Mariëtte van Gelder Livres

"Les rumeurs les plus folles courent sur « la Fille des marais » de Barkley Cove, en Caroline du Nord. Pourtant Kya n'est pas cette créature sauvage et analphabète que tous imaginent et craignent. Abandonné à l'âge de dix ans par sa famille, c'est grâce au jeune Tate qu'elle apprend à lire et à écrire, découvre la science et la poésie. Mais Tate, appelé par ses études, doit partir à son tour. Et lorsque l'irréparable se produit, elle ne peut plus compter que sur elle-même..." -- back cover

A man's body is found in an empty house. His heart has been cut out and delivered to his wife and children. He is the first victim, and Detective Inspector Helen Grace knows he will not be the last. But why would a happily married man be this far from home in the dead of night?

An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose paintings are kept at the family home, Willow Court in Wiltshire. At Leonora's house party will be her daughters, Gwen and Rilla, whom she raised alone after she was widowed in her late twenties; Rilla's stepdaughter Beth; and Gwen's husband and three children with their spouses and lovers. One outsider joins the group: Sean Everard, a television director who's making a documentary about the life and work of Ethan Walsh. All families have their dark side and Leonora's is no exception. By the time the marquee is dismantled and all the guests have gone their separate ways, two shocking past events have come to light, to rock complacency and change for ever the lives of Leonora and her daughters.

Fin Border, een Engelse advocaat in New York, ontvangt vroeg in de ochtend een telefoontje van zijn beste vriend, die zijn nieuwe McLaren F1 van $400.000,- wil laten zien. Tijdens een testrit rijdt zijn vriend met 300 km per uur de onderliggende snelweg op en neemt vijftien mensen mee in zijn dood. Fin vraagt zich wanhopig af waarom zijn vriend hem uitnodigde bij deze zelfmoordpoging. Tot overmaat van ramp blijkt de McLaren met een lening op zijn naam te staan, waardoor hij beschuldigd wordt van medeplichtigheid en aanzetten tot (zelf)moord. Binnen 24 uur verliest hij al zijn geld, wordt hij door de politie verdacht en aangeklaagd voor de dood van vijftien onschuldigen. Zijn advocatenkantoor, dat bezig is met fusiebesprekingen met een groot Amerikaans kantoor, wil hem zo snel mogelijk kwijt en stuurt hem naar India voor een kleine overname. Zijn ergste nachtmerrie wordt werkelijkheid als hij in Bombay belandt, de stad waar zijn vader zelfmoord heeft gepleegd bij de Torens van Stilte. Wanneer er opnieuw iemand uit zijn kring vermoord wordt, beseft hij dat hij nog steeds niet veilig is voor degenen die hem in New York in de val hebben gelokt. Fin realiseert zich dat de oplossing tussen de stille torens van Manhattan ligt en dat het gevecht op hem wacht.

He is watching you. He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder . . .

Detective Archie Sheridan just has to get through the next few days, then his birthday and Halloween will be over. But with escaped serial killer Gretchen Lowell on the loose, the investigation into the murder of a DEA agent demanding his attention, and journalist Susan Ward showing up at his apartment needing a favour, it's going to be a long weekend. Soon Archie finds himself crashing a masked ball on a private island owned by Jack Reynolds, a notorious local drug kingpin. By morning, Archie is back on pain killers, a guest is dead and Archie quickly realizes that little is what it seems. One thing is clear: Gretchen is back, and Archie's nemesis and sometimes lover has something special in mind for the birthday boy, something she's been planning for a long, long time. On Halloween Eve, with time running out, and the life of someone close to Archie on the line, Archie knows his only chance is to give Gretchen exactly what she wants. But Gretchen will prove more horrifying, and unpredictable, than Archie could ever imagine...

En Angleterre, de nos jours. Poppy Wyatt est au bord de la crise de nerfs : elle vient de perdre sa bague de fiançailles, celle qui est dans la famille de son fiancé Magnus depuis plusieurs générations. Et pour couronner le tout, on vient de lui dérober son portable. Juste au moment où elle envisage la fuite à l'étranger, elle découvre dans une poubelle un téléphone. Miracle ! Enfin pas si sûr... Car ce portable appartient à l'assistante d'un dénommé Sam qui n'a pas l'air de saisir l'urgence de la situation. A force de supplications, Poppy réussit à le persuader de lui laisser ledit téléphone. C'est juré, c'est l'affaire de quelques heures, et elle lui transmettra tous ses messages d'ici là. Sauf que bien entendu, toute cette affaire va rapidement tourner au vinaigre : impossible de retrouver cette foutue bague, la soirée avec les beaux-parents vire au désastre, Magnus n'est pas d'un très grand soutien et Lucinda, la très irritable wedding planner, est aux abonnés absents. Et puis, il y a ces messages étranges reçus sur le portable de Sam, qui laisseraient entendre qu'un complot se prépare contre lui dans sa propre entreprise. Poppy parviendra-t-elle à redresser la situation ?

The second book in the mind-blowing new series from the author of GONE. Another breathtaking page-turner from Michael Grant. The first battle is over, but the war rages on. Sanity or madness? Truth or happiness? Love or survival? In the nano, you don't get to decide. schovat popis

Detective Archie Sheridan has spent years tracking serial killer Gretchen Lowell. In the end, it was she who caught him, tortured him, then mysteriously set him free and turned herself in. Now as he trails a new case, Archie needs Gretchen in more ways than one--to catch a killer and to release his soul. Martin's Press.

Daisies for innocence; irises for hope; asphodel for eternal sorrow... Clara Marsh is an undertaker. She spends her solitary life among the dead and bids them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. But Clara's carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlour, desperate for a friend. It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn that Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between her solitary but steadfast existence and the perils of binding one's life to another. Clara's search for the girl pulls her into a spiralling series of events that threaten to endanger the few people Clara has grown to love - and finally brings her own tragic and long-buried past to the surface.