HOUSE OF NIGHT: die einzig legitime Nachfolge-Serie der Bis(s) RomaneAls auf der Stirn der 16jährigen Zoey Redbird eine saphirblaue Mondsichel aufscheint, weiß sie, dass ihr nicht viel Zeit bleibt, um ins House of Night, das Internat für Vampyre, zu kommen.
In den letzten Tagen des Jahres 1999 macht die junge Archäologin Catherine Alexander eine sensationelle Entdeckung: alte Schriftrollen aus der Zeit des Christentums, die Prophezeiungen über das Ewige Leben und das Letzte Gericht beinhalten.
Während einer komplizierten Operation erhält Lydia Harris, eine hochqualifizierte OP-Schwester in einem Krankenhaus im kalifornischen Malibu, einen mysteriösen Anruf von ihrer Schwester Adele, von der sie seit Jahren nichts gehört hat.
Dem Tod wie aus dem Gesicht geschnittenAls die junge Polizistin Cassie Maddox in ein verfallenes Cottage außerhalb von Dublin gerufen wird, schaut sie ins Gesicht des Todes wie in einen Spiegel: Die Ermordete gleicht ihr bis aufs Haar.
Translation of the 1969 Marathi classic Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is becoming cheap)A brothel exposes the intricate mechanisms of power and exploitation within a family.
Through the friendship of two young Franco-Iranians, Exiles from Paradise is a novel that delves deep into the great conflict between enlightened Islam and fanaticism.
A middle-aged judge driven by curiosity and the intellectual challenge of his work, a nervous and neurotic young historian willing to run all manner of risks to uncover the state crimes of the forties, a nerdy, well-educated and good-natured young journalist motivated principally by the desire to enjoy life and not dwell on the miseries of the past, a KGB general once responsible for some of the purges and now an Islamist radical, an inept, capricious and delightfully self-aware Jewish actor, and an Islamic cleric loyal to the Soviet Union, whose murder has so many repercussions, all these carefully constructed characters could be found in any society but Alessandro Barbero has brought them to life in one of the most elusive, unstable and neglected historical realities: Gorbachev's Russia.
Thirty-year-old Theresa Pellikaan is typical of the wealthy middle class - she is married to a successful man and lives in an apparently sleepy, yet powerful, rich village.
Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love.
** THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER, 'THE INFORMER' **** WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER **** NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER **'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail'The action is non-stop' The Times'Three Seconds is just about how long it feels it takes to read Three Seconds .
When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, his notoriously robust stomach is turned.
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe former freedom fighter known as 'Tiny' has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life.
