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Bavaria, Germany, 1947. At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents' cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father's shame, her mother's fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2014-07-31
ePub
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She tasted power and passion in the world's highest office against the backdrop of the Great Depression and World War Two.Robbed of her home and job by the Great Depression, the future looks bleak for Iris McIntosh - until a chance encounter with America's indefatigable...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2014-07-29
ePub
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'How much do I beat myself up about the fact that he's my son? A lot.' On 14 December 2012, twenty-year-old Adam Lanza shot his mother dead, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, opened fire and killed twenty children and six adults. No motive has...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-05-24
ePub
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That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. A writing desk lies open and you cannot help but read a paper. Then you find something, something you...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-05-22
ePub
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In 2009 John Safran, a controversial Australian journalist, spent an uneasy few days interviewing one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he hears that the man has been murdered by a young black man. But this is far from a...
Editeur :
Blackfriars
Parution :
2014-05-22
ePub
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The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London. For fans of WEDLOCK, THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER and GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-04-24
ePub
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We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April.Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-04-17
Collection :
Flavia Albia
ePub
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This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad?Brighton, 1870: A well-respected spinster infuses chocolate creams with strychnine in order to murder her...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2014-04-03
ePub
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In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. 'The Maybrick Mystery' had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty, flirtatious young girl;...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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The epic struggle for control of Los Angeles and the history of the 30s, 40s, and 50s in America's dream city. Now the FOX UK TV series MOB CITY.Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as 'the white spot of America', a land of sunshine and orange groves,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2014-02-13
ePub
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In April 1994, the body of an unidentified woman is found in a local village pond. Suspicion falls on She Xianglin, the husband of a local woman reported missing months earlier. With such a high profile case in the balance and no other suspects, the police focus on the...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2014-02-10
ePub
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'I stood there for a moment, silently speaking to myself: Josefina, you will survive this. You are strong. You are a fighter. You adapt.'As a young mum-of-three, Josefina Rivera was determined to get her troubled life back on track. But then she met Gary Heidnik and the...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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One monster. Three innocent girls. Ten years in captivity.22 August 2002: 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home. 21 April 2003: Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday. 2 April 2004: 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-21
ePub
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From global superstar Matthew Reilly comes a gripping historical thriller; a tale of murder, passion and intrigue set in the majestic city of Constantinople.England, 1546. A young Princess Elizabeth is in a dangerous position as her older siblings jostle for the...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-11-12
ePub
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The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963?Philip Shenon, a veteran...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2013-11-05
ePub
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This arresting miscellany is jam-packed with intriguing and enlightening stories, facts, and trivia about all manner of murderers, miscreants, and malcontents.The book reveals incredible tales about criminal gangs around the world, such as the Japanese Yakuza, the ...
Editeur :
Ilex Press
Parution :
2013-10-14
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Famous Imposters (Pretenders & Hoaxes including Queen Elizabeth and many more revealed by Bram Stoker)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Famous Impostors is the fourth and final book of...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-10-10
epub sans DRM
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When Jill Meagher went missing and was then found murdered in 2012, the city of Melbourne was shaken to the core. Emotional responses ranged from grief to guilt to rage to defensiveness, but no one was left untouched. The media coverage was unrelenting and overwhelming,...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-30
ePub
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When John Safran heard that Richard Barrett had been murdered, he was shocked but not entirely surprised. Barrett was one of Mississippi's leading white supremacists and he'd been stabbed to death by a black man - a reversal of the traditional Mississippi story. But...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-25
ePub
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Samantha Barlow's life changed the day she was brutally attacked on the way to work in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross. The popular, confident young woman was left for dead, dragging herself to a lonely bus stop, desperate to stay alive for her two young children. The...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2013-08-21
ePub
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