Alexis Champon Boeken

Tijdens een vlucht van Parijs naar Londen, waarbij Hercule Poirot toevallig een van de reizigers is, wordt een van de passagiers vermoord.

When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Keller is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds. In emotional and physical turmoil he becomes a self-pitying recluse, until Kid Demeter, a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist, bullies him into better health. Then Kid is found dead, but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide. Knowing he owes Kid for getting his own life back on track, Jack starts to investigate Kid's personal life and discovers he was a serial womaniser. He begins to identify and locate these women, but every time he speaks to one of them they end up dead. Then, as he edges closer to the truth of Kid's death, he realises that his wife's murder was the catalyst of all that followed.

Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich atmosphere and intricate suspense that she transports the reader to a world unlike any other. — A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster Aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present. In the world as seen by Martha Grimes, those repercussions simmer and seethe and wind their way through hearts and souls. The ramifications can be subtle. Or exhilarating. Passionate. And they can also be deadly. Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death. It is a novel with extraordinary range and depth that ultimately becomes a thrilling morality play.

DEEL 4 IN DE ROMANSERIE DE AARDKINDEREN <spoiler>Hoewel Ayla aan Ranec, de meesterbeeldhouwer van de Mamutiërs, haar Belofte heeft gegeven om samen met hem een vuurplaats te stichten, geeft zij hem op de avond van de ceremonie het symbool van hun verbintenis terug. Hoewel hij haar vele keren gelukkig heeft gemaakt, voelt zij toch dat het Jondalar is met wie zij verder door het leven moet gaan. Maar Ayla draagt het teken van de Grote Aardmoeder in zich, en haar bestemming gaat veel verder dan zij of Jondalar ooit kan vermoeden. Wanneer zij samen de grote reis naar de Zelandoniërs ondernemen, het volk van Jondalar, maken zij wederom kennis met de vele verrassende en verraderlijke eigenschappen van mens en natuur. Maar niets kan Ayla en Jondalar afleiden van hun uiteindelijke bestemming: dat ene plekje op aarde dat ze hun thuis kunnen noemen.</spoiler> Jean M. Auel begon in 1977 met de voorbereidingen voor de romanserie De Aardkinderen . Ze bracht vele uren door in bibliotheken en bestudeerde daar de boeken over de Ijstijd. Ze volgde een overlevingscursus waar ze veel opstak over jagen op groot en klein wild met primitieve middelen en over eetbare en genezende flora. Ze leerde er een ijsgrot maken en ging daar zelfs een tijdje in wonen om uit eigen ervaring te vertellen.

Miranda's sister, Kerri, has a new boyfriend. He's a raven-haired, handsome charmer who seems to dote on Kerri. But Brendan isn't the man he says he is. Miranda should know, because she broke off her own affair with him just a few weeks ago when she found him reading her diary. Now Brendan claims that it was he who ended their short-lived relationship—and everyone believes him. When he and Kerri announce their engagement, Miranda's parents are thrilled for their shyer, less confident daughter. Then Kerri and Brendan beg Miranda to let them live in her apartment until their new home is ready. Against her better judgment, Miranda agrees. Like a virus, Brendan starts spreading destruction throughout her life. He invades her privacy and disrupts her relationships with her family and friends. And then the real nightmare begins.… Like the obscenities he whispers into her ear, his onslaughts are as undetectable as they are devastating. Those closest to her begin to doubt her mental stability and accuse her of the very thing she believes drives Brendan: obsession. When Miranda decides to take off the gloves, fight back, and discover what is behind her enemy's bemused, secret smile, the consequences will be terrifying.