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Lesley Thomson Libri

    Lesley Thomson crea narrazioni che approfondiscono le vite e i mondi interiori delle donne, esplorando spesso le loro esperienze in mezzo a cambiamenti sociali e crisi personali. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da una profonda empatia e da un acuto sguardo sulla psiche umana. Ancorata a ambientazioni concrete, esamina le complesse relazioni e i dilemmi che i suoi personaggi affrontano. Thomson è celebrata per la sua voce autentica e la sua profondità emotiva, che rendono il suo lavoro profondamente risonante con i lettori.

    The Playground Murders
    The Mystery of Yew Tree House
    Death of a Mermaid
    The House With No Rooms
    The Companion
    The Distant Dead

    • The Distant Dead

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London.

      The Distant Dead
      4,2

    • The Companion

      In a grand old mansion in the middle of the Sussex countryside, six people have seen more than they should... The new standalone thriller from Lesley Thomson.

      The Companion
      4,2

    • The House With No Rooms

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Stella Darnell, the Detective's Daughter, investigates a decades-old mystery in Kew Gardens.

      The House With No Rooms
      3,8

    • Death of a Mermaid

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Freddy left her childhood home 22 years ago and swore never to return. But now her parents are dead, and she's back in her hometown to help her brothers manage the family fishmonger. Then one of her old school friends goes missing.

      Death of a Mermaid
      3,7

    • The Mystery of Yew Tree House

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Cleaner Stella Darnell and her sidekick Jack Harmon investigate a mystery in East Sussex with its roots in WWII in the new psychological procedural in the Detective's Daughter series.

      The Mystery of Yew Tree House
      3,7

    • The Playground Murders

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      When a woman is found dead, and the killer is linked to the murder of a little girl in 1980, Stella is the woman for the case. But dredging up the past can be dangerous...

      The Playground Murders
      3,5

    • The Detective's Secret

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Stella Darnell, the Detective's Daughter, investigates a twenty-year-old unsolved murder.

      The Detective's Secret
      3,7

    • The Death Chamber

      A new case for sees Stella, the detective's daughter, and Jack moving to the country in order to solve a cold case.

      The Death Chamber
      3,2

    • Ghost Girl

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      A year after her father's death, the detective's daughter inherits a strange new case. Terry Darnell was a detective with Hammersmith police. Now his daughter Stella has found a folder of photographs hidden in his cellar. Why did he take so many picture of deserted London streets? One photo dates from 1966, to a day when a little girl, just ten years old, witnessed something that would haunt her forever. As Stella grows obsessed with uncovering the truth, the events of that day begin to haunt her too... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret.

      Ghost Girl
      3,5

    • A Kind of Vanishing

      • 406pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      In the summer of 1968, the day senator Robert Kennedy is shot, two nine year-old girls are playing hide an seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor Ramsay's mother, and is taunting the other girl. When it is Eleanor's turn to hide, Alice disappears.

      A Kind of Vanishing
      3,5