Willeke Lempens Books

The man lay on his front, his arms and legs bound and pulled up with a rope connecting the two. His head was arched back, so he faced the curtains, and there was masking tape over his mouth. Erika gingerly reached out and checked his pulse.Yep. Dead all right.When Detective Erika Foster finds politician Neville Lomas naked, hog-tied, and dead in his own bed, skittish higher-ups at the Met quickly rule the death from natural causes. Case closed . . . until two months later when a well-known casting director and a star footballer are found murdered and tied with the same knots. The Met can no longer ignore what’s staring them in the there’s a serial killer loose in London, and they’re out to settle a score.As Erika and her team investigate, things take a strange turn as CCTV footage turns up five female suspects . . . and they’re all identical.In the hunt to identify the women, Erika is outpaced at every turn by an elusive sex worker with dirt on enough powerful men to make the Met’s top brass nervous – and desperate.As time ticks away until the killer strikes again, it’s up to Erika to untangle the web of evidence and answer the critical What ties the victims together, who else is caught up in this scandal, and how far are the higher-ups willing to go to protect their own?Gripping, tense and impossible to put down, Lethal Vengeance will have you on the edge of your seat, racing to the final dramatic page.

How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence? Detective Erika Foster is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath when she stumbles upon the brutal murder of Vicky Clarke, a true-crime podcaster. Erika is assigned to the case and discovers that Vicky had been working on a new podcast episode about a sexual predator who preys on young female students around South London, staking out his victims in their halls of residence before breaking in at the dead of night. When Erika discovers that Vicky's notes and sound recordings were stolen from her flat at the time of her murder, it leads her to believe that Vicky was close to unmasking the attacker, and she was killed to guarantee her silence. The case takes on a disturbing twist when the body of a young Bulgarian student doctor is discovered in the same building, and this makes Erika question everything she thought she knew about Vicky. With very little evidence, the clock is ticking to find the killer before he strikes again.

Drie jaar geleden waren Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna en Alison de populairste meisjes op school. Op hun prada-schoenen en in Donna Karan-jurkjes liepen ze al roddelend door de gangen. Voor deze meisjes was het een perfecte situatie, totdat Alison - de mooiste en populairste van hen allemaal - plotseling verdween. Nu krijgen ze verontrustende berichtjes van de mysterieuze 'A' en zijn hun rijke leventjes in een nachtmerrie veranderd. De meiden moeten de waarheid over Ali en over de geheimzinnige A zien te achterhalen voordat een van hen het volgende slachtoffer wordt, is Alison echt wel dood, of...? Deze omnibus bestaat uit het derde en vierde deel van de verslavend spannende Pretty Little Liars-serie. Omslagtitel: Pretty little liars 3 & 4. - Bevat: Perfecte meisjes plegen perfecte moord? - Vert. van: Perfect. - HarperCollins, cop. 2007. - Oorspr. Nederlandse uitg.: 2008. - (Pretty little liars ; 3) ; Je moet niet alles geloven wat ze zeggen. - Vert. van: Unbelievable. - HarperCollins, cop. 2008. - Oorspr. Nederlandse uitg.: 2009. - (Pretty little liars ; 4).

Je kunt hem niet zien. Maar hij jou wel… Criminologe Kate Marshall is met haar zoon aan het duiken als ze een huiveringwekkende ontdekking doen. Ze vinden het lichaam van een tiener, verstrikt onder water. De politie bestempelt het al snel als een tragisch ongeluk, maar Kate is daar niet zo zeker van. Er klopt heel veel niet: wat deed het slachtoffer daar midden in de nacht? En als hij zo’n sterke zwemmer was, hoe verdronk hij dan? De verdronken tiener is het meest recente slachtoffer in een reeks mysterieuze sterfgevallen en verdwijningen rond Shadow Sands, een stuwmeer dat ontstond toen een vallei en het gelijknamige dorpje onder water werden gezet. Er doen veel vreemde verhalen de ronde, en al -jarenlang verdwijnen er regelmatig mensen. Dan verdwijnt ook een -jonge onderzoekster, Magdalena Rossi. Kate vraagt haar partner Tristan Harper om mee te helpen zoeken naar de vrouw – voordat het te laat is.

With gripping twists, turns and a shocking ending, NINE ELMS by Robert Bryndza is unputdownable thriller fiction at its most electrifying.

Unlimited consequences.The book that inspired the major film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. Yes Man is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say YES to everything, in order to make his life more interesting.

The slaying of an old couple in small-town America looks like a one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a serial killer striking again. When the two separate investigations converge, it seems an old killer has resurfaced.

When elderly Morey Gilbert is found lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution.

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ 'Just listen,' Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.' I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. 'Stay,' he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. A cold February morning . . . a snowy road . . . and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. Haunting, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be. Includes interviews with the stars of the film, Chloe Moretz and Jamie Blackley.

Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.

Her eyes are wide open, lips parted as if to speak, her dead body frozen in the ice. When a young boy discovers a woman's body beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called to lead the investigation. The victim, a beautiful socialite, seemed to live a perfect life. However, as Erika digs deeper, she connects the murder to the killings of three strangled prostitutes found dumped in water around London. What dark secrets does the girl in the ice conceal? As Erika inches closer to the truth, the killer is closing in on her. Her last investigation ended tragically, resulting in her husband's death. With her career on the line, Erika must confront her personal demons and a deadly adversary. Will she catch him before he strikes again? This gripping thriller is packed with suspense, perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, and Karin Slaughter. Readers rave about the book's compelling narrative, praising its tight writing and enthralling plot. With unexpected twists and a shocking conclusion, it promises to keep you on the edge of your seat, making it a must-read for crime fiction enthusiasts. Prepare for an addictive journey filled with lies, secrets, and relentless tension.

Naïve and already war-weary, James Gouding takes up a position in Naples in 1943. What he doesn't anticipate is that this involves a limited menu of fried Spam fritters and interrogating the would-be Italian fiancees of members of the armed forces. James's chance at true heroism arrives when a German tank is sighted and he is caught in its path. However, it is the imperious and dogmatic Livia who opens the hatch and yells at him to stop being such an idiot. Livia gladly becomes cook, translator and general factotum to James. The two begin to fall in love, but the eruption of Vesuvius triggers a chain of explosive events that will force the two to flee behind enemy lines and will alter their lives immeasurably.

A brilliant satire on globalization and marketing hype. In the future, the world will be run by giant American corporations. Everybody will be so happy, tax-free and rich that they will loyally change their name to that of their company. Which is where Hack Nike comes in. Hack s career is going nowhere fast. In the future, this is not a good thing. So when John Nike and John Nike offer Hack Nike a job marketing a new line of really, really expensive trainers he is understandably thrilled. Until, that is, he discovers his duties include establishing street cred for these shoes by shooting teenagers... Described by Naomi Klein as brilliant and hilarious , Jennifer Government is a wickedly funny thriller for the No Logo generation; a funny, fast-paced and ferocious satire on globalization and capitalism.

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