Linda Daviesová je autorkou napínavých bestsellerů, které prozkoumávají témata rizika, identity a pokušení. Než se stala mezinárodně uznávanou autorkou, působila jako jedna z prvních žen v investičním bankovnictví v londýnském City, kde zúročila své zkušenosti v napínavých příbězích. Její díla se zaměřují na to, kdo skutečně jsme, když nám jsou odebrány ty nejcennější věci. Daviesová často čerpá z vlastních neobyčejných životních zkušeností, včetně únosu v Íránu, a přetváří je v poutavé příběhy.
This book examines the consequences for both State social workers and community practitioners in face of increasing governmental restraints. "Takes a highly critical view of social-services management and the controlling role of government bureaucracies."--"Calgary Herald"
Money is one of the most important languages on the planet. In this book, Linda Davies helps people understand and speak it better.
While out riding, schoolgirl Merry Owen finds a chest containing an ancient Welsh text that leads her into a past filled with treasure, secrets and danger. But it's her skill with the Longbow, an old family tradition, that will save her future.
When love goes wrong, death is the most final settlement of all - Morganna Hutton is a young artist, beautiful and rich. When she falls in love with Archie Edge, she thinks he is the answer to her prayers. But the love of money is the root of all evil, and wickedness in glamorous disguise stalks this compulsive book. From Long Island to the wilds of Scotland, we follow Morganna, first in her quest for love and then for justice...
Morganna, eine junge Malerin, erbt ein Vermögen und heiratet den geheimnisvollen Archie gegen alle Warnungen. Nach ihrem Umzug nach Schottland zur Sanierung seiner Burg erkennt sie schließlich seine gefährlichen Absichten.
Ein packender Thriller über dubiose Wertpapiergeschäfte, Drogenbosse und Sektenkriminalität. Helen Jencks versucht, im peruanischen Dschungel ihren Verfolgern zu entkommen.
We last met her in NEST OF VIPERS, Linda Davies' bestselling first thriller about the young city trader turned MI6 agent. Then she was a woman with a host of secrets and a haunted past.Now Sarah Jensen is back again, running from a love which was too big to handle, hiding her baby son from the father who does not know he exists. A woman with more at stake than ever, and more to fear.SOMETHING WILD is an absolutely thrilling novel, the story of a woman who was once tough, but is now vulnerable, her skills blunted by motherhood. A woman at bay.
They say your personality is set at age seven. This is the year Helen Jenks's father left, the day after millions went missing from the bank where he was a director. Helen never gave up her belief in her father, the familiar figure, Proustian smells, his classic BMW she now owned with that familiar smell of aftershave on rainy days, but everyone has doubts . . . and everyone doubts her. Did her heritage drive her to become a major player in the City's dealing rooms, where derivatives players earn millions? The jungle of the City of London leads to the Machu Picchu trail in Peru, where Helen Jenks's heritage becomes entwined with the world's secret intelligence services and the biggest business of all, cocaine. Linda Davies takes you from the world's financial centres to the mountains and jungles of Peru, where the old Incas succumbed to the Conquistadores. And, if you want to know how the City works, read this book. 'A cracking, fast-paced thriller. Excellently researched. I thoroughly enjoyed it.' General Sir Peter de la Billire. 'Excellent depiction of Peru . . . well handled cliff-hanger ending.'' Daily Express.
