Feyre heeft de vloek van Amarantha verbroken en is teruggekeerd naar het Lentehof, maar daarvoor moest ze een hoge prijs betalen. De vreselijke dingen die ze heeft gedaan om Tamlin te redden kan niet ze vergeten en ook haar afspraak met Rhysand, Edelheer van het gevreesde Nachthof, heeft ze maar al te goed onthouden. Terwijl Feyre haar weg zoekt door een doolhof van politiek, passie en duizelingwekkende macht, doemt er een veel groter kwaad op. Feyre zou het kunnen tegenhouden, maar alleen als het haar lukt om haar angstaanjagende krachten te beheersen en haar gekwelde ziel te helen.
While recuperating from the events of Aftermath on a Greek island, Inspector Alan Banks reads that the bones of his childhood friend, Graham Marshall, have been dug up in a field not far away from the road where he disappeared more than thirty-five years earlier. Intrigued by the discovery, and still consumed with guilt because of a related incident he failed to report at the time, Banks returns to his hometown in Cambridgeshire and becomes peripherally involved in the investigation, headed by newcomer Detective Inspector Michelle Hart. At the same time, a few counties away, the case of another missing teenager – the son of a famous model and step-son of anex-footballer, is handed to DI Annie Cabbot. Banks shuttles between the two cases far apart in time but perhaps not so far apart in character. When the lives of both detectives are threatened, Banks searches his own memories for clues, until he is finally forced to confront truths he would rather avoid, and finds that, in these investigations, the boundary between victim and perpetrator, guardian of the law and law-breaker is becoming ever more blurred. A gripping crime novel, set in the present day, The Summer That Never Was is also a gritty and evocative portrait of northern England in the sixties, and an exploration of the nature of memory, the destruction of families, andadolescence. From the Hardcover edition.
When Alan Banks receives a disturbing telephone call from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to search him out. But Roy has vanished into thin air, and now Banks fears this could have been their final conversation. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder scene on a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale. A young woman called Jennifer Clewes has been found dead in her car, and in the back pocket of her jeans, written on a slip of paper, police discover Banks’s name and address. Living in his brother’s empty, luxurious South Kensington flat, Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew, or even liked. He begins to uncover some troubling surprises, leaving Annie to track down Jennifer Clewes’s friends and colleagues alone. It seems that both trails are leading towards frightening conclusions. And when the cases begin to intersect, the consequences for Banks and Annie become terrifying . . . Strange Affair is Peter Robinson’s fifteenth Inspector Banks novel, and it amply demonstrates why he’s counted among the top crime fiction writers in the world. From the Hardcover edition.
Napínavá detektivka s vrchním inspektorem Alanem Banksem. Poklidnou hladinu malého severoanglického městečka rozbouří politická demonstrace. Pokojné shromáždění se zvrhne v krvavý střet a na jeho konci zůstává na chodníku mrtvý policista. Kromě napínavé zápletky nám tato kniha dává nahlédnout do totalitní mentality thatcherismu osmdesátých let minulého století v Anglii. Může být tenhle "politicky motivovaný" čin ve skutečnosti zoufalou odplatou zlomeného člověka?
Attorney Nina Reilly faces disbarment after an unknown enemy steals client files and reveals their contents, unless her ex-husband, attorney Jack McIntyre, and sometime lover, detective Paul van Wagoner, can find the culprit
Tenley „Desítka“ Lockwoodová je obyčejná sedmnáctiletá dívka, která posledních pár měsíců strávila v ústavu Prynne. Proč? Není to kvůli její posedlosti čísly, ale protože odmítá dovolit, aby její rodiče rozhodovali o tom, kde bude žít… až zemře. Všichni lidé už přijali jednoduchý fakt – život na Zemi je pouhá zkouška a opravdový život začíná po smrti.
Na věčnosti vládnou dvě říše – Troika a Myriad, odvěcí rivalové a nepřátelé na život a na smrt. Obě říše udělají cokoliv, aby dostaly Desítku na svou stranu. Pošlou za ní své nejlepší agenty. Desítka se brzy ocitne na útěku, zatímco světem zmítá válka mezi dvěma říšemi, které bojují o její duši. Komu může věřit? A co když kluk, do něhož se zamilovala, nepatří do říše, která je jí milejší? Rozhodne se správně?
Welcome to the first of an exciting police procedural series.A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people, and an old woman may or may not have been murdered.Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman who recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life.In addition to all this, Banks has to deal with local feminists plus his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller. As the tension mounts, both Jenny and Banks’s wife, Sandra, are drawn deeper into the events. The cases weave together as the story reaches a tense and surprising climax.
A well-liked, respected historian/archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder--and stop a killer who's bound to kill again.
Když vražda staré bezmocné ženy naruší zimní spánek vesnice Shipcott, vypadá to, že místní policista Jonas Holly bude mít najednou plné ruce práce. Vyšetřování jeho první vraždy mu však brzy překazí obhroublý detektiv Marvel, který Jonase okamžitě odsune na druhou kolej.
Ze zimní oblohy se valí sníh a s přibývajícím sněhem se začínají vršit další oběti. Jonas, který se stará o svou těžce nemocnou ženu, se navíc se stává terčem záhadných výhrůžek obviňujících ho z nicnedělání. Rozhodne se tedy po nocích pátrat po vrahovi na vlastní pěst...
V další knize oceňované autorky thrilleru Vřesoviště se čtenář vrací do již známého prostředí exmoorského kraje, který, jak se zdá, temné události přitahuje.
Secrets lurk under the smooth surface of a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood, until a murder reveals all Sofie and her husband have left Manhattan in search of a more tranquil life in the suburbs. But when a member of Sofie's new neighborhood book club turns up dead, things get messy. She discovers that everybody has something to hide, including her own husband. Her neighbor Priscilla has been married to Gordon for fifteen years, but the love left their marriage a long time ago. Susan is Priscilla's biggest supporter until she has to choose between loyalty to her friend and telling the truth. Ashley is eager to fit in, but her youth and status as a second wife keep her on the outside. She may know more than they think she does, though. Julia seems to have it all: the perfect house, job and husband. But her untimely death has people questioning how perfect her life really was. Through this swamp of suburban secrets, Sofie must wade to find the truth behind Julia's murder and the state of her own marriage. They Did It with Love is a delightful, twisty, and twisted exploration of the things we'll do for love.
