De vijfjarige Sharla wordt door haar moeder achtergelaten bij de bejaarde Addy, een sterke zwarte vrouw die zich over het verwaarloosde kind ontfermt. De aanwezigheid van Sharla, een meisje van gemengd bloed, brengt bij Addy herinneringen boven aan haar eigen veelbewogen jeugd in Rusholme, een door gevluchte slaven gesticht stadje in Canada. De weg naar huis is een schrijnend maar tegelijkertijd hoopgevend verhaal over de genezende kracht van de liefde en van herinneringen.
As the millennium approaches, the climate on Earth is getting progressively hotter, a phenomenon which makes scientists and others extremely nervous. Unease quickly turns to panic when Air Force One is successfully downed, key communications networks are disrupted, and the world's financial institutions are pushed to the brink of collapse. CIA science chief Helen Wagner and Michael Lieberman, a brilliant designer of a giant space-based solar array, must contend with techno-savvy activists who plan to use the array to cut modern society off at the knees...and start civilization over from scratch.
In an ancient burial ground on an island off Venice, a young woman’s casket is pried open, an object is wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary adventure begins. From the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the city’s mystery and eroticism. An earnest young academic, Daniel has come for a summer job cataloguing a private collector’s library. But when Daniel’s employer sends him to buy a stolen violin from a petty thief, a chain reaction of violence and deception ignites. Suddenly Daniel is drawn into a police investigation—and a tempest swirling around a beautiful woman, a mysterious palazzo, and a lost musical masterpiece dating back centuries. With each step he takes, Daniel unwittingly retraces a journey that began in 1733, when another young man came to Venice. And when, in this realm of intrigue and beauty, two lovers came face-to-face with a killer—and a mystery was born. Separated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal, and danger collide in David Hewson’s dazzling novel. Sweeping us from the intrigue of Vivaldi’s Venice to the gritty world of a modern cop, from the genius of a prodigy to the greed of a killer, <b>Lucifer’s Shadow</b> builds to a shattering crescendo—and one last, breathtaking surprise. <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
