One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins. But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden. As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.

WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES? One night changes everything for Toby. He’s always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family’s ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins. But not long after Toby’s arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden. As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself. A spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime writing and turns it inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, if we no longer know who we are.

WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES? One night changes everything for Toby. He’s always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family’s ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins. But not long after Toby’s arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden. As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself. A spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime writing and turns it inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, if we no longer know who we are.

This is the case she imagined. Precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous. Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place, is still on the Murder squad, but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going well - but the rest of her working life isn't. Antoinette doesn't play well with others, and there's a vicious running campaign in the squad to get rid of her. She and Stephen pull a case that at first looks like a slam-dunk lovers' tiff. All she and her partner have to do is track down Lover Boy and bring him in. Then it'll be back to business as usual, watching from a distance as the real detectives go up against the psychopaths. Except when Antoinette takes a good look at the victim's face, she realises she's seen her somewhere before. And suddenly the conviction that there's a different answer takes her breath away.

A disappearance. A small town. A question that needs answering... Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone missing, and no one, least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any kind of investigation, but somehow he can't make himself walk away. Soon Cal will discover that even in the most idyllic small town, secrets lie hidden, people aren't always what they seem, and trouble can come calling at his door. A gripping tale of breath-taking beauty and suspense that asks how we decide what's right and wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we risk if we fail.

Du kannst nicht fliehen aus Faithful Place Frank Mackey, Undercover-Ermittler, hat seine Familie seit 22 Jahren nicht gesehen. Die vier Geschwister, den trinkenden, gewalttatigen Vater, die ruppige Mutter. Er wollte der Armut und Perspektivlosigkeit seines Viertels fur immer entfliehen – zusammen mit seiner ersten gro?en Liebe Rosie. Doch die hatte ihn versetzt und war allein nach England aufgebrochen, so hat Frank es jedenfalls immer gedacht. Bis Rosies Koffer und ihre Fahrtickets in dem alten Abbruchhaus in der Stra?e seiner Kindheit gefunden werden. Frank muss zuruck nach Faithful Place – und feststellen, dass er diesen dunklen Ort immer in sich getragen hat.

Dem Tod wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten Als die junge Polizistin Cassie Maddox in ein verfallenes Cottage au?erhalb von Dublin gerufen wird, schaut sie ins Gesicht des Todes wie in einen Spiegel: Die Ermordete gleicht ihr bis aufs Haar. Wer ist diese Frau? Wer hat sie niedergestochen? Und hatte eigentlich Cassie selbst sterben sollen? Keine Spuren und Hinweise sind zu finden, und bald bleibt nur eine Moglichkeit: Cassie Maddox muss in die Haut der Toten schlupfen, um den Morder zu finden. Ein ungeheuerliches Spiel beginnt.

»Ich sehne mich nach der Wahrheit. Und ich luge.« Er ist ein erfolgreicher Ermittler. Man vertraut ihm schwierige Falle an. Er lost sie alle. Bis eine Leiche gefunden wird – an dem Ort, der seine tiefsten Angste weckt... In der Ausgrabungsstatte Knocknaree bei Dublin wird ein Madchen tot aufgefunden, aufgebahrt auf einem Opferaltar. Der junge Ermittler Rob Ryan und seine Partnerin Cassie Maddox ubernehmen den Fall. Doch alle Spuren fuhren nur tiefer in ein unergrundliches Dickicht. Und niemand darf erfahren, was mit Ryan vor zwanzig Jahren im Wald von Knocknaree geschehen ist.

Бренд: Seasalt CornwallЦвет: squall

Eine Geschichte von machtiger Spannung und Schonheit »Uberzeugende suggestive Kraft.« FAZ »Unwiderstehlicher Lese-Sog.« Brigitte »Durch ihren Roman ›Der Sucher‹ bin ich Fan von Tana French geworden.« Devid Striesow Cal Hooper, ehemaliger Cop aus Chicago, hat sich in den Westen von Irland gefluchtet. Die Natur scheint friedlich, im Dorf nimmt man ihn freundlich auf. Da springt sein langjahrig trainierter innerer Alarm an: Er wird beobachtet. Immer wieder taucht ein Kind bei ihm auf. Auf den umliegenden Farmen kommen auf seltsame Weise Tiere zu Tode. Cal gerat in eine Suche, die niemanden verschont. Ein beeindruckender, atmospharischer Roman uber Familie, Gemeinschaft, die Natur und die Gefahr, die von den Menschen kommt. Das neue spannende Werk der renommierten Bestseller-Autorin Tana French. »Ein Meisterwerk in seiner eigenen Liga: Diese soghafte Geschichte uber vereitelte Traume ist Tana Frenchs bestes Buch bisher.« Washington Post

Don't trust anyone… When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident. Except no one has seen her since, and something doesn't sit right with the officers at Hampstead County PD. With multiple suspects and witnesses throwing up startling inconsistencies, and interference from the top threatening the integrity of the investigation, lead detective Casey Wray is thrust into an increasingly puzzling case that looks like it's going to have only one ending… And then the first body appears… For fans of Susie Steiner, Peter Swanson, M J Arlidge, James Lee Burke and Tana French

In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk...

Nobody sees and understands woodland better than Ray Mears. With deep natural history knowledge and practical woodcraft skills, gained over a lifetime of learning from the world's last remaining indigenous peoples, Ray offers a different way to experience our wooded landscapes. He challenges the old concepts. He looks to our ancestors and shows how man's hand in shaping woodland is critical. We are not separate from nature, we just need to ensure that our interactions have a positive impact. With the emphasis on interaction, British Woodland is structured by usage. We learn that sycamore and clematis are among the best woods for burning, pine and oak help us navigate, and hawthorn and beech have edible leaves. Rope can be made from willow, utensils and tools from hazel, and historically, weapons were made from yew and wych elm. With Ray as our guide, encouraging this sense of connection to individual trees, our appreciation of wooded landscapes will change. We can learn how to live inclusively in nature, for our own wellbeing and enjoyment, and also for the future of our planet.

Identitat, Erinnerung und Mord: der neue gro?e Roman der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin. Toby Hennessy, 28, fuhrt ein unbeschwertes Leben in Dublin. Bis er eines Nachts in seiner Wohnung brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Toby uberlebt nur knapp, kann sich nicht mehr auf seine Erinnerungen verlassen. Er fluchtet sich in das »Efeuhaus« – das alte Anwesen der Familie, wo er sich um seinen sterbenden Onkel Hugo kummern soll. Doch der dunkle Garten des Hauses birgt ein schreckliches Geheimnis. »Tana Frenchs bisher bestes Buch: Krimi, Familiengeschichte, psychologische Studie. Spannend, beruhrend und beunruhigend bis zum Schluss.« hr2 Kultur »In der besonderen Zone zwischen Spannung und Literatur, mit einer Sprache wie Satin, ein Glucksfall fur den Leser.« Stephen King »Tana Frenchs bisher bester Roman.« New York Times Von der international gefeierten irischen Schriftstellerin Tana French, Autorin von »Grabesgrun«, »Totengleich«, »Geheimer Ort«.

Издание полностью на английском языке. Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries worth of French historical facts bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066...

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