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Elisabeth Franci-Ekeler

    A Kingdom for the Brave
    Darkest Fear
    Gone for Good
    Kus van de Dood
    Mea culpa
    Le Voile de la peur
    • Schijnbeweging

      Literaire thriller - special

      • 283 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      Schijnbeweging2012
    • Watermelon

      • 624 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      When war is declared, Frances & Ralph, both pacifists, turn their house into a sanctuary for friends more involved. Invasion seems imminent as one by one the countries of Europe fall to the Nazis. People are even told to immobilise their car engines at night in case the Germans parachute into Britain.

      Watermelon2011
      3.8
    • Darkest Fear

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      A friend's son is gravely ill and the potential bone-marrow donor who could save his life has disappeared, so detective Myron Bolitar has no choice but to investigate, even though his sports agency desperately needs his attention. Reprint.

      Darkest Fear2009
      4.0
    • ConflictSurviving a vicious massacre, the Aboriginal boy, Mandawuy is the last of his tribe. He will face the ultimate choice – to join with the white man, or to rebel alongside the warriors who are waging a war against them, pitting their stone-age weapons against guns.PassionWhen George Collinson meets Eloise at the Governor’s Mansion in Sydney, it is love at first sight. But Eloise is married to Edward Cadwallader – George’s nemesis and a man capable of great brutality, a man who will never let Eloise or their son leave him alive...Friendship Their husbands are devoted friends but Nell Penhalligan and Alice Quince clash from the moment they meet. However, when tragedy threatens, they will have to overcome their enmity to make a success of the outback sheep station they rely on for survival.Rebellion Niall Logan is one of many Irish children sent to Sydney in chains. As he struggles to survive the cruelty in the convict colony, he yearns only for freedom and a ship to take him home. Despite the knowledge that insurrection is punishable by hanging, a chance to rebel will change everything for him.

      A Kingdom for the Brave2009
      4.0
    • Le Voile de la peur

      Récit

      • 459 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Née en Algérie dans une riche famille musulmane pour qui la naissance d'une fille est une véritable malédiction, totalement dominée par son père, Samia se retrouve mariée de force à seize ans. Son époux la viole, la roue de coups, menace de la brûler vive. Elle mettra au monde six enfants dans cette atmosphère de chantage et de peur. Afin de soustraire sa progéniture, surtout ses deux filles, à cette culture de soumission, Samia Shariff traversera frontière sur frontière, au gré des centres d'hébergement et de difficultés de toutes sortes, pour trouver un havre de paix en France, puis au Canada.

      Le Voile de la peur2007
      4.5
    • Gone for Good

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Will Klein lost the love of his life and his brother in the same moment ... A superb thriller from the No.1 bestselling author. On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will's brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a job working with the homeless. But when his mother reveals on her deathbed that Ken is still alive, and shortly afterwards Sheila disappears, the cracks start to show in his landscape again. But it is only when he finds that Sheila herself is wanted for a savage double-murder that his life actually starts to fall apart...

      Gone for Good2007
      4.1
    • Bedrieglijke zaken

      Een Venetiaanse misdaadroman

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Commissaris Brunetti krijgt bezoek van een jonge vrouw met een vreemde vraag; kort daarna wordt zij vermoord aangetroffen.

      Bedrieglijke zaken2002
    • Dalziel & Pascoe: Vermist op Beulah Height

      • 439 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Wanneer in een dorpje in Yorkshire een jong meisje verdwijnt, lijkt deze verdwijning veel op die van drie meisjes vijftien jaar daarvoor.

      Dalziel & Pascoe: Vermist op Beulah Height2002
    • Vriendendienst

      Een Venetiaanse misdaadroman

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Tijdens het onderzoek naar de dood van een ambtenaar voor bouwzaken komt een politieman uit Venetië in aanraking met corruptie, geldschieters en drugshandelaren.

      Vriendendienst2001