Maria Eugenia Morin Boeken

Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker, returns in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder. And when more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone-an elusive spy-is orchestrating the destruction of America's brightest technological minds... and the murders all connect to a top- secret project called Hull 44. But that is just the beginning. As the intrigue deepens, Bell will find himself pitted against German, Japanese, and British spies, in a mission that encompasses dreadnought battleships, Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Isaac Bell has certainly faced perilous situations before, but this time it is more than the future of his country that's at stake- it's the fate of the world.

Rosamond Vivian, giovane, bella e orfana, vive da reclusa con il vecchio nonno arcigno e indifferente in una remota isola al largo delle coste inglesi. Non sa nulla del mondo a parte quello che ha appreso dai romanzi che legge avidamente. In una notte di bufera Phillip Tempest, bello, seducente e misterioso, arriva alla casa sulla scogliera. Rosamond, che sogna la libertà, ne rimane subito affascinata e accetta di seguirlo e di diventare sua moglie. Ma dopo un breve periodo di vita felice, si trova presa in una rete di intrighi, crudeltà e d'inganni legati all'oscuro passato dell'uomo in cui ha riposto la sua fiducia. Per salvarsi dalla perdizione Rosamond fugge, tenacemente inseguita da Phillip, in Italia, in Francia e in Germania, da una soffitta parigina a un manicomio, da un convento a un castello. Phillip non le dà tregua, ricorrendo a tutti i mezzi pur di riconquistarla.

Was Jezus getrouwd en vader van een gezin? Wat is er dan van zijn kinderen geworden? Zijn er nog nazaten van hem in leven? De Schotse genealoog Laurence Gardner begint waar anderen eindigen en geeft een onthullend antwoord op deze controversiële vragen. In Erfopvolgers van de Graal geeft hij een gedetailleerd genealogisch overzicht van de nazaten van Jezus en zijn broer Jacobus en werpt een heel nieuw licht op het verhaal van de bijbel. Vooral de raadselachtige figuren van Maria Magdalena en Jozef van Arimatea passeren de revue, maar ook de legenden van koning Arthur, de heilige Graal en de Tempelridders komen in een heel ander daglicht te staan.