Willeke Lempens Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

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.

Come si può trovare un assassino che ha distrutto tutte le prove? La detective Erika Foster, durante una passeggiata notturna vicino alla sua nuova casa a Blackheath, si imbatte nel brutale omicidio di Vicky Clarke, una podcaster di true crime. Erika viene assegnata al caso e scopre che Vicky stava lavorando a un nuovo episodio del suo podcast su un predatore sessuale che prende di mira giovani studentesse a South London, appostandosi nei loro dormitori prima di entrare nel cuore della notte. Quando Erika scopre che gli appunti e le registrazioni audio di Vicky sono stati rubati dal suo appartamento al momento del delitto, inizia a credere che Vicky fosse vicina a smascherare l'aggressore e che sia stata uccisa per garantire il suo silenzio. Il caso prende una piega inquietante quando viene trovato il corpo di una giovane studentessa di medicina bulgara nello stesso edificio, costringendo Erika a mettere in discussione tutto ciò che pensava di sapere su Vicky. Con poche prove a disposizione, il tempo stringe per trovare l'assassino prima che colpisca di nuovo.

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.

With gripping twists, turns and a shocking ending, NINE ELMS by Robert Bryndza is unputdownable thriller fiction at its most electrifying.

Quando un ragazzo scopre il cadavere di una donna sotto una spessa lastra di ghiaccio in un parco di Londra, la detective Erika Foster viene subito incaricata dell’indagine sull’omicidio. La vittima, giovane, ricca e molto conosciuta negli ambienti della Londra bene, sembrava condurre una vita perfetta. Ma quando Erika comincia a scavare più a fondo tra le pieghe nascoste della sua esistenza, trova degli strani punti di collegamento tra quell’omicidio e l’uccisione di tre prostitute, assassinate secondo un macabro e preciso rituale. Ma chi era veramente la ragazza nel ghiaccio? Quali segreti nascondeva? Il ritratto che ne dà la famiglia corrisponde alla verità? Erika ha l’impressione che tutti gli elementi a cui si aggrappa nel corso delle ricerche le scivolino via dalle dita, ma è cocciuta, determinata e disposta a qualunque cosa pur di arrivare a capire che cosa si cela dietro quella morte violenta…

Drie jaar geleden waren Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna en Alison de populairste meisjes op school. Op hun prada-schoenen en in Donna Karan-jurkjes liepen ze al roddelend door de gangen. Voor deze meisjes was het een perfecte situatie, totdat Alison - de mooiste en populairste van hen allemaal - plotseling verdween. Nu krijgen ze verontrustende berichtjes van de mysterieuze 'A' en zijn hun rijke leventjes in een nachtmerrie veranderd. De meiden moeten de waarheid over Ali en over de geheimzinnige A zien te achterhalen voordat een van hen het volgende slachtoffer wordt, is Alison echt wel dood, of...? Deze omnibus bestaat uit het derde en vierde deel van de verslavend spannende Pretty Little Liars-serie. Omslagtitel: Pretty little liars 3 & 4. - Bevat: Perfecte meisjes plegen perfecte moord? - Vert. van: Perfect. - HarperCollins, cop. 2007. - Oorspr. Nederlandse uitg.: 2008. - (Pretty little liars ; 3) ; Je moet niet alles geloven wat ze zeggen. - Vert. van: Unbelievable. - HarperCollins, cop. 2008. - Oorspr. Nederlandse uitg.: 2009. - (Pretty little liars ; 4).

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.

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.

Naïve and already war-weary, James Gouding takes up a position in Naples in 1943. What he doesn't anticipate is that this involves a limited menu of fried Spam fritters and interrogating the would-be Italian fiancees of members of the armed forces. James's chance at true heroism arrives when a German tank is sighted and he is caught in its path. However, it is the imperious and dogmatic Livia who opens the hatch and yells at him to stop being such an idiot. Livia gladly becomes cook, translator and general factotum to James. The two begin to fall in love, but the eruption of Vesuvius triggers a chain of explosive events that will force the two to flee behind enemy lines and will alter their lives immeasurably.

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.

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.

A brilliant satire on globalization and marketing hype. In the future, the world will be run by giant American corporations. Everybody will be so happy, tax-free and rich that they will loyally change their name to that of their company. Which is where Hack Nike comes in. Hack s career is going nowhere fast. In the future, this is not a good thing. So when John Nike and John Nike offer Hack Nike a job marketing a new line of really, really expensive trainers he is understandably thrilled. Until, that is, he discovers his duties include establishing street cred for these shoes by shooting teenagers... Described by Naomi Klein as brilliant and hilarious , Jennifer Government is a wickedly funny thriller for the No Logo generation; a funny, fast-paced and ferocious satire on globalization and capitalism.

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