Eelco Vijzelaar Books

You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over. You're wrong. When Miranda Cotton gets home from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she breaks off the relationship and throws him out of her flat. Getting Brendan out of her life, however is not that easy. Two weeks later her sister, Kerry, phones in ecstasy. She's in love. She has a new boyfriend. His name is Brendan . . . So Brendan is back in Miranda's life - with a vengeance. Why has he done this? And what does he want from her? Soon, what began as an embarrassment, becomes like an infestation, and then more terrifying than her worst nightmares . . .

When she laughs, it sounds like a doorbell. If I confessed my love, she would laugh, dismissing it as a joke. Love is serious, a matter of life and death, and one day she will realize that. Zoe, a schoolteacher; Jenny, a former hand model turned mother; and Nadia, a free spirit entertaining at children's parties—three women in London facing unique challenges, their lives intertwined by a sadistic stalker. As summer heat intensifies, they receive letters indicating they are being watched, studied, and loved from afar, even unto death. Initially, the women and police dismiss the threats, believing them to be from a harmless crank. However, the narrative follows their journey from denial to terror, culminating in the realization that no one can stop the killer. French masterfully depicts how the letters invade their lives, straining relationships and pushing them toward madness. The irony lies in how the stalker's threats reveal the women's existing flaws and fears. French's psychological insight is so profound that the impending murders feel secondary to the exploration of the women's psyches. While the thriller genre demands excitement, we mourn the victims, acknowledging our own voyeuristic complicity in their unraveling.

Holly Kraus lives life in the fast lane. A successful young business woman with a stable home life, she is loved and admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of Holly. The other sees her take regular walks on the wild side - where she makes ever more reckless mistakes. And when those mistakes start mounting up, the two sides of Holly blur together and her life quickly spirals out of control... - Backcover.

In De mensen die weggingen ontmoeten we Joey, een meisje van acht, die ons meeneemt in haar fantasierijke belevingswereld. Met haar onschuldige kijk op de wereld laat ze ons kennismaken met haar familie en hun bezigheden. Het begint erop te lijken dat steeds meer mensen uit Joey's omgeving weggaan zonder gedag te zeggen en op haar eigen kinderlijke wijze probeert ze daarmee om te gaan. Totdat op een dag haar zus verdwijnt zonder afscheid te nemen en Joey zich met vreemden zal moeten inlaten om zelf niet in gevaar te komen...

Rick en Stella verliezen hun vijfjarige zoontje bij een ongeluk.Vader,moeder en hun oudere zoon van tien hebben ieder hun eigen manier om het verlies te verwerken,waardoor ze steeds verder verwijderd raken van elkaar.Algauw blijkt dat er binnen het gezin over en weer verdenkingen zijn. Wat begon als een drama eindigt in een nachtmerrie.