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Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy
Now a Major Motion Picture
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY***Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction******Now a feature film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019***Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers...
Engels | ePub2, 6,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Robert Harris Munich
Edge of War; Soon to be a major NETFLIX movie starring Jeremy Irons
Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the...
Engels | ePub3, 6,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donna Leon Falling in Love
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
An opera singer is terrified by an obsessive fan in this ';stunning' mystery in the New York Timesbestselling series set in Venice, Italy (Library Journal, starred review). Years ago, Guido Brunetti cleared the opera star Flavia Petrelli in the murder of a renowned conductor. Now the soprano is returning to Veniceand its celebrated opera house, La Feniceto sing the lead in Tosca. Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives a standing ovation. Back in her dressing...
Engels | ePub2, 3 MB | Atlantic Monthly Press, [Nederland] | 2021
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Leif Davidsen The Sardine Deception
In a series of complex double-crosses a menacing mystery builds: Who is the "Sardine" behind the killing?"The Sardine Deception" is Leif Davidsen's author debut book from 1984. The novel takes place in the Basque Country, where a young Danish woman has been killed during an ETA attack. Her husband, Poul, travels to Spain to retrieve the coffin and is involuntarily drawn into political intrigues involving Basque freedom fighters, the Spanish government, civil guards and fascist infiltrated police....
Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Ruth Ware The Death of Mrs Westaway
A modern-day murder mystery from The Sunday Times Bestseller
I read this in two lightning-quick sittings...I absolutely adored it'' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family UpstairsHAL MUST KEEP GOING OR RISK LOSING EVERYTHING...EVEN HER LIFE. When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she''s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. There''s just one problem - Hal''s real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. Hal desperately needs the cash and makes a choice that...
Engels | ePub3, 6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Camilla Lackberg The Preacher - Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 2
A brilliant Scandi-crime thriller from international bestseller Camilla Lackberg, perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson.Twenty years ago, two young women disappeared whilst holidaying in the peaceful Swedish resort of Fjallbacka. Now their remains have been discovered, along with those of a fresh victim, sending the town into shock.Local detective Patrik Hedstrom, whose girlfriend Erica is expecting their first child, has personal reasons for wanting to find the killer....
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Camilla Lackberg The Ice Princess - Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 1
The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg.A small town can hide many secretsReturning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems like she's taken her own life.Meanwhile, local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case....
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 2,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Patricia Snel The expat
Dutch expat Julia de Rijck uses husband Paul's telescope to spy on Dave across the pool in their luxury Singapore condominium. Despite their mutual attraction there is something about the man that makes Julia uneasy. When Dave's maid, Angelica, dies in suspicious circumstances, Julia gets pulled into a world of secrets and discovers a less visible Singapore of exploitation and prostitution. The Expat is a gripping story of greed, love, infidelity and crime in Singapore. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Engels | 223 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2015
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Elizabeth Day The Party
**Elizabeth Day’s new novel Magpie is available to pre-order now.**AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment.‘A terrifying, hilarious, brilliantly written original with a wit to die for’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘As the train pressed on, I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction, plotted according to a new constellation. Because, although I didn''t know it yet,...
Engels | ePub2, 1,6 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2017
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Ruth Ware The Lying Game
The unpredictable thriller from the bestselling author of THE IT GIRL
I could not put this book down'' Reese Witherspoon'' IT ISN''T A GAME WHEN SOMEBODY DIESThe text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you.Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game, competing to convince people of outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2017
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Simone van der Vlugt Midnight Blue
Amsterdam 1654: a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East. When a figure from her past threatens her new life, Catrin flees to Delft. There, her painting...
Engels | ePub2, 1,8 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2017
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Nicci French Sunday Morning Coming Down
A Frieda Klein Novel (7)
THE CHILLING SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING FRIEDA KLEIN SERIES 'Menacing' GuardianSomeone is coming for Frieda, someone deadly ... Psychotherapist Frieda Klein has believed serial killer Dean Reeve escaped justice for years. Despite what the police say, she is convinced he's still alive. And finally she has the evidence - under her floor is the rotting corpse of an ex-policeman she hired to hunt for Reeve. Whoever did this is clearly very dangerous and must be found. But they're not finished with...
Engels | ePub3, 3,9 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2017
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Arnaldur Indriðason The shadow killer
Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog onderzoeken de IJslandse rechercheurs Flóvent en Thorson de moord op een handelsreiziger.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | ePub3, 3,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Tess Gerritsen Playing with fire
Violiste Julia Ansdale wil achterhalen waarom een indringende melodie, waarvan ze de bladmuziek in Rome vond, een gevaarlijk effect heeft op haar dochtertje.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Stephen King | Peter Straub Black house
In een rustig stadje in het midden-westen van de Verenigde Staten worden de bewoners opgeschrikt door een kannibalistische seriemoordenaar die het gemunt heeft op heel jonge kinderen.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Harper, [Nederland] | 2021
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Ruth Dugdall Woman before me
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Ruth Dugdall's novels are intelligent and gripping, with a sophisticated psychological sensibility. She is a huge talent. ' Sophie Hannah'An absolute tour de force that left me thinking for days. ' Alex MarwoodThey came for me, just like I knew they would. Luke had been dead for just three days. Rose Wilks' life is shattered when her newborn baby Joel is admitted to intensive care. Emma Hatcher has all that Rose lacks. Beauty. A loving husband. A healthy son. Until tragedy...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jemma Wayne Chains of Sand
The new novel from the award-winning author of After Before (longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award; longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize)Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'This is a wonderful book. Intriguing, moving, absorbing... a great read. ' -- Daniel Finkelstein, Associate Editor, The TimesHe has always been good at tracking down things that are hidden, like cockroaches in his mother's kitchen cupboard,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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J.S. Raynor See all evil
When British soldier, twenty-four year old Captain Alex McCloud is injured and blinded in Afghanistan during 2010, he is flown back to the U. K. for treatment at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham. After a painful, slow recovery, during which his fiance, Helen, ends their engagement, he is feeling angry and thoroughly dejected, with no possible hope for the future. A small ray of hope seems possible when he is offered the chance of sight using bionic implants, developed by Professor Goldman...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Dolman Scott Publishing, [Nederland] | 2016
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Paul Read Art teacher
This is a superb debut... gritty, disturbing and pacy. It opens with thrilling intensity and never lets up. ' -- Alex Lake, author of After AnnaPatrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the face. Unknowingly drawn into a war against his own pupils, Patrick's patience finally snaps as he finds himself the number one target with the boy the school just can't seem to expel. When one of his Art students needs his help, she unwittingly pulls Patrick further...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Ruth Ware The Woman in Cabin 10
The unputdownable thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The IT Girl
Reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller'' StylistA PASSENGER IS MISSING...BUT WAS SHE EVER ON BOARD AT ALL?This was meant to be the perfect trip. The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship.A chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge of collapse.Except things don''t go as planned.Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown...
Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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