Marjolein van Velzen Books

Archeologe Nora Kelley is gefascineerd door de oude beschaving van de Anasazi-indianen in het zuidwesten van de Verenigde Staten. Een beschaving waaraan duizend jaar geleden - op het hoogtepunt van haar bloei - plotseling een einde is gekomen. Nora's vader is jaren geleden verdwenen tijdens een zoektocht naar dezelfde beschaving. Nu, zestien jaar later, krijgt ze een brief van hem. Nora stelt een expeditieteam samen en begint een trektocht door de onbarmhartige canyons. Want het kan niet anders of haar vader heeft het legendarische Quivira, de verloren Gouden Stad van de Anasazi-indianen, gevonden...

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control:'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency.' The pilot requests priority clearance to land - then comes the bombshell - he needs forty ambulances on the runway.But nothing prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they witness when they enter the plane.Ninety-four passengers are injured. Three dead. The interior cabin virtually destroyed.What happened on board Flight TPA 545?

When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world…or save it.The countdown begins…

Een New Yorks echtpaar wordt aangevallen in hun appartement aan de Upper West Side. Volgens ooggetuigen was de dader hun ietwat vreemde buurman. Maar diezelfde man blijkt al tien dagen daarvoor te zijn overleden. Special Agent Pendergast en inspecteur D'Agosta duiken in de zaak en doen een ongelooflijke ontdekking: in Manhatten bestaat een geheime, besloten gemeenschap die een cultus met voodoo bedrijft die geen buitenstaander ooit heeft overleefd...