Schokkende mémoire over een jeugd in een door nonnen geleid weeshuis - druk 8
Persoonlijk relaas van een joodse vrouw, die als jong meisje werd ondergebracht in een door rooms-katholieke nonnen geleid weeshuis en daar zowel geestelijk als lichamelijk werd mishandeld.
Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - visiting his wife, Laura, in hospital - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession.
After a bombing in Cambridge, D I Eden Brooke finds the body of Nora Wylde, two fingers on her left hand severed. When Nora's granddaughter goes missing, Brooke's suspicions are aroused.
Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp, when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it. It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police.
A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead - and life can begin again. Three decades later Declan McIlroy, a 39-year-old loner, is found frozen to death in his flat as Arctic temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely. His is not the only cold death that winter, but nevertheless reporter Philip Dryden has worrying doubts - for it seems Declan may not have been alone as he slowly froze to death . . . Dryden's suspicions harden when days later he finds the body of Declan's best friend Joe - frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded Fenland farmhouse. Soon Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime. And to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood . . .
1939, Cambridge: The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout - The Great Darkness - covers southern England. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force.
Cambridge, 1940. It is the first winter of the war, and snow is falling. When an evacuee drowns in the river, his body swept away, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke sets out to investigate what seems to be a deliberate attack. As more riddles come to light, can Brooke solve the mystery before a second attack claims a famous victim?
At 5.15 p.m. Harvey Ellis was trapped - stranded in a line of eight cars by a blizzard on a Norfolk coast road.At 8.15 p.m. Harvey Ellis was dead - viciously stabbed at the wheel of his truck.And his killer has achieved the impossible: striking without being seen, and without leaving a single footprint in the snow . . .For DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine it's only the start of an infuriating investigation. The crime scene is melting, the murderer has vanished, the witnesses are dropping like flies. And the body count is on the rise . . .
In the Cambridgeshire fens two corpses are found - both linking back to a terrifying event in 1966. More than a great story for journalist Philip Dryden, these murders may hold the key to a personal mystery. Who saved his life two years ago? And, more importantly, who left his wife to die? schovat popis
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Explains how to set up a freshwater aquarium, discussing the different types of equipment, water chemistry, and the availability of many fish species.
Fluch und Segen, ein Kelly zu sein
Doch der Erfolg hat seinen Preis: Der „Family“ muss sich jeder unterordnen. Erst nach dem Tod des Vaters, der innerhalb der Familie die Fäden fest in der Hand hielt, schafft Jimmy Kelly den Ausstieg aus der Familienband – und steht vor dem Nichts, denn das Erbe ist weg. In seiner Not besinnt er sich auf seine Wurzeln und zieht wieder als Straßenmusiker durchs Land. In Streetkid erzählt er erstmals, wie er aus seiner größten persönlichen Krise zu seiner wahren Berufung und zu sich selbst findet. Ehrlich, menschlich, sehr persönlich! Ausstattung: durchg.4c
In dem abgelegenen englischen Dorf Jude’s Ferry wird siebzehn Jahre nach der Evakuierung ein Skelett entdeckt. Reporter Philip Dryden stößt auf ein Netz aus Schweigen und alten Konflikten unter den verbliebenen Bewohnern. Der Fall ist spannend, psychologisch raffiniert und voller ungelöster Schuld.
