Alexis Champon Boeken

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.

Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey—away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf; others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand; and some will threaten them. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home. Fourth in the acclaimed Earth’s Children® series

Als Miranda van haar werk thuiskomt treft ze op de bank haar nieuwe liefde Brendan aan, lezend in haar dagboek. Ze is woest, verbreekt de relatie en zet hem de deur uit. Twee weken later spreekt Miranda haar zusje Kerry, die er fantastisch uitziet en verliefd blijkt te zijn. Er is een nieuwe man in haar leven, hij heet Brendan. Wat als een ongemakkelijke situatie begint, wordt al snel een kwelling en uiteindelijk zelfs nog angstaanjagender dan haar ergste nachtmerrie.

Depuis l'âge de dix ans, depuis que, sous ses yeux, sa mère a été précipitée par un dément du dix-septième étage de la tour où elle travaillait, Jack Keller souffre d'acrophobie. Un mal qui ne fait qu'empirer lorsque, trente années plus tard, son épouse Caroline, avec qui il a fondé une prospère chaîne de restaurants, est elle aussi assassinée et jetée par la fenêtre d'un de leurs établissements. Série noire ? Affreuse coïncidence ? Jack serait prêt à le croire. Mais quand Kid, son fils adoptif, tombe à son tour du balcon de son appartement et se fracasse le crâne, Jack Keller estime que la sinistre plaisanterie n'a que trop duré. "Suicide", avance la police. Impossible, décrète Jack, qui décide alors de mener sa propre enquête. Celle-ci sera sanglante. Et vertigineuse... Un thriller hitchcockien, au rythme effréné, sans le moindre temps mort. Vertiges ne se lit pas, il se dévore.