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Edith Walter

    A demon in my view
    Put on by cunning. An unkindness of ravens
    Il volto del peccato
    The Tears of Autumn
    The Throat
    Der letzte Samurai
    • The Throat

      • 704pagine
      • 25 ore di lettura

      Straub completes the Blue Rose trilogy with this searing novel of psychological terror. Tim Underhill and the brilliant and reclusive Tom Pasmore court ultimate destruction as they dare to look back to a dark past that holds the secret of evil which signs its name Blue Rose.

      The Throat
      4,0
    • The Tears of Autumn

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Kennedy has just been assassinated. Charles McCarry's serial spy Paul Christopher knows why.

      The Tears of Autumn
      3,4
    • Il volto del peccato

      • 238pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Uno scrittore squattrinato rimpiange la sua amante che lo spingeva all'assassinio del marito. All'inizio rifiuta, ma poi...

      Il volto del peccato
      3,8
    • Unkindness: the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds . . . but neither are they soft and submissive. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. And he certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide . . .

      Put on by cunning. An unkindness of ravens
      3,7
    • A demon in my view

      • 214pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . . In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble—quite literally—upon one of Arthur's many secrets. Haunting and intelligent, A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds—one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.

      A demon in my view
      3,6
    • Talking to Strange Men

      • 328pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections -- it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but the agents are only schoolboys engaged in harmless play. But John Creevey doesn't know this. To him, the messages he decodes with painstaking care are the communications of dangerous and evil men, and as he comes face to face with the fact of his beloved wife Jennifer's defection, he begins to see a way to get back at the man she left him for. And soon the schoolboys are playing more than just a game . . .

      Talking to Strange Men
      3,7
    • Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh's most fascinating murder mysteries. schovat popis

      Off with his Head
      3,5