Willeke Lempens Libri

The man lay on his front, his arms and legs bound and pulled up with a rope connecting the two. His head was arched back, so he faced the curtains, and there was masking tape over his mouth. Erika gingerly reached out and checked his pulse.Yep. Dead all right.When Detective Erika Foster finds politician Neville Lomas naked, hog-tied, and dead in his own bed, skittish higher-ups at the Met quickly rule the death from natural causes. Case closed . . . until two months later when a well-known casting director and a star footballer are found murdered and tied with the same knots. The Met can no longer ignore what’s staring them in the there’s a serial killer loose in London, and they’re out to settle a score.As Erika and her team investigate, things take a strange turn as CCTV footage turns up five female suspects . . . and they’re all identical.In the hunt to identify the women, Erika is outpaced at every turn by an elusive sex worker with dirt on enough powerful men to make the Met’s top brass nervous – and desperate.As time ticks away until the killer strikes again, it’s up to Erika to untangle the web of evidence and answer the critical What ties the victims together, who else is caught up in this scandal, and how far are the higher-ups willing to go to protect their own?Gripping, tense and impossible to put down, Lethal Vengeance will have you on the edge of your seat, racing to the final dramatic page.

Je kunt hem niet zien. Maar hij jou wel… Criminologe Kate Marshall is met haar zoon aan het duiken als ze een huiveringwekkende ontdekking doen. Ze vinden het lichaam van een tiener, verstrikt onder water. De politie bestempelt het al snel als een tragisch ongeluk, maar Kate is daar niet zo zeker van. Er klopt heel veel niet: wat deed het slachtoffer daar midden in de nacht? En als hij zo’n sterke zwemmer was, hoe verdronk hij dan? De verdronken tiener is het meest recente slachtoffer in een reeks mysterieuze sterfgevallen en verdwijningen rond Shadow Sands, een stuwmeer dat ontstond toen een vallei en het gelijknamige dorpje onder water werden gezet. Er doen veel vreemde verhalen de ronde, en al -jarenlang verdwijnen er regelmatig mensen. Dan verdwijnt ook een -jonge onderzoekster, Magdalena Rossi. Kate vraagt haar partner Tristan Harper om mee te helpen zoeken naar de vrouw – voordat het te laat is.

Unlimited consequences.The book that inspired the major film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. Yes Man is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say YES to everything, in order to make his life more interesting.

The slaying of an old couple in small-town America looks like a one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a serial killer striking again. When the two separate investigations converge, it seems an old killer has resurfaced.

Zestien jaar geleden was Kate Marshall een veelbelovende jonge politiedetective bij de Londense politie. Tot ze de opdracht kreeg een seriemoordenaar op te sporen, en hij haar eerst vond. Kate's carrière eindigde in een schandaal en ze bleef getraumatiseerd, verraden en publiekelijk vernederd achter. Jaren later worstelt Kate nog steeds met de gevolgen als ze de kans krijgt haar verleden recht te zetten. Er lijkt een copycat-moordenaar actief die het afgrijselijke werk van zijn idool voortzet. Kate wordt opnieuw de verwrongen geest in getrokken van een moordenaar die ze maar al te goed kent. Ooit was ze het beoogde vijfde slachtoffer – en zijn opvolger lijkt vast van plan om het werk nu af te maken.

When elderly Morey Gilbert is found lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution.

Nella casa londinese di Edmund de Waal, una vetrina elegante ospita 264 netsuke giapponesi, piccole sculture di avorio o legno raffiguranti divinità, animali e piante. I figli di de Waal possono giocarci, proprio come facevano i suoi bisnonni, Viktor e Emmy von Ephrussi, in un palazzo viennese un secolo fa, prima dell'arrivo di Hitler e delle persecuzioni. Gli Ephrussi, ebrei di Odessa, erano noti commercianti e banchieri, con ville in tutta Europa. Il palazzo di Vienna, dove i netsuke giunsero nel 1899 come dono di nozze, conteneva opere d'arte talmente preziose da sfuggire ai razziatori nazisti. La storia di come questi oggetti sopravvissero alla guerra e arrivarono a Tokyo, dove de Waal li scoprì, è solo una delle sorprese emozionanti del libro. Attratto dalla bellezza e dalla precisione delle sculture, l’autore, noto artista della ceramica, ricostruisce la storia dei netsuke e della sua famiglia, "vagabondando" tra Europa e Giappone e attingendo a materiali d'archivio. Con uno sguardo artistico, de Waal restituisce l'atmosfera di epoche passate e racconta vite intere in modo impeccabile. Il suo primo libro ha ricevuto riconoscimenti internazionali, tra cui il Costa Biography e l’Ondaatje Prize, conquistando lettori e critici in tutto il mondo.

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here . Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says. Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters. If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.

Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London. What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding? As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika. The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong… resulting in the death of her husband. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own personal demons as well as a killer more deadly than any she’s faced before. But will she get to him before he strikes again?