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Mark B. Mills

    6 augustus 1963

    Mark Mills is een Britse auteur die wordt geprezen om zowel zijn romans als zijn scenario's. Zijn werken kenmerken zich door een scherpzinnige verkenning van de menselijke psychologie en ingewikkelde plots die lezers meeslepen in spannende verhalen. Mills creëert meesterlijk sferen en ontwikkelt gedenkwaardige personages wier lotgevallen verweven zijn met spanning en onverwachte wendingen. Zijn schrijfstijl wordt gevierd om zijn originaliteit en zijn vermogen om de lezer op het puntje van zijn stoel te houden.

    Mark B. Mills
    The Information Officer
    Waiting For Doggo
    House of the Hanged
    Amagansett
    The Whaleboat House
    De Toscaanse tuin
    • Waiting For Doggo

      • 224bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      In WAITING FOR DOGGO, it seems that Dan has needed someone to put his life in order... No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love. He's just one reluctant dog owner. Find a new home for him, that's the plan. But Doggo proves to be just as reluctant to go...

      Waiting For Doggo2014
      3,4
    • House of the Hanged

      • 423bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      A riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder, set on the French Riviera in the 1930s, from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Savage Garden.

      House of the Hanged2011
      3,5
    • For the people of Malta in 1942, suffering daily bombing raids from the Luftwaffe, the British Army represent their only hope of defending their lone outpost in Nazi waters. And it is Max Chadwick's job to make certain the islanders keep thinking that.

      The Information Officer2009
      3,3
    • De Toscaanse tuin

      Literaire thriller

      • 316bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      Tuscany, 1958 Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues and classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own - and a secret message, too, for those with eyes to read it. Young scholar Adam Strickland is just such a person. Arriving in 1958, he finds the Docci family, their house and the unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous, place and the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away in their past. Before this mysterious and beautiful summer ends, Adam will uncover two stories of love, revenge and murder, separated by 400 years... but is another tragedy about to be added to the villa's cursed history?

      De Toscaanse tuin2007
      3,5
    • Kehre dem Meer nie den Rücken zu Süddeutsche Zeitung

      Netz der Lüge2006
    • The Whaleboat House

      Long Island, 1947: A Beautiful Young Woman Is Dead. And A Small Town Is Drowning In Lies.

      • 368bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Snow Falling on Cedars meets The Shipping News in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island.In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But for Conrad Labarde, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets.On the face of it, her death was accidental, but deputy police chief Tom Hollis - an incomer from New York - is convinced the truth lies in the intricate histories and family secrets of Amagansett's inhabitants. Meanwhile the enigmatic Labarde is pursuing his own investigation.In unravelling the mystery, this haunting and evocative novel captures a community whose way of life is disappearing, its demise hastened by war in Europe and the incursions of wealthy city dwellers in search of a playground.

      The Whaleboat House2005
      3,4
    • Amagansett

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Snow Falling on Cedars meets The Shipping News in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island. In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But for Conrad Labarde, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets. On the face of it, her death was accidental, but deputy police chief Tom Hollis -- an incomer from New York -- is convinced the truth lies in the intricate histories and family secrets of Amagansett's inhabitants. Meanwhile the enigmatic Labarde is pursuing his own investigation. In unravelling the mystery, this haunting and evocative novel captures a community whose way of life is disappearing, its demise hastened by war in Europe and the incursions of wealthy city dwellers in search of a playground.

      Amagansett2004
      3,7