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A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his murders on Shakespeare's plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? A gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare. It has been acclaimed as one of the most compulsively readable thrillers of recent years.

In 1970, one of Mississippi s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times , went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, life didn't necessarily mean life, and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

"La chaleur tuera cet été ! Ça va être terrible", avait prédit Evvie Chalmers, la doyenne de Castle Rock. Elle ne se trompait pas : l'été 1980 fut effectivement le plus chaud que Castle Rock eût jamais connu. Ce fut aussi un été sanglant. En fait, tout commença le matin du 16 juin, lorsque Cujo, un saint-Bernard aussi impressionnant que débonnaire, se fit mordre par une chauve-souris. Mais au fond, cela avait peut-être commencé dès le mois de mai, lorsque Tad Trenton avait cru voir un monstre, dans le placard de sa chambre... Bien sûr, ses parents l'avaient rassuré, il avait fait un cauchemar, les monstres n'existent pas, voyons ! Ils se trompaient : même dans les petites villes paisibles, les monstres guettent, tapis dans l'ombre... --back cover

In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales and they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise and all too worldly, Cadfael isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to a bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself dealt the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that a carnal hand did the killing, but he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the wages of sin may be a scandal- or his own ruin.

Barcelona. 22 cm. 399 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Steel, Danielle 1947-. Traducción de María Antonia Menini. Traducción de: Wanderlust .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-226-4242-5

Par trois fois, ce jour-là, la " Marche nuptiale " a résonné sur les collines de Santa Barbara. Les mariées sont belles, désirées, diversement promises à tous les bonheurs. Diane et Andrew forment déjà un des couples les plus en vue de la Californie, lui, avocat des stars, elle, rédactrice en chef d'un grand magazine. Le monde leur appartient, comme il appartiendra à Charlie, qui rêve d'un foyer dont Barbara, comédienne en herbe, sera la souveraine. Quant à Brad et Pilar, après quinze ans de rivalités professionnelles, leurs chamailleries intimes se sont transformées en une profonde tendresse. Mais qu'est-ce qu'un couple si une naissance ne vient pas l'enrichir ? Or, Diane ne peut pas avoir d'enfant, Barbara n'en veut pas et, pour Pilar, il est sans doute trop tard. Dans le tourbillon de la vie moderne, la stérilité reste un drame majeur. Danielle Steel en montre toutes les nuances dans un récit flamboyant de vie et d'émotion.