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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman
Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...
Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Wallace The Green Rust
A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed. Oliva Cresswell, the unsuspecting niece, has been a cashier in a large West End store for five years when she meets a Mr. Beale, a self...
Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt
"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...
Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Elizabeth Day The Party
**Elizabeth Day’s new novel Magpie is available to pre-order now.**AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment.‘A terrifying, hilarious, brilliantly written original with a wit to die for’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘As the train pressed on, I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction, plotted according to a new constellation. Because, although I didn''t know it yet,...
Engels | ePub2, 1,6 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2017
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Ruth Ware The Lying Game
The unpredictable thriller from the bestselling author of THE IT GIRL
I could not put this book down'' Reese Witherspoon'' IT ISN''T A GAME WHEN SOMEBODY DIESThe text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you.Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game, competing to convince people of outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2017
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Nicci French Sunday Morning Coming Down
A Frieda Klein Novel (7)
THE CHILLING SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING FRIEDA KLEIN SERIES 'Menacing' GuardianSomeone is coming for Frieda, someone deadly ... Psychotherapist Frieda Klein has believed serial killer Dean Reeve escaped justice for years. Despite what the police say, she is convinced he's still alive. And finally she has the evidence - under her floor is the rotting corpse of an ex-policeman she hired to hunt for Reeve. Whoever did this is clearly very dangerous and must be found. But they're not finished with...
Engels | ePub3, 3,9 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2017
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Donna Leon Earthly Remains
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
A moody mystery set in Italy from the New York Timesbestselling author: ';One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever. ' The Washington Post Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists. But at least he gets to do it in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In this mystery in the bestselling series, the police commissioner's endurance will truly be tested. During an interrogation of...
Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | Atlantic Monthly Press, [Nederland] | 2017
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Nicholas Petrie Burning bright
Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.Uprooting from their quiet Dorset village to the carnal streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel far from home. The Kellaways struggle to fi nd their place in a tumultuous city, alive with repercussions from the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily streetwise Maggie Butterfi eld is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together...
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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