Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London.
Lesley Thomson Livres
Lesley Thomson élabore des récits qui explorent la vie et le monde intérieur des femmes, examinant souvent leurs expériences au milieu des changements sociétaux et des crises personnelles. Son écriture se caractérise par une profonde empathie et une perspicacité aiguë de la psyché humaine. Elle ancre ses histoires dans des décors tangibles, analysant les relations complexes et les dilemmes auxquels ses personnages sont confrontés. Thomson est célébrée pour sa voix authentique et sa profondeur émotionnelle, ce qui rend son œuvre profondément résonnante auprès des lecteurs.
In a grand old mansion in the middle of the Sussex countryside, six people have seen more than they should... The new standalone thriller from Lesley Thomson.
The House With No Rooms
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Stella Darnell, the Detective's Daughter, investigates a decades-old mystery in Kew Gardens.
Death of a Mermaid
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Freddy left her childhood home 22 years ago and swore never to return. But now her parents are dead, and she's back in her hometown to help her brothers manage the family fishmonger. Then one of her old school friends goes missing.
The Playground Murders
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
When a woman is found dead, and the killer is linked to the murder of a little girl in 1980, Stella is the woman for the case. But dredging up the past can be dangerous...
The Detective's Secret
- 432pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Stella Darnell, the Detective's Daughter, investigates a twenty-year-old unsolved murder.
A new case for sees Stella, the detective's daughter, and Jack moving to the country in order to solve a cold case.
A year after her father's death, the detective's daughter inherits a strange new case. Terry Darnell was a detective with Hammersmith police. Now his daughter Stella has found a folder of photographs hidden in his cellar. Why did he take so many picture of deserted London streets? One photo dates from 1966, to a day when a little girl, just ten years old, witnessed something that would haunt her forever. As Stella grows obsessed with uncovering the truth, the events of that day begin to haunt her too... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret.
A Kind of Vanishing
- 406pages
- 15 heures de lecture
In the summer of 1968, the day senator Robert Kennedy is shot, two nine year-old girls are playing hide an seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor Ramsay's mother, and is taunting the other girl. When it is Eleanor's turn to hide, Alice disappears.
The Detective's Daughter
- 496pages
- 18 heures de lecture
A tense, evocative thriller set on the freezing banks of the Thames. A woman reconnects with her dead father by solving the murder case that obsessed him in life.
