Marcella Houweling Książki

Quinn Cleary koestert haar hele leven al een diepe wens: dokter worden. De enige manier om die wens te realiseren is toegelaten worden tot De Ingraham, een prestigieuze opleiding waarvoor elk jaar slechts een handjevol briljante studenten worden uitverkoren. Studie, internaat, boeken en alle andere dagelijkse voorzieningen worden geheel betaald door de Kleederman Foundation, een farmaceutisch bedrijf. Het lijkt te mooi om waar te zijn. En dat is het ook. Wat de studenten namelijk niet weten, is dat al hun bewegingen worden gevolgd, dat hun kamers zijn voorzien van afluisterapparatuur en dat ze via een ingenieus systeem langzaam maar zeker worden gehypnotiseerd. Onbewust van dit alles weet Quinn zich - zij het met de nodige moeite - een plaats op de school te verwerven. Ze werpt zich met veel toewijding op de studie, dat ze al snel wordt gevraagd voor een parttime baan in het laboratorium op de bovenste verdieping, die voor andere studenten verboden terrein is. Daar ontdekt Quinn de geheimzinnige zaal C, waar in een bijna surrealistische sfeer zwaar gewonde patiënten, van kop tot teen in verband gehuld, roer.oos hun lange dagen slijten. Slechts hun ogen schijnen haar wanhopig iets te willen vertellen...

Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar of Winslough, the man they had come to see, is dead - a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill.

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive." In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing For The Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing--and no one--is really what it seems.

The new era of Scarpetta begins… In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers deeper into Kay Scarpetta’s heart and soul than ever before…. Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia’s Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case—and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, Where do you go when there is nowhere left?

Toen... In het Frankrijk van 1764 leeft de bevolking van de Gévaudan in angst omdat hun kinderen worden opgejaard en vermoord door een Beest, dat geen jager kan vinden. Onder de mannen die jacht maken op de naamloze verschrikking treffen we de wildschut Jean Chastel, een man die een duister geheim met zich meedraagt. Nu... Eric von Kastell is een gevierd kunstenaar die naam en faam vergaart met zijn duistere, soms zelfs wrede, expressionistische schilderijen. Als zijn vader tijdens een jacht op weerdwolven en andere moordende gedaanteverwisselaars wordt gedood, komt de kunstenaar op het spoor van een soort naar wie zijn voorouders al jaren op zoek zijn: de afstammelingen van het Beest dat ooit een ware terreur uitoefende op de bevolking van de Gévaudan.

This is the story of Elisabeth Bathory, a 17th-century Transylvanian countess. She was tried as a vampire and became an inspiration for depraved murderers up to the present day. This account includes both the recorded truth and the legend that has grown up around her.

Elena Weaver, in her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, exuded intelligence and sexuality. A student at St Stephen's College, Cambridge, she lived a life of casual but intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and targets to achieve. Until someone, lying in wait on the bank of the River Cam, where Elena went running every morning, bludgeoned the young woman to death. Called into the rarefied world of academia, Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers find a tangled skein of love, obsession and desire - a maelstrom of emotion that has claimed Elena Weaver's life.

U jednej z pacjentek Bostońskiego Szpitala Metropolitalnego stwierdzono nietypowe krwawienie oraz zwyrodnienie jajników, z jakim tutejsi lekarze nie spotkali się dotychczas. znakomita patolog, doktor Kate Bennett, próbuje zdiagnozować chorobę, niestety, krwawienia nasilają się i pacjentka umiera. Następnego dnia do innego bostońskiego szpitala przywieziono kobietę zmarłą na ulicy wskutek krwotoku,...

Vertaald naar het Nederlands door / Translated into Dutch by Marcella Houweling / 9789024551361 / Suspense / Thrillers / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / paperback / 13 x 21 cm / 271 .pp /

When an old college friend pays Alex Calder an unexpected visit he is drawn once more into the City's shady underbelly. For Kim is married to Todd, son of South African newspaper tycoon Cornelius van Zyl. Todd wants Alex's help to investigate the murder of his mother eighteen years ago. It was assumed Martha was killed by guerrillas, but the recent discovery of a letter sent shortly before her death now suggests a crime far closer to home. When an attempt on his life puts Todd in a coma, Alex vows to uncover the truth. Then a sudden blast shatters his world . . .

The story follows photographer Alex Graham, who witnesses an attack disguised as an earthquake. To survive and thwart further terrorist plots, she turns to Judd Morgan, a questionable former CIA operative. The narrative promises high tension and nonstop action as they navigate danger together.

I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.' The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Ostracized by their family and neighbours, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. Yet, there was a tranquil happiness in the intense bond between mother and daughter, until the day that Elizabeth's grandfather and uncle came to punish her mother from the dishonour she had brought on the family, and executed her in front of her daughter. Elizabeth was dumped in an orphanage in Seoul. After some time, she was lucky enough to be adopted by an American couple. But when she arrived in America, she found herself once again surrounded by fanaticism and prejudice. Elizabeth's mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows, and, supported by her loving daughter, and by a return to her Buddhist faith, she finally found a way to savour those joys, as well as the courage to exorcise the demons of her past.

Hope Dunne is content with her life, finding serenity and beauty through the lens of her camera. She isn't looking for a man or excitement. But things change when she accepts a last minute assignment in London, photographing one of the world's most celebrated writers. To Hope's surprise, Finn O'Neill exudes warmth and a boyish charm. He courts her, whisking her away to his palatial, isolated Irish estate, weaving a tapestry of tales about his life. Hope finds it all absolutely dizzying. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories and suddenly Hope is both in love and suspicious. How many lies has he told? Is it possible that this kind, loving, attentive man is hiding something even worse?

"An exotic and beautiful story" (Isabel Allende) chronicling the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey's transformation into a republic and the present day backlash. "A highly imaginitive family saga...Croutier's measured prose is artistic and sensuous" (San Francisco Chronicle) as the story of a silkmaking family iss told through the houses they occupied. From a grand villa in Smyrna in the early twentieth century to a silk plantation in the foothills of Mount Olympus, from a tiny house in a sleepy town to an apartment in a modern urban high-rise, the family's dwellings reflect its fortune's rise and fall. As communal baths and odalisques give way to movies and cell phones, four unique yet powerfully linked women experience all of life's hardships and pleasures.

Behekste poppen brengen na honderd jaar ongeluk en angst over een jong Engels echtpaar.

Bethany and the other members of her coven try to use the power of Wicca to solve the mystery of her boyfriend's death in a car accident.

It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie and their zealous leader Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As they encounter resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar...In present-day London, Frieda opens her door to find a man sleeping on the landing. Tayeb, a Yemeni refugee, has arrived in Frieda's life just as she learns that she is next-of-kin to a stranger, a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises. The two wanderers embark on a journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva's.

The "New York Times"-bestselling author explores the perils of dating, relationships, and love in a novel that takes readers into the intoxicating, infuriating world of three charming single men.

Op een dag in de winter van 1937 gaat de achttien jaar oude Cassie Thornton aan boord van de Queen Mary en vertrekt naar Engeland om op zoek te gaan naar de mysterieuze Starlena Pengally, de moeder die haar jaren geleden in de steek heeft gelaten. Haar speurtocht leidt haar naar het duistere, grimmige Greystone House, waar Starlena werd geboren en waar vele generaties Pengally's opgroeiden en stierven. Het angstaanjagende huis blijkt de geboorteplek van een verhaal vol tragedie, wanhopige liefde en duistere wraak, dat de families al generaties lang in zijn greep heeft. De sleutel is Starlena, en Cassie moet haar vinden: want de vloek die op haar familie rust, bedreigt nu ook haar eigen leven...

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