Then they drove off without saying goodbye, and left me wondering what would happen next. Mrs. Pearson is picking on SarahRiddell today. It's notfair but it'sarelief. Eight minutes to lunchbreak. Matthew says theyasked for it.
The victim went to Trinity College, and she belonged to theirNewman Club.” “What's the Newman Club?” “A Catholic social club, basically. According to McGuire, the Trinity girls go to Newman Club mixers at Georgetown to meet 198 SUSAN FLEET.
Plans for a relaxing summer are put on hold when Russ Becker is invited by the Praetorian Guard to protect the president and her daughter from assassination at a black-tie event.
Raised by criminals, I was molded to fit into a world without morals.
Told in shifting perspectives, Absolution is centred on the mysterious character of Clare Wald, a controversial writer of great fame, haunted by the memories of a sister she fears she betrayed to her death and a daughter she fears she ...
Jeanie thinks she was to blame for the sexual assault she suffered in college—and she’d do anything to keep her old-school Catholic family from finding out about the resulting pregnancy, as well as what she did to conceal it.
Clare Wade, icône du microcosme littéraire blanc et de gauche de Cape Town, est contactée par Sam Leroux, un jeune universitaire qui souhaite retracer sa carrière dans une biographie. Depuis...
In the tradition of Bulgakov, Gogol and Kafka Ales Steger lets the forces of good and evil collide in this grandiose literary thriller. This is a debut novel filled with striking personae, haunting images and a grotesque plot.
L'Islandais Peter Peterson, émigré jeune aux Etats-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, arrive à l'automne de sa vie. Après deux mariages malheureux - ses enfants sont " la preuve vivante...
Peter Peterson, an Icelandic expatriate living in New York, is racked by nightmares about a crime of passion he may have committed a half-century before out of an unrequited love. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Le cadavre d'une adolescente est découvert, une feuille de papier placée à ses côtés sur laquelle est indiqué le chiffre deux.
Le père Goddard a placé de grands espoirs dans son élève préféré, garçon charmeur et brillant, véritable prodigue du pensionnat. Jusqu'au jour où celui-ci, afin de défier son autorité, détruisit...
Part literary thriller, part meditation on the responsibility of the individual under totalitarianism, this is a masterpiece of rich, complicated characters and narration that captures the reader and does not let go.
It was once said “chance is the fool's name for fate”. Regardless, this is a surreal scene. The fire is fool's name for fate”. Regardless, this is a surreal scene. The fire is out and the rescue mission is in full swing.
"A must-read crime thriller about an NYPD detective attempting to solve his own parents' murder.
Battle lines are being drawn between the enclave of Penton, AL, and the Vampire Tribunal.
Originally intended as a prologue to Fitzgerald’s masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’, this short tale follows the life of 11-year-old Catholic Rudolph Miller, who fantasises about his self-created alter ego, Blatchford Sarnemington.
Absolution
At times brutal, often lyrical, but always gripping, Absolution is a thriller that will leave you breathless and questioning the very basis of how we live and why we love. ____________________ Praise for Paul E. Hardisty 'A trenchant and ...
He started planning it in June 1922, after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923. He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story "Absolution.