Neeltje Wiersma Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

In Welkom bij hotel Flanagans volgen we de bijzondere vrouwen die het illustere hotel Flanagans in Londen runnen. Dit sfeervolle verhaal zit vol emoties, bedrog, wraak en catastrofes, maar ook met fantastische personages, een krachtige verhaallijn én een gelukkig einde. Linda Lansing heeft de leiding over het hotel sinds ze het met tegenzin van haar vader erfde. Als ongetrouwde, alleenstaande hoteleigenaresse voldoet ze niet aan het plaatje van de Londense society, en dan is ze ook nog eens verwikkeld in een machtsstrijd met haar neef, die zichzelf als een veel geschiktere eigenaar voor het hotel ziet…

"Inspired by historical events and by personal history, a shattering, exquisite double portrait of a Norwegian family savaged by World War II and of a man devoted to crimes against humanity, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home. Once the Germans conquer Norway in 1940, they quickly discover a tremendous native asset: Henry Oliver Rinnan, a double agent so cruel and manipulative that he would become notorious as one of Norway's vilest traitors, second only to Quisling himself. In 1941, Rinnan and his gang set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and transformed the cellar into a makeshift torture and death chamber reserved for Norwegian resisters. In the war's aftermath, this house became home to a Jewish-Norwegian couple still reeling from trauma. Here their two young daughters spend a happy childhood in the very same rooms where, only a few years before, some of the most heinous acts of the occupation had been committed. Many decades later, Simon Stranger married the daughter of one of those girls, and, learning the history of her family, soon realized that their story could not be told without including Rinnan's, provoking a plague of questions: What turned a bashful shoemaker's son into this despised criminal? How could a Jewish family have chosen to move into that house?"--Provided by publisher

A man is pushed from a cliff; a woman is missing after a bike ride; an elderly man is washed ashore. The friends are closer than most �e" too close, some might say. Every year they leave their cosy suburban neighbourhood to go on holiday together to a remote Swedish island. But this year, their holiday won�e(tm)t go as expected. A terrible series of tragedies will unfold, seemingly random, all somehow connected. Detective Superintendant Anders Knutas will have to look into the friends�e(tm) tangled pasts to find the truth. What malevolent force has followed them to the island? Or was it amongst them all along? Even the closest friends don�e(tm)t share everything...

Gennaio 1965 Nella tranquilla cittadina di Strängnäs un uomo e una donna vengono ferocemente uccisi durante una violenta bufera di neve. Lui era appena scappato da un ospedale psichiatrico, lei era la ragazza più bella e corteggiata della città. Novembre 2005 Fredrik Gransjö, un giovane e ambizioso giornalista, arriva a Strängnäs per fare un’inchiesta sul vecchio manicomio. I suoi articoli riaprono il caso del duplice omicidio di quarant’anni prima, che – come il giovane scopre a sue spese quando rimane coinvolto in una spirale di ritorsioni e nuovi misteriosi delitti – nasconde molte scomode verità. Ma Fredrik non è l’unico interessato a far luce su questa oscura vicenda… e le ceneri mai spente di un odio antico tornano a incendiare l’incubo bianco.

Als hun vader plotseling overlijdt, gaan drie heel verschillende Zweedse zussen hun moeder helpen op de boerderij waar ze zijn opgegroeid. Dit leidt tot allerlei onderlinge strubbelingen en problemen, maar ook tot grote veranderingen in hun levens.