Two aliens, Pic and Poc, embark on an adventurous journey through space to explore Earth. However, their experience unfolds in unexpected ways, leading to surprising challenges and discoveries that differ from their initial expectations.
Edith Walter Books
Der letzte Samurai Roman
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Dieses weitgespannte Epos voller Abenteuer, Exotik, Naturgewalt und Romantik erzählt von Menschen, die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, als Japan sich dem Westen öffnen mußte, um Überleben und neue Lebensformen kämpfen. Von dem weitblickenden Samurai Sadayori als Kundschafter auf Reisen geschickt, besteht der junge Walfänger Jinsuke die gefährlichsten Abenteuer und lernt die westliche Lebensweise der «Barbaren» kennen, immer auf der Flucht vor dem engstirnigen Fanatismus seiner eigenen Landsleute, die sich nur schwer von alten Traditionen lösen können.
Arthur Johnson doesn't look like a murderous psychopath; Locked in the cellar of his building is the perfect willing victim, a woman who can be murdered over and over again, a woman who waits for Arthur every night...
The Throat
- 704 pages
- 25 hours of reading
Straub completes the Blue Rose trilogy with this searing novel of psychological terror. Tim Underhill and the brilliant and reclusive Tom Pasmore court ultimate destruction as they dare to look back to a dark past that holds the secret of evil which signs its name Blue Rose.
"A Ruth Rendell Mystery Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . . 'A beautiful double-take plot. And characters seen with compassion. Her best yet!' H. R. F. KEATING THE TIMES"
Auf Mardian Castle wird das heidnische Fest des Schwertertanzes gefeiert. Als der Darsteller des Narren ermordet wird, übernimmt Inspektor Alleyn von Scotland Yard den Fall, der die Tradition in Frage stellt.
