Alessandro Zabini Boeken

865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between.... The Hammer and the Cross.

Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

Headline is thrilled to be publishing the sensational New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton, the queen of vampire fiction - 'Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field' Charlaine Harris

After the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy anticipate a joyful life at Pemberley. However, family obligations lead them to Mansfield Park, where they become entangled in marriage plans, star-crossed love, deceit, mistaken identity, and even murder.

"Shed here no tears. No Saint could die More Blessed and Comforted than I." So read the epitaph composed by Morwenna Treverra centuries ago as she followed her beloved husband, Jan, into death. The couple have been together ever since, models of pious content, in the little seaside Saxon church near the villa of Maymouth. When curious scholars arrange to open Jan Treverra's tomb, it yields not one body but two...and neither one of them is Jan Treverra. Detective Inspector George Felse happens to be on holiday nearby; indeed, he helped to open the crypt and reveal its all too modern contents. Now, from an ancient grave, mystery unfolds; a trail of violence in Maymouth's history that casts shadows centuries long...

'Imagine Evelyn Waugh meets Nancy Mitford, with some Jilly Cooper thrown in, and you have this splendid romp ... Hilarious, escapist bliss' YOU 'Delights from start to finish' Mail on Sunday 'Irresistible' Guardian 'Sheer escapist bliss' Nigella Lawson 'Pure joy' India Knight, Sunday Times Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction The Earls of Trelawney have inhabited the same castle for 800 years - but recent generations have been better at spending than making money. Now living in isolated penury, unable to communicate with each other or the rest of the world, the family are running out of options. Three unexpected events will hasten their demise: the sudden appearance of a new relation, an illegitimate, headstrong, beautiful girl; an unscrupulous American hedge fund manager determined to exact revenge; and the crash of 2008. Deliciously escapist and gloriously funny, House of Trelawney is a novel about family and forgiveness, chaos and crisis - and finding yourself in the most unexpected ways.

Dopo aver raccolto voci, sospetti, tracce, Meren ha deciso di indagare a fondo sulla morte della regina Nefertiti. Si è convinto infatti che la bellissima consorte del faraone Akhenaten sia stata assassinata e che il colpevole sia da cercare proprio nella corte del giovane faraone Tutankamon. Sarà un'indagine difficile: una a una le persone con le quali vuole parlare scompaiono o vengono misteriosamente uccise... È questa la quinta indagine del principe Meren, quinto episodio della serie mystery dell'antico Egitto creata da Lynda S. Robinson.

Resuscitare i morti per Anita Blake, la cacciatrice di vampiri più famosa d'America, è diventata un'operazione di routine. È il suo mestiere. Ed è anche molto comodo quando si vuole far luce in un caso di eredità contesa o di assasinio. Però se il defunto in questione è tale da trecento anni, la faccenda si complica, poiché occorre un sacrificio umano, e Anita non è disposta a uccidere nessuno, neppure per un milione di dollari. Tanto infatti le è stato offerto e tanto lei ha rifiutato. Faccenda chiusa? Tutt'altro. Come consulente della squadra investigativa per i delitti soprannaturali, Anita è stata convocata per dare una mano nelle indagini su una serie di efferati omicidi. La polizia brancola nel buio e anche Anita è perplessa: nessuna delle creature che lei ben conosce - vampiri, licantropi, necrofagi - può aver commesso delitti tanto spaventosi. Ma poi un'idea si fa strada nella sua mente: e se qualcun altro avesse resuscitato lo zombie pluricentenario e lo avesse trasformato in un killer disumano?