Clare Clark Boeken

A brilliant and hugely topical psychological suspense novel about the ultimate trespass. A young woman discovers that the man she shared her life with was an undercover cop.

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising towers of Victorian London, May discovers another side of the city and remembers a disturbing, violent past. And then the corruption of the growing city soon begins to overwhelm him and a violent murder is committed. Will the sewers reveal all and show that the world above ground is even darker and more threatening than the tunnels beneath? Beautifully written, evocative and compelling, with a fantastically vivid cast of characters, Clare Clarke�s first book is a rich and suspenseful novel that draws the reader right into Victorian London and into the worlds of its characters desperately attempting to swim the tides of change.

Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions. By the Women's Prize for Fiction twice-longlisted author.

In 1704, in the swamps of Louisiana, France struggles to maintain its new colony with fewer than two hundred men. Elisabeth Savaret arrives as one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry strangers.

Von Glanz und Glamour einer großen Dynastie und dem Ende einer Epoche. Die Melvilles gehören zu den angesehensten Adelsfamilien Englands. Ihre legendären Feste sind glamourös, ihr Selbstbewusstsein so unerschütterlich wie die Mauern ihres Schlosses. Doch als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbricht, verändert sich alles.

Ein historischer Thriller London 1718. Als die unverheiratete, schwangere Eliza die Stadt erreicht, ist sie verzweifelt. Sie setzt alle Hoffnung auf den Apotheker Black, der sie großmütig in seine Dienste nimmt. Doch Black betreibt unheimliche Studien. Was geht in dem Haus vor sich, und welche Rolle soll Eliza dabei spielen? Nach dem Erfolg von „Der Vermesser“ der zweite Roman der neuen Meisterin der historischen Spannung.