Alexis Champon Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich atmosphere and intricate suspense that she transports the reader to a world unlike any other. — A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster Aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present. In the world as seen by Martha Grimes, those repercussions simmer and seethe and wind their way through hearts and souls. The ramifications can be subtle. Or exhilarating. Passionate. And they can also be deadly. Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death. It is a novel with extraordinary range and depth that ultimately becomes a thrilling morality play.

When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Keller is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds. In emotional and physical turmoil he becomes a self-pitying recluse, until Kid Demeter, a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist, bullies him into better health. Then Kid is found dead, but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide. Knowing he owes Kid for getting his own life back on track, Jack starts to investigate Kid's personal life and discovers he was a serial womaniser. He begins to identify and locate these women, but every time he speaks to one of them they end up dead. Then, as he edges closer to the truth of Kid's death, he realises that his wife's murder was the catalyst of all that followed.

Cela fait maintenant dix longues années que l'impératrice Wu Tse Tien impose cruauté et corruption au peuple de Chine. La terreur règne jusqu'à ce jour de 671 où un groupe d'intellectuels humanistes, dits les Lettrés, décident de renverser le gouvernement. Mais la répression est sanglante : 25 d'entre eux sont décapités. Leurs têtes trônent sur la place publique où attend une autre pique, vide... Le juge Ti n'en doute pas : ce gibet est pour lui. Mais il ne désarme pas. Il peut confondre l'impératrice Wu. Elle le hait mais la loi est du côté du juge. Ti part alors enquêter sur la ténébreuse île de Hainan, une île-prison où, racontent certains, les meurtres les plus sanguinaires sont commis sans relâche par les agents de l'impératrice…

Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers. Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla’s story continues.Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. To the hunter-gatherers of their world--who have never seen tame animals--Ayla and Jondalar appear enigmatic and frightening. The mystery surrounding the woman, who speaks with a strange accent and talks to animals with their own sounds, is heightened by her uncanny control of a large, powerful wolf. The tall, yellow-haired man who rides by her side is also held in awe, not only for the magnificent stallion he commands, but also for his skill as a crafter of stone tools, and for the new weapon he devises, the spear-thrower.In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well. All the pain and pleasure bring them closer to their ultimate destination, for the orphaned Ayla and the wandering Jondalar must reach that place on earth they can call home.As sweeping and spectacular as the land she creates, Jean M. Auel’s The Plains of Passage is an astonishing novel of discovery, danger, and love, a triumph for one of the world’s most original and popular authors.

W samolocie ginie starsza pani podróżująca z Paryża do Croydon. Sposób dokonania morderstwa jest egzotyczny, a zawód ofiary predestynuje ją do przysparzania sobie wrogów. Jeden z pasażerów, Herkules Poirot, zostaje niemal zatrzymany pod zarzutem popełnienia zbrodni. Tego nie można puścić płazem! W tle garść nowych na tamte lata problemów: psychoanaliza i narkotyki.