Patricia Finney, die onder een verscheidenheid aan pseudoniemen schrijft, is een auteur die onbevreesd verschillende tijdperken en genres verkent. Haar werken variëren van historische misdaadromans die zich afspelen in het elisabethaanse Engeland tot hedendaagse thrillers. Finney blinkt uit in het creëren van gedetailleerde historische settings en complexe personages, wat lezers meeslepende ervaringen biedt. Haar schrijfstijl wordt gewaardeerd om haar nauwgezette onderzoek en haar vermogen om lezers te boeien met meeslepende verhalen.
The narrative revolves around a protagonist tasked with ensuring the well-being of a friend named Onion, who is struggling with addiction. The story delves into themes of friendship, dependency, and the complexities of navigating relationships affected by substance abuse. As the protagonist confronts the harsh realities of addiction, the emotional weight of their connection and the challenges of providing support become central to the plot. The book promises a raw and poignant exploration of these issues.
Hi! Hi there! Hi, friend, how lovely to smell your friendly smell again! I, Jack the dog, am so happy that you are back to read more of my adventures. This time I have a new best friend, Rebel, and he is a police dog! Woof! He licked my hurties when I got behind the wheel of Pack Leader's car (Did you ever see a big dog drive a car?1) and made a big crash into a tree. As it turns out, we're old friends from our puppy days. What a fun reunion! Almost as much fun as steak! Did somebody say steak Woof!
Spring 1569. Narrator Lady Grace 13, youngest lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, chooses between three suitors at a glittering ball. But murder descends on the Tudor court. Grace must use her intelligence, stealth, curious nature, and best friends - laundrymaid Ellie, acrobat Masou - to solve the threat to their Queen.
In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. Trouble, however, dogs his heels wherever he goes. And where he goes in autumn, after the summer's misadventures in Carlisle, is back to London upon a summons from his father. Carey is on difficult terms with his powerful sire, Henry, Lord Hunsdon. Hunsdon, son of Anne Boleyn's elder sister, Mary -- and probably of a young King Henry VIII -- swings a lot of weight as "cousin" to Queen Elizabeth. But Hunsdon needs his ingenious younger son, Carey to sort out the difficulties his elder son has got himself into as an innocent party in a plot to discredit the family. Accompanied by the shrewd Sergeant George Dodd, who's like a fish out of water as he copes with the strange Londoners, Carey tackles Catholics, treachery, and such persons known to history and students of literature as George Greene and Christopher Marlowe who are working as spies and double agents. Most arresting is a portrait of a love-sick, snivelling hanger-on named Will Shakespeare....
Zwei Spione für England: Als Simon Ames, Spion Königin Elizabeths, von den Spaniern gefangen genommen und als Sklave in die Armada gesteckt wird, schickt die Königin David Becket, ihn zu befreien und nebenbei herauszufinden, was es mit dem »Geheimnis der Schönheit« auf sich hat, einem gefährlichen Komplott, das gegen England gerichtet sein soll. Unterwegs meistert Becket allerlei Gefahren, wird betrogen und benutzt und erfährt die Liebe und Güte einer Frau mit schamanischen Kräften. Wird es ihm gelingen, den Freund zu befreien? Lässt sich die Armada noch aufhalten? Zwei Spione riskieren ihr Leben im Dienste der Königin.§
