Isabelle Chapman Books

Des rudes paysages des Appalaches aux ateliers d'artistes de Brooklyn, le destin de deux êtres qui n'auraient jamais dû se rencontrer. Elle réside dans une ferme de Géorgie perdue dans la montagne avec, pour seule compagnie, un gigantesque ours de fer, chef-d'œuvre posthume d'un artiste new-yorkais... Il vit à Brooklyn, où il défend le patrimoine artistique de son père sculpteur. Au lendemain d'une vente aux enchères, il part à la recherche de l'œuvre majeure de celui-ci : un ours de fer... Mais on n'achète pas une émotion. Même un million de dollars.

Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with bestselling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime. Full of shocks, intensity and suspense from first page to last, A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under pressure, and author Elizabeth George writing at the very height of her exceptional powers.

Cullato dalla musica country e dal gospel, un romanzo luminoso che ci immerge nell'atmosfera languida del Deep South degli anni '50. Un'opera tanto divertente quanto toccante sulla perdita dell'innocenza, la solidarietà familiare e la forza dell'amicizia. Nelle pianure dell'Arkansas, in una piccola casa che funge anche da negozio e bar, vivono i Moses, una famiglia vivace che affronta grandi delusioni e piccole tragedie con un cuore buono e un'anima generosa. Qui cresce Swan, un ragazzo di undici anni che odia le gonne e ama giocare alla guerra con i suoi fratelli. Una nuova conoscenza cambierà la vita di Swan e della sua famiglia: Blade ha dieci anni. Ha paura. Suo padre è un uomo sadico, un mostro di violenza e crudeltà. Un giorno, un gesto atroce segna un punto di non ritorno. Per i Moses, è urgente proteggere l'enfant. Ma, di fronte al terribile desiderio di vendetta di un essere animato dal male, tutto l'amore del mondo potrebbe non bastare...

The first book in a witty, suspenseful new series about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This clever page-turner will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter. Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers are one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She’s inherited Sherlock’s volatility and some of his vices—and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she’s not looking for friends. But when a student they both have a history with dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Danger is mounting and nowhere is safe—and the only people they can trust are each other.

In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect, Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict, leads her to Nicholas' wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind

The highly anticipated follow-up to Peter Behrens' Governor General's Literary Award-winning novel, The Law of Dreams. The O'Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O'Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a business and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he is never quite able to leave his past behind. Told from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is a majestic novel that mirrors the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier calls "Canada's Century." Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded it, The O'Briens is an epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.