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'Billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel...a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation... With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at rounding up public admiration' Guardian Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector. From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX

Het is het jaar 1929. Honora Beecher en haar kersverse echtgenoot Sexton huren een zomerhuis aan de kust van New Hampshire. Wanneer Honora het vervallen huis opknapt en toegeeft aan haar hobby, het zoeken naar glasscherven die door de zee zijn aangespoeld, probeert Sexton het huis te kopen waar ze beiden verliefd op zijn geworden. Maar Sexton wordt volkomen verrast door de crash op Wall Street waardoor het pasgetrouwde paar opeens zonder geld komt te zitten. Het enige werk dat Sexton kan vinden is in een nabijgelegen fabriek, waar elk moment een gewelddadig arbeidsconflict kan uitbreken. Het vertrouwen dat Honora en Sexton in elkaar hebben, wordt hevig op de proef gesteld door krachten die hun verstand te boven gaan. Terwijl ze wanhopig hun huwelijk in stand proberen te houden, worden ze overweldigd door hartstochten waar ze geen weerstand aan kunnen bieden...

Op de campus van een universiteit vinden enkele studenten onder mysterieuze omstandigheden de dood. Terwijl kinderarts en lijkschouwer Sara Linton het eerste lichaam onderzoekt, wordt haar zus Tessa aangevallen. Sara s ex-man Jeffrey Tolliver leidt het onderzoek, maar oud-rechercheur Lena Adams verricht haar eigen speurwerk en begeeft zich daarbij op gevaarlijk terrein.

Sue Grafton Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it's a sign...and decides to knock on the door. Janice has waited long enough for Lorna's case to pick up steam, and she is relieved when Kinsey Millhone agrees to finish the work authorities left undone. Ten months before, local police had suspected homicide, but never could find a suspect-or a motive. The trail went cold. And Lorna's death remained a mystery... Now Kinsey is about to be pulled into a netherworld of unavenged murder and damaged survivors...where sometimes it takes a deal with the devil to survive.

Carrying on in the tradition of previous novels including M is for Malice, and N is for Noose, this Kinsey Millhone mystery becomes very personal when she examines her past, an unsolved murder and the break-up of her first marriage.

Much as Jane hates to admit it, her best friend Tally had been right. Moving in with Nick had been a disaster, and now Nick is leaving her. And as if that wasn't bad enough, Jane is forced to work with ambitious socialite Champagne D'Vyne.

This story begins with a murder on modern-day Fifth Avenue in New York and reaches back across the centuries to an equally ruthless Old Testament world. Through the hero, Azriel, it explores the pogroms, the diaspora, arcane mysteries of the Kabbalah, the Fall, and the nature of good and evil.

Brace yourself for an "Electrifying and thoroughly satisfying" read (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune--four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them--angry, troubled, and in trouble--went missing. "M" is for Millhone, hired to trace that missing black sheep brother. "M" is for memories, none of them happy. The bitter memories of an embattled family. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family's table. "M" is for malice. And in brutal consequence, "M" is for murder, the all-too-common outcome of familial hatreds. "M" is for malice . . . and malice kills. "A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

Ramses the Great lives but having drunk the elixir of life he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed to wander the Earth seeking to quell hungers for food, for wine and for women. When he awakens in the drawing room of a house in Edwardian London he becomes infatuated with a beautiful shipping heiress.

Wanneer een oude buurtgenoot is overleden, wordt Kinsey Millhone een kleine vriendendienst gevraagd. De man heeft tijdens de oorlog in het leger gediend en heeft dus recht op een offici�le militaire begrafenis; de nabestaanden op een kleine financi�le vergoeding. Maar de naam van de overledene komt op geen enkele Defensielijst voor. Of Kinsey de familie even wil helpen? Kinsey zegt A, maar of B nou wel zo verstandig is? In ieder geval zit ze voor ze het goed en wel beseft in een vliegtuig naar Texas, waar Kinsey een meedogenloze crimineel te slim af moet zijn. En dat leidt tot veel hoofdpijn en schulden bij de bank.