Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. But with powerful forces for change raging outside the convent, and with the world of the women within threatened by a new arrival, passions, hysteria, and conflict will come to threaten their very survival.
When private investigator Izzy Spellman is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as an occupational hazard. She's been keeping surveillance on her new next-door neighbour (suspect's name: John Brown), convinced he's up to no good - even if Spellman Investigations management (Izzy's parents) disagree. When the displeased management refuse to bail her out, it's Morty, Izzy's octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defence, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and pastrami sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth - as only she, a licensed 30-year-old professional, can.
1828. Sa voix est sereine, comme détachée de tout. Et pourtant si dérangeante. Marion est propriétaire d'esclaves dans le Sud des Etats-Unis. Elle nous parle de ses aspirations et de ses fantasmes, de son passé et de son présent, de son mari qui ne l'aime pas, et de Sarah, son esclave qui, petit à petit, va s'installer dans sa vie jusqu'à la lui voler. Et, peut-être, inverser les rôles. Car qui, de la maîtresse et de l'esclave, possède ou est possédée ? Qui est la victime et qui est le bourreau ? C'est sur cette ambiguïté que repose le roman de Valerie Martin. C'est aussi dans ce paradoxe qu'il puise toute sa force. Couronné par le prestigieux Prix Orange, qui récompense le meilleur roman de langue anglaise écrit par une femme, ce saisissant portrait est une double démythification du Sud chevaleresque de l'Amérique et du bonheur conjugal. Mais, plus qu'un réquisitoire contre toutes les oppressions, Maîtresse est un magnifique plaidoyer pour la vie.
Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?
In this sequel to "Dissolution," it is now 1540, and Shardlake has returned to practicing law in London. When he is called on to help a friend's niece, charged with killing her cousin, he has no idea it will force him back into Cromwell's dangerous schemes.
Enter Olivia Joules: fearless, dazzling, independent, beauty-journalist turned master spy--a new heroine from Helen Fielding, creator of Bridget Jones.
A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today's most versatile and compelling storytellers.It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends.It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up…Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what women want and what women fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity. Laying bare the comfortable conventions of rural England, this spine-tingling novel pulses with suspense until the whiplash double-twist of the denouement.
