Wanneer een man opdracht heeft een ring op een veiling te kopen, ontmoet hij allerlei mensen die ervan overtuigd zijn dat zijn opdrachtgever een duikster heeft vermoord die het wrak van een bijna driehonderd jaar eerder vergaan schip wilde onderzoeken.
In de heuvels van Los Angeles wordt een auto gevonden met een jong stel erin. Allebei zijn ze vermoord met een kogel door het hoofd. Bij haar is ook nog eens een metalen stang door het hart gedreven. Rechercheur Milo Sturgis beseft dat deze zaak op het terrein van zijn vriend komt, de psycholoog Alex Delaware. Het is het terrein van de menselijke geest - complex, geheimzinnig en met een angstaanjagende neiging tot het kwaad. Delaware volgt een pad dat leidt naar een bekende psychiater en naar meer koelbloedige moorden. Naar hebzucht en bedrog.
Sleeper (colloq.): 1. out-of-town hit man who spends the night after a local contract is completed. 2. A juvenile sentenced to serve any period longer than nine months in a state-managed facility. This narrative follows four young boys, lifelong friends who are intelligent, fun-loving, and wise beyond their years, as they navigate life in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. They thrive on pranks and believe they are untouchable—until a harmless scheme spirals into disaster, leading to a year in the Wilkinson Home for Boys. The oldest is fifteen, the youngest twelve. Their experiences there—brutal beatings and humiliation—will haunt them forever. Years later, one becomes a lawyer, another a reporter, while two become murderers and professional hit men. The trauma of Wilkinson fuels their desire for revenge. They plan to manipulate the legal system and commandeer the courtroom to settle scores, using the street smarts and violence they learned in their youth. If caught, they risk their lives. This extraordinary true story reveals a flawed system and the consequences faced by its victims, some innocent and others not. At its core is a sensational murder trial that highlights loyalty and love among friends, told with humor and compassion, making for an unforgettable reading experience.
De vijftienjarige Irit Carmeli wordt koelbloedig tijdens ten schoolreisje in de berger van Santa Monica vermoord. Rechercheur Milo Sturgis staat voor een raadsel en roept de hulp in van Alex Delaware, de kinderpsycholoog. Al snel wordt de zaak een van de grimmigste in de carrière van Alex Delaware. De moord op Irit, dochter van de Israëlische consul, staat niet op zichzelf. Er worden meer slachtoffers gevonden. Ogenschijnlijk hebben ze niets met elkaar te maken, behalve dat ze allemaal gehandicapt waren...
De vrouw van Pontius Pilatus, Romeins prefect van Judea ten tijde van Jezus, heeft de gave van voorspellende dromen die haar helpen zich staande te houden in het Romeinse keizerrijk vol macht, verraad en intriges.
It has been a house of secrets for over sixty years - Bridge House on the edge of Exmoor, beautiful and remote, a wild place where the sound of the rushing stream is ever present. Clio is staying there with her godmother Hester, reliving happy childhood memories. Jonah, visiting the area, chances upon the house where his mother stayed as a child during the fevered atmosphere of the second world war, a time when passions ran high. They don't yet know it, but their histories are inextricably linked. Hester knows the truth, but how much should she tell them? What would be gained by raking over the past? As the young couple become closer, Hester realises that they must know the truth, before it is too late.
A husband and wife are found imprisoned in their London home and their young son is missing. DI Jack Caffery is called in to investigate, but similar events from his own past make it hard for him to view this crime with the necessary detatchment.
Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Twelve years before the day in September 1923 when a paragraph in the newspaper made his blood run cold, he had turned his back on it for the last time, turned his back on the woman he loved, and who loved him. But when he read that Consuela Caswell had been charged with murder by poisoning he knew, with a certainty that defied the great divide of all those years, that she could not be guilty. As the remorse and shame of his own betrayal of her came flooding back, he knew too that he could not let matters rest. And when she sent her own daughter to him, pleading for help, he knew that he must return at last to Clouds Frome and to the dark secret that it held.
On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, he is puzzled but not alarmed. He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear... The stranger announces himself ast James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James Davenall, the man to whom Trenchard's wife Constance had been engaged, and who had committed suicide eleven years ago. Sir Hugo, James's younger brother, and his mother, Lady Catherine, refuse to recognise Norton and force Trenchard - who fears the loss of his wife's affections - into an uneasy alliance against him. But Trenchard must plumb the depths of his own despair before the dark secrets of the Davenall family can finally, shockingly, be revealed...
