Marcella Houweling Livres

Novembre à Londres. Déprimée par des fausses couches à répétition, Deborah Saint James déambule dans les salles de la National Gallery. Submergée par le chagrin face à une Vierge à l'Enfant radieuse, elle trouve du réconfort auprès de Robin Sage, un pasteur qui l'invite à lui rendre visite dans le Lancashire. Quand Deborah et son mari arrivent chez Robin, leur hôte est mort. Il aurait été victime d'un empoisonnement accidentel. Une hypothèse inenvisageable pour Simon SaintJames, expert en sciences légales. Avec son vieil ami l'inspecteur Lynley, il décide de reprendre l'enquête sabotée par la police locale. Ensemble, ils vont découvrir les enfers insoupçonnés que recèle parfois le quotidien d'un village trop paisible.

'Has everything - a terrifying plotabreakneck paceavividly drawn characters' John Saul Dr. Kate Bennett is a brilliant young pathologist with a loving husband and a bright future. But her world is about to be turned upside down. At the Omnicenter, a high-tech health facility for women, a strange and puzzling illness has killed two patients - an illness which has no definite cause, let alone a cure. When Kate is called in to investigate the mysterious deaths she uncovers a horrifying secret which certain influential people will stop at nothing to protect. It is a terrible medical discovery which has its roots in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind. Now her best friend has fallen ill and is exhibiting the same symptoms as the previous victims - Kate must expose the sinister plot before it is too late. However, with powerful enemies and few friends Dr. Bennett's disturbing discovery comes to threaten not only her career, but also her marriage, her sanity and her lifea

An alcoholic former private investigator; his missing niece; a police force unable to find her; and a horrifying race against time...

The story follows photographer Alex Graham, who witnesses an attack disguised as an earthquake. To survive and thwart further terrorist plots, she turns to Judd Morgan, a questionable former CIA operative. The narrative promises high tension and nonstop action as they navigate danger together.

I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.' The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Ostracized by their family and neighbours, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. Yet, there was a tranquil happiness in the intense bond between mother and daughter, until the day that Elizabeth's grandfather and uncle came to punish her mother from the dishonour she had brought on the family, and executed her in front of her daughter. Elizabeth was dumped in an orphanage in Seoul. After some time, she was lucky enough to be adopted by an American couple. But when she arrived in America, she found herself once again surrounded by fanaticism and prejudice. Elizabeth's mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows, and, supported by her loving daughter, and by a return to her Buddhist faith, she finally found a way to savour those joys, as well as the courage to exorcise the demons of her past.

In a blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful story of love and betrayal, hope and forgiveness. She chronicles one woman's courageous journey from vulnerability to strength, from victim to survivor.

"An exotic and beautiful story" (Isabel Allende) chronicling the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into a republic and the present day backlash. "A highly imaginitive family saga...Croutier's measured prose is artistic and sensuous" (San Francisco Chronicle) as the story of a silkmaking family iss told through the houses they occupied. From a grand villa in Smyrna in the early twentieth century to a silk plantation in the foothills of Mount Olympus, from a tiny house in a sleepy town to an apartment in a modern urban high-rise, the family's dwellings reflect its fortune's rise and fall. As communal baths and odalisques give way to movies and cell phones, four unique yet powerfully linked women experience all of life's hardships and pleasures.

Bethany and the other members of her coven try to use the power of Wicca to solve the mystery of her boyfriend's death in a car accident.

The "New York Times"-bestselling author explores the perils of dating, relationships, and love in a novel that takes readers into the intoxicating, infuriating world of three charming single men.

Elena Weaver is doof, maar leidt ondanks haar handicap een zelfstandig bestaan als studente in Cambridge. Elke morgen gaat ze in alle vroegte joggen langs de rivier. Haar overbezorgde vader staat erop dat ze daarbij begeleid wordt door zijn tweede vrouw Justine. Ongeduldig staat Elena op die bewuste, nog donkere ochtend te wachten op Justine. Er hangt een dikke mist boven de ontmoetingsplaats bij de rivier. Wanneer haar stiefmoeder niet komt opdagen gaat Elena, ongeduldig als ze is, ten slotte maar alleen joggen. Rond een uur of zeven treft schilderes Sarah Gordon Elena's ontzielde lichaam aan. Inspecteur Thomas Lynley en brigadier Barbara Havers worden op deze mysterieuze moordzaak gezet. Al snel komen ze erachter dat Elena niet zo braaf was als iedereen dacht...