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Eve Chase

    Cette auteure est célébrée pour ses romans profondément atmosphériques, qui explorent souvent des mystères et des dynamiques familiales complexes. Son style d'écriture est loué comme évocateur et captivant, avec un accent sur la profondeur psychologique de ses personnages. Les lecteurs apprécient sa capacité à créer du suspense et à les immerger dans des mondes riches en émotions et en vérités cachées. Ses œuvres explorent les thèmes de la mémoire, de la perte et de la recherche d'identité, en utilisant fréquemment des intrigues complexes et des cadres mémorables.

    Eve Chase
    The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
    The Wildling Sisters
    The Midnight Hour
    The glass house
    Jeunes filles à la volière
    Un manoir en Cornouailles
    • Un manoir en Cornouailles

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      One golden family. One fateful summer. Four lives changed forever. Amber Alton knows that the hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall, her London family's country estate where no two clocks read the same. Summers there are perfect, timeless. Not much ever happens. Until, one stormy evening in 1968, it does. The idyllic world of the four Alton children is shattered. Fiercely bonded by the tragic events, they grow up fast. But when a glamorous stranger arrives, these loyalties are tested. Forbidden passions simmer. And another catastrophe looms... Decades later, Lorna and her fiancé wind their way through the countryside searching for a wedding venue. Lorna is drawn to a beautiful crumbling old house she hazily remembers from her childhood, feels a bond she does not understand. When she finds a disturbing message carved into an old oak tree by one of the Alton children, she begins to realise that Black Rabbit Hall's secret history is as dark and tangled as its woods, and that, much like her own past, it must be brought into the light. A thrilling spiral into the hearts of two women separated by decades but inescapably linked by Black Rabbit Hall. A story of forgotten childhood and broken dreams, secrets and heartache, and the strength of a family's love.

      Un manoir en Cornouailles
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    • The glass house

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      "Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family takes her in and disbelief quickly turns to joy. They're grieving a terrible tragedy of their own and the beautiful baby fills them with hope, lighting up the house's dark, dusty corners. Desperate not to lose her to the authorities, they keep her secret, suspended in a blissful summer world where normal rules of behaviour - and the law - don't seem to apply. But within days a body will lie dead in the grounds. And their dreams of a perfect family will shatter like glass. Years later, the truth will need to be put back together again, piece by piece . . ."--Publisher description.

      The glass house
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    • The Midnight Hour

      • 368pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Eve Chase's latest novel weaves a captivating tale filled with rich characters and intricate relationships. Known for her engaging storytelling, Chase explores themes of family secrets and the passage of time, drawing readers into a world of mystery and emotional depth. With her signature style, she promises to deliver a gripping narrative that will resonate with fans of her previous works. This new release is sure to be a compelling addition to her collection, inviting readers to uncover its hidden layers.

      The Midnight Hour
      3,9
    • The Wildling Sisters

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Applecote Manor. "An enthralling story of secrets, sisters, and an unsolved mystery."--Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author of The Lake House Four sisters. A house with a past. One secret summer. When fifteen-year-old Margot Wilde and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the arrival of two handsome neighbors divides the sisters' loyalties, Margot is drawn into the life Audrey left behind and the mystery of her vanishing. Fifty years later, Jessie is desperate to move her family out of their London home, and gorgeous Applecote Manor seems like the perfect solution. But once there, Jessie finds herself increasingly isolated, at odds with her fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, and haunted by the strange rumors that surround the manor. Rich with heat and angst, in The Wildling Sisters the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, taking readers on a breathless journey into the darkest secrets of the human heart.

      The Wildling Sisters
      3,9
    • The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      In the heatwave of 1959, four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to relive their memories of hazy Cotswolds summers. They find their uncle and aunt still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. An undercurrent of dread runs through the house. Why did Audrey vanish? Who is keeping her fate secret? As the sisters are lured into the mystery of their missing cousin, the stifling summer takes a shocking, deadly turn. One which will leave blood on their hands, and put another girl in danger decades later . . .

      The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
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    • The Birdcage

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Kat, Flossie and Lauren are half-sisters who share a famous artist father - and a terrible secret. Over the years they've grown into wildly different lives. But an invitation to Rock Point, the Cornish cliff house where they once sat for their father's most celebrated painting, Girls with Birdcage, reunites them. Rock Point is a beautiful, windswept place, thick with secrets, electrically charged with the one subject the family daren't discuss. And there is someone in the shadows watching their every move. Someone who remembers the girls in the painting. What they did. The sisters must unlock the truth to set themselves free - and find each other again.

      The Birdcage
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    • Eine Familie. Ein Geheimnis. Ein Sommer, der alles verändert ... Amber Alton weiß, dass die Stunden auf Black Rabbit Hall , dem Sommersitz ihrer Familie, anders vergehen, ihren eigenen Takt haben. Es ist ruhig und idyllisch. Bis zu einem stürmischen Abend 1968. Vereint durch eine unfassbare Tragödie, müssen sich die vier Alton-Geschwister mehr denn je aufeinander verlassen. Doch schon bald wird diese Verbundenheit auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Jahrzehnte später fahren Lorna Smith und ihr Verlobter Jon auf der Suche nach einem Ort für ihre Hochzeitsfeier durch die wilde Landschaft Cornwalls – und stoßen auf ein altes, leicht verfallenes, aber wunderschönes Haus. Ein Haus, das Lorna nach und nach seine schönsten Geschichten und traurigsten Momente verrät ...

      Black Rabbit Hall - eine Familie, ein Geheimnis, ein Sommer, der alles verändert
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    • Das Geheimnis meiner Schwestern

      Roman

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Ein verschwundenes Mädchen, ein altes Landgut in Südengland und vier Schwestern, die ein gefährliches Geheimnis eint … England 1959. Die vier Schwestern Margot, Dot, Flora und Pam reisen zu ihrer Tante und ihrem Onkel auf das Landgut Applecote Manor, um dort den Sommer zu verbringen. Doch es wird kein unbeschwerter Besuch, denn vor fünf Jahren verschwand ihre Cousine Audrey spurlos. Während das Land von einer Hitzewelle erschüttert wird, machen sich die vier Mädchen auf, das Geheimnis um ihre Cousine zu enthüllen … 50 Jahre später: Jessie und ihr Mann Will wollen mit ihren beiden Töchtern von London aufs Land ziehen. Als Jessie Applecote Manor zum ersten Mal sieht, ist sie sicher, dass sie hier endlich Ruhe und Frieden finden werden. Doch das Landgut birgt ein altes Geheimnis … Dieser Roman ist unter dem Titel »Die Schwestern von Applecote Manor« als Hardcover erschienen.

      Das Geheimnis meiner Schwestern
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    • TESS GERRITSENOVÁ - ZOMRI EŠTE RAZ Leopardy sú samotárski lovci a je ťažké vystopovať ich. Prikradnú sa ku koristi s mrazivou presnosťou. V tom sa nelíšia od zabijaka, ktorého hľadajú detektívka Jane Rizzoliová a forenzná patologička Maura Islesová, ked ich privolajú k bizarnému zločinu v Bostone. EVE CHASEOVÁ - SÍDLO V CORNWALLE Lorna a jej snúbenec Jon cestujú po malebnom Cornwalle a hľadajú vhodnú lokalitu na svoju plánovanú svatbu. Navštívia panské sídlo Black Rabbit Hall, ktoré je síce dosť ošumelé, ale dýcha z neho zašlá sláva. Lorne zámoček ihneď učaruje, ale súčasne čudne rozjatrí niečo v jej vnútri. JORN LIER HORST - POĽOVNÉ PSY Mnoho ľudí v Nórsku si pamätá šokujúci prípad vraždy dvadsaťročnej Cecilie Lindenovej. Teraz po sedemnástich rokoch, samá kauza znova vrátiť na súd. Vrah totiž tvrdí, že ho odsúdili na základe sfalšovaných dôkazov.Pre detektíva Williama Wistinga to nie je dobrá správa. VASEEM KHAN - NEČAKANÉ DEDIČSTVO INŠPEKTORA ČOPRU Inšpektor Ašvin Čopra z bombajského policajného zboru očakáva svoj posledný deň v službe s úzkosťou. Celý život sa staral, aby v jeho meste vládla spravodlivosť, a teraz sa bojí, čo si počne sám so sebou. Zasiahne však osud a jeho život sa zvrtne úplne inak, ako čakal.

      Zomri ešte raz / Sídlo v Cornwalle / Poľovné psy / Nečakané dedičstvo inšpektora Čopru
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