Sophie Brinkman Libros

Chapters include How to Become a Genius, The Trial of Love, The Triumph of Avida Dollars, and Hallucinations or Scientific Visions.

Een jonge kluizenaar ontvangt eind 13e eeuw van een vertrouweling van St. Franciscus een geheimzinnige brief met onbegrijpelijke aanwijzingen, die gevaarlijk zou zijn voor de orde.

Als een oudere, gescheiden vrouw hoort dat ze een hersentumor heeft, besluit ze een kamer in haar grote huis, dat vol staat met kostbaar, antiek porselein en aardewerk, te verhuren.

A riveting psychological thriller from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction - Val McDermid. In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn't just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of '63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished, decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close, terrified of strangers. Now a journalist, she persuades DI George Bennett to speak of the hunt for Alison, the tantalizing leads and harrowing dead ends. But when a fresh lead emerges, Bennett tries to stop the story - plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets and revelations. 'This book changed everything I thought I knew about crime fiction' Belinda Bauer, bestselling author of Snap 'Every now and then, a writer transforms the landscape of the literary canon: Val McDermid is one such writer' Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of Rattle 'Just mesmerizing' Joseph Knox, bestselling author of Sirens 'A brilliant book' Holly Watt, award winning author of To the Lions 'From the first pages, we know we're in the hands of a master ' Jeffrey Deaver 'Beautifully written' Daily Telegraph 'One of the best detective stories I've read' Ruth Rendell 'Possibly the best McDermid has written' Sunday Telegraph

Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan return in the award-winning series that is the basis for the BBC television show. In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago-murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of a deeply disturbed young man named Derek Tyler. But there's no way Tyler could have killed the latest victim. He's been locked up in a mental institution since his trial, barely speaking a word. So is there a copycat? All his years of experience tell top criminal psychologist Dr. Tony Hill that there isn't-but that would make the murders literally impossible. While Hill tries to crack Tyler, DCI Carol Jordan and her team must mount a desperate undercover operation to trap the murderer-a decision that will have terrible consequences. In The Torment of Others , Val McDermid keeps the tension mounting, as a mixture of psychological insight and dogged detective work leads inexorably to a terrifying climax where Tony faces one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered.

The Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other for eighteen years. They have shared everything from family picnics to chicken pox- so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head, inflicted by Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact. He tells the police the next bullet was meant for himself. A local detective has her doubts. And the Hartes and Golds must face every parent's worst nightmare and question: do we ever really know our children at all?

A killer is on the loose and he's blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels. But this murderer is like no other; his bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate. And for one woman the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to track serial offenders. She vowed never to work for the Met again after they went against her advice and badly screwed up an investigation as a result. But when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered, Fiona can't help taking an interest. With the killer striking again, Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional.

When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work - but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage it will take months to unravel.

In het Engelse plaatsje Bradfield wordt een prostituee op gruwelijke wijze vermoord. Rechercheur Carol Jordan onderzoekt de zaak en stuit al snel op overeenkomsten met een serie moorden die jaren geleden gepleegd is. De dader, Derek Tyler, is echter allang opgepakt en Jordan onderzoekt nu of de prostituee vermoord is door een zogenaamde copycat. Forensisch psycholoog Tony Hill doet ondertussen zijn uiterste best Derek Tyler aan het praten te krijgen.

Mapping the minds of murderers is what Dr. Tony Hill does better than anyone. So when a twisted killer starts targeting psychologists across Northern Europe, Hill is the obvious choice to track the executioner's mental and physical journey. Except that Tony, still bearing the scars of past cases, doesn't want to do this anymore. But the killer is about to strike uncomfortably close to home. The next victim is a friend and colleague. And Tony's former partner, Detective Carol Jordan, is directly in the murderer's path, working undercover in a world where human life means less than the smallest drug deal. She needs Tony's help as much as the beleaguered European police officials do. Now the danger is closing in. Confronting the worst of modern crime and struggling to unravel roots that lie deep in the tormented past of Nazi atrocities and Stasi abuses, Tony and Carol are forced to battle for survival against overwhelming odds. In this morass of double-cross and double-dealing, they have no one to trust but each other. Deftly merging the dark terrain of forensic psychology with the brooding, crime-streaked world of post-Cold War Europe, McDermid's latest is an unrivaled tour de force that takes Tony Hill further into the mind of a killer than he's ever dared to go before.

In the author's words, this novel is an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected. It tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to the present day.

Instant calm is put forward as a goal for enjoyment of life and coping with crises. The hundred techniques include meditation, psychotherapy, self-hypnosis, exercise, diet, aromatherapy, power breathing, breaking patterns, fresh air and silence. Chapters describe dealing with specific fears, what to do in a crisis, and long-term solutions. With index. By the author of 'The Calm Technique'.

In 1828, before all living things were destroyed, William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land, fell in love with a black woman and discovered, too late, that love is not safe.

Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious, quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now this... 'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world,' Bruce has written in a national woman's magazine. And Cannie - who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman, or thought that loving her was an act of courage - is plunged into misery, and the most amazing year of her life.

Een seriemoordenaar maakt jacht op auteurs van thrillers en doodt hen op de manier die zij in hun verhalen hebben beschreven.

De negenjarige wees Aurelia Bernard wordt door haar oom meegenomen naar Japan, waar hij als missionair het christendom wil verspreiden. Met zijn nichtje heeft hij echter minder goede bedoelingen, en ze ontvlucht zijn huis. Ze komt terecht bij een Japanse familie die een beroemd theehuis in Kyoto bezit, waardoor een nieuwe, betoverende wereld voor haar opengaat.

Published in the US under the name Flint's Law . Grace Flint: The best undercover cop in the business and - since plastic surgeons re-built her shattered face - probably the most beautiful. Now Flint has a new career running operations, and she's running headlong into trouble. Operation Pentecost: An elaborate sting designed by Flint to trap Karl Kremer, former East German spy turned financial manipulator. But Pentecost has become a snare for Flint's undercover agents. One agent is already dead, and the evidence of treachery is mounting. Mandrake: MI6 codename for the traitor close enough to Flint to anticipate her every move. Who is Mandrake and who in the US government is determined to protect him? In Paul Eddy's stunning second novel Grace Flint is back in the firing line, tougher, bolder (and in more trouble) than before.

An exceptionally talented undercover policewoman, Grace Flint nearly dies in a botched sting operation. Months later, physically healed but psychologically scarred, she gets an unexpected clue to her attacker, and disappears on a mission of revenge - unaware that she is about to pull the first string that will unravel a vastly complex web of international treachery, extortion and murder. Pursuing her, using whatever clues he can find, is Harry Cohen, the former chief legal adviser to the British Security Service, drawn back in as an impartial outsider because everybody is worried about Flint's safety - or are they? Much to his surprise, he finds himself tugging on a string of his own - and finds it leading him high into governments on both sides of the Atlantic, and into a conspiracy with unexpected resonances not only for him, but for Flint. For there are many kinds of betrayal. And some of them are worse than others....

Bridget Jones meets Live Aid the acclaimed debut novel from the author of Bridget Joness Diary.Disillusioned with her glitzy London life as a literary publicist, tired of her pretentious boss and sick of her hotshot television presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson decides to give it all up to run a refugee camp in Africa. When famine strikes the province the camp struggles to cope with the huge influx of starving refugees. Frustrated by the cautious response of the aid agencies, Rosie takes unconventional and drastic action. She returns to London with the intention of breaking back into the celebrity circuit and arranging a star-studded television emergency appeal

Een Ierse weduwe met twee kinderen maakt in het negentiende-eeuwse Boston fortuin als wijnhandelaarster.

Een jonge Britse agente, in opleiding voor een groep ter profilering van Onbekende Misdadigers, concludeert uit haar oefenstof dat een televisiester als moordenaar actief is.

Een zwangere jonge vrouw vlucht na de dood van haar man naar diens ouderlijk huis, maar vreemde gebeurtenissen bedreigen haar geestelijke en lichamelijke gezondheid.

Wanneer het spoor van de politie naar een seriemoordenaar die het op homoseksuele mannen heeft gemunt, doodloopt, wordt er een daderprofiel opgesteld.

Het leven in een kleine woon- en leefgemeenschap in New England aan de Amerikaanse oostkust, in de eerste vier decennia van de 20e eeuw, in de vorm van drie vrouwenlevens.