Michael Collins Boeken

Michael Collins en zijn vaste speurder Dan Fortune vormen een onafscheidelijke twee-eenheid. Resultaat: boeiende, originele detective, met goede karaktertypering en realistische milieutekening.

Halloween begint met een tragedie. Behalve het gebruikelijke vandalisme ontdekt een lokale agent een doodgereden meisje tussen de hopen bijeengeharkte bladeren; een driejarig meisje verkleed als engeltje. Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het een recht-toe-recht-aan aanrijding. Maar als het onderzoek vordert blijkt al snel dat de zaak minder eenvoudig ligt. De politiechef en burgermeester blijken de kwestie zo snel mogelijk in de doofpot te willen stoppen zodra blijkt dat de hoofdverdachte een jonge talentvolle football-speler is die de toekomst van het stadje kan veranderen. De enige die zich iets van het lot van het meisje lijkt aan te trekken, agent Lawrence, dreigt ten onder te gaan in het politieke spel dat nu wordt gespeeld.

Ambrose has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy, he paints a starkly sane portrait of one family's life in an Ireland unsoftened by the mists of legend.

It's been over a decade since Robert Pendleton published his brilliant short story debut, and his hopes for a dazzling literary career now lie in tatters. Hanging on to his tenure in literature at Bannockburn college by the slimmest of threads, Pendleton's simmering despair boils over with the arrival on campus of his one-time friend, now nemesis, the bestselling author and king of the coffee-table book, David Horowitz. For Pendleton, death seems to be the only remaining option, but his attempt to kill himself is wrecked by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition. Whilst Pendleton recovers from his suicide attempt, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a brilliant, bitter story with a gruesome murder at its core. The publication of Scream causes a storm of publicity, a whirlwind into which Adi and Horowitz are thrust - along with the sister of a young girl whose real-life, unsolved murder bears an uncanny resemblance to the crime in Pendleton's novel and a burnt-out cop with secrets of his own, who is determined to prove that in this case fact and fiction are one and the same.

From the moment that Jorge Mario Bergoglio stepped onto the loggia of Saint Peter's Basilica, having taken the name of Francis, history already had been made. To identify himself in that moment as the Bishop of Rome rather than Pope already suggested a different approach to the Petrine ministry than what we have come to know. Pope Francis's words and actions since that day have only confirmed it--dramatically at times. Who is Francis, Bishop of Rome? In this short biography, Fr. Michael Collins, international author and Vatican expert, introduces readers to the man now called to lead the Catholic Church.

The former astronaut traces America's ascent into space and the history of NASA, from the first faltering steps in 1960, to humankind's first small step on the moon's surface, to the 1986 Challenger tragedy

The adventures in the magical world of Krynn, where the evil Dragonlords rule, continue in this second volume of Dragonlance Classices. * Collects issues #9-16 of the DC Comics series.

Contents:Georges Simenon: An Interview The Man Behind the Looking Glass by Georges Simenon, translated by Harold J. SalemsonAfter the Thin Man: Conclusion by Dashiell HammettA Friend to the Limit by Jeffry ScottFrisbee in the Middle by R.D. BrownMean to My Father by Carolyn BanksKiller's Mind by Michael CollinsIt Was a Hard Fall by Harold Walls

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