Riccardo Valla Boeken

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.

The title story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long, soon to be a major film directed by Steven Spielberg, tells of a young boy who, whatever he does, cannot please his mother. He is puzzled by this, not realising that he is an android, a cunning construct of artificial intelligence - as is his one ally, his teddy bear. It was a story that hugely affected Stanley Kubrick (director of 2001) and Steven Spielberg (who perhaps saw in his forthcoming movie AI (Artificial Intelligence) a complement to his ET!). This collection contains three SUPERTOYS stories, and they are the fabric of Spielberg's movie. The other stories in the collection, whether SF, utopian fantasy or dark fable show a master writer at the peak of his considerable powers.

Cornwell has used the methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the contemporaneous evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders.

Un vero regno magico, con tanto di fate e maghi, in vendita a prezzo di liquidazione. A Ben Holiday sembra un'occasione da non perdere ma, una volta effettuato l'acquisto, il povero Ben scoprirà fin troppo presto che sarebbe stato meglio pensarci due volte. Il regno è in rovina, i baroni sono in rivolta ed un terribile drago distrugge ogni cosa. Cosa potrà fare l'improvvisato eroe?