Bettina Runge Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Quelques jours avant son mariage, Julia reçoit un coup de fil du secrétaire particulier de son père. Comme elle l’avait pressenti, Anthony Walsh – homme d’affaires brillant, mais père distant – ne pourra pas assister à la cérémonie. Pour une fois, Julia reconnaît qu’il a une excuse irréprochable. Il est mort. Julia ne peut s’empêcher de voir là un dernier clin d’œil de son père, qui a toujours eu un don très particulier pour disparaître soudainement et faire basculer le cours de sa vie. Le lendemain de l’enterrement, Julia découvre que son père lui réserve une autre surprise. Sans doute le voyage le plus extraordinaire de sa vie… et peut-être pour eux l’occasion de se dire, enfin, toutes les choses qu’ils ne se sont pas dites.

Toen ze tieners waren, betekenden ze alles voor elkaar. In hun jeugdig optimisme beloofden ze dat ze altijd van elkaar zouden houden, ook als het lot hen zou scheiden. Terwijl Philip probeert een leven op te bouwen in Manhattan, trekt Susan de wijde wereld in. Met uitzondering van enkele korte ontmoetingen op het vliegveld zien ze elkaar weinig. Toch blijft hun band onverbrekelijk. Totdat Philip met een andere vrouw trouwt en met haar een zoon krijgt. Als hij besluit zijn verleden voorgoed achter zich te laten, staat er plotseling een klein meisje voor de deur: Susans dochter...

A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were brutally murdered before the blaze was set. . . . The mysterious suspect's identity only raises more questions. Then Lassiter uncovers another crime--another innocent mother and child murdered. The more he unearths, the larger the web of conspiracy grows, as his search for answers leads him on a dangerous international chase toward a truth that will shock him--and the world--to the very bone. . . .

Een journaliste ontdekt in een fles een liefdesbrief en raakt steeds meer geïntrigeerd door de schrijver ervan.

Claire, a young doctor, begins her day with an unsettling incident: her handbag is stolen. More distressing than the loss is the whirlwind of thoughts that ensue—who did it, and why her? A sense of latent threat begins to disrupt her orderly life. On the same day, an unknown patient arrives, and Claire thinks she understands the situation. However, Thomas is merely the honest finder of her bag. Claire and Thomas become lovers, even though he warns her that he is married. As their relationship develops, Claire becomes increasingly consumed by fantasies about the other woman. The story takes a surprising turn as the complexities of love and desire unfold, challenging Claire's perceptions and leading her to confront deeper truths about herself and her choices.

"There was, after all, the mystery of Lulu. It was not a question of what she had done, or even what happened to her, but of who she was. She was so little known." And yet the girl named Lulu Peloquin, who works behind a candy counter at F. W. Woolworth. stands out in her very desire to avoid the attention of others. First she is noticed by Agnes Rohan, the druggist's daughter, who motives are not pure. Then it is the dashing man-about-town Mr. Rafferty, who sees Lulu as a fairy-tale damsel in distress and sweeps her off to the home of the town's wealthiest woman, the regal Mrs. Gansevoort. So begins Lulu's adventures in self-transformation, as she is drawn further and further into a demimonde where she finds herself a pawn in the games of people who will never really care to know her. "Raymond Kennedy's wrting has the touch of magic!" - The New Yorker "If it is a sentence Raymond Kennedy wrote, then it is a sentence an artist made." - Gordon Lish "Raymond Kennedy's chronicle of the destruction of a sensitive girl at the hands of a vengeful society queen and her slave-gigolo highlights this talented novelist's flair for atmosphere and his revelation of the murky recesses of the human psyche." - James Purdy