancies has been difficult enough; this is more than she can bear. She starts divorce proceedings but their fierce love for each other cannot be extinguished. Finally she has to make a decision which requires courage but could be the answer to their differences.

      Homecoming
    • December 1915. Following heavy casualties, General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Amara, Iraq. His orders - to engage as many Turkish troops as possible in a siege situation. A relief force is hastily assembled, among them Charles Reid, Tom Mason, and Michael Downe, for each of whom the advance is personal.

      Winds of Eden
    • Die schwarzen Blumen des Todes Für Inspector Trevor Joseph und seine Frau Lyn geht ein sehnlicher Wunsch in Erfüllung: Die Geburt des ersten Kindes steht bevor. Trevor hat schon Urlaub eingereicht, da durchkreuzt ein brisanter Fall seine Pläne: Mit seinen Kollegen soll er die Drogengangs von Cardiff undercover durchdringen und herausfinden, wer die tödliche Designerdroge „Black Narcissus“ in Umlauf gebracht hat. Aber als Trevors Undercover-Partner einer nach dem anderen verschwinden – nur um bald als Leichen wieder aufzutauchen –, kommen dem Ermittler Zweifel, ob er die Geburt seines Sohnes überhaupt noch erleben wird ...

      Schonungslos
    • America 1968. Everyone has one special summer. For British students Penny and Kate, and Americans Bobby and Sandy, it was that summer on Cape Cod. Warm languid days filled with love, laughter and music. Until the night Bobby's car crashed and burst into flames, and a bitter old woman took control, changing the survivors' lives for ever.

      Bobby's Girl
    • Princes and Peasants

      • 512 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
      3,9(6)Ohodnotit

      The second in the epic historical Tsar's Dragons series by award-winning novelist Catrin Collier, featuring the lives of Welsh and Russian settlers in the industrial city of Hughesovka, Ukraine in the 1870s.

      Princes and Peasants
    • No evidence remained on the bodies of Alun Pitcher, a well-liked, wealthy, careful and cautious businessman, and his family after they'd been wrapped in brown paper and string, doused in petrol and ignited. The fires had destroyed any evidence, or so the pathologist and the local police believed. Defeated, the local force asks for outside help. Following success in solving a previous 'cold' case, Inspector Trevor Joseph and Sergeant Peter Collins are called in. Their superiors trust them to provide answers to the questions that have confounded the local force. Did the murderer or murderers possess knowledge of police procedure and criminal investigative methods that have resulted in the perfect, unsolvable crime? Why would anyone want to kill a well-liked family who have no known enemies? How did the murderer or murderers overcome three grown men and a woman without anyone seeing anything, or hearing a sound? And, most important of all, was all the evidence really destroyed?

      The Destruction of Evidence
    • Scorpion Sunset

      • 392 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
      4,0(16)Ohodnotit

      The third novel in the Long Road to Baghdad series, Scorpion Sunset is an epic, moving account of World War One in Mesopotamia, by one of Wales' most acclaimed historical novelists.

      Scorpion Sunset