Jane Stanton Hitchcock Knihy

Název tohoto románu - Kladivo na čarodějnice - je zároveň názvem traktátu (latinksy Malleus Maleficarium), vydaného v roce 1475 v Německu. Tento traktát byl sepsán dvěma fanatickými dominikány a představuje závaznou příručku, která přesně popisuje, jak poznat čarodějnice a dostat je před soud (inkviziční proces). Zdálo by se, že v dnešní době jde již o dílo zastaralé a zapomenuté, ale v Románu J. S. Hitchcock, situovaném do současných Spojených států a několika evropských zemí, hraje hlavní roli. Hrdinkou příběhu je dcera slavného chirurga a sběratele starých knih Dr. O. Connella - Beatrice, pojmenovaná po Danteho průvodkyni v Božské komedii. Po rozvodu se vrací do domu svého otce. Příběh začíná vraždou Dr. O. Connella, při níž zmizí jeden z jeho vzácných tisků - kniha černé magie ze 17. století, kterou Dr. O. Connell zrovna získal. Je to jediná věc, která se z celého domu ztratila, zdá se proto, že nebyla ukradena pro peníze. Policie nenajde jedinou stopu, a tak se Beatrice rozhodne, že vraha svého otce vypátrá sama...

For Faith Cromwell, trompe l'oeil artist, it is the commission of a lifetime: painting the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate. But her new patron has a macabre fixation on a daughter brutally murdered in the house a decade earlierone so intense that it jeopardizes Faith's own sense of mind. And as she pieces together the details of the grisly crime scene that shadows the house, Faith slowly discovers that she herself plays the starring role in a bizarre and dangerous charade.Sophisticated and exquisitely frightening, Trick of the Eye explores a world where evil tarnishes privilege, and nothing is what it appears to be.

When her husband dies, New York socialite Jo Slater is shocked to learn that he left his sizable estate to a mysterious French countess. Obsessed with recovering her place as queen of New York, Jo concocts an audacious scheme of revenge. Can she pull it off

Reven Lynch navigates the opulent social scene of Georgetown while assisting Detective Gunner with a murder investigation linked to her jogging route. As she delves into the lives of the elite, she uncovers a web of deception, particularly surrounding the ambitious Cynthia Rinehart, who will stop at nothing to secure a wealthy husband. Amidst the glitz of embassy dinners and symphony balls, Reven faces the unraveling of her social circle, testing friendships and revealing scandalous secrets in a world where appearances are deceiving.

A respected surgeon and rare book collector is brutally murdered in his elegant Manhattan home, just hours after showing a book dealer the fifteenth-century manual of black magic a grimoire he'd received from a grateful patient. Now the healer's blood is everywhere and only the priceless grimoire is missing. The horrific death of her beloved father has shattered Beatrice O'Connell's quiet, sane, and orderly world. Only by tracking down the vanished malevolent tome with its dark spell and salacious illustrations can she hope to put things right. But the search is leading Beatrice, her ex-husband, and a mysterious occultist into an expanding labyrinth of powerful evils, a tangled web that reaches as far as the Vatican itself. What coveted secrets are hidden in the missing volume that threaten to turn Beatrice into precisely what her unseen and unrelenting enemies are determined to destroy?"

No one brings alive the intrigues of the champagne set like Jane Stanton Hitchcock. Now Jo Slater, the wily heroine of her best-selling novel Social Crimes, returns in a dazzling new story of passion, money, and murder. Jo is in Barbados, preoccupied by the notion of a new romance with a dashing English lord, when Russell Cole, a fabulously wealthy art collector, disappears from his yacht. Jo suspects that Russell's wife knows a great deal more about her husband's disappearance than she is letting on. Back in New York, Jo discovers that a figure from her own past continues to put her at great risk and that neither the urbane lord nor her missing friend's wife is what they appear to be. Another set of secrets from the gilded world of New York society is revealed in a unique blend of wicked social satire combined with a page-turning mystery. One Dangerous Lady is Jane Stanton Hitchcock at her sly, bewitching, and devilish best.

Jo Slater, una delle donne piu' in vista dell'alta societa' newyorkese, conduce una vita semplicemente perfetta: sposata con un miliardario, abita in un appartamento a Manhattan, passa le vacanze nei favolosi Hamptons e influenza la 'creme' della citta' con il suo gusto per l'arte del diciottesimo secolo. Durante una festa conosce l'affascinante contessa francese Monique de Passy, ne diventa amica e la introduce nella sua casa. Ma quando il marito e' stroncato da un attacco cardiaco, lasciando l'intero patrimonio alla nobildonna europea, a Jo non rimane che riprendersi dallo choc e meditare la vendetta. Un romanzo brillante, che delinea con sapiente tratto ironico una ricca galleria di personaggi e intriga il lettore con i dialoghi affilati

Mord und Totschlag in der High Society. Seitdem ihr Mann Russell verschwunden ist, steigt Carla unaufhaltsam zur großen Dame der New Yorker High Society auf: Sie gibt spektakuläre Partys, beschenkt ihre Gäste, ja, überlässt Russells Kunstsammlung dem Museum … Die Grande Dame der Gesellschaft, Jo Slater, hat die Vermutung, dass Clara bei Russells Verschwinden nachgeholfen haben könnte. Doch als sie versucht, diesen Verdacht zu erhärten, kommt ihre eigene dunkle Vergangenheit ans Licht …