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Mariëtte van Gelder

    Let Me Go. Totengabe, englische Ausgabe
    The Broken Window
    Torens van stilte
    Facing the light
    Pop Goes the Weasel
    Where the Crawdads Sing
    • Where the Crawdads Sing

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura
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      OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens. 'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail 'I can't even express how much I love this book!' Reese Witherspoon '[It] will reach a huge audience though the writer's old-fashioned talents for compelling character, plotting and landscape description' Guardian 'Writing that takes your breath away' The Times

      Where the Crawdads Sing
    • Pop Goes the Weasel

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura
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      A man's body is found in an empty house. His heart has been cut out and delivered to his wife and children. He is the first victim, and Detective Inspector Helen Grace knows he will not be the last. But why would a happily married man be this far from home in the dead of night?

      Pop Goes the Weasel
    • Facing the light

      • 503 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose paintings are kept at the family home, Willow Court in Wiltshire. At Leonora's house party will be her daughters, Gwen and Rilla, whom she raised alone after she was widowed in her late twenties; Rilla's stepdaughter Beth; and Gwen's husband and three children with their spouses and lovers. One outsider joins the group: Sean Everard, a television director who's making a documentary about the life and work of Ethan Walsh. All families have their dark side and Leonora's is no exception. By the time the marquee is dismantled and all the guests have gone their separate ways, two shocking past events have come to light, to rock complacency and change for ever the lives of Leonora and her daughters.

      Facing the light
    • Torens van stilte

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Fin Border, een Engelse advocaat in New York, wordt 's morgens vroeg door zijn beste vriend gebeld, omdat deze hem zijn nieuwe auto wil laten zien: een McLaren F1, van zo'n $400.000,-. Wanneer zijn vriend de auto wil uittesten, stort hij zich met 300 km per uur op de ondergelegen snelweg en neemt vijftien mensen mee in zijn dood. Fin vraagt zich vertwijfeld af, waarom zijn vriend hem uitnodigde bij zijn zelfmoordpoging en staat voor een raadsel wanneer blijkt, dat de McLaren met een lening op zijn naam staat en hij nu beschuldigd wordt van medeplichtigheid en aanzetten tot (zelf)moord. Binnen 24 uur is hij plotseling zonder geld, onder verdenking van de politie en aangeklaagd wegens de dood van vijftien onschuldigen. Zijn advocatenkantoor, dat verwikkeld is in de fusiebesprekingen met het grootste Amerikaanse advocatenkantoor in New York, wil hem zo snel mogelijk uit de weg hebben, eist dat hij al zijn lopende zaken overdraagt en stuurt hem het land uit, naar Indta, voor een kleine overname. Zijn ergste nachtmerrie wordt werkelijkheid als zijn nieuwe bestemming Bombay blijkt te zijn, de stad waar zijn vaderzelfmoord heeft gepleegd bij de Torens van Stilte, de heilige begraafplaats. Wanneer daar weer iemand uit Fin's kring vermoord wordt, beseft hij, dat hij nog niet veilig is voor diegenen, die hem in New York in de val hadden gelokt. Hij realiseert zich, dat daar, tussen de stille torens van Manhattan, de oplossing ligt en het gevecht op hem wacht.

      Torens van stilte
    • He is watching you. He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder . . .

      The Broken Window
    • Let Me Go. Totengabe, englische Ausgabe

      • 374 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Detective Archie Sheridan just has to get through the next few days, then his birthday and Halloween will be over. But with escaped serial killer Gretchen Lowell on the loose, the investigation into the murder of a DEA agent demanding his attention, and journalist Susan Ward showing up at his apartment needing a favour, it's going to be a long weekend. Soon Archie finds himself crashing a masked ball on a private island owned by Jack Reynolds, a notorious local drug kingpin. By morning, Archie is back on pain killers, a guest is dead and Archie quickly realizes that little is what it seems. One thing is clear: Gretchen is back, and Archie's nemesis and sometimes lover has something special in mind for the birthday boy, something she's been planning for a long, long time. On Halloween Eve, with time running out, and the life of someone close to Archie on the line, Archie knows his only chance is to give Gretchen exactly what she wants. But Gretchen will prove more horrifying, and unpredictable, than Archie could ever imagine...

      Let Me Go. Totengabe, englische Ausgabe
    • Tengo tu número

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura
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      "Esta traduccion fue originalmente publicada en Espana por Random House Mondadori, S.A., Barcelona, en 2012"--T.p. verso.

      Tengo tu número
    • The second book in the mind-blowing new series from the author of GONE. Another breathtaking page-turner from Michael Grant. The first battle is over, but the war rages on. Sanity or madness? Truth or happiness? Love or survival? In the nano, you don't get to decide. schovat popis

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    • Heartsick

      • 420 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Detective Archie Sheridan has spent years tracking serial killer Gretchen Lowell. In the end, it was she who caught him, tortured him, then mysteriously set him free and turned herself in. Now as he trails a new case, Archie needs Gretchen in more ways than one--to catch a killer and to release his soul. Martin's Press.

      Heartsick
    • Tethered

      • 340 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Daisies for innocence; irises for hope; asphodel for eternal sorrow... Clara Marsh is an undertaker. She spends her solitary life among the dead and bids them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. But Clara's carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlour, desperate for a friend. It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn that Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between her solitary but steadfast existence and the perils of binding one's life to another. Clara's search for the girl pulls her into a spiralling series of events that threaten to endanger the few people Clara has grown to love - and finally brings her own tragic and long-buried past to the surface.

      Tethered