Valentina Guani Boeken

In James Patterson's shockingly suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller, one member of the Women's Murder Club is hiding a secret so dangerous that it could destroy them all. One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. When Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. A lost infant and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled. Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders-and why they are intent on killing someone every three days. Even more terrifying, the killer has targeted one of the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club. Which one will it be?

Che cosa fai se la figlia della tua migliore amica è scomparsa... ed è solo colpa tua? Lisa è una donna come tante, che come tante cerca di essere una buona madre, una buona moglie, una buona lavoratrice. Come tante, annaspa per tenere insieme tutti i pezzi della sua vita. Non come Kate, la sua migliore amica, che non avendo impegni di lavoro può dedicarsi anima e corpo alla cura dei suoi figli, trovando persino il tempo di occuparsi dei problemi altrui. Una donna perfetta. Lisa sa di non essere perfetta, ma fa del suo meglio. Finché, in un giorno particolarmente difficile di una settimana estremamente dura, accade qualcosa di terribile. Basta un attimo di distrazione, un tragico errore, e la figlia tredicenne di Kate, che le era stata affidata per un giorno, sparisce nel nulla. La prima, sconvolgente ipotesi è che sia stata adescata da un maniaco sospettato di aver rapito e violentato un’altra adolescente nella stessa zona. Comincia così per Lisa un lungo calvario, fatto di accuse spietate da parte della pubblica opinione e di inevitabili sensi di colpa, che la spinge però a intraprendere un’indagine privata. Un’indagine che rivelerà l’orrore nascosto sotto l’apparente tranquillità della vita quotidiana...

Elfrida Phipps houdt van haar nieuwe leven in het kleine Schotse dorpje, waar ze zich heeft teruggetrokken met haar hond Horace. Ze geniet van de kameraadschap van haar buren, de familie Blundell, totdat een tragisch ongeluk Oscar Blundell alleen achterlaat. Midwinter is een boeiende, ontroerende roman die laat zien hoe liefde en vriendschap kracht kunnen geven om verdrietige tijden te boven te komen.

Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of the #1 New York Times bestselling series of crime thrillers.

When one member of the Women's Murder Club is brutally attacked, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which children and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands.

Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before. Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it's the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets. As the search for two criminals tests the limits of the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and Lindsay's partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Club now faces its toughest challenge: Will love destroy all that the four friends have built?

When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request. The first is to have an MP owing him afavor, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to the case and, for good measure, partners her with the one person who shares his wish to see the back of her, Detective Chief Superintendent Isabelle Ardery. But Ardery has her own difficulties. She is not happy to be sent away from London, and as a result is in a rush to return. This causes her to overlook things, important things, and prevents her from uncovering an earlier crime that set everything in motion.

In an isolated country town afflicted by interminable drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, shooting dead five parishioners before being gunned down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend. His assignment is deliberately simple: describe how the townspeople are coping as the anniversary of their tragedy approaches. But as Martin meets the locals and hears their version of events, he begins to realise that the accepted wisdom – that the priest was a paedophile whose imminent exposure was the catalyst for the shooting, established through an award-winning investigation by his own newspaper – may be wrong. Just as Martin believes he’s making headway, a dramatic new development rocks the town. The bodies of two German backpackers - missing since the time of the church shootings - are discovered in a dam in the scrublands. It's the biggest story in Australia, the media arrive en masse. Instead of gently easing back into reporting, Martin finds himself thrown into a media storm, and with it a complex mystery. What was the real reason behind the priest’s shooting spree? And how does it connect to the backpacker murders, if at all? Martin struggles to uncover the town’s dark secrets, putting his job, his mental state, and his life all at risk as events escalate around him.

Alex Cross heeft eindelijk zijn vriendin Brianna Stone ten huwelijk gevraagd. Maar de feestelijkheden moeten worden uitgesteld als twee corrupte politici worden neergeschoten. De onbekende schutter maakt nog meer slachtoffers en wilde theorieën doen de ronde: gaat het hier om een held of een crimineel? De zaak loopt uit de hand en Alex Cross wordt samen met FBI-agent Max Siegel op de zaak gezet. Maar terwijl zij bekvechten over de taakverdeling gaat het moorden door. Er is een professional aan het werk die zijn slachtoffers door en door kent. Dan krijgt Alex Cross een telefoontje van zijn grootste vijand, Kyle Craig. Het Meesterbrein is neergestreken in Washington D.C. en zijn enige doel is om voorgoed af te rekenen met Cross, en zijn gezin.

The 16th novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series They’ve come for Detective Alex Cross’s family. Now he’ll come for them. At a family celebration, Alex Cross hears the shocking news that his niece Caroline has been murdered. Grieving and furious, Cross’s investigation takes him to Washington D.C.’s wild underground subcultures – and reveals that Caroline wasn’t this killer’s only victim. Partnering with his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, Cross finds himself confronting a world of unchecked power, where the capital’s most powerful people are hiding dirty, dangerous secrets that they’ll stop at nothing to protect. As they close in on the killer, the evidence begins to point to the unimaginable – a revelation that could rock the entire world…

The thrilling 9th novel in the phenomenal Alex Cross detective series

Chris Paget'S Well Ordered World Is Blown Apart By His Love For His Assistant, Terri, In The Sequel To Degree Of Guilt. Terri'S Ex Husband, Ricky, Is Determined To Destroy Them Both And Instigates A Child Custody Battle For Terri'S Four-Year Old Daughter, Accusing Terri Of Neglect And Paget'S Teenage Son Of Sexual Molestation. Then Ricky Is Murdered And Paget Finds Himself The Principle Suspect, On Trial For His Life. Eyes Of A Child Demonstrates Why North Patterson Is An International Bestselling Author. The Pace Is Superb, The Court Room Scenes Unsurpassable, But Most Importantly The Compelling Characters, Particularly Ricky, Terri'S Cunning And Amoral Husband, Show North Patterson As One Of The Strongest Storytellers Writing Today.

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular trail through popular culture -- from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.

When the world's largest cities are seized by terrorists who threaten to set off deadly bombs unless their demands are met, Alex Cross heads a joint investigation by the FBI, CIA, and Interpol to outmaneuver two vicious criminals known as the Weasel and the Wolf. By the author of The Big Bad Wolf.

Een verzoening tussen wetenschap en religie wordt geblokkeerd door een eeuwenoude geheime broederschap, een verwoestend nieuw wapen en een onvoorstelbaar doelwit.

"When the bady of eleven year old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco bay, the police qwiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defence, is quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.

Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.

Krimi. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called

Forensisch pathologe Kay Scarpetta onderzoekt de moord op een dwergvrouw.

When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows. Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares. But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen. Accusing him, holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance

Patholoog-anatoom Kay Scarpetta is op weg naar de beruchte vrouwengevangenis in de Amerikaanse staat Georgia. Ze gaat daar een gedetineerde opzoeken die informatie zegt te hebben over de dood van Jack Fielding, Scarpetta’s collega die een halfjaar geleden vermoord is. Tijdens haar speurtocht stuit ze op een bizarre samenhang tussen wat Jack is overkomen en andere feiten: een gezin dat jaren geleden is uitgemoord, een jonge vrouw in de dodencel, en diverse onverklaarbare sterfgevallen binnen de gevangenis. Er blijkt zelfs een verband te zijn met een uiterst destructief wapen dat internationaal grote schade kan aanrichten.

Kay Scarpetta's optreden in een live televisieshow lijkt verband te hebben met haar onderzoek naar de moord op een jonge vrouw in Central Park en de ontvangst van een bompakketje.

Nadat dr. Scarpetta een privépraktijk voor forensische pathologie heeft geopend, wordt ze geconfronteerd met een reeks angstaanjagende sterfgevallen.

1967, Lake City, Ohio. Tony Lord and Sam Robb, both in their teens, are best friends and athletic rivals. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful San francisco attorney; sam is an assistant principal at Lake City High School. Sam has never left home, and Tony has never returned since the trauma that changed his life: the brutal murder of his first love, Alison, of which he was wrongly accused and which turned everyone, even Sam, against him. Now Sam is a suspect. One of his female students has been murdered. Tony, reluctantly but inevitably, comes back to defend him. At once, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past. In the merciless arena of a murder trial, he must confront not only his fear that Sam is a murderer but also the buried truths that obscure the real meaning of Alison's death. Powerful in its portrayal of the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love, and of the many ways in which the past stakes its claim upon the present, Silent Witness is that rare suspense novel which is far more - the kind of story we have come to expect from Richard North Patterson.

Wanneer de 9-jarige Hadiyyah Upman plotseling verdwijnt uit Londen, is sergeant Barbara Havers er net zo kapot van als de vader van het meisje. Hadiyyah is Barbara s buurmeisje, met wier familie ze goed bevriend is. Omdat het meisje in het gezelschap van haar moeder was, staat de politie machteloos. Vijf maanden later wordt Hadiyyah ontvoerd van een druk marktplein in de Italiaanse stad Lucca, waar ze bleek te wonen met haar moeder. De lokale politie start een grootschalig onderzoek.Barbara wil afreizen naar Italië, maar krijgt daarvoor geen toestemming van haar leidinggevende. Geheel tegen de regels in speelt ze informatie over de zaak door aan een van de landelijke sensatiekranten, met als doel de politie onder druk te zetten om toch iemand uit hun gelederen naar Italië te sturen. Door Barbara's actie duikt Scotland Yard boven op de zaak. Maar in plaats van Barbara mag Thomas Lynley afreizen naar de Italiaanse stad. De zaak wordt bemoeilijkt door taalproblematiek en verschillen in lokale gewoonten, en door het feit dat de Italiaanse autoriteiten zo snel mogelijk iemand verantwoordelijk willen stellen voor de ontvoering. Wie dan ook ...

As Noone's friendship grows with a dying boy, he feels he can unlock his innermost feelings. But troubling questions arise, and he is forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.

A candid and intimate narrative unfolds in this engaging novel by a celebrated contemporary writer. The story delves into personal themes, offering readers a deep connection with the characters and their experiences. The author's distinctive voice and insightful storytelling invite exploration of complex emotions and relationships, making it a compelling read for those seeking authenticity in literature.

Copenhague, 1905. Severine Riis, esposa del pintor danés Viktor Riis, posa para él, siempre de espaldas. Para sobrellevar el silencio de las sesiones, comienza a escribir un diario con sus reflexiones íntimas. Bucarest, 1985. Joen Alsted, embajador de Dinamarca, hereda seis cuadros de Viktor y se relaciona con la familia Moore, donde su hija Freya cautiva a Sophia, su esposa, quien anhela ser madre. Londres, 2005. Tras la muerte de su marido, Sophia decide vender las obras de Riis, y el joven historiador del arte Peter Finch se encarga de su documentación. Freya, ahora casi treintañera, es invitada a la casa de Sophia, donde descubre los diarios de Severine. Esto desata una investigación sobre la vida y obra de Riis, con consecuencias inesperadas. Paula Vene Smith presenta una historia cautivadora en la que seis cuadros enigmáticos impactan la vida de varios personajes a través del tiempo. La autora explora la relación entre arte y vida, creando un caleidoscopio de emociones que atrapa al lector desde el inicio.

Kay Scarpetta è tornata a Cambridge dopo un difficile caso, quando riceve una chiamata dal suo ex collega Pete Marino, che la informa del ritrovamento del corpo di una giovane donna sul campo da baseball del MIT. La vittima è Gail Shipman, un ingegnere informatico coinvolto in una causa milionaria contro una società di intermediazione finanziaria. Scarpetta sospetta che la morte di Gail non sia una coincidenza e teme un possibile legame con sua nipote Lucy. La causa della morte non è immediatamente chiara: il corpo è avvolto in un telo color avorio e disposto in una posa particolare, suggerendo l'operato di un killer esperto. Sul cadavere vengono trovate tracce di polvere fluorescente rossa, verde e blu, che collegano il caso a una serie di omicidi sessuali a Washington, attribuiti a un serial killer noto come Capital Killer, indagato dal marito di Kay, Benton Wesley. La famosa anatomopatologa e il suo team si trovano di fronte a uno scenario inquietante, che va oltre il semplice omicidio seriale, rivelando un legame con droghe sintetiche e tecnologia dei droni, coinvolgendo crimine organizzato e alte sfere governative. Questo è il ventunesimo caso di Kay Scarpetta, un'icona della narrativa thriller.

Plenty of liberal scholars and pundits have criticized the deception of the American people, but Michael Moore's work offers a distinctly positive perspective. He argues that Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate allies have manipulated the public using fabricated threats and lies to maintain their power and wealth. Moore expresses his anger towards George W. Bush and conservatives regarding the Iraq war, the Enron collapse, and the connections between the Bush family, the Saudi government, and Osama bin Laden. His book aims to empower those with liberal views—whom he believes comprise the majority of Americans—to reclaim their country from conservative control. With his signature confrontational humor, Moore provides insights on how to engage with conservative relatives and even proposes a "Draft Oprah for President" movement. Notably, he acknowledges some areas where Republicans are correct and critiques his fellow liberals, suggesting a desire for a more nuanced political discourse. While the book covers a wide range of topics, including Iraq, tax cuts, and the Patriot Act, its scattered nature and comedic tone occasionally detract from clarity. Nevertheless, this variety showcases Moore's bewildered yet resiliently optimistic viewpoints.

Nella quiete del crepuscolo di inizio settembre, Elisa Vandersteel, una ventitreenne, muore in un incidente in bicicletta lungo il fiume Charles. Sebbene sembri colpita da un fulmine, la bella giornata suggerisce un'altra causa. Kay Scarpetta, famosa anatomopatologa, riceve da giorni un messaggio vocale inquietante con una filastrocca inviata da un anonimo che si firma Tailend Charlie. Arrivata sulla scena della morte di Elisa, Kay riceve la settima filastrocca. Ha già informato il collega Pete Marino, il marito Benton Wesley e la nipote Lucy, ma quest'ultima, nonostante le sue abilità informatiche, non riesce a rintracciare Tailend Charlie o a capire come abbia accesso a informazioni private. È chiaro che l'anonimo è coinvolto nella morte della ragazza. Inoltre, altre due morti sospette per folgorazione convincono Kay dell'esistenza di un'arma letale che uccide a distanza, potenzialmente in grado di scatenare panico tra la popolazione se la sua esistenza venisse rivelata. Con Caos, Patricia Cornwell presenta il ventiquattresimo thriller con protagonista l'iconica Kay Scarpetta.