Mazan Maciejka Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

In 1978 Gregory David Roberts committed a series of robberies while adducted to heroin, and was sentenced to nineteen years in prison. After two years, he escaped from a maximum-security prison in broad daylight, and became Australia s most wanted man. Hiding in Mumbai, he established a medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler and gunrunner for one of the most charismatic branches of the Mumbai mafia. Shantaram based on this ten-year period of Gregory David Roberts life is a superbly written and gripping novel, and an authentic evocation of Mumbai life.

It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives.All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family which has deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese.Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives.

Als klein meisje maakte Sarah Finch een drama mee: op een dag kwam haar broertje Charlie niet meer terug nadat hij buiten was gaan spelen. Sarah was de laatste die hem had gezien en wat er met Charlie is gebeurd, is een mysterie gebleven. Die onzekerheid heeft het gezin verscheurd. Nu, zestien jaar later, is Sarah lerares. Als een van haar leerlingen, de twaalfjarige Jenny, niet op school komt opdagen, zet de politie een massale zoektocht op touw. Maar het is Sarah die tijdens het joggen het lijk van haar leerling vindt. Ze verleent haar medewerking aan het politieonderzoek, maar is Sarah getuige, slachtoffer of verdachte? Want is het niet erg toevallig dat ze betrokken is bij de verdwijningen van twee kinderen?

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now growing on him. But when Lark unearths an old tunnel in the cellar, the house's enchantments start to turn ominous.