"The bigger the sin, the further the fall... With Easter approaching, the verger of St Albans Cathedral was supposed to be readying the church. Instead he discovers a man lying dead, fallen from the famous 150-foot-high tower. Did he jump, or was he pushed? For DCI Maarten Jansen, it's a simple case of suspected suicide. Until a witness, Willow, prompts a deeper investigation into a long-buried past, involving a psychiatric hospital, a pregnant woman, and fifty years of silence. As Willow's own family history entwines with the case, Jansen starts to wonder how everything is connected."--Provided by publisher.
From James Preller, the author of Bystander, another unflinching book about bullying and its fallout.
Kay Carroll also worked as a nurse there, while Smith invited patients in for a cup of tea. 'Sit them down, play them some rock and roll, a bit of telly [. . .] I'd take them to the pub: a bit of normality [.
Madeline Usher has been buried alive. The doomed heroine comes to the fore in this eerie reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher.
Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the...
5 Ryan, 2003. 6 Service, 1978, p.167. 7 Malinowski, 1932; Elwin, 1968. 8 Elwin, 1968. 9 Malinowski, 1932. 10 Ryan, 2003, p.128. 11 Bolton, 1973; Ryan, 2003. 12 Holmberg, 1950. 13 Lawlor, 1991. 14 Ryan, 2003, p.100. 15 ibid., p.101.
And what he’s seen changes everything. The Fall goes behind the headlines of the country’s most captivating court case to bring the story of how Lisa fell in love and grew to fear her fiance.
After falling off the wall, Humpty Dumpty is very afraid of climbing up again, but is determined not to let fear stop him from being close to the birds.
She was all that mattered. She was all there ever was. There was no life without Dallas, no reason . . . except her. No matter how hard she tried to convince me, I knew I had to once again make her mine, to make her remember . . . the fall.
At the center of the conflict lies an ancient text that contains the vampires' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all.
San Francisco lawyers Dismas Hardy and his associate and only daughter Rebecca find themselves in the middle of a difficult murder case involving a teenage African American foster child.