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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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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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Robert Harris The Second Sleep
the Sunday Times #1 bestselling novel
THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS: chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and ExpressWHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? 'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if possible. ' STEPHEN KING'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative. ' SUNDAY TIMES'Genuinely thrilling. ' DAILY TELEGRAPH_____________________________________ Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax,...
Engels | ePub3, 5,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2019
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Donna Leon Earthly Remains
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
A moody mystery set in Italy from the New York Timesbestselling author: ';One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever. ' The Washington Post Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists. But at least he gets to do it in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In this mystery in the bestselling series, the police commissioner's endurance will truly be tested. During an interrogation of...
Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | Atlantic Monthly Press, [Nederland] | 2017
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Donna Leon The jewels of paradise
Een uit Venetièˆ afkomstige musicologe wordt gevraagd de nalatenschap van de Venetiaanse barokcomponist Agostini Steffani (1654-1728) te inventariseren.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Karin Fossum The Drowned Boy - Inspector Sejer
He'd just learnt to walk, she said. He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone. A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2015
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Mo Hayder Wolf - Jack Caffery 7
The sensational new Jack Caffery thriller from Mo Hayder, bestselling author of Gone and Poppet. Who's afraid?I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is silent. Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The prime suspect confessed to the crimes and was imprisoned.Now, one family is still trying to put the memory of the killings behind them. But at their isolated...
Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2014
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James Patterson I, Michael Bennett - Michael Bennett 5
Michael Bennett takes down a notorious drug kingpin - and becomes his no. 1 target.Detective Michael Bennett arrests infamous South American crime lord Manuel Perrine in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett s lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain terror down upon New York City - and to get revenge on Michael Bennett.Perrine's men create chaos: police officers are shot, judges murdered. As Bennett is engulfed in the struggle against this widening organised violence,...
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2012
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James Patterson Tick Tock - Michael Bennett 4
Someone is recreating the crimes of the most terrifying killers in New York's history.TICK... A KILLER'S COUNTDOWN BEGINS.A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos.TICK... CAN MICHAEL BENNETT CATCH HIM?The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. But as...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2011
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Val McDermid Kick Back - PI Kate Brannigan, Book 2
'Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, she is refreshingly funny' Daily MailKate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before Long she's up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery - and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate's own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
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McDermid The Torment of Others - Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 4
The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Tony Hill, hero of TV's Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. This is a psychological thriller - and serial killer - that will keep you up at night.For some, there is nothing so sweet, so thrilling, as the torment of others ...A dead girl lies on a blood-soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of one...
Engels | 576 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
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Mo Hayder Skin - Jack Caffery 4
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery. With the traumas...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009
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Mo Hayder Ritual - Jack Caffery 3
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that...
Engels | 560 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009
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Karin Fossum The Water's Edge - Inspector Sejer
A couple out walking in the woods discover the dead body of a half-naked boy. To Kristine's horror her husband begins to take photographs of the corpse on his mobile phone, but this proves only the beginning of his obsession with the case.Inspector Sejer is called to the scene but he can find no immediate cause of death. And who was the agitated man the couple saw moments before their discovery? Then, a second boy goes missing, and the once peaceful community is left deeply shaken.Is there a killer...
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2009
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Karin Fossum Black Seconds - Inspector Sejer
Nine-year-old Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother, Helga, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family being to search for Ida, Helga's worst nightmare becomes reality.As the police are called in, hundreds of volunteers comb the neighbourhood, but there are no traces of the little girl, or her bike. As the relatives reach breaking point and the...
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008
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Nicholas Petrie Burning bright
Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.Uprooting from their quiet Dorset village to the carnal streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel far from home. The Kellaways struggle to fi nd their place in a tumultuous city, alive with repercussions from the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily streetwise Maggie Butterfi eld is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together...
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Tom Grimes City of God
In een Amerikaanse stad, die is verdeeld tussen een blank en een zwart gedeelte, schiet een zwarte jongen twee agenten neer, waarna rellen uitbreken die de stad in rep en roer brengen.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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