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Maria Cristina Pietri

    This body of death
    With No One As Witness
    Na stopě pravého viníka
    Spettri
    Small Sacrifices
    What Came Before He Shot Her
    • Believing the Lie

      • 736 stránek
      • 26 hodin čtení

      Detective Inspector Lynley is approached by business magnate Bernard Fairclough for a confidential review - not a formal investigation - of the circumstances of his nephew's demise. The coroner's verdict is accidental death. Recovering from the murder of his wife, Lynley has personal reasons for welcoming a spell away from London. He heads to the wild beauty of the Lake District, with Deborah and Simon St James to provide cover for his inquiries. Barbara Havers, back at base, makes her own unique contribution to the case, distracted only by Isabelle's ambitions to improve her Detective Sergeant's appearance. When he comes to know the various members of the extended Fairclough dynasty, Lynley finds many possible motives for murder, and uncovers layers of deceit and betrayal that expose the lies at the heart of the Cumbrian community.

      Believing the Lie2012
      3,8
    • This body of death

      • 596 stránek
      • 21 hodin čtení

      On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

      This body of death2011
      4,0
    • With No One As Witness

      • 784 stránek
      • 28 hodin čtení

      The police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the third murdered boy, the first white victim, his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Scotland Yard on the defensive, scrambling to apprehend a maniac while avoiding accusations of racism.Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley, distracted by concerns for his pregnant wife, has been assigned to the investigation, along with his disgraced partner, Barbara Havers, who's fighting for her professional future. Winston Nkata, deservedly, if hastily, promoted to detective sergeant, is the black face who will speak to the media. But none of them can imagine the tenacity and ingenuity of the killer they seek . . . and no one is prepared for the savage, shocking instant when everything will change forever.

      With No One As Witness2009
      4,1
    • What Came Before He Shot Her

      • 656 stránek
      • 23 hodin čtení

      The shocking conclusion of Elizabeth George's previous bestseller, WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS, saw the wife of New Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley gunned down in the street outside her home. Under arrest for the crime is a twelve-year-old boy, Joel Campbell. What possible motive could he have? What chain of events could have led such a child from the housing estates of North Kensington to the elegant streets of Belgravia with such deadly intent? The answer to these questions is a complex mixture of fate and circumstance. Abandoned (albeit involuntarily) by his parents, Joel and two siblings are dumped on the doorstep of his aunt's house. Kendra, childless and with two marriages behind her, is doing her best to turn her life around; responsibility for three troubled children is not what she had in mind. Drugs, neglect, violence and poverty are commonplace in North Kensington. Joel does his best to look out for his family, but that involves a Faustian pact. And the Devil will have his pay.

      What Came Before He Shot Her2007
      4,3
    • Small Sacrifices

      • 494 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení

      Ann Rule 's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs , a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood.

      Small Sacrifices2003
      4,3
    • A collection of short stories from the internationally bestselling author and creator of Inspector Lynley. Three of these stories were originally published under the title The Evidence Exposed. This volume contains two brand new stories, a revised version of The Evidence Exposed, and new introductions by the author to all five stories.

      I, Richard. Vergiss nie, daß ich dich liebe, englische Ausgabe2003
      3,5
    • When the Wind Blows

      • 483 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení

      When a young veterinarian whose husband has recently been murdered comes across an astonishing discovery in the woods near her animal hospital, she soon finds herself in the company of an unconventional FBI agent.

      When the Wind Blows2001
      3,8
    • Na stopě pravého viníka

      • 572 stránek
      • 21 hodin čtení

      Obsáhlý detektivní román se zabývá vraždou dvou mladých lidí, nalezených na odlehlém místě anglického vřesoviště. Nicolu Maidenovou hledají již několik dní její rodiče i snoubenec, když je náhodně nalezena zavražděna v divokých opuštěných místech kraje. Spolu s ní i neznámý mladý muž. Detektiv Lynley a jeho kolegyně pátrají po příčinách jejich smrti. Autorka přichází s věrohodnými motivy u všech podezřelých a současně popisuje osobní život svých obdivuhodných hrdinů s podmanivou směsicí chytrosti, lehkosti a drzosti. Čím více temných tajemství Lynley a Haversová odhalují, tím je jim jasnější, že oběti ani podzřelí nejsou těmi, kým se zdáli být.

      Na stopě pravého viníka2000
      4,1