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    The murder room
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    • 2014

      44 Charles Street

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.7(7924)Add rating

      Francesca Thayer's life takes a turn as she seeks boarders for her struggling Greenwich Village townhouse. Eileen, Chris, and Marya, each with their own stories, move in and transform the house into a lively home filled with laughter, heartbreak, and hope, redefining what makes a house a true home.

      44 Charles Street
    • 2010

      Impossible

      • 398 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.6(3613)Add rating

      Brought together by their mutual interest in art, Sasha, a widowed art gallery owner with grown children, and Liam, a successful artist nine years her junior, find new meaning in their lives through their relationship with each other.

      Impossible
    • 2009

      The private patient

      • 497 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.8(14571)Add rating

      When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But the Manor holds a secret and deadly enemy.

      The private patient
    • 2006

      Answered Prayers

      • 326 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(4070)Add rating

      Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one woman’s struggle to break free from the past—and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers. On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself. For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather—a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just beyond her reach—that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back—and an old friend reenters Faith’s life. Faith is greeting mourners, when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: “Fred.” Only one person aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that. Brad Patterson was Jack’s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves “The Three Musketeers” as kids. When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart. Now a lawyer in California, Brad has reentered Faith’s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfill a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husband’s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination. Faith’s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon e-mails are flying between them, bridging three thousand miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before. And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herself—and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life. With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tells a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that heal—and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.

      Answered Prayers
    • 2006

      Special Delivery

      • 217 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.7(5075)Add rating

      Tells the story of Jack Watson, a wealthy Beverly Hills businessman and widower, who falls in love with his daughter-in-law's mother and together they discover a relationship marked by challenges and surprises.

      Special Delivery
    • 2004

      Commander Adam Dalgleish is called in to investigate the murder of one of the trustees of the Dupayne Museum.

      The murder room
    • 2003

      Delitti tra nord e sud

      • 297 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Per il mercante d'armi Daniel Alberton lo scoppio della guerra civile americana è stato una buona notizia. Nordisti e sudisti inviano a Londra i loro emissari per ottenere da lui le forniture necessarie a vincere il conflitto e per sopraffare la concorrenza sono disposti a ricorrere anche al ricatto e all'omicidio. Infatti, Alberton e i guardiani del suo magazzino vengono assassinati e le armi contese tra nordisti e sudisti scompaiono misteriosamente. Monk e Hester indagano e seguono la pista di Breeland, l'emissario unionista ritornato troppo rapidamente in America con la bella Merrit, la figlia sedicenne di Alberton. Ma sullo sfondo di uno degli scontri più sanguinosi del conflitto, i due investigatori scopriranno una scottante verità la cui chiave giace sul fondale limaccioso del Tamigi

      Delitti tra nord e sud
    • 2003

      In 1940 a young girl fallsin love with a dashing yong pilot, only to find their wants and needs are totoally different.

      Lone Eagle
    • 2002

      I delitti di Londra

      Tre indagini dell'ispettore Pitt

      • 909 pages
      • 32 hours of reading

      La Londra vittoriana nasconde accuratamente i suoi peccati e i suoi segreti. Solo il tenace ispettore Thomas Pitt riesce a portarli alla luce, con la determinazione del segugio di razza e l'aiuto di un'arma segreta: sua moglie Charlotte. Figlia di ottima famiglia, Charlotte svolge per conto del marito indagini delicate nei salotti della buona borghesia, arrivando dove un poliiziotto non potrebbe mai avere accesso. In questa raccolta, che comprende tre dei casi più complessi dell'ispettore, si rivela tutta la bravura di Anne Perry, autrice amatissima dai giallisti di tutto il mondo per la sua capacità di ridar vita a un'epoca affascinante e torbida come quella della Londra dell'Ottocento.

      I delitti di Londra
    • 2002

      Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.

      Changes