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Peter Gethers

    Vertiges
    Gideon
    For the Love of Norton
    A Cat Called Norton
    My Mother's Kitchen
    Forever Norton
    • 'The wonderful thing about having a relationship with a cat is that it can bring you to something truly extraordinary and life-changing'There comes a time in every cat's life when his schedule slows down, and he struggles with aches and pains.

      Forever Norton
      4,4
    • My Mother's Kitchen

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Exploring the profound bond between cooking and relationships, this memoir captures a son's journey as he uncovers his mother's remarkable talent for weaving love into her culinary creations. Through humor and heartfelt anecdotes, he reflects on how her kitchen becomes a space of connection, revealing the deep emotional ties that food can foster among family and friends.

      My Mother's Kitchen
      3,9
    • Peter was a confirmed loner and cat hater, until he was given a small, grey (and impeccably handsome) kitten with folded ears by his then girlfriend. But, after learning how to love his cat, would Peter now learn how to love another human too?

      A Cat Called Norton
      4,1
    • There are only three things a cat needs for a fine life - good food, a comfortable bed, and universal praise and love. Luckily - after converting his human, Peter, from cat hater to cat lover - Norton has plenty of all three. In A Cat Called Norton, the eponymous cat taught Peter how to love.

      For the Love of Norton
      4,0
    • Gideon

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      A mysterious figure known as Gideon hires writer Carl Granville to transform a heavily redacted collection of diary entries, articles, and letters into a work of fiction. The task promises a substantial reward of a quarter of a million dollars, but it comes with a strict confidentiality clause. As Granville delves into the obscured content, he must navigate the dangers of uncovering explosive secrets while grappling with the ethical implications of his assignment.

      Gideon
      3,8
    • Vertiges

      • 469pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      As a young boy, Jack Keller experienced a profound tragedy when his mother was murdered. Now, thirty years later, he enjoys a fulfilling life with a loving marriage, a successful restaurant chain, and close friends. However, everything changes during the opening of a new restaurant when a second tragedy strikes, leaving Jack injured and psychologically scarred. He is cared for by Kid Demeter, a young man who once felt like a son to him. As Kid helps Jack recover, he shares stories about various women in his life, each identified by a nickname and portrayed as alluring yet dangerous. The situation escalates when Kid is found dead after a fall from a high building. Jack refuses to believe the police's conclusion of suicide, suspecting that one of Kid's women may be involved in his death. This leads him into a dark world filled with lap dancing, drugs, and violence. As Jack delves deeper into Kid's life, he faces increasing danger from an unseen threat that seems to anticipate his every move. With the stakes rising and the past intertwining with the present, Jack realizes he must uncover the truth before the killer strikes again, putting his own life at risk.

      Vertiges
      3,7
    • Midas

      • 496pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      After East Hampton, New York, is hit by a terrorist bombing, local cop Justin Westwood discovers that someone is targeting specific people to murder, and disguising these actions with what appear to be "suicide bombings," in this latest work by the bestselling author of "Aphrodite."

      Midas
      3,7
    • Aphrodite

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Justin Westwood has retreated from reality by taking a menial post with the police department in Long Island. Mindless traffic duty and a lot of booze stop him reliving the past, but his dormant professionalism is reluctantly awakened when he realises that the death of a young journalist is deliberate not accidental. As he retraces the woman's movements in the hours before her death he learns she's been in trouble for quoting some erroneous facts in an obituary of a man who had been living in the local old people's home. Not the sort of mistake which normally brings a duo of professional hitmen to the door of a fallible reporter, and certainly not one which brings the FBI into town. As he attempts to unravel the puzzle he finds someone is a step ahead of him, disposing of witnesses and setting him up for the rap. Realising he has to face real life at its starkest if he is to survive, he goes solo - though if he'd known what was in store he'd have stuck to handing out parking tickets.A thriller of such tension and action that it should come with its own oxygen supply.

      Aphrodite
      3,6
    • Im Fadenkreuz der Mafia Nach einem rätselhaften Torpedoangriff versinkt der afrikanische Frachter Hades unweit der sizilianischen Küste mitsamt einer Ladung aus Platinbarren im Wert von mehreren Millionen Dollar. Doch die scheint niemand zu vermissen. Polizeichef Justin Westwood findet schnell heraus, dass die wertvolle Fracht dazu gedacht war, einen internationalen Börsencrash herbeizuführen. Um zu verhindern, dass diese unbequeme Wahrheit ans Licht kommt, ist einflussreichen Kreisen offenbar jedes Mittel recht …

      Hades