Struggling photographer Ivy Culpepper has lots of soul-searching to do since returning to seaside Santa Sofia, California – that is, until the thirty-six-year-old enters a bread-making class at Yeast of Eden, the Mexican bread shop in town. Whether it's the aroma of fresh conchas in the oven or her instant connection with owner Olaya Solis, Ivy just knows the missing ingredients in her life are hidden among the secrets of Olaya's baker ...
1973. After leaving the Metropolitan Police Training Academy, 22 year-old Jane Tennison is placed on a probationary exercise in Hackney, London where criminality thrives. At first she struggles to deal with the shocking situations she faces, receiving no help or sympathy from her superiors. Jane feels out of her depth in this male-dominated, chauvinistic environment.Then she is given her first murder case . . . ...
Jane Tennison has been been promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London's Bow Street CID but she is struggling with some of the decisions her colleagues are making. The more experienced detectives move swiftly from one criminal case to the next, with Jane left doubting both their methods and their finding.<br><br>When Jane becomes inextricably involved in a multiple rape case she must decide whether to toe the line or ...
Detective Abish «Abbie» Taylor returned to the mountain town of Pleasant View, Utah, hoping for a quiet life. But that hope dissipates like a dream when she wakes up to an unsettling phone call. Arriving at the scene of a fatal car accident, she discovers that the victim was one of the most beloved leaders of the Church – and an old family friend. Abbie is skeptical when her father insists the death was not an accident, but in an attempt to patc ...
With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming— which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifesty ...
* The Believer Book Award Finalist* One of the Best Books of 2012 — BuzzFeed “I was in Zagreb the day that Michael Jackson died. When I heard the news, the first thing I thought was, That’s it. That’s the first line of my novel. ‘I was in Zagreb the day that Michael Jackson died.’” First Michael Jackson, then Pina Bausch. Next is Merce Cunningham. Gray Adams, a former dancer with the Royal Swiss Ballet at work on his dissertation at NYU, h ...
Der unbekannte Tote auf den Klippen. Die junge Gartnerin Mags Blake wird von dem Historiker Sam Hawthorn um Hilfe gebeten. Er arbeitet an einer Festschrift uber die Klosterinsel St. Michael's Mount, und Mags soll ein Kapitel uber die Garten der Insel schreiben. Bei ihren Recherchen sto?t sie in einer Kapelle auf die nackte Leiche eines alten Mannes – niemand scheint ihn zu kennen. Als ein Freund von Mags unter Verdacht gerat, mischt sie si ...
When Sarah Winston's estranged brother Luke shows up on her doorstep, asking her not to tell anyone he's in town – especially her ex, the chief of police – the timing is strange, to say the least. Hours earlier, Sarah's latest garage sale was taped off as a crime scene following the discovery of a murdered Vietnam vet and his gravely injured wife – her clients, the Spencers. All Luke will tell Sarah is that he's undercover, i ...
Verschworung auf Japanisch. Im Hamburger Volkspark wird die Leiche eines jungen Japaners gefunden, der brutal hingerichtet wurde. Es handelt sich um Tetsuro Goto, einen japanischen Profifu?baller, der beim HSV unter Vertrag stand. Inspektor Takeda und seine Kollegin Claudia Harms vermuten zunachst ein Verbrechen im Fu?ballmilieu. Doch dann finden sie mysteriose Hinweise in der Vergangenheit des Spielers, die bis in hohe Yakuza-Kreise in Japan r ...
