A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his murders on Shakespeare's plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? A gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare. It has been acclaimed as one of the most compulsively readable thrillers of recent years.
In 1970, one of Mississippi s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times , went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, life didn't necessarily mean life, and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.
Seth Hubbard is een schatrijke man, maar ook een doodzieke man die lijdt aan longkanker. Hubbard vertrouwt niemand en vlak voordat hij zichzelf van het leven berooft, herziet hij zijn testament. Een met de hand geschreven brief die verregaande gevolgen zal hebben voor zijn volwassen kinderen, zijn zwarte huishoudster en advocaat Jake Brigance. Drie jaar geleden verdedigde Jake met succes Carl Lee Hailey, die terechtstond voor moord op de verkrachters van zijn dochtertje. Nu ziet hij zich opnieuw geconfronteerd met een explosieve rechtszaak die de emoties in Clanton hoog doet oplopen. Het herziene testament roept meer vragen op dan dat het antwoorden oplevert. Waarom zou Hubbard zijn volledige kapitaal nalaten aan zijn huishoudster? Was hij door de chemotherapie en pijnstillers niet meer in staat helder na te denken? En wat heeft dit alles te maken met een stuk land dat ooit bekendstond als 'Sycamore Row'?
Broeder Cadfael wordt naar Wales gestuurd om de beenderen van een gestorven heilige te bemachtigen. Het klooster van Shrewsbury zou wèl varen bij het bezit van de botten, die, naar verluidt, bovennatuurlijke krachten bezitten. Wanneer Cadfael de tocht aanvaardt, vindt hij vele obstakels op zijn weg, onder andere een wonderlijke dode...
Barcelona. 22 cm. 399 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Steel, Danielle 1947-. Traducción de María Antonia Menini. Traducción de: Wanderlust .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-226-4242-5
After the wedding of Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas, Diana teases that they will make a baby on their honeymoon. But long afterward, she is still not pregnant. As Diana and Andrew wait out each month only to be bitterly disappointed, they are forced to question just how much they are willing to go through to have a baby. Charlie Winwood dreams of a house filled with children. His bride, party-girl actress Barbie Mason, has other ideas. When he discovers he is sterile, Charlie has to rethink his deepest values--and his marriage to a woman who shares none of his dreams. After ten years of living together, Pilar Graham, a prominent Santa Barbara attorney, marries Judge Brad Coleman, who is nineteen years her senior and father of two grown children. They are happy with their comfortable life together, à deux, until Pilar begins to wonder if she will someday regret not having a baby with Brad. Are they crazy to begin now--with Brad about to become a grandfather and Pilar with a busy career, and in her early forties, possibly putting herself at risk? Through the lives of these couples, Danielle Steel shows us the mixed blessings we face as we build our families and live our modern lives. She touches us with the triumphant people who prevail, their victories, their defeats, their tragedies and joys, their compromises, their lives.
