Raffaella Vitangeli Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

In questo romanzo di crescente suspense psicologica, una sorpresa attende sotto la casa di una tranquilla coppia senza figli del New England. Albert e Alice Graves conducono una vita domestica normale, sebbene monotona. Non hanno mai avuto figli; trascorrono le loro giornate curando la loro casa e godendo del tempo insieme. Un giorno, mentre l'uomo del riscaldamento, Richard, sta riempiendo la loro caldaia, Alice lo invita a cena, senza sospettare che un atto casuale di carità porterà a una scoperta orribile e morbosa nello spazio sotterraneo sotto la loro amata casa. I Graves accolgono Richard nella loro vita, affezionandosi alla sua presenza come se fosse il figlio che non hanno mai avuto. Tuttavia, la loro città non è affatto così accogliente. Quando gli abitanti del luogo si scagliano contro i Graves e il loro strano ospite, la famiglia soddisfatta viene irrevocabilmente trascinata in un'oscurità che non avrebbero mai potuto immaginare.

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.

De roof is een meesterlijke thriller; intelligent en verrassend, net als meesterspion Gabriel Allon zelf. Deze parttime kunstrestaurateur en fulltime spion is een man die indruk maakt. Gabriel Allon is in Venetië bezig met de restauratie van een altaarstuk, als hij een urgente oproep van de Italiaanse politie krijgt. Julien Isherwood, een excentrieke Londense kunsthandelaar en een vriend van Gabriel, dacht bij een bezoek aan het Comomeer een potentiële cliënt te treffen. In plaats daarvan vond hij een op gruwelijke wijze vermoorde man - en nu wordt hij gezien als hoofdverdachte. Om zijn vriend te helpen moet Gabriel de werkelijke dader vinden. Bovendien moet hij een wereldberoemd schilderij van Caravaggio opsporen dat iets met moord te maken zou kunnen hebben. Zijn zoektocht loopt uit op een jacht die hem van het Louvre in Parijs tot het Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam brengt.

One hundred years old, with a sharp memory for every jewel she owned and every conquest she made, Mathilde Kschessinska—prima ballerina assoluta of the long-vanished Russian Imperial Ballet—sits down to write her memoirs. And what a life it has been. The greatest dancer of the age, her scything technique caught the eye—and heart—of one Nikolai Romanov when she was only seventeen years old. When Nikolai ascended the throne as czar and was forced to give up his mistress, she turned her gaze on his cousins, the grand dukes; despite betraying each man with the other, her loyalty to Niki never wavered. As the last czar presided over a fatally crumbling empire, her devotion to the imperial family was tested in ways she could never have foreseen. In Adrienne Sharp’s richly imagined novel, we see the seething beginnings of revolution and the blind giddiness of a doomed court. Based on fact, The True Memoirs of Little K is historical fiction as it’s meant to be written: passionately eventful and alive with emotions that resonate today. It is a magnificent entertainment.