Carla Benink Libros

Když se hovoří o velikosti starého Egypta, vybaví se okamžitě každému jméno Ramses. Faraon, který panoval více než 60 let. V tuto chvíli má Ramses teprve 14 let. Jeho otec Setchi, faraon uctívaný a vážený svým lidem, dokázal vybudovat z Egypta nejmocnější a všemi nepřáteli tolerovanou říši. Kdo však nastoupí po něm ? Jeho starší bratr Šenar, který je lstivý a vypočítavý, nebo Ramses, prudký a vášnivý? Setchti začne do nejvyšší funkce tajně zasvěcovat svého mladšího syna. Klade mu různé úkoly, aby ho vyzkoušel a připravil na tvrdé vládnutí, množí se zkoušky a nástrahy ze strany jeho staršího bratra. Musí se rozhodnout, která bude dívka jeho srdce a s blížící se korunovací musí odolávat stále horším intrikám svého bratra. V tomto nelehkém úkolu ho podpoří jeho přátelé : Mojžíš, Setaua a Ameni...

In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli...When part-time model and full-time prostitute Luciana Vetra is asked by one of her most exalted clients to pose for a painter friend, she doesn't mind serving as the model for the central figure of Flora in Sandro Botticelli's masterpiece "Primavera." But when the artist dismisses her without payment, Luciana impulsively steals an unfinished version of the painting--only to find that somone is ready to kill her to get it back. What could possibly be so valuable about the picture? As friends and clients are slaughtered around her, Luciana turns to the one man who has never desired her beauty, novice librarian Brother Guido. Fleeing Venice together, Luciana and Guido race through the nine cities of Renaissance Italy, pursued by ruthless foes who are determined to keep them from decoding the painting's secrets.Gloriously fresh and vivid, with a deliciously irreverent heroine, The Botticelli Secret is an irresistible blend of history, wit, and suspense.

Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure.

Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high- tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she accepted a scholarship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. Now, more than twenty years and many career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship. As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments, MIT and Harvard, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally.

Het begint allemaal met een glimmende rode grasmaaimachine. Is dat haar kerstcadeau? Met een schok realiseert Nancy zich dat de sieraden die haar man Jonathan de laatste tijd gekocht heeft niet voor haar bestemd waren, maar voor een andere vrouw. Ze vertrekt naar Londen om een nieuw leven te beginnen. Het duurt niet lang voor ze haar knappe buurman Connor ontmoet.

Forensisch pathologe Kay Scarpetta onderzoekt de moord op een dwergvrouw.

Een vrouwelijke officier van justitie raakt verstrikt in intriges rond een tien jaar oude zaak.

Literatuur > Roman