Anne Damour Libri

Ellie Cavanaugh ha sette anni quando sua sorella Andrea viene brutalmente uccisa. La polizia ferma tre sospettati: Rob Westerfield, rampollo di ottima famiglia, di cui la vittima era segretamente innamorata; Paul Stroebel, un suo compagno di scuola, e Will Nebels, un quarantenne le cui attenzioni non sono gradite alle ragazze. La testimonianza di Ellie fa condannare la persona da lei ritenuta responsabile. Ventidue anni dopo il detenuto viene rilasciato sulla parola, ed è deciso a provare la propria estraneità al delitto. Ellie, ora affermata giornalista investigativa, torna a ripensare alla tragedia che ha distrutto i genitori, annientati dalla morte della figlia prediletta, e inaridito la sua stessa vita, schiacciata dalla colpa di non aver rivelato tutto ciò che sapeva sugli strani appuntamenti di Andrea. Vorrebbe provare in modo definitivo la colpevolezza del condannato, ma nel corso delle ricerche nuovi fatti vengono alla luce, facendola dubitare di aver puntato il dito sull'uomo giusto, e soprattutto avvicinandola pericolosamente a un assassino ormai disperato.

Returning home from a black-tie dinner in New York, Margaret and Steve Frawley find the police in their house and their twin daughters gone. The kidnapper, who calls himself the "Pied Piper", soon makes his terms known: on delivery of a ransom, a phone call will reveal the girls' whereabouts. The ransom is delivered but, when the call comes, only Kelly is in the car parked behind a deserted restaurant. The driver is dead from a gunshot wound and has left a suicide note, confessing to killing Kathy and dumping her body in the ocean. When strange occurrences begin to suggest that Kathy may still be alive, and communicating with Kelly, Margaret finds herself alone in wanting to continue the search for her daughter. But as Kelly's warnings become increasingly specific and alarming, the FBI agents set out to search for Kathy. As they close in on the Pied Piper and his accomplices, Kathy's life hangs by a thread ...

ADVENTURE / THRILLER. At age eighty-three and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave. Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun, now being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. These letters reveal that, at the age of seventeen, Catherine gave birth to a son and gave him up for adoption and they identify the father as Alex Gannon, a world-famous doctor, scientist and inventor of medical patents. Now, two generations later, thirty-one year old paediatrician, Dr. Monica Farrell, Catherine's granddaughter, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the Gannon family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is and getting what is lawfully hers, Olivia would have to betray Catherine's wishes and reveal the story behind Monica's ancestry.

The brand new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, America's undisputed Queen of Suspense

"A desperate mother. Her missing child. A stolen chalice." With "Silent Night", Mary Higgins Clark, America's own Queen of Suspense, gave her readers their best Christmas present ever. Now, with "All Through the Night", she once again celebrates the Christmas season with a tale of suspense that will keep readers turning the pages-- all through the night. At the center of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters, Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, both of them caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of Alvirah's deductive powers, as well as Willy's world-class common sense. The story begins when a young unmarried woman leaves her newborn child on the rectory doorstep at a church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. At the same moment, inside the church, a young man is stealing a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a single star-shaped diamond. Both the infant and the chalice disappear. Seven years later, a few weeks before Christmas, Alvirah and Willy are busy helping Willy's sister Cordelia, a nun who runs a thrift shop that doubles as an after-school shelter for neighborhood kids, prepare for the upcoming Christmas pageant. The future of the shelter is threatened, however, when the city condemns the building for that use, and it is further jeopardized when a nearby brownstone to which the shelter was to be moved turns out to have been willed to a young couple who were tenants in the building. Alvirah refuses to believe that the will is genuine and sets out to prove that the couple are con artists. Soon she is involved in the mystery of the chalice and the child. In "All Through the Night", Mary Higgins Clark has fashioned a Christmas gift for all her readers.

Lacey Farrell, una giovane agente immobiliare, ha assistito a un omicidio e ha ascoltato le ultime parole della vittima. Da quel momento la sua vita si trasforma in un incubo. Sotto la protezione della polizia, Lacey cambia nome, lavoro e città sperando di riuscire a sfuggire al killer che le dà la caccia. Ma la vita di un testimone è sempre a rischio, specialmente quando c'è di mezzo anche l'amore...

A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, Before I Say Goodbye. When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home. As the investigation into the boat's explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skepticism, Nell is swayed by her great-aunt Gert, a believer in psychic powers, to see a medium claiming to be Adam's channel. While trying to unravel the threads of Adam's past and his violent end, Nell consults the medium, who transmits messages to her with instructions from Adam. The story reaches a powerful climax in Nell's final encounter with the medium, in which she learns the truth about the explosion—truth she can't be allowed to live and tell.

Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, 2005, 8vo tutta tela con sovraccopertina illustrata a colori pp. 277.

S’il n’avait pas rencontré la belle et courageuse Martha, George Washington serait-il devenu un héros de la guerre d’Indépendance et le premier président des États-Unis ? Derrière chaque homme célèbre se cache une femme qui l’aime et le soutient, et la jeune veuve ira jusqu’à traverser les lignes ennemies pour le rejoindre. Avant de devenir la reine du suspense, Mary Higgins Clark s’est passionnée pour l’histoire de son pays. Dans cette biographie romancée, qui est aussi son premier livre, elle brosse le magnifique portrait d’une femme méconnue, et révèle la profonde humanité d’un des pères fondateurs de l’Amérique.

Mary Higgins Clark et sa fille Carol vous accueillent à bord du Royal Mermaid. Comme Alvirah Meehan et Regan Reilly, leurs héroïnes préférées, vous ne risquez pas d’oublier cette croisière de Noël. Disparitions, menaces, détournements... Le voyage s’annonce mouvementé ! Sens de l’intrigue, rebondissements inattendus, humour : les deux reines du suspense vous souhaitent un Noël plein de frissons...