Rie Neehus Libri

Riunita nel castello scozzese di Westerbrae, una compagnia teatrale londinese si appresta a leggere un nuovo testo. Ma dopo una serata tempestosa, punteggiata da litigi e scontri, Joy Sinclair, la bellissima autrice viene trovata morta nel suo letto, uccisa con un pugnale che le ha trapassato il collo. Una faccenda troppo delicata per i poliziotti di quella sonnolenta zona delle Highlands, anche perché vede coinvolte personalità del mondo teatrale e personaggi di alto rango. Così, in tutta fretta, New Scotland Yard manda a Westerbrae l'ispettore Thomas Lynley, affiancato come sempre dal sergente Barbara Havers. Per Lynley, quel delitto assume subito i contorni di un incubo: una delle ospiti del maniero è infatti Helen Clyde, la donna di cui è innamorato, che, nella notte fatale, non era sola. Lottando per soffocare una gelosia feroce, Lynley si ritrova al centro di un turbine di scandali di famiglia, rivalità professionali e scoperte sconcertanti...

Comisario Miguel Fortunato has been in the Buenos Aires police for a long time. Perhaps too long. His pockets have seen more than half a million dollars in bribes over the years. But that's just the way it is. He hasn't done as much wrong as some of his colleagues, but he never managed to tell his wife, before she died, where most of their money was coming from. Now he has a delicate problem. Some time ago, Robert Waterbury, an American novelist, was found shot dead on Fortunato's patch. Officially it was a drugs deal gone bad. But now the Americans are sending someone over - though nobody's sure why they've sent Athena, a human rights professor - and the case is reopened. Athena soon finds that here in Buenos Aires, the truth is way down anyone's list of priorities.

'Want a good English ghost story to read by the fire on a cold winter night? This tale of a malevolent ghost haunting a troubled American student at Harrow will fit the bill. It gathers you in lovingly, then takes you in a strangler's grip with its escalating horrors' STEPHEN KING

Met zijn virtuoze vioolspel krijgt de achtentwintigjarige Gideon Davies wereldwijd de ene zaal na de andere aan zijn voeten. Maar dan slaat het noodlot toe... Tijdens een optreden is hij niet langer in staat verder te spelen. Beroofd van zijn liefde voor muziek zit er voor Gideon nog maar één ding op: op zoek gaan naar de oorzaak van zijn kwelling. En dat betekent de verschrikkelijke gebeurtenis onder ogen zien die zo lang geleden plaatsvond, de gebeurtenis die zijn leven voorgoed veranderde. Voor inspecteur Thomas Lynley en brigadier Barbara Havers is het een zaak die het uiterste van hen vergt. Want de waarheid ligt diep begraven in het verleden en wordt onverwacht aan de vergetelheid onttrokken...