Roberta Rambelli Boeken

De levens van een prior, een verbeten aartsdeken en een steenhouwer raken met elkaar verweven, waarbij de te bouwen kathedraal van Kingsbridge de inzet van jaloezie en kuiperijen vormt.

De elfiarige Mark Sway en zijn broertje Ricky trekken op zekere dag het veld in om stiekem sigaretjes te roken. Daar zijn Zij getuige van- de dramatische zelfmoord van Jerome Clifford, een louche advocaat uit New Orleans, die aan de vooravond van een van zijn grootste zaken stond. Mark waarschuwt telefonisch de politie, maar die vertrouwt zijn verhaal niet. Als de jongen onder druk wordt gezet, neemt hij zijn toevlucht tot Reggie Love, een vrouwelijke advocaat Aileen aan haar vertelt hij wat hij die gedenkwaardige dag echt zag en hoorde en waarom Ricky in shock is geraakt en nog steeds in coma ligt... De afschuwelijke waarheid kan men slechts vermoeden wanneer Marks leven wordt bedreigd. De cliéntr John Grishams derde wereldbestseller op rij, is verfilmd met Susan Sarandon en Tommy Lee Jones in de hoofdrollen. John Grisham werd in één klap wereldberoemd als bestsellerauteur met zijn debuut Advocaat van de duivel, waarmee hij een nieuw genre creäerde: de lega/ thriller. Het boek is verfilmd met Tom Cruise in de hoofdrol. Grishams tweede bestseller, Achter gesloten deuren, is verfilmd door Alan J. Pakula, met Julia Roberts en Denzel Washington in de hoofdrollen. --back cover

City of Thebes. The Festival of Osiris. Loyal subjects of the Pharaoh gather to pay homage to their leader, but Taita - a wise and formidably gifted eunuch slave - sees him only as a symbol of a kingdom's fading glory. By the author of Where the Lion Feeds.

In John T. Lescroart's brilliant new novel, The 13th Juror, Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had died nine years earlier from an apparent drug overdose. While preparing his case, Hardy learns that both of Jennifer's husbands had physically abused her. But Jennifer refuses to allow a defense that presumes her guilt. She is not guilty, she claims. Hardy is now driven to seek an alternative truth a jury can believe. As the trial progresses, the complex truth itself begins to change, to bend, to fade in and out of focus as the clock keeps ticking on Jennifer's fate, until there seems only one person left to convince, and she is "the 13th juror"—the judge. The 13th Juror is a stunning and suspenseful novel of moral ambiguity, of good intentions, bad judgements and the tortuous path to ultimate justice.

Sesso, suspense e divertimento accompagnano le appassionanti vicende delle protagoniste di questo romanzo, due gemelle all'apparenza identiche ma profondamente diverse nel carattere e nei gusti, che decidono per qualche giorno di scambiarsi l'identità, come facevano da bambine. Quando un imprevisto le costringe a continuare l'inganno, si rendono entrambe conto che il gioco ha finito per prendere loro la mano, coinvolgendole in situazioni alle quali nessuna delle due vorrebbe più rinunciare.

Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent. The Silence of the Lambs. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mind--in the deadly search for a serial killer. - back cover

A Miriam, splendida e inquieta adolescente sfuggita alla miseria di un ghetto in Germania e sbarcato nella scintillante New Orleans, il futuro sembra schiudere mille promesse di felicità. Ma quando il suo ambizioso matrimonio fallisce e la guerra civile diventa una minaccia sempre più reale e vicina, il destino dell'intera famiglia e di tutto ciò che ha di più caro è nelle sue mani.

Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....

#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling. Praise for The Vampire Lestat “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

In The Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith, on a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close to the earth, as white men dug fortunes out from beneath them and laid plans for a new civilization. Out of Southern Africa the enigmatic Cecil Rhodes built an empire in the late 1800s and attracted the brightest and bravest of a generation--including a remarkable far-flung family named Ballantyne. But for the natives, another day was a day of retribution... From a courageous woman doctor to a fierce, one-eyed slave trader turned soldier, the whites of Africa were buffeted by two horrific waves of war. And just when a bloody peace seemed possible, the seeds of future turmoil were sown …