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The latest from the writer of Apple Tree Yard, and Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Louise Doughty

Po części thriller psychologiczny, po części dramat sądowy, Mroczny zaułek to mroczna, błyskotliwa i bez wątpienia seksowna powieść autorstwa wielokrotnie nagradzanej pisarki Louise Doughty. Yvonne Carmichael ciężko pracowała, by zrealizować swoje ambicje i marzenia. Zrobiła zawrotną karierę w dziedzinie genetyki, ma piękny dom, udane małżeństwo i dwójkę dorosłych dzieci. Jej ułożone życie wywraca się do góry nogami, gdy pewnego dnia w Pałacu Westminsterskim ulega urokowi nieznajomego, fascynującego mężczyzny. Wybucha między nimi gwałtowny i namiętny romans, kontynuowany w mrocznych zaułkach Londynu, a Yvonne ryzykuje utratę wszystkiego, co miało dla niej jakąkolwiek wartość. Początkowo wierzy, że uda jej się oddzielić sekretny związek od codziennego życia, jednak brutalny akt przemocy, którego ofiarą pada na uniwersyteckim przyjęciu, krzyżuje jej plany i sprawia, że kobieta wpada w wir kłamstw i zbrodni. Gdy trafi na salę sądową, oskarżona o współudział w morderstwie, będzie musiała odtworzyć historię romansu, który doprowadził do jej zguby, i stawić czoła konsekwencjom swoich impulsywnych decyzji. Mroczny zaułek to nie tylko psychologiczny thriller, lecz także wnikliwa analiza wartości, wedle których żyjemy, oraz podejmowanych przez nas wyborów. Doughty snuje misterną opowieść o zdradzie, zbrodni, seksie i kłamstwach, która będzie trzymać czytelników w napięciu do ostatniej strony.

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can get. What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided to do. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge. Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected? No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die...

Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build the suspense to breaking point. The Times

John Harper liegt in einer abgelegenen Hütte auf einer indonesischen Insel nachts wach, horcht, wie der Regen auf das Dach trommelt, und fürchtet um sein Leben. Doch er hat weniger Angst vor dem, was kommt, als vor einer Tat, die er begangen hat. Bei einem Besuch in der nächstgelegenen Stadt begegnet er Rita, einer Frau mit eigener schwieriger Vergangenheit. Sie lassen sich auf eine Affäre ein, die Harper ungeahnte Möglichkeiten des Exils eröffnet – doch bringt er Rita damit gleichzeitig in Gefahr. An wechselnden Schauplätzen – Europa während des Kalten Krieges, die amerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung in Kalifornien und Indonesien –, zeigt Louise Doughty meisterhaft, wie John Harpers Lebensstationen mit finsteren Kapiteln der jüngsten Weltgeschichte verknüpft sind.

Beautifully written but at times disconcertingly dark, this is a good one for sitting out flight delays. Stylist

The last thing anyone would expect in a small, rural village is murder - let alone the horrific double murder of a respectable middle-aged local couple. During one of the hottest summers England has ever seen, the two are brutally stabbed to death. Their teenage daughter is missing. Alison, a young local reporter, is asked to cover the murders. But it isn't long before it emerges that she has one or two dark secrets of her own - secrets in her past even she is not aware of...

Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of Apple Tree Yard, now a major BBC Drama.

'There can't be a woman alive who hasn't once realised, in a moment of panic, that she's in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. Louise Doughty, more sure-footed with each novel, leads her unnerved reader into dark territory. A compelling and bravely-written book.' HILARY MANTEL 'A superb novel. Grown-up, genuinely suspenseful, wonderfully well-constructed, intelligent and provocative. I really didn't want to finish it. And I don't say that very often.' JULIE MYERSON'Once you start you can't stop reading. Terrific.' HELEN DUNMOREYvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him - a decision that will put everything she values at risk. At first she believes she can keep the relationship separate from the rest of her life, but she can't control what happens next. All of her careful plans spiral into greater deceit and, eventually, a life-changing act of violence. Apple Tree Yard is a psychological thriller about one woman's adultery and an insightful examination of the values we live by and the choices we make, from an acclaimed writer at the height of her powers.

Two police officers knock on Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the man responsible.