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Mieke Trouw-Luyckx

    The Miniaturist
    Two Steps Forward
    Red Mist
    Joyland
    We Need to Talk about Kevin
    Go as a River
    • Go as a River

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century ColoradoOn a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.So begins the mesmerizing story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life forever.Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.

      Go as a River2023
      4.2
    • Two Steps Forward

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      The internationally bestselling novel from the author of The Rosie Result - two misfits walk 2,000 km along the Camino to find themselves and, perhaps, each other.

      Two Steps Forward2018
      3.7
    • Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta - a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.

      Flesh And Blood2015
      3.5
    • The Miniaturist

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The sensational No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller now a three-part BBC adaptation.

      The Miniaturist2014
      3.6
    • Alledaagse wanen

      Roman

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Jonggehuwden Clark en Charlotte Adair zijn net in hun eerste huis getrokken in het idyllische stadje Clementine, waar ze zich vol goede moed aan het ‘echte’ leven wagen. Clark heeft een baan gevonden als leerlingbegeleider op een school en Charlotte als boekhouder. Als twee kinderen die vadertje en moedertje spelen storten ze zich vol overgave in hun respectievelijke rol. De eerste scheurtjes in hun huwelijk ontstaan nadat Clarks moeder overlijdt en de verschillen tussen de echtgenoten pijnlijk duidelijk worden. In het eens gezellige huis ontstaat een claustrofobische sfeer. Diep weggestopte angsten steken de kop op en zorgen voor verwijdering. Wanneer Clark een jongetje van de verdrinkingsdood redt, zet hij een reeks gebeurtenissen in gang – sommige komisch, sommige schokkend – die de druk op het huwelijk vergroten

      Alledaagse wanen2013
      2.7
    • Joyland

      • 283 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. "I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book." – Stephen King

      Joyland2013
      3.9
    • Red Mist

      • 501 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express

      Red Mist2011
      3.8
    • The Messenger of Athens

      • 275 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      From the real life Shirley Valentine, Anne Zouroudi's first Greek mystery with the popular detective, Hermes Diaktoros. When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further. His methods are unorthodox, and he brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies. Who has sent him, on whose authority is he acting, and how does he know of dramas played out decades ago?

      The Messenger of Athens2007
      3.3
    • Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.

      We Need to Talk about Kevin2006
      4.1
    • Vento scuro

      • 230 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Insieme alla sua compagna di vita, l'autore realizza un sogno. Alla ricerca della libertà e dell'immensità del mare, durante la loro traversata in barca a vela attraverso il Pacifico, si trovano però a dover affrontare una lotta per la vita e la morte.

      Vento scuro1999