Karen Dionne Boeken

Spine-tingling.-People This gorgeously written eerie suspense novel gave me chills as it raced toward an unexpected climax. I loved it!-Karin Slaughter, author of Pretty Girls Troubling, sinuous and powerfully told, you won't be able to stop turning the pages.-Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me Dionne's breathtaking psychological thriller is a fairy tale writ large...the suspense in the plotting and the cold distance Helena's voice projects [hold readers] entranced until the stunning climax.-Minneapolis Star Tribune Exceptional....Helena's conflicting emotions about her father and her own identity elevate this powerful story.-Publishers Weekly (starred review) If you only read one thriller this year, make it The Marsh King's Daughter. It's sensational.-Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go A masterpiece of crisp prose and fine storytelling.-Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants and At the Water's Edge [A] well-crafted, eerie, and unnerving psychological thriller. With a strong setting and swift pacing, this novel is recommended for readers who enjoyed Emma Donoghue's Room and Travis Mulhauser's Sweetgirl.-Library Journal [W]ill keep readers gripped until the end....For fans of Emma Donoghue's Room and of novels with strong female leads.-Booklist Expertly written, gripping, compulsively readable.-Melanie Benjamin, author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying in the best possible way. Dionne holds you under her spell from the first word to the last-and then some.-Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife First-rate plotting builds the tension with psychological suspense and action sequences....The story is at once both horrific and fascinating.-RT Book Reviews Totally compelling and different from anything I can remember reading before.-Peter Lovesey Don't think you know how this plays out, just hand the reins to Dionne, who is completely in control of this unexpected narrative, and of your pounding heart.-Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean I don't use the word 'brilliant' often, but no other adjective feels adequate...It's an understatement to say that The Marsh King's Daughter is an exceptional achievement.-David Morrell, author of Murder as a Fine Art; creator of the iconic character Rambo Everything I could ask for in a psychological thriller: a stunningly fresh and confident voice, gorgeous writing, originality, and a complex protagonist I could really root for. I wish it were possible to read a book for the first time more than once.-Carla Buckley, author of The Deepest Secret

'The Wicked Sister is massively thrilling and altogether unputdownable' KARIN SLAUGHTER A startling novel of psychological suspense, as two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil. You have been cut off from society for fifteen years, shut away in a mental hospital as punishment for the terrible thing you did when you were a child. But what if nothing about your past is as it seems? For a decade and a half, Rachel Cunningham has chosen to lock herself away in a psychiatric facility, tortured by gaps in her memory and the certainty that she is responsible for her parents' deaths. But when she learns new details about their murders, Rachel returns, in a quest for answers, to the place where she once felt safest: her family's sprawling log cabin in the remote forests of Michigan. As Rachel begins to uncover what really happened on the day her parents were murdered, she learns - as her mother did years earlier - that home can be a place of unspeakable evil, and that the bond she shares with her sister might be the most poisonous of all...

Ein Konzern plant, Eisberge zu schmelzen, um Trinkwasser zu sichern. Der Umweltschützer Ben unterstützt begeistert das Vorhaben, erkennt jedoch bald die wahren Ziele des Unternehmens und die verborgene Gefahr im Eis.

V nepříliš vzdálené budoucnosti, takřka v přítomnosti, se lidstvo potýká s nedostatkem vody. Například řeka Colorado už prakticky nedotéká do moře, poněvadž je cestou odčerpána podniky i domácnostmi. Hrdiny knihy Karen Dionneové jsou převážně ekologičtí aktivisté, z nichž někteří skončili u ekoterorismu, jiní byli pod tlakem okolností nuceni stáhnout se do pasivity, případně i do služeb gigantického koncernu, který se pokouší nevybíravým způsobem, bez ohledu na nejpotřebnější, získat obrovské zásoby pitné vody pro ty, kdo nejvíc zaplatí, i za cenu zničení nejjižnějšího kontinentu naší planety. Ke svému cíli používá nejmodernější techniky, jenže někdy se příroda ukáže příliš mocná a zabíjí viníky i nevinné. Scénář předložený autorkou se bohužel může velmi brzy stát realitou.