Mechtild Sandberg-Ciletti Livres

524pages. Poche. cartonné jaquette.

In Ballinaphuca gibt es eine Kirche, einen Laden, ein Postamt und sechs Kneipen. Ein irisches Dorf eben. Die Frauen, die hier leben, sind getrieben von der Angst, das Leben könnte an ihnen vorübergehen...

Etre Margaret Thatcher ou rien. C'est toute l'ambition d'Eve Bowen, secrétaire d'Etat au gouvernement britannique. Jusque là, pas la moindre erreur de parcours. Même célibataire, elle a su émouvoir une partie de l'opinion et séduire l'autre par son conservatisme farouche. L'enlèvement de sa fille ruine d'un coup sa vie de femme et ses plans de carrière. Eve doit renouer avec le père de l'enfant, un homme rayé de sa vie depuis longtemps. Ce Dennis Luxford, devenu rédacteur en chef d'un journal à scandale, elle le hait au point de soupçonner sa participation au kidnapping. Havers et Linley ne croient pas à cette thèse. En revanche le couple de flic le plus baroque et le plus intuitif du Yard a compris que cette affaire politico-mondaine en cachait une autre, sordide et sanglante.

Die Schlacht um die Elfenhauptstadt Arborion tobt auf ihrem Höhepunkt. Die Elfen müssen eine Verteidigungsstellung nach der anderen aufgeben, nachdem es ihnen anfangs unter ungeheuren Verlusten gelungen war, die Dämonen von Shannara zurückzuschlagen. Die Situation der Elfen scheint verzweifelt, ihre Niederlage nur noch eine Frage von Stunden. Da spürt Allanon, der Druide, daß Wil Ohmsford noch einmal die Macht der Elfensteine zu Hilfe nimmt. Das aber kann nur Wil und Amberle, die Elfentochter, wollen den Lebensbaum wiedererwecken...

In the three hundred years since the death of the Druid Allanon, the mysterious, evil Shadowen have seized control and are ruining the Four Lands. Using Cogline as messenger, the shade of Allanon summons the four scions of Shannara: Par, Coll, Wren, and Walker Boh. To Walker Boh he gives the duty of restoring the lost Druid's Keep, Paranor. For that, Walker needs the black Elfstone, but his search leads him only to a trap.Meanwhile, the King of the Silver River, a fabulous being as old as mankind, creates a daughter named Quickening and sends her to help. She is joined by Morgan Leah and Pe Ell, an assassin who plans eventually to kill her.They find Walker Boh dying after an attack by the Shadowen, Rimmer Dall. Quickening heals him and tells him that the Elfstone is in the hands of another ancient being, the Stone King, who seeks to turn all the world to stone.The journey will lead them to the far north, through the Charnal Mountains and beyond, into a perilous and unknown land. And no one knows what horrible monsters the Stone King has set to guard his citadel.

Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed? As Kincaid and his capable and appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle begins to take shape -- a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of charity and crime . . . and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts.

A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But the discovery of a body floating in the whirlpool bath ends Kincaid's vacation before it's begun. One of his new acquaintances at Followdale House is dead; another is a killer. Despite a distinct lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised dramatically when a second murder occurs, and Kincaid and James find themselves in a determined hunt for a fiendish felon who enjoys homicide a bit too much.

In dem kleinen englischen Dorf Shenstead wird die Idylle gestört, als Colonel James Lockyer-Fox seine Frau Ailsa tot auf der Terrasse findet. Der Colonel wird des Mordes beschuldigt, bleibt jedoch stumm. Anwalt Mark Ankerton kommt zu Hilfe und entdeckt, dass hinter der schönen Fassade düstere Geheimnisse lauern.