Two aliens, Pic and Poc, embark on an adventurous journey through space to explore Earth. However, their experience unfolds in unexpected ways, leading to surprising challenges and discoveries that differ from their initial expectations.
Straub completes the Blue Rose trilogy with this searing novel of psychological terror. Tim Underhill and the brilliant and reclusive Tom Pasmore court ultimate destruction as they dare to look back to a dark past that holds the secret of evil which signs its name Blue Rose.
She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . . In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble—quite literally—upon one of Arthur's many secrets. Haunting and intelligent, A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds—one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.
Auf Mardian Castle wird das heidnische Fest des Schwertertanzes gefeiert. Als der Darsteller des Narren ermordet wird, übernimmt Inspektor Alleyn von Scotland Yard den Fall, der die Tradition in Frage stellt.
Drusilla est belle, jeune et... très bien mariée à un homme d'affaires sans intérêt. Elle devait immanquablement croiser la route de Gray. Gray est un peu artiste et surtout très très fauché mais il possède une qualité exquise: c'est un amant délicieux. Enfin pas au point de renoncer aux fourrures ni aux diamants... A moins que Gray ne se laisse convaincre d'éliminer le gêneur. Le jeu en vaudrait la chandelle, épouser une veuve richissime... Le problème, c'est que Gray est parfaitement inoffensif!
Dieses weitgespannte Epos voller Abenteuer, Exotik, Naturgewalt und Romantik erzählt von Menschen, die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, als Japan sich dem Westen öffnen mußte, um Überleben und neue Lebensformen kämpfen. Von dem weitblickenden Samurai Sadayori als Kundschafter auf Reisen geschickt, besteht der junge Walfänger Jinsuke die gefährlichsten Abenteuer und lernt die westliche Lebensweise der «Barbaren» kennen, immer auf der Flucht vor dem engstirnigen Fanatismus seiner eigenen Landsleute, die sich nur schwer von alten Traditionen lösen können.
Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections -- it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but the agents are only schoolboys engaged in harmless play. But John Creevey doesn't know this. To him, the messages he decodes with painstaking care are the communications of dangerous and evil men, and as he comes face to face with the fact of his beloved wife Jennifer's defection, he begins to see a way to get back at the man she left him for. And soon the schoolboys are playing more than just a game . . .
