A famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety.
You think you know everything about your life.Long-married couple Junior and Henrietta live a quiet, solitary life on their farm, where they work at the local feed mill and raise chickens. Their lives are simple, straightforward, uncomplicated.
Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big – master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition – he knows that Mr Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat.
The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey eyes. He was wearing a very dark blue lightweight single-breast suit over a cream silk shirt and a black knitted silk tie.
Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives.
Das Schlimmste am Heiraten ist die Hochzeitsnacht. Zumindest für Edward und Florence, 1962 im prüden England. Begierde und Befangenheit, Anziehung und Angst sind miteinander im Widerstreit in der Hochzeitssuite mit Blick aufs Meer.
Amsterdam ist ein streng komponierter, vielschichtiger Roman in fünf Teilen, der dem Leser das beinharte Geschäft in den Medien glänzend präsentiert. -Manuela Haselberger-
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.